Exactly. No person on the phone at telco will know exactly how a piece of software like this was developed. You have to dig deep down hierarchy that has no customer interactions by far to get someone that possibly has an idea.
Likely a brush off. Either that, or person knows formula is: x*1.3=usage ; where x is real usage. He is more likely to be onto something though because 30% extra bandwidth charge is nice profit for users that new to internet scene, and nice savings on selling you 100GB package and letting you only use 70GB.
Depending on my mood, I'm likely to get locked out? God forbid I should start using a new app, that would also lock me out as mouse movement are sure to be different. Maybe I slept bad, and my arm hurts? Maybe it's just stress over review coming up?
Basically if any conditions change in user's personality of physiology, or computer's configuration, or your routine daily tasks security app would be useless.
If it was used as part of hybrid solution its still useless, why just not get timed user prompt in high-security areas to have user enter it every 30 minutes. That is more secure.
If it was used in some medical sense to identify changes in stress or personality,or mental issue outbursts about to occur by logging your mouse movements, then I'd say great!
You are saying that some of our greatest achievement came from people with Autism? You are an ignorant ass to say the least. Or maybe you are autistic person who thinks they are a genius?
Autism is disability. Retardation of learning and brain capacity! No genius was ever born autistic.
Geniuses might have different brain wiring that gives them an advantage over certain ways of thinking and memorization, which also makes the quirky or obsessive compulsive, etc... but very far from Autistic.
Depression is a disease! Also which can only hinder mental capacity or will of a person to be mentally advanced.
The only thing these two sicknesses have to do with "being better" for society is: Survival of fittest... Darwin's law... those with weak DNA don't reproduce and their family DNA dies off... that is only thing I can think of...
Diabetes not genetic? Seriously? What do you call then something that has genetic predisposition? LOL Sure it's not 100% you are going to get it,but more likely than not if your parents had it. So are certain heart diseases, and so are certain type of cancers too... genetically passed on!
Don't be running around misinforming people... and don't be an ass calling serious deadly diseases good for humanity...
No, it just blocked IPs from DoS traffic because it was easy to identify... customers ware unaffected. If you can block anything that sends you more than 200 requests within a minute you are off to a good start.
It depends on how many nodes DoS is coming from though, as if it's coming from 1,000,000 nodes, it would only need to make let's say 5 requests per second and it would saturate network, and no firewall would effectively stop it. However, if DoS is going from 1000 nodes with 1000 requests per second trying to saturate your network - those types of DoS will easily be dropped by almost any properly configured firewall.
Essentially, I agree that if DoS was as large as what brought Sony to a crawl, then only good planning ahead could negate it. It involves a lot more than a firewall. But if you are running medium sized business, and it's some script kiddies that are coming together to try and bring your site down through DoS, it can easily be negated with a proper firewall.
I've used WatchGuard appliance and it did just that under DDOS attack. It also has a timer you can set for how long the IPs that are found performing an attack will be blocked for... worked really well with minimal setup effort, but it can be costly appliance depending on company size.
I've used some other appliances as well that did not have this feature, and it has caused issues under DDOS. You could also setup scripts with iptables under any UNIX flavor you pick to do just that as well.
64GB is selling for $399 so in that case "buy any for $299" is a good deal... essentially only for 64GB version is good for this deal.
I saw these deals during Christmas Boxing day on-line sales, and even though I'm in a market for a tablet under $200 that performs reasonably well, I still didn't have any interest in RIM product. It's too proprietary for my taste and it locks me in their very limited market, and it can not be rooted to run android last time I checked...but I might be wrong... I'd pay around $100 to buy it as a kids toy, for them to draw or play YouTube videos as similar products geared towards kids are much more expensive and much more lacking even than RIM's PlayBook.
The statement is from our newly appointed CEO, who makes it clear, we don’t just ‘not support SOPA,’ Go Daddy OPPOSES SOPA.
