If carriers can't charge more to people who use more, how are they supposed to get the revenue to expand the network? If a regulator caps prices, you get shortages like anything else.
Don't forget that the carriers would always have full pipes and congestion with a flat "unlimited" plan. Us users are clever enough to find ways to not worry about rationing.
The NDP wants the government to centralize and control culture by furthering taxes on blank media and ipods - hardly a benign and noble philosophy. The bloc tends to lean left on policy issues. They're probably support the NDP plan so long as Quebec got a "proportional" share of the funding.
Any market that forms that people don't want to form is a black market. They'd prefer some "benevolent" agency to dole out the limited amount, nevermind that a few organizations are holding massive amounts of unused IP ranges. Making them worth money will encourage them to release them, but these people are afraid of markets.
If you have something to hide, HIDE it. Don't leave it in plain view. Don't leave it on an open WIFI network. Make the WIFI network hidden. Don't post on forums. Don't upload your pictures to flickr. Don't create a slashdot account. Don't do anything.
Right, and my point is that they're doing the exact same thing you or I would do, like it or not.
If you live in a city that spanned state lines (there are examples of this) and on one side the tax rate was much higher than the other, which side would you live on? The problem is high taxes in the united states - not loopholes.
The vast majority of the "dodged" income is foreign earned and merely just doesn't enter the US, otherwise it would be taxed. It's merely a response to incentives. Honestly, do you expect these companies to just go "oh, lets move the money into the united states where a lot more of it will be taken away than if we move it to Bermuda; especially since we already often paid taxes where it was originally earned"? Do you take advantage of mortgage interest deductibility? Retirement tax shelters? It's the same thing. The problem is that taxes in the United States are higher than elsewhere so the money doesn't come here.
Pity, as America could really use the investment right now.
As somebody who DID work as a systems administrator for a publicly traded, Canadian based company that supplies software to the online gambling industry I can say that unless you're an executive it will have no bearing on your future employment any more than working for an 'evil' defence contractor or such will. Sure, you'd have a hard time getting a job at amnesty international after working for BEA, but the experience you'll get will open more doors elsewhere. The company had far more trouble hiring people who were willing to work for the company, in fact. Though in Canada 'online gambling' had a much more negative connotation than it does in England, where betting shops are everywhere.
The experience I got was very worthwhile. I got to travel to interesting locations to setup the servers. Places like Curacao in the Caribbean, Malta, Ireland, the netherlands (we did work for the government casinos there, in fact), etc. I started out in a very jr position, but moved up extremely quickly because I was capable and they had a hard time finding good people who were willing to work for them. This gave me Sr-level quality within 2 years. I've since moved on, but I would do it again in a second. It's not been a black mark on me at all and people are usually curious about it. Because of complex legal and national regulations, the accountants also were in a similar position. They had a lot of trouble getting quality accountants, so they had to get more Jr. ones who moved up fast.
The executives had far more trouble after leaving, though they also ran the company rather poorly. In fact I'd say that the worst part was having to work with/for some people that I would consider less than high caliber. Because of this, I became the go-to guy to fix poor decisions made from incompetence at the CTO and director level.
This system generates a massive amount of liquidity, meaning that if you need to quickly buy/sell a stock there's almost always a buyer/seller. That's "something from nothing".
And most of them got new jobs. I'd rather have labour mobility than have a union take 2% of my salary and have other companies not willing to hire because it's so difficult to fire bad employees; I know this is a generalization, but overall it's true. I've done very well without union help and where I live (Ontario) there are strong enough labour laws that if a company fires me without cause, they'd better be offering me a nice package if they don't want to hear from my lawyer.
There is a safe injection site in Vancouver that has a specific exemption in the Criminal code.
Also, prostitution isn't technically illegal in Canada, but publicly soliciting it is. Escorts are perfectly legal here.
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NEVER say never. They could do it up and down both coasts and it'd be a start.
They said the same thing with the interstate once...
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First, nobody said get rid of the automobile.
Also, high speed rail (300km/h) is already widely deployed in Europe and Japan. And time is where they do shine. I can go from Central Paris to Central London (465) in less than 3 hours. I can board the train 15 minutes before it leaves. To fly, it's an hour to the airport, plus I'd have to arrive at the airport 2 hours early, wait in 3 different queues (check-in, security, boarding) fly for an hour, arrive, wait for my luggage(at least half hour), and then an hour into the city.
Obviously this is different going from NY to LA, but amongst denser areas of the US (north-east, california) this is feasible within 1000km distances.
They can limit each encrypted bank or IM connection to 10-20KB/sec and you wouldn't even notice. You would notice your torrents slowing down though. Many ISPs are already using deep packet inspection. Hell, rogers in canada is playing around with inserting messages into websites! I can only hope that it pushes more of the web to https.
We've used ZFS in prod for our file servers as well as some small external prod stuff. We've had no problems so far. There's an ISP in Japan that has a *huge* install with an earlier opensolaris build and it has apparently been running beautifully. These are early adopters, though. It's really all about how secure you feel with it. I'm not afraid to use it for some of the simple often used features. Some of the more non-trivial/new features I'm leaving out.
Long story short, just as you still get filesystem corruption and whatnot with traditional filesystems (we've all had to run fsck or recover from backups at one time or another) there will always be surprises. They'll just be different.
Yeah, and you have to fsck that with a traditional filesystem. Plus, zfs takes care of bit rot (which is becoming a problem as HD sizes get larger) volume management (and makes it extremely easy). Well you can make fun of the theoretical limits, when your modern 1GB hard drive crashes or 1.5 tarabyte array crashes you'll be happy when you can boot without having to wait for the filesystem to be checked. Have you had to deal with volume management before? It was a pain in the ass.
ZFS doesnt offer me anything as im not managing servers Don't want easy raid/storage expansion on your desktop? You don't want efficient storage?
Dtrace doesnt offer me anything as im not a developer You don't want to know how your system is performing in a way like never before? I'm not a developer, but a sysadmin and use dtrace every day to tell those pesky developers that yes, it's actually THEIR CODE that's at fault at not the server I setup for them. It's also neat to be able to easily see what process is using how much network bandwidth in realtime. That was difficult before.
SMF doesnt offer me anything i cant do with startup I don't like the complexity of SMF, but it's self-healing for the stuff that's already built for it is cool as is it's dependancy checking.
IPS doesnt seam any better than deb or rpm It's better than just RPM, but it's about the same as deb or yum. It's a big step foreward for what was a commercial OS.
I can tell you haven't even tried solaris 10, but give it a swig. Before solaris 10 I wrote (often rightly) wrote of Sun. Why would I pay a premium for something FreeBSD can do for free and outperforms it? The hardware is cool (see coolthreads processors...it's hyperthreading done right), it's affordable, and it's innovative.
It may not be compelling enough to switch from linux or whatever if all you use from a desktop is firefox and thunderbird, but there is actually some VERY cool stuff in there. Don't write it off. There's a reason FreeBSD is taking in a lot of these features.
Will it play nicely with proprietary 3rd party 32-bit plug-ins (ie flash)? IIRC, you can compile firefox as 64 bit in unix, but it will break flash. This may not bother some people, but will others.
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What happens when your van breaks down for good in 10-20 years?
So then don't use the free app and stop whining about not getting something for nothing.
If carriers can't charge more to people who use more, how are they supposed to get the revenue to expand the network? If a regulator caps prices, you get shortages like anything else.
Don't forget that the carriers would always have full pipes and congestion with a flat "unlimited" plan. Us users are clever enough to find ways to not worry about rationing.
The NDP wants the government to centralize and control culture by furthering taxes on blank media and ipods - hardly a benign and noble philosophy. The bloc tends to lean left on policy issues. They're probably support the NDP plan so long as Quebec got a "proportional" share of the funding.
Any market that forms that people don't want to form is a black market. They'd prefer some "benevolent" agency to dole out the limited amount, nevermind that a few organizations are holding massive amounts of unused IP ranges. Making them worth money will encourage them to release them, but these people are afraid of markets.
If you have something to hide, HIDE it. Don't leave it in plain view. Don't leave it on an open WIFI network. Make the WIFI network hidden. Don't post on forums. Don't upload your pictures to flickr. Don't create a slashdot account. Don't do anything.
Right, and my point is that they're doing the exact same thing you or I would do, like it or not. If you live in a city that spanned state lines (there are examples of this) and on one side the tax rate was much higher than the other, which side would you live on? The problem is high taxes in the united states - not loopholes.
The vast majority of the "dodged" income is foreign earned and merely just doesn't enter the US, otherwise it would be taxed. It's merely a response to incentives. Honestly, do you expect these companies to just go "oh, lets move the money into the united states where a lot more of it will be taken away than if we move it to Bermuda; especially since we already often paid taxes where it was originally earned"? Do you take advantage of mortgage interest deductibility? Retirement tax shelters? It's the same thing. The problem is that taxes in the United States are higher than elsewhere so the money doesn't come here. Pity, as America could really use the investment right now.
As somebody who DID work as a systems administrator for a publicly traded, Canadian based company that supplies software to the online gambling industry I can say that unless you're an executive it will have no bearing on your future employment any more than working for an 'evil' defence contractor or such will. Sure, you'd have a hard time getting a job at amnesty international after working for BEA, but the experience you'll get will open more doors elsewhere. The company had far more trouble hiring people who were willing to work for the company, in fact. Though in Canada 'online gambling' had a much more negative connotation than it does in England, where betting shops are everywhere.
