The man had a car parked close to the house. Witnesses saw him, as he struggled to save that car. His children? He made no effort to save his children.
If you don't see that action as suspicious, then I question your grasp on reality.
That house was not set afire accidentally. An accelerant was used to spread the fire widely, and quickly. There were no other suspects. None.
If you wish to call the verdict into question, then you might advance some theory that might supply an alternative suspect. The arson in question couldn't even supply a theoretical alternative from dreamland. He murdered his children, but tried to save his old car.
Who reads the shit that comes with the hardware? You unwrap it, plug it in, and run it! Have you ever read the owner's manual that came with your car? Me neither!
I don't hold out a lot of hope for the majority of cases. But, shit happens. Some dude beats the crap out of his old lady, and runs at the mouth a little while he's beating her. Over the next several days, she gives some thought to his comments, puts three and five together, and wonders if eight is the right answer. Maybe it was her boyfriend that killed the old lady down the street all those years ago? She was bludgeoned with a hammer, after all, and Bubba just threatened me with a hammer . . . I'll just make an anonymous call to the investigators, and see if they can make sense of it.
If they solve two or ten percent of the old cases, that's cool. If they don't solve any cases, well, I don't see a huge loss here.
There is no minimum IQ standard for a spokes woman (person). There is no minimum IQ for a police person, either. The spokeswoman was running at the head, tossing words around, without giving any thought to the real meanings of the words. That's muck like politicians running for office. Toss out the soundbytes, mix and match until you get an appealing mixture, then watch the votes or support roll in.
I agree, cold cases are relatively unimportant, for the reasons you give. But, relative is relative. The victims and the survivors of the dead victims still think that the cases are important.
The extreme anger thing? Hmmm. That's usually personal. You don't seek out a random victim to stab them 40 times or more. That kind of rage is usually reserved for an ex-spouse, a hated and detested sibling, an abusive parent - something of that sort. Unless a rapist used and abused a random victim, who then laughed at his inadequate equipment. "Aren't you started yet, Shorty? Who ya gonna rape with that 1/2 inch stub?"
YOU say he's innocent. And, you can even find people who agree with you, therefore reinforcing your opinion. The arson investigator isn't the most qualified of arson investigators, and I'll agree that he either needed further training, or to be replaced. But - the case was tried, judged, and execution carried out, all within the guidelines of existing law. I don't believe an innocent man died in this case. It does happen, but not this time.
The couple hundred thousand murders? I'm more interested in the death of a culture, than those supposed couple hundred thousand murders. Sorry, I disagree with your numbers.
Anyway - politicians are well protected, and can't be touched.
And, people on a political crusade are protected by the bill of rights in this country. Aren't you glad to be an American? You're full of shit, but you have the RIGHT to be full of shit!!
There have been a lot of discussions about these asteroid scenarios. The real trick, is to identify the threat early. The doctor is right, we're good at blowing things up, then wondering where shit's going to land. That's why it's so important to identify the threat early. If you can send out an impactor rocket months before the projected impact, then you can use a small amount of power to move the asteroid into a new orbit. We like making things go "boom", with or without the audible "boom". So, give the rocket a big explosive warhead. Hell, give it a nuke. Land or hit the asteroid on the side, not head on. Blow your rocket up, watch how the orbit changes, and if necessary hit it with a second blast. No big problem. If you actually fracture the asteroid, and you now have two or three large pieces, watch them long enough to decide if any of them are still a hazard. Send another rocket as necessary.
I'm not averse to blowing things up, but it probably isn't necessary. Early intervention will probably mean that the rocket can just land on one side or another, and fire it's rockets long enough to alter the course of the asteroid.
That space tugboat idea just doesn't seem like it's going to be very effective. Firing your rockets in various directions, while hoping the asteroid follows you around? Some of that reaction mass is going to hit the asteroid, negating your feeble gravity tugging efforts.
They are told they can't? Bullshit. Who told you that?
Maybe you've forgotten that our current secretary of state happens to have made up stories about war atrocities that never happened, and told those stories in front of congress, and the national media.
