I feel obligated to thank you for your nice reply. Best thing I can do is recommend an very talented metal band: Scale the Summit --> http://grooveshark.com/scalethesummit All instrumental. Mostly acoustic. Yet still cutting edge metal. Look how far we've come.
That's your ISPs fault. Or yours for not buying the correct product. We have fiber rings that circle several states that run backwards and forwards. It can be cut at any one point and no customer will have a failure. Customers that are really concerned about their service usually get redundant links from several carriers and the work with those carriers to ensure they are entirely different networks because often we buy and sell services from each other and if you just blindly got 2 circuits from 2 different carriers they might actually be on the same equipment. The point of getting 2 different carriers is if you want to protect against us going out of business or making a major fuck up during an upgrade. I've only seen our entire network go down once in the past 10 years and it only lasted for a few minutes, but for some customers even that is unacceptable.
Sometimes you're in areas where redundancy is hard. Islands for example... there are a lot of them near the great lakes where there are small islands with tunks running along the lake bottom and along bridges. if that's where you're at then your shit out of luck unless you want to fork over the cash for a microwave link... and those suck in the fog which is common around islands as well.
God damn it. Capitalism is not a style of managing an economy. Capitalism is how money works when left alone. Any government regulation that does anything other than inform the public is NOT capitalism. The only pro-capitalistic regulation would be something like weights and measures, it informs by governing a system of common measurement preventing deception.
As such there is no truly capitalistic society in the world. If anything the economics of rural Africa are more capitalistic than any western society. The majority of the problems we have in the west with regard to our economies are our poorly thought out, half implemented attempts at socialism. If we'd just go all in, it would probably not be so bad. But as things are, we institute weak regulation which interested parties with large capital then manipulate to their advantage usually to the detriment of those the regulation was intended to help. Look to our financial markets to see some real regulatory abuse.
I'd agree if the old Asylum system hadn't be abused in such horrific ways in the past. The exact same thing would happen again. I think the one thing we've learned from our current system is that people with mental illness can usually lead happy productive lives. There's even growing evidence that the "voices" schizophrenics hear are actually beneficial for them (their psyche is trying to express itself) and our forced treatment and mistreatment of those afflicted does far more harm than good. We need to find better ways to help the mentally ill, but locking them up and forcing treatment just harms them further. If we had treatment centers that were more like elderly hospice care, then maybe. But we'd be right back to cinder-block buildings and padded rooms as soon as someone got a bill.
Metallica's first album couldn't get into stores. No one wanted to carry metal, no-one ever has. The only reason they got big was because their fans made bootlegs and traded them across the country. This got them gigs, and eventually there was so much buzz about them that stores had to carry them. This is continuing today, but rather than simply be destitute the first few years of your carer you can now start touring, making money from that and merchandize sales. Touring metal bands do VERY well. They are one of the few touring acts that still attracts medium sized audiences. The arena acts today pretty much only hit the major cities, so there's no one left for the "larger than a bar but not an arena" size places. But if they bring in metal bands they can be sure they'll get a crowd. Bluegrass is kind of exploding in the same way, they've taken some notes from the metal guys. You can tour, be on the lower end of the "Famous" scale and make enough money to live on. That's not so bad, and I think if you look at how much money musicians are making now as an entire group compared with before the internet it's probably a lot bigger number... it's just spread out over a lot more musicians. We're returning to how music has always been, and how it should be. Decent musicians making a decent living and fewer and fewer PR created megastars sucking up all the entertainment dollars.
Well, I disagree. There was a time where you could just decide "Fuck it, I don't like people" and walk into the woods. Short of moving to Alaska or Northern Canada, that's pretty much not possible anymore. We lost that right about 100+ years ago. I think that, if there was still an option to do such a thing, we'd likely have fewer of these horrific mass murders. Those that chose to reject society could do so completely and fully without resorting to such violent extremes.
Go to a different dentists. There are plenty of them out there now that DONT accept insurance. The cost of doing business with insurance companies is too high. My wife works in the field, and for every dentist, there are 2 to 3 assistants, 1 or 2 hygienists and then 3 to 4 people to deal with billing and the insurance. Stop accepting insurance and now they only need 1 person for billing. Suddenly procedures are cheaper. As long as you're not getting a crown, they can be significantly cheaper (crowns are mostly made out of the office at a lab)
I work for a phone company. This move is about deregulation, nothing more. Phone companies biggest competitors are cable companies, that's obvious. But what's not so obvious is the huge regulatory hurdles phone companies have to overcome while cable companies are almost completely unregulated. The FCC is almost entirely in AT&Ts pocket.... hell, most of the people working for the FCC probably used to work for AT&T. This will pass just like everything else AT&T wants, they basically write their own regulation now.
