>>>how long until the caps bite grandma in the ass?
That's grandpa's job, but I see your point. Verizon doesn't cap me (yet) but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. For what it's worth: There's no cap on broadcast television. My DVR can record 2 channels 24 hours a day without limit. Cost: $0.00 monthly
I thought it was rather funny myself. Loosen up. WebTV probably would have made it, but it was hampered by the ~440x480 resolution of the Composite analog TV set, and therefore could never display the full pages of the day (almost double that width). Today's televisions don't have that same limitation. .
>>>never realizing that the first device of a particular type is almost never the one that becomes the commercial success
Yep. Like Betamax. Or video-records. Or Commodore Amigas that could play music videos.
So maybe I should sue Yahoo too, to clean up my search results. Of course this is only a temporary effect. Fast-forward a year and Beverly Stayart's search will turn-up porn again.
The irony is that Alyssa Milano did the same thing, to have her nude images removed from the web, and she won despite all common sense (if you pose nude - then it becomes part of the public searches). Why is Miss Milano allowed to clean-up her yahoo/google results but not Miss Stayart?
I confirmed it with the representative I spoke to, and she confirmed it "point zero zero two cents per kilobyte."..... I received my bill and was charged $.002/KB - which is dollars - "point zero zero 2 dollars per kilobyte"..... I'm still currently on the hook for the $71 and change.
That's pathetic. He should have been charged $0.71 or 71 cents.
He wasted 25 minutes to a Verizon rep who kept insisting.002 dollars is the same as.002 cents Stupid shit. Stupid fuck. Stui9d college dropout. I would have been cursing at the guy.
+1 accurate. When the US DOJ sued the record companies in 2000, the companies avoided the heavy fine if they lost a lawsuit by simply offering to refund ~$20 to each and every purchaser of a CD. The DOJ agreed.
The same thing happened a few years later with Paypal. And now with Verizon.
They don't. Stores send all their customer returns to the original supplier and get money back. It's called a chargeback. The person taking the hit would be Sony or WB or whoever originally produced the crap movie.
My VirginMobile phone has the same flaw. Once you access the datanet (for example download a ringtone), you will be charged a dollar a day even if you never use the net again.
>>>But but but the FCC is a government agency! They can't possibly do anything right!
The Government does *sometimes* do the right thing. Such as when they filed a lawsuit against Toyota and ordered them to replace customers' engines which had died before reaching 100,000 miles (Toyota refused to honor the 100K warranty). But then the government does wrong things too: Like sending 1 billion dollars of the "U.S. Stimulus" Bill to Africa. And Brazil. And also some to India. Not sure how sending money to foreigners is supposed to help american citizens?
The problem is that the number of times government does something right is outnumbered 10,000-to-1 by the number of times they do something wrong.
Read more carefully. The national corporation *didn't* solve the problem for me. Yes they ordered the manager to honor the 10% off reservation (which is good), however the manager then invented a lie about me having sex with the deskgirl and threw me out. When I contacted the national corporation they backed the manager's decision despite it being a lie, so YES this is a story of screwage by a megacorp.
According to the wikipedia article you linked, Wendy Williams owes $700 to WB when she & her audience sang the song. Meanwhile in Canada WB and other members of the CRIA owe nearly a billion dollars for using songs on "best of" albums without paying the original artists.
"One law for the commoners; one law for the masters."
The European Union is no better than the American union of states. They just trade one kind of oppression (corporate) for another kind of oppression (bureaucrat).
Sorry I don't see the difference. If 25 State legislature declare with simple vote: "The Patriot Act is unconstitutional." that is exactly the same thing as the majority declaring they don't like the law.
At my job I torrented a Doctor Who audiofile pack, so I'd have something to relieve the boredom, and the next day the IT Staff was scanning my computer. I don't think torrenting will be permitted in the office. Ever.
From the summary: >>>"Have you ever tried to download an operating system update only to have it fail and have to start all over?"
Yes and it's ridiculous. Even back in the 80s we had the ZMODEM protocol on our lowly 8-bit Ataris and Commodores. If a file was interrupted the ZMODEM protocol had the ability to look at the last clean packet received, ask for the next packet in line, and thereby restart in the middle of the file. It's stupid that modern 64 bit browsers don't have the same "continue" function my old 8 bit software had.
This is only the screwage we know about. Every day there is screwage by megacorps but happening on a smaller scale. Like when a Motel 6 manager refused to honor the 10% sale price that I had booked... and then when I called the national office, they forced him to honor the sale price, so he invented a story about how I was having sex with deskgirl, and then called the police to have me removed.
- Or the power outlet somebody buys where only 2 of the 4 outlets work. - Or when you're charged shipping on an item that was supposed to be fre ship. - Or the Chase website is down for two days, so you can't make payment, so you get charged a $30 late fee. - Or you buy a DVD that is a pile of shit, but Walamrt refuses to take it back. - Or you get fired off your job, because somebody SATS you were watching CNN video, but that's a bold-faced lie. - Or you don't get paid your last week of wages. - Or you had a nice cheap $20/month Dish plan, but suddenly they eliminate that package, and jack it up to $40 without telling you. - and on and on and on.
