"...who really shouldn't have even left their number for the other person after the drunk sex"
I hear that shit.
This ordeal happened to me and I'm still paying for it 10 years later.
As someone who grew up in a rural area, I've been waiting for broadband of any kind to become available in my home area. I moved off to the city for college and after graduating I have a job in the same city. I'm now able to work from home but I have to do it from my apartment instead of back in my home area because of no high speed connection. If there was broadband there I would move back in a heart beat. I wonder what affect this would have on that area if me and my friends in the same boat had the opportunity to live around the people we grew up with. The job market in that area is like night and day compared to the city and I think those areas would get a real boost in opportunity if businesses where able to operate in these lower income areas of the country.
This is why I've always been supportive of providing high speed internet to everyone. It's so much more than having the ability to stream Netflix and play online games. People who assume that is all high speed is good for are morons.
I saw an article on Boing Boing about a month ago telling about this guy being sent to the moon in 2013 with Armadillo Aerospace providing the lander. I was surprised I never saw anything on/. covering the clip.
Actually the whole human rights thing with China is related to corporate interests. The Chinese are able to exploit their population into damn near slave labor which draws a lot of economic progress into their country. Basically Chinese companies are getting more business than American companies and since US companies can't sink to their level of exploiting workers, they want to bring them up to their own.
The US in general couldn't give two shits about human rights or the environment in China. We're just pissed that China is ruining our empire by not playing the game to our standards...
My strategic management professor showed us some random statistics on the first day and one I saw was the number of honor students China claimed greatly outnumbered the total number of students the US has altogether.
Kind of a downer to think about but I like to think the typical chinese tends to have a little more devotion to the greater good of all people where the west has a fuck-'em-got-mine attitude. I just hope they apply their knowledge to curing cancer or building my flying car rather than coming up with new and innovative ways of screwing people over.
Sadly this is true. If you thought copying software was bad, image the red tape we'll have to go through to get something like this to become a possibility. But, we'll get there...eventually!
Alternately, someone can make an automobile comprised of "open-source" part designs. It would be, like, the Linux of cars!
Well if the Asians keep advancing things like this we won't have a need for their cheap manufacturing labor force to produce our random crap. We can just buy these 3D printers thingies and make our own crap like the good ol' days.
I invision a future where you go to the local CNC shop and have them analyze a busted transmission plate and carving me a new one. So instead of ordering off for your replacement part for your car (or what ever) you'll simply have a new one made locally.
You're looking at this all wrong. For an ISP to upgrade its infrastructure to provide more coverage and better speeds would not reflect a "a couple pennies per month...maybe a dollar", it would be significantly more that. So much more that it wouldn't be economically viable for everyone to keep the same service and, like you said, forced to downgrade or cancel their service, thus leaving no funding for the new infrastructure and nothing getting done. I think that was the point WrongSizeGlass was referring to.
Now, if tax money were used for the rollout then it would reflect a "pennies per month" shared across the board. I understand that some people don't like to see their money going to help someone else instead of them, but when it amounts to loose change for everyone instead of $10-$20 a month for a few (which gives you less subscribers/less money overall and no money for the infrastructure) then there's a very small burden to you and I. The benefit of full scale broadband is greater than the burden to the public, we ALL benefit.
Your refusal to support this seems to me that you don't believe broadband for the masses is a good thing. Government spending is in place to encourage economic growth and benefit the entire nation as a whole. I think that now, in the year 2010, having fast internet has moved beyond a source of entertainment and is progressing into a necessity that the US economy needs to stay competitive.
What I mean by this is the internet makes you smarter; it's access to the best source of knowledge, and it's FREE (minus the cost of internet service and infrastructure). Providing the country with knowledge makes the country smarter, a smarter country spurs more technical advancement, more technical advancement give you: flying cars, space elevators, a cleaner planet, etc...
-Invest it in foreign markets that exploit the poor thus destroying jobs locally and saving them a lot of money in the end.
-Fund lobbyist who push legislation in favor of their corporate goals even if it's a bad system and we could all be better off without it.
I'll worry about taking myself up levels and not worry about bringing others down.
HA! If you knew how economics worked you'd realize this isn't possible. Go on, make your fortune the true honest way that doesn't affect anyone else. Mean while I'll find a way to screw you and everyone else out of it but make you believe I did so in a good warm hearted way.