John Kerry ought to be sitting in a cell with Bradley Manning, for the lies he told.
If what you say is true maybe you can find a few veterans who have been told that they cannot speak of their war experiences. I'm a member of several forums where a lot of veterans congregate. Very, very few of them have ever made mention of the fact that they "can't talk" about something. In my own case, the only restriction on talk about the ships I served on, involved scheduling or possible scheduling, which has been available for public consumption almost since the internet existed. And, this tidbit: "I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons aboard the USS Richard E. Byrd." That is, if we had them, we couldn't confirm that fact for anyone, and if we didn't have them, we still didn't want the Soviets to know it.
That counter-coup nonsense has already been addressed by others. I don't buy it, in the least.
Ask yourself a couple questions. What was the motivation for the CIA's involvement in the coup (or counter-coup, if we accept your point of view)?
MONEY!
The US claims to love democracy. There was a democratically elected government in place. There was a handy dictatorial puppet at hand. For the sake of money, we established that dictatorial puppet, in the process destroying a democracy.
YOU WILL NOTE PLEASE: I have made no claims that any of the existing government officials were "good guys". I have made no claim that none of those officials were power hungry mad men. I have made no claim that Mossadiq was a saint. Iran had it's problems, and was certain to encounter more. Iran may or may not have become our freinds, or our enemies, as a democracy. But, Iran's government was a legitimate democracy, and we were hypocrites to topple that government.
Our one and only goal, was to enrich ourselves, and incidentally BP, with oil. Today, all of our meddling in the mideast is still aimed at that one goal - to secure a cheap supply of oil. We don't give a small damn for the people living in the areas that are rich in oil. And, we certainly do NOT respect democracy.
Ohhh, you seem to understand the concept of a punitive campaign.
I actually approved of declaring war on Afghanistan. I never approved of meddling in their politics, and nation building nonsense.
At the time we invaded Afghanistan, we wanted to get bin Laden, priority one, and we wanted to punish the Taliban for thumbing their noses at us.
We were very successful in punishing the Taliban, within 60 days. We also had bin Laden holed up in the Tora Bora hills within a short period - less than 90 days, if I remember correctly. Afghanistan's war making capability was in a shambles, the Taliban was on the run, and bin Laden was within our grasp. All we had to do, was to grab him, either summarily execute him or bring him back to stand trial, and we could declare victory.
Unfortunately, we were unwilling to go into bin Laden's defensive structures, and go hand-to-hand with him and his troops. We pussed out. He laughed at us, got tired of waiting around for us to grow some balls, and sneaked across the border to Pakistan.
Of course, once we allowed bin Laden to escape, there was no more mission in Afghanistan, and we could not justify invading Pakistan to get him. At that point, we should have come home.
All the worst things that have happened in Afghanistan, have happened during our "nation building" bullshit. The punitive campaign went quite well, up until we decided that we lacked the balls to get into the trenches with the enemy.
No-balls warfare seems to be more costly in human life and equipment, than real warfare.
"The trick is finding the appropriate compromise, such that the people we ask to conduct wars are able to do what we ask them to, but are still somehow accountable to the public for conducting it as well as can be expected."
The biggest, and most obvious problem here, is that only a relatively small percentage of Americans ever know what war is.
It's perfectly alright for a young mother in Viet Nam, Korea, or Afghanistan to witness her children being torn to shreds in an artillery barrage, or an air strike. But, that graphic portrayal of war is and always has been banned here in the states. Government doesn't want civilians to understand the horrors of war. Civilians mostly can't be bothered with understanding. Veterans aren't very inclined to talk about it. Government officials are mostly clueless - to them the numbers are just scores, with no horror attached.
So - how do "we the people" hold anyone accountable?
Read up on Operation Ajax, the operation in which the United States toppled a perfectly legitimate democracy, in order to install a (spineless) puppet dictator, for the sake of saving some money on oil.
