Drinking your morning coffee while waiting for slashdot to load because your next door neighbor is downloading 100gb of adult entertainment is not ultimately a good thing.
Then they do not have the infrastructure to provide the services/bandwidth you want. If they did they would be willing to sell it to you. Most small town ISPs have very limited connections due to their location. The only thing uncapping/unlimiting would do is clog what little bandwidth is available. It's not like they have infinitely wide tubes that they just throttle down to be mean. If you don't believe me, then find out how much it would cost to get a T-1 line to your house, you can really get one anywhere if you are willing to pay.
Blocking ports limits the services I can use. Blocking sites limits the content I can view. If you can give an example where an ISP cutting off ports limits your ability to view the Internet then please do so, otherwise you are just saying that you want to do things under your Internet plan that your ISP does not want you to do. If that is the case, get another plan or another ISP.
Side A: Net Neutrality means that I can do whatever I want with my net connection without paying different fees!
Side B: Net Neutrality causes the government to regulate what ISPs provide, and stifles free market!
Nobody is arguing true net neutrality, which is that my ISP is not allowed to regulate what content I receive through the means I have purchased. I don't care if they block ports on some plans, or limit my connectivity in other ways so long as they are not blocking sites or CHANGING the content before I receive it. If I use more bandwidth I deserve to pay more because it costs my ISP more to cater to me, but I don't want them to re-direct my web browsing (even my advertisements), I don't want them to throttle certain things that I am allowed to do, or otherwise hinder my connectivity unless it's actually because I have gone outside the bounds of my service plan (Too many GB downloaded/uploaded). Until we can stand together and support the free exchange of information without tying it together with freedom to do whatever the hell you want net neutrality will fail.
So is population control not one of the direct solutions to global warming/overpopulation? If you really believe that global warming is going to kill us all, how can bikes solve the problem? The argument that this is a potential gateway program makes perfect sense, but I don't know what it is a gateway program into. Maybe a carbon tax/credit scheme. Maybe light rail. Maybe free balloons for everyone. I don't know. If someone has time to research ICLEI http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=iclei-home then please let me know. Until then I'll remain ignorant, yet still know that bicycles aren't the end point of this organization's movement for change. Still I'm sure whatever the end goal is it's "For the common good." (TM).
Trivial, perhaps not, but how long until we have targeted advertisements based on personal information gleaned from your RFID credit cards? It's a lot easier than any other identification method, and it's just the thing marketers would use. The point isn't that they contain personal information, but that they broadcast it to the world. When I use my credit card it goes into a database, that's fine I control when I use it, with an RFID card I lose the control over who can read that information. That's the difference.
Pretty sure that's been debunked. It's due to the iron in the ink, not an RFID transmitter. If it were true then the treasury has some of the most advanced and cheapest RFIDs on the planet.
Yes and no. If the technology was invasive enough it could potentially track your location by what reader you were near. My work is currently testing a scheme to monitor the movements of personnel based on their RFID badges. I don't count it as an invasion of privacy because I don't expect privacy at work, but If the government/businesses tried to do the same thing with my visa card it would be grounds for carrying cash. The potential for abuse is there. Also, the potential range is much greater than advertised.
Hmm... So if I say "FOR THE GREATER GOOD." I can pass any legislation without looking at the consequences or the opportunity cost. Good to know. It's like the new "Think of the children." Maybe we should just federally fund domestically made electric vehicles for everyone. It would be a boost to GM/Ford and lower our dependence on foreign oil. Sure it would be expensive, but it's "FOR THE GREATER GOOD." we can just get the money by taxing all the business since they have an unlimited amount of money and this will have no consequences on them or the economy as a whole. I shouldn't have said that. We're about to have a lame duck session of congress.
Well thank you for adding that to the conversation. Instead of talking rationally about the merits of any arguments we'll just go to name calling and generalizations. You are an intellectual one aren't you. Glad you got modded insightful.
Yup. No proof whatsoever that it does what they say it does. Could be simple editing of what is displayed. You see this same scam over and over again in different forms, just look at free energy videos.
Sorry citizen, but public officials cannot be recorded without their consent. It's not like you pay their salaries or anything. We went from a people that control the government, to a government that controls the people.
It doesn't matter if his point is legitimate, or if he clearly makes the statement that he wants time to study what the mayor has signed onto. He's a republican and he doesn't like bikes. This has nothing to do with an environmental initiative that is being spearheaded without review. Remember if you want bills to be read by congress before they are voted on then you are a racist who doesn't like the children or the poor. It's funny who people who opposed the Patriot Act for all the right reasons turn a blind eye to this new wave of legislation that is going through without checks or balances of any kind, and without even the time for everyone to know what it's all about. Remember Ted Stevens said the Internet is made of tubes, not that he did anything good or bad. Move along folks, nothing to see here other than a Republican who doesn't like bikes.