What will happen? What are AT&T's goals? Phone service is more profitable in areas of high population density. For years AT&T has been abandoning rural exchanges, selling them, and focusing on big cities. They are exponentially more profitable than rural areas. The problem however is these exchanges usually cover areas that are both highly profitable and areas that actually lose money. So the phone company, by law, has to shift the burden across the entire exchange. So the city peoples prices go up, so the rural people can have phone service. The cable companies however just refuse to serve rural people. This is exactly what AT&T wants. Imagine the footprint of your local cable company, that is the exact same footprint AT&T wants for their phone service. Outside that? Get a cellphone.
The article seems to want to argue the primary reason to hold onto POTs is its relighability. During a disaster it stays working... well no, it doesn't. Basically it works like this, there is a primary switch and it can reach out a certain distance before call quality goes down. So then they have remotes that basically act as repeaters. Both the switch and the remotes have rooms full of car batteries. I'm not kidding they really are car batteries. They are all hooked up to a giant charger and if the power goes out the batteries continue to power the switch or remote for, at most, 36hrs. Often far less. If there is a power outage in the area, the batteries provide power long enough for the techs to drive a generator to the site. If there's a major power outage (think hurricane) the techs end up driving in circles from remote to remote with the 2 or 3 generators they have on had charging up each remote as much as they can before moving on to the next. At most this can last a few days. There are only so many techs, and so many generators. The techs get tired, the generators take hours to charge the remote up so they never get it above 25% before they have to move on to the next failing remote. etc... etc...
POTs networks have very high alarm rates (I worked in the NOC for a while) Equipment is constantly failing. Mice, car accidents, etc... POTs networks are not redundant, have no fail-safes. If any part of the wiring leading back to the CO gets damaged, you lose your service. Once we switch people to IP service, all those problems go away. The network auto-corrects. We can have a degraded cable (bad pairs) and the equipment works around it. Rather than having to send a tech out every time a single pair is damaged, you now only have to send them when a certain percentage of the pairs in a binder are failing.
So IP service IS better. But AT&T doesn't want to switch people to IP service because it's better... they want to be able to force people to take it weather they want it or not. They want to then treat the service as a data service (completely unregulated) and not be subjected to annoying PSC complaints about their services. The real solution here would be to make data just as regulated as phone service and then let AT&T provide whichever they want... but that's not going to happen.
Yes, but this is currently only a problem because there are very few exit nodes. What if EVERY user was an exit node? What if "Contains TOR Privacy!" would become a sales point on routers? If the exit nodes were in the millions and then chosen at random by the client, it would pretty much be impossible for a Government to gather information from a bogus exit now because they'd statistical only collect data from 1 user, chosen at random, at a time. Not only that, but since everyone would be using it, rather than TOR being a honey pot of people with "something to hide" in the governments opinion, it would now be flooded with Facebook posts and people surfing porn.
I think that the only thing that would do them a lot of good, and I'm not even sure it's possible, but if they could distribute your connection over several nodes, that would be a game changer. If while using TOR you could use the remaining amount of bandwidth in full, you'd be doing great. Currently you're stuck with whatever speed the exit node has, but if you could exit on multiple IPs like some new phones do then you could use several exit nodes.
I really don't understand why people don't get this. The Arduino is a micro controller, it's NOT a computer. The RPI is a computer, NOT a micro controller. This new thing they are talking about here is a combination of both. It can not be compared to either. I wasn't aware that you could get a RPI shield for a Arduino but I just checked and apparently you can. So add up the price of all 3, then compare them with this.
If you are thinking they are discriminatory, I'm here to assure you that they fuck with us just as badly. I generally refuse to fly because of the DHS (our airlines having some of the worst service on earth doesn't help either) but the last time I flew it was to adopt my son, so I absolutely had to. The airline screwed up our tickets so we had to have them reissued which not only delayed us so we were barely make the flight but also flagged us because it was now a 1 way ticket to Africa paid in cash. It was like my wife were the duke boys, they were Rosco P Coltrane and had finally caught us dead to rights. The amount of grovelling, and debasing of myself I was willing to do to get them to allow me to board the plane so I wouldn't miss my foreign court date so I could finish the adoption truly amazed even myself. Alas, they really didn't give a shit, and the only thing that saved us was our bulldog of a social worker who was already well aware of our situation due to the ticket screw up and somehow got our congressman to call the DHS and demand our release from the circle jerk they called security and let us board the plane. I'd also like to mention that my congressman and I don't see eye to eye politically (I let him know when he showed up on my doorstep campaigning once) so I'm sure I'm on his naughty list, but adoption seems to be one of the last vestiges of decency in politics.
