I'm aware that there was a small claims suit recently against AT&T that the guy won $800 for the "unlimited data" scam, despite a part of his contract saying he wouldn't sue. Other than that, have there been many other cases where those provisions were actually tested?
Promises to his base would count more because they're the people who would get him re-elected. And they've taken control of the republican party even more than normal, so angering his base would make it difficult to do much of anything else. The tea party is throwing out all the moderate republicans.
Why promises instead of actions? Because he's doing his part to move the country even further to the right than moving us to compromises with his dialogue, which is all he's capable of at this point.
He promises to do things for the right wing base? Then he's right-wing. Doesn't matter if he's just doing it to get elected of if he would do it if voters didn't care, the effect is still the same.
Hell, I feel like it's a kids in the hall sketch every time the courts are involved. Corporations are PEOPLE! We INVENTED rounded corners! The gloves don't fit, clearly I couldn't have done it, despite all the DNA evidence!
Finally a CT scan revealed the malady. Alvarez had neurocysticercosis — a calcified tapeworm lodged in her brain...Nobody cares about this disease, and they should, if not from a humanitarian point of view than from a fiscal aspect, says Wilkins, a scientist with the CDC
JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST! I CARE! How can one NOT care about brainworms!
Forget al qaeda! America has a NEW ENEMY! And it is brain tape worms! Take all my taxes, draft people, use those milimeter wave scanners on every street corner, suspend the constitution, I don't care, just keep these terrifying slimy things out of my cerebral cortex!!!
I'd like more details on this. There are offshore digital stalking services which will, for a fee, use DMCA notices to harass the target of your choice?
Interesting... what other services do they provide, and do they charge any more for, say, wealthy coal magnates who spread FUD about climate change and who are trying to buy the white house?
Not that I think DMCA notices are going to stop them, just I'd like to annoy them out of pure spite.
To add to that: being denied funding or being denied publication in respectable journals is not a "ban" unless you for some reason think scientists are entitled to publishing wherever and getting funding for whatever they feel like, reguardless of what the rest of the field thought.
As a scientist, I think it would be nice if we were entitled to that, but we're obviously not.
Just goes to show that wise men discuss, foolish men argue. Anti-vaxers, global warming deniers, creationists, tobacco cancer link doubters... they very rarely are interested in hearing your side of the story for a reason, they just want to win and cast aside their doubts.
What is it that makes you say they are political hack poseurs? Do you have a criticism of their methodology, or is it just that you don't like what they're saying? The paper doesn't seem to be relying on the theory of climate change being true.
I think it's cute that you're upset at a debasemt of science, as you reject scientific findings based on your gut feelings.
One imagines Jmorris1 arguing in the vatican that Galileo Galilei should be punished for besmirching the honor of science and astronomy by clearly promoting falsehoods.
Who said it was "surprising?" Science doesn't need to always produce unexpected results. Furthermore, I have no doubt that if someone were to just assume any of the things demonstrated here, such as someone saying "Free market ideologues are much more likely to reject scientific results that are challenging to their worldview", you'd be the first to demand they prove it with research. So it's good someone went ahead and tested it and wrote it up, so that you don't even need to make that demand.
But I'd wager that most smartphone owners do not drive pickups. I'd wager less, but still wager, that most smartphone users are less gung-ho nationalistic.
I think the "buy American" movement depended on a certain level of nationalism among consumers. Smartphone users, I'd wonder if enough of them would really care to spend $20 extra to support their country. It may work for pickup truck drivers.
I recently drove across the country with an LTE phone. Most places didn't have LTE reception, but I was surprised at the HSPA+ or at least 3G coverage. That's enough for google maps.
How often do you find yourself driving through the wasteland of Nevada, absolutely needing the youtube video to stream smoothly? I'd wager not enough to justify paying more on your monthly bill.
They brought LTE to Davis, CA, but not the much larger Sacramento, a mere 15 minutes away. I can only conclude that someone at AT&T is throwing darts at a map to decide where they'll upgrade that week.
Except that there is no unlimited slow option on AT&T. There's still a limit to how much you can download, even if you're using edge (which I guess would be the tuk-tuk option)
I have an LTE phone with AT&T. I hit the 5 gb cap and was throttled for a week until the next billing cycle. Speeds went from around 13000 kbps to 500 kbps. Now they're back up to normal speeds.
I did some tethering without paying for it, but it was only three light sessions on my ipad. I've been using google plus a lot, that could be it. LTE is a lot faster than my home wifi, so I left wifi off
AT&T says the caps will only affect the top 5% of data users. If I'm in the top 5%, nearly everyone else with an LTE phone is just wasting it. Or else AT&T is just making stuff up.
