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Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050
securitas writes "Red Herring has a brief article about wide-scale VoIP deployment in Japan with the introduction of the new 050 area code. The new area code 'allows plain old telephone service (POTS) to seamlessly transition to voice-over-IP (VoIP).' Japan is now the largest country to deploy VoIP. Six companies have bought 8.5 million VoIP phone numbers, with 68% (5.78 million) of the new numbers owned by Softbank BB Phone. At $.010 for a three-minute call, the cost is three to eight times less expensive than regular wireline service."
My puzzle pirates crew has recently discovered teamspeak.
http://www.teamspeak.org
Open source, cross-platform voice chat for games. I set us up a server on my gentoo box. It was incredibly easy and awesome. Web administration interface is really slick. I highly reccomend it. If you have broadband it makes for good free international phone calls.
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...someone had to be paid to mine the dilithium that powered the warp core that drove the the communications array. And someone else had to be paid to build the communications array...
Don't forget that the Federation eliminated money some time around the 23rd century.
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From experience observing (but never taking part) I beleive they barter, if the Ferengi want something they usually give something up in exchange.
Though I never understood the bar in DS9, the Ferengi needs payment but the Federation do not have currency. Perhaps it is more akin to an external barter/currency (gold-pressed latinum based?) but nothing needed inside the Federation. I am not sure. Guidance from a Trekker/Treckie needed.
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It's likely the number for some kinky sex chat line.
So a description of goatse.cx wouldn't be completely out of line, right?
That sounds like a good plan to me. Converting the country to a totalitarian state sounds like a nice idea.
1. The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past &present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega, Milosovich and the rest of those 'good ole boys.' We will never "interfere" again.
That's what victims have been asking for. That should help a lot...
2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes in the fence.
Yep... not many people (except the elites) in those countries want foreign troops...
3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome them.
Kind of cruel but it's your country... totalitarians are known to do that sort of thing...
4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
Sounds cool... who needs tourism anyway? I'm not too sure if capitalists are going to take it kindly to getting rid of low wage workers but that's your problem...
5. No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get an "F" and it's back home baby.
Sure... while you are at it, why even have foreign students at all? Doesn't your fascist ideology call for getting rid of all foreigners since they are a threat to the nation?
6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The friggin' caribou will have to cope for a while.
You need to check with your leaders (those that are smarter than you) because you have no idea what you are talking about! Do you think USA is in the Middle East because they NEED the oil for their own use? Of course not! Less than 15% of oil comes from the Middle East. USA is there because of PROFITS. It is hard to turn down free money (which is what oil wells are). Aliens could teleport the Middle East to another galaxy and USA will be least impacted of all. USA hardly NEEDs the oil from the Middle East. Of course, getting the oil companies to give up their profits is tougher. I imagine this will your toughest issue. Implementing fascism is easy but getting the capitalists to stay away from money is not.
7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
Continuing with the previous point, you have no idea what you are talking about. Oil consumption is expected to INCREASE over the decades--not decrease. Most of the oil from the middle east does NOT go to USA--it goes to Japan and Europe! The Middle Eastern countries will be selling oil at the same rate for the most part (except now they won't get the 15% sales from USA).
8. If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
That's cool... It was Ayn Rand, likely your hero, who said that altruism is bad and greed is good. You can
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