My AP English teacher ignored errors (writeo's he called them), and if I recall correctly the AP Exam did too. He expected spelling to be correct for our homework, but not for in-class exams where a 45 minute limit precluded looking-up words in a dictionary. Content & the thesis mattered more than perfection.
>>>save your partisan assumptions for the time you spend on the Daily Kos.
The what?
I did make a bad assumption that the FCC Chair is a Bush appointee. I apologize for my stupidity. But for the record I spend most of my time over at reason.com or lp.org or youtube or asimovs.com, not Republi-crat partisan sites called "Kos". I disliked all 3 of our last presidents and actually voted Harry Browne many moons ago, rather than vote either Gore or Bush or Kerry.
Then I decided voting is pointless, since the congress is controlled by a duopoly of Big government party #1 and big government party #2 which will probably never be defeated or change. I wish we had an anti-federalist and pro-states'/pro-10th amendment party like the EU has (Nigel Firage, Daniel Hannan, etc), but I doubt it will ever happen.
I did not say one thing you accused me of saying. Your post is one gigantic strawman argument. Please do Not put words into my mouth I did not say. ALL I said was the Chinese/Indian labor is significantly cheaper than American/European labor - which is a Fact. I am sorry you find this fact cognitively dissonant (uncomfortable) but that's not my fault.
Facts don't change just because we don't like them. No reason to downmod me into invisibility. What would you have done if we were standing face-to-face? Punch me? Just because you didn't like that I said Chinese/Indians workers charge less than US/EU workers??? Ridiculous. And immature.
UHF is better than the current gigahertz band, but still not great. UHF gets blocked by solid objects like trees, houses, skyscrapers, et cetera. It's a line-of-sight transmission. ----- In contrast VHF "bends" and can reach into the shadows behind these objects. I think an ideal place for cellphones would be Channels 1-6, since these are almost worthless for digital television (picture breaks-up). Also the space above AM upto channel 1, and the gap between FM and channel 7. All of these operate very long distance (50 miles) with minimal power (3000 watt).
Also as I mentioned below this FLO-TV was only a single channel (55) of six megahertz width. Just a teeny-tiny drop in the bucket in the overall bandwidth picture. I'm surprised ATT paid so much for it.
If a company packs-up and moves to China or India because its previous workers were charging $20/hour while their new workers are charging one-half dollar per hour, then YES, the american workers are charging too much. Just as if I went to buy a Civic and Honda charged me $200,000 for it - that would be too high a charge and I'd shop for a lower rate.
Eventually we'll reach a point where foreign workers rates rise and American workers drop, until they reach near equilibrium.
The People still own the airwaves, but now they are administered by the FCC (to prevent congestion from overlapping broadcasts), and LEASED to the corporations for a fee. This was all set up long, long ago in the before time..... I mean, the 1920s.
NOTE that the FCC holds the power to revoke that lease at any time, if the corporation is found to be violating the terms of the lease. More typically they get fined (such as when Janet Jackson exposed her breast).
Yes the Congress & FCC spent millions on converter boxes, but they collected *billions* from the sale of channels 52-69 (and also 70-83 in the early 1990s). So it was a net win for the People's Treasury. You're right that most of these devices are built in China, but that's really a separate issue (US workers charge too much for their labor) which the FCC has no power to control.
Yeah they did. The Swedish police know very well this is a "she said; he said" case that they have no possibility of winning, and therefore they should drop it. In fact, they did already drop it..... but then suddenly revived it at the behest of the US White House.
This is just police harassment over a case that they already know they will lose. Similar to that Connecticut DA who arrested a man because he was wearing a "Close Guantanamo" shirt. The judge threw it out but the stupid DA pressed charges anyway, so it got thrown out again. People in power who pursue cases they know they can't win are abusing their power & the citizens.
Sounds horrible. I don't want to have to change my software every 5 years just because fashion has changed. It's bad enough I have to do that with clothing or cars.
"But the draft Order would effectively permit Internet providers to block lawful content, applications, and devices on mobile Internet connections. Mobile networks like AT&T and Verizon Wireless would be able to shut off your access to content or applications for any reason." - Franken
Well Mr. Franken..... you could just change providers. VirginMobile doesn't block anything. Neither does Sprint or Clear. You only need to regulate monopolies where customers have no other choice, Not free markets where there are many choices.
Prior to 1998 I was still using Commodore Amigas and Macs. Then in 98 I bought my very first IBM PC-compatible (gag) and also MS Office so I could keep my resume updated.
