> Anyone that runs the numbers honestly on the needed infrastructure realizes > that the whole e-mobility vision is a ridiculous joke
It wasn't a joke when cars had not much more range in the 1930s. The Model T got about 15 to 20 mpg and had a 10 gallon tank. That's the same range as the Tesla S. And this is precisely why there are "gasoline alleys", leftover remnants of that era when every city had a string of stations around every major artery so people could top up again on their trips.
Except that in the `30's it still only took 10 minutes to top off and you were on the next 200-mile leg of your trip. Batteries and charging have a long way to go and may never catch up to that level of convenience.
What did you expect to happen if it didn't get killed? One less competitor plus the expense of the merger and they would have raised their rates in a heartbeat. And since that competition was gone, so would Verizon. Absolutely NO good would befall the consumer if the merger was allowed.
If GP had pointed out that the requirement is for third party cover, then you might realize why your analogy sucks.
Not everywhere requires insurance to cover a 3rd party. In the state of Michigan for example, we are a no-fault state. Your auto insurance covers you and your car. In this way, if I own a Ferrari and someone else runs it over, my insurance pays for it, not theirs. This was done to put a stop to the rampant lawsuits and insurance companies refusing to pay claims based on fault.
Except that if you lost your job in a higher level profession, you can't get hired to stock shelves or mow lawns because any potential employer expects that you'll abandon them at the first opportunity for a job more suited to your education...and they're right.
In business, EVERYTHING has to do with money. It doesn't matter how much cash they have, the goal of a business is to profit and to increase profits. Period.
Wrong, you are the idiot. Your rights end where another's begin, hence laws regarding libel and slander. Publicly stating that an official in charge of minors is a pedophile "for fun" could destroy his career, reputation or land him in prison. That isn't disrespectful, it is illegal.
_We_ never had the 'net. It was a government project turned public and offered as a paid for service to the general populace, internet access is a product not a right. The 'net is far more accessible now than it was 15 years ago when I first started using it. If you don't like the TOS of a particular provider, find another one or have a T1 pulled to your house.
It isn't necessarily a conspiracy, but highly publicized theory is not necessarily fact. Some examples of former facts: The universe revolves around the earth, the earth is flat, everything is made from 4 basic elements which you can use to make gold. Unquestioning faith in any theory is highly unscientific, including this.
Frankly, everyone got what they deserved. The two that did the killing had openly advertised their intent and progress to their targets and those targets probably went right on goading them. Poke and injured bear with a stick after the first growl and you get what you deserve. If the kids that saw the videos and the threats didn't tell people then they failed to protect themselves and if they did tell their parents or whoever and they did not respond then they failed to protect their children. If my child came to me (and I have 4) with a web site or reporting videos and stories like those I would immediately pull them all from school and march my 6'1" 240lbs ass to that school with the police and tell every parent I could find. I do NOT compromise the safety of my or any other children as it is my job as a parent to see to the safe upbringing of my kids --- PERIOD. Argue all you want, but that is the only proven purpose for life - to see that the species continues to flourish.
I agree wholeheartedly that such violent influences should be rgulated out of existence and would like to suggest a few more pertinent examples of violent conditioning....
1. History Classes: The violent, antisocial behavior of revolutionaries is made heroic and teaches that is right, just and noble to attack and kill the soldiers sent by the parent government to police the actions of the law breaking subjects of their realm. Especially in the cases of the American and French Revolutions! Whereas the patriotic efforts of people such as Benedict Arnold are villified by historians because they attempted to uphold the laws of the land. After all, why would anyone want to hurt another just because they felt they were being mistreated?
2. Role playing games: No one should be allowed to pretend to be some fantastic character that they are not in the name of entertainment and intellectual growth...and I don't mean Dungeons & Dragons (copyright TSR), little girls playing dolls and pretending to be the mommy of some twisted urethane caricature of a child is truly sick as are toy soldiers, remote control cars (children might think they could drive Daddy's car)! Where does it end? Painting little lanscapes and portraits of their pets with watercolors is even worse...pretending to be the creator of your own world or piece of the world only leads to Napoleonic behavior and god-complexes!
What is healty:Manifest destiny (the taking of what is not yours with the price being paid by an entire race until they are nearly extinct), Conformity (be an individual like everyone else, shop at the Gap, resistance is futile), Smoke-drink-shoot dope and fuck everything in sight like your favorite actor or singer, Torture your class/workmates with ridiculous taunts and violence knowing that in no way can they retaliate because you are cool and they are not.
