I'm sure all of the datacenter employees and the bankrupted owners as well as the many innocent customers whose internet operations evaporated overnight will find that deeply comforting as they try to figure out what to do for food, clothing, and shelter.
How about if the taxis have been picking up and dropping off nicely dressed people with briefcases full of drugs and money (that they never open in the cab)? Do we charge the drivers?
Is it fair to destroy the cab company and put all of its employees out of work digging around for evidence based on a vague suspicion that one or two drivers might have had an unvoiced suspicion?
I'm betting that when this all blows over, the datacenter will be bankrupt and tossed to the wolves.
And FYI, Kickstarter is not a donation platform as evidenced by the dozens of angry posts about "we want full refund."
Actually it is. The people demanding a full refund either don't know that (because they didn't bother to read) or they DO know that but choose to act as if they don't.
The time limits are based on when the lagoon fills/empties. If they close the gates, they can delay the generation without losing anything.
At the same time, since the production is intermittent but reliable, they can make arrangements with commercial/industrial consumers to match demand with supply.
The problem comes in when they happily accept a few excess deaths every year rather than the tiny risk of many deaths, even when the former adds up to more than the latter.
Actually, they will have some ability to decide when to generate the power. For example, if none is needed at the start of high tide they can close the gates. Then as demand grows they can open them wide. Presuming sufficiently large gates, they could do that and still capture maximum power for that cycle.
Same holds true as the tide goes out.
Since the energy input is free and never ending, they just need to do a cost/benefit analysis. If the storage is more expensive than the potential energy gains, they can just let some of the water flow freely.
By taking this action, the FCC is preventing the state governments from restricting my ability to communicate with the world. That restriction is in the form of picking a winner in the market and so making internet service more expensive and/or preventing me from joining with other local people to build out a network and connect it across the state line.
The FCC is in no way stopping or preventing me from interstate commerce through this intervention.
Our session manager was updated to use logind and/or upower if available for hibernate/suspend support. For portability and to respect our users' choices, fallback modes were implemented relying on os-specific backends.
Attention freedeskto.org: Commit that to memory, brand it on your foreheads, tattoo it on each other's butt cheeks, whatever it takes!
The sad part is that the huge corporate screw-ups keep winning the contracts because small but capable shops can't afford the costs of the paperwork designed to keep screw-ups out of the process and they can't afford the lawyers needed to actually get paid when the customer changes directions 5 times and makes the project late.
If they would allow pay as you go contracts with small shops they would get a lot more successful projects (or at worst, fail cheaply enough to try again) but again they're so paranoid that the project will fail that they set conditions that assure it will fail big and expensive.
The federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, which includes telecommunications. The FCC charter tells it to use that power for the public interest.
As to unions stopping a communist revolution... I find that argument lacking in credibility. Especially since in places where the unions were the strongest they seem the most inclined to communism while places where they are the weakest are the least inclined to communism.
You should really delve more into history then. There was a real movement for it. The red flags weren't a coincidence. Remember, the red scare hadn't happened yet. 'The Russians' were still good guys. The cold war was over a decade in the future.
Communism wasn't a dirty word at all except among the wealthy.
As for the rest about Marx, that's all irrelevant. It doesn't matter what actually was or how that came out, all that matters is what the people contemplating revolution at that time believed. Had they not been placated by positive changes, they would have pressed on to a revolution for better or worse. They didn't have the benefit of the rear view mirror that we have on the Russian revolution.
Again, read carefully. I didn't say it won't happen. I said it won't happen for a while. Personally, I would like to have an autonomous vehicle. I just want to see provisions made for the general welfare before we go much further down the path.
But it won't. The DOT doesn't give a damn about Google's union trouble and they're the ones who will ultimately have to sign off on automated vehicles.
Tie your knees down and read it again. I said that the concessions forced by unions PREVENTED a communist revolution and that it's a GOOD thing that they did.
If you WANT a communist revolution, by all means take back all that the unions have gained and ban them. Give a few years for the pressure to build up (plus or minus a few cities being burned) and BAM you'll have your revolution.
I prefer that we keep the relief valve in place maintaining a reasonable balance so we can avoid all that nonsense. Even better would be enlightened management recognizing that tightening the screws causes unions and union problems and adopting a more balanced approach, but given the quality of MBAs these days I'm not holding my breath.
Sure, but only if you do not use government money at all, do not use any exercise of eminent domain. That means if you want to run a cable, you negotiate with each and every property owner it needs to run through or over.
Title II could make that happen, but it will be a few years until there are enough choices to make a market work half decently.
For example, back when dial-up was the best technology generally available there were dozens of ISPs to choose from, all connected to a highly regulated POTS network. Prices dropped like a rock and if there was an issue, you could actually get your call elevated to the actual network admin.
The big flub with DSL was not giving the regulations enough teeth to make access truly equal. Many providers gave up when it took a month or three to get their DSLAM connected to a subscriber line but the local Bell's own service would get connected within 24 hours.
It has everything to do with what capitalism becomes when the market regulators are asleep at the switch or simply absent. There is no such thing as "free market capitalism". It is either Capitalism and the market regulations that come with or it is not Capitalism at all. You can't call it anarchy and you can't claim that the government isn't involved because that would make corporations non-existent.
Corporatism might fit or Cronyism or perhaps just plain old corruption.
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I'm sure all of the datacenter employees and the bankrupted owners as well as the many innocent customers whose internet operations evaporated overnight will find that deeply comforting as they try to figure out what to do for food, clothing, and shelter.
How about if the taxis have been picking up and dropping off nicely dressed people with briefcases full of drugs and money (that they never open in the cab)? Do we charge the drivers?
