Most people use screen readers because it is much much faster than braille displays. Especially since most blind users speed up the screen reader speech rate very high.
It isn't silentbanned but slowbanned, hacker news gets very very slow and almost impossible to use unless you wait the very long times to post your dead comment.
That isn't commonplace in the US which I assume that is where he is from considering the whois info.
In fact it would probably be much more expensive here.
The main choices probably are a family member picking up groceries for you, or a small market which still can deliver groceries, I know mine stopped offering delivery around 5 years ago because the community size grew so much.
It is probably hard for people to give you recommendations if you don't give any details about your usage.
But I've used maxcdn[1] before but they seem to have changed their pricing recently, but they do allow you to pay upfront and they do email out cheaper deals about every month for large-ish amounts (5TB and up).
To give an example of what the increased land area leads to: I get 1Mbit/s down and 0.5Mbit/s up for the same price that my uncle in the city gets 40Mbit/s down and 8Mbit/s up.
The reason is that I live in a rural area about 20-30 miles from major cities. If you go another 10 miles your only option is satellite or dial-up (if you have phone lines to your house).
Fremont is a terrible DC for linode and it sucks if you are not aware of that when you buy a vps from them but I use the Dallas DC and haven't had any major problems to speak of in quite a long time (at least 5 AWS outages or more).
You'd be surprised at how many engineering companies (research and otherwise) use Excel. I'd argue that it is used more than Matlab or any other programming language/environment in some fields (like Mech Eng).
Now that is just a small subset of all the little corporations that use it for bookkeeping and what else (those could probably get by with libreoffice) and every other major company in the world.
Microsoft was also smart in moving to docx and xlsx because libreoffice doesn't support that very well and now has an even better reason for people to avoid switching, I'd like to assume they don't support the open formats for this same reason.
I pay for fastmail, but there was a workaround where if you signed up for GAE with your domain you could get 1 free account. (Don't know if that still works)
I believe microsofts offer costs similar to the google apps.
It isn't the scantily clad women necessarily it is that they are really the only registrar people can think of when they want to get their own domain because godaddy is the only domain registrar that advertises on tv.
It's not just you, I recently used a SIII and it is giagantic compared to my iphone 4 which makes it difficult to use. (And I don't have stubby fingers).
If you are an emacs user check out emacspeak: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
Windows there are many options.
NVDA is the most used free one: http://www.nvda-project.org/
JAWS is highly used but expensive: http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-pa...
For mac there is voiceover (included in OSX): http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/
Chrome and ChromeOS have chromvox: http://www.chromevox.com/ but that is more for web.
Linux the most popular is orca for gnome desktop: http://projects.gnome.org/orca/