In closing (as I am now completely pissed off): To the parents of the attackers in Columbine and everywhere else - Fuck you for not doing your job. And to the parents of the attacked - Fuck you for not teaching your children tolerance and civility. To those seeking to put a price on blame so that they may become rich - Fuck you and your gold-digging and know that if you are Christian and believe in your God's laws regarding salvation that you WILL burn in hell for your vengeful intolerant actions.
This incident has done something far more valuble than kick a dying company or provide $78 in monetary compensation! What this case does do is provide further precedent for future cases. If anyone in California ever decides to sue a large company over something like this they will need to show plenty of previous victories in spam cases or fall victim quickly to a wolfpack of lawyers from the opposition. I tip my hat to Ellen in her success in setting this precedent in California as it may also help in getting anti-spamming laws passed and enforced elsewhere in the future!
From the Ranger Online press release: "IOS Technology gives Ranger the first online product control, anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting system with offensive capabilities.".
Does this mean that their IOS (confusingly similar to a Cisco Systems product name, no?) software has the capability to break into a target system if they suspect it is violating their client's copyrights? Isn't that illegal (at least in the USA)? I find it disturbing that any reputable company would advertise software with "offensive capabilities" which are probably illegal in the country they call home....
The article states that most users are not capable of the installation and configuration of Linux, however this is also true of Windows. Most users buy a computer from a major supplier (Dell, etc.) or the local computer geek. These computers (99.99% anyway) come with a preinstalled, preconfigured Windows "distribution". The average user hasn't got a clue of how to install Windows or configure their ISP connection. The real trick to getting Linux on the desktop is to get the distributors of computer systems to offer machines with Linux installed and configured to the hardware on the machine. A few scripts run on first boot can customize the install and set up the ISP. Choice doesn't matter to these folks as long as they are able to do the same things their friends can do (email, ICQ, games) and don't even know what wordpad or notepad are! After users become more used to their system, then they embrace the concept of choice and seek out more diverse software options....and if they were baptised with Linux, they will come to understand the file structure and even how to run "make install" or unpack an RPM.
If there is a need for an OS reinstall, most users put in a recovery disk and wait until they are told to reboot.....the best place for computer sellers to look for this kind of support in Linux is to read about RedHat's "kickstart" utility...
Since some of the posters here are harping about the name of the bill, I thought I would paste this from the bill text on the cryptome page referenced by the article:
The bill (H.R. 46), as amended, was read the third time and passed.
The title was amended so as to read:
To provide a national medal for public safety officers who
act with extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of
duty, to enhance computer crime enforcement and Internet
security, and for other purposes.
You forgot one: the sheer number of ads on some sites. Another push lately is to break articles into 2 or more sections that load 6-10 banners on each page, most of them animated. Download times for a 1k HTML page skyrocket.
Internet advertising has worked well in banner ads, but I don't think that the advertisers are measuring their success properly.
The point of advertising in the past (TV, radio) has always been more to demonstrate the product in question or to show what great deals the advertiser has to offer. This investment(hopefully) is returned in increased sales of the product or increased sales (in general) at the store. Ultimately the strongest drive for this is building your name in peoples' minds so that when they shop they visit your store or consider your product. The internet, however is being played differently. The problem now is that the advertisers are equating their ad success to click-thru counts. Frankly, if I am not in the market for a given product a that moment, I will not visit your site no matter how intrusive the advertising is. In fact the more intrusive it becomes, the more likely I am to avoid your ads with proxy filters or reduced surfing at the sites you advertise with. Unfortunately, the business models on the internet rely so heavily on advertising for revenue right now that it will only become an increasing annoyance.
I think that if advertisers were to do a better job getting their product or service across in the existing space that they would indeed reap higher benefits. Differentiate yourself, show the product and link directly to pertinent information to increase traffic and sales. Bigger, flashier and equally vacuuous content only serve to anger your target audience and force them to remember the useful info they got from somewhere else...
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> Anyone that runs the numbers honestly on the needed infrastructure realizes
> that the whole e-mobility vision is a ridiculous joke
It wasn't a joke when cars had not much more range in the 1930s. The Model T got about 15 to 20 mpg and had a 10 gallon tank. That's the same range as the Tesla S. And this is precisely why there are "gasoline alleys", leftover remnants of that era when every city had a string of stations around every major artery so people could top up again on their trips.