Anyone who believes that the US government believes in democracy is a blathering idiot. Our government worships oil, and nothing else. Damned near everything we do is aimed at securing energy, almost all of it in the form of oil. Democracy is a fool's dream and a lie, pablum spoon fed to the idiot masses.
There are various methods to view restricted media. I've found Hola media unblocker to be fairly effective. Or, channel through some other proxy that you prefer. It's hard to believe that slashdot readers are restricted by regional nonsense - that's for the unwashed ignorant masses! I routinely watch media on the BBC that isn't "authorized" for viewing in the US.
I'm authorized, because I'm smarter than the dumb bastards who think they have some god-given right to restrict me!
Your ignorance is so scary, primarily because so many Americans share it.
China declared war on us a couple of decades ago. Assymetrical warfare is working quite well for them, actually. They get all our tech, they get our debt, they get our manufacturing capacity, they get our "intellectual property", they get no-brains Americans investing cash in them, they get everything either free, or at a penny on the hundreds of dollars.
They declared war, and we agreed to help them wage war against us.
Like the British in the 1770's, we think that war is waged in one way, and one way only. We're prepared to fight the wars of the last century, but have zero idea how to fight the war that China has declared on us.
In short, the big, fat, and weak kid is kicking our ass so bad, we don't even know what's happening.
"when China has the might and firepower of the US"
So - might makes right, huh? If you say so.
"when China has the might and firepower of the US"
Just wait for it - it IS going to happen. Like riding a motorcycle - there is no question of "if I go down", the real question is "when will I go down?" It might be twenty years in the future, it might be fifty, but China WILL be as militarily strong as the United States is. We are working hard to ensure that their dream comes true, by exporting anything and everything that they'll take.
I'm from Lawrence County, lived mostly in New Castle. My dad worked at B&W Tubular Stainless, Wallace Run plant. We may have crossed paths a few times . . .
I'm getting to be a pretty old guy. I remember the initial rounds in off shoring. The steel industry was in trouble here, in the states. Companies were telling the unions, "We're going bankrupt, we need to renegotiate, we need to cut costs. If you'll take a small pay cut, let us get on our feet, we'll make it up to you. We need help, or we're out of business!"
How much of that claim was in good faith, it's impossible to judge, really. But, the portrayal was mostly accurate.
I'm the son of a steel worker. I heard the union men saying that "No one in the world can make steel like we do. Go ahead, take your plant to the Netherlands (or wherever), you'll be back in five years, looking for qualified steel workers!"
Well - plants were moved overseas - and they haven't come back. In fact, steel plants have been opened in third world countries, and they operate at a profit. Even little brown men and women from tribal towns in India can make quality steel. (Don't ask why China has such a problem, I haven't figured that out.)
Greed plays a big part in all of this, and the greed isn't all on one side, either. Where I grew up, EVERYONE had almost new cars, a boat in the yard, expensive stereo equipment - you name it. If it was new and shiny, if it was "fashionable", if it was considered "high tech", then all the union men had one, because they could afford it.
I thought my dad was wrong, when he refused to deal with the steel companies, and time has proven me to be right. Today, we only have a small fraction of the steel industry that we had in 1980.
Had the unions accepted a three percent pay cut and a reduction in benefits, most of those jobs would still be here. It's not like any union man was going to miss a meal by taking a three percent pay cut. They worked hard at the plant, but they were on easy street at the end of the work day.
The steel companies led the off shoring of American manufacturing out of necessity. Other manufacturing industries sat back, watched, and followed suit.
We'll never get back what we have lost, and it all came about because steel workers were greedy.
We do indeed have a WISP in the area. It has been established far longer than my telco has had DSL. If I could pick up my house, and move it about two miles closer to town, I could subscribe to it.
The tower was erected in a cooperative effort between the county and a small business around - ohhh - I think it was '99 or 2000. I investigated the idea of erecting my own tower back then - maybe I should look at it again. If I could get a receiver mounted 50 feet above my roof, I could get double use out of it by mounting a cell phone amplifier.
Remember the thing about "unintended consequences".
