I've never had any problems with Verizon. Their customer service department is confusing to navigate, but they've never censored my downloads (bittorrent), never throttled my connection, never blocked access to watching television online. They are certainly better than my other local company which is Comsucks
When companies steal from me, like making unauthorized $100 charges on my credit card, and I can't get them to remove the fraudulent charge, I simply steal the money back:
- "Hello? VISA customer service. May I help you?" - "I ordered a new phone from Verizon, but I never received it." (I say while holding the phone in my hand) - "So you want to chargeback the $150?" - "Yes please"
And then I enjoy my shiny new precious...er, phone. Or else sell it on ebay for fun and profit.
If I was a French citizen and I was sitting in jail due to a nullified-UK law, I'd file a lawsuit with the EU Court of First Instance to get myself freed. EU citizens should not be punished by (filthy, foreign) British laws that have been voided by EU Treaty. Vive la France! Vive la revolution!
I don't disagree in principle, but if you want to extend Washington's power then you should do it via the proper procedure of amending the constitution to grant said power to Congress. Else the national law (like banning marijuana) is an unconstitutional grab for power. In fact many States are legalizing medicinal marijuana, and although Washington is having a fit about it and threatening the state legislatures, the federal judges are upholding the States' power to do so.
We are a Federation with many varied climates and beliefs, and one size does not fit all. In many cases the "best place" for legislation is at the local State level, within a few miles of where the citizens live.
I have a DVR but don't use it since the Super VHS VCR provides better quality video. And yes Nielsen DOES measure "same day viewing" to include people who watch using DVRs. Nielsen also monitors internet viewing, and reports those stats as a separate number.
I don't understand what the TV companies are whining about - Nielsen's already monitoring these new media forms.
The U.S. is outside the States. It has its own administrative zone called D.C. which the states cannot touch. It is from that zone which the United States governs the other 50 governments, but only with a certain limited list of powers. Powers not granted to the U.S. are reserved to the local State governments.
>>> (what happens when a state passes laws the federal government doesn't like?)
Nothing. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Well ideally nothing happens, but usually there's a power struggle. This is why there's such a fuss over medical marijuana, because California and other states have legalized it, but the U.S. government doesn't like that, but the U.S. has no authority in this manner, and slowly but surely federal judges are upholding the State's Right to legalize marijuana for prescription.
This also works in the opposite direction, like when the U.S. passed the Fugitive Slave Act. The states in the north refused to comply, declaring the law unconstitutional (nullification of federal law), and gave sanctuary to the escaped black persons.
In the US laws are hierarchical. The lesser law would be invalid if it contradicted the higher law. Plus anyone convicted under the lesser law would be freed, as if the lesser law never existed.
The UK ought to follow the same principles, but apparently not. It appears that a French or German person can be punished by a UK law that hasn't been written yet by the Parliament (ex post facto).
If I was a French citizen and I was sitting in jail due to a nullified-UK law, I'd be pissed.
I'd immediately file a case with the Supreme Reichstag (or whatever the EU equivalent of the Supreme Court might be). EU citizens should not be punished by laws that are voided.
The treaties you have with the EU are your constitution, and they are what was used to make this law unconstitutional (nullified by treaty).
QUOTING WIKIPEDIA: "On another analysis, which was first authoritatively articulated by the European Court of Justice in the 1963 case of Van Gend en Loos, EU law represents a new legal regime which is qualitatively different from other forms of international law and which takes precedence over the internal legal and constitutional arrangements of member states. On this view, the notion that Parliament could unilaterally legislate "as a matter of British law" to withdraw the UK from the ambit of EU law is anachronistic and unreal[citation needed].
"In any event, British membership of the EU has had a very considerable impact on the constitution and governance of the country. In the Factortame litigation, for example, the House of Lords took the unprecedented step of granting an injunction to "disapply" an Act of Parliament (the Merchant Shipping Act 1988). While this step can in principle be argued to be consistent with traditional ideas of Parliamentary supremacy, it does illustrate the profound impact that EU membership has had. The merits of continued British involvement in the EU continue to be hotly debated within the UK."
Which is precisely why I'm against the death sentence. It's too late to say, "Ooops he was convicted by an unconstitutional law. Free him," after he's already dead. The most-severe punishment should be a life sentence.
