well, it's worked before in the past.. risk vs reward is a good ratio to use as a deciding factor.. risk: 1 minute of my time to post on change.gov and 1-2 minutes of my time on slashdot vs reward: getting something changed i believe in.
not bad at all.
http://www.change.gov/page/s/contact
If enough of us link to TFA and tell him how stupid it is for a government body spend money on the RIAA's behalf and how we should repeal or ammend the DMCA, they may listen to us.
Arrgghhh, this actually burns me... I can't believe that cable companies are still allowed their monopolies in this day and age... With companies like Charter Communications predicting and running ads that they will be able to do everything for you in the video/audio spectrum in the near future (including phone service), how can you not classify them as a telecommunications company.
It's funny how everyone classifies cable companies as evil monopolies. If you don't like it, start your own. Don't tell me this is impossible either, because I know firsthand of other cable companies moving into town and "overbuilding" the lines if they refuse to be bought out. It happens more then you think and there's nothing monopolistic about it either.
I feel that more than likely the only reason they haven't rolled out phone service is that they, don't want to be classified and regulated as a telecommunications service, and stuff like this only just keeps them going.
Or maybe it's because something required like say a Nortel switch costs about $5 Million or so? That's something you just don't buy on a whim.
For a cable to offer telephone service many things have to happen:
1. The equipment such as the switch, you're already down a few million.
2. New billing software, and you must integrate this with the existing software. A royal pain the ass and yet another company to pay hundreds of thousands yearly to.
3. Getting the current phone company such as Bell to play nice in getting this setup. They will play dirty tricks, they will try to fuck you over, and it will take several complaints to the FCC and your states CC as well.
4. All curent hardware must be upgraded in the field, lines need voltage increased. This is not fun for everyone involved as you must take all data/video service offline for a day or two.
There are way too many other minor caveats and issues to list as well. But summarize, adding telephone service to ones cable company is something you don't want to take too lightly.
The idea that the 'net can't be censored by anyone is WAY too optimistic. Yes, governments will have a hard time doing it because there's always some other government that makes it legal.
China has had pretty good success in censoring what it's citizens can and can not view. Costly I'm sure it is, it makes me wonder if France is next?
It's a well known fact that DSL is just second rate to cable. The ill-informed DSL guys will tell you how great it is and all, a nice dedicated connection - but they won't tell you it's dedicated to the switch.
The point being, you've got all these people pirating mp3s, porn, and software and you still are gonna get shitty service. Let's just hope you live across the street from the telco's switching equipment.
The telco's have no reason to maintain their lines either, they have to open it up to other companies which look bad when bell decides to get around to fixing a problem on the lines - they make money by neglecting their equipment.
Cable on the other hand is not regulated meaning they have don't have to open their systems for shit. They generally provide better service anyway.
In a 2001 Newsweek report it stated that the DSL market has shruken nearly a staggering 14% in one year, 9% of that in the last quarter alone. If you own stock in any of the other big DSL companies such as Verizon, Swbell, or @home then you are in for a big surprise. Lets just hope you enough bandwidth to come crying on slashdot when your company leaves your ass hanging in the breeze.
I am sorry to say it but, I beleive that a direct hit it what is needed to force our governments to take action. Hopefully it will be not too big and in an unpopulated area, but statistically we are bound to get wacked at somepoint.
Earth has been wacked, more then once and will again, or so evidence suggests. It's just whether or not in our lifetimes (or should I say our politicians lifetimes) we get wacked, which I figure is highly unlikely.
The artwork on the 50th anniversery paperback edition was pretty neat. However the books themselves were in bolder, smaller print making it a little harder on the eyes to read - especially when I tried to read the Two Towers in one sitting.
I suspect it was the rip from the international press preview. If theres chinese (at least I think they are chinese) characters that briefly appear on the screen, then it most likely is. Right now on Morpheus/Kazaa the movie itself is going around in 3 parts, each a 220MB hour long segment.
This is quite true, for the story itself it doesn't change much. However the reference to him in Rivendell is pretty amazing, and for the history of middle-earth itself makes him one of the more important characters in the book(s).