Except that in the `30's it still only took 10 minutes to top off and you were on the next 200-mile leg of your trip. Batteries and charging have a long way to go and may never catch up to that level of convenience.
What did you expect to happen if it didn't get killed? One less competitor plus the expense of the merger and they would have raised their rates in a heartbeat. And since that competition was gone, so would Verizon. Absolutely NO good would befall the consumer if the merger was allowed.
If GP had pointed out that the requirement is for third party cover, then you might realize why your analogy sucks.
Not everywhere requires insurance to cover a 3rd party. In the state of Michigan for example, we are a no-fault state. Your auto insurance covers you and your car. In this way, if I own a Ferrari and someone else runs it over, my insurance pays for it, not theirs. This was done to put a stop to the rampant lawsuits and insurance companies refusing to pay claims based on fault.
Except that if you lost your job in a higher level profession, you can't get hired to stock shelves or mow lawns because any potential employer expects that you'll abandon them at the first opportunity for a job more suited to your education...and they're right.
Mod parent down, goatse link
In business, EVERYTHING has to do with money. It doesn't matter how much cash they have, the goal of a business is to profit and to increase profits. Period.
Do you really think they haven't already thought of this?
I can go one better.....
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/53908/53908,1146178058,1/stock-photo-sliding-bolt-lock-1252110.jpg
Where are my mod points when I really want them?
Some of mine certainly do
Except Consumer Reports tested it in a shielded lab environment and it failed. As far as infrastructure goes, it doesn't get any better than that.
Wrong, you are the idiot. Your rights end where another's begin, hence laws regarding libel and slander. Publicly stating that an official in charge of minors is a pedophile "for fun" could destroy his career, reputation or land him in prison. That isn't disrespectful, it is illegal.
_We_ never had the 'net. It was a government project turned public and offered as a paid for service to the general populace, internet access is a product not a right. The 'net is far more accessible now than it was 15 years ago when I first started using it. If you don't like the TOS of a particular provider, find another one or have a T1 pulled to your house.
It isn't necessarily a conspiracy, but highly publicized theory is not necessarily fact. Some examples of former facts: The universe revolves around the earth, the earth is flat, everything is made from 4 basic elements which you can use to make gold. Unquestioning faith in any theory is highly unscientific, including this.
Bah, if only they knew....
That site is probably hosted offsite at a hosting company and they have no clue what it is running on.
Damn, I wish I had mod status right now! Well said!
Frankly, everyone got what they deserved. The two that did the killing had openly advertised their intent and progress to their targets and those targets probably went right on goading them. Poke and injured bear with a stick after the first growl and you get what you deserve. If the kids that saw the videos and the threats didn't tell people then they failed to protect themselves and if they did tell their parents or whoever and they did not respond then they failed to protect their children. If my child came to me (and I have 4) with a web site or reporting videos and stories like those I would immediately pull them all from school and march my 6'1" 240lbs ass to that school with the police and tell every parent I could find. I do NOT compromise the safety of my or any other children as it is my job as a parent to see to the safe upbringing of my kids --- PERIOD. Argue all you want, but that is the only proven purpose for life - to see that the species continues to flourish.
I agree wholeheartedly that such violent influences should be rgulated out of existence and would like to suggest a few more pertinent examples of violent conditioning....
1. History Classes: The violent, antisocial behavior of revolutionaries is made heroic and teaches that is right, just and noble to attack and kill the soldiers sent by the parent government to police the actions of the law breaking subjects of their realm. Especially in the cases of the American and French Revolutions! Whereas the patriotic efforts of people such as Benedict Arnold are villified by historians because they attempted to uphold the laws of the land. After all, why would anyone want to hurt another just because they felt they were being mistreated?
2. Role playing games: No one should be allowed to pretend to be some fantastic character that they are not in the name of entertainment and intellectual growth...and I don't mean Dungeons & Dragons (copyright TSR), little girls playing dolls and pretending to be the mommy of some twisted urethane caricature of a child is truly sick as are toy soldiers, remote control cars (children might think they could drive Daddy's car)! Where does it end? Painting little lanscapes and portraits of their pets with watercolors is even worse...pretending to be the creator of your own world or piece of the world only leads to Napoleonic behavior and god-complexes!
