I'd say that it is just as likely that he is looking at the RIAA's track record and saying to himself...."can I win against these guys given the slime-ball bs tactics they use"? and "Do I really want that loss on my record"??
sorry I was under the impression that facts concerning BPL were left out in order to favor other means of transmission....suppose I need to read more of the comments before commenting myself.
-Oz
Um.... when it means the difference between "free internet access" (as it should be) and being able to extort people for up to $99 a month for it...well, you are smart enough to guess who wins that one. As hardware, monitoring, and reliability are the primary justifications for internet usage fees, you can also see that NO existing ISP could compete with internet made available over power lines...
I was wondering if say MAC or IP address topologies could be applicable to BPL. BTW aren't certain ISP's already doing this? I could swear I've seen something that looks like an average AC plug with an ethernet port where the normal "tail" would originate. What other purpose would such a "plug" have, if not to transfer data via "power conduits"?
Indeed, did you notice how many different copies of the same material were in the side bar??? Try taking down all of that and you are going to busy for longer than you had ever anticipated.
True, they don't but most of the time they at least have a reason to tail you. Although I say that with a mild amount of pause as the cops out here in the boondocks sometimes pick people to "tail" at random.
This is classified as an "unreasonable search" in my book. Your assertion that it is akin to "tailing" someone seems baseless to me. Cops "tail" people whom they have reason to suspect may have done something wrong. GPS tracking of people without a warrant suggests to me that they intend to eventually "tail" everyone whether or not they have done something wrong (hence why a warrant is now required before they can "tail" you, so that someone can review an officers reasons before giving them carte blanch to hound someone) . How many "guilt by association" (you drive to an apartment complex known by police to house at least one drug dealer and voila, they now have reason to suspect you of TRAFFICKING NARCOTICS) arrests will they have to make before this seems "unconstitutional" to you?
Next thing you know, we'll have to give up all media that has the potential to stir the human spirit in any way. Gosh, how I look forward to my white on white on white life!
I don't understand how. As it is many companies are complaining that they "can"t make money on the internet" and others are complaining about how they are "losing money on internet ventures".
That fully explains why an HR person told me that my services would no longer be required (I sell candy in office buildings). She explained to me that "access is access" and that "if I have access, then Union reps will think they can have access". I wish I were a little more on the ball at the moment. I could have just as easily pointed out that Union reps already did have access according to that standard of logic: They had Pepsi Cola products in the vending machines of their cafeteria. The last I had heard, Pepsi Bottling co is a Union shop here. If Pepsi Bottling co is in fact Unionized, would it be such a stretch to assume that they already had access due to the fact that the products in their vending machines were produced by Union Labor???
I (unlike Pepsi bottling co) am not a union member (unless you want to count the ACLU, the NRA, or BASS). I am an OWNER of a LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS...by their own policy (as defined by their head of HR) I have more of a right to do business on their property that Pepsi does...
The whole "carrying-capacity" ideology is something akin to trying to find out how many people you can stuff into a telephone booth as far as I am concerned. I have no desire to eat ever-synthesized food, and live in smaller and smaller boxes just so there can be "more of us". Population of a species is not a sign of success or progress. If that were the case E.coli will always win.
The question to ask yourself is: if electricity, and gas were no longer available, would you have enough "food", "water" and "shelter" to keep you and those around you alive? If the answer is no, then you have exceeded "carrying-capacity". Besides, I for one, believe other animals have more a point to "their" existence than to end up on my plate.
Keep it up and Linux distributors will have to copyright and charge for their works. Next thing you know the 60% of the worlds servers running variants of Linux will only be able to use registered copies....Lots o fun!
-Oz
That's actually bs. Iraq was more "western" than even the US before we installed Saddam. Pre-Saddam, Iraq was cranking out more female engineers than the US does today. Hence why we had to install Saddam. Without doing so, Iraq's oil would still be nationalized, as such, it would most likely be the richest country on the planet had we not intervened.
-Oz
Storms need to happen whether we want them to or not. Fiddling with the weather of the planet won't benefit anyone, even if it saves a life or two in the short-run....
-Oz
"Or is the most obvious and likely scenario true, and Amazon simply got caught implementing a wildly-unpopular new policy without telling anyone?"
I think this is the most likely scenario. It seems that several entities have tried this kind of crap before. Personally I think doing it online is something akin to book-burning. I guess I find such fact-filtering to be censorship the likes of a lie of omission, seeing as many of the books I like would most likely fall out of print due to lack of purchases (which goes up proportionally to the level of exposure a book gets....or lack there of). If you cannot find a book because it doesn't show up in your search results, it might as well not exist.
