As usual when someone with an agenda throws statistics at you, you can rest assured that they've manipulated them in such a way to achieve their own goals. In this case, it's rather easy to see what they are doing. Worldwide? When I was in Africa 2 years ago, the hotel I stayed in had a computer in the community room. Windows Genuine Advantage warnings kept popping up. I fixed that for them... much to the bemusement of the Microsoft employee that was staying their with us. After traveling to several other locations we found that, at least to our limited exposure, ALL the software on EVERY computer was pirated. The Microsoft guy was appalled. I asked him where he expected these people to buy his software? Shipping to that part of africa was somewhere in the neighborhood of $500... There were no walmarts, or any sort of software vendors. The fastest data connection I came across was at a coffee shop at it was 56k. So you can be fairly certain that the entire continent of Africa's piracy rate is well above 99% Take the population of Africa... oh and China... and India... are you starting to get the picture? Did their poll ask people if it were possible for them to buy the software they needed in the first place? I doubt it.
They report on this like it was a new thing, just invented for amazon. It's not. Whenever a large employer has plans to move into a region they negotiate with several potential local governments to find themselves the best deal. In some cases one city might have an advantage like a rail line or a port, and can offer less of a deal, while another may have negatives... poor roads, bad zoning, etc... and they need to offer a lot more.
My father was VP of a company for years and they set up several factories. The local governments would give them free water, electricity, sewage, etc... You may think that's just a give-away by the city, but what the city would get in return is 1000-2000 employees all paying income taxes... Those same employees would then spend the money they earned, usually in town, and generate sales taxes. The money they spent would bring in other smaller businesses that wouldn't get the same breaks as the larger employer. By far the city profited more from the deal than they lost. That was the point of the deal.
Call up HBO and ask them if it's pirating. I'm pretty sure they'll disagree with you.
You are expected to watch the show when they air it. If you do not, they want you to buy the DVD. Then they expect you to buy the extended DVD with directors commentary when they come out with it a year later. It's all about manipulating the consumer and the content providers have gotten very fat and happy off of it. The idea that you now have choices is what's making them angry...
There has been a smear campaign against the Tea Party by both the republicans and democrats alike since it first started to gain power. You've fallen for it, congratulations. The democrats paint them as "Even more conservative republicans" which is almost completely the opposite of what they are. And the republicans try to paint them as the lunatic fringe or, even worse, create their own version of the party: The Tea-party express, which is nothing more than republicans mascaraing as Tea-Party members to further discredit the name. Neither party wants them to gain any more momentum.
The true Tea Party is about what it's named after. When they threw the tea into the harbor back in the day, they were protesting a government that was over taxing them and not representing their interests. The taxes were levied to help support foreign wars that the colonies had no interest in. Most Tea Party members today feel we are in the same situation again. The government keeps raising taxes, spending more, borrowing more... all to fund wars they have no interest in, or to get more involved in our lives. Just like the revolutionaries that founded this country they want the government out of their lives. They want to keep more of what they earn, and they don't want to be involved in wars they know nothing about. Most could care less about social issues. Gay Marriage? Don't care. Abortion? Don't care. Religion? Don't care. Just stop taxing us so much, and get the hell out of our lives.
If you want to end war and lower taxes, get involved. Both republicans and democrats will continue waging war and raising taxes as long as you continue to let them. Is the Tea Party the answer? I doubt it. But they are a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
When did it become patriotic to PAY taxes? I hate facebook, and probably wouldn't even like this guy. But cheers to Eduardo Saverin for figuring out a way of depriving this corrupt and unjust government from gaining even more tax dollars to spend on war, giveaways to special interest groups and civilian spy programs. It's your patriotic duty to avoid all the taxes you can. Maybe if Chuck Schumer would focus on cutting his spending proposals for once, instead of on how he can squeeze more money out of his constituents, he could finally deliver a balanced budget.
There's a reason those of us that switched did so. If they turned Google+ into another facebook I'd leave. I don't want to be part of a virtual hen-hizzy where everyone is telling me the size of their poop every morning. When I have an update on Google+ I know it's work looking at... where-as with facebook I was so flooded with nonsense I couldn't stand it anymore and deleted my account.
I work for an ISP. I've been a lowly tech support agent all the way up to NOC admin to my current position as a DB Admin. I know the ins and outs of ISPs infrastructure, why things are the way they are as well as am now involved with the lawyers due to projects I'm involved in, so I've gotten a heavy dose of the way policy is written and why.