“We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to GoDaddy’s prior support for SOPA, which was reversed,” said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. “Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities. Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority, and we hope to repair those relationships and win back their business over time.”
If rich are to pay taxes to a point where they are on par with upper middle class, or anywhere close to it, then you would not have any rich people at all. There is no incentive to work hard and be filthy rich. No innovation... no competition... no big tax contributions (27%)... Thus, statement you said comes to effect - "the system would be incredibly broken."r>
People who work hard to get rich and/or have had their parents or grandparents work hard to ensure their kids and grand kids would not have to, is fine to me... as long as their fortunes are accumulated though working hard or being smart and not cheating and looting and stealing - in which case they should be in jail (like some people on wall street).
There is nothing wrong with being filthy rich. There is nothing wrong paying 27% or 30% or even 35% of taxes either... but the "MOB" has to be aware that every change just like in any ecosystem in nature bring about changes. Those changes might be - these rich people moving out of USA and moving to Canada, or Switzerland, or Germany, or Australia, or Japan, or UK... or anywhere else where taxes are reasonable and where they can retain most of their wealth without giving it to government. Then USA would really be screwed... so you be careful for what Obama brainwashes you with...think for yourself and don't follow the mob.
There is a difference in that and you voicing your opinion. If you want to say something to an extent - I think this person rapes small children, I have no proof, but I still think he does... that is fine... it is free speech and that is your opinion. But if you label me as raping small children, I think there is a term for that called libel. Courts can handle cases like that... it is generally used where you'd have to prove that either I am raping kids, and you are correct.... or you are incorrect and you will end up paying a large fine and issuing public apology.
This guy was voicing his opinion from his experience, and he probably has reasonable amount of experience with this person to be a good judge of what she is and is not. So unless they had a trial for libel, and unless he was found to be wrong in his description of her, and if he presented that information as facts on his blog and not just his opinion, then yes... he is guilty of libel.... but extreme measure would have been to get him to issue apology, take down just one article in his Blog, and pay a fine for damages done.
This argument that you use is same argument everyone will use to limit free speech because it frightens people what free speech can accomplish.
You can use a gun to defend yourself and other people, or you can use it to commit crimes. It does not mean that gun is the problem, it is person using it. Free speech is a weapon in much the same way. With great power comes great responsibility....
This is just bunch of bull and you know it. Are tabloids trying to protect general public when they write all kinds of lies and worse about stars in order to sell paper. They turn a profit no this. They also have larger customer base than this guy.
Free speech is free speech... and it is not free speech when someone can arbitrarily say - no you are not allowed to voice your opinions. Thus also my support of Wikileaks... content matters not... we don't get to decide what is free speach and what is not...If we do, then it's not free speech to begin with.
Actually you'd be surprised. I was trying to switch US based customer over from AT&T to Verizon, and due to the craziness I ran into I started making a log. It is quite extensive and funny. Things such as having to make 15 consecutive phone calls in order to reach correct person to talk to as I was being disconnected, looped into menu, and put on hold by people for over 30 minutes while they "transfer me". This was just Verizon too... one of the better ones apparently. Verizon sales person took 3 months to do nothing after 20 emails sent to him, he was coming up with excuses every single time - so funny yet so sad. It's like they had ex-con working as corporate sales rep. It's like they did not want our business... AT&T was even worse if you can believe....
After this experience I started to admire service we get from Bell & Rogers... one phone call and sales team of either will take care of everything...
In Europe we had 5-day school week. Every two weeks we'd switch from morning classes to afternoon classes, and vice versa. Grades 1,3,5,7 ware for example morning class, and 2,4,6, 8 ware afternoon. Every two weeks they switch. Morning classes ware from 7am-12 and afternoon 12-6pm.
This allowed for smaller buildings, less maintenance, heating/cooling, smaller class sizes, less teachers!
We also had way less homework than I've had here in US. But we did more in class. Tests and quizzes ware daily occurrence - we ware continuously tested. So, even though I finished grade 7 in Europe, when I came here to US, I was put into grade 9 (youngest in my high school) due to my developed skill-set. I had easily taken maths all the way into grade 11 without any effort at all.
