Let's not forget `regulated up the Ying Yang' China!
China's creating motherfucking wealth and cocksucking prosperity the likes of which shiteating dogmatic Republicans and Libertarians (I love U Ron Paul, I really do!) are left apoplectic.
> If Google had won a wireless spectrum auction (they > didn't),
You're confusing the kids, if you're not confused yourself! That's not so.
It's a known, discussed, written, reported, contemporaneous fact that Google did not want to own spectrum, it wanted to force innovation into wireless.
If by promising to outbid by _several_ orders of magnitude the stodgy telcos, the let's-hoard-the-spectrum-and-do-the-same-old-thing telecoms' old guard they _inadvertently_spoiled the usual telco land grab, and prevented corporate welfare, and forced a _valuable_ if not priceless resource ("they're not making any more of it") to be valued, to be priced (esteemed), to be reinvented for NEW uses, then Google was HAPPY to BID AND NOT WIN SPECTRUM.
Google did not want to be a telecom, nor a manufacturing company, they wanted the telecom lunatics not to increase the size of their asylum. That was their gambit. Didn't you know that? Hasn't your reading come across that fact yet?
That is why when Google bought Motorola Mobility everyone was so taken aback! They need the patent armor, obviously! but it was still a shock to onlookers.
> then Google Voice could've been the core of Google's > competition with the telco network
No-no. See above. The wonderful to come and behold will be, what will Google do with MM? Will it innovate out of the box? Out-do, -fox Apple by using their Goog-411 / GVoice chops---finally? (BTW how the hell did Siri go past them when they had so much voice data, algorithmic, software expertise, and skill?! FOR YEARS and in VAST DATA QUANTITIES. I should be offered a job at Google, they need a real strategic thinker, planner.)
Sorry to self-reply. I forgot to include example. Search for, as example, "John Laubach", recently murdered in Manhattan and the dailymail.co.uk will be #1 with a SEO bullet. Keep searching for petty crime and you'll see them rise.
I know no one in NYC who links for local NYC shiz to a British paper. Not even rarely.
SEO wacking are we, Google? 'Member when JC Penney was playing you a while ago, well you'd better check on the dailymail.co.uk
For the past month I have noticed that local! LOCAL! NYC crime/news stories---not that big DSK scheisse, but just the petty shiz---from dailymail.co.uk are receiving #1 placing. WTF.
>>> Maybe Facebook knows you're married. Google knows you're trying to find a divorce attorney. >>>
Your post's insight is a rarity. It's what an old (Score:5) used to provide in rare value, extraordinary incisiveness. If I ever meet you in person I will buy you dinner and all the Chimay you can drink! I promise. I haven't chimed in with _such_ acclaim in a decade. Godspeed.
>>> unlimited data at the advertised speed, the only limitation being time itself. If you offer a 100kbps plan that doesn't let you download 259gb per month, and call it unlimited, >>>
I've posted this many times before and it gets ignored, I agree with your point wholesale. There are inherent limits as you have rightly highlighted. There is a natural limit in all this stuff. We are human, all our stuff and our selves have limits: Of time (consciousness/consumption) + Of bandwidth (throughput/time as you've noted) + Of routing speeds + Of cabling speeds + Of peering agreements? So WTF am I saying.
IOW, I could argue that X Telecom is prevaricating in its -unlimit- when I request say a download/ refresh of the entire Internet! Fuck, youz crazy you say! Maybe, but that's what "unlimited" ultimately means---ZERO limits.
To wit, I should be able to ask with -certainty- for God to download the entire Multiverse to my God-device, and it shall be so. He's perfect, yes. Inhuman, thus perfect.
This is a non brief way of saying, what telecoms/anyone-else should advertise is UnMetered service. For, unless you are Vishnu or some omnipotent deity you can not provided anything in Un-Limited quantities. It's not semantics, man.
>>> . I would just pick up a volume and open it at random and start reading. So it's kind of sad that the printed version is going away. >>>
You can download the entirety of Wikipedia and read it on your Kindle, Ipad, etc. as a physical book. I love the idea of WP, I've gotten lost in it for hours just as easily as you have in print.