From what I understand of pre-Saddam Iraq, they had nationalized their oil production ( I am sure before they had any idea exactly how much oil they were sitting on...ie the SECOND LARGEST KNOWN TO MAN). And that one of the reasons we helped him come to power was an agreement with us that he would give us preferential deals. I am sure that "we" thought that meant he would privatize it, while he was under the impression that he would just sell it to us cheaper than the rest of the world. As to Iraq's oil infrastructure, yeah, kind of hard to develop it when you don't have the technology and everyone with it wants to just drill it themselves and give you what profits they want to give you. I would have told us to screw ourselves too if I were in his shoes.... Never mind the trade barriers, embargoes, and other sanctions imposed on him in attempts to get him to comply.... As to why GHWB didn't go to Baghdad and take him out the first time.... He was worth way more to us as a scapegoat and general pain in the ass for the middle east than he ever would have been as a corpse.
Unfortunatly I wasn't there, only putting together little factoids I've picked up here and there. I'm not a lover of tyrants but I am sure there was a lot more to the story than the general public will ever be made aware of. As such, I refuse to believe that Saddam was crazy, or a mad man, or any other label our ever "accurate" MSM had painted him as. If you need proof to draw your opinion into question just look back at all of the lame-assed excuses we got for invading the second time (and the first for that matter)...
In my book the reason we invaded is that Saddam wouldn't let us "have" the oil. He wanted to keep the oil as a "nationalized" export. Seeing as we installed him to "give" us the oil, he had effectively quit being useful to us and as such had become "dispensable". After the Iran/Iraq gig, and later Kuwait (who was allowing us to angle-drill beneath the Iraqi border...hence why Saddam blew up the oil wells) and our attempt at a Kurdish revolt (which we dropped the ball on and allowed 40,000 kurds to be gassed with weapons we previously sold Saddam) we couldn't keep face and deal openly with him for Iraq's oil. We needed the oil, so he had to go...End of story....for now.
How about doing it the way fish and other aquatic life does? If the government were to throw a few million at a project to study the lateral lines of fish, I am sure they would find that fish are able to detect other aquatic objects and such via compression and displacement of water....No need to use high-decible sonic-blasts to detect water displacement caused by moving and stationary objects.
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As almost all foliage is green, wouldn't it make more sense to paint rooftops Green instead of white?
-Oz
I'd say that it is just as likely that he is looking at the RIAA's track record and saying to himself...."can I win against these guys given the slime-ball bs tactics they use"? and "Do I really want that loss on my record"??
-Oz
sorry I was under the impression that facts concerning BPL were left out in order to favor other means of transmission....suppose I need to read more of the comments before commenting myself. -Oz
Um.... when it means the difference between "free internet access" (as it should be) and being able to extort people for up to $99 a month for it...well, you are smart enough to guess who wins that one. As hardware, monitoring, and reliability are the primary justifications for internet usage fees, you can also see that NO existing ISP could compete with internet made available over power lines...
-Oz
I was wondering if say MAC or IP address topologies could be applicable to BPL. BTW aren't certain ISP's already doing this? I could swear I've seen something that looks like an average AC plug with an ethernet port where the normal "tail" would originate. What other purpose would such a "plug" have, if not to transfer data via "power conduits"?
-Oz
Indeed, did you notice how many different copies of the same material were in the side bar??? Try taking down all of that and you are going to busy for longer than you had ever anticipated.
-Oz
True, they don't but most of the time they at least have a reason to tail you. Although I say that with a mild amount of pause as the cops out here in the boondocks sometimes pick people to "tail" at random.
-Oz
I don't know who you are....BUT I LOVE YOU!!!!!! Let's implement it immediately!!!!! -
-Oz
This is classified as an "unreasonable search" in my book. Your assertion that it is akin to "tailing" someone seems baseless to me. Cops "tail" people whom they have reason to suspect may have done something wrong. GPS tracking of people without a warrant suggests to me that they intend to eventually "tail" everyone whether or not they have done something wrong (hence why a warrant is now required before they can "tail" you, so that someone can review an officers reasons before giving them carte blanch to hound someone) . How many "guilt by association" (you drive to an apartment complex known by police to house at least one drug dealer and voila, they now have reason to suspect you of TRAFFICKING NARCOTICS) arrests will they have to make before this seems "unconstitutional" to you?
-Oz
Next thing you know, we'll have to give up all media that has the potential to stir the human spirit in any way. Gosh, how I look forward to my white on white on white life!
-Oz
I don't understand how. As it is many companies are complaining that they "can"t make money on the internet" and others are complaining about how they are "losing money on internet ventures".
-Oz
That fully explains why an HR person told me that my services would no longer be required (I sell candy in office buildings). She explained to me that "access is access" and that "if I have access, then Union reps will think they can have access". I wish I were a little more on the ball at the moment. I could have just as easily pointed out that Union reps already did have access according to that standard of logic: They had Pepsi Cola products in the vending machines of their cafeteria. The last I had heard, Pepsi Bottling co is a Union shop here. If Pepsi Bottling co is in fact Unionized, would it be such a stretch to assume that they already had access due to the fact that the products in their vending machines were produced by Union Labor???