The more stories we have like these, the more we make the People aware that they can not trust megacorps, and therefore corporate power should be limited to a bare minimum (where no power would be the ideal).
>>>It would make no sense to block the application.....
Sense? hahahahahaha. Whew. Good one. But you're right: DHS might be able to stop corporations, but they can't stop me/others from publishing the source code:
PA LAW: "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject." ----- MD LAW: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof..... the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege."
And so on across all 50 Member States. Nobody at the US level has the right to block publishing or sharing source code
DHS might be able to stop corporations, but they can't stop me from publishing the source code:
PA LAW: "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject." ----- MD LAW: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof..... the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege."
And so on across all 50 Member States. Nobody at the US level has the right to block publishing or sharing source code of programs I or thers create
Aside -
I found this bit of the Bill of Rights interesting: "Monopolies are odious, contrary to the spirit of a free government and the principles of commerce, and ought not to be suffered." And yet the BGE and Comcast monopolies exist. Perhaps the Maryland government should buy-out the wires and lease the lines to any company that wished to use them (BGE, PPL, comcast, cox, appletv, etc). i.e. Consumer choice is a right.
Why not? It only takes 5 seconds to send one of those frame-grabbed GIFs over 50k modem. Oh and very reliable - it's hard to kill POTs even if a jackrabbit in Arizona chews through the line - it can be rerouted, If you use image compression (i.e. strip-out the color)(make it a 1-bit GIF) you caa get it down to 0.5 seconds. As fast as 500k DSL but without the expense or long-distance charges.
Even after Vista was released it was still possible to find XP as the default install. Perhaps the same was true in 2000 where you could buy your Pentium4 with either M.e. or 98. (or NT5/2000).
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>>>"business" connection. I do this with my local cable co..
>>>At least...that's what I hear one can do.
So which is it?
>>>how long until the caps bite grandma in the ass?
That's grandpa's job, but I see your point. Verizon doesn't cap me (yet) but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. For what it's worth: There's no cap on broadcast television. My DVR can record 2 channels 24 hours a day without limit. Cost: $0.00 monthly
DSL? I thought Verizon just announced they are putting caps?
>>>throw out a lame joke.
I thought it was rather funny myself. Loosen up. WebTV probably would have made it, but it was hampered by the ~440x480 resolution of the Composite analog TV set, and therefore could never display the full pages of the day (almost double that width). Today's televisions don't have that same limitation.
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>>>never realizing that the first device of a particular type is almost never the one that becomes the commercial success
Yep. Like Betamax. Or video-records.
Or Commodore Amigas that could play music videos.
So maybe I should sue Yahoo too, to clean up my search results. Of course this is only a temporary effect. Fast-forward a year and Beverly Stayart's search will turn-up porn again.
The irony is that Alyssa Milano did the same thing, to have her nude images removed from the web, and she won despite all common sense (if you pose nude - then it becomes part of the public searches). Why is Miss Milano allowed to clean-up her yahoo/google results but not Miss Stayart?
I confirmed it with the representative I spoke to, and she confirmed it "point zero zero two cents per kilobyte."..... I received my bill and was charged $.002/KB - which is dollars - "point zero zero 2 dollars per kilobyte"..... I'm still currently on the hook for the $71 and change.
That's pathetic. He should have been charged $0.71 or 71 cents.
He wasted 25 minutes to a Verizon rep who kept insisting .002 dollars is the same as .002 cents
Stupid shit. Stupid fuck. Stui9d college dropout. I would have been cursing at the guy.
+1 accurate. When the US DOJ sued the record companies in 2000, the companies avoided the heavy fine if they lost a lawsuit by simply offering to refund ~$20 to each and every purchaser of a CD. The DOJ agreed.
The same thing happened a few years later with Paypal. And now with Verizon.
>>>Why should WalMart take the financial hit
They don't. Stores send all their customer returns to the original supplier and get money back. It's called a chargeback. The person taking the hit would be Sony or WB or whoever originally produced the crap movie.
My VirginMobile phone has the same flaw. Once you access the datanet (for example download a ringtone), you will be charged a dollar a day even if you never use the net again.
>>>But but but the FCC is a government agency! They can't possibly do anything right!
The Government does *sometimes* do the right thing. Such as when they filed a lawsuit against Toyota and ordered them to replace customers' engines which had died before reaching 100,000 miles (Toyota refused to honor the 100K warranty). But then the government does wrong things too: Like sending 1 billion dollars of the "U.S. Stimulus" Bill to Africa. And Brazil. And also some to India. Not sure how sending money to foreigners is supposed to help american citizens?