Seems like most companies that should be in theory creating content, they put far more effort into squeezing every last dime they can from what they've already created than they do actually creating. To the point of being counterproductive.
Movies, it's not just DRM. Making a good movie comes second if that to marketing the movie.
I'd guess, having never worked in such an industry, that the suits making these decisions are more likely to listen to other suits pushing DRM or marketing than they are to listen to their own creative types.
But the large corporations have an interest in eliminating the "classic" patent trolls, the ones who do nothing besides collect stupid patents and then blackmail with them. The special interest groups are not going to abolish software patents or make it easy for startups, sure, but getting rid of the pure parasites would be an improvement.
The fact that change doesn't happen immediately exactly the way you want it doesn't mean that the situation is hopeless forever.
In other words, same shit as always, but now with much lower body counts? And instead of developing better explosives, we'll be developing better software security that might actually have real uses?
Don't get me wrong, I hate to go on the internet and be optimistic, I know that's not cool, but this sounds positive...
Honest question: how much would it cost them to keep it running? Is this a case of "All these interns driving out across the US and reading thermometers and phoning them in is costing a boatload of money in terms of gas, and we never put ads in it so we're not making anything" or is it more "That server is running the weather service, but we could put a foosball table there..."
If you can trust the global warming fanatic that runs weather underground.
Hmm... Seems you are right:
"Temperature right now: 75 degrees. Forecast for tomorrow: 500 DEGREES! Wear a life vest, because the ice caps are gonna melt! Timber wolves are going to be hunting you because of atmospheric flash freezing! WATCH DAY AFTER TOMORROW SHEEPLE!!!! "
How much trust do you need to put into the weather forecast? If it's off by a few degrees, well, it's not rocket science anyway.
Do, however, resist the urge to jump right into Opposing Force and Blue shift. They're decent, but not as good, a bit tedious if you've JUST played HL1, and never reaches the heights of HL1 or HL2.
A bit like going back to foreplay after really great sex, except you know for a fact that it won't really go anywhere.
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I'm aware that there was a small claims suit recently against AT&T that the guy won $800 for the "unlimited data" scam, despite a part of his contract saying he wouldn't sue. Other than that, have there been many other cases where those provisions were actually tested?
Promises to his base would count more because they're the people who would get him re-elected. And they've taken control of the republican party even more than normal, so angering his base would make it difficult to do much of anything else. The tea party is throwing out all the moderate republicans.
Why promises instead of actions? Because he's doing his part to move the country even further to the right than moving us to compromises with his dialogue, which is all he's capable of at this point.
He promises to do things for the right wing base? Then he's right-wing. Doesn't matter if he's just doing it to get elected of if he would do it if voters didn't care, the effect is still the same.
Hell, I feel like it's a kids in the hall sketch every time the courts are involved. Corporations are PEOPLE! We INVENTED rounded corners! The gloves don't fit, clearly I couldn't have done it, despite all the DNA evidence!
Finally a CT scan revealed the malady. Alvarez had neurocysticercosis — a calcified tapeworm lodged in her brain...Nobody cares about this disease, and they should, if not from a humanitarian point of view than from a fiscal aspect, says Wilkins, a scientist with the CDC
JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST! I CARE! How can one NOT care about brainworms!
Forget al qaeda! America has a NEW ENEMY! And it is brain tape worms! Take all my taxes, draft people, use those milimeter wave scanners on every street corner, suspend the constitution, I don't care, just keep these terrifying slimy things out of my cerebral cortex!!!
I'd like more details on this. There are offshore digital stalking services which will, for a fee, use DMCA notices to harass the target of your choice?
Interesting... what other services do they provide, and do they charge any more for, say, wealthy coal magnates who spread FUD about climate change and who are trying to buy the white house?
Not that I think DMCA notices are going to stop them, just I'd like to annoy them out of pure spite.
And it's darkly funny how those idiots are all the ones in politics...
To add to that: being denied funding or being denied publication in respectable journals is not a "ban" unless you for some reason think scientists are entitled to publishing wherever and getting funding for whatever they feel like, reguardless of what the rest of the field thought.
As a scientist, I think it would be nice if we were entitled to that, but we're obviously not.
Just goes to show that wise men discuss, foolish men argue. Anti-vaxers, global warming deniers, creationists, tobacco cancer link doubters... they very rarely are interested in hearing your side of the story for a reason, they just want to win and cast aside their doubts.