Nonsense. Lots of people sue the United States government, which is why you'll see Bob Smith v. United States or Massachusetts v. United States in the Supreme Court's rolls. Sometimes states even sue each other, such as Delaware v. New Jersey.
Channels 52-83 were owned by TV stations for their exclusive use, and now the frequencies have been leased to Cell carriers for use by the people's portable phones. How is this a bad thing? Looks like a net positive to me.
Nope. FLO TV is really just one channel from the 52 to 69 selloff. That makes it 6 megahertz wide, or about 30 Mbit/s raw throughput. Enough to provide internet for 5 people per cell, or a few thousand voice customers.
>>> That was WHY we had dozens of ISPs in the dialup era
No. The reason we had dozens of ISPs is because they disguised themselves as standard phone calls. The phone company didn't care if the phone call was a Human speaking or a Computer speaking, and passed both equally. And that's still true today. Nothing's changed except now 50k dialup is inadequate.
The current CATV or Telco doesn't have enough room to carry other ISPs over their Coax or Twisted Pair. Their line to the home is full with their own data, so leasing them would be impossible.
No we never had the government own a cable of 50 fiber optics, and lease them one at a time to various companies. We've always had a monopoly (typically comcast) or duopoly (comcast + telco) to serve the neighborhood with TV and net. We've never had a real choice across 20 or more companies, so your claim "we tried it" is flat false. .
>>>you had to lease out that cable to competitors at the same rate you charged internal department
That was never the case where I live (northeast). The County government gave a *monopoly* to whichever company they chose (Comcast: circa 1982)..... there was never any alternate companies, nor any requirement for same. Of course it you can provide a citation to back-up your claim, I'll take a look at it.
Sure. Lots of people sue the United States. Sometimes it even goes to the Supreme Court but not often, since the justices are part of the government and often defend their colleagues by simply not hearing cases.
"due process" originally meant a judge would review a search or arrest warrant, but the politicians have conveniently written the judges out of the loop. Now they (the cops/feds) can write their own warrants and enter your house or shutdown your website at will.
>>>You do realize that Win2k was NT 5.0 and XP was 5.1, right?
Helps if you read my WHOLE post, because then you'll find your answer (near the end). YES I knew that. Anyway I still view Windows7 as what Vista would have been if microsoft had spent an extra year fixing bugs and streamlining the memory usage to fit inside 1/2 gig.
>>>Only one of those fifty wires will be in use. The rest will be wasted
Doubtful. First off it is ONE wire with a bundle of fifty fibers. Laying that costs the same amount in manpower as laying a single cable, and not expensive at all. Second I suspect we'd see the following companies leasing each of those fibers from the State Government:
- Comcast - Verizon - Cox - Cablevision - Time-Warner - ATT - Google - AppleTV - MSN
And that's just to start. I expect other ISPs would also lease lines, so that we'd see what we saw back in the 90s Dialup Era (dozens of companies to choose from).
You mean like Mozilla Thunderbird or SeaMonkey or Opera 11? For businesses MS probably throws-in the Outlook free-of-charge as part of the overall package, and therefore no incentive to switch to a freebie like the aforementioned programs.
In any case this is good news. It means I can use Microsoft Office Pirate Edition instead of OpenOffice.org.;-) Can't believe I was so stupid as to PAY for Office97. What was I thinking? Although it has given me 12 years of use.
I have one you could buy for $200 (blue book value) and a second one that's about $1000 in value. .
>>>you have no choice but to patronize ShittyGrocery?
I don't see how you think government is supposed to fix this problem? Yes there probably are 0.01% of Americans not within walking distance of a second grocery store. Oh well. .
>>>If they use wires, the cost of entry into the market precludes any second party from competing against the first entrant
Not with the wonderful invention called fiber optics. You could easily run a bundle of 50 fibers in the same space that a single Coax cable used to take-up, and then have the government lease those lines to 50 different companies, giving home-owners a true choice. So it really isn't a natural monopoly - or at least doesn't have to be.
That's what I meant. Sorry. For online selling and catalog selling the peak time ends about five days before December 25, because people can't be sure they will get the gift shipped in time. Instead they shop at physical stores where they can get the product immediately. So selling on Ebay now would not gather as many or high bids as if I sold the 2-3 weeks immediately after Thanksgiving.
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Cute. Per usual it depends on the goal.
My AP English teacher ignored errors (writeo's he called them), and if I recall correctly the AP Exam did too. He expected spelling to be correct for our homework, but not for in-class exams where a 45 minute limit precluded looking-up words in a dictionary. Content & the thesis mattered more than perfection.
>>>save your partisan assumptions for the time you spend on the Daily Kos.
The what?
