I live in Chicago and this is a BAD idea. All I need is one of the MOST corrupt governments in the U.S. competing the private telecoms out of business and for all intents and purposes controlling the INTERNET in Chicago.
Well, looks like they arn't bad enough to cause you to boycott them. The world isn't perfect. Stop complaining, stop trying to use the government to enforce your ideals on other people.
You don't have to boycott to get things to happen. Just the threat of it will cause a stir. Enough people have to threaten.
It all comes down to this. It is your life, it is your money. Just because you can't stop giving it to someone because your moral backbone isn't strong enough is no excuse. It's time for people to take care of themselves and stop putting out whinny excuses.
Yes, corporations will do anything that will increase profit. That is where watchdog groups and the consumer come in. When you discover that a business is doing something you believe to be immoral, threaten to not purchase thier products. Threaten to tell your friend not to buy there products. That will affect thier bottom line way more then a short sighted move. It's been seen many times here on slashdot, recently with the Belkin corporation. You as a consumer decide where your dolar goes, your word of mouth is the best advertisement. This gives you great power over corporations.
It is your job to protect yourself. It is not my job, aka: my taxes, and my freedoms, to protect you.
You are telling me that without a government sanction, organizations like the EFF wouldn't exist.
If people are to LAZY to protect thier own interests, then they must pay the concequences. At first people will be lazy, but then they will take an active roll, just like they try to do with thier Healthcare. These things wouldn't be an issue in a republic if the people weren't active enough to do something about it.
Microsoft was a monopoly, but that doesn't seem to have stoped linux from becomming a viable competitor. Don't tell me that the DOJ has anything to do with it. The last time they inforced the microsoft decision was never.
There is a problem in America and the rest of the world today. That problem is that people think they should have the right to force other people to comply to them. It doesn't matter whether I'm using a gun to make you do it, or if I use the governments gun to do it, it is wrong.
If you wish to have consumer protection, boycott the companies that treat customers horribly; Read the contracts you agree to; make sure that you only agree to a contract that gives you the rights you want.
Your only thing government should enforce is your right to not have your property or person taken/assaulted by the initiation of force.
Why is it the FCCs job to regulate a private internet. I can understand open airwaves that everyone controls, but the internet? I pay a private entity to connect to the internet, not the US government.
The reason for the FCC to regulate VoIP is that AT&T and friends have paid off some congressman so they won't lose thier market.
People, please vote Libertarian before we lose all of our freedoms.
Under American law a corporation is a legal entity, seperate from it's workers, and even CEOs. If you remove this "legal shield" it leave responsibility for "dumping industrial waste" or anything else in the hands of those who made the decision, and those who carried it out. When someone is legally liable for what they do you drasticly decrease the likelyhood that they will commit the crime in the first place because they will be held responsible. This "legal shield" is the major cause of corporate corruption in America today.
You could easily sue these businesses for false advertising. Getting any money back you lost. In addition, many people could do this causeing the business significant loses. If that is the case, why would a business lie? Because they are protected by law. A corporation is a seperate entity under the law. Giving the people who make decisions in the company immunity. Remove this immunity, people become directly responsible, decreasing drasticly that likelyhood that a crime (fraud) will be commited.
(Commercial speech should not have the same protections as other forms of speech. It should be protected, especially where it is true, but it shouldn't be absolved of all responsibility - it has a lot more weight and power than just some person you happen to meet, and that weight and power needs to be accompanied by responsibility.)
Why is it that you have more rights than a group of people come together for a purpose?
My point here is that a business should just be a group of people come togeather for a purpose. In the case of a business, that purpose is to make a livelihood. No government laws protecting "business", none to detriment it.
EVERYONE should have the same right to free speech. A business is not a magical thing, it's a group of people. If you don't like that business, don't buy from it. Make something better, compete. Don't try to use the government as a tool to inforce your ideals on to other people.
Why is it that some government agency can say what some broadcaster puts on the air.
When an advertisement lies, at least in the US, you have the right to sue for false advertisement. This takes it in front of a court in the public spotlight to be resolved between the business and the consumer. I see the government's position in this to only regulate the frequencies used and the wattage of each station, no more.
There is only one true monopoly, and that's the government. Even though I doubt it, but what if microsoft had something to do with this? What are you gonna do? Go to another television station in the UK. Wait a second, they are all controled by the ITC.
NO, I can't spell. No, I do not have well formed grammer skills.
Wow, resulting to personal attacks are you? You put "Anonymous" into "Anonymous Coward". Also, Programmers invented spell check for a reason. Why don't you stop being a spelling Nazi and start doing something a little more productive?
Am I the only one that ISN'T an anonymous coward? Wow, your one to talk. Millions of dollars going to waste for the gnomes. You could talk if you had HALF the intellegence that the students at MIT have.