There are definitely more efficient ways of teaching kids. Issues I see are: curriculum, lack of inventive teaching, teacher's unions, giving kids too much slack and dumbing them down, also learning though play has to stop as well as giving everyone A+ for participation type of bullshit. But who am I to judge?
What is wrong with giving every advantage to Johnny? And why would we concern ourselves with Jina?
Maybe for the arguments on Slashdot - fine, it's multinational site.
But, Johnny sinks in tens of thousands of dollars into economy just by paying for his education in US. For rest of his life he will have have paid millions of dollars in taxes (with any success), and contributed in one way or other to his community, and his country. So will did his parents, and so will his kids. What is wrong with protecting your country and your people and your community? If anything, I'd like to see more of that.
Who is going to look after US citizens if not US? China? Russia? India?
Sure globalization is here, and is fact of life, but anything we can do to hold on to our $$ and enrich OUR people, I'm for it. I'm not sure where this anti-patriotic Obama type mentality is coming from...
Why can't another store open that sells Beer as an alternative to The Beer store then? I see no Mike's Beer store that is open 24/7 that sells beer for less... ?
How much of every beer you purchase at beer store is tax - look it up... it might be private entity but its goverment regulated to a point where it might as well be a government entity.
Your argument about LCBO is useless... I don't care how impressive it is, government ran business can never be as efficient as private. Why would selection and quality suffer? Maybe I do want to purchase less expensive Hungarian brandy that is lesser quality for a lesser price? Maybe I'd like to purchase it at 2am when I run out of booze at a party I'm throwing?
If anything privatization of LCBO should result in larger variety of selection, and create opportunities for local groceries for additional income as well as create specialized stores where you can go nuts and pay $1K for a bottle of whiskey if you so desire... you make no points on this - writing something does not make it true.
I never said these ware federal entities - if you read your own linked wiki article you will see that LCBO is provincial Crown corporation! Same difference eh?
"As a near-monopoly, The Beer Store's only real competition is the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCB0)–a government-owned corporation with stores that sell wine, beer and spirits. Even then, The Beer Store provides over 90 per cent of the beer sold in Ontario, via its 400 store locations or distribution to restaurants and bars. " - my point exactly.....!
Nice of you to provide links to things that you have not read, and choose to ignore...
I totally agree with posters above - government taking over infrastructure of cable and telephone lines and charging fees for anyone that wants to hook in and provide TV or phone or Internet services and compete! That money can go back to enhancing infrastructure to organization that will spend all that money and not collect profit for their deep pockets - this way we will have 100Mbs fiber in our homes withing 2-3 years for $10/month! Our phone bills will go down to $10/month or something close to VOIP packages, and we wont get gauged with Cable/Satellite TV with +$50/month... more like $5/month... or you might even get to choose and pay only for channels you want to watch...
We should also look at:
1. Privatizing LCBO (Canadian Liquor/Beer stores )
2. Beer Store
3. Allow US Satellite companies in for competition.
4. Allow for creation of new power companies where government can control the grid and you decide who you are paying for power (so I can opt out of expensive green energy) that is being pushed!!!
This is all common sense and I'm amazed how little politicians actually apply to building a better society...
This would be so AMAZING to bringing jobs and create innovation, and create opportunities for small businesses and new startups in TV/Cable/internet to Ontario and Canada and average family that has cable TV and internet and phone would save on average +$200/month - better than any tax deduction government can give!
But we Canadians never step forth to actually do anything about it until someone actually starts raping us... like CRTC/Bell in this instance... in France they would have had riots long time ago...
It would be interesting to see in 20-30 years of free flowing immigration from Mexico, if Mexicans would take on arms and declare independent states/countries within US... ?