First let me say, I don't want to defend your ISP, they are most assuredly one of my employers competitors. So yes, they suck, switch to us... but I wont tell you who my employer is... so whatever. The point being, I'm not trying to defend the industry here, I'm probably one of the biggest advocates for what your complaining about at my company and I'm not shy to bring it up with executives. But if you had a better understanding of the situation it might help you improve your situation and possibly relive some of your anger.
US telecommunications companies have been task with bringing broadband to rural areas by both the FCC and the President himself. They are under constant pressure to increase broadband availability to customers. Just a few years ago it was well under 50% of people had access to broadband. Now it's well over 90%. Recently the broadband stimulus package basically paid ISPs to put in even more rural broadband. For an understanding of how much it cost I think they invested around 8 BILLION dollars and that raised the percentage of the public capable of getting broadband by about 2% to 3% The cost is enormous.
Now, you may think that's great... and it is. But there is a problem with that. In your case you live on the side of a mountain. I would love to live there myself, you probably don't have a lot of neighbors and having broadband out there is a great thing. But networks are called networks for a reason. You'd at the end of a loop... that loop leads back to a DSA along with all of your neighbors, and then that DSA has a trunk that leads back to the CO along with all the other DSAs in your area. So what's the problem? Distance. Depending on the service you have, there is a limited distance that you can be from that DSA to actually get any service at all. This distance also limits the number of people that DSA can serve because their homes must be within that distance to get service. In areas like you describe, I've seen DSA's serve as few as 10 homes. When you're dealing with a phone line that's not a big deal. Strait dialtone fits on a relatively cheap card, and when trunking back to the CO uses a fixed, almost unnoticeable amount of bandwidth. Then you have the local customers come in and want internet. The ISP says no. Then the local government gets involved and DEMANDS internet... the ISP still says no. I've even seen local governments file (and lose) lawsuits trying to force the ISP into these situations. Then the Feds come and offer to pay for the DSL cards and the new truck... well ok... if you're going to pay for it.
Now you have a DSA with 10 customers on it, 5 wanted 3MB service, the feds paid to have 2 T1 lines installed. That will work, and they likely wont have any bandwidth problems. Fast forward 3 years. You now have 10 customers on the DSA, they ALL have 5MB service and ALL have netflix accounts. Hence the situation you are in. The customers demand the ISP upgrade. Those 10 customers combined are paying about $350/month total. To add more trunks to the DSA will cost $300k. It's not hard to do the math there... it's not going to happen. So then they go to the local government and ask them to complain again... the local government says "You have internet, what are you complaining about?" and the feds? They got their 95%+ served number for the next election, they don't care about you.
Your only hope is your ISP. Period. I absolutely guarantee your service agreement was worded in such a way that your speed is not guaranteed. It probably says something like "Up to 3MB of data!" etc... What you can do is get a local technician out there on a service call... talk to him about your DSA. He'll likely tell you. How many other
The government should treat it like what it really is: A LOAN The Cellular company is giving you the phone for free... but then making you pay for it via a service contract that is ridiculously expensive. It IS a loan, the government needs to treat it like one. The "Interest rate" should be regulated just like all other loans.
The FDA is just an arm of the pharmaceutical companies. The majority of the people that work at the FDA either worked for the companies they regulate in the past, or will work for them after they leave the FDA. Just like most of the branches of our federal government they are corrupt through and through. Could they regulate effectively? Sure! Do they? no. Why don't they regulate "Supplements"? Why do they regulate so many rudimentary anti-inflammatory drugs that have no addictive properties at all? Why can I get enough Tylenol at a gas station to kill 10 people but my asthma inhaler I need a prescription for? Because the FDAs primary role is NOT to keep us safe. It's to keep the drug companies products scarce and drive up their price.
Get inside you? Specifically, the materials you need to worry about are materials your body uses that in their isotope form have a relatively long half life. Just as a rough example, if the material released from the reactor was Iodine-124, it's bad because your body does use Iodine, but it has a halflife of just a couple of days. It's not really that dangerous, and an evacuation of surrounding area would likely not be warranted if the levels are relatively moderate. If Iodine-129 is getting released, it has a half life of over 15 million years... get the hell out. The radiation level alone means nothing. Which is the point of this research.
They weren't talking about poisonous materials like iodine and strontium isotopes being released into the atmosphere. They were talking about Radiation. It says that very specifically. If radiation levels 8x greater than normal are present... evacuate. They think that should be set to 100x. Which makes sense. Would changing that regulation mean that if radiation levels were only at 10x background levels, and the sky was raining Cesium that they wouldn't evacuate? Of course not.
You doubt that Apple would sue the pants off you if you did the same thing in your basement and posted instructions on a website regarding how you did it? Go ahead, try... see what happens.