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Karma burn time.
With all due respect, screw you buddy. This is funny, it's geek AND tech AND linux related. If you don't like it, pack your bags, stop your b1tching and leave. I'm so tired of it.
It's not that it's just a glorious case mod. It's the fact that I would be able to get a mac for $650. I've always wanted a mac and if I can get one for that cheap then I'll jump at the chance.
I want to know when are we gonna stand up and stop taking it from behind by governments, companies, and conglomerates? I'm sick and tired of people who have no business doing so trying to dictate what happens online. The net was started by the academics, the computer elite. And now companies hop on and throw thier money around in an attempt to grab more control than many small governments would hope for.
There are millions of us out there. Millions of people with the knowledge and the skill to make it right. What would happen if all of the sudden, today, Obelix.com dissapeared from the net? A punishment for trying to pull something so rediculous. Maybe after that happens a couple dozen times, corporations, governments, and even people would think twice about pushing people around for no reason.
Corporations and governments may be strong, but as a community we are stronger. On our own turf, they cannot hope to even win, but only if we get togeather and fight for what is right. Do the little things. Send those that are being bullied money, sign up for the EFF, or just talk to people, sway public opinion.
It is a battle we can win, only if we get off our bums and do something.
Also, If it is the potential of sentience that matters, then one must define sentience. Is is the use of tools, communication, recongnizing one's self? Some animals display one or all of the above.
Dolphins apear to have intelligence of some sort, but seem to have been cursed with the lack of an opposable thumb. The questions go on and on.
Will you people please stop complaining? Do you have nothing better to do? You think that the April Fool's jokes are fustrating? Take a look around!
Complain, complain, complain. Enjoy the jokes, they only come around once a year. These kind of jokes are part of being part of the slashdot community. If I just wanted straight news with out commentary then I would just read wired, cnet, cnn, or any other of a hundred news sites.
You people just need to calm down a bit and relax.
I think someone needs to calm down. With all due respect, some people take things of little consequence way to seriously. There are plenty of things in the world more importent than arguing if some April Fool's article does not live up to "standards"
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I have Comcast. So I guess there are at least two.
I live in Chicago and this is a BAD idea. All I need is one of the MOST corrupt governments in the U.S. competing the private telecoms out of business and for all intents and purposes controlling the INTERNET in Chicago.
I totally agree with you
Well, looks like they arn't bad enough to cause you to boycott them. The world isn't perfect. Stop complaining, stop trying to use the government to enforce your ideals on other people.
You don't have to boycott to get things to happen. Just the threat of it will cause a stir. Enough people have to threaten.
It all comes down to this. It is your life, it is your money. Just because you can't stop giving it to someone because your moral backbone isn't strong enough is no excuse. It's time for people to take care of themselves and stop putting out whinny excuses.
Yes, corporations will do anything that will increase profit. That is where watchdog groups and the consumer come in. When you discover that a business is doing something you believe to be immoral, threaten to not purchase thier products. Threaten to tell your friend not to buy there products. That will affect thier bottom line way more then a short sighted move. It's been seen many times here on slashdot, recently with the Belkin corporation. You as a consumer decide where your dolar goes, your word of mouth is the best advertisement. This gives you great power over corporations.
It is your job to protect yourself. It is not my job, aka: my taxes, and my freedoms, to protect you.
You are telling me that without a government sanction, organizations like the EFF wouldn't exist.
If people are to LAZY to protect thier own interests, then they must pay the concequences.
At first people will be lazy, but then they will take an active roll, just like they try to do with thier Healthcare. These things wouldn't be an issue in a republic if the people weren't active enough to do something about it.
Microsoft was a monopoly, but that doesn't seem to have stoped linux from becomming a viable competitor. Don't tell me that the DOJ has anything to do with it. The last time they inforced the microsoft decision was never.
It's there to protect me from harming you, and you from harming me. That is what government is FOR.
There is a problem in America and the rest of the world today. That problem is that people think they should have the right to force other people to comply to them. It doesn't matter whether I'm using a gun to make you do it, or if I use the governments gun to do it, it is wrong.
If you wish to have consumer protection, boycott the companies that treat customers horribly; Read the contracts you agree to; make sure that you only agree to a contract that gives you the rights you want.
Your only thing government should enforce is your right to not have your property or person taken/assaulted by the initiation of force.
Libertarian Pary webpage is lp.org
Why is it the FCCs job to regulate a private internet. I can understand open airwaves that everyone controls, but the internet? I pay a private entity to connect to the internet, not the US government.
The reason for the FCC to regulate VoIP is that AT&T and friends have paid off some congressman so they won't lose thier market.
People, please vote Libertarian before we lose all of our freedoms.