The Caribbean isn't the only place you can go for warm sandy beaches, and the other options usually don't involve funding corrupt governments that heard entire populations away from those beaches because they scare away tourists who want to think they're in paradise rather than the hell it truly is. Last person I knew that went to Jamaica came back complaining about the "gangs of criminals" that blocked the road with burning tires so their tour buss couldn't get through. Those poor Jamaicans, having to put up with those hoodlums! Oh the irony.
Bull fucking shit. If your sister handed me your diary, I'd tell her shes a fucking bitch and that I don't want to read it. Then I'd inform you of the breach in trust.This is a two way street. Both parties are responsible for their own behavior.
Wow! My sons Ethiopian. I will be very careful if he ever gets a cough or pain meds. How fortuitous, it's very hard to find information about things like this when your child is adopted from such a foreign genetic/cultural background, and then it just pops up. There are some great things about it but also scary things like this. It took me 2yrs just to learn how to comb his hair. Anyways, thanks!
Does it really matter if they do it intentionally or not? It still has the same effect. Liver damage, when the drug is known to be abused. The pharmacist could easily hand out generic acetaminophen right along with it. "Take one of each every 4hrs" very simple, and now the addicts family doesn't have to worry about liver failure along with their loved ones drug problem.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but you can get Tylenol at Wall-mart. When you know full well there are addicts that are going to abuse this drug, why add something to it so they not only have to deal with addiction but liver damage as well?
Hiring managers are usually idiots. They are almost always non-technical people. What does upper management do with good, team players... company men that understand what needs to get done, but have no useful skills? Management. Dude can't even program his VCR... also he still has a VCR... and he's quizzing me on how I'd write a Select statement?
Couldn't they just use their backdoor access to Google to scan them using googles book scanning magic and be done in about 20 minutes? Oh, that's right, they're lieing . For a moment I thought this was just their clever way of storing their contracts so they couldn't be searched. Then I remembered, they don't give a fuck.
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I feel obligated to thank you for your nice reply. Best thing I can do is recommend an very talented metal band: Scale the Summit --> http://grooveshark.com/scalethesummit
All instrumental. Mostly acoustic. Yet still cutting edge metal. Look how far we've come.
That's your ISPs fault. Or yours for not buying the correct product. We have fiber rings that circle several states that run backwards and forwards. It can be cut at any one point and no customer will have a failure. Customers that are really concerned about their service usually get redundant links from several carriers and the work with those carriers to ensure they are entirely different networks because often we buy and sell services from each other and if you just blindly got 2 circuits from 2 different carriers they might actually be on the same equipment. The point of getting 2 different carriers is if you want to protect against us going out of business or making a major fuck up during an upgrade. I've only seen our entire network go down once in the past 10 years and it only lasted for a few minutes, but for some customers even that is unacceptable.
Sometimes you're in areas where redundancy is hard. Islands for example... there are a lot of them near the great lakes where there are small islands with tunks running along the lake bottom and along bridges. if that's where you're at then your shit out of luck unless you want to fork over the cash for a microwave link... and those suck in the fog which is common around islands as well.
God damn it. Capitalism is not a style of managing an economy. Capitalism is how money works when left alone. Any government regulation that does anything other than inform the public is NOT capitalism. The only pro-capitalistic regulation would be something like weights and measures, it informs by governing a system of common measurement preventing deception.
As such there is no truly capitalistic society in the world. If anything the economics of rural Africa are more capitalistic than any western society. The majority of the problems we have in the west with regard to our economies are our poorly thought out, half implemented attempts at socialism. If we'd just go all in, it would probably not be so bad. But as things are, we institute weak regulation which interested parties with large capital then manipulate to their advantage usually to the detriment of those the regulation was intended to help. Look to our financial markets to see some real regulatory abuse.
God, the first politician.
I'd agree if the old Asylum system hadn't be abused in such horrific ways in the past. The exact same thing would happen again. I think the one thing we've learned from our current system is that people with mental illness can usually lead happy productive lives. There's even growing evidence that the "voices" schizophrenics hear are actually beneficial for them (their psyche is trying to express itself) and our forced treatment and mistreatment of those afflicted does far more harm than good. We need to find better ways to help the mentally ill, but locking them up and forcing treatment just harms them further. If we had treatment centers that were more like elderly hospice care, then maybe. But we'd be right back to cinder-block buildings and padded rooms as soon as someone got a bill.
