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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."
Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan... what we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good lockup for illegal aliens.
10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
Now, ain't that a winner of a plan. "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your
huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'" -
Insightful, but offtopic unfortunately.
You fail it with a greased yoda doll up some moderator's ass.
Does this help with drunk karaoke?
fuck the 5-0
i don't have anything interesting to say.
that's right. their fauxking 'business' plan requires way too much buy way of the billyonerrors' ransom from all of you/us.
enter, the creators' planet/population rescue, & newclear power mandates.
you won't read much about it in the NYTs (registration required), or on va lairIE/robbIE''s whoreabully infactdead corepirate nazi ad/blog, because it signals the end of felonious softwar gangster/stock markup FraUD 'sponsorship' (see also: more&more baseless phonIE monIE) (see also: too much is never enough for greed/fear/ego based LIEforms).
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.
The GeekNights podcast is going strong. Listen!
...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.
karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.
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.
karma karma karma karma karma chameleon, you come and go, you come and go.
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?
No, if you RTFA, you'll see they meant $0.10, which is about 10-11 yen. In other words, "please insert a dime for the next 3 minutes".
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