I did make a bad assumption that the FCC Chair is a Bush appointee. I apologize for my stupidity. But for the record I spend most of my time over at reason.com or lp.org or youtube or asimovs.com, not Republi-crat partisan sites called "Kos". I disliked all 3 of our last presidents and actually voted Harry Browne many moons ago, rather than vote either Gore or Bush or Kerry.
Then I decided voting is pointless, since the congress is controlled by a duopoly of Big government party #1 and big government party #2 which will probably never be defeated or change. I wish we had an anti-federalist and pro-states'/pro-10th amendment party like the EU has (Nigel Firage, Daniel Hannan, etc), but I doubt it will ever happen.
-C64_love
Yeah they're lucky the leather didn't catch on fire, but I suppose 12(?) volts isn't enough to make the metal hooks/jumper heat up to ignition point.
Wasn't he appointed by the Democrat president? Or was he a Bush appointee? I assume the latter if he's bending-over to appease the megacorps.
I did not say one thing you accused me of saying. Your post is one gigantic strawman argument. Please do Not put words into my mouth I did not say. ALL I said was the Chinese/Indian labor is significantly cheaper than American/European labor - which is a Fact. I am sorry you find this fact cognitively dissonant (uncomfortable) but that's not my fault.
Facts don't change just because we don't like them. No reason to downmod me into invisibility. What would you have done if we were standing face-to-face? Punch me? Just because you didn't like that I said Chinese/Indians workers charge less than US/EU workers??? Ridiculous. And immature.
Does apple follow the Amazon model of erasing banned items from customer's Kindles and iPhones?
UHF is better than the current gigahertz band, but still not great. UHF gets blocked by solid objects like trees, houses, skyscrapers, et cetera. It's a line-of-sight transmission. ----- In contrast VHF "bends" and can reach into the shadows behind these objects. I think an ideal place for cellphones would be Channels 1-6, since these are almost worthless for digital television (picture breaks-up). Also the space above AM upto channel 1, and the gap between FM and channel 7. All of these operate very long distance (50 miles) with minimal power (3000 watt).
Also as I mentioned below this FLO-TV was only a single channel (55) of six megahertz width. Just a teeny-tiny drop in the bucket in the overall bandwidth picture. I'm surprised ATT paid so much for it.
If a company packs-up and moves to China or India because its previous workers were charging $20/hour while their new workers are charging one-half dollar per hour, then YES, the american workers are charging too much. Just as if I went to buy a Civic and Honda charged me $200,000 for it - that would be too high a charge and I'd shop for a lower rate.
Eventually we'll reach a point where foreign workers rates rise and American workers drop, until they reach near equilibrium.
The People still own the airwaves, but now they are administered by the FCC (to prevent congestion from overlapping broadcasts), and LEASED to the corporations for a fee. This was all set up long, long ago in the before time..... I mean, the 1920s.
NOTE that the FCC holds the power to revoke that lease at any time, if the corporation is found to be violating the terms of the lease. More typically they get fined (such as when Janet Jackson exposed her breast).
Disagree with your conclusion.
Yes the Congress & FCC spent millions on converter boxes, but they collected *billions* from the sale of channels 52-69 (and also 70-83 in the early 1990s). So it was a net win for the People's Treasury. You're right that most of these devices are built in China, but that's really a separate issue (US workers charge too much for their labor) which the FCC has no power to control.
>>>The university overreacted; the police didn't.
Yeah they did. The Swedish police know very well this is a "she said; he said" case that they have no possibility of winning, and therefore they should drop it. In fact, they did already drop it..... but then suddenly revived it at the behest of the US White House.
This is just police harassment over a case that they already know they will lose. Similar to that Connecticut DA who arrested a man because he was wearing a "Close Guantanamo" shirt. The judge threw it out but the stupid DA pressed charges anyway, so it got thrown out again. People in power who pursue cases they know they can't win are abusing their power & the citizens.
Sounds horrible. I don't want to have to change my software every 5 years just because fashion has changed. It's bad enough I have to do that with clothing or cars.
"But the draft Order would effectively permit Internet providers to block lawful content, applications, and devices on mobile Internet connections. Mobile networks like AT&T and Verizon Wireless would be able to shut off your access to content or applications for any reason." - Franken
Well Mr. Franken..... you could just change providers. VirginMobile doesn't block anything. Neither does Sprint or Clear.
You only need to regulate monopolies where customers have no other choice, Not free markets where there are many choices.
Precisely.
Prior to 1998 I was still using Commodore Amigas and Macs. Then in 98 I bought my very first IBM PC-compatible (gag) and also MS Office so I could keep my resume updated.