American here. I don't want the current system!
The majority of Americans don't know what's good for them so they sheepishly follow those who appear to be doing well when in reality they are being bent over a pickle barrel and screwed until their eyes rocket out of their sockets.
Bingo!
Inflation can come from the top or the bottom. I see it better to be eliminated from the top because that way less people are affected and it results in things like "Can I afford to buy that new $20 million yacht?" rather than "Can we afford to eat tonight?"
If trickle down economics works then what happens when one person makes more money then they can spend? Doesn't it seem to accumulate and not get spent? This is the problem we have today and is why half the US wealth is owned by only 400 individuals. I'm not in favor of redistribution of wealth and I think everyone is entitled to the fruits of their labor, but damn, how much money does one person need?
How can you trust someone to provide funding that either directly or indirectly supports the nation as a whole when they got to where they were because they are really good at doing the complete opposite: drawing more money to themselves over everyone else.
I agree, I'd rather see him lose money by giving it to people who need it and can use it wisely other than losing it to bad business. At least that way we know where the money is going and staying in our economy rather than trickling overseas.
How much money does 1 person need?
I remember my CCNA teacher from high school telling us about how the different ISP's work and how cable internet is essentially like another channel on cable TV. Then I thought "with all this fuss about allocating bandwidth why don't they just open up another channel for internet use?"
Did you have to pay to run this line yourself or did your provider install it? I'm curious to know the background to how you obtained a fiber connection while living in the sticks. I grew up in the sticks and have considered this pretty much unavailable in my area for a very long time.
On second thought I recall a private fiber line being installed right in front of my parents house about 20 years ago. Apparently an energy company had an old pipeline running from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City that they now use as a conduit to run their communications through. I had always hoped they would one day open it up for public use but that day has yet to come...
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"...who really shouldn't have even left their number for the other person after the drunk sex" I hear that shit. This ordeal happened to me and I'm still paying for it 10 years later.
Have you considered living in the country? You can have all those things.
As someone who grew up in a rural area, I've been waiting for broadband of any kind to become available in my home area. I moved off to the city for college and after graduating I have a job in the same city. I'm now able to work from home but I have to do it from my apartment instead of back in my home area because of no high speed connection. If there was broadband there I would move back in a heart beat. I wonder what affect this would have on that area if me and my friends in the same boat had the opportunity to live around the people we grew up with. The job market in that area is like night and day compared to the city and I think those areas would get a real boost in opportunity if businesses where able to operate in these lower income areas of the country.
This is why I've always been supportive of providing high speed internet to everyone. It's so much more than having the ability to stream Netflix and play online games. People who assume that is all high speed is good for are morons.
"Civil War , from which many of the southern states have never fully recovered."
Well, I suppose it is a little difficult to replace free labor.
Are we the same person?
Because they like to dump their problems on the young generation in the form of short-term gains.
I saw an article on Boing Boing about a month ago telling about this guy being sent to the moon in 2013 with Armadillo Aerospace providing the lander. I was surprised I never saw anything on /. covering the clip.
http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/nasa-robonauts-on-mo.html
Actually the whole human rights thing with China is related to corporate interests. The Chinese are able to exploit their population into damn near slave labor which draws a lot of economic progress into their country. Basically Chinese companies are getting more business than American companies and since US companies can't sink to their level of exploiting workers, they want to bring them up to their own.
The US in general couldn't give two shits about human rights or the environment in China. We're just pissed that China is ruining our empire by not playing the game to our standards...
My strategic management professor showed us some random statistics on the first day and one I saw was the number of honor students China claimed greatly outnumbered the total number of students the US has altogether.
Kind of a downer to think about but I like to think the typical chinese tends to have a little more devotion to the greater good of all people where the west has a fuck-'em-got-mine attitude. I just hope they apply their knowledge to curing cancer or building my flying car rather than coming up with new and innovative ways of screwing people over.
You don't really believe that, do you?
It's been a dream of mine to write a new Karma Sutra book based on zero-g. The possibilities are endless!
Sadly this is true. If you thought copying software was bad, image the red tape we'll have to go through to get something like this to become a possibility. But, we'll get there...eventually!
Alternately, someone can make an automobile comprised of "open-source" part designs. It would be, like, the Linux of cars!