``In David Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia quotes the Rodwell translation of the [Qur'an] during the scene in which Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and Feisal (Alec Guinness) alternately recite verses from what Rodwell calls `The Brightness'*.'' --WP
From the film disc I bounced to Wikipedia, to Google, to Google Books, to Google Search again, and about for hours.
I downloaded Rodwell's public domain century old book with the original film quote, and plan to read it cover to cover. I found that scene so geeky literary, so poetic, such a travelogue reference that I plan to use it one day to travel the Mideast when, you know, GWOT is over or when I can skirt around it in my adventure motorbike.
Bits can be as inspiring and corporeal (in the right electric medium) as the pulped page. Man! I'm jazzed now! Onward and forward to save for a KTM or GS.
##### * BY the noon-day BRIGHTNESS,
And by the night when it darkeneth!
Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee, neither hath he been displeased.
And surely the Future shall be better for thee than the Past,
And in the end shall thy Lord be bounteous to thee and thou be satisfied.
> I can buy TWO Ford Focus 40mpg cars for the same > price as a Volt.
This logic kind myopia always astounds me. Here try this one on for size.
For the price of a Ferrari 458 Italia I can ~30 Foci, give or take. Or a handful of of Honda Fits to a BMW M3. Or shiz if you want to compare 4-seater saloon types, an FF to your hatchback/sedan. IOW, Folks buy with dissimilar tastes, and god bless them for it. If it wasn't for all those fuckers in the '80s buying ABS, air bags, cruise controlled, etc. German luxury cars I wouldn't be able to buy an appliance Corolla for peanuts with those same features installed; citizen led, government mandated rules or not.
Why drive your VW GTI R for ~40K when a nice 9k USD Hyundai would do? Because you want what you want. One size does not fit all, nor you. So what the fuck are you bitching at?! Dumbass.
College tuition is astronomically high, so don't tell me with a straight face that money is an issue in implementing this. Disrupting the vested status quo is the root cause. I hated freshman level physics lectures. I might as well read the textbook on my own, gather all teaching aids onto me, take tutoring (where even a graduate level tutor did not understand the end of chapter problems!), and promote to get a cut in my tuition by campaigning to get the costs of the university lowered by having my physics teacher fired---why not? I/we never understood a cryptic word he said anyway. At the time I was so young, I thought that "It has to be me, maybe I am not concentrating hard enough. These hard-science, freshman level Lecture teachers oops professors can't be as bad as I think they are!"
>>> Pretty sure they're paying the support staff a lot more money for the time spent on the call to reverse a 9 cent charge. If everybody did this, I'm sure cell companies would lose enough money to get their act together. >>>
Please search/. like 5 -6 years ago. A guy called customer service so much that Sprint(?) ended his service, without a termination fee. True. Good way to get out of onerous fees! Sprint said the same thing, you cost us too much in CSR usage.
Play with the devil and you will get burned. Farmers are not pure as undriven snow, I hate to tell you. Frankenfoods/-crops are good until they are not, right. Reap what you sow, farmer Brown. Any why aren't juries of your peers, all educated on the local issues specific to your community and your agriculture industry, and in-the-know presumably, siding with you?
Or going jury nullification on Monsanto??? I would.
> GPS service is more important than the [wholesale > broadband] network Lightsquared proposed
I disagree with you, what Lightsquared was/is trying to provide is extremely good for the public. Their shifty means are deplorable, absolutely!
What the NTIA, the FCC want is serious nationwide competition to the lethargic status quo in broadband connectivity. The majors sit on their hands bemoaning the difficulty of providing "_wholesale_ 4G LTE" to the rural, exurban USA hinterland, which Lightsquared with their proposal are aiming dead center to fill.
Filling that need in the city as well as the countryside via resellers, all comers would be a boon to me, as I think you.
So, if the question was put straight to me---repurpose those frequencies, yet I must refit our GPSes too and thou shall get true nationwide Net competition whilst _applying the dagger_ of competition to Time Warner, ATT, Cox, all telecoms, wireless and wirelinked---love my Garmin navi unit as I do, I would tell Lightsquared yes, tell the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, tell the FCC that I support you.
I can buy a new GPS unit, but as of now I can not buy universal quality Internet to save my life or yours. Especially not on the fair priced variety plan.