Harbor Freight has plenty of forged tools. They also have cast stuff. Sometimes you only need a tool once... why spend $100 on it? Just get the cheap cast version. I needed to pull a bearing out of a transfer case. The bearing puller at my local auto parts store was $150. I got it at HF for $20. Did it break? Yep... So I took it back, free replacement... the second one pulled the bearing. Then I threw the puller in a drawer, never to be used again.
MANY universities have reactors on campus. Where do you think we get Nuclear Engineers? I live a couple of miles from the UW-Madison reactor. It's been running for 40 years without issue. http://reactor.engr.wisc.edu/
Any encryption written with closed sourced software should be considered NOT encrypted. Add to that, that it's Microsoft, which actively seeks to insert backdoors for law enforcement and you truly do not have an encryption scheme that you can trust.
Google wants to invade your privacy to target you with advertisements that you are more likely to click on and there-for more likely to make them money.
The FBI wants to invade your privacy to levy fines on you, or put you in jail or even to death. Add to that that the FBI has a well recorded history of being used and abused by elected officials and corporations to manipulate, defraud and terrorize people and you can see why some are concerned.
Do I like what Google is doing? No... but that's more of a "I wish they didn't do all that, it sucks" thing... What the FBI is doing scares the living shit out of me and makes me think we're one bad election away from the iron grip of some totalitarian nightmare.
Gas IS $10/gallon in many countries. Just not in the USA. Even in those countries where gas actually is $10/gallon, people are still buying it, and no one's selling electric cars. That's should tell you something.
When they were shutting down every manufacturing plant in my state to move the labor overseas, and I and all my friends were losing our jobs, we asked "Who's going to buy all this stuff if we don't have jobs to make money to buy it?" and did you care? Or did you just keep buying the Chinese made stuff and even advertising it on these very same channels? The rest of the country told us to go F%$k ourselves, and now it's your turn. Welcome to the club. And back then, when you told us to improve our skills, it'll all work out for the better? Yea... you were lying... but go ahead and believe it now if you'd like... but really, you're screwed.
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Apple is using that same control to prevent you from scanning for viruses...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/22/apple-wont-let-kaspersky-develop-tools-for-ios/
As usual when someone with an agenda throws statistics at you, you can rest assured that they've manipulated them in such a way to achieve their own goals. In this case, it's rather easy to see what they are doing. Worldwide? When I was in Africa 2 years ago, the hotel I stayed in had a computer in the community room. Windows Genuine Advantage warnings kept popping up. I fixed that for them... much to the bemusement of the Microsoft employee that was staying their with us. After traveling to several other locations we found that, at least to our limited exposure, ALL the software on EVERY computer was pirated. The Microsoft guy was appalled. I asked him where he expected these people to buy his software? Shipping to that part of africa was somewhere in the neighborhood of $500... There were no walmarts, or any sort of software vendors. The fastest data connection I came across was at a coffee shop at it was 56k. So you can be fairly certain that the entire continent of Africa's piracy rate is well above 99% Take the population of Africa... oh and China... and India... are you starting to get the picture? Did their poll ask people if it were possible for them to buy the software they needed in the first place? I doubt it.
Where I work, we do not run ANYTHING that has not been approved by our legal department and gone through a vetting process.
They report on this like it was a new thing, just invented for amazon. It's not. Whenever a large employer has plans to move into a region they negotiate with several potential local governments to find themselves the best deal. In some cases one city might have an advantage like a rail line or a port, and can offer less of a deal, while another may have negatives... poor roads, bad zoning, etc... and they need to offer a lot more.
My father was VP of a company for years and they set up several factories. The local governments would give them free water, electricity, sewage, etc... You may think that's just a give-away by the city, but what the city would get in return is 1000-2000 employees all paying income taxes... Those same employees would then spend the money they earned, usually in town, and generate sales taxes. The money they spent would bring in other smaller businesses that wouldn't get the same breaks as the larger employer. By far the city profited more from the deal than they lost. That was the point of the deal.
Call up HBO and ask them if it's pirating. I'm pretty sure they'll disagree with you.
You are expected to watch the show when they air it. If you do not, they want you to buy the DVD. Then they expect you to buy the extended DVD with directors commentary when they come out with it a year later. It's all about manipulating the consumer and the content providers have gotten very fat and happy off of it. The idea that you now have choices is what's making them angry...
I want one. Tell me where to get this 50% deal... or send me to where-ever their biggest forum is.
