I never have experienced any "outages" of Office installed on my desktop. Have you?
Not as long as I have a Knoppix disk around.
I don't think there is anyone who's used Windoze for more than five years who's not had a desktop fail so badly that it won't boot and everyone knows someone that's happend to.
Power management is one of the biggest examples of why non free software sucks. The programs you list are nice but they all depend on a working ACPI implementation, something Bill Gates personally forbade. Free software always does what users want and does it better than non free, but it's hit and miss as long as M$ is around to screw the hardware itself up. When you don't have software freedom, what you are left with is lousy choices like "degrade".
Because of this and many other problems, it's a good thing Vista is a failure.
Office 2007 was put into the "environment of abundance" funded by student fees at LSU about a year ago. Many people have been tempted to update their Office because they can do it to XP. Most of them hate it but it works and many are afraid it's still some kind of standard or that it will help them get a job and so on and so forth.
I've heard stories of the same kind of "deal" dumping at local high schools and well flattered administrators ate it up.
Hopefully, business have more sense. The rejection of Vista serves as a temporary relief because it's keeping people from buying new computers. Even later, business will want to avoid 2007 for bugs like this, the radical interface change and all the usual file format upgrade incompatibilities. All of these have shown in larger amounts because M$ is hungry and demands sacrifice.
I remember when you had excellent karma. How the mighty ignorant have fallen. You just made my day.
Keep on with your silly modbomb. No one is listening to you and it might have actually helped me. Watch out for flying chairs at your next weekly report, dirtbag, it's obvious that you can't control web or popular opinion and are selling snake oil.
You just show that these things are Windows only. Someone's done that for one of them already. Extra style points are awarded for showing that you can use Flash outside of Windoze without being screwed, but that's going to be harder. Let's have a look:
Woops, MustLive is in Russian and bombs translators. Great reference for English speakers.
Picassa, mentioned above - Windoze only.
Beford - not full disclosure but relies on IE's expression(), I'm not sure how he tested that with Konqueror - Windoze only.
Looks like a steaming pile of M$ to me, you know the one in four are owned OS. Even if some of these do bleed over, a company is still better off ditching Windoze for Google services. Google will fix the problems and none of them work if you are not logged in and using Google so that simple precaution almost eliminates the problem.
All of it deserved. Industry press people who recommended Vista have gone so far as to apologize. The verdict is almost unanimous: Vista is more of everything everyone hates about Windows. It's bloated, buggy and won't work with your favorite software and toys. When it does work, it won't do what you want and collects private information to send back to the M$ mothership.
Decades of tobacco bullshit, that continues still.
Recent media consolidation has made things worse and the Bush administration has gone further in censoring government researchers than any in living memory. Articles like this represent the worst, a concerted attack on science itself.
Oschner, who launched the "war on smoking" put up with a lot of the same kinds of harassment from the tobacco industry. Eventually, truth trumps profits but big tobacco is a disturbing example of how obvious and personal the harm has to be before it registers in the public imagination.
A larger number of reliable news sources helps make problems obvious. The big media counter will be an ever more shrill and less credible mainstream press. Their influence is waning.
Anything not working is a legitimate complaint. Period. It doesn't matter if the issues are legal or technological; if something doesn't work, it's an issue.
Which do you really believe and why would you call someone a fucktard for disagreeing?
it seems just as likely (if not more) to me that people simply don't care.
and asks is Sony and M$ have suffered for their bad behavior. The answer is an unmitigated "Yes". Not only have those companies suffered, the entire industry around them has taken a beating. People don't like being ripped off.
In the Sony case, CD sales are down even further than might be expected by the lack of new releases and general crapitude of traditional broadcasting. The industry's reputation could not be lower right now and people are really turned off. Music and entertainment are all about sharing. People want nothing to do with digital restrictions.
In the M$ case, Vista is a huge failure that's sucking down hardware sales. At the six month mark, retail sales of Vista trail XP by 60%. Big IT might start rolling it out in three years. People are sick of bloated crap and want nothing to do with digital restrictions.