Europe is full of these scenarios where at one point immigration from neighboring countries was at a free flow, so people from poor countries populated richer in search of jobs, or land, or affordable living... and later wars ware/are being broken and land disputed. This is how Albanians from Albania got independent state of Kosovo away from Serbia by uncontrolled immigration basically.
I'm all for helping those less fortunate, but if there are rules then they need to apply to all, not some. If you are going to let in 500,000 Mexican in and give them legal status, then you should also let 500,000 South Africans in and give them legal status, or have quotas that are regulated to keep good balance of ethnic diversity... RULES are important, and enforcing them is VERY IMPORTANT...
If anyone cares, I have a virtual fence I wanna sell. It costs 10K, and is totally virtual - in every sense. I can make it as big or small as you want it, it only requires imagination on your part.
Everyone will always talk about research to prove the global warming, but no one really knows exactly what this research is. Watching ice melt on Google earth is not research. Saying CO2 in atmosphere contributes to green house effect warming earth is not research. And all the "research" companies funded by governments have yet to reveal their research and prove it. This is why it was a big deal when hackers released information from one of those research firms that actually questions all of their research on global warming.
I will not believe it until there is a research paper that 90% of scientists can agree on. I don't take anyone's word for any of this. Either show me proof or get out of my face. And I don't want to see proof of global warming as YOU see it, I want it as 90% of scientific community sees it.
Such research is yet to be published and agreed on.
All press is good press. I did not know about Bing merchant system, but now I do. They will fix the flaw in a little while and everyone will know about it. Knowing about this alternative merchant system, I might decide to try it out... and I guess that is the whole point why MS didn't decide to go about a quiet way...
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Exactly. No person on the phone at telco will know exactly how a piece of software like this was developed. You have to dig deep down hierarchy that has no customer interactions by far to get someone that possibly has an idea. Likely a brush off. Either that, or person knows formula is: x*1.3=usage ; where x is real usage. He is more likely to be onto something though because 30% extra bandwidth charge is nice profit for users that new to internet scene, and nice savings on selling you 100GB package and letting you only use 70GB.
New wave of pictures, including unsuspecting smart phone user's private parts, flooding internet in 3,2,1..
I've played Descent once, was pretty good at 3d space.
"honest taxation" -
You sure made me laugh on that one.
Depending on my mood, I'm likely to get locked out? God forbid I should start using a new app, that would also lock me out as mouse movement are sure to be different. Maybe I slept bad, and my arm hurts? Maybe it's just stress over review coming up?
Basically if any conditions change in user's personality of physiology, or computer's configuration, or your routine daily tasks security app would be useless.
If it was used as part of hybrid solution its still useless, why just not get timed user prompt in high-security areas to have user enter it every 30 minutes. That is more secure.
If it was used in some medical sense to identify changes in stress or personality,or mental issue outbursts about to occur by logging your mouse movements, then I'd say great!
Might just as well be alien armada making it's way though galaxy destroying every planet for fuel. Let's not poke around there too much.
Prices go up when supply is down... unlikely for demand to go down as well... BBQ season!
You are saying that some of our greatest achievement came from people with Autism? You are an ignorant ass to say the least. Or maybe you are autistic person who thinks they are a genius?
Autism is disability. Retardation of learning and brain capacity! No genius was ever born autistic.
Geniuses might have different brain wiring that gives them an advantage over certain ways of thinking and memorization, which also makes the quirky or obsessive compulsive, etc... but very far from Autistic.
Depression is a disease! Also which can only hinder mental capacity or will of a person to be mentally advanced.
The only thing these two sicknesses have to do with "being better" for society is: Survival of fittest... Darwin's law... those with weak DNA don't reproduce and their family DNA dies off... that is only thing I can think of...
Diabetes not genetic? Seriously? What do you call then something that has genetic predisposition? LOL Sure it's not 100% you are going to get it,but more likely than not if your parents had it. So are certain heart diseases, and so are certain type of cancers too... genetically passed on!
Don't be running around misinforming people... and don't be an ass calling serious deadly diseases good for humanity...