The movies themselves also have to be tailored somewhat so the average person who hasn't read the books can get into it without falling asleep:)
That chapter in the book amazing when I first read it. When Glorfindel said, "fly", meaning roughly "Get the hell out of here" was pretty gripping.
I'm kind of upset a little that they cut out Glorfindel and had Arwen instead of Elrond raise the ford, but I understand for purposes of the movie why they did that.
The best part I liked in the movie had to be the beginning when they talked about Isildir.
I'm planning on watching lots and lots of college football New Years Day.
Being at the University of Kansas, seeing as how our football team hasn't beaten Nebraska since '68 or '69 I always root against them, however I want them to beat Miami, so if Oregon wins we have co-champions and this will make the BCS look all jacked up. The coaches poll automatically puts BCS #1 which would be Nebraska if they won, at the top. The AP knows better and actually votes for the #1, which wouldn't be Nebraska.
Usually however around this time of year I watch, hoping to see Nebraska lose:) (I'm still a little po'd seeing a big 12 team in the ROSE bowl, a bowl which normally takes the big10 and pac10 #1's).
TNT has traditionally done 24 hrs of Clint Eastwood over the hollidays for the past few years. The dates seem to change every year. 2 years in a row I watche d the entire marathon. My god, after seeing "2 mules for Sister Sara" twice in one sitting, with no coffee really made me have strange dreams that night.
I've been reading this since it was Fish 'n' Chips on his crappy university server (umich.edu?) and ever since people started taking interest he's always had this 'holier then thou' attitude. With every post he has to sum it up with a short little anecdote that makes it clear he's used it first, knows more about it, or whatever.
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all of those kama sutra apps and fake cell phone tracker apps? seriously?
We have yet to get through our first winter so it will be interesting to see how they hold up. In Chicago, the implementation of these were absolutely horrible. Here is a good timeline of the parking meter process http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/fail-parking-meters-lease-deal/Content?oid=1098561
Or perhaps he meant it's only been popular in the last year or so. I've seen this going on for the last three years at the least.
If anyone felt like tracking where I've been, eavesdropping, etc, they would be very bored.
well, it's worked before in the past.. risk vs reward is a good ratio to use as a deciding factor.. risk: 1 minute of my time to post on change.gov and 1-2 minutes of my time on slashdot vs reward: getting something changed i believe in. not bad at all.
http://www.change.gov/page/s/contact If enough of us link to TFA and tell him how stupid it is for a government body spend money on the RIAA's behalf and how we should repeal or ammend the DMCA, they may listen to us.
honestly i went through a period of about 3 years where i didn't log into this account :P
I was wondering the same thing. Always have been to lazy to get the ed staff to post about it and see how many reply.
me too
Arrgghhh, this actually burns me... I can't believe that cable companies are still allowed their monopolies in this day and age... With companies like Charter Communications predicting and running ads that they will be able to do everything for you in the video/audio spectrum in the near future (including phone service), how can you not classify them as a telecommunications company.
It's funny how everyone classifies cable companies as evil monopolies. If you don't like it, start your own. Don't tell me this is impossible either, because I know firsthand of other cable companies moving into town and "overbuilding" the lines if they refuse to be bought out. It happens more then you think and there's nothing monopolistic about it either.
I feel that more than likely the only reason they haven't rolled out phone service is that they, don't want to be classified and regulated as a telecommunications service, and stuff like this only just keeps them going.
Or maybe it's because something required like say a Nortel switch costs about $5 Million or so? That's something you just don't buy on a whim. For a cable to offer telephone service many things have to happen:
1. The equipment such as the switch, you're already down a few million.
2. New billing software, and you must integrate this with the existing software. A royal pain the ass and yet another company to pay hundreds of thousands yearly to.
3. Getting the current phone company such as Bell to play nice in getting this setup. They will play dirty tricks, they will try to fuck you over, and it will take several complaints to the FCC and your states CC as well.
4. All curent hardware must be upgraded in the field, lines need voltage increased. This is not fun for everyone involved as you must take all data/video service offline for a day or two.
There are way too many other minor caveats and issues to list as well. But summarize, adding telephone service to ones cable company is something you don't want to take too lightly.
