While a nice idea, in practice this can't work. Mass boycott of the ISPs would cripple many businesses, and produce alot of whiny Facebook addicts.
For that matter, we are all so numb to the realities of the world around us that it is next to impossible to organize any sort of mass rebellion to fix this type of thing. People want to go back to their Facebook and WOW and forget the ever present BOHICA.
rail is king is japan and europe because these places are so much more dense population wise than the usa.
Dead on. The incentive to park your car (or not even own a car) is much much higher in countries with high population densities.
One metric I would love to see studied in regards to transportation infrastructure is GDP/square km (or mile). I think you would start to see a very clear line where rail/mass transit becomes cost effective at certain $/density levels.
Someone do that study for me...
Our company uses Messagelabs. Just tried a quick message from my Gmail account. Almost immediately received the message. No delay for my account, at any rate.
This concept that there is 'no good' music out there is a fallacy. While I agree that most of the mainstream music is pre-packaged twinkie pop, there is an entire subset of music (indie and non) that can be found with a little research. And guess what? It's available on iTunes and other services like eMusic (ad infinitum).
And that said, with music being such a subjective topic, it's very difficult to say that one artist is 'bad' when they appeal to such broad demographics of teens that absorb them through their radio waves like mindless drones.
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on my 7.1 sound
Send "seven nation army's" bass line to the .1
While a nice idea, in practice this can't work. Mass boycott of the ISPs would cripple many businesses, and produce alot of whiny Facebook addicts.
For that matter, we are all so numb to the realities of the world around us that it is next to impossible to organize any sort of mass rebellion to fix this type of thing. People want to go back to their Facebook and WOW and forget the ever present BOHICA.
rail is king is japan and europe because these places are so much more dense population wise than the usa.
Dead on. The incentive to park your car (or not even own a car) is much much higher in countries with high population densities. One metric I would love to see studied in regards to transportation infrastructure is GDP/square km (or mile). I think you would start to see a very clear line where rail/mass transit becomes cost effective at certain $/density levels. Someone do that study for me...
"Negroponte" always did remind me of a super-villian
Our company uses Messagelabs. Just tried a quick message from my Gmail account. Almost immediately received the message. No delay for my account, at any rate.
This concept that there is 'no good' music out there is a fallacy. While I agree that most of the mainstream music is pre-packaged twinkie pop, there is an entire subset of music (indie and non) that can be found with a little research. And guess what? It's available on iTunes and other services like eMusic (ad infinitum). And that said, with music being such a subjective topic, it's very difficult to say that one artist is 'bad' when they appeal to such broad demographics of teens that absorb them through their radio waves like mindless drones.