What is healty:Manifest destiny (the taking of what is not yours with the price being paid by an entire race until they are nearly extinct), Conformity (be an individual like everyone else, shop at the Gap, resistance is futile), Smoke-drink-shoot dope and fuck everything in sight like your favorite actor or singer, Torture your class/workmates with ridiculous taunts and violence knowing that in no way can they retaliate because you are cool and they are not.
In closing (as I am now completely pissed off): To the parents of the attackers in Columbine and everywhere else - Fuck you for not doing your job. And to the parents of the attacked - Fuck you for not teaching your children tolerance and civility. To those seeking to put a price on blame so that they may become rich - Fuck you and your gold-digging and know that if you are Christian and believe in your God's laws regarding salvation that you WILL burn in hell for your vengeful intolerant actions.
This incident has done something far more valuble than kick a dying company or provide $78 in monetary compensation! What this case does do is provide further precedent for future cases. If anyone in California ever decides to sue a large company over something like this they will need to show plenty of previous victories in spam cases or fall victim quickly to a wolfpack of lawyers from the opposition. I tip my hat to Ellen in her success in setting this precedent in California as it may also help in getting anti-spamming laws passed and enforced elsewhere in the future!
From the Ranger Online press release: "IOS Technology gives Ranger the first online product control, anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting system with offensive capabilities.".
Does this mean that their IOS (confusingly similar to a Cisco Systems product name, no?) software has the capability to break into a target system if they suspect it is violating their client's copyrights? Isn't that illegal (at least in the USA)? I find it disturbing that any reputable company would advertise software with "offensive capabilities" which are probably illegal in the country they call home....
The article states that most users are not capable of the installation and configuration of Linux, however this is also true of Windows. Most users buy a computer from a major supplier (Dell, etc.) or the local computer geek. These computers (99.99% anyway) come with a preinstalled, preconfigured Windows "distribution". The average user hasn't got a clue of how to install Windows or configure their ISP connection. The real trick to getting Linux on the desktop is to get the distributors of computer systems to offer machines with Linux installed and configured to the hardware on the machine. A few scripts run on first boot can customize the install and set up the ISP. Choice doesn't matter to these folks as long as they are able to do the same things their friends can do (email, ICQ, games) and don't even know what wordpad or notepad are! After users become more used to their system, then they embrace the concept of choice and seek out more diverse software options....and if they were baptised with Linux, they will come to understand the file structure and even how to run "make install" or unpack an RPM.
If there is a need for an OS reinstall, most users put in a recovery disk and wait until they are told to reboot.....the best place for computer sellers to look for this kind of support in Linux is to read about RedHat's "kickstart" utility...
Since some of the posters here are harping about the name of the bill, I thought I would paste this from the bill text on the cryptome page referenced by the article:
The bill (H.R. 46), as amended, was read the third time and passed. The title was amended so as to read: To provide a national medal for public safety officers who act with extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty, to enhance computer crime enforcement and Internet security, and for other purposes.
Please read the content before commenting
You forgot one: the sheer number of ads on some sites. Another push lately is to break articles into 2 or more sections that load 6-10 banners on each page, most of them animated. Download times for a 1k HTML page skyrocket.
Internet advertising has worked well in banner ads, but I don't think that the advertisers are measuring their success properly.
The point of advertising in the past (TV, radio) has always been more to demonstrate the product in question or to show what great deals the advertiser has to offer. This investment(hopefully) is returned in increased sales of the product or increased sales (in general) at the store. Ultimately the strongest drive for this is building your name in peoples' minds so that when they shop they visit your store or consider your product. The internet, however is being played differently. The problem now is that the advertisers are equating their ad success to click-thru counts. Frankly, if I am not in the market for a given product a that moment, I will not visit your site no matter how intrusive the advertising is. In fact the more intrusive it becomes, the more likely I am to avoid your ads with proxy filters or reduced surfing at the sites you advertise with. Unfortunately, the business models on the internet rely so heavily on advertising for revenue right now that it will only become an increasing annoyance.
I think that if advertisers were to do a better job getting their product or service across in the existing space that they would indeed reap higher benefits. Differentiate yourself, show the product and link directly to pertinent information to increase traffic and sales. Bigger, flashier and equally vacuuous content only serve to anger your target audience and force them to remember the useful info they got from somewhere else...
Because, as the article states, their patents in other countries already expired. The US patent is in effect until 2006.