Forgive me, but, kindly qualify that with an "I think so, " would you please. You just don't know it's so empirically; less certitude.
Tangentially, what this article's noted observation reminds me of is rice cooker paddles. That's right, rice ladle spoons. Some time not too long ago, a decade maybe? someone realized that if you added dimples to the plastic injection moldings so as to render a cooker ladle spoon with large protruding dimples on it---sort of like a golf ball's dimples in reverse, convex instead of concave---that magically wet, starchy, goopy rice just would not stick, foul, accrete to your ladle spoon! I though it was the cat's miao! first time I saw it.
I have the feeling that some sort of analog is occurring here vis-a-vis this new observation on A. australis.
Succinctly put: Thugs (carriers) love making money, however they hate it when someone else (Apple) out-thugs them for a larger share. They're throwing a tantrum.
I love it when hardcore colonialists, and genocidal Old World'ers get all hot and bothered and start throwing excrement at others and calling others names. And not good names at that! You silly, bitches.
To wit, Mexicans are Americans, Canadians are Americans, BraSilians (fuck that Z shit!). Shit, Nicaraguans too are Americans. They are all in the Americas: North, Central, and South America. Obviously you've never talked to one, they'll tell you off to the tune that they are Americans. South or Central Americans most typically. But you don't know that do you. You are just a dumb ass, reflexive, knee jerk, mob mentality, go along to get along type. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if you are a South Asian self hating ethnic, hating on the rest to make the out the best, no.
Before you started pouting off about 'it was a colloquialism, dude,' let me remind you that when throwing stones and making facile imperialist ad hominem slurs, first see if the guy is American, oops! a US citizen---that dude didn't claim to be.
And don't you love it when unsolicited, or most tangentially, or just randomly Spaniards start calling the US imperialists, or dogs, or to go back to yankilandia (no capitalization, invariably)? I have seen it, and laughed my ass off.
And to boot all, to pee your pants in hysterical bliss when some Spaniards (in life, as in cinema, "Barcelona" I'm looking at you) really get frothy and angry at an Hispanic (oh excuse me `Latino/a') start slurring that person as "Indio." That means Indian, as in Latin American mestizo, or Quechua, or some such corruption in their hate filled minds. Some how in their minds Iberians, Catalans, Spaniards, etc. fancy themselves Viking blonde and blue eyed; Alberto Contador cycling cheater to the contrary, or Miguel Indurain---but shit, I love Indurain, don't think I am besmirching Big Mig! I am highlighting the hypocrisy of the Spanish empire, the old Dutch empire, the Portuguese, the British empires. It's funny when to this day, in the right, or is that the right fora? You can be innocently talking cinema whenst some dark souled tyrant, champion of the faux, champion of hypocrisy rises to the defense of the weak when truly he or she is desirous of a good hate filled oral defecation. "I will if you wont notice, as my forefathers did, as you might have noticed, subjugated continents, rained genocide upon the native inhabitants, spread pestilence, and brought, upon orders, cultural apocalypse on all. My name is Conquistador. Or hey, you are untouchable, caste away!
Your answer while long, detailed bored me; it was not incisive as to the main salient point of just what `board certified/certification' means to a consumer, you see.
Any low prestige certification entity can hand out board certifications, and they do! There are fortunes to be had by selling board certifications. The question that matters is, who is the Board giving out the certification? Is it a Tiffany, or is it a Walmart clone run by unscrupulous hucksters?
When you go to a doctor's office look at all the board certificates, perhpas 2, 3 4 different ones for the same specialization. Now, go home and research which Boards are the elite in that field, and note which ones are on your doctor's wall, and how come the majority of those are from third rate organizations? IOW, when you these References consider the source, always. It's just like evaluating people. Boards come in all stripes and colors. Caveat emptor.
> Google begins charging for its service. How is this not > textbook antitrust?
Shit, they don't like it? Why can't they use Bing Maps? Mapquest? OpenStreetMap? When did the Google Maps ninjas infiltrate and destroy France's cartography treasures?