No, it just blocked IPs from DoS traffic because it was easy to identify... customers ware unaffected. If you can block anything that sends you more than 200 requests within a minute you are off to a good start.
It depends on how many nodes DoS is coming from though, as if it's coming from 1,000,000 nodes, it would only need to make let's say 5 requests per second and it would saturate network, and no firewall would effectively stop it. However, if DoS is going from 1000 nodes with 1000 requests per second trying to saturate your network - those types of DoS will easily be dropped by almost any properly configured firewall.
Essentially, I agree that if DoS was as large as what brought Sony to a crawl, then only good planning ahead could negate it. It involves a lot more than a firewall. But if you are running medium sized business, and it's some script kiddies that are coming together to try and bring your site down through DoS, it can easily be negated with a proper firewall.
I've used WatchGuard appliance and it did just that under DDOS attack. It also has a timer you can set for how long the IPs that are found performing an attack will be blocked for... worked really well with minimal setup effort, but it can be costly appliance depending on company size.
I've used some other appliances as well that did not have this feature, and it has caused issues under DDOS. You could also setup scripts with iptables under any UNIX flavor you pick to do just that as well.
Did you ever get to see what her natural hair color is?
This is not news as 16GB is on sale at Futureshop at $199 link (Canadian)
32GB is also on sale for $249 link (Canadian)
64GB is selling for $399 so in that case "buy any for $299" is a good deal... essentially only for 64GB version is good for this deal.
I saw these deals during Christmas Boxing day on-line sales, and even though I'm in a market for a tablet under $200 that performs reasonably well, I still didn't have any interest in RIM product. It's too proprietary for my taste and it locks me in their very limited market, and it can not be rooted to run android last time I checked...but I might be wrong... I'd pay around $100 to buy it as a kids toy, for them to draw or play YouTube videos as similar products geared towards kids are much more expensive and much more lacking even than RIM's PlayBook.
Quoting from TC article...
The statement is from our newly appointed CEO, who makes it clear, we don’t just ‘not support SOPA,’ Go Daddy OPPOSES SOPA.
“We have observed a spike in domain name transfers, which are running above normal rates and which we attribute to GoDaddy’s prior support for SOPA, which was reversed,” said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. “Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities. Our company regrets the loss of any of our customers, who remain our highest priority, and we hope to repair those relationships and win back their business over time.”
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Too late as far as I'm concerned... it's like cheating on your wife and then saying sorry... it does not wash it away...
If rich are to pay taxes to a point where they are on par with upper middle class, or anywhere close to it, then you would not have any rich people at all. There is no incentive to work hard and be filthy rich. No innovation... no competition... no big tax contributions (27%)... Thus, statement you said comes to effect - "the system would be incredibly broken."r>
People who work hard to get rich and/or have had their parents or grandparents work hard to ensure their kids and grand kids would not have to, is fine to me... as long as their fortunes are accumulated though working hard or being smart and not cheating and looting and stealing - in which case they should be in jail (like some people on wall street).
There is nothing wrong with being filthy rich. There is nothing wrong paying 27% or 30% or even 35% of taxes either... but the "MOB" has to be aware that every change just like in any ecosystem in nature bring about changes. Those changes might be - these rich people moving out of USA and moving to Canada, or Switzerland, or Germany, or Australia, or Japan, or UK... or anywhere else where taxes are reasonable and where they can retain most of their wealth without giving it to government. Then USA would really be screwed... so you be careful for what Obama brainwashes you with...think for yourself and don't follow the mob.
There is a difference in that and you voicing your opinion. If you want to say something to an extent - I think this person rapes small children, I have no proof, but I still think he does... that is fine... it is free speech and that is your opinion. But if you label me as raping small children, I think there is a term for that called libel. Courts can handle cases like that... it is generally used where you'd have to prove that either I am raping kids, and you are correct.... or you are incorrect and you will end up paying a large fine and issuing public apology.