Did I mention that people want nothing to do with digital restrictions? Business as usual is no longer good enough, and digital restrictions are even worse.
"Damage control" can't hide the real nature of the power grab that big media is trying to pull and meatier methods have backfired entirely. No one wants the future to be even more restrictive than paper and broadcast were. The future people really want is what you see at YouTube, Wikipedia and the free software world in general. People want to share, information wants to be free and corporate dickwads are just going to have to learn how to make an honest living. The harder the dickheads push, the worse it gets. They might have been able to keep playing games with non free software and hardware, but the lawsuits against innocent people turned the issue into the stuff revolutions are made of: they threatened the very prosperity that would ordinarily lead to the complacency media shits hope will save them. Free software advocates have been handed wonderful weapons in the promotion of Free Culture. Just owning non free media and software can now cost you your house and life savings. They might as well try to sell rusty cylinders of nerve gas and promote it with lottery based arson for their best customers.
For [M$] patch distribution, and for file sharing (which is the thing being discussed here) multicast would be great, multiplying the bandwidth available.
Yes, you are talking about push. I'm talking about things that people actually want. I'm sure M$ would be thrilled if every ISP enabled multicast and every Windoze box would take commands from Redmond at Bill Gate's whim. The rest of the world thinks that's a terrible idea.
The whole conversation is pointless. M$ can and should use bittorrent for it's patch distribution. Reinventing that wheel makes only a little more sense than bending the entire internet around Windoze.
About the only thing worse than M$'s freedomless P2P client would be mulicast. In another place, you say:
[multicast] does exactly what says on the tin - propagate the same data from point A to point B,C,D,E with minimal resource expenditure per link. Peer-to-Peer systems simulate this by retransmitting date between B and C, D and E, etc as they get it. Same principle.
While useful in some places, it's not the same principle at all and it's ultimately as wasteful as any other broadcast. With P2P people share what they want when they want. They can join and leave at random times, so the swarm is allways efficient from their perspectve. Multicast emulates broadcast in that it requires you to join at exactly the right time and stay for the entire broadcast time. Cable companies do have a form of multicast already and are using it to deliver digital TV to non free boxes. It's completely inefficient because the network is constantly filled with what the broadcaster thinks you want instead of what you want. Like you said, this can be useful in some kinds of business, but it will never be as good at delivering what people want as the freedom that's designed into the internet to begin with.
Yes, we knew this months ago but the public at large did not and what the corporate controlled media is telling people is something we all need to be aware of. The average person has been told that OLPC is some kind of dreamy, impractical toy that's out of place in the developing world. They have no idea how it's interface and networking works. This is mostly because M$ and telco companies would not want people to suspect that their are vastly cheaper things that can do a much better job than M$ and big telco do. Now they are being told that OLPC is expensive and that "ordinary" Windoze capable laptops that cost less are just around the corner. It's FUD, vaporware, namecalling and all the usual non free ugly play that makes US computing and networking expensive, wasteful and second rate. Applying these techniques to OLPC is especially ugly, but the M$ monopoly has had the same effect all along. Textbooks and the last mile problem should have been a thing of the past ten years ago. Bill Gates hates your children!
If you count not just web servers, but e.g. intranet Exchange servers and AD controllers, 70% sounds plausible.
LAN numbers are not really on M$'s side, even within dumb companies. Outside of dumb companies, gnu/linux rules. If you count every desktop with a "shared folder" you might get to 70% within a specific company. M$ does not want to go there because they would like you to believe in asymmetrical computing, where others have power and you do not. If you include embedded devices with web servers, the M$ share goes to ten percent. Within every big dumb company running a windoze server with all the lock-in trimmings, you will find six or seven system administrators who run a normal *nix computer because they can, hundreds of WAPs, printers and other devices that people expect to be able to talk to because they must. In the world at large, free software rules because no one in their right mind would blow all sorts of money of a M$ solution when they can get a free one. The kinds of junk hardware these servers run on and their superior reliability completely deflates the M$ meme of asymmetrical computing and most other non free propaganda.