There has been a smear campaign against the Tea Party by both the republicans and democrats alike since it first started to gain power. You've fallen for it, congratulations. The democrats paint them as "Even more conservative republicans" which is almost completely the opposite of what they are. And the republicans try to paint them as the lunatic fringe or, even worse, create their own version of the party: The Tea-party express, which is nothing more than republicans mascaraing as Tea-Party members to further discredit the name. Neither party wants them to gain any more momentum.
The true Tea Party is about what it's named after. When they threw the tea into the harbor back in the day, they were protesting a government that was over taxing them and not representing their interests. The taxes were levied to help support foreign wars that the colonies had no interest in. Most Tea Party members today feel we are in the same situation again. The government keeps raising taxes, spending more, borrowing more... all to fund wars they have no interest in, or to get more involved in our lives. Just like the revolutionaries that founded this country they want the government out of their lives. They want to keep more of what they earn, and they don't want to be involved in wars they know nothing about. Most could care less about social issues. Gay Marriage? Don't care. Abortion? Don't care. Religion? Don't care. Just stop taxing us so much, and get the hell out of our lives.
If you want to end war and lower taxes, get involved. Both republicans and democrats will continue waging war and raising taxes as long as you continue to let them. Is the Tea Party the answer? I doubt it. But they are a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
When did it become patriotic to PAY taxes? I hate facebook, and probably wouldn't even like this guy. But cheers to Eduardo Saverin for figuring out a way of depriving this corrupt and unjust government from gaining even more tax dollars to spend on war, giveaways to special interest groups and civilian spy programs. It's your patriotic duty to avoid all the taxes you can. Maybe if Chuck Schumer would focus on cutting his spending proposals for once, instead of on how he can squeeze more money out of his constituents, he could finally deliver a balanced budget.
There's a reason those of us that switched did so. If they turned Google+ into another facebook I'd leave. I don't want to be part of a virtual hen-hizzy where everyone is telling me the size of their poop every morning. When I have an update on Google+ I know it's work looking at... where-as with facebook I was so flooded with nonsense I couldn't stand it anymore and deleted my account.
I work for an ISP. I've been a lowly tech support agent all the way up to NOC admin to my current position as a DB Admin. I know the ins and outs of ISPs infrastructure, why things are the way they are as well as am now involved with the lawyers due to projects I'm involved in, so I've gotten a heavy dose of the way policy is written and why.
First let me say, I don't want to defend your ISP, they are most assuredly one of my employers competitors. So yes, they suck, switch to us... but I wont tell you who my employer is... so whatever. The point being, I'm not trying to defend the industry here, I'm probably one of the biggest advocates for what your complaining about at my company and I'm not shy to bring it up with executives. But if you had a better understanding of the situation it might help you improve your situation and possibly relive some of your anger.
US telecommunications companies have been task with bringing broadband to rural areas by both the FCC and the President himself. They are under constant pressure to increase broadband availability to customers. Just a few years ago it was well under 50% of people had access to broadband. Now it's well over 90%. Recently the broadband stimulus package basically paid ISPs to put in even more rural broadband. For an understanding of how much it cost I think they invested around 8 BILLION dollars and that raised the percentage of the public capable of getting broadband by about 2% to 3% The cost is enormous.
Now, you may think that's great... and it is. But there is a problem with that. In your case you live on the side of a mountain. I would love to live there myself, you probably don't have a lot of neighbors and having broadband out there is a great thing. But networks are called networks for a reason. You'd at the end of a loop... that loop leads back to a DSA along with all of your neighbors, and then that DSA has a trunk that leads back to the CO along with all the other DSAs in your area. So what's the problem? Distance. Depending on the service you have, there is a limited distance that you can be from that DSA to actually get any service at all. This distance also limits the number of people that DSA can serve because their homes must be within that distance to get service. In areas like you describe, I've seen DSA's serve as few as 10 homes. When you're dealing with a phone line that's not a big deal. Strait dialtone fits on a relatively cheap card, and when trunking back to the CO uses a fixed, almost unnoticeable amount of bandwidth. Then you have the local customers come in and want internet. The ISP says no. Then the local government gets involved and DEMANDS internet... the ISP still says no. I've even seen local governments file (and lose) lawsuits trying to force the ISP into these situations. Then the Feds come and offer to pay for the DSL cards and the new truck... well ok... if you're going to pay for it.
Now you have a DSA with 10 customers on it, 5 wanted 3MB service, the feds paid to have 2 T1 lines installed. That will work, and they likely wont have any bandwidth problems. Fast forward 3 years. You now have 10 customers on the DSA, they ALL have 5MB service and ALL have netflix accounts. Hence the situation you are in. The customers demand the ISP upgrade. Those 10 customers combined are paying about $350/month total. To add more trunks to the DSA will cost $300k. It's not hard to do the math there... it's not going to happen. So then they go to the local government and ask them to complain again... the local government says "You have internet, what are you complaining about?" and the feds? They got their 95%+ served number for the next election, they don't care about you.