I used to love to scan Rand McNally paper city maps. In fact the first time I saw one at a gas station I thought I had found a nuclear weapon! "Shit, does anyone know that you can anywhere, hide no man on no street that I cannot find with this?! Does the military know about this?!!! Gad! By the sword of Greystoke !I Have The Power!" *G*
But shit, I hated that my map of NYC ended at the edge of Englewood, NJ, to the north, and Elizabeth edges to the south. As a matter of fact decades later I was flabbergasted to learn that Scientolo John Travolta is from Englewood---I remembered the effing town from my McNally maps. But that flaw of paper maps, finiteness, is anathema to me, online maps are boundless. I haven't bought a paper map since 2005, when I noticed how powerful online maps had become, and how magical GPS Navi was. But I'll be danged if I am going to pity or compensate paper map companies for their poor business models.
> Google search most certainly is a monopoly. A legal > monopoly does not require 100% market share.
Monopolies require extremely high barriers to entry.
Entering a different URI in your browser is not extremely difficult, rather it is extremely easy. There, monopoly broken---if the user so wishes. Making a dang good, dang simple, dang uncluttered, with dang clairvoyantly parsive input should not be a crime.
And even if a "monopolist" has monopolist's power, being a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing monopoly power is illegal.
I don't care about mod points on this issue. But apropos to your comments:
* You have 5th Amendment rights. To remain silent, to not self-incriminate. When stopped and asked anything by law enforcement stay silent. Without forethought this is hard, as you don't want to be appear rude, nor seem to invite excessive scrutiny for being anomalously silent. The alternative is to become a plaything as non sequiturs _and_ yells strike you in their trawling for crime. Alternatively you may ask, "Why are you detaining me?" (Thus forcing their hand.) Then remain silent, _no matter what else_ is asked! You cannot be punished for remaining silent, you cannot be berated for remaining silent, you cannot give _entree_ to maneuvering to law enforcement by remaining silent. Law enforcement fishes, lies, yells and berates as part of the M.O. of their work. When innocently going about your righteous life and this occurs to you once, twice, say !enough! Short circuit. Don't play the game. Throw a monkey wrench.
* When law enforcement says "you are free to go," go!
Don't stop to answer, By the way, do you a gun with you?
By the way, do you have children photography in your phone? laptop? Ipad?
By the way, do you have MP3s in your e-devices?
By the way, do you travel outside the US?
By the way, do you speak another language as your first tongue?
etc. Go! Stay silent. Follow their original directions---free to go. They're fishing. Fine, think it can't happen to you, but once you feel your ire rise at the deluge of tangential, irrelevant to you questions and you become irritated, or angry, or late, or offended, or arrested for protesting at normal voice for the silly encounter to a Rambo type with payback in his/her heart remember these words.
> you are not solving a mystery, you are solving a writer's > thought pattern
Brilliant! You're hired! Your insight in why I haven't been surprised at anything, ANYTHING, no plot that Hollywood has devised in the past two decades. Not television, not cinema, and typically not even foreign cinema--they tend to do poor imitations of Hollywood plot surprises.
After you've seen the slew of Hollywood plot gimmicks over decades, you will deconstruct anything to at least an order of magnitude of accuracy. Jacob's Ladder, with Tim Robbins! What a cheat!!! Seen that plot rehashed periodically---last seen in that Christian Bale film where he's been followed by a mysterious person, having his thoughts read, his life framed. Answer the Jacob's Ladder it never happened, it's all in your mind trope. See Victoria Principal's _shower dream_ of Dallas' Bobby's death to _justify the roll back_ of the death of Bobby after a whole new season was tanking post Bobby's character having left the show post death.
It's emblematic of our hubris. A dearth of creativity. It's, this new trend, Google famous or not, the new fad. Simple.End. Stop.
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Let's not forget `regulated up the Ying Yang' China!
China's creating motherfucking wealth and cocksucking prosperity the likes of which shiteating dogmatic Republicans and Libertarians (I love U Ron Paul, I really do!) are left apoplectic.
> If Google had won a wireless spectrum auction (they
> didn't),
You're confusing the kids, if you're not confused yourself! That's not so.
It's a known, discussed, written, reported, contemporaneous fact that Google did not want to own spectrum, it wanted to force innovation into wireless.
