>>>I recall from 10, 15 years ago when ADSL was no more than about 1 Mbit,
Yeah well ADSL is now 100 Mbit/s with a just-released 200 Mbit/s standard being rolled out. Unfortunately you have to live in Korea or Japan to get it.:-| Still the technology exists to enable DSL to match Cable speeds, and it's a dedicated phone line not a shared neighborhood coax cable, so the user gets what is advertised.
But using the existing copper is cheaper, because it eliminates the need to hire millions of men to dig ditches to lay fiber.
I'm also wondering why they offered 100/100 internet. Since I don't rarely need to upload anything, I'd rather have 190/10 internet so I have a fast enough pipe to grab HD video across 4 or 5 sets.
>>>You'll get better traction reporting it to OSHA or someone who can do something about it, but whatever. Telling the truth should never have legal ramifications.
Not really
I've had two employers Demand to see my birth certificate, which violates federal law (a drivers license + SSI card is sufficient to prove I-9 citizenship), but reporting it to OSHA or the Dept.of Labor didn't accomplish squat. They told me that I was right and the employer was wrong, but all I achieved was a threat by the security guard that I would be kicked-off campus if I did not comply and immediately produce a birth certificate, and this foreign business (Smiths Aerospace) continues to operate without punishment. And continues to demand birth certificates from its employees.
Man. I really hate corporations. They get away with violating law w/o consequences.
>>>With that logic, North Korea has freedom of speech.
The difference is that a government holds a Monopoly on power, so if you piss them off you will find yourself in jail. In contrast a corporation does not hold a monopoly. If your speech annoys ABC Company and you get fired, you can just move to one of the millions of other companies. It's the difference between Choice and non-choice.
Of course this is why Comcast's heavy-handed punishment against users is so dangerous. In many areas comcast holds a monopoly so if they suspend your internet access, you are permanently cutoof. So "monopoly", whether it's comcast or government, takes away individual freedom. Monopoly is the thing you truly need to fear.
I'd rather listen to FOX Radio or CBS Radio, rather than the government-sponsored National Propaganda Radio.
Same goes for PBS. I listen to the news on these latter two channels and it makes me sick. "More government, more government, more government" is what the message boils down to. And of course, less freedom
Not correct because even if copyright law was repealed today, the DVDs and online videos would still be region-limited. It has nothing to do with with law or government, but is a direct consequence of corporations' private decision to limit the market.
And in 2002 the congress passed an act called "THE USA PATRIOT Act" but it's anything but patriotic. It's not even constitutional. You can't go by the title alone.
>>>don't want "them" to have it, because "they" are moochers or lazy
Actually I don't want to have it for *myself* because I've seen how poorly the US Congress runs other programs like Amtrak, the post office, the SSI program, and so on. If they tried to run a Healthcare program I'd probably go in to have an appendix removed, and instead lose my tonsils. And of course the program would be verging on bankruptcy, just like Amtrak, USPS, SS, and so on.
I'd prefer to pay my healthcare directly (cash), so I can have maximum control over the doctors w/o any kind of middleman to interfere with negotiations. Plus a backup insurance plan in case I developed some terminal illness costing ~$100,000 a year.
>>>Windows would be tiled rather than overlapped due to Apple's threats to sue for copyright violation
Odd that other OSes like Atari TOS, Commodore GEOS, and Amiga Workbench used overlapping windows and Apple never sued. In 1986 the Commodore 64 was still the #1 selling computer, with the new Amiga a close second, but Apple never touched or threatened them.
I wonder what my friends would say if I posted this on Facebook?
First Last: "you took a wrong turn.../b/ is that way ------>" comments: -What the frig that mean? -Please don't write in code. -hahahaha. -Not a clue. -I'm unfriending you..... sicko!
"You're hot." "Thanks you too.. wanna go back to my room?" "Sure! But before we do the wild thang, would you mind peeing on my phone? I want to make sure you don't got AIDS." (slap) "I'll take that as a 'yes' then...... next!"
I got frustrated with how the new D2 dynamic index only displayed *some* of the message instead of all of them. And it was a pain to keep clicking to open those non-displayed messages. I prefer the old method of loading everything in one solid burst of data, and then I can just lean back and read.
In older machines, as the metal wears and clearancesgrow, it's often a good idea to use a thicker lubricant to speed things up. I recommend 5W-40 Delvac 1.
Unlike Google Instant, which shuts off on slow web connections, Instant Previews is available to those on thin connections and could be more beneficial to those users than to those using fat pipes, since the question of which page to click and allow to load is far more crucial on dial-up than on a fiber connection
I am skeptical. I guess loading an image is faster than loading the actual page, but if the page is mostly text then the preview would be slower.
I also wonder how well this preview works with Web Accelerator or Opera Turbo. Oftentimes they squash images to the point where they are unintelligible - I wonder if the same would happen with google preview.