The experience I got was very worthwhile. I got to travel to interesting locations to setup the servers. Places like Curacao in the Caribbean, Malta, Ireland, the netherlands (we did work for the government casinos there, in fact), etc. I started out in a very jr position, but moved up extremely quickly because I was capable and they had a hard time finding good people who were willing to work for them. This gave me Sr-level quality within 2 years. I've since moved on, but I would do it again in a second. It's not been a black mark on me at all and people are usually curious about it. Because of complex legal and national regulations, the accountants also were in a similar position. They had a lot of trouble getting quality accountants, so they had to get more Jr. ones who moved up fast.
The executives had far more trouble after leaving, though they also ran the company rather poorly. In fact I'd say that the worst part was having to work with/for some people that I would consider less than high caliber. Because of this, I became the go-to guy to fix poor decisions made from incompetence at the CTO and director level.
This system generates a massive amount of liquidity, meaning that if you need to quickly buy/sell a stock there's almost always a buyer/seller. That's "something from nothing".
And most of them got new jobs. I'd rather have labour mobility than have a union take 2% of my salary and have other companies not willing to hire because it's so difficult to fire bad employees; I know this is a generalization, but overall it's true. I've done very well without union help and where I live (Ontario) there are strong enough labour laws that if a company fires me without cause, they'd better be offering me a nice package if they don't want to hear from my lawyer.
If the prime minister dies in Canada, another cabinet member becomes temporary PM until the party in power has a leadership convention.
There is a safe injection site in Vancouver that has a specific exemption in the Criminal code. Also, prostitution isn't technically illegal in Canada, but publicly soliciting it is. Escorts are perfectly legal here.
They said the same thing with the interstate once...
First, nobody said get rid of the automobile.
Also, high speed rail (300km/h) is already widely deployed in Europe and Japan. And time is where they do shine. I can go from Central Paris to Central London (465) in less than 3 hours. I can board the train 15 minutes before it leaves. To fly, it's an hour to the airport, plus I'd have to arrive at the airport 2 hours early, wait in 3 different queues (check-in, security, boarding) fly for an hour, arrive, wait for my luggage(at least half hour), and then an hour into the city.
Obviously this is different going from NY to LA, but amongst denser areas of the US (north-east, california) this is feasible within 1000km distances.
They can limit each encrypted bank or IM connection to 10-20KB/sec and you wouldn't even notice. You would notice your torrents slowing down though. Many ISPs are already using deep packet inspection. Hell, rogers in canada is playing around with inserting messages into websites! I can only hope that it pushes more of the web to https.
We've used ZFS in prod for our file servers as well as some small external prod stuff. We've had no problems so far. There's an ISP in Japan that has a *huge* install with an earlier opensolaris build and it has apparently been running beautifully. These are early adopters, though. It's really all about how secure you feel with it. I'm not afraid to use it for some of the simple often used features. Some of the more non-trivial/new features I'm leaving out. Long story short, just as you still get filesystem corruption and whatnot with traditional filesystems (we've all had to run fsck or recover from backups at one time or another) there will always be surprises. They'll just be different.
zpool create tank mirror c0t0d0 c0t1d0 mirror c2t0d0 c2t1d0 :-)
Yeah, and you have to fsck that with a traditional filesystem. Plus, zfs takes care of bit rot (which is becoming a problem as HD sizes get larger) volume management (and makes it extremely easy). Well you can make fun of the theoretical limits, when your modern 1GB hard drive crashes or 1.5 tarabyte array crashes you'll be happy when you can boot without having to wait for the filesystem to be checked. Have you had to deal with volume management before? It was a pain in the ass.
Don't want easy raid/storage expansion on your desktop? You don't want efficient storage?
Dtrace doesnt offer me anything as im not a developer
You don't want to know how your system is performing in a way like never before? I'm not a developer, but a sysadmin and use dtrace every day to tell those pesky developers that yes, it's actually THEIR CODE that's at fault at not the server I setup for them. It's also neat to be able to easily see what process is using how much network bandwidth in realtime. That was difficult before.
SMF doesnt offer me anything i cant do with startup
I don't like the complexity of SMF, but it's self-healing for the stuff that's already built for it is cool as is it's dependancy checking.
IPS doesnt seam any better than deb or rpm
It's better than just RPM, but it's about the same as deb or yum. It's a big step foreward for what was a commercial OS.
I can tell you haven't even tried solaris 10, but give it a swig. Before solaris 10 I wrote (often rightly) wrote of Sun. Why would I pay a premium for something FreeBSD can do for free and outperforms it? The hardware is cool (see coolthreads processors...it's hyperthreading done right), it's affordable, and it's innovative. It may not be compelling enough to switch from linux or whatever if all you use from a desktop is firefox and thunderbird, but there is actually some VERY cool stuff in there. Don't write it off. There's a reason FreeBSD is taking in a lot of these features.
Will it play nicely with proprietary 3rd party 32-bit plug-ins (ie flash)? IIRC, you can compile firefox as 64 bit in unix, but it will break flash. This may not bother some people, but will others.
The same is also true for ZFS on solaris. It's not QUITE there, yet.
The canadian government is mandating a digital switchover, but several years later.