After all, Twitter has done such a great job providing a forum for critics to badger Beltway media insiders who abdicated their role as journalists and fell in line behind the Obama White House's march to ongoing destruction of privacy, human rights, fill-in-the-blank. 'Twitter could have helped puncture the Beltway media bubble.
FTA: What could be a simpler approach to home automation? Just replace your existing bulb with a fancy new one, and it’s at your command with a simple app.
A simple app? Jeezum crow, what the hell is wrong with an on/off switch?
The freedom to wander where I may want without caring about energy sockets or battery chargers.
Or the confort to be able to find some classic comic of my childhood on a used books store, buy it and be confident that no motherfscker of a copyright holder will be able to "delete" the thing from my hands.
All of what you said...
but more on the Freedom thing... Winston Smith loves ebooks not just for the copyright issue but for the ability to rewrite history. That makes them doubleplusungood in my book.
The Senate is about to vote on an extension of the controversial FISA Amendments Act -- the unconstitutional law that allows the NSA to spy on Americans speaking to people abroad without a warrant. Yet you wouldn't know it by watching CSPAN because the Senate isn't debating it.
Do not be mislead by receiving 'insightful' ratings on this comment. It is anything but insightful. No matter how the tax code is structured, corporate attorneys will be able to devise methods to avoid paying taxes.
I'm over the mountain from you in Cornwall and experience about the same thing. (The article from the OP was from our local paper.)
In fact, Shoreham Telephone doesn't exist anymore. It was bought out by OTT from Maine and since then our DSL service has become a bit less reliable at about the same speed as you but with what I suspect is a higher cost. We have ongoing DNS issues now and just have to live with it. We do have the option of wireless service through a co-op (as mentioned above in one of the postings but it is even less reliable than our DSL.)
I am sure it goes back to the time a few years back when Verizon abandoned Vermont rather than invest in the needed infrastructure upgrades to provide 20th Century-grade service!
What scares the hell out of me is how dependent we are (I'm IT in healthcare) on this failing infrastructure. At my office we lose calls all the time and our provider is no help at all. All the new toys are a lot of fun when they work but knowing how this works is the greatest incentive to stay healthy so I won't have to rely on the new electronic records all the healthcare geeks are promoting. I often miss the reliability of the old Bell System!
Since I live in Vermont I figured I'd call his office - and was passed along to the Judiciary Committee - where I got the [what sounded like every other] usual dissembling response. ("The Senator is very concerned about privacy..."). I'm afraid unless EFF and others get involved very publicly this is a fait accompli.
When SOPA was floating around I called and was told by a (what sounded like a 20-something year-old) staffer "You don't know what you're talking about at all" - exact words - so I'm not holding out much hope!
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In order to encourage innovation let's put the U.S. Congress on a similar flight.
With 11 hours of fuel.
All civilised countries in the world have a tax known in various forms as 'value-added tax' (or VAT).
Putting the word "civilized" in front of a noun doesn't make it right nor does it negate the idea that the action isn't backed by the threat of force.
After all, Twitter has done such a great job providing a forum for critics to badger Beltway media insiders who abdicated their role as journalists and fell in line behind the Obama White House's march to ongoing destruction of privacy, human rights, fill-in-the-blank. 'Twitter could have helped puncture the Beltway media bubble.
Bullshit.
The irony of your name is not lost.
This will appeal most to the boomers who refuse to get old or die. The current crop is so self-absorbed...
(I'm a boomer as well but I desperately try not to be one.)
FTA: What could be a simpler approach to home automation? Just replace your existing bulb with a fancy new one, and it’s at your command with a simple app.
A simple app? Jeezum crow, what the hell is wrong with an on/off switch?
But, then, how is anyone else to know about the dwarf. From the viewer's perspective the dwarf doesn't exist.
I hit a dwarf on the way to work today.
We got out of our cars to exchange information.
He said, "I am not happy."