What would be worse is if you start typing "child"..... and up pop all the sexting images middle and high school girlfriends are sending to boyfriends via the net.
"No Mr. Cop, I swear I wasn't looking." "Your web cache shows otherwise. Enjoy 20 years."
Because it would start a trade war and kill the global free market. Better to pressure India to remove their tariffs. And speaking of tariffs, maybe we ought to drop OUR tariffs that inflate American sugar prices, so that we can replace High fructose corn syrup in food with cheap sugar
Wealth moves around. First the Romans were rich, but they collapsed and the wealth moved east to Constantinople. Then Venice and the Italians grew wealthy as they had easy access to the eastern "silk" road..... until sailors learned to sail around Africa and get to India directly, so wealth moved to the Iberian Peninsula.
Next the industrial revolution happened, and suddenly Britain was the world empire..... until they were eclipsed by the "third world" nation called the United States during the 1800s and 1900s. Now the wealth is moving again: This time to China.
What we need to do is stop worrying about being #1, because history shows that is not a position a country can hold forever. #2 or 3 is not a bad place to be.
Just until things balance out..... i.e. India salaries rise and American salaries fall, until there's a balance on the global scale. I don't know what that would be but I'm guessing $60,000 for an engineer. .
>>>we cannot attempt to put so many social guarantees into law
Of course not. That's why I think Medicare and SS needs to be more like Welfare and Food Stamps - you are only eligible for the program if you are poor, or run out of cash. Otherwise if you are well-off, you pay your medicine, food, and rent using your OWN savings instead of asking government to do it for you. A "safety net" not an entitlement.
Wow college grads expect a lot. My first Associate Engineer job only paid $15/hour or $30,000. Adjusting for inflation that's $40k. You can't expect to get high salary levels when you're a just-graduated student.
Based upon the latter part of the video, it sounds like one way to avoid being disqualified (and replaced with a H1B worker instead) is to list a low salary request such as $40,000. Otherwise they can disqualify you simply because you asked for $80,000 when they are only offering $70,000, even if you'd be willing to negotiate & accept that lesser amount.
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>>>I recall from 10, 15 years ago when ADSL was no more than about 1 Mbit,
Yeah well ADSL is now 100 Mbit/s with a just-released 200 Mbit/s standard being rolled out. Unfortunately you have to live in Korea or Japan to get it. :-| Still the technology exists to enable DSL to match Cable speeds, and it's a dedicated phone line not a shared neighborhood coax cable, so the user gets what is advertised.
But using the existing copper is cheaper, because it eliminates the need to hire millions of men to dig ditches to lay fiber.
I'm also wondering why they offered 100/100 internet. Since I don't rarely need to upload anything, I'd rather have 190/10 internet so I have a fast enough pipe to grab HD video across 4 or 5 sets.
>>>You'll get better traction reporting it to OSHA or someone who can do something about it, but whatever. Telling the truth should never have legal ramifications.
Not really
I've had two employers Demand to see my birth certificate, which violates federal law (a drivers license + SSI card is sufficient to prove I-9 citizenship), but reporting it to OSHA or the Dept.of Labor didn't accomplish squat. They told me that I was right and the employer was wrong, but all I achieved was a threat by the security guard that I would be kicked-off campus if I did not comply and immediately produce a birth certificate, and this foreign business (Smiths Aerospace) continues to operate without punishment. And continues to demand birth certificates from its employees.
Man. I really hate corporations.
They get away with violating law w/o consequences.
>>>With that logic, North Korea has freedom of speech.
The difference is that a government holds a Monopoly on power, so if you piss them off you will find yourself in jail. In contrast a corporation does not hold a monopoly. If your speech annoys ABC Company and you get fired, you can just move to one of the millions of other companies. It's the difference between Choice and non-choice.
Of course this is why Comcast's heavy-handed punishment against users is so dangerous. In many areas comcast holds a monopoly so if they suspend your internet access, you are permanently cutoof. So "monopoly", whether it's comcast or government, takes away individual freedom. Monopoly is the thing you truly need to fear.
Not sure what Fresh Start Software's motive was, but if it was to block development of a Stargate videogame, they achieved their goal.
Nowadays my WATCH has more power than the first computer I ever touched.
I'd rather listen to FOX Radio or CBS Radio, rather than the government-sponsored National Propaganda Radio.
Same goes for PBS. I listen to the news on these latter two channels and it makes me sick. "More government, more government, more government" is what the message boils down to. And of course, less freedom
>>>Ergo, it's due to copyright law.
Not correct because even if copyright law was repealed today, the DVDs and online videos would still be region-limited. It has nothing to do with with law or government, but is a direct consequence of corporations' private decision to limit the market.
And in 2002 the congress passed an act called "THE USA PATRIOT Act" but it's anything but patriotic. It's not even constitutional. You can't go by the title alone.