Philosophically, Microsoft believes that users should remain in control of their computer experience. Practically, customers have told us that they want to have time to evaluate our updates before they install them. That said, and to the benefit of both customers and the IT ecosystem, most customers choose to automate the updating experience.
Clearly, they mean something else when they say "control" and "choice". A company that's been convicted of predatory practices cares nothing about it's customers and has worked tirelessly to sabotage software from "competitors" that users prefer.
The rest of the explanation is contradictory and useless. They say the client updates itself regardless of user settings, then they say it does not. This is a small and negligible piece of the Windoze data rape, which their EULA defends as checking for material that might violate copyright.
Block M$ from your computer entirely and you will save yourself both time and money. Windoze is treacherous from first install and you can't really tell the difference between one update and another's worth of binary crap.
And therein lies the rub. You see, from a *practical* standpoint, Linus Torvalds has done more than Stallman did to accomplish Stallman's very own aims - by an order of magnitude.
Not so, GPL3 assures continued freedom. Under GPL2, linux can and has been Tivoised, where you are locked out completely and have zero freedom. Future versions of Linux will not be Tivoised because individual contributors to the kernel are going to use GPL3 and a GPL2 fork will fall on it's face. More importantly, a GPL3 toolchain assures freedom without Linux.
No one's really going to throw all that work away and this fight is really just fluff. Anyone who looks into the issue soon realizes that RMS is right again. Linux will come along if and when someone really threatens his own freedom. The freedom to harm others is not liberty, it's license.
If you consider 35 developers a small investment, you understand why non free software can't compete with free software. 35 developers is a considerable cost for any company but nothing compared to the number any major free software project will attract. As ESR noted years ago, M$ can muster 20,000 developers but the free software world easily has ten times that. Things have only gotten better since then.
Entergy is a very large company with serious management issues, some of which are imposed from outside. They have been putting the screws to their workers since the stock market crash of the late 90s and really lost it after 9/11. The security guards you talk about are really a waste of money, but their salary is nothing compared to the rivers of money that have been put into other useless "security" measures like machine gun nests, screens, parachute leg breakers and other crazy gadgets. Money has been taken away from engineering and maintenance to do this and it's starting to show. This is a bigger problem than quick outages, which could be achieved with good planning and hard work instead of shortcuts. Entergy is an increasingly miserable and dangerous place to work.
Security measures are pointless. Navy seals continue to prove that a trained team can easily penetrate all measures but there's not much they can do when they get there. They might be able to make the thing melt but exclusion zones around plants mitigate actual harm done to people and terrorists have better options. Nukes are not useful targets for terrorists.
Cut backs in staff and maintenance have been not been fun and their management style is more insane than ever. The number of forced outages have increased over the last seven years. Every person I talk to says things are worse because they have continued to fire people and not do enough real work. Presentations to upper management are supposed to substitute for routine upkeep. If you make a mistake, you will be fired. This is going to encourage people to cover ass instead of reporting problems. That puts people in real danger. Plenty of people are also on "personal improvement plans" where they get extra shit work to do before being fired. Overall less useful work is being done by people who are almost as worn out and miserable as the equipment. These are all symptoms of conditions that should not exist.
Nuclear power and Entergy in particular should be beaming success stories. Entergy invested heavily in nuclear power and should be enjoying tremendous revenue and profits. Every other kind of power is so fiercely expensive that DIY solar is feasible. All of that will be thrown in the shitter if mismanagement does what Osama Bin Laden won't bother to do.
Osama Bin Laden's attacks on New York were a tremendous success but only because we have reacted like idiots. The money for these extra inspections is going to come out of Entergy's hide and those who actually get things done will suffer the most. External inspections are only needed because GWB has mismanaged the NRC and pushed Homeland Security instead of real safety. Through hysteria and corruption, we have deprived outselves of a cheap energy source. I'm glad to be out of that industry.