The various treaties comprise the EU constitution. No it isn't set-down on a single piece of paper like the U.S., but it still has the same effect of being the supreme law that nullifies lesser laws (as this article shows).
Actually quite a bit - I have several videos that are not only fun to watch, but also discuss how to avoid getting AIDS (use a condom and/or cover the pussy with plastic before licking a stranger's clit). As for myself - I learned a lot from videos downloaded to my Amiga when I was just a young lad which my uptight parents refused to talk about.
That's not the solution. My Azureus client has decentralized tracking in Azureus, and it works just fine with my dialup connection, but not with my DSL modem. I have no clue why one would work but not the other.
Doesn't Pirate Bay have *any* working trackers? I'm using tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce which is the most-generalized form I can think of, but still it refuses to connect.
isohunt.com is also reporting the piratebay trackers as unreachable.
That's called engineering (hardware) or programming (software), not hacking. Hacking is very clearly "breaking" something that is not meant to be broken, like the old-fashioned safecrackers, but done electronically.
>>>another reason is a combination of safety and efficient use of the road.
And don't you think the *highway engineers* already took that into account with their recommended 85mph travel speed? Who the hell are the silk-suited jokers in the legislature to overrule a carefully-studied recommendation by several engineers??? Why even bother having engineers if you're not going to listen to them? (Yes I'm exasperated with my idiot non-engineer boss - can you tell?)
>>>maximum throughput in real-life scenarios occurs at about... 65 MPH. Coincidence? I think not.
Then how come the western states have limits of 75 mph? Or in the case of Montana, no daytime limit? I'd like to hear your justification since you claim 65 is the "ideal". Why are these states allowing speeds above the ideal? POINT: I suspect 65 is not ideal, and you just pulled it out of your ___. The actual ideal is 85 just as the interstate engineers routinely recommend in their reports.
>>>And I don't understand the viewpoint that nukes are evil.
Precisely. Environmentalists who would block the building of clean pollution-free nuclear power plants, and yet have no problem with already-existing coal factories continuing to belch tons of soot makes no logical sense to me.
I just bought Edy's low-fat ice cream for $1.69 and Kemps fat-free frozen yogurt for $1.99. Show me an online example that matches those prices. You can not. Oh, and the reason I picked those is because I eat a lot of both.
>>>And no, cars to not belong in either category as they are not scalable.
Sure they are. You can shrink them smaller (1 or 2-seater commuter cars) or larger (sedans or vans or buses or freight trucks). And if you need extra capacity you simply sell more cars to serve more people, and either add news lanes to existing roads or add new roads (I-85 in parallel to I-95).
I support your idea of wanting a more environmentally future.
I do not support your twisting of facts, like claiming cars are not scalable. Cars CAN be cleaner as demonstrated by SULEV vehicles which actually *clean* the air as they pass through it (i.e. the air sucked through the intake is dirtier than the air exiting the catalytic converter). And cars ARE scalable. They're also convenient, flexible (you can leave home whenever you want), and dependable (like at 3 a.m. when your wife's having a baby and subways are not running).
>>>I've never used delivery services, but I know they don't charge twice as much
I was talking about prices. Online food rarely goes on sale, whereas the local stores often sell items at half-price and I take advantage of that. So that's where he's getting the "online costs are double".
It's also worth noting that a 50MPG hybrid or Volkswagen soon-to-be-released 250MPG commuter car outperforms public transport, since buses and trains* only average 25 MPG per passenger. So the high efficiency cars are actually MORE environmentally friendly.
* *(Yes I know trains use electricity, but you can convert the KWH/mile into gasoline equivalents like MPG.)
>>>3)Connecting suburbs to real cities with real transit
Why?
Why can't suburbs become cities in-and-of themselves? In addition to Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia, you could also have the cities of Columbia, Middle River, Bel Air, Conowingo, et cetera... all with their own rail lines or bus transports. Why must things always revolve around the ancient cities? Let's create some new ones and use them as our hubs.
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I've never had any problems with Verizon. Their customer service department is confusing to navigate, but they've never censored my downloads (bittorrent), never throttled my connection, never blocked access to watching television online. They are certainly better than my other local company which is Comsucks
When companies steal from me, like making unauthorized $100 charges on my credit card, and I can't get them to remove the fraudulent charge, I simply steal the money back:
- "Hello? VISA customer service. May I help you?"