>>>don't want "them" to have it, because "they" are moochers or lazy
Actually I don't want to have it for *myself* because I've seen how poorly the US Congress runs other programs like Amtrak, the post office, the SSI program, and so on. If they tried to run a Healthcare program I'd probably go in to have an appendix removed, and instead lose my tonsils. And of course the program would be verging on bankruptcy, just like Amtrak, USPS, SS, and so on.
I'd prefer to pay my healthcare directly (cash), so I can have maximum control over the doctors w/o any kind of middleman to interfere with negotiations. Plus a backup insurance plan in case I developed some terminal illness costing ~$100,000 a year.
>>>Windows would be tiled rather than overlapped due to Apple's threats to sue for copyright violation
Odd that other OSes like Atari TOS, Commodore GEOS, and Amiga Workbench used overlapping windows and Apple never sued. In 1986 the Commodore 64 was still the #1 selling computer, with the new Amiga a close second, but Apple never touched or threatened them.
I wonder what my friends would say if I posted this on Facebook?
First Last: "you took a wrong turn... /b/ is that way ------>"
comments:
-What the frig that mean?
-Please don't write in code.
-hahahaha.
-Not a clue.
-I'm unfriending you..... sicko!
I have an alternate application:
"You're hot."
"Thanks you too.. wanna go back to my room?"
"Sure! But before we do the wild thang, would you mind peeing on my phone? I want to make sure you don't got AIDS."
(slap)
"I'll take that as a 'yes' then...... next!"
I went back to the classic index.
I got frustrated with how the new D2 dynamic index only displayed *some* of the message instead of all of them. And it was a pain to keep clicking to open those non-displayed messages. I prefer the old method of loading everything in one solid burst of data, and then I can just lean back and read.
I find it temporarily-freezes my computer while the search is updating.
Sometimes simple HTML is better.
In older machines, as the metal wears and clearancesgrow, it's often a good idea to use a thicker lubricant to speed things up. I recommend 5W-40 Delvac 1.
Unlike Google Instant, which shuts off on slow web connections, Instant Previews is available to those on thin connections and could be more beneficial to those users than to those using fat pipes, since the question of which page to click and allow to load is far more crucial on dial-up than on a fiber connection
I am skeptical. I guess loading an image is faster than loading the actual page, but if the page is mostly text then the preview would be slower.
I also wonder how well this preview works with Web Accelerator or Opera Turbo. Oftentimes they squash images to the point where they are unintelligible - I wonder if the same would happen with google preview.
What would be worse is if you start typing "child"..... and up pop all the sexting images middle and high school girlfriends are sending to boyfriends via the net.
"No Mr. Cop, I swear I wasn't looking."
"Your web cache shows otherwise. Enjoy 20 years."
"regulate commerce among the states" is what gives Congress the power to impose workplace requirements.
>>>allows outside independent candidates without connections to lobbyists to succeed at the ballot box.
You mean like Senator Rand Paul? He's been criticized repeatedly, and yet he's what we're looking: A guy who is not a sellout.
Wrong.
Because it would start a trade war and kill the global free market. Better to pressure India to remove their tariffs. And speaking of tariffs, maybe we ought to drop OUR tariffs that inflate American sugar prices, so that we can replace High fructose corn syrup in food with cheap sugar
Wealth moves around. First the Romans were rich, but they collapsed and the wealth moved east to Constantinople. Then Venice and the Italians grew wealthy as they had easy access to the eastern "silk" road..... until sailors learned to sail around Africa and get to India directly, so wealth moved to the Iberian Peninsula.
Next the industrial revolution happened, and suddenly Britain was the world empire..... until they were eclipsed by the "third world" nation called the United States during the 1800s and 1900s. Now the wealth is moving again: This time to China.
What we need to do is stop worrying about being #1, because history shows that is not a position a country can hold forever. #2 or 3 is not a bad place to be.
>>>basically a direct transfer of wealth.
Just until things balance out..... i.e. India salaries rise and American salaries fall, until there's a balance on the global scale. I don't know what that would be but I'm guessing $60,000 for an engineer.
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>>>we cannot attempt to put so many social guarantees into law
Of course not. That's why I think Medicare and SS needs to be more like Welfare and Food Stamps - you are only eligible for the program if you are poor, or run out of cash. Otherwise if you are well-off, you pay your medicine, food, and rent using your OWN savings instead of asking government to do it for you. A "safety net" not an entitlement.
"Only" 60 or 70k???
Wow college grads expect a lot. My first Associate Engineer job only paid $15/hour or $30,000. Adjusting for inflation that's $40k. You can't expect to get high salary levels when you're a just-graduated student.
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Based upon the latter part of the video, it sounds like one way to avoid being disqualified (and replaced with a H1B worker instead) is to list a low salary request such as $40,000. Otherwise they can disqualify you simply because you asked for $80,000 when they are only offering $70,000, even if you'd be willing to negotiate & accept that lesser amount.