Under American law a corporation is a legal entity, seperate from it's workers, and even CEOs. If you remove this "legal shield" it leave responsibility for "dumping industrial waste" or anything else in the hands of those who made the decision, and those who carried it out. When someone is legally liable for what they do you drasticly decrease the likelyhood that they will commit the crime in the first place because they will be held responsible.
This "legal shield" is the major cause of corporate corruption in America today.
You could easily sue these businesses for false advertising. Getting any money back you lost. In addition, many people could do this causeing the business significant loses. If that is the case, why would a business lie? Because they are protected by law. A corporation is a seperate entity under the law. Giving the people who make decisions in the company immunity. Remove this immunity, people become directly responsible, decreasing drasticly that likelyhood that a crime (fraud) will be commited.
issuing licences that allow commercial television companies to broadcast analogue and digital services in and from the UK, whether the services are received by aerial, dish or cable;
How can they issue licences if there is not a law requiring that you must have one to broadcast?
It may not directly say that it is government, but it is.
(Commercial speech should not have the same protections as other forms of speech. It should be protected, especially where it is true, but it shouldn't be absolved of all responsibility - it has a lot more weight and power than just some person you happen to meet, and that weight and power needs to be accompanied by responsibility.)
Why is it that you have more rights than a group of people come together for a purpose?
My point here is that a business should just be a group of people come togeather for a purpose. In the case of a business, that purpose is to make a livelihood. No government laws protecting "business", none to detriment it.
EVERYONE should have the same right to free speech. A business is not a magical thing, it's a group of people. If you don't like that business, don't buy from it. Make something better, compete. Don't try to use the government as a tool to inforce your ideals on to other people.
Why is it that some government agency can say what some broadcaster puts on the air.
When an advertisement lies, at least in the US, you have the right to sue for false advertisement. This takes it in front of a court in the public spotlight to be resolved between the business and the consumer. I see the government's position in this to only regulate the frequencies used and the wattage of each station, no more.
There is only one true monopoly, and that's the government. Even though I doubt it, but what if microsoft had something to do with this? What are you gonna do? Go to another television station in the UK. Wait a second, they are all controled by the ITC.
NO, I can't spell. No, I do not have well formed grammer skills.
Wow, resulting to personal attacks are you? You put "Anonymous" into "Anonymous Coward". Also, Programmers invented spell check for a reason. Why don't you stop being a spelling Nazi and start doing something a little more productive?
Am I the only one that ISN'T an anonymous coward? Wow, your one to talk. Millions of dollars going to waste for the gnomes. You could talk if you had HALF the intellegence that the students at MIT have.
Karma burn time.
With all due respect, screw you buddy. This is funny, it's geek AND tech AND linux related. If you don't like it, pack your bags, stop your b1tching and leave. I'm so tired of it.
It's not that it's just a glorious case mod. It's the fact that I would be able to get a mac for $650. I've always wanted a mac and if I can get one for that cheap then I'll jump at the chance.
I want to know when are we gonna stand up and stop taking it from behind by governments, companies, and conglomerates? I'm sick and tired of people who have no business doing so trying to dictate what happens online. The net was started by the academics, the computer elite. And now companies hop on and throw thier money around in an attempt to grab more control than many small governments would hope for.
There are millions of us out there. Millions of people with the knowledge and the skill to make it right. What would happen if all of the sudden, today, Obelix.com dissapeared from the net? A punishment for trying to pull something so rediculous. Maybe after that happens a couple dozen times, corporations, governments, and even people would think twice about pushing people around for no reason.
Corporations and governments may be strong, but as a community we are stronger. On our own turf, they cannot hope to even win, but only if we get togeather and fight for what is right. Do the little things. Send those that are being bullied money, sign up for the EFF, or just talk to people, sway public opinion.
It is a battle we can win, only if we get off our bums and do something.
That's not a moon. That's a space station!
Also, If it is the potential of sentience that matters, then one must define sentience. Is is the use of tools, communication, recongnizing one's self? Some animals display one or all of the above.
Dolphins apear to have intelligence of some sort, but seem to have been cursed with the lack of an opposable thumb. The questions go on and on.
Will you people please stop complaining? Do you have nothing better to do? You think that the April Fool's jokes are fustrating? Take a look around!
Complain, complain, complain. Enjoy the jokes, they only come around once a year. These kind of jokes are part of being part of the slashdot community. If I just wanted straight news with out commentary then I would just read wired, cnet, cnn, or any other of a hundred news sites.
You people just need to calm down a bit and relax.
I think someone needs to calm down. With all due respect, some people take things of little consequence way to seriously. There are plenty of things in the world more importent than arguing if some April Fool's article does not live up to "standards"
If that is true then using Linux would make you be hung like a Pengiun, and I know I'm not hung like a Penguin. :p