- "I ordered a new phone from Verizon, but I never received it." (I say while holding the phone in my hand)
- "So you want to chargeback the $150?"
- "Yes please"
And then I enjoy my shiny new precious...er, phone. Or else sell it on ebay for fun and profit.
If you find yourself stranded in New England without an ISP, you could always go back to using phone lines.
Netscape ISP is only $7/month. Slow but usable.
[correction - after doing some research)
If I was a French citizen and I was sitting in jail due to a nullified-UK law, I'd file a lawsuit with the EU Court of First Instance to get myself freed. EU citizens should not be punished by (filthy, foreign) British laws that have been voided by EU Treaty. Vive la France! Vive la revolution!
(waves the Tricolore)
I don't disagree in principle, but if you want to extend Washington's power then you should do it via the proper procedure of amending the constitution to grant said power to Congress. Else the national law (like banning marijuana) is an unconstitutional grab for power. In fact many States are legalizing medicinal marijuana, and although Washington is having a fit about it and threatening the state legislatures, the federal judges are upholding the States' power to do so.
We are a Federation with many varied climates and beliefs, and one size does not fit all. In many cases the "best place" for legislation is at the local State level, within a few miles of where the citizens live.
So nobody knows the address of a working piratebay tracker?
I have a DVR but don't use it since the Super VHS VCR provides better quality video. And yes Nielsen DOES measure "same day viewing" to include people who watch using DVRs. Nielsen also monitors internet viewing, and reports those stats as a separate number.
I don't understand what the TV companies are whining about - Nielsen's already monitoring these new media forms.
That's how my Commodore=128 got around the 64k limitation of its CPU, and could access upto 16 banks or 1 megabyte of RAM.
If the same technology was used with 32 banks of Windows XP space, you could get 128 gigabytes.
The U.S. is outside the States. It has its own administrative zone called D.C. which the states cannot touch. It is from that zone which the United States governs the other 50 governments, but only with a certain limited list of powers. Powers not granted to the U.S. are reserved to the local State governments.
>>> (what happens when a state passes laws the federal government doesn't like?)
Nothing. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Well ideally nothing happens, but usually there's a power struggle. This is why there's such a fuss over medical marijuana, because California and other states have legalized it, but the U.S. government doesn't like that, but the U.S. has no authority in this manner, and slowly but surely federal judges are upholding the State's Right to legalize marijuana for prescription.
This also works in the opposite direction, like when the U.S. passed the Fugitive Slave Act. The states in the north refused to comply, declaring the law unconstitutional (nullification of federal law), and gave sanctuary to the escaped black persons.
In the US laws are hierarchical. The lesser law would be invalid if it contradicted the higher law. Plus anyone convicted under the lesser law would be freed, as if the lesser law never existed.
The UK ought to follow the same principles, but apparently not. It appears that a French or German person can be punished by a UK law that hasn't been written yet by the Parliament (ex post facto).
Oh my.
What a mess.
If I was a French citizen and I was sitting in jail due to a nullified-UK law, I'd be pissed.
I'd immediately file a case with the Supreme Reichstag (or whatever the EU equivalent of the Supreme Court might be). EU citizens should not be punished by laws that are voided.
The treaties you have with the EU are your constitution,
and they are what was used to make this law unconstitutional (nullified by treaty).
QUOTING WIKIPEDIA: "On another analysis, which was first authoritatively articulated by the European Court of Justice in the 1963 case of Van Gend en Loos, EU law represents a new legal regime which is qualitatively different from other forms of international law and which takes precedence over the internal legal and constitutional arrangements of member states. On this view, the notion that Parliament could unilaterally legislate "as a matter of British law" to withdraw the UK from the ambit of EU law is anachronistic and unreal[citation needed].
"In any event, British membership of the EU has had a very considerable impact on the constitution and governance of the country. In the Factortame litigation, for example, the House of Lords took the unprecedented step of granting an injunction to "disapply" an Act of Parliament (the Merchant Shipping Act 1988). While this step can in principle be argued to be consistent with traditional ideas of Parliamentary supremacy, it does illustrate the profound impact that EU membership has had. The merits of continued British involvement in the EU continue to be hotly debated within the UK."
LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom#EU_law
HD's use far less power than optical drives.
Why?
Which is precisely why I'm against the death sentence. It's too late to say, "Ooops he was convicted by an unconstitutional law. Free him," after he's already dead. The most-severe punishment should be a life sentence.
The various treaties comprise the EU constitution. No it isn't set-down on a single piece of paper like the U.S., but it still has the same effect of being the supreme law that nullifies lesser laws (as this article shows).
Actually quite a bit - I have several videos that are not only fun to watch, but also discuss how to avoid getting AIDS (use a condom and/or cover the pussy with plastic before licking a stranger's clit). As for myself - I learned a lot from videos downloaded to my Amiga when I was just a young lad which my uptight parents refused to talk about.
That's not the solution. My Azureus client has decentralized tracking in Azureus, and it works just fine with my dialup connection, but not with my DSL modem. I have no clue why one would work but not the other.
Doesn't Pirate Bay have *any* working trackers? I'm using tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce which is the most-generalized form I can think of, but still it refuses to connect.
isohunt.com is also reporting the piratebay trackers as unreachable.
That's called engineering (hardware) or programming (software), not hacking. Hacking is very clearly "breaking" something that is not meant to be broken, like the old-fashioned safecrackers, but done electronically.
>>>another reason is a combination of safety and efficient use of the road.
And don't you think the *highway engineers* already took that into account with their recommended 85mph travel speed? Who the hell are the silk-suited jokers in the legislature to overrule a carefully-studied recommendation by several engineers??? Why even bother having engineers if you're not going to listen to them? (Yes I'm exasperated with my idiot non-engineer boss - can you tell?)
>>>maximum throughput in real-life scenarios occurs at about... 65 MPH. Coincidence? I think not.
Then how come the western states have limits of 75 mph? Or in the case of Montana, no daytime limit? I'd like to hear your justification since you claim 65 is the "ideal". Why are these states allowing speeds above the ideal? POINT: I suspect 65 is not ideal, and you just pulled it out of your ___. The actual ideal is 85 just as the interstate engineers routinely recommend in their reports.
>>>And I don't understand the viewpoint that nukes are evil.
Precisely. Environmentalists who would block the building of clean pollution-free nuclear power plants, and yet have no problem with already-existing coal factories continuing to belch tons of soot makes no logical sense to me.
But who ever said Greens were rational?
>>>No difference in price here.
I just bought Edy's low-fat ice cream for $1.69 and Kemps fat-free frozen yogurt for $1.99. Show me an online example that matches those prices. You can not. Oh, and the reason I picked those is because I eat a lot of both.
Online shopping IS more expensive.
>>>And no, cars to not belong in either category as they are not scalable.
Sure they are. You can shrink them smaller (1 or 2-seater commuter cars) or larger (sedans or vans or buses or freight trucks). And if you need extra capacity you simply sell more cars to serve more people, and either add news lanes to existing roads or add new roads (I-85 in parallel to I-95).
I support your idea of wanting a more environmentally future.
I do not support your twisting of facts, like claiming cars are not scalable. Cars CAN be cleaner as demonstrated by SULEV vehicles which actually *clean* the air as they pass through it (i.e. the air sucked through the intake is dirtier than the air exiting the catalytic converter). And cars ARE scalable. They're also convenient, flexible (you can leave home whenever you want), and dependable (like at 3 a.m. when your wife's having a baby and subways are not running).
>>>I've never used delivery services, but I know they don't charge twice as much
I was talking about prices. Online food rarely goes on sale, whereas the local stores often sell items at half-price and I take advantage of that. So that's where he's getting the "online costs are double".
It's also worth noting that a 50MPG hybrid or Volkswagen soon-to-be-released 250MPG commuter car outperforms public transport, since buses and trains* only average 25 MPG per passenger. So the high efficiency cars are actually MORE environmentally friendly.
*
*(Yes I know trains use electricity, but you can convert the KWH/mile into gasoline equivalents like MPG.)
>>>3)Connecting suburbs to real cities with real transit
Why?
Why can't suburbs become cities in-and-of themselves? In addition to Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia, you could also have the cities of Columbia, Middle River, Bel Air, Conowingo, et cetera... all with their own rail lines or bus transports. Why must things always revolve around the ancient cities? Let's create some new ones and use them as our hubs.