This actually does look like a good idea. But, as always, follow the money. Who dreamed this up? Why? Who supports it? Why?
I'm a bit cynical here. This good-sounding law may well be applied in ways that we aren't anticipating.
Joe Headbanger comes up with an idea, all on his own. He's banged his head against the wall for a few years now, and finally come up with a pretty good idea. He patents the idea. He even makes a prototype or six. He attempts to get financing, and fails. Or, maybe he gets financing, and THEN fails. He just never gets a product to market.
Meanwhile, the huge conglomerate (You choose - Apple, Monsanto, Kawasaki, maybe the Catholic Church!) puts something similar on the market. Good old Joe sees the product at Wally World, and sues.
Joe gets shot down before he ever gets to court, because they claim that he's an NPE.
So, I'm scratching my beard, and wondering . . . is it good, or is it another power grab from the usual culprits?
I'm paying $70/month for a single meg connection. It's the government's fault, of course. They approve of monopolies, and put little regulation in place.
But, I do have other choices. I can still get dial up. I can do without internet. I could get satellite, along with the six minute lag. It's not like I HAVE TO have DSL.
Actually, I'd like to see a complete list of manufacturers who are NOT embracing Windows8.
We could start with General Motors, Chrysler, Daimler Benz - or we could restrict ourselves to computer manufacturers. Either way, the list will be impressive.;^)
Possibly, some free lancer who used to work for the company that made the specific hardware that was targeted?
I have zero doubt that it was government sponsored, to be honest. But, you're asking a question that has at least one obvious possible answer. Hey, I can go one better with my obvious answer: that free lancer happens to be Jewish and/or a Zionist.
LOL - for purposes of the argument, it doesn't matter that Violet is a gal. The feminist didn't like this WOMAN'S speech, and threatened to shut the conference down with a fit of hysteria. But, my bad - I let that slip, even after clicking the links.;^)
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There was reason to suspect that arsonist.
The man had a car parked close to the house. Witnesses saw him, as he struggled to save that car. His children? He made no effort to save his children.
If you don't see that action as suspicious, then I question your grasp on reality.
That house was not set afire accidentally. An accelerant was used to spread the fire widely, and quickly. There were no other suspects. None.
If you wish to call the verdict into question, then you might advance some theory that might supply an alternative suspect. The arson in question couldn't even supply a theoretical alternative from dreamland. He murdered his children, but tried to save his old car.
Who reads the shit that comes with the hardware? You unwrap it, plug it in, and run it! Have you ever read the owner's manual that came with your car? Me neither!
Get a contractor to install a bidet for you. Never again will you have to worry about running out of paper.
I don't hold out a lot of hope for the majority of cases. But, shit happens. Some dude beats the crap out of his old lady, and runs at the mouth a little while he's beating her. Over the next several days, she gives some thought to his comments, puts three and five together, and wonders if eight is the right answer. Maybe it was her boyfriend that killed the old lady down the street all those years ago? She was bludgeoned with a hammer, after all, and Bubba just threatened me with a hammer . . . I'll just make an anonymous call to the investigators, and see if they can make sense of it.
If they solve two or ten percent of the old cases, that's cool. If they don't solve any cases, well, I don't see a huge loss here.
There is no minimum IQ standard for a spokes woman (person). There is no minimum IQ for a police person, either. The spokeswoman was running at the head, tossing words around, without giving any thought to the real meanings of the words. That's muck like politicians running for office. Toss out the soundbytes, mix and match until you get an appealing mixture, then watch the votes or support roll in.
I agree, cold cases are relatively unimportant, for the reasons you give. But, relative is relative. The victims and the survivors of the dead victims still think that the cases are important.
Yeah, we can probably dismiss current lovers.
The extreme anger thing? Hmmm. That's usually personal. You don't seek out a random victim to stab them 40 times or more. That kind of rage is usually reserved for an ex-spouse, a hated and detested sibling, an abusive parent - something of that sort. Unless a rapist used and abused a random victim, who then laughed at his inadequate equipment. "Aren't you started yet, Shorty? Who ya gonna rape with that 1/2 inch stub?"