Is it fair to destroy the cab company and put all of its employees out of work digging around for evidence based on a vague suspicion that one or two drivers might have had an unvoiced suspicion?
I'm betting that when this all blows over, the datacenter will be bankrupt and tossed to the wolves.
Accepting the risk that it may never appear in stores or might cost more.
And FYI, Kickstarter is not a donation platform as evidenced by the dozens of angry posts about "we want full refund."
Actually it is. The people demanding a full refund either don't know that (because they didn't bother to read) or they DO know that but choose to act as if they don't.
The time limits are based on when the lagoon fills/empties. If they close the gates, they can delay the generation without losing anything.
At the same time, since the production is intermittent but reliable, they can make arrangements with commercial/industrial consumers to match demand with supply.
The problem comes in when they happily accept a few excess deaths every year rather than the tiny risk of many deaths, even when the former adds up to more than the latter.
Actually, they will have some ability to decide when to generate the power. For example, if none is needed at the start of high tide they can close the gates. Then as demand grows they can open them wide. Presuming sufficiently large gates, they could do that and still capture maximum power for that cycle.
Same holds true as the tide goes out.
Since the energy input is free and never ending, they just need to do a cost/benefit analysis. If the storage is more expensive than the potential energy gains, they can just let some of the water flow freely.
Generally either PEW PEW PEW, or the Star Trek phaser sound, I'm sure.
By taking this action, the FCC is preventing the state governments from restricting my ability to communicate with the world. That restriction is in the form of picking a winner in the market and so making internet service more expensive and/or preventing me from joining with other local people to build out a network and connect it across the state line.
The FCC is in no way stopping or preventing me from interstate commerce through this intervention.
From the announcement (bold mine):
Our session manager was updated to use logind and/or upower if available for hibernate/suspend support. For portability and to respect our users' choices, fallback modes were implemented relying on os-specific backends.
Attention freedeskto.org: Commit that to memory, brand it on your foreheads, tattoo it on each other's butt cheeks, whatever it takes!
I'm pretty sure that's the management.
The sad part is that the huge corporate screw-ups keep winning the contracts because small but capable shops can't afford the costs of the paperwork designed to keep screw-ups out of the process and they can't afford the lawyers needed to actually get paid when the customer changes directions 5 times and makes the project late.
If they would allow pay as you go contracts with small shops they would get a lot more successful projects (or at worst, fail cheaply enough to try again) but again they're so paranoid that the project will fail that they set conditions that assure it will fail big and expensive.
The federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce, which includes telecommunications. The FCC charter tells it to use that power for the public interest.
As to unions stopping a communist revolution... I find that argument lacking in credibility. Especially since in places where the unions were the strongest they seem the most inclined to communism while places where they are the weakest are the least inclined to communism.
You should really delve more into history then. There was a real movement for it. The red flags weren't a coincidence. Remember, the red scare hadn't happened yet. 'The Russians' were still good guys. The cold war was over a decade in the future.
Communism wasn't a dirty word at all except among the wealthy.
As for the rest about Marx, that's all irrelevant. It doesn't matter what actually was or how that came out, all that matters is what the people contemplating revolution at that time believed. Had they not been placated by positive changes, they would have pressed on to a revolution for better or worse. They didn't have the benefit of the rear view mirror that we have on the Russian revolution.
Again, read carefully. I didn't say it won't happen. I said it won't happen for a while. Personally, I would like to have an autonomous vehicle. I just want to see provisions made for the general welfare before we go much further down the path.
But it won't. The DOT doesn't give a damn about Google's union trouble and they're the ones who will ultimately have to sign off on automated vehicles.
Tie your knees down and read it again. I said that the concessions forced by unions PREVENTED a communist revolution and that it's a GOOD thing that they did.
If you WANT a communist revolution, by all means take back all that the unions have gained and ban them. Give a few years for the pressure to build up (plus or minus a few cities being burned) and BAM you'll have your revolution.
I prefer that we keep the relief valve in place maintaining a reasonable balance so we can avoid all that nonsense. Even better would be enlightened management recognizing that tightening the screws causes unions and union problems and adopting a more balanced approach, but given the quality of MBAs these days I'm not holding my breath.
I honestly doubt it will affect the timeline even one iota.
Of course they don't magically disappear. They get scraped away with the topsoil by glaciers or ablated and carried off by wind.
It's learned helplessness. Push lever A, push lever B, don't push any lever. It doesn't matter, the painful shock is coming anyway.
Sure, but only if you do not use government money at all, do not use any exercise of eminent domain. That means if you want to run a cable, you negotiate with each and every property owner it needs to run through or over.
Title II could make that happen, but it will be a few years until there are enough choices to make a market work half decently.
For example, back when dial-up was the best technology generally available there were dozens of ISPs to choose from, all connected to a highly regulated POTS network. Prices dropped like a rock and if there was an issue, you could actually get your call elevated to the actual network admin.
The big flub with DSL was not giving the regulations enough teeth to make access truly equal. Many providers gave up when it took a month or three to get their DSLAM connected to a subscriber line but the local Bell's own service would get connected within 24 hours.
They get the police to do that for them these days. In that sense, it's worse than it was back then.
It has everything to do with what capitalism becomes when the market regulators are asleep at the switch or simply absent. There is no such thing as "free market capitalism". It is either Capitalism and the market regulations that come with or it is not Capitalism at all. You can't call it anarchy and you can't claim that the government isn't involved because that would make corporations non-existent.
Corporatism might fit or Cronyism or perhaps just plain old corruption.
He was pointedly ignoring a number of compensatory services the top 53% get back.