Is it really that hard to use the same intial number for 2 ratios? I mean honestly... 1 in 250,000 is much easier to compare to 1 in 45k than 4 in 1million
Bad summary, the specific (first instance) show is Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The origional series did not have wearable communicators, but instead, handheld devices.
I would like to see this as well, even perhaps to the point of nationalizing the existing plant, to be given to the new agency, however I agree with you that we are few and far between in this battle of propaganda and power.
They're showing their corporatism honestly, which is depressing as I used to like Wired. Physical communications is a natural monopoly much like the interstate system, and I would very much prefer to see one utility only allowed to provide physical plant, and mandated to do so, and not permitted to sell any services over said plant.
You would then have service companies sell connectivity over the utilities' physical plant, paying the utility for the base connectivity.
Unfortunately what we have right now, is a hybrid situation, which to be perfectly honest, serves neither goal, and is almost an example of regulatory capture. Complete deregulation would be similar to what New York City looked like in the early days of power distribution (many lines from competitors going everywhere to all buildings), while we had full regulation attempted in the destruction of MA bell back in the day, but its been eroded and sidelined by both competitors/incumbents eeeking out sweetheart deals in order to compete (1996 Telecom Act), as well as the sibling Bell's continued lobbying specifically of both the FCC and their Republican friends in both the legislative and executive branches to relax their restrictions on service, while leaving their right of way easements intact.
Neither of the above options is very attractive, yet the status quo, and the far "liberal" annexation and seperation of service from infrastructure are just as hated by other camps. Honestly, I don't see the status quo lasting forever more (its too self serving at the moment on the primary carriers as evidenced by ISDN and DSL experience), yet I'm not sure what solution will ever be put forth, let alone passed, against a very large base of empowered and wealthy inertia seeking to maintain their own dominance.
No, the law gave them the power to regulate. This is regulation. They don't need specific approval of every action done, that is the point of creating a regulatory body.
What you advocate would be like having congress define every avionic policy the FAA wishes implemented, instead of them simply having the power to do so themselves.
How about the series of laws passed by congress that established their existance and gave them exactly the power described, one example is the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Or alternately, you could you know, google the FCC and actually research instead of making baseless claims of unconstitutionality.
Specificially the preemption of franchising authority regulation of telecommunication services, and the elimination of most of the greedy/protective (depending on your political views) PSC boards.
The alternative is something they don't want, which is why they are trying to find some illiterate judge to declare the FCC impotent.
You joke, but thats exactly why it would have been commented out. Without the selective pressure to keep it, its a waste of cellular effort, as are most adaptations. The reason it was still active in the monkey is the others died.
As much as I dislike the content that fox news reports as news. I will stand and fight for their right to do so as given by the constitution for a very good reason. You can't have freedom of the press on one hand, and then demand they conform to what you deem to be the truth, no matter how correct you may be on what the truth is. Yes I wish that people in general were smarter and would try to verify their ramblings, and look past the talk, but life is what it is. I also wish that we had a news station more like the Daily Show in format, at least then we could have some actual rebuttal to some of the more flagrant biases. While I realize that the Daily Show is purely a comedy show, it is a constant dissapointment to me how they are generally much better at reporting accurate news than the news stations themselves.
Tell that to the guy who has to interpret two different display colors at 2am on a generator status panel that appear to be the same temper of gray to him. (Real situation, fixed by some 2 cent cellophane)
My boss is partially color blind, and it's been an experience trying to rework monitoring systems / internal UI's so he can gain the same meaning from a display that everyone else can. You just don't think about things like that when it doesn't affect you
Not that I am agreeing with the global warming thoughts, but your counterargument is a fallacy
You could say the same thing over the course of life of a lightbulb, if you knew of only one bulb, that it had worked forever and everyone keeps saying it is going to burn out, but you haven't seen it happen yet. That doesn't change the fact that you are limited by scope and will not see it until it happens, and in this case, it invariably will happen.
That NE power outage was mostly just load induced (power lines sagging and grounding on trees) disconnects, and a few key damaged lines. What they are talking about is a not insignifigant percentage of the main distribution transformers being damaged enough to be inoperable, plus a number of other effects, if caught unaware.
The reason this would be an issue is not that it would take down the distribution grid due to load effects. The concern with a CME of that size, is that it would destroy a large percentage of the grid's hardware, requiring weeks of work to fix.
A few days isn't a big deal to overcome as most systems have 72hours to a week of backup generator capacity, but that becomes an issue if the fuel distribution is interrupted as well due to similar problems.
It's not just a darknet though, its a peer hidden secure darknet. You could invite the RIAA themselves and it wouldn't matter as long as the person who invited them did not share anything themselves illegal.
That is inherent in the pay model. You will pay for what you want, and if what you want is in the majority of what other people (who choose pay services) want, then it will be.
2 things, 1) This has no bearing on what is being discussed because they are not talking about having states pass this and 2) Not all states play along
I agree completely, the teacher should not have disrupted the class and in the process stopped providing the service he/she is paid to do. Oh wait, you were trying to argue that silently texting is disruptive before that occurs...
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Is it really that hard to use the same intial number for 2 ratios? I mean honestly... 1 in 250,000 is much easier to compare to 1 in 45k than 4 in 1million
Bad summary, the specific (first instance) show is Star Trek: The Next Generation. The origional series did not have wearable communicators, but instead, handheld devices.
Ok you're just trolling, I'm done.
I would like to see this as well, even perhaps to the point of nationalizing the existing plant, to be given to the new agency, however I agree with you that we are few and far between in this battle of propaganda and power.