If by promising to outbid by _several_ orders of magnitude the stodgy telcos, the let's-hoard-the-spectrum-and-do-the-same-old-thing telecoms' old guard they _inadvertently_spoiled the usual telco land grab, and prevented corporate welfare, and forced a _valuable_ if not priceless resource ("they're not making any more of it") to be valued, to be priced (esteemed), to be reinvented for NEW uses, then Google was HAPPY to BID AND NOT WIN SPECTRUM.
Google did not want to be a telecom, nor a manufacturing company, they wanted the telecom lunatics not to increase the size of their asylum. That was their gambit. Didn't you know that? Hasn't your reading come across that fact yet?
That is why when Google bought Motorola Mobility everyone was so taken aback! They need the patent armor, obviously! but it was still a shock to onlookers.
> then Google Voice could've been the core of Google's
> competition with the telco network
No-no. See above. The wonderful to come and behold will be, what will Google do with MM? Will it innovate out of the box? Out-do, -fox Apple by using their Goog-411 / GVoice chops---finally? (BTW how the hell did Siri go past them when they had so much voice data, algorithmic, software expertise, and skill?! FOR YEARS and in VAST DATA QUANTITIES. I should be offered a job at Google, they need a real strategic thinker, planner.)
Sorry to self-reply. I forgot to include example. Search for, as example, "John Laubach", recently murdered in Manhattan and the dailymail.co.uk will be #1 with a SEO bullet. Keep searching for petty crime and you'll see them rise.
I know no one in NYC who links for local NYC shiz to a British paper. Not even rarely.
SEO wacking are we, Google? 'Member when JC Penney was playing you a while ago, well you'd better check on the dailymail.co.uk
For the past month I have noticed that local! LOCAL! NYC crime/news stories---not that big DSK scheisse, but just the petty shiz---from dailymail.co.uk are receiving #1 placing. WTF.
SEO anyone? anyone?? anyone??? Get on it.
>>>
Maybe Facebook knows you're married. Google knows you're trying to find a divorce attorney.
>>>
Your post's insight is a rarity. It's what an old (Score:5) used to provide in rare value, extraordinary incisiveness. If I ever meet you in person I will buy you dinner and all the Chimay you can drink! I promise. I haven't chimed in with _such_ acclaim in a decade. Godspeed.
>>>
unlimited data at the advertised speed, the only limitation being time itself. If you offer a 100kbps plan that doesn't let you download 259gb per month, and call it unlimited,
>>>
I've posted this many times before and it gets ignored, I agree with your point wholesale. There are inherent limits as you have rightly highlighted. There is a natural limit in all this stuff. We are human, all our stuff and our selves have limits: Of time (consciousness/consumption) + Of bandwidth (throughput/time as you've noted) + Of routing speeds + Of cabling speeds + Of peering agreements? So WTF am I saying.
IOW, I could argue that X Telecom is prevaricating in its -unlimit- when I request say a download/ refresh of the entire Internet! Fuck, youz crazy you say! Maybe, but that's what "unlimited" ultimately means---ZERO limits.
To wit, I should be able to ask with -certainty- for God to download the entire Multiverse to my God-device, and it shall be so. He's perfect, yes. Inhuman, thus perfect.
This is a non brief way of saying, what telecoms/anyone-else should advertise is UnMetered service. For, unless you are Vishnu or some omnipotent deity you can not provided anything in Un-Limited quantities. It's not semantics, man.
>>>
. I would just pick up a volume and open it at random and start reading. So it's kind of sad that the printed version is going away.
>>>
You can download the entirety of Wikipedia and read it on your Kindle, Ipad, etc. as a physical book. I love the idea of WP, I've gotten lost in it for hours just as easily as you have in print.
``In David Lean's 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia quotes the Rodwell translation of the [Qur'an] during the scene in which Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and Feisal (Alec Guinness) alternately recite verses from what Rodwell calls `The Brightness'*.'' --WP
From the film disc I bounced to Wikipedia, to Google, to Google Books, to Google Search again, and about for hours.
I downloaded Rodwell's public domain century old book with the original film quote, and plan to read it cover to cover. I found that scene so geeky literary, so poetic, such a travelogue reference that I plan to use it one day to travel the Mideast when, you know, GWOT is over or when I can skirt around it in my adventure motorbike.