The idea that the 'net can't be censored by anyone is WAY too optimistic. Yes, governments will have a hard time doing it because there's always some other government that makes it legal.
China has had pretty good success in censoring what it's citizens can and can not view. Costly I'm sure it is, it makes me wonder if France is next?
It's a well known fact that DSL is just second rate to cable. The ill-informed DSL guys will tell you how great it is and all, a nice dedicated connection - but they won't tell you it's dedicated to the switch.
The point being, you've got all these people pirating mp3s, porn, and software and you still are gonna get shitty service. Let's just hope you live across the street from the telco's switching equipment.
The telco's have no reason to maintain their lines either, they have to open it up to other companies which look bad when bell decides to get around to fixing a problem on the lines - they make money by neglecting their equipment.
Cable on the other hand is not regulated meaning they have don't have to open their systems for shit. They generally provide better service anyway.
In a 2001 Newsweek report it stated that the DSL market has shruken nearly a staggering 14% in one year, 9% of that in the last quarter alone. If you own stock in any of the other big DSL companies such as Verizon, Swbell, or @home then you are in for a big surprise. Lets just hope you enough bandwidth to come crying on slashdot when your company leaves your ass hanging in the breeze.
I am sorry to say it but, I beleive that a direct hit it what is needed to force our governments to take action. Hopefully it will be not too big and in an unpopulated area, but statistically we are bound to get wacked at somepoint.
Earth has been wacked, more then once and will again, or so evidence suggests. It's just whether or not in our lifetimes (or should I say our politicians lifetimes) we get wacked, which I figure is highly unlikely.
Am I not looking hard enough or was there no screen shots to be had?
The artwork on the 50th anniversery paperback edition was pretty neat. However the books themselves were in bolder, smaller print making it a little harder on the eyes to read - especially when I tried to read the Two Towers in one sitting.
I suspect it was the rip from the international press preview. If theres chinese (at least I think they are chinese) characters that briefly appear on the screen, then it most likely is. Right now on Morpheus/Kazaa the movie itself is going around in 3 parts, each a 220MB hour long segment.
This is quite true, for the story itself it doesn't change much. However the reference to him in Rivendell is pretty amazing, and for the history of middle-earth itself makes him one of the more important characters in the book(s).
:)
The movies themselves also have to be tailored somewhat so the average person who hasn't read the books can get into it without falling asleep
That chapter in the book amazing when I first read it. When Glorfindel said, "fly", meaning roughly "Get the hell out of here" was pretty gripping.
I'm kind of upset a little that they cut out Glorfindel and had Arwen instead of Elrond raise the ford, but I understand for purposes of the movie why they did that.
The best part I liked in the movie had to be the beginning when they talked about Isildir.
Don't stone me or anything, but how do you pronounce C# ?
I'm planning on watching lots and lots of college football New Years Day.
:) (I'm still a little po'd seeing a big 12 team in the ROSE bowl, a bowl which normally takes the big10 and pac10 #1's).
Being at the University of Kansas, seeing as how our football team hasn't beaten Nebraska since '68 or '69 I always root against them, however I want them to beat Miami, so if Oregon wins we have co-champions and this will make the BCS look all jacked up. The coaches poll automatically puts BCS #1 which would be Nebraska if they won, at the top. The AP knows better and actually votes for the #1, which wouldn't be Nebraska.
Usually however around this time of year I watch, hoping to see Nebraska lose
TNT has traditionally done 24 hrs of Clint Eastwood over the hollidays for the past few years. The dates seem to change every year. 2 years in a row I watche d the entire marathon. My god, after seeing "2 mules for Sister Sara" twice in one sitting, with no coffee really made me have strange dreams that night.
Because "Suicide is Painless..."
ok mr troll, first off, channukah can be spelled one of at least 25, if not more ways. thanks.
Don't forgot about Hannakah, too :)
I've been reading this since it was Fish 'n' Chips on his crappy university server (umich.edu?) and ever since people started taking interest he's always had this 'holier then thou' attitude. With every post he has to sum it up with a short little anecdote that makes it clear he's used it first, knows more about it, or whatever.