Metallica's first album couldn't get into stores. No one wanted to carry metal, no-one ever has. The only reason they got big was because their fans made bootlegs and traded them across the country. This got them gigs, and eventually there was so much buzz about them that stores had to carry them. This is continuing today, but rather than simply be destitute the first few years of your carer you can now start touring, making money from that and merchandize sales. Touring metal bands do VERY well. They are one of the few touring acts that still attracts medium sized audiences. The arena acts today pretty much only hit the major cities, so there's no one left for the "larger than a bar but not an arena" size places. But if they bring in metal bands they can be sure they'll get a crowd. Bluegrass is kind of exploding in the same way, they've taken some notes from the metal guys. You can tour, be on the lower end of the "Famous" scale and make enough money to live on. That's not so bad, and I think if you look at how much money musicians are making now as an entire group compared with before the internet it's probably a lot bigger number... it's just spread out over a lot more musicians. We're returning to how music has always been, and how it should be. Decent musicians making a decent living and fewer and fewer PR created megastars sucking up all the entertainment dollars.
Well, I disagree. There was a time where you could just decide "Fuck it, I don't like people" and walk into the woods. Short of moving to Alaska or Northern Canada, that's pretty much not possible anymore. We lost that right about 100+ years ago. I think that, if there was still an option to do such a thing, we'd likely have fewer of these horrific mass murders. Those that chose to reject society could do so completely and fully without resorting to such violent extremes.
Go to a different dentists. There are plenty of them out there now that DONT accept insurance. The cost of doing business with insurance companies is too high. My wife works in the field, and for every dentist, there are 2 to 3 assistants, 1 or 2 hygienists and then 3 to 4 people to deal with billing and the insurance. Stop accepting insurance and now they only need 1 person for billing. Suddenly procedures are cheaper. As long as you're not getting a crown, they can be significantly cheaper (crowns are mostly made out of the office at a lab)
I work for a phone company. This move is about deregulation, nothing more. Phone companies biggest competitors are cable companies, that's obvious. But what's not so obvious is the huge regulatory hurdles phone companies have to overcome while cable companies are almost completely unregulated. The FCC is almost entirely in AT&Ts pocket.... hell, most of the people working for the FCC probably used to work for AT&T. This will pass just like everything else AT&T wants, they basically write their own regulation now.
What will happen? What are AT&T's goals?
Phone service is more profitable in areas of high population density. For years AT&T has been abandoning rural exchanges, selling them, and focusing on big cities. They are exponentially more profitable than rural areas. The problem however is these exchanges usually cover areas that are both highly profitable and areas that actually lose money. So the phone company, by law, has to shift the burden across the entire exchange. So the city peoples prices go up, so the rural people can have phone service. The cable companies however just refuse to serve rural people. This is exactly what AT&T wants. Imagine the footprint of your local cable company, that is the exact same footprint AT&T wants for their phone service. Outside that? Get a cellphone.
The article seems to want to argue the primary reason to hold onto POTs is its relighability. During a disaster it stays working... well no, it doesn't. Basically it works like this, there is a primary switch and it can reach out a certain distance before call quality goes down. So then they have remotes that basically act as repeaters. Both the switch and the remotes have rooms full of car batteries. I'm not kidding they really are car batteries. They are all hooked up to a giant charger and if the power goes out the batteries continue to power the switch or remote for, at most, 36hrs. Often far less. If there is a power outage in the area, the batteries provide power long enough for the techs to drive a generator to the site. If there's a major power outage (think hurricane) the techs end up driving in circles from remote to remote with the 2 or 3 generators they have on had charging up each remote as much as they can before moving on to the next. At most this can last a few days. There are only so many techs, and so many generators. The techs get tired, the generators take hours to charge the remote up so they never get it above 25% before they have to move on to the next failing remote. etc... etc...
POTs networks have very high alarm rates (I worked in the NOC for a while) Equipment is constantly failing. Mice, car accidents, etc... POTs networks are not redundant, have no fail-safes. If any part of the wiring leading back to the CO gets damaged, you lose your service. Once we switch people to IP service, all those problems go away. The network auto-corrects. We can have a degraded cable (bad pairs) and the equipment works around it. Rather than having to send a tech out every time a single pair is damaged, you now only have to send them when a certain percentage of the pairs in a binder are failing.
So IP service IS better. But AT&T doesn't want to switch people to IP service because it's better... they want to be able to force people to take it weather they want it or not. They want to then treat the service as a data service (completely unregulated) and not be subjected to annoying PSC complaints about their services. The real solution here would be to make data just as regulated as phone service and then let AT&T provide whichever they want... but that's not going to happen.
