Everyone has access to some type of internet connection if they can afford it. I have to pay $80 a month for 10GB, but I would rather pay half that for unlimited. Unlike healthcare, government intervention is not likely to reduce quality or availability as it would with healthcare. Healthcare is extremely complicated, broadband policy is not. We have done this before, remember land lines? Now companies practically beg you to install a land line for $15 a month. Decent broadband could be like this too with the stroke of a pen, healthcare not so much. So it isn't really a good comparison, nor is it insightful.
Lifetime is not reasonable. Also, the lifetime is probably stipulated nicely in the TOS. No one in business is going to offer lifetime anything. It is the TOS that really matters, forget the false advertising.
Windows on the desktop can become irrelevant, and probably already is. Office the same. But taking a look at their server offerings and.net ecosystem, it is clear they are not going away any time soon. No one offers solutions that rival Microsoft in these areas. Their development environments and integration across all their back-end systems makes for a very sensible solution. This, coming from a Java/Netbeans/LAMP fanboy.
I have had Facebook and Twitter icons stop page loads before. Pissed me off so bad I threw my mouse. When you take care to build a fast website and then add these little tiny buttons only to watch your site grind to a halt, it is extremely infuriating. It is probably best to physically locate the code at the end of the page and position it manually.
So we used to authority policing our content consumption? I work at a college and we do no filtering of any kind due to academic freedom. There are issues from time to time but it is tolerated in the name of freedom.
This alone (loose loaning) would have merely let the steam out of the housing "sector." Coupled with the Glass-Steagall revocation and FDIC contracts it allowed some banks to gamble heavily. Banks, traders, and other financial actors/institutions do what they are allowed to do to make money--basic economics. Should the government have mandated home ownership, no. Should the government have revoked Glass-Steagall, no.
A monopoly becomes a corruption in a demand economy and hence requires "regulation." Instead of micromanaging I would opt to level the playing field to introduce new competition. Not easy, since the government becomes the innovator in this case, and governments are not good innovators since they have no powerful intrinsic motivation and only a compulsion from concerned voters. The regulation that was "taken away" was just rules to prevent conflicts of interest that are prone to happen in an already government granted oligopoly--banking. All regulation is inherently bad, some of it necessary. There is no such thing as U.S. economics, just economics.
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm looking at Page Plus right now and dreaming of ditching Verizon! They have been sapping my family for $200 a month.
You see, Jane understands that she is being asked to part with $60.....but she isn't quite sure what this "4th amendment" is, and she isn't sure if she wants to give it up. Tune in next week to see Jane depart with her $60 in a desperate gamble for safety.
How is this flame-bait? Oh...this is/. You can't foist things on people or compel them to do something. Create the environment in which they want to do it themselves and strive towards it. The central planners have failed and will continue to fail. There is one philosophy which intends to force man to be good, and another which realizes there are faults and tries to promote a system which plays on those faults to create the best of all possible worlds. Which is smarter? Which has a chance of success? The answer: the latter. The latter system is the one you have always lived under so you don't know any different, only excess. This system is the one which lets you little troll shits sit back in comfort, stuff your face, and click flame-bait when you don't agree. I wouldn't trade it for any other.
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At the most it is a tort.
Because your country is the size of one of our states dude, get out a map!
Everyone has access to some type of internet connection if they can afford it. I have to pay $80 a month for 10GB, but I would rather pay half that for unlimited. Unlike healthcare, government intervention is not likely to reduce quality or availability as it would with healthcare. Healthcare is extremely complicated, broadband policy is not. We have done this before, remember land lines? Now companies practically beg you to install a land line for $15 a month. Decent broadband could be like this too with the stroke of a pen, healthcare not so much. So it isn't really a good comparison, nor is it insightful.
No.
Lifetime is not reasonable. Also, the lifetime is probably stipulated nicely in the TOS. No one in business is going to offer lifetime anything. It is the TOS that really matters, forget the false advertising.
I have found, unfortunately, after much analysis that Fox is in fact more fair and balanced than most other news outlets. It's the world we live in...
Dude, that is funny as shit!
Microsoft just doesn't have the history of producing amazing products.
You been in a server room lately? Popped open Visual Studio? Evaluated .NET?
Apple is slowly drifting into a malaise of decline. Fonzy is on the skis, he's having a good ole time, and there lies the shark up ahead.
someone thinks all their products must run the same UI
Ahhh...marketing. This is marketing that has stopped caring about customer needs and has jumped the shark to a mandate of uniformity.
I wonder if someone has "hairyballs" already?
Windows on the desktop can become irrelevant, and probably already is. Office the same. But taking a look at their server offerings and .net ecosystem, it is clear they are not going away any time soon. No one offers solutions that rival Microsoft in these areas. Their development environments and integration across all their back-end systems makes for a very sensible solution. This, coming from a Java/Netbeans/LAMP fanboy.
The stock answer of my wife who can't come up with a coherent response.
I have had Facebook and Twitter icons stop page loads before. Pissed me off so bad I threw my mouse. When you take care to build a fast website and then add these little tiny buttons only to watch your site grind to a halt, it is extremely infuriating. It is probably best to physically locate the code at the end of the page and position it manually.
Forefront TMG (ISA server) can do this.
Make sure you block reddit, slashdot, cnn, WSJ, ..... I can blow my entire day on many sites.
So we used to authority policing our content consumption? I work at a college and we do no filtering of any kind due to academic freedom. There are issues from time to time but it is tolerated in the name of freedom.
Why is a school blocking content, and is Slashdot going out of business, because quite frankly, I've never seen it this dead around here.
Trying it tomorrow, got an extra phone charging now.
This alone (loose loaning) would have merely let the steam out of the housing "sector." Coupled with the Glass-Steagall revocation and FDIC contracts it allowed some banks to gamble heavily. Banks, traders, and other financial actors/institutions do what they are allowed to do to make money--basic economics. Should the government have mandated home ownership, no. Should the government have revoked Glass-Steagall, no.
A monopoly becomes a corruption in a demand economy and hence requires "regulation." Instead of micromanaging I would opt to level the playing field to introduce new competition. Not easy, since the government becomes the innovator in this case, and governments are not good innovators since they have no powerful intrinsic motivation and only a compulsion from concerned voters. The regulation that was "taken away" was just rules to prevent conflicts of interest that are prone to happen in an already government granted oligopoly--banking. All regulation is inherently bad, some of it necessary. There is no such thing as U.S. economics, just economics.
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm looking at Page Plus right now and dreaming of ditching Verizon! They have been sapping my family for $200 a month.
None of it makes any sense.
Average Jane: "Uh....Uh.....I don't know!"
You see, Jane understands that she is being asked to part with $60.....but she isn't quite sure what this "4th amendment" is, and she isn't sure if she wants to give it up. Tune in next week to see Jane depart with her $60 in a desperate gamble for safety.
How is this flame-bait? Oh...this is /. You can't foist things on people or compel them to do something. Create the environment in which they want to do it themselves and strive towards it. The central planners have failed and will continue to fail. There is one philosophy which intends to force man to be good, and another which realizes there are faults and tries to promote a system which plays on those faults to create the best of all possible worlds. Which is smarter? Which has a chance of success? The answer: the latter. The latter system is the one you have always lived under so you don't know any different, only excess. This system is the one which lets you little troll shits sit back in comfort, stuff your face, and click flame-bait when you don't agree. I wouldn't trade it for any other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMksnSaAJ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ZPg6kOBkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHdhrNhh88