They absolutely don't all throttle P2P traffic. I live in WI, have AT&T, and I max out at 2Mb/s (what I pay for) and it stays there until the torrent is downloaded.
I completely agree, but you still have to remember that there are maybe I don't know, 6000 pro athletes in the entire country and they have to fight even harder for jobs while also sacrificing any kind of plan B. Compare that to maybe 600,000 scientists who will get a decent paying job no matter what.
Yeah athletes get paid a ton, but they entertain millions and there are not very many. It's like winning the lottery.
I work at a gas station. You get the next ticket in the roll, there is no picking your ticket. Also, we cannot play lottery for obvious reasons. So working at a convenience store won't help either.
Think of it this way: In day to day life, for everyday objects, x = 2y describes gravitational interaction. Test it over and over, and it works just fine.
Now, when we look way out into the universe at galaxies, x = 2y doesn't quite work, but if we use the formula x = 2y +.01 everything falls into place. And it works over and over.
We don't know what the.01 is, so we call it dark matter. Someday we'll figure out what it is, for now we call it dark matter. That's it.
Keep in mind, 5GB is A LOT of data. To give you an idea, it's about 250 hours of web browsing or over 500,000(!) emails. So this change shouldn't affect you unless you're a heavy downloader/streamer/etc.
So, if you use more than email you are a heavy user? If that's all people used the web for, I doubt it would even exist anymore.
Perhaps the most obvious example are gas stations very close to each other, it's mostly a single price broadcast on a big billboard and you can be sure it takes only minutes before they know their competition has changed their prices. They follow each other like a man and his shadow.
There is a reason for this! I used to work at a gas station, and law requires that we are within X cents of our nearest competitor and can only change prices once every 24 hours. Most stations opt then to do it right away in the morning before there is a steady stream of customers. These laws went into effect right after the gas crisis in the 70's to prevent price gouging.
Also, there is a good chance that all the gas stations in town buy from the same distributor anyway, so they all have the same cost of buying gas in the first place. Just because it's a Mobil for example, doesn't mean they by "Mobil" gas. The name really doesn't mean anything.
Well if that's what people think, then fuck 'em all. I'm not a christian, and I think christians continually fuck up the world in the name of Gosh, and have turned a holiday honoring their team captain into guilting everybody into a gift buying fuck fest.
I'd rather just celebrate the solstice with friends, fire, food, and booze and that's what I do.
Might I remind you that historically THAT is The Reason for the Season.
In summary:
1. Fuck christmas.
2. Fuck religion and the people who think I am a dick for not participation in their bullshit beliefs.
3. Fuck giant corporations who make shit that we don't really need.
4. Fuck materialism, I know Jesus would agree.
5. Fuck you for once again making ME have to justify something that really doesn't need to be justified.
If you want someone to make a movie the way you want to see it, become a director.
It seems there is a heavy feeling of entitlement as far as media and the arts go here. Like people often say here, ideas are a dime a dozen. The implementation is the hard part.
Especially given how some smokers, when foul weather hits, seem to think its their god given right to blockade the entrances and exits to building so that they can light up.
I do it on purpose for all the people who voted to take our rights away (I live in Wisconsin, ban was enacted July 5th). There is no demand for non smoking bars (not where I live anyway). If there was there would have been non-smoking bars before the ban and bars wouldn't be going out of business, shortening their hours and closing on Mondays.
Art does not belong to the artist? That's ridiculous. If I create something, I have the choice to keep it, copy it, sell it, patent it, copyright it, whatever, it's mine.
You can't own blue
Well no shit. However, a painting is more than just a single color, or an arrangement of different colors.
Are you against the ownership of cars because no one can own the element iron?
I think you are either confused or being deliberately obtuse by confusing physical objects (statues, paintings, etc.) and IP (the force, maybe musical recordings).
Right on. It all depends on what you want to use it for. For anything other than audio recording, an on-board card is just fine.
If you want to build a recording studio or record your band, you MUST get a separate card. After recording 16 tracks that 60Hz hum and other line noise from your power supply and other random interference really adds up. A decent sound card makes a HUGE difference.
Also as a side note: yes, don't buy Monster speaker cables, there is no difference. However, if you are a musician, their XLR and 1/4 in. cables cost twice as much as a cheapo but have a LIFETIME guarantee. I've spent about $100 on all my Monster cables (for a bass rig) and I'll never have to buy another one.
The problem is, what stops you, as a scalper, from buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up?
A. Less people buy the tickets and you make less money.
B. Far less people buy the tickets and you lose money.
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Not really... as soon as the physical copies hit the stores they'll get ripped and the original torrent will die.
I'm 30 and I only know the 2nd one. These questions are better suited to the AARP crowd.
Sorry D:
They absolutely don't all throttle P2P traffic. I live in WI, have AT&T, and I max out at 2Mb/s (what I pay for) and it stays there until the torrent is downloaded.
I completely agree, but you still have to remember that there are maybe I don't know, 6000 pro athletes in the entire country and they have to fight even harder for jobs while also sacrificing any kind of plan B. Compare that to maybe 600,000 scientists who will get a decent paying job no matter what.