I was about to say, if you can't figure this out, no wonder you need a super computer to run your code. :-D
Everyone outside of the English speaking US.
Yes, but this is currently only a problem because there are very few exit nodes. What if EVERY user was an exit node? What if "Contains TOR Privacy!" would become a sales point on routers? If the exit nodes were in the millions and then chosen at random by the client, it would pretty much be impossible for a Government to gather information from a bogus exit now because they'd statistical only collect data from 1 user, chosen at random, at a time. Not only that, but since everyone would be using it, rather than TOR being a honey pot of people with "something to hide" in the governments opinion, it would now be flooded with Facebook posts and people surfing porn.
I think that the only thing that would do them a lot of good, and I'm not even sure it's possible, but if they could distribute your connection over several nodes, that would be a game changer. If while using TOR you could use the remaining amount of bandwidth in full, you'd be doing great. Currently you're stuck with whatever speed the exit node has, but if you could exit on multiple IPs like some new phones do then you could use several exit nodes.
I love it when companies destroy any chance of being successful by trying to screw you on shipping.
I really don't understand why people don't get this. The Arduino is a micro controller, it's NOT a computer. The RPI is a computer, NOT a micro controller. This new thing they are talking about here is a combination of both. It can not be compared to either. I wasn't aware that you could get a RPI shield for a Arduino but I just checked and apparently you can. So add up the price of all 3, then compare them with this.
If you are thinking they are discriminatory, I'm here to assure you that they fuck with us just as badly. I generally refuse to fly because of the DHS (our airlines having some of the worst service on earth doesn't help either) but the last time I flew it was to adopt my son, so I absolutely had to. The airline screwed up our tickets so we had to have them reissued which not only delayed us so we were barely make the flight but also flagged us because it was now a 1 way ticket to Africa paid in cash. It was like my wife were the duke boys, they were Rosco P Coltrane and had finally caught us dead to rights. The amount of grovelling, and debasing of myself I was willing to do to get them to allow me to board the plane so I wouldn't miss my foreign court date so I could finish the adoption truly amazed even myself. Alas, they really didn't give a shit, and the only thing that saved us was our bulldog of a social worker who was already well aware of our situation due to the ticket screw up and somehow got our congressman to call the DHS and demand our release from the circle jerk they called security and let us board the plane. I'd also like to mention that my congressman and I don't see eye to eye politically (I let him know when he showed up on my doorstep campaigning once) so I'm sure I'm on his naughty list, but adoption seems to be one of the last vestiges of decency in politics.
The Caribbean isn't the only place you can go for warm sandy beaches, and the other options usually don't involve funding corrupt governments that heard entire populations away from those beaches because they scare away tourists who want to think they're in paradise rather than the hell it truly is. Last person I knew that went to Jamaica came back complaining about the "gangs of criminals" that blocked the road with burning tires so their tour buss couldn't get through. Those poor Jamaicans, having to put up with those hoodlums! Oh the irony.
I believe the mention of her disability was intended to generate sympathy for her rather than be part of some anti paraplegic campaign.
Bull fucking shit. If your sister handed me your diary, I'd tell her shes a fucking bitch and that I don't want to read it. Then I'd inform you of the breach in trust.This is a two way street. Both parties are responsible for their own behavior.
Wow! My sons Ethiopian. I will be very careful if he ever gets a cough or pain meds. How fortuitous, it's very hard to find information about things like this when your child is adopted from such a foreign genetic/cultural background, and then it just pops up. There are some great things about it but also scary things like this. It took me 2yrs just to learn how to comb his hair. Anyways, thanks!
Does it really matter if they do it intentionally or not? It still has the same effect. Liver damage, when the drug is known to be abused. The pharmacist could easily hand out generic acetaminophen right along with it. "Take one of each every 4hrs" very simple, and now the addicts family doesn't have to worry about liver failure along with their loved ones drug problem.
Not sure if you're aware of this, but you can get Tylenol at Wall-mart. When you know full well there are addicts that are going to abuse this drug, why add something to it so they not only have to deal with addiction but liver damage as well?
You could power the car with it. ;-)
I was going to mod you up, but they don't have an option for "You just made my head assplode"
Hiring managers are usually idiots. They are almost always non-technical people. What does upper management do with good, team players... company men that understand what needs to get done, but have no useful skills? Management. Dude can't even program his VCR... also he still has a VCR... and he's quizzing me on how I'd write a Select statement?
Couldn't they just use their backdoor access to Google to scan them using googles book scanning magic and be done in about 20 minutes? Oh, that's right, they're lieing . For a moment I thought this was just their clever way of storing their contracts so they couldn't be searched. Then I remembered, they don't give a fuck.