Bits can be as inspiring and corporeal (in the right electric medium) as the pulped page. Man! I'm jazzed now! Onward and forward to save for a KTM or GS.
#####
* BY the noon-day BRIGHTNESS,
And by the night when it darkeneth!
Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee, neither hath he been displeased.
And surely the Future shall be better for thee than the Past,
And in the end shall thy Lord be bounteous to thee and thou be satisfied.
> flushed in a single decade
"Twas not that brevitous. Their print sales peaked in 1990. Net mass adoption began ~'95. Wikipedia was nowhere to be had hitherto.
> . They charge what they think they can on an estimated
> curve, using well-considered data about what the market
> will bear
Garth Brooks, is that you? Not saying you're wrong, BTW. ^-^
> luxury.
I do not think that word thinks what you think it means. Even an ironical use by you seems imprudent. Bargain, rarity, welcome sight? Better.
> I can buy TWO Ford Focus 40mpg cars for the same
> price as a Volt.
This logic kind myopia always astounds me. Here try this one on for size.
For the price of a Ferrari 458 Italia I can ~30 Foci, give or take. Or a handful of of Honda Fits to a BMW M3. Or shiz if you want to compare 4-seater saloon types, an FF to your hatchback/sedan. IOW, Folks buy with dissimilar tastes, and god bless them for it. If it wasn't for all those fuckers in the '80s buying ABS, air bags, cruise controlled, etc. German luxury cars I wouldn't be able to buy an appliance Corolla for peanuts with those same features installed; citizen led, government mandated rules or not.
Why drive your VW GTI R for ~40K when a nice 9k USD Hyundai would do? Because you want what you want. One size does not fit all, nor you. So what the fuck are you bitching at?! Dumbass.
I always wonder/ed?
* Why can't we have teacher-professors?
AND
*Why can't we have research-professors?
College tuition is astronomically high, so don't tell me with a straight face that money is an issue in implementing this. Disrupting the vested status quo is the root cause. I hated freshman level physics lectures. I might as well read the textbook on my own, gather all teaching aids onto me, take tutoring (where even a graduate level tutor did not understand the end of chapter problems!), and promote to get a cut in my tuition by campaigning to get the costs of the university lowered by having my physics teacher fired---why not? I/we never understood a cryptic word he said anyway. At the time I was so young, I thought that "It has to be me, maybe I am not concentrating hard enough. These hard-science, freshman level Lecture teachers oops professors can't be as bad as I think they are!"
>>>
Pretty sure they're paying the support staff a lot more money for the time spent on the call to reverse a 9 cent charge. If everybody did this, I'm sure cell companies would lose enough money to get their act together.
>>>
Please search /. like 5 -6 years ago. A guy called customer service so much that Sprint(?) ended his service, without a termination fee. True. Good way to get out of onerous fees! Sprint said the same thing, you cost us too much in CSR usage.
Play with the devil and you will get burned. Farmers are not pure as undriven snow, I hate to tell you. Frankenfoods/-crops are good until they are not, right. Reap what you sow, farmer Brown. Any why aren't juries of your peers, all educated on the local issues specific to your community and your agriculture industry, and in-the-know presumably, siding with you?
Or going jury nullification on Monsanto??? I would.
> illegal to price your product
No-no. You have a right to be a dick. However, don't be surprised when you are called a dick. Is all.
> GPS service is more important than the [wholesale
> broadband] network Lightsquared proposed
I disagree with you, what Lightsquared was/is trying to provide is extremely good for the public. Their shifty means are deplorable, absolutely!
What the NTIA, the FCC want is serious nationwide competition to the lethargic status quo in broadband connectivity. The majors sit on their hands bemoaning the difficulty of providing "_wholesale_ 4G LTE" to the rural, exurban USA hinterland, which Lightsquared with their proposal are aiming dead center to fill.
Filling that need in the city as well as the countryside via resellers, all comers would be a boon to me, as I think you.