>>>you can't use its own courts against it
Nonsense. Lots of people sue the United States government, which is why you'll see Bob Smith v. United States or Massachusetts v. United States in the Supreme Court's rolls. Sometimes states even sue each other, such as Delaware v. New Jersey.
Not sure I understand your cynicism.
Channels 52-83 were owned by TV stations for their exclusive use, and now the frequencies have been leased to Cell carriers for use by the people's portable phones. How is this a bad thing? Looks like a net positive to me.
>>>about 100Mhz wide
Nope. FLO TV is really just one channel from the 52 to 69 selloff. That makes it 6 megahertz wide, or about 30 Mbit/s raw throughput. Enough to provide internet for 5 people per cell, or a few thousand voice customers.
>>> That was WHY we had dozens of ISPs in the dialup era
No.
The reason we had dozens of ISPs is because they disguised themselves as standard phone calls. The phone company didn't care if the phone call was a Human speaking or a Computer speaking, and passed both equally. And that's still true today. Nothing's changed except now 50k dialup is inadequate.
The current CATV or Telco doesn't have enough room to carry other ISPs over their Coax or Twisted Pair. Their line to the home is full with their own data, so leasing them would be impossible.
>>>But we already tried it.
No we never had the government own a cable of 50 fiber optics, and lease them one at a time to various companies. We've always had a monopoly (typically comcast) or duopoly (comcast + telco) to serve the neighborhood with TV and net. We've never had a real choice across 20 or more companies, so your claim "we tried it" is flat false.
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>>>you had to lease out that cable to competitors at the same rate you charged internal department
That was never the case where I live (northeast). The County government gave a *monopoly* to whichever company they chose (Comcast: circa 1982)..... there was never any alternate companies, nor any requirement for same. Of course it you can provide a citation to back-up your claim, I'll take a look at it.
>>>you can sue the FBI for damages?
Sure. Lots of people sue the United States. Sometimes it even goes to the Supreme Court but not often, since the justices are part of the government and often defend their colleagues by simply not hearing cases.
"due process" originally meant a judge would review a search or arrest warrant, but the politicians have conveniently written the judges out of the loop. Now they (the cops/feds) can write their own warrants and enter your house or shutdown your website at will.
>>>You do realize that Win2k was NT 5.0 and XP was 5.1, right?
Helps if you read my WHOLE post, because then you'll find your answer (near the end). YES I knew that. Anyway I still view Windows7 as what Vista would have been if microsoft had spent an extra year fixing bugs and streamlining the memory usage to fit inside 1/2 gig.
>>>Only one of those fifty wires will be in use. The rest will be wasted
Doubtful. First off it is ONE wire with a bundle of fifty fibers. Laying that costs the same amount in manpower as laying a single cable, and not expensive at all. Second I suspect we'd see the following companies leasing each of those fibers from the State Government:
- Comcast
- Verizon
- Cox
- Cablevision
- Time-Warner
- ATT
- Google
- AppleTV
- MSN
And that's just to start. I expect other ISPs would also lease lines, so that we'd see what we saw back in the 90s Dialup Era (dozens of companies to choose from).
>>>instead of using an email client instead
You mean like Mozilla Thunderbird or SeaMonkey or Opera 11? For businesses MS probably throws-in the Outlook free-of-charge as part of the overall package, and therefore no incentive to switch to a freebie like the aforementioned programs.
In any case this is good news. It means I can use Microsoft Office Pirate Edition instead of OpenOffice.org. ;-) Can't believe I was so stupid as to PAY for Office97. What was I thinking? Although it has given me 12 years of use.
>>>What if you are too poor to own a car
I have one you could buy for $200 (blue book value) and a second one that's about $1000 in value.
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>>>you have no choice but to patronize ShittyGrocery?
I don't see how you think government is supposed to fix this problem? Yes there probably are 0.01% of Americans not within walking distance of a second grocery store. Oh well.
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>>>If they use wires, the cost of entry into the market precludes any second party from competing against the first entrant
Not with the wonderful invention called fiber optics. You could easily run a bundle of 50 fibers in the same space that a single Coax cable used to take-up, and then have the government lease those lines to 50 different companies, giving home-owners a true choice. So it really isn't a natural monopoly - or at least doesn't have to be.
The Christmas *selling season* is almost over.
That's what I meant. Sorry. For online selling and catalog selling the peak time ends about five days before December 25, because people can't be sure they will get the gift shipped in time. Instead they shop at physical stores where they can get the product immediately. So selling on Ebay now would not gather as many or high bids as if I sold the 2-3 weeks immediately after Thanksgiving.