I doubt searches will become any less abusive because of this, but hope is eternal. Investigators are used to taking everything, right down to commercial DVDs and I don't think they are going to stop doing that. At least RIAA show trials shake down and some warrantless searches are getting shut down. In a country where trumped up evidence is good enough to justify invasions of countries, Korean war veterans end up on terrorist watch lists and airports are installing virtual strip search equipment, both privacy and justice have been sorely abused.
[plan slamming that cost days of life or thousands of dollars] These were all due to crappy business practices and nothing else.
So, simple plans will be of little use if the phone company, aka ATT, continues these kinds of practices. You might imagine a world where that kind of practice would lead to massive fines, class actions and the like to keep that from happening. Perhaps that's part of this bill?
I don't see why they should be legally bound to make a phone bill read at a fifth grade level like the daily newspaper.
An honest plan would work like that. There's no need for confusing bills, even at the rape you by the minute level of service people expect from Ma Bell. You should know what to expect when you sign the dotted line. Pretending your operating costs are taxes is really low, even for operators as corrupt as ATT.
All of the above changes are useless in a country that has crooked bandwith auctions, allows wholesale invasion of privacy and requires wiretapping. In the US, you are going to be raped for mobile communications and this "empowerment" bill does not address the root causes. It's nice of Klobuchar to notice people are angry, but the honorable Senator should do more. In this case, clarity will not really provide honesty, it will instead create a false and misleading controversy to be waged without resolution for years in the corporate controlled media. In short, it's a farce that provides the illusion of democratic regulation of an industry that is calling the shots in collusion with a corrupt government. Without privacy and freedom, the airwaves usurped by these companies are of limited business use.
What unmitigated arrogance. I think this summarizes what he thinks:
if I take without permission and make use of your copyrighted work, and you sue me... Many unauthorized uses of copyrighted works are criminal and infringing, and copyright notices help remind people that there are consequences to these uses.
So:
any "unauthorized use" will land you a lawsuit
it might result in criminal charges
he's pretending to be bound by 1 himself, as if there was any fairness to the current crop of lawsuits or the laws themselves.
he's not even going to pretend to be bound by 2.
It's hard to imagine a more wrong headed view. The problem is, that the FCC is granting these people the ability to stifle the growing free competition that will eliminate them.
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I never have experienced any "outages" of Office installed on my desktop. Have you?
Not as long as I have a Knoppix disk around.
I don't think there is anyone who's used Windoze for more than five years who's not had a desktop fail so badly that it won't boot and everyone knows someone that's happend to.
Power management is one of the biggest examples of why non free software sucks. The programs you list are nice but they all depend on a working ACPI implementation, something Bill Gates personally forbade. Free software always does what users want and does it better than non free, but it's hit and miss as long as M$ is around to screw the hardware itself up. When you don't have software freedom, what you are left with is lousy choices like "degrade".
Because of this and many other problems, it's a good thing Vista is a failure.
If [you are a "featured community", stick with Microsoft's implementation. You'd end up being more loyal, and Microsoft likes loyalty.
When you sleep on a bed of nails, you might as well sit on broken bottles?
What kind of threat does M$ really have here? If they yank their second rate software, the questioner can move to free software.
[GNU/Linux will] never have any problems ... What good is that? You'll never get to see her again.
Give her Vista and she'll tell her friends to avoid you too.
Office 2007 was put into the "environment of abundance" funded by student fees at LSU about a year ago. Many people have been tempted to update their Office because they can do it to XP. Most of them hate it but it works and many are afraid it's still some kind of standard or that it will help them get a job and so on and so forth.
I've heard stories of the same kind of "deal" dumping at local high schools and well flattered administrators ate it up.
Hopefully, business have more sense. The rejection of Vista serves as a temporary relief because it's keeping people from buying new computers. Even later, business will want to avoid 2007 for bugs like this, the radical interface change and all the usual file format upgrade incompatibilities. All of these have shown in larger amounts because M$ is hungry and demands sacrifice.
A very foolish AC troll taunts:
I remember when you had excellent karma. How the mighty ignorant have fallen. You just made my day.
Keep on with your silly modbomb. No one is listening to you and it might have actually helped me. Watch out for flying chairs at your next weekly report, dirtbag, it's obvious that you can't control web or popular opinion and are selling snake oil.
