Only if you accept their terms without negotiating. We have TWC for Internet only and pay a rate similar to what we paid when we were getting the bundled discount. You can get it but you have to ask for it.
The best of both worlds? Evidently you don't remember what it was like to be a customer of Ma Bell. "We're the phone company, we don't have to care," was a good laugh line because it was true. If you think your current locally regulated ISP monopoly is bad, just wait until it's got the federal government FOAD seal of approval.
"This is the reason why a lot of people are very unhappy."
I thought it was the movement of little green pieces of paper. Which is strange because, on the whole, the little green pieces of paper are not unhappy.
Perhaps it was a bad idea to come down out of the trees after all.
And yet not so smart that he can't understand that the cause of the problem is the concentration of power in the Federal government and not the symptom of money flowing to it.
No, but you should be. Reckless, greedy homeowners were as complicit in the scam and subsequent collapse as any of the financial middlemen. But for the legions of people who were willing and enthusiastic participants in committing this fraud there would have been no bubble and no collapse.
Your complaint isn't with Google, it's with whomever is publishing the information you claim is false. In fact you should be writing Google a big 'ole thank you letter for allowing you to find this false information on the Internet so easily.
+1 This is the most concise argument I've seen yet for why the current commenting system is so loved:
"... because the design permits unfettered chaos while providing the means for users to wade through it quickly and efficiently, so they can easily promote the best content to the top!"
OMG...focus your efforts on making this feature of the site more awesome and forget the rest of the window dressing.
You're wasting your breath frinsore. Many of us who had early access to the beta complained about the exact list of things that has the general/. population so upset. We were ignored.
You had your constructive feedback Soulskill and you pissed on it. Please stop coming here pretending to want feedback.
If you actually give a shit stop talking and prove it. Fix the stuff you've broken in beta.
1) Vast wastelands of wasted white space in the margins? Still there. 2) Comment moderation slider? No. 3) UID Friends/Foes in the headers? No. 4) Ability to quickly link back to threads I'm commenting in? No.... The list goes on.
WE ARE YOUR REVENUE. We are the eyeballs you sell and the creators of your content; content (comments) that keeps people coming back. We are telling you that you're fucking up.
If you were listening we wouldn't still be having this discussion.
This is actually a very interesting question. For pure software you're licensing, not purchasing, and so the doctrine of first sale doesn't apply unless the license allows it. For a durable good like a car or a washing machine, clearly a second hand purchaser wouldn't be party to the original license contract and the software must convey with the vehicle (or appliance) as the software is integral to the function of the device. Generally speaking though, I thought contracts of adhesion were prohibited by law, so the second hand buyer might in fact be in the clear.
I wonder (not enough to look it up) if there's any established precedent on the question?
Thought I'd look it up since not going every flipping year would be nice. Per the tx.gov site: all cars must be inspected annually but brand new cars can go two years before their first one.
Huh..and to think I've been wasting my time getting an annual inspection in Texas every year. I do get that nice window decal though, so I guess it's not all bad.
Interstate commerce. Normally I'm all for state's rights, but this is one area where there's actually a Constitutional basis to tell the State to get bent.
Because it's not worth the time or expense to NOT tax you for driving on them when in the vast majority of cases private roads are going to be the exception rather than the rule. Ditto for out-of-state driving except in border counties in which case maybe you give them a % break as compared to someone on the interior.
I think meerling's comment that there currently is no state inspection in Oregon is a higher hurdle to jump; in that case, trade-off's aren't so clear.
I still think you come down on the side of simplicity as much as possible. Cover your 80% use cases at the least cost and complexity and simply accept that you'll have some sort of dead weight loss whatever you choose. I think it's vastly preferable to granting your state government an official license to track all your movements.
"There are very strong arguments for why education should be regulated at a national level."
I'd like to hear them. I don't think the evidence has been very good that the D of Ed has had any positive effect on educational outcomes despite ever escalating expenditures on education.
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Only if you accept their terms without negotiating. We have TWC for Internet only and pay a rate similar to what we paid when we were getting the bundled discount. You can get it but you have to ask for it.
The best of both worlds? Evidently you don't remember what it was like to be a customer of Ma Bell. "We're the phone company, we don't have to care," was a good laugh line because it was true. If you think your current locally regulated ISP monopoly is bad, just wait until it's got the federal government FOAD seal of approval.
Thank you!
I'd be interested in knowing what you think about this article on pilot waves:
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/t...