This guy was voicing his opinion from his experience, and he probably has reasonable amount of experience with this person to be a good judge of what she is and is not. So unless they had a trial for libel, and unless he was found to be wrong in his description of her, and if he presented that information as facts on his blog and not just his opinion, then yes... he is guilty of libel.... but extreme measure would have been to get him to issue apology, take down just one article in his Blog, and pay a fine for damages done.
This argument that you use is same argument everyone will use to limit free speech because it frightens people what free speech can accomplish.
You can use a gun to defend yourself and other people, or you can use it to commit crimes. It does not mean that gun is the problem, it is person using it. Free speech is a weapon in much the same way. With great power comes great responsibility....
This is just bunch of bull and you know it. Are tabloids trying to protect general public when they write all kinds of lies and worse about stars in order to sell paper. They turn a profit no this. They also have larger customer base than this guy.
Free speech is free speech... and it is not free speech when someone can arbitrarily say - no you are not allowed to voice your opinions. Thus also my support of Wikileaks... content matters not... we don't get to decide what is free speach and what is not...If we do, then it's not free speech to begin with.
Actually you'd be surprised. I was trying to switch US based customer over from AT&T to Verizon, and due to the craziness I ran into I started making a log. It is quite extensive and funny. Things such as having to make 15 consecutive phone calls in order to reach correct person to talk to as I was being disconnected, looped into menu, and put on hold by people for over 30 minutes while they "transfer me". This was just Verizon too... one of the better ones apparently. Verizon sales person took 3 months to do nothing after 20 emails sent to him, he was coming up with excuses every single time - so funny yet so sad. It's like they had ex-con working as corporate sales rep. It's like they did not want our business... AT&T was even worse if you can believe....
After this experience I started to admire service we get from Bell & Rogers... one phone call and sales team of either will take care of everything...
In Europe we had 5-day school week. Every two weeks we'd switch from morning classes to afternoon classes, and vice versa. Grades 1,3,5,7 ware for example morning class, and 2,4,6, 8 ware afternoon. Every two weeks they switch. Morning classes ware from 7am-12 and afternoon 12-6pm.
This allowed for smaller buildings, less maintenance, heating/cooling, smaller class sizes, less teachers!
We also had way less homework than I've had here in US. But we did more in class. Tests and quizzes ware daily occurrence - we ware continuously tested. So, even though I finished grade 7 in Europe, when I came here to US, I was put into grade 9 (youngest in my high school) due to my developed skill-set. I had easily taken maths all the way into grade 11 without any effort at all.
There are definitely more efficient ways of teaching kids. Issues I see are: curriculum, lack of inventive teaching, teacher's unions, giving kids too much slack and dumbing them down, also learning though play has to stop as well as giving everyone A+ for participation type of bullshit. But who am I to judge?
What is wrong with giving every advantage to Johnny? And why would we concern ourselves with Jina?
Maybe for the arguments on Slashdot - fine, it's multinational site.
But, Johnny sinks in tens of thousands of dollars into economy just by paying for his education in US. For rest of his life he will have have paid millions of dollars in taxes (with any success), and contributed in one way or other to his community, and his country. So will did his parents, and so will his kids. What is wrong with protecting your country and your people and your community? If anything, I'd like to see more of that.
Who is going to look after US citizens if not US? China? Russia? India?
Sure globalization is here, and is fact of life, but anything we can do to hold on to our $$ and enrich OUR people, I'm for it. I'm not sure where this anti-patriotic Obama type mentality is coming from...
Why can't another store open that sells Beer as an alternative to The Beer store then? I see no Mike's Beer store that is open 24/7 that sells beer for less... ? How much of every beer you purchase at beer store is tax - look it up... it might be private entity but its goverment regulated to a point where it might as well be a government entity.
Your argument about LCBO is useless... I don't care how impressive it is, government ran business can never be as efficient as private. Why would selection and quality suffer? Maybe I do want to purchase less expensive Hungarian brandy that is lesser quality for a lesser price? Maybe I'd like to purchase it at 2am when I run out of booze at a party I'm throwing?