So, if the question was put straight to me---repurpose those frequencies, yet I must refit our GPSes too and thou shall get true nationwide Net competition whilst _applying the dagger_ of competition to Time Warner, ATT, Cox, all telecoms, wireless and wirelinked---love my Garmin navi unit as I do, I would tell Lightsquared yes, tell the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, tell the FCC that I support you.
I can buy a new GPS unit, but as of now I can not buy universal quality Internet to save my life or yours. Especially not on the fair priced variety plan.
I am sorry aviators.
> causing a net increase in drag
Forgive me, but, kindly qualify that with an "I think so, " would you please. You just don't know it's so empirically; less certitude.
Tangentially, what this article's noted observation reminds me of is rice cooker paddles. That's right, rice ladle spoons. Some time not too long ago, a decade maybe? someone realized that if you added dimples to the plastic injection moldings so as to render a cooker ladle spoon with large protruding dimples on it---sort of like a golf ball's dimples in reverse, convex instead of concave---that magically wet, starchy, goopy rice just would not stick, foul, accrete to your ladle spoon! I though it was the cat's miao! first time I saw it.
I have the feeling that some sort of analog is occurring here vis-a-vis this new observation on A. australis.
> is it that profits are reduced, not eliminated?
Succinctly put: Thugs (carriers) love making money, however they hate it when someone else (Apple) out-thugs them for a larger share. They're throwing a tantrum.
> ignorant American attitude
I love it when hardcore colonialists, and genocidal Old World'ers get all hot and bothered and start throwing excrement at others and calling others names. And not good names at that! You silly, bitches.
To wit, Mexicans are Americans, Canadians are Americans, BraSilians (fuck that Z shit!). Shit, Nicaraguans too are Americans. They are all in the Americas: North, Central, and South America. Obviously you've never talked to one, they'll tell you off to the tune that they are Americans. South or Central Americans most typically. But you don't know that do you. You are just a dumb ass, reflexive, knee jerk, mob mentality, go along to get along type. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if you are a South Asian self hating ethnic, hating on the rest to make the out the best, no.
Before you started pouting off about 'it was a colloquialism, dude,' let me remind you that when throwing stones and making facile imperialist ad hominem slurs, first see if the guy is American, oops! a US citizen---that dude didn't claim to be.
And don't you love it when unsolicited, or most tangentially, or just randomly Spaniards start calling the US imperialists, or dogs, or to go back to yankilandia (no capitalization, invariably)? I have seen it, and laughed my ass off.
And to boot all, to pee your pants in hysterical bliss when some Spaniards (in life, as in cinema, "Barcelona" I'm looking at you) really get frothy and angry at an Hispanic (oh excuse me `Latino/a') start slurring that person as "Indio." That means Indian, as in Latin American mestizo, or Quechua, or some such corruption in their hate filled minds. Some how in their minds Iberians, Catalans, Spaniards, etc. fancy themselves Viking blonde and blue eyed; Alberto Contador cycling cheater to the contrary, or Miguel Indurain---but shit, I love Indurain, don't think I am besmirching Big Mig! I am highlighting the hypocrisy of the Spanish empire, the old Dutch empire, the Portuguese, the British empires. It's funny when to this day, in the right, or is that the right fora? You can be innocently talking cinema whenst some dark souled tyrant, champion of the faux, champion of hypocrisy rises to the defense of the weak when truly he or she is desirous of a good hate filled oral defecation. "I will if you wont notice, as my forefathers did, as you might have noticed, subjugated continents, rained genocide upon the native inhabitants, spread pestilence, and brought, upon orders, cultural apocalypse on all. My name is Conquistador. Or hey, you are untouchable, caste away!
> "boards" and "board certified".
Your answer while long, detailed bored me; it was not incisive as to the main salient point of just what `board certified/certification' means to a consumer, you see.
Any low prestige certification entity can hand out board certifications, and they do! There are fortunes to be had by selling board certifications. The question that matters is, who is the Board giving out the certification? Is it a Tiffany, or is it a Walmart clone run by unscrupulous hucksters?
When you go to a doctor's office look at all the board certificates, perhpas 2, 3 4 different ones for the same specialization. Now, go home and research which Boards are the elite in that field, and note which ones are on your doctor's wall, and how come the majority of those are from third rate organizations? IOW, when you these References consider the source, always. It's just like evaluating people. Boards come in all stripes and colors. Caveat emptor.
