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Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless
self assembled struc writes "BCGI has been found guilty of infringing on pay-as-you-go wireless patents owned by Freedom Wireless. This means that cellular providers who use BCGI pay-as-you-go billing systems must immediately stop selling new service. For the next 90 days, as they wind down their service, they will have to pay Freedom Wireless 2.5 cents per airtime minute used PER CUSTOMER. This heralds a farewell to Cingular's Go Phone and Sprint-Nextel's Boost services, both powered by BCGI."
Federal Court Shuts Down Pay As You Go Wireless
I'm a taxpayer. I have a wireless router. I guess I can kiss next year's tax refund goodbye.
I see that you subscribe to the popular fantasy that there's some practical difference between the wings of the Ruling Party.
There's a huge difference. First: Clinton smoked cigars. Bush did cocaine and drank heavily. Second: Clinton used his cigar in unique ways. In the end you might say Clinton got Bush!
The Luddites were ahead of their time.
>They are interchangable.
Yes! Except the recent batch of lies from the executive office went like so:
1. Someone lied about sex after a tax-payer funded out of control witch hunt. No one was killed or injured.
2. Someone lied about a whole mess of things and 2,000 US soldiers are dead in an unpopular who knows how many billoins of dollars war.
Hmm, I'm starting to see some differences.
How about that sweet bankrupcy law change (think big hand out to the credit card companies) that only could get passed with a GOP controlled government?
Look closer, you'll notice a real difference. I know its cool to take the "everyone is corrupt, the same, and life is hopeless" stance here at slashdot and pretend libertarianism works, so enjoy your mod points.
Differences:
Democrats tax and spend. Republicans just spend.
Democrats get us into wars for "humanitarian reasons". Sometimes they're more successful than others (Kosovo vs. Somalia). Republicans get into wars because of WMDs... wait, no... because Saddam is a bad bad man... oh, and spreading Democracy... and because if we don't stay and get more of our soliders killed, we're spitting on those we've already killed.
Democrats commit felonies by lying about their extramarital relations. Republicans commit felonies by leaking national secrets in order to harm political enemies.
I think that Clinton did a far better job of surrounding himself with *competent* and well-meaning cronies.
Republicans are supported by the CEO crowd, which is almost exclusively white, male, pudgy, and middle-aged. Democrats are supported by Gwyneth Paltrow.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Hang your head some more. Your post is as far as I'm reading in this thread. Up to this point, I've seen nothing but explanations of the situation and bitching about it. Sure, the explanations are good and necessary and the bitching expected, but for fuck sakes, when someone opens the door to the "well, let's solve it then" conversation the only thing an american (de-capitalized with intent) can think to do is nit-pick spelling. Moreover, if you had spell checked your comment I'm sure it would've veered off into the bush/clinton (see previous capitalization rules) bullshit rhetoric.
.001% of my solution: Disassociate from your generation's counterpart. Sever ties. Although it may be passé to beat your child as an individual it's in vogue to beat the younger generation as a society. Notice how age discrimination laws are a one-way street that favor older people (e.g. try to become president before age thirty-five). The older generations, generally being frail, reluctant to change and timid of youth has one goliath on their side... networking skills or at least establishment of a grand social network. This manifests itself as government and corporation. This goliath, conscious or not, exists to protect the aged from the strength of youth and the uncertainty of change. While this protection is a desirable trait in nature, considering the benefits of aged wisdom, the pendulum has swung too far in favor of agedness. You might think competition exists between businesses or governments since that is how it's been described, but the truth is that the competition is between generations. Governments govern too much and corporations cooperate too little in order to keep youthful strength in disarray. The result is lack of opportunity and growth for all generations involved. In actuality, all generations rely on each other: the old for their wisdom, the young for their pliability and the middle aged to bridge the two with many layers between. What the country and world need now is fasts against their anti-generation in order to realize the bounty reaped from their cooperation... you have to be pricked in order to smell the rose.
The same thing is expected for any other topic of reasonable concern.
Just to stay on topic here's
For your consumption, have a look at the population age distribution. Those numbers are for the world - the US in 2000 resembles that of the "developed nation" but with a flatter area and lower count from age 0 to 35 with a massive bulge around 45 to 65. The bulge was a major force in bringing us the ability to write and read this as we are now. Unfortunately, that bulge has the characteristics of the goliath protecting the aged. Realizing the strength in numbers, power in wisdom and age of society you may reach my conclusion: the aged have become too powerful.
You've probably heard the insinuation that the youth are getting worse with every generation, hips gyrated by the rock and roll, drug induced stupors, violent video games and school shootings. They're pushing back. With every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. They are getting worse. Can you imagine a time when the general trend and perception is that the youth are getting better with each generation?
There will be a day when government of growth by human limits is replaced by the Encouragement of growth right up against natures limits. The corporations will be replaced by Cooperations. In addition, yes you myopic cretins, we or those after us will live in utopia whether you want to or not.
Seems a bit radical of a solution to fix a broadband problem, doesn't it? The alternative is to slap a band-aid on the problem at hand while the ailing foundation continues to crumble; threatening to swallow the band-aid and everything it holds together.
By the way, the disassociation I write about doesn't necessarily have to be bloody or violent but, just so you know, it's usually known by its native term: revolution.