You just show that these things are Windows only. Someone's done that for one of them already. Extra style points are awarded for showing that you can use Flash outside of Windoze without being screwed, but that's going to be harder. Let's have a look:
Looks like a steaming pile of M$ to me, you know the one in four are owned OS. Even if some of these do bleed over, a company is still better off ditching Windoze for Google services. Google will fix the problems and none of them work if you are not logged in and using Google so that simple precaution almost eliminates the problem.
All of it deserved. Industry press people who recommended Vista have gone so far as to apologize. The verdict is almost unanimous: Vista is more of everything everyone hates about Windows. It's bloated, buggy and won't work with your favorite software and toys. When it does work, it won't do what you want and collects private information to send back to the M$ mothership.
Not even the few IT people who rushed to XP are going to install Vista any time soon. Corporate IT slammed the door closed on Vista for the next three years. 2% is right in line with previous studies that show the vast majority of IT thinks Vista is not worth the cost and trouble. Stick a fork in it and see for yourself, Vista is done.
Most "mainstream" news is tainted by big company advertising and influence. Examples:
Recent media consolidation has made things worse and the Bush administration has gone further in censoring government researchers than any in living memory. Articles like this represent the worst, a concerted attack on science itself.
Oschner, who launched the "war on smoking" put up with a lot of the same kinds of harassment from the tobacco industry. Eventually, truth trumps profits but big tobacco is a disturbing example of how obvious and personal the harm has to be before it registers in the public imagination.
A larger number of reliable news sources helps make problems obvious. The big media counter will be an ever more shrill and less credible mainstream press. Their influence is waning.
Above, you say:
There's a difference between "You need to install software" and "Legally, you can't do this", you fucktard.
but just a few minutes ago, you said:
Anything not working is a legitimate complaint. Period. It doesn't matter if the issues are legal or technological; if something doesn't work, it's an issue.
Which do you really believe and why would you call someone a fucktard for disagreeing?
radarjd dreams of infinite public gullibility:
it seems just as likely (if not more) to me that people simply don't care.
and asks is Sony and M$ have suffered for their bad behavior. The answer is an unmitigated "Yes". Not only have those companies suffered, the entire industry around them has taken a beating. People don't like being ripped off.
In the Sony case, CD sales are down even further than might be expected by the lack of new releases and general crapitude of traditional broadcasting. The industry's reputation could not be lower right now and people are really turned off. Music and entertainment are all about sharing. People want nothing to do with digital restrictions.
In the M$ case, Vista is a huge failure that's sucking down hardware sales. At the six month mark, retail sales of Vista trail XP by 60%. Big IT might start rolling it out in three years. People are sick of bloated crap and want nothing to do with digital restrictions.
Did I mention that people want nothing to do with digital restrictions? Business as usual is no longer good enough, and digital restrictions are even worse.
"Damage control" can't hide the real nature of the power grab that big media is trying to pull and meatier methods have backfired entirely. No one wants the future to be even more restrictive than paper and broadcast were. The future people really want is what you see at YouTube, Wikipedia and the free software world in general. People want to share, information wants to be free and corporate dickwads are just going to have to learn how to make an honest living. The harder the dickheads push, the worse it gets. They might have been able to keep playing games with non free software and hardware, but the lawsuits against innocent people turned the issue into the stuff revolutions are made of: they threatened the very prosperity that would ordinarily lead to the complacency media shits hope will save them. Free software advocates have been handed wonderful weapons in the promotion of Free Culture. Just owning non free media and software can now cost you your house and life savings. They might as well try to sell rusty cylinders of nerve gas and promote it with lottery based arson for their best customers.
For [M$] patch distribution, and for file sharing (which is the thing being discussed here) multicast would be great, multiplying the bandwidth available.
Yes, you are talking about push. I'm talking about things that people actually want. I'm sure M$ would be thrilled if every ISP enabled multicast and every Windoze box would take commands from Redmond at Bill Gate's whim. The rest of the world thinks that's a terrible idea.