I (unlike Pepsi bottling co) am not a union member (unless you want to count the ACLU, the NRA, or BASS). I am an OWNER of a LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS...by their own policy (as defined by their head of HR) I have more of a right to do business on their property that Pepsi does...
-Oz
The whole "carrying-capacity" ideology is something akin to trying to find out how many people you can stuff into a telephone booth as far as I am concerned. I have no desire to eat ever-synthesized food, and live in smaller and smaller boxes just so there can be "more of us". Population of a species is not a sign of success or progress. If that were the case E.coli will always win.
The question to ask yourself is: if electricity, and gas were no longer available, would you have enough "food", "water" and "shelter" to keep you and those around you alive? If the answer is no, then you have exceeded "carrying-capacity". Besides, I for one, believe other animals have more a point to "their" existence than to end up on my plate.
-Oz
I don't know that a pandemic or two is such a bad thing...(ie there are too many of us as it is).
-Oz
Keep it up and Linux distributors will have to copyright and charge for their works. Next thing you know the 60% of the worlds servers running variants of Linux will only be able to use registered copies....Lots o fun! -Oz
Uh.... go talk to China about that one before trying to build an ark out of it!
-Oz
That's actually bs. Iraq was more "western" than even the US before we installed Saddam. Pre-Saddam, Iraq was cranking out more female engineers than the US does today. Hence why we had to install Saddam. Without doing so, Iraq's oil would still be nationalized, as such, it would most likely be the richest country on the planet had we not intervened. -Oz
I thought we reserved the "flamebait" mod for DS9 references...
-Oz
Storms need to happen whether we want them to or not. Fiddling with the weather of the planet won't benefit anyone, even if it saves a life or two in the short-run.... -Oz
Uh.....uh.....NO!
They can bite my wang, and call my ACLU lawyer Samuel Goldstein if they want to see what's on my laptop!
-Oz
"Or is the most obvious and likely scenario true, and Amazon simply got caught implementing a wildly-unpopular new policy without telling anyone?"
I think this is the most likely scenario. It seems that several entities have tried this kind of crap before. Personally I think doing it online is something akin to book-burning. I guess I find such fact-filtering to be censorship the likes of a lie of omission, seeing as many of the books I like would most likely fall out of print due to lack of purchases (which goes up proportionally to the level of exposure a book gets....or lack there of). If you cannot find a book because it doesn't show up in your search results, it might as well not exist.
-Oz
From what I understand of pre-Saddam Iraq, they had nationalized their oil production ( I am sure before they had any idea exactly how much oil they were sitting on...ie the SECOND LARGEST KNOWN TO MAN). And that one of the reasons we helped him come to power was an agreement with us that he would give us preferential deals. I am sure that "we" thought that meant he would privatize it, while he was under the impression that he would just sell it to us cheaper than the rest of the world. As to Iraq's oil infrastructure, yeah, kind of hard to develop it when you don't have the technology and everyone with it wants to just drill it themselves and give you what profits they want to give you. I would have told us to screw ourselves too if I were in his shoes.... Never mind the trade barriers, embargoes, and other sanctions imposed on him in attempts to get him to comply.... As to why GHWB didn't go to Baghdad and take him out the first time.... He was worth way more to us as a scapegoat and general pain in the ass for the middle east than he ever would have been as a corpse.
Unfortunatly I wasn't there, only putting together little factoids I've picked up here and there. I'm not a lover of tyrants but I am sure there was a lot more to the story than the general public will ever be made aware of. As such, I refuse to believe that Saddam was crazy, or a mad man, or any other label our ever "accurate" MSM had painted him as. If you need proof to draw your opinion into question just look back at all of the lame-assed excuses we got for invading the second time (and the first for that matter)...
-Oz
I am so glad someone else is paying attention out there!!!
-Oz
In my book the reason we invaded is that Saddam wouldn't let us "have" the oil. He wanted to keep the oil as a "nationalized" export. Seeing as we installed him to "give" us the oil, he had effectively quit being useful to us and as such had become "dispensable". After the Iran/Iraq gig, and later Kuwait (who was allowing us to angle-drill beneath the Iraqi border...hence why Saddam blew up the oil wells) and our attempt at a Kurdish revolt (which we dropped the ball on and allowed 40,000 kurds to be gassed with weapons we previously sold Saddam) we couldn't keep face and deal openly with him for Iraq's oil. We needed the oil, so he had to go...End of story....for now.
-Oz
How about doing it the way fish and other aquatic life does? If the government were to throw a few million at a project to study the lateral lines of fish, I am sure they would find that fish are able to detect other aquatic objects and such via compression and displacement of water....No need to use high-decible sonic-blasts to detect water displacement caused by moving and stationary objects.
-Oz