Yeah athletes get paid a ton, but they entertain millions and there are not very many. It's like winning the lottery.
Anyway, go scientists!
Mod parent up.
I work at a gas station. You get the next ticket in the roll, there is no picking your ticket. Also, we cannot play lottery for obvious reasons. So working at a convenience store won't help either.
What the hell is insider baseball?? He keeps using that term but never explains what it means. Renders the article unintelligible, to me, anyway.
Think of it this way: In day to day life, for everyday objects, x = 2y describes gravitational interaction. Test it over and over, and it works just fine.
.01 everything falls into place. And it works over and over.
.01 is, so we call it dark matter. Someday we'll figure out what it is, for now we call it dark matter. That's it.
Now, when we look way out into the universe at galaxies, x = 2y doesn't quite work, but if we use the formula x = 2y +
We don't know what the
Keep in mind, 5GB is A LOT of data. To give you an idea, it's about 250 hours of web browsing or over 500,000(!) emails. So this change shouldn't affect you unless you're a heavy downloader/streamer/etc.
So, if you use more than email you are a heavy user? If that's all people used the web for, I doubt it would even exist anymore.
Are they? Who knows?
Can they? No doubt.
Perhaps the most obvious example are gas stations very close to each other, it's mostly a single price broadcast on a big billboard and you can be sure it takes only minutes before they know their competition has changed their prices. They follow each other like a man and his shadow.
There is a reason for this! I used to work at a gas station, and law requires that we are within X cents of our nearest competitor and can only change prices once every 24 hours. Most stations opt then to do it right away in the morning before there is a steady stream of customers. These laws went into effect right after the gas crisis in the 70's to prevent price gouging.
Also, there is a good chance that all the gas stations in town buy from the same distributor anyway, so they all have the same cost of buying gas in the first place. Just because it's a Mobil for example, doesn't mean they by "Mobil" gas. The name really doesn't mean anything.
That engine should run for 100 years; just because it has run for six means that it has run for six years.
Is there no difference between the interrogative ("..we would ask...") and the imperative (for example, "...we demand that you remove...")?
When the person asking has infinite money and infinite lawyers... no.
Since when does modern day Christmas have anything to do with Christianity?
Since always, the words are almost the same.
Also, your post reads like something a 14-year old would write after he's finished masturbating over his Darkthrone albums.
I don't even know what that means.
Well if that's what people think, then fuck 'em all. I'm not a christian, and I think christians continually fuck up the world in the name of Gosh, and have turned a holiday honoring their team captain into guilting everybody into a gift buying fuck fest.
I'd rather just celebrate the solstice with friends, fire, food, and booze and that's what I do.
Might I remind you that historically THAT is The Reason for the Season.
In summary:
1. Fuck christmas.
2. Fuck religion and the people who think I am a dick for not participation in their bullshit beliefs.
3. Fuck giant corporations who make shit that we don't really need.
4. Fuck materialism, I know Jesus would agree.
5. Fuck you for once again making ME have to justify something that really doesn't need to be justified.
Happy new year.
Are you fucking kidding me?
If you want someone to make a movie the way you want to see it, become a director.
It seems there is a heavy feeling of entitlement as far as media and the arts go here.
Like people often say here, ideas are a dime a dozen. The implementation is the hard part.
Especially given how some smokers, when foul weather hits, seem to think its their god given right to blockade the entrances and exits to building so that they can light up.
I do it on purpose for all the people who voted to take our rights away (I live in Wisconsin, ban was enacted July 5th). There is no demand for non smoking bars (not where I live anyway). If there was there would have been non-smoking bars before the ban and bars wouldn't be going out of business, shortening their hours and closing on Mondays.
You can't own blue
Well no shit. However, a painting is more than just a single color, or an arrangement of different colors.
Are you against the ownership of cars because no one can own the element iron?
I think you are either confused or being deliberately obtuse by confusing physical objects (statues, paintings, etc.) and IP (the force, maybe musical recordings).
Whoops, I meant Europeans and Native Americans.
It's more fun when you are a kid. Just like playing house or cowboys and indians. I can't believe I'm explaining this.
Woah, someone didn't get take their nap today.
Right on. It all depends on what you want to use it for. For anything other than audio recording, an on-board card is just fine.
If you want to build a recording studio or record your band, you MUST get a separate card. After recording 16 tracks that 60Hz hum and other line noise from your power supply and other random interference really adds up. A decent sound card makes a HUGE difference.
Also as a side note: yes, don't buy Monster speaker cables, there is no difference. However, if you are a musician, their XLR and 1/4 in. cables cost twice as much as a cheapo but have a LIFETIME guarantee. I've spent about $100 on all my Monster cables (for a bass rig) and I'll never have to buy another one.
I'm from the US and every ATM I've ever used lets you choose between checking and savings.
The problem is, what stops you, as a scalper, from buying out every ticket you possibly can through whatever means necessary, and then jack the prices up?
A. Less people buy the tickets and you make less money.
B. Far less people buy the tickets and you lose money.
I'll never understand why "scalping" is illegal in the first place.
Nothing they did seems unethical or immoral to me.
If people are willing to pay more for a ticket, good for them.