The whole conversation is pointless. M$ can and should use bittorrent for it's patch distribution. Reinventing that wheel makes only a little more sense than bending the entire internet around Windoze.
About the only thing worse than M$'s freedomless P2P client would be mulicast. In another place, you say:
While useful in some places, it's not the same principle at all and it's ultimately as wasteful as any other broadcast. With P2P people share what they want when they want. They can join and leave at random times, so the swarm is allways efficient from their perspectve. Multicast emulates broadcast in that it requires you to join at exactly the right time and stay for the entire broadcast time. Cable companies do have a form of multicast already and are using it to deliver digital TV to non free boxes. It's completely inefficient because the network is constantly filled with what the broadcaster thinks you want instead of what you want. Like you said, this can be useful in some kinds of business, but it will never be as good at delivering what people want as the freedom that's designed into the internet to begin with.
Yes, we knew this months ago but the public at large did not and what the corporate controlled media is telling people is something we all need to be aware of. The average person has been told that OLPC is some kind of dreamy, impractical toy that's out of place in the developing world. They have no idea how it's interface and networking works. This is mostly because M$ and telco companies would not want people to suspect that their are vastly cheaper things that can do a much better job than M$ and big telco do. Now they are being told that OLPC is expensive and that "ordinary" Windoze capable laptops that cost less are just around the corner. It's FUD, vaporware, namecalling and all the usual non free ugly play that makes US computing and networking expensive, wasteful and second rate. Applying these techniques to OLPC is especially ugly, but the M$ monopoly has had the same effect all along. Textbooks and the last mile problem should have been a thing of the past ten years ago. Bill Gates hates your children!
If you count not just web servers, but e.g. intranet Exchange servers and AD controllers, 70% sounds plausible.
LAN numbers are not really on M$'s side, even within dumb companies. Outside of dumb companies, gnu/linux rules. If you count every desktop with a "shared folder" you might get to 70% within a specific company. M$ does not want to go there because they would like you to believe in asymmetrical computing, where others have power and you do not. If you include embedded devices with web servers, the M$ share goes to ten percent. Within every big dumb company running a windoze server with all the lock-in trimmings, you will find six or seven system administrators who run a normal *nix computer because they can, hundreds of WAPs, printers and other devices that people expect to be able to talk to because they must. In the world at large, free software rules because no one in their right mind would blow all sorts of money of a M$ solution when they can get a free one. The kinds of junk hardware these servers run on and their superior reliability completely deflates the M$ meme of asymmetrical computing and most other non free propaganda.
Clearly, they mean something else when they say "control" and "choice". A company that's been convicted of predatory practices cares nothing about it's customers and has worked tirelessly to sabotage software from "competitors" that users prefer.
The rest of the explanation is contradictory and useless. They say the client updates itself regardless of user settings, then they say it does not. This is a small and negligible piece of the Windoze data rape, which their EULA defends as checking for material that might violate copyright.
Block M$ from your computer entirely and you will save yourself both time and money. Windoze is treacherous from first install and you can't really tell the difference between one update and another's worth of binary crap.
And therein lies the rub. You see, from a *practical* standpoint, Linus Torvalds has done more than Stallman did to accomplish Stallman's very own aims - by an order of magnitude.
Not so, GPL3 assures continued freedom. Under GPL2, linux can and has been Tivoised, where you are locked out completely and have zero freedom. Future versions of Linux will not be Tivoised because individual contributors to the kernel are going to use GPL3 and a GPL2 fork will fall on it's face. More importantly, a GPL3 toolchain assures freedom without Linux.
No one's really going to throw all that work away and this fight is really just fluff. Anyone who looks into the issue soon realizes that RMS is right again. Linux will come along if and when someone really threatens his own freedom. The freedom to harm others is not liberty, it's license.
If you consider 35 developers a small investment, you understand why non free software can't compete with free software. 35 developers is a considerable cost for any company but nothing compared to the number any major free software project will attract. As ESR noted years ago, M$ can muster 20,000 developers but the free software world easily has ten times that. Things have only gotten better since then.