They're showing their corporatism honestly, which is depressing as I used to like Wired. Physical communications is a natural monopoly much like the interstate system, and I would very much prefer to see one utility only allowed to provide physical plant, and mandated to do so, and not permitted to sell any services over said plant.
You would then have service companies sell connectivity over the utilities' physical plant, paying the utility for the base connectivity.
Unfortunately what we have right now, is a hybrid situation, which to be perfectly honest, serves neither goal, and is almost an example of regulatory capture. Complete deregulation would be similar to what New York City looked like in the early days of power distribution (many lines from competitors going everywhere to all buildings), while we had full regulation attempted in the destruction of MA bell back in the day, but its been eroded and sidelined by both competitors/incumbents eeeking out sweetheart deals in order to compete (1996 Telecom Act), as well as the sibling Bell's continued lobbying specifically of both the FCC and their Republican friends in both the legislative and executive branches to relax their restrictions on service, while leaving their right of way easements intact.
Neither of the above options is very attractive, yet the status quo, and the far "liberal" annexation and seperation of service from infrastructure are just as hated by other camps. Honestly, I don't see the status quo lasting forever more (its too self serving at the moment on the primary carriers as evidenced by ISDN and DSL experience), yet I'm not sure what solution will ever be put forth, let alone passed, against a very large base of empowered and wealthy inertia seeking to maintain their own dominance.
No, the law gave them the power to regulate. This is regulation. They don't need specific approval of every action done, that is the point of creating a regulatory body.
What you advocate would be like having congress define every avionic policy the FAA wishes implemented, instead of them simply having the power to do so themselves.
How about the series of laws passed by congress that established their existance and gave them exactly the power described, one example is the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Or alternately, you could you know, google the FCC and actually research instead of making baseless claims of unconstitutionality.
As an ISP, I call bullshit. In fact, the major carrier ILECs were even already paid to expand their network and they didn't.
I'd be annoyed that the fraud protection is so pitiful that social security number is sufficient to do anything underhanded. Which I am.
Titles 3 & 4 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Specificially the preemption of franchising authority regulation of telecommunication services, and the elimination of most of the greedy/protective (depending on your political views) PSC boards.
The alternative is something they don't want, which is why they are trying to find some illiterate judge to declare the FCC impotent.
You joke, but thats exactly why it would have been commented out. Without the selective pressure to keep it, its a waste of cellular effort, as are most adaptations. The reason it was still active in the monkey is the others died.
As much as I dislike the content that fox news reports as news. I will stand and fight for their right to do so as given by the constitution for a very good reason. You can't have freedom of the press on one hand, and then demand they conform to what you deem to be the truth, no matter how correct you may be on what the truth is. Yes I wish that people in general were smarter and would try to verify their ramblings, and look past the talk, but life is what it is. I also wish that we had a news station more like the Daily Show in format, at least then we could have some actual rebuttal to some of the more flagrant biases. While I realize that the Daily Show is purely a comedy show, it is a constant dissapointment to me how they are generally much better at reporting accurate news than the news stations themselves.
Tell that to the guy who has to interpret two different display colors at 2am on a generator status panel that appear to be the same temper of gray to him. (Real situation, fixed by some 2 cent cellophane)
My boss is partially color blind, and it's been an experience trying to rework monitoring systems / internal UI's so he can gain the same meaning from a display that everyone else can. You just don't think about things like that when it doesn't affect you
Not that I am agreeing with the global warming thoughts, but your counterargument is a fallacy
You could say the same thing over the course of life of a lightbulb, if you knew of only one bulb, that it had worked forever and everyone keeps saying it is going to burn out, but you haven't seen it happen yet. That doesn't change the fact that you are limited by scope and will not see it until it happens, and in this case, it invariably will happen.
That NE power outage was mostly just load induced (power lines sagging and grounding on trees) disconnects, and a few key damaged lines. What they are talking about is a not insignifigant percentage of the main distribution transformers being damaged enough to be inoperable, plus a number of other effects, if caught unaware.
The reason this would be an issue is not that it would take down the distribution grid due to load effects. The concern with a CME of that size, is that it would destroy a large percentage of the grid's hardware, requiring weeks of work to fix.
A few days isn't a big deal to overcome as most systems have 72hours to a week of backup generator capacity, but that becomes an issue if the fuel distribution is interrupted as well due to similar problems.
Yes I do. It's still nothing compared to say the black death era.
Indeed, we were much better off when rats roamed the streets unchecked. Think of the poor snakes!
Unless you have an explicit sync there, YOUR ASSUMPTION IS BUGGED. This is completely reasonable behavior of a write caching system.
so if someone is doing IVF, it is morally wrong to not implant ALL viable embryos? You scare me.
Yes, because when you multiply ~0.952 by n/n (1) you will still get ~0.952
It's not just a darknet though, its a peer hidden secure darknet. You could invite the RIAA themselves and it wouldn't matter as long as the person who invited them did not share anything themselves illegal.
That is inherent in the pay model. You will pay for what you want, and if what you want is in the majority of what other people (who choose pay services) want, then it will be.
2 things, 1) This has no bearing on what is being discussed because they are not talking about having states pass this and 2) Not all states play along
I agree completely, the teacher should not have disrupted the class and in the process stopped providing the service he/she is paid to do. Oh wait, you were trying to argue that silently texting is disruptive before that occurs...
Umm.... yes they do. You need to stop shopping for drives on Ebay.