Succinctly: heads they win, tails they win.
> Google begins charging for its service. How is this not
> textbook antitrust?
Shit, they don't like it? Why can't they use Bing Maps? Mapquest? OpenStreetMap? When did the Google Maps ninjas infiltrate and destroy France's cartography treasures?
I used to love to scan Rand McNally paper city maps. In fact the first time I saw one at a gas station I thought I had found a nuclear weapon! "Shit, does anyone know that you can anywhere, hide no man on no street that I cannot find with this?! Does the military know about this?!!! Gad! By the sword of Greystoke !I Have The Power!" *G*
But shit, I hated that my map of NYC ended at the edge of Englewood, NJ, to the north, and Elizabeth edges to the south. As a matter of fact decades later I was flabbergasted to learn that Scientolo John Travolta is from Englewood---I remembered the effing town from my McNally maps. But that flaw of paper maps, finiteness, is anathema to me, online maps are boundless. I haven't bought a paper map since 2005, when I noticed how powerful online maps had become, and how magical GPS Navi was. But I'll be danged if I am going to pity or compensate paper map companies for their poor business models.
> Google search most certainly is a monopoly. A legal
> monopoly does not require 100% market share.
Monopolies require extremely high barriers to entry.
Entering a different URI in your browser is not extremely difficult, rather it is extremely easy. There, monopoly broken---if the user so wishes. Making a dang good, dang simple, dang uncluttered, with dang clairvoyantly parsive input should not be a crime.
And even if a "monopolist" has monopolist's power, being a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing monopoly power is illegal.
I don't care about mod points on this issue. But apropos to your comments:
* You have 5th Amendment rights. To remain silent, to not self-incriminate. When stopped and asked anything by law enforcement stay silent. Without forethought this is hard, as you don't want to be appear rude, nor seem to invite excessive scrutiny for being anomalously silent. The alternative is to become a plaything as non sequiturs _and_ yells strike you in their trawling for crime. Alternatively you may ask, "Why are you detaining me?" (Thus forcing their hand.) Then remain silent, _no matter what else_ is asked! You cannot be punished for remaining silent, you cannot be berated for remaining silent, you cannot give _entree_ to maneuvering to law enforcement by remaining silent. Law enforcement fishes, lies, yells and berates as part of the M.O. of their work. When innocently going about your righteous life and this occurs to you once, twice, say !enough! Short circuit. Don't play the game. Throw a monkey wrench.
* When law enforcement says "you are free to go," go!
Don't stop to answer, By the way, do you a gun with you?
By the way, do you have children photography in your phone? laptop? Ipad?
By the way, do you have MP3s in your e-devices?
By the way, do you travel outside the US?
By the way, do you speak another language as your first tongue?
etc. Go! Stay silent. Follow their original directions---free to go. They're fishing. Fine, think it can't happen to you, but once you feel your ire rise at the deluge of tangential, irrelevant to you questions and you become irritated, or angry, or late, or offended, or arrested for protesting at normal voice for the silly encounter to a Rambo type with payback in his/her heart remember these words.
> you are not solving a mystery, you are solving a writer's
> thought pattern
Brilliant! You're hired! Your insight in why I haven't been surprised at anything, ANYTHING, no plot that Hollywood has devised in the past two decades. Not television, not cinema, and typically not even foreign cinema--they tend to do poor imitations of Hollywood plot surprises.
After you've seen the slew of Hollywood plot gimmicks over decades, you will deconstruct anything to at least an order of magnitude of accuracy. Jacob's Ladder, with Tim Robbins! What a cheat!!! Seen that plot rehashed periodically---last seen in that Christian Bale film where he's been followed by a mysterious person, having his thoughts read, his life framed. Answer the Jacob's Ladder it never happened, it's all in your mind trope. See Victoria Principal's _shower dream_ of Dallas' Bobby's death to _justify the roll back_ of the death of Bobby after a whole new season was tanking post Bobby's character having left the show post death.
It's emblematic of our hubris. A dearth of creativity. It's, this new trend, Google famous or not, the new fad. Simple.End. Stop.