If anything privatization of LCBO should result in larger variety of selection, and create opportunities for local groceries for additional income as well as create specialized stores where you can go nuts and pay $1K for a bottle of whiskey if you so desire... you make no points on this - writing something does not make it true.
I never said these ware federal entities - if you read your own linked wiki article you will see that LCBO is provincial Crown corporation! Same difference eh?
"As a near-monopoly, The Beer Store's only real competition is the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCB0)–a government-owned corporation with stores that sell wine, beer and spirits. Even then, The Beer Store provides over 90 per cent of the beer sold in Ontario, via its 400 store locations or distribution to restaurants and bars. " - my point exactly.....!
Nice of you to provide links to things that you have not read, and choose to ignore...
This is step in right direction!
I totally agree with posters above - government taking over infrastructure of cable and telephone lines and charging fees for anyone that wants to hook in and provide TV or phone or Internet services and compete! That money can go back to enhancing infrastructure to organization that will spend all that money and not collect profit for their deep pockets - this way we will have 100Mbs fiber in our homes withing 2-3 years for $10/month! Our phone bills will go down to $10/month or something close to VOIP packages, and we wont get gauged with Cable/Satellite TV with +$50/month... more like $5/month... or you might even get to choose and pay only for channels you want to watch...
We should also look at:
1. Privatizing LCBO (Canadian Liquor/Beer stores )
2. Beer Store
3. Allow US Satellite companies in for competition.
4. Allow for creation of new power companies where government can control the grid and you decide who you are paying for power (so I can opt out of expensive green energy) that is being pushed!!!
This is all common sense and I'm amazed how little politicians actually apply to building a better society...
This would be so AMAZING to bringing jobs and create innovation, and create opportunities for small businesses and new startups in TV/Cable/internet to Ontario and Canada and average family that has cable TV and internet and phone would save on average +$200/month - better than any tax deduction government can give!
But we Canadians never step forth to actually do anything about it until someone actually starts raping us... like CRTC/Bell in this instance... in France they would have had riots long time ago...
It would be interesting to see in 20-30 years of free flowing immigration from Mexico, if Mexicans would take on arms and declare independent states/countries within US... ? Europe is full of these scenarios where at one point immigration from neighboring countries was at a free flow, so people from poor countries populated richer in search of jobs, or land, or affordable living... and later wars ware/are being broken and land disputed. This is how Albanians from Albania got independent state of Kosovo away from Serbia by uncontrolled immigration basically. I'm all for helping those less fortunate, but if there are rules then they need to apply to all, not some. If you are going to let in 500,000 Mexican in and give them legal status, then you should also let 500,000 South Africans in and give them legal status, or have quotas that are regulated to keep good balance of ethnic diversity... RULES are important, and enforcing them is VERY IMPORTANT... If anyone cares, I have a virtual fence I wanna sell. It costs 10K, and is totally virtual - in every sense. I can make it as big or small as you want it, it only requires imagination on your part.
Everyone will always talk about research to prove the global warming, but no one really knows exactly what this research is. Watching ice melt on Google earth is not research. Saying CO2 in atmosphere contributes to green house effect warming earth is not research. And all the "research" companies funded by governments have yet to reveal their research and prove it. This is why it was a big deal when hackers released information from one of those research firms that actually questions all of their research on global warming.
I will not believe it until there is a research paper that 90% of scientists can agree on. I don't take anyone's word for any of this. Either show me proof or get out of my face. And I don't want to see proof of global warming as YOU see it, I want it as 90% of scientific community sees it. Such research is yet to be published and agreed on.
All press is good press.
I did not know about Bing merchant system, but now I do. They will fix the flaw in a little while and everyone will know about it. Knowing about this alternative merchant system, I might decide to try it out... and I guess that is the whole point why MS didn't decide to go about a quiet way...