Your only hope is your ISP. Period. I absolutely guarantee your service agreement was worded in such a way that your speed is not guaranteed. It probably says something like "Up to 3MB of data!" etc... What you can do is get a local technician out there on a service call... talk to him about your DSA. He'll likely tell you. How many other
The government should treat it like what it really is: A LOAN
The Cellular company is giving you the phone for free... but then making you pay for it via a service contract that is ridiculously expensive. It IS a loan, the government needs to treat it like one. The "Interest rate" should be regulated just like all other loans.
The FDA is just an arm of the pharmaceutical companies. The majority of the people that work at the FDA either worked for the companies they regulate in the past, or will work for them after they leave the FDA. Just like most of the branches of our federal government they are corrupt through and through. Could they regulate effectively? Sure! Do they? no. Why don't they regulate "Supplements"? Why do they regulate so many rudimentary anti-inflammatory drugs that have no addictive properties at all? Why can I get enough Tylenol at a gas station to kill 10 people but my asthma inhaler I need a prescription for? Because the FDAs primary role is NOT to keep us safe. It's to keep the drug companies products scarce and drive up their price.
The tool at the auto parts store was $150... and required a deposit. If I had broken that? yea...
Nerds should know Ohms law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law
and that there is no difference between voltage and power.
Get inside you? Specifically, the materials you need to worry about are materials your body uses that in their isotope form have a relatively long half life.
Just as a rough example, if the material released from the reactor was Iodine-124, it's bad because your body does use Iodine, but it has a halflife of just a couple of days. It's not really that dangerous, and an evacuation of surrounding area would likely not be warranted if the levels are relatively moderate. If Iodine-129 is getting released, it has a half life of over 15 million years... get the hell out. The radiation level alone means nothing. Which is the point of this research.
They weren't talking about poisonous materials like iodine and strontium isotopes being released into the atmosphere. They were talking about Radiation. It says that very specifically. If radiation levels 8x greater than normal are present... evacuate. They think that should be set to 100x. Which makes sense. Would changing that regulation mean that if radiation levels were only at 10x background levels, and the sky was raining Cesium that they wouldn't evacuate? Of course not.
You doubt that Apple would sue the pants off you if you did the same thing in your basement and posted instructions on a website regarding how you did it? Go ahead, try... see what happens.
Harbor Freight has plenty of forged tools. They also have cast stuff. Sometimes you only need a tool once... why spend $100 on it? Just get the cheap cast version. I needed to pull a bearing out of a transfer case. The bearing puller at my local auto parts store was $150. I got it at HF for $20. Did it break? Yep... So I took it back, free replacement... the second one pulled the bearing. Then I threw the puller in a drawer, never to be used again.
I took a tour of it as a cub scout :-)
MANY universities have reactors on campus. Where do you think we get Nuclear Engineers? I live a couple of miles from the UW-Madison reactor. It's been running for 40 years without issue. http://reactor.engr.wisc.edu/
So you get diabetes but you can play Angry birds indefinitely? Sounds great!
Any encryption written with closed sourced software should be considered NOT encrypted. Add to that, that it's Microsoft, which actively seeks to insert backdoors for law enforcement and you truly do not have an encryption scheme that you can trust.
Google wants to invade your privacy to target you with advertisements that you are more likely to click on and there-for more likely to make them money.
The FBI wants to invade your privacy to levy fines on you, or put you in jail or even to death. Add to that that the FBI has a well recorded history of being used and abused by elected officials and corporations to manipulate, defraud and terrorize people and you can see why some are concerned.
Do I like what Google is doing? No... but that's more of a "I wish they didn't do all that, it sucks" thing... What the FBI is doing scares the living shit out of me and makes me think we're one bad election away from the iron grip of some totalitarian nightmare.
Gas IS $10/gallon in many countries. Just not in the USA. Even in those countries where gas actually is $10/gallon, people are still buying it, and no one's selling electric cars. That's should tell you something.
When they were shutting down every manufacturing plant in my state to move the labor overseas, and I and all my friends were losing our jobs, we asked "Who's going to buy all this stuff if we don't have jobs to make money to buy it?" and did you care? Or did you just keep buying the Chinese made stuff and even advertising it on these very same channels? The rest of the country told us to go F%$k ourselves, and now it's your turn. Welcome to the club. And back then, when you told us to improve our skills, it'll all work out for the better? Yea... you were lying... but go ahead and believe it now if you'd like... but really, you're screwed.