Entergy is a very large company with serious management issues, some of which are imposed from outside. They have been putting the screws to their workers since the stock market crash of the late 90s and really lost it after 9/11. The security guards you talk about are really a waste of money, but their salary is nothing compared to the rivers of money that have been put into other useless "security" measures like machine gun nests, screens, parachute leg breakers and other crazy gadgets. Money has been taken away from engineering and maintenance to do this and it's starting to show. This is a bigger problem than quick outages, which could be achieved with good planning and hard work instead of shortcuts. Entergy is an increasingly miserable and dangerous place to work.
Security measures are pointless. Navy seals continue to prove that a trained team can easily penetrate all measures but there's not much they can do when they get there. They might be able to make the thing melt but exclusion zones around plants mitigate actual harm done to people and terrorists have better options. Nukes are not useful targets for terrorists.
Cut backs in staff and maintenance have been not been fun and their management style is more insane than ever. The number of forced outages have increased over the last seven years. Every person I talk to says things are worse because they have continued to fire people and not do enough real work. Presentations to upper management are supposed to substitute for routine upkeep. If you make a mistake, you will be fired. This is going to encourage people to cover ass instead of reporting problems. That puts people in real danger. Plenty of people are also on "personal improvement plans" where they get extra shit work to do before being fired. Overall less useful work is being done by people who are almost as worn out and miserable as the equipment. These are all symptoms of conditions that should not exist.
Nuclear power and Entergy in particular should be beaming success stories. Entergy invested heavily in nuclear power and should be enjoying tremendous revenue and profits. Every other kind of power is so fiercely expensive that DIY solar is feasible. All of that will be thrown in the shitter if mismanagement does what Osama Bin Laden won't bother to do.
Osama Bin Laden's attacks on New York were a tremendous success but only because we have reacted like idiots. The money for these extra inspections is going to come out of Entergy's hide and those who actually get things done will suffer the most. External inspections are only needed because GWB has mismanaged the NRC and pushed Homeland Security instead of real safety. Through hysteria and corruption, we have deprived outselves of a cheap energy source. I'm glad to be out of that industry.
I doubt searches will become any less abusive because of this, but hope is eternal. Investigators are used to taking everything, right down to commercial DVDs and I don't think they are going to stop doing that. At least RIAA show trials shake down and some warrantless searches are getting shut down. In a country where trumped up evidence is good enough to justify invasions of countries, Korean war veterans end up on terrorist watch lists and airports are installing virtual strip search equipment, both privacy and justice have been sorely abused.
[plan slamming that cost days of life or thousands of dollars] These were all due to crappy business practices and nothing else.
So, simple plans will be of little use if the phone company, aka ATT, continues these kinds of practices. You might imagine a world where that kind of practice would lead to massive fines, class actions and the like to keep that from happening. Perhaps that's part of this bill?
I don't see why they should be legally bound to make a phone bill read at a fifth grade level like the daily newspaper.
An honest plan would work like that. There's no need for confusing bills, even at the rape you by the minute level of service people expect from Ma Bell. You should know what to expect when you sign the dotted line. Pretending your operating costs are taxes is really low, even for operators as corrupt as ATT.
All of the above changes are useless in a country that has crooked bandwith auctions, allows wholesale invasion of privacy and requires wiretapping. In the US, you are going to be raped for mobile communications and this "empowerment" bill does not address the root causes. It's nice of Klobuchar to notice people are angry, but the honorable Senator should do more. In this case, clarity will not really provide honesty, it will instead create a false and misleading controversy to be waged without resolution for years in the corporate controlled media. In short, it's a farce that provides the illusion of democratic regulation of an industry that is calling the shots in collusion with a corrupt government. Without privacy and freedom, the airwaves usurped by these companies are of limited business use.
What unmitigated arrogance. I think this summarizes what he thinks:
So:
It's hard to imagine a more wrong headed view. The problem is, that the FCC is granting these people the ability to stifle the growing free competition that will eliminate them.
The spirit was always there, even if you can't see him. He's the embodiment of digital restrictions!