What is it that makes you say they are political hack poseurs? Do you have a criticism of their methodology, or is it just that you don't like what they're saying? The paper doesn't seem to be relying on the theory of climate change being true.
I think it's cute that you're upset at a debasemt of science, as you reject scientific findings based on your gut feelings.
One imagines Jmorris1 arguing in the vatican that Galileo Galilei should be punished for besmirching the honor of science and astronomy by clearly promoting falsehoods.
Who said it was "surprising?" Science doesn't need to always produce unexpected results. Furthermore, I have no doubt that if someone were to just assume any of the things demonstrated here, such as someone saying "Free market ideologues are much more likely to reject scientific results that are challenging to their worldview", you'd be the first to demand they prove it with research. So it's good someone went ahead and tested it and wrote it up, so that you don't even need to make that demand.
But I'd wager that most smartphone owners do not drive pickups. I'd wager less, but still wager, that most smartphone users are less gung-ho nationalistic.
I think the "buy American" movement depended on a certain level of nationalism among consumers. Smartphone users, I'd wonder if enough of them would really care to spend $20 extra to support their country. It may work for pickup truck drivers.
I recently drove across the country with an LTE phone. Most places didn't have LTE reception, but I was surprised at the HSPA+ or at least 3G coverage. That's enough for google maps.
How often do you find yourself driving through the wasteland of Nevada, absolutely needing the youtube video to stream smoothly? I'd wager not enough to justify paying more on your monthly bill.
They brought LTE to Davis, CA, but not the much larger Sacramento, a mere 15 minutes away. I can only conclude that someone at AT&T is throwing darts at a map to decide where they'll upgrade that week.
Except that there is no unlimited slow option on AT&T. There's still a limit to how much you can download, even if you're using edge (which I guess would be the tuk-tuk option)
It is higher with LTE phones. 3GB for other phones, 5gb for LTE phones, including the grandfathered unlimited plan (for now at least.)
I have an LTE phone with AT&T. I hit the 5 gb cap and was throttled for a week until the next billing cycle. Speeds went from around 13000 kbps to 500 kbps. Now they're back up to normal speeds.
I did some tethering without paying for it, but it was only three light sessions on my ipad. I've been using google plus a lot, that could be it. LTE is a lot faster than my home wifi, so I left wifi off
AT&T says the caps will only affect the top 5% of data users. If I'm in the top 5%, nearly everyone else with an LTE phone is just wasting it. Or else AT&T is just making stuff up.
Seems like most companies that should be in theory creating content, they put far more effort into squeezing every last dime they can from what they've already created than they do actually creating. To the point of being counterproductive.
Movies, it's not just DRM. Making a good movie comes second if that to marketing the movie.
I'd guess, having never worked in such an industry, that the suits making these decisions are more likely to listen to other suits pushing DRM or marketing than they are to listen to their own creative types.
But the large corporations have an interest in eliminating the "classic" patent trolls, the ones who do nothing besides collect stupid patents and then blackmail with them. The special interest groups are not going to abolish software patents or make it easy for startups, sure, but getting rid of the pure parasites would be an improvement.
The fact that change doesn't happen immediately exactly the way you want it doesn't mean that the situation is hopeless forever.
In other words, same shit as always, but now with much lower body counts? And instead of developing better explosives, we'll be developing better software security that might actually have real uses?
Don't get me wrong, I hate to go on the internet and be optimistic, I know that's not cool, but this sounds positive...
Honest question: how much would it cost them to keep it running? Is this a case of "All these interns driving out across the US and reading thermometers and phoning them in is costing a boatload of money in terms of gas, and we never put ads in it so we're not making anything" or is it more "That server is running the weather service, but we could put a foosball table there..."
I've seen some ridiculous suggestions that Google has ignored it's motto, but this is the most ridiculous one I can remember at the moment.
If you can trust the global warming fanatic that runs weather underground.
Hmm... Seems you are right:
"Temperature right now: 75 degrees. Forecast for tomorrow: 500 DEGREES! Wear a life vest, because the ice caps are gonna melt! Timber wolves are going to be hunting you because of atmospheric flash freezing! WATCH DAY AFTER TOMORROW SHEEPLE!!!! "
How much trust do you need to put into the weather forecast? If it's off by a few degrees, well, it's not rocket science anyway.
Do, however, resist the urge to jump right into Opposing Force and Blue shift. They're decent, but not as good, a bit tedious if you've JUST played HL1, and never reaches the heights of HL1 or HL2.
A bit like going back to foreplay after really great sex, except you know for a fact that it won't really go anywhere.