YOU say he's innocent. And, you can even find people who agree with you, therefore reinforcing your opinion. The arson investigator isn't the most qualified of arson investigators, and I'll agree that he either needed further training, or to be replaced. But - the case was tried, judged, and execution carried out, all within the guidelines of existing law. I don't believe an innocent man died in this case. It does happen, but not this time.
The couple hundred thousand murders? I'm more interested in the death of a culture, than those supposed couple hundred thousand murders. Sorry, I disagree with your numbers.
Anyway - politicians are well protected, and can't be touched.
And, people on a political crusade are protected by the bill of rights in this country. Aren't you glad to be an American? You're full of shit, but you have the RIGHT to be full of shit!!
There have been a lot of discussions about these asteroid scenarios. The real trick, is to identify the threat early. The doctor is right, we're good at blowing things up, then wondering where shit's going to land. That's why it's so important to identify the threat early. If you can send out an impactor rocket months before the projected impact, then you can use a small amount of power to move the asteroid into a new orbit. We like making things go "boom", with or without the audible "boom". So, give the rocket a big explosive warhead. Hell, give it a nuke. Land or hit the asteroid on the side, not head on. Blow your rocket up, watch how the orbit changes, and if necessary hit it with a second blast. No big problem. If you actually fracture the asteroid, and you now have two or three large pieces, watch them long enough to decide if any of them are still a hazard. Send another rocket as necessary.
I'm not averse to blowing things up, but it probably isn't necessary. Early intervention will probably mean that the rocket can just land on one side or another, and fire it's rockets long enough to alter the course of the asteroid.
That space tugboat idea just doesn't seem like it's going to be very effective. Firing your rockets in various directions, while hoping the asteroid follows you around? Some of that reaction mass is going to hit the asteroid, negating your feeble gravity tugging efforts.
They are told they can't? Bullshit. Who told you that?
Maybe you've forgotten that our current secretary of state happens to have made up stories about war atrocities that never happened, and told those stories in front of congress, and the national media.
John Kerry ought to be sitting in a cell with Bradley Manning, for the lies he told.
If what you say is true maybe you can find a few veterans who have been told that they cannot speak of their war experiences. I'm a member of several forums where a lot of veterans congregate. Very, very few of them have ever made mention of the fact that they "can't talk" about something. In my own case, the only restriction on talk about the ships I served on, involved scheduling or possible scheduling, which has been available for public consumption almost since the internet existed. And, this tidbit: "I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons aboard the USS Richard E. Byrd." That is, if we had them, we couldn't confirm that fact for anyone, and if we didn't have them, we still didn't want the Soviets to know it.
That counter-coup nonsense has already been addressed by others. I don't buy it, in the least.
Ask yourself a couple questions. What was the motivation for the CIA's involvement in the coup (or counter-coup, if we accept your point of view)?
MONEY!
The US claims to love democracy. There was a democratically elected government in place. There was a handy dictatorial puppet at hand. For the sake of money, we established that dictatorial puppet, in the process destroying a democracy.
YOU WILL NOTE PLEASE:
I have made no claims that any of the existing government officials were "good guys". I have made no claim that none of those officials were power hungry mad men. I have made no claim that Mossadiq was a saint. Iran had it's problems, and was certain to encounter more. Iran may or may not have become our freinds, or our enemies, as a democracy. But, Iran's government was a legitimate democracy, and we were hypocrites to topple that government.
Our one and only goal, was to enrich ourselves, and incidentally BP, with oil. Today, all of our meddling in the mideast is still aimed at that one goal - to secure a cheap supply of oil. We don't give a small damn for the people living in the areas that are rich in oil. And, we certainly do NOT respect democracy.
Ohhh, you seem to understand the concept of a punitive campaign.
I actually approved of declaring war on Afghanistan. I never approved of meddling in their politics, and nation building nonsense.
At the time we invaded Afghanistan, we wanted to get bin Laden, priority one, and we wanted to punish the Taliban for thumbing their noses at us.