I asked, "Which one are you?"
Then the fight started.
The entire sequestration issue is nothing but a political red herring. Of course NASA must shrink.
If you believe in Peak Oil this seems to be a logical partner:
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/acknowledging-arrival-peak-government-part-1/75356
What the hell is a "Zelot"?
*Very* well done...
HP screwed over Vermont: http://governor.vermont.gov/newsroom-Vermont-HP-reach-DMV-settlement-gov-shumlin in its attempt to redo the VT DMV.
Of course, we end up paying for the incompetence that drives the grossly misnamed Department of Information and Innovation...
The newest issue of QST has a pretty nifty article on SDR using the DVB-T dongles. Included are details on building a HF convertor which works nicely.
and is it TSA-friendly?
Good thing they took them out before they were connected to anything...
The freedom to wander where I may want without caring about energy sockets or battery chargers.
Or the confort to be able to find some classic comic of my childhood on a used books store, buy it and be confident that no motherfscker of a copyright holder will be able to "delete" the thing from my hands.
All of what you said...
but more on the Freedom thing... Winston Smith loves ebooks not just for the copyright issue but for the ability to rewrite history. That makes them doubleplusungood in my book.
how much that all might smell...
The Senate is about to vote on an extension of the controversial FISA Amendments Act -- the unconstitutional law that allows the NSA to spy on Americans speaking to people abroad without a warrant. Yet you wouldn't know it by watching CSPAN because the Senate isn't debating it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/senate-wants-sneak-warrantless-spying-bill-extension-law-without-debate-lets-call
Do not be mislead by receiving 'insightful' ratings on this comment. It is anything but insightful. No matter how the tax code is structured, corporate attorneys will be able to devise methods to avoid paying taxes.
Not. If. There. Were. A. Simple. Flat. Tax. That. Applied. Across. The. Board.
Period.
I can't fault anyone for taking advantage of legal loopholes.
If you want to blame someone go after the Sociopaths in Washington(TM) who created the U.S. tax code.
Please. Someone go after them.
I'm over the mountain from you in Cornwall and experience about the same thing. (The article from the OP was from our local paper.)
In fact, Shoreham Telephone doesn't exist anymore. It was bought out by OTT from Maine and since then our DSL service has become a bit less reliable at about the same speed as you but with what I suspect is a higher cost. We have ongoing DNS issues now and just have to live with it. We do have the option of wireless service through a co-op (as mentioned above in one of the postings but it is even less reliable than our DSL.)
I am sure it goes back to the time a few years back when Verizon abandoned Vermont rather than invest in the needed infrastructure upgrades to provide 20th Century-grade service!
What scares the hell out of me is how dependent we are (I'm IT in healthcare) on this failing infrastructure. At my office we lose calls all the time and our provider is no help at all. All the new toys are a lot of fun when they work but knowing how this works is the greatest incentive to stay healthy so I won't have to rely on the new electronic records all the healthcare geeks are promoting. I often miss the reliability of the old Bell System!
How about posting some pictures of the milky way? I've only barely seen it once while on Hilton Head island.
Here you go.
Glad to see ALL the bases are covered...
...to be financed by the sale of a nearby bridge.
Since I live in Vermont I figured I'd call his office - and was passed along to the Judiciary Committee - where I got the [what sounded like every other] usual dissembling response. ("The Senator is very concerned about privacy..."). I'm afraid unless EFF and others get involved very publicly this is a fait accompli.
When SOPA was floating around I called and was told by a (what sounded like a 20-something year-old) staffer "You don't know what you're talking about at all" - exact words - so I'm not holding out much hope!
Exactly. This is the same gubmint that gave you the entire security theater and you're going to trust them?
But who's going to "give" the treasure and what will be the source of the funding? Serious question.
And to what end since China will *never* play the game. They have no reason to - they own everything.
A good read: Death by China... (Also a movie narrated by Martin Sheen.)