Thanks!
You can install the Google Authenticator app; it requires no data connection after you set it up.
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"This is the reason why a lot of people are very unhappy."
I thought it was the movement of little green pieces of paper. Which is strange because, on the whole, the little green pieces of paper are not unhappy.
Perhaps it was a bad idea to come down out of the trees after all.
Mortgage Rate Survey: http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms...
"Lawrence is... a smart person..."
And yet not so smart that he can't understand that the cause of the problem is the concentration of power in the Federal government and not the symptom of money flowing to it.
No, but you should be. Reckless, greedy homeowners were as complicit in the scam and subsequent collapse as any of the financial middlemen. But for the legions of people who were willing and enthusiastic participants in committing this fraud there would have been no bubble and no collapse.
Your complaint isn't with Google, it's with whomever is publishing the information you claim is false. In fact you should be writing Google a big 'ole thank you letter for allowing you to find this false information on the Internet so easily.
A problem that Rise of Nations solved. Why that didn't make into SC2 is a mystery.
In Soviet Russia, insensitive clods BETA you mother!
+1 This is the most concise argument I've seen yet for why the current commenting system is so loved:
"... because the design permits unfettered chaos while providing the means for users to wade through it quickly and efficiently, so they can easily promote the best content to the top!"
OMG...focus your efforts on making this feature of the site more awesome and forget the rest of the window dressing.
You're wasting your breath frinsore. Many of us who had early access to the beta complained about the exact list of things that has the general /. population so upset. We were ignored.
You had your constructive feedback Soulskill and you pissed on it. Please stop coming here pretending to want feedback.
If you actually give a shit stop talking and prove it. Fix the stuff you've broken in beta.
You are in fact not listening.
1) Vast wastelands of wasted white space in the margins? Still there. .... The list goes on.
2) Comment moderation slider? No.
3) UID Friends/Foes in the headers? No.
4) Ability to quickly link back to threads I'm commenting in? No
WE ARE YOUR REVENUE. We are the eyeballs you sell and the creators of your content; content (comments) that keeps people coming back. We are telling you that you're fucking up.
If you were listening we wouldn't still be having this discussion.
This is actually a very interesting question. For pure software you're licensing, not purchasing, and so the doctrine of first sale doesn't apply unless the license allows it. For a durable good like a car or a washing machine, clearly a second hand purchaser wouldn't be party to the original license contract and the software must convey with the vehicle (or appliance) as the software is integral to the function of the device. Generally speaking though, I thought contracts of adhesion were prohibited by law, so the second hand buyer might in fact be in the clear.
I wonder (not enough to look it up) if there's any established precedent on the question?
Their enterprise security and controls are better than either DropBox or Google.
Burn the witch!
Thought I'd look it up since not going every flipping year would be nice. Per the tx.gov site: all cars must be inspected annually but brand new cars can go two years before their first one.
See: http://www.dps.texas.gov/RSD/VI/CostOfInsp.htm
"perhaps a similar approach would be to meter charging stations and tax on that?"
Also a simple and perfectly rational way to do it.
Huh..and to think I've been wasting my time getting an annual inspection in Texas every year. I do get that nice window decal though, so I guess it's not all bad.
Interstate commerce. Normally I'm all for state's rights, but this is one area where there's actually a Constitutional basis to tell the State to get bent.
Because it's not worth the time or expense to NOT tax you for driving on them when in the vast majority of cases private roads are going to be the exception rather than the rule. Ditto for out-of-state driving except in border counties in which case maybe you give them a % break as compared to someone on the interior.
I think meerling's comment that there currently is no state inspection in Oregon is a higher hurdle to jump; in that case, trade-off's aren't so clear.
I still think you come down on the side of simplicity as much as possible. Cover your 80% use cases at the least cost and complexity and simply accept that you'll have some sort of dead weight loss whatever you choose. I think it's vastly preferable to granting your state government an official license to track all your movements.
why we're trying to over-complicate this? Take the odometer reading at annual inspection and be done with it.
Will there be corner cases where someone gets screwed under this system? Sure.
Is it worth all the trouble, expense, and privacy violations of being 100% perfect when 80% is good enough? No. Not even a little.
"There are very strong arguments for why education should be regulated at a national level."
I'd like to hear them. I don't think the evidence has been very good that the D of Ed has had any positive effect on educational outcomes despite ever escalating expenditures on education.