We were very successful in punishing the Taliban, within 60 days. We also had bin Laden holed up in the Tora Bora hills within a short period - less than 90 days, if I remember correctly. Afghanistan's war making capability was in a shambles, the Taliban was on the run, and bin Laden was within our grasp. All we had to do, was to grab him, either summarily execute him or bring him back to stand trial, and we could declare victory.
Unfortunately, we were unwilling to go into bin Laden's defensive structures, and go hand-to-hand with him and his troops. We pussed out. He laughed at us, got tired of waiting around for us to grow some balls, and sneaked across the border to Pakistan.
Of course, once we allowed bin Laden to escape, there was no more mission in Afghanistan, and we could not justify invading Pakistan to get him. At that point, we should have come home.
All the worst things that have happened in Afghanistan, have happened during our "nation building" bullshit. The punitive campaign went quite well, up until we decided that we lacked the balls to get into the trenches with the enemy.
No-balls warfare seems to be more costly in human life and equipment, than real warfare.
"The trick is finding the appropriate compromise, such that the people we ask to conduct wars are able to do what we ask them to, but are still somehow accountable to the public for conducting it as well as can be expected."
The biggest, and most obvious problem here, is that only a relatively small percentage of Americans ever know what war is.
It's perfectly alright for a young mother in Viet Nam, Korea, or Afghanistan to witness her children being torn to shreds in an artillery barrage, or an air strike. But, that graphic portrayal of war is and always has been banned here in the states. Government doesn't want civilians to understand the horrors of war. Civilians mostly can't be bothered with understanding. Veterans aren't very inclined to talk about it. Government officials are mostly clueless - to them the numbers are just scores, with no horror attached.
So - how do "we the people" hold anyone accountable?
Read up on Operation Ajax, the operation in which the United States toppled a perfectly legitimate democracy, in order to install a (spineless) puppet dictator, for the sake of saving some money on oil.
Anyone who believes that the US government believes in democracy is a blathering idiot. Our government worships oil, and nothing else. Damned near everything we do is aimed at securing energy, almost all of it in the form of oil. Democracy is a fool's dream and a lie, pablum spoon fed to the idiot masses.
There are various methods to view restricted media. I've found Hola media unblocker to be fairly effective. Or, channel through some other proxy that you prefer. It's hard to believe that slashdot readers are restricted by regional nonsense - that's for the unwashed ignorant masses! I routinely watch media on the BBC that isn't "authorized" for viewing in the US.
I'm authorized, because I'm smarter than the dumb bastards who think they have some god-given right to restrict me!
Your ignorance is so scary, primarily because so many Americans share it.
China declared war on us a couple of decades ago. Assymetrical warfare is working quite well for them, actually. They get all our tech, they get our debt, they get our manufacturing capacity, they get our "intellectual property", they get no-brains Americans investing cash in them, they get everything either free, or at a penny on the hundreds of dollars.
They declared war, and we agreed to help them wage war against us.
Like the British in the 1770's, we think that war is waged in one way, and one way only. We're prepared to fight the wars of the last century, but have zero idea how to fight the war that China has declared on us.
In short, the big, fat, and weak kid is kicking our ass so bad, we don't even know what's happening.
"when China has the might and firepower of the US"
So - might makes right, huh? If you say so.
"when China has the might and firepower of the US"
Just wait for it - it IS going to happen. Like riding a motorcycle - there is no question of "if I go down", the real question is "when will I go down?" It might be twenty years in the future, it might be fifty, but China WILL be as militarily strong as the United States is. We are working hard to ensure that their dream comes true, by exporting anything and everything that they'll take.
I'm from Lawrence County, lived mostly in New Castle. My dad worked at B&W Tubular Stainless, Wallace Run plant. We may have crossed paths a few times . . .
Yes - and no.
I'm getting to be a pretty old guy. I remember the initial rounds in off shoring. The steel industry was in trouble here, in the states. Companies were telling the unions, "We're going bankrupt, we need to renegotiate, we need to cut costs. If you'll take a small pay cut, let us get on our feet, we'll make it up to you. We need help, or we're out of business!"