So let me get this strait... IDC sent out a EIGRP instructing all these routers to direct traffic through them?
Well if the Asians keep advancing things like this we won't have a need for their cheap manufacturing labor force to produce our random crap. We can just buy these 3D printers thingies and make our own crap like the good ol' days.
I invision a future where you go to the local CNC shop and have them analyze a busted transmission plate and carving me a new one. So instead of ordering off for your replacement part for your car (or what ever) you'll simply have a new one made locally.
I thought this would be a good place to post this for anyone interested.
Open Space Movement
It's basically a movement to collaborate all related and unrelated development environments toward human space exploration.
You're looking at this all wrong. For an ISP to upgrade its infrastructure to provide more coverage and better speeds would not reflect a "a couple pennies per month...maybe a dollar", it would be significantly more that. So much more that it wouldn't be economically viable for everyone to keep the same service and, like you said, forced to downgrade or cancel their service, thus leaving no funding for the new infrastructure and nothing getting done. I think that was the point WrongSizeGlass was referring to.
Now, if tax money were used for the rollout then it would reflect a "pennies per month" shared across the board. I understand that some people don't like to see their money going to help someone else instead of them, but when it amounts to loose change for everyone instead of $10-$20 a month for a few (which gives you less subscribers/less money overall and no money for the infrastructure) then there's a very small burden to you and I. The benefit of full scale broadband is greater than the burden to the public, we ALL benefit.
Your refusal to support this seems to me that you don't believe broadband for the masses is a good thing. Government spending is in place to encourage economic growth and benefit the entire nation as a whole. I think that now, in the year 2010, having fast internet has moved beyond a source of entertainment and is progressing into a necessity that the US economy needs to stay competitive.
What I mean by this is the internet makes you smarter; it's access to the best source of knowledge, and it's FREE (minus the cost of internet service and infrastructure). Providing the country with knowledge makes the country smarter, a smarter country spurs more technical advancement, more technical advancement give you: flying cars, space elevators, a cleaner planet, etc...
-Invest it in foreign markets that exploit the poor thus destroying jobs locally and saving them a lot of money in the end.
-Fund lobbyist who push legislation in favor of their corporate goals even if it's a bad system and we could all be better off without it.
Those are a couple that are apparent today.
I'll worry about taking myself up levels and not worry about bringing others down.
HA! If you knew how economics worked you'd realize this isn't possible. Go on, make your fortune the true honest way that doesn't affect anyone else. Mean while I'll find a way to screw you and everyone else out of it but make you believe I did so in a good warm hearted way.
Source?
American here. I don't want the current system!
The majority of Americans don't know what's good for them so they sheepishly follow those who appear to be doing well when in reality they are being bent over a pickle barrel and screwed until their eyes rocket out of their sockets.
Bingo!
Inflation can come from the top or the bottom. I see it better to be eliminated from the top because that way less people are affected and it results in things like "Can I afford to buy that new $20 million yacht?" rather than "Can we afford to eat tonight?"
If trickle down economics works then what happens when one person makes more money then they can spend? Doesn't it seem to accumulate and not get spent? This is the problem we have today and is why half the US wealth is owned by only 400 individuals. I'm not in favor of redistribution of wealth and I think everyone is entitled to the fruits of their labor, but damn, how much money does one person need?
How can you trust someone to provide funding that either directly or indirectly supports the nation as a whole when they got to where they were because they are really good at doing the complete opposite: drawing more money to themselves over everyone else.
I agree, I'd rather see him lose money by giving it to people who need it and can use it wisely other than losing it to bad business. At least that way we know where the money is going and staying in our economy rather than trickling overseas. How much money does 1 person need?
I realized this years ago.
I remember my CCNA teacher from high school telling us about how the different ISP's work and how cable internet is essentially like another channel on cable TV. Then I thought "with all this fuss about allocating bandwidth why don't they just open up another channel for internet use?"
Did you have to pay to run this line yourself or did your provider install it? I'm curious to know the background to how you obtained a fiber connection while living in the sticks. I grew up in the sticks and have considered this pretty much unavailable in my area for a very long time.
On second thought I recall a private fiber line being installed right in front of my parents house about 20 years ago. Apparently an energy company had an old pipeline running from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City that they now use as a conduit to run their communications through. I had always hoped they would one day open it up for public use but that day has yet to come...