The problem is that the number of times government does something right is outnumbered 10,000-to-1 by the number of times they do something wrong.
Read more carefully. The national corporation *didn't* solve the problem for me. Yes they ordered the manager to honor the 10% off reservation (which is good), however the manager then invented a lie about me having sex with the deskgirl and threw me out. When I contacted the national corporation they backed the manager's decision despite it being a lie, so YES this is a story of screwage by a megacorp.
According to the wikipedia article you linked, Wendy Williams owes $700 to WB when she & her audience sang the song. Meanwhile in Canada WB and other members of the CRIA owe nearly a billion dollars for using songs on "best of" albums without paying the original artists.
"One law for the commoners; one law for the masters."
Actually the Arcade Pac-Man will stop when you center the stick. It's the various ports to consoles/computers that removed that functionality.
The European Union is no better than the American union of states.
They just trade one kind of oppression (corporate) for another kind of oppression (bureaucrat).
Sorry I don't see the difference. If 25 State legislature declare with simple vote: "The Patriot Act is unconstitutional." that is exactly the same thing as the majority declaring they don't like the law.
>>>An 800Mhz G4 can handle Mac OS 10.3 or 10.4.
How much would that 10.2 to 10.4 upgrade have cost me?
>>># wondershaper eth1 300 90
In English Doc? What's this mean?
At my job I torrented a Doctor Who audiofile pack, so I'd have something to relieve the boredom, and the next day the IT Staff was scanning my computer. I don't think torrenting will be permitted in the office. Ever.
From the summary:
>>>"Have you ever tried to download an operating system update only to have it fail and have to start all over?"
Yes and it's ridiculous. Even back in the 80s we had the ZMODEM protocol on our lowly 8-bit Ataris and Commodores. If a file was interrupted the ZMODEM protocol had the ability to look at the last clean packet received, ask for the next packet in line, and thereby restart in the middle of the file. It's stupid that modern 64 bit browsers don't have the same "continue" function my old 8 bit software had.
And:
This is only the screwage we know about. Every day there is screwage by megacorps but happening on a smaller scale. Like when a Motel 6 manager refused to honor the 10% sale price that I had booked... and then when I called the national office, they forced him to honor the sale price, so he invented a story about how I was having sex with deskgirl, and then called the police to have me removed.
- Or the power outlet somebody buys where only 2 of the 4 outlets work.
- Or when you're charged shipping on an item that was supposed to be fre ship.
- Or the Chase website is down for two days, so you can't make payment, so you get charged a $30 late fee.
- Or you buy a DVD that is a pile of shit, but Walamrt refuses to take it back.
- Or you get fired off your job, because somebody SATS you were watching CNN video, but that's a bold-faced lie.
- Or you don't get paid your last week of wages.
- Or you had a nice cheap $20/month Dish plan, but suddenly they eliminate that package, and jack it up to $40 without telling you.
- and on and on and on.
The more stories we have like these, the more we make the People aware that they can not trust megacorps, and therefore corporate power should be limited to a bare minimum (where no power would be the ideal).
>>>It would make no sense to block the application.....
Sense? hahahahahaha. Whew. Good one. But you're right: DHS might be able to stop corporations, but they can't stop me/others from publishing the source code:
PA LAW: "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject." ----- MD LAW: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof..... the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege."
And so on across all 50 Member States. Nobody at the US level has the right to block publishing or sharing source code
>>>BGE does not have a monopoly
Yeah Maryland has choice for the supplier, but who owns the electric wires and natural gas pipes? BGE.
DHS might be able to stop corporations, but they can't stop me from publishing the source code:
PA LAW: "The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject." ----- MD LAW: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people thereof..... the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege."
And so on across all 50 Member States. Nobody at the US level has the right to block publishing or sharing source code of programs I or thers create
Aside -
I found this bit of the Bill of Rights interesting: "Monopolies are odious, contrary to the spirit of a free government and the principles of commerce, and ought not to be suffered." And yet the BGE and Comcast monopolies exist. Perhaps the Maryland government should buy-out the wires and lease the lines to any company that wished to use them (BGE, PPL, comcast, cox, appletv, etc). i.e. Consumer choice is a right.
Abbott & Costello!
Laurel & Hardy.
Charlie & Chaplin.
Seinfeld & Costanza.
>>>using ordinary phone lines
Why not? It only takes 5 seconds to send one of those frame-grabbed GIFs over 50k modem. Oh and very reliable - it's hard to kill POTs even if a jackrabbit in Arizona chews through the line - it can be rerouted, If you use image compression (i.e. strip-out the color)(make it a 1-bit GIF) you caa get it down to 0.5 seconds. As fast as 500k DSL but without the expense or long-distance charges.
Not necessarily.
Even after Vista was released it was still possible to find XP as the default install. Perhaps the same was true in 2000 where you could buy your Pentium4 with either M.e. or 98. (or NT5/2000).