How much of that claim was in good faith, it's impossible to judge, really. But, the portrayal was mostly accurate.
I'm the son of a steel worker. I heard the union men saying that "No one in the world can make steel like we do. Go ahead, take your plant to the Netherlands (or wherever), you'll be back in five years, looking for qualified steel workers!"
Well - plants were moved overseas - and they haven't come back. In fact, steel plants have been opened in third world countries, and they operate at a profit. Even little brown men and women from tribal towns in India can make quality steel. (Don't ask why China has such a problem, I haven't figured that out.)
Greed plays a big part in all of this, and the greed isn't all on one side, either. Where I grew up, EVERYONE had almost new cars, a boat in the yard, expensive stereo equipment - you name it. If it was new and shiny, if it was "fashionable", if it was considered "high tech", then all the union men had one, because they could afford it.
I thought my dad was wrong, when he refused to deal with the steel companies, and time has proven me to be right. Today, we only have a small fraction of the steel industry that we had in 1980.
Had the unions accepted a three percent pay cut and a reduction in benefits, most of those jobs would still be here. It's not like any union man was going to miss a meal by taking a three percent pay cut. They worked hard at the plant, but they were on easy street at the end of the work day.
The steel companies led the off shoring of American manufacturing out of necessity. Other manufacturing industries sat back, watched, and followed suit.
We'll never get back what we have lost, and it all came about because steel workers were greedy.
We do indeed have a WISP in the area. It has been established far longer than my telco has had DSL. If I could pick up my house, and move it about two miles closer to town, I could subscribe to it.
The tower was erected in a cooperative effort between the county and a small business around - ohhh - I think it was '99 or 2000. I investigated the idea of erecting my own tower back then - maybe I should look at it again. If I could get a receiver mounted 50 feet above my roof, I could get double use out of it by mounting a cell phone amplifier.
Thanks for the nudge - I'm thinking now . . .
Remember the thing about "unintended consequences".
This actually does look like a good idea. But, as always, follow the money. Who dreamed this up? Why? Who supports it? Why?
I'm a bit cynical here. This good-sounding law may well be applied in ways that we aren't anticipating.
Joe Headbanger comes up with an idea, all on his own. He's banged his head against the wall for a few years now, and finally come up with a pretty good idea. He patents the idea. He even makes a prototype or six. He attempts to get financing, and fails. Or, maybe he gets financing, and THEN fails. He just never gets a product to market.
Meanwhile, the huge conglomerate (You choose - Apple, Monsanto, Kawasaki, maybe the Catholic Church!) puts something similar on the market. Good old Joe sees the product at Wally World, and sues.
Joe gets shot down before he ever gets to court, because they claim that he's an NPE.
So, I'm scratching my beard, and wondering . . . is it good, or is it another power grab from the usual culprits?
That makes me want to cry.
I'm paying $70/month for a single meg connection. It's the government's fault, of course. They approve of monopolies, and put little regulation in place.
But, I do have other choices. I can still get dial up. I can do without internet. I could get satellite, along with the six minute lag. It's not like I HAVE TO have DSL.
Actually, I'd like to see a complete list of manufacturers who are NOT embracing Windows8.
We could start with General Motors, Chrysler, Daimler Benz - or we could restrict ourselves to computer manufacturers. Either way, the list will be impressive. ;^)
Possibly, some free lancer who used to work for the company that made the specific hardware that was targeted?
I have zero doubt that it was government sponsored, to be honest. But, you're asking a question that has at least one obvious possible answer. Hey, I can go one better with my obvious answer: that free lancer happens to be Jewish and/or a Zionist.
If that be so, then what was the purpose of the great "War On Drugs"?
LOL - for purposes of the argument, it doesn't matter that Violet is a gal. The feminist didn't like this WOMAN'S speech, and threatened to shut the conference down with a fit of hysteria. But, my bad - I let that slip, even after clicking the links. ;^)