Ok, so if your household is running low on cash do you raise your kids allowances and add more chores? You cannot say new public projects will improve the economy because they don't actually bring more money in they just cause new money to be needed. I'm all in favor of fixing up our crumbling infrastructure, but I also realize that I currently pay for it's maintenance. Every time you go to the gas pump you pay for roads and bridges to be repaired, the problem is the company (the government) who is supposed to repair those roads has been spending the money in other places. So send them more money, that will fix the problem.
No Doubt? If the land was all free then you might be onto something, but people already own the land on which a rail system would be built. The track and trains are relatively cheap compared to the deals that will have to be made to lay them. Replacing airways with rail is feasible, but only if it is done slowly to allow the organization doing it to profit and reinvest in the system. Done quickly it would be an economic disaster that would remain unfinished and just rack up more cost.
A group of lumberjacks can go out and get degrees in history if they see better pay in that field. A person with a degree in history however is very unlikely to become a lumberjack even if the pay is better than any jobs he has available. That's the point. We are subsidizing degrees which are nearly worthless in this job market. Many high school graduates make MORE than their college graduate counterparts because they found a field that they were good at and paid well, vice a field that is flooded by poorly paid college graduates. Limits on training and experience are much more substantial than limits on education. But go on and criticize the economist that doesn't believe in the government paying for people to study underwater basket weaving.
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In the case of government run health care the government loses money when it treats people who are sick.
Also because the people that move the manila folders from desk to desk value their jobs too. When 5 jobs in an office could be eliminated by a software update in the private sector they eliminate the jobs. When the same thing happens in the public sector they either keep the old system or upgrade to a new system that creates 5 more jobs. My own experiences have show that when the government goes paperless you end up with twice the amount of paperwork because everyone still needs a hard copy. This is impossible to change with the current system because there are no rewards to managers who streamline their system, and there are draconian rules in place that prevent positive innovation.
On one hand this is a great victory for free speech/freedom of the press. On the other hand, if they start handing out press passes to anyone then there is a real threat for terrorists to easily get their hands on press passes. I just hope they do some kind of background check first. 'Hi I'm from Al Qaeda news and would like to bring some camera equipment backstage for the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. Don't mind the canisters marked anthrax, it's the new Kodak anthrax film. '
I'm always suspicious when I see a study like this. Did the studies cited compare kids that play violent video games with kids that don't play violent video games or did they actually force kids to play violent video games with a control group that is not allowed to play violent video games. It's like arguing that beach towels cause skin cancer. Sure people that are more likely to have skin cancer also have more exposure to beach towels, but that doesn't mean the towel is the cause. I don't believe violent video games promote violence, but if you have a kid that is obsessed with a violent video game who then goes on a shooting spree then the problem was there before the game was.
Same general thing on ship. Internet secured prior to port visits for opsec, but half the officers have wives waiting for them in port. I just told my family that if they wanted to know where I was going they should just check the news because CNN would know before I did. Officers are assumed to be more responsible and therefore given more privileges, but in reality it doesn't work that way.
By you saying that you have to operate a jackhammer in a radiation suit you have shown your ignorance. We are talking about tritium here, not plutonium, and we are talking about contaminated water and not open fuel assemblies. Also radiation suits are very rarely used in the nuclear field because they are ineffective for their bulkiness and weight, the term you were looking for was anti-contamination suits which are nothing more than an outer-garment. Beyond that, sure you end up with more low level waste from the jackhammered concrete. So? It already would have to be handled as low level waste because it had radioactive pipes running through it. It's not impossible to fix a leak under or in concrete. Ask a plumber.
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Drinking your morning coffee while waiting for slashdot to load because your next door neighbor is downloading 100gb of adult entertainment is not ultimately a good thing.
Then they do not have the infrastructure to provide the services/bandwidth you want. If they did they would be willing to sell it to you. Most small town ISPs have very limited connections due to their location. The only thing uncapping/unlimiting would do is clog what little bandwidth is available. It's not like they have infinitely wide tubes that they just throttle down to be mean. If you don't believe me, then find out how much it would cost to get a T-1 line to your house, you can really get one anywhere if you are willing to pay.
Yup. And due to market forces, guess what happens to Verizon.
Blocking ports limits the services I can use. Blocking sites limits the content I can view. If you can give an example where an ISP cutting off ports limits your ability to view the Internet then please do so, otherwise you are just saying that you want to do things under your Internet plan that your ISP does not want you to do. If that is the case, get another plan or another ISP.
Side A: Net Neutrality means that I can do whatever I want with my net connection without paying different fees!
Side B: Net Neutrality causes the government to regulate what ISPs provide, and stifles free market!
Nobody is arguing true net neutrality, which is that my ISP is not allowed to regulate what content I receive through the means I have purchased. I don't care if they block ports on some plans, or limit my connectivity in other ways so long as they are not blocking sites or CHANGING the content before I receive it. If I use more bandwidth I deserve to pay more because it costs my ISP more to cater to me, but I don't want them to re-direct my web browsing (even my advertisements), I don't want them to throttle certain things that I am allowed to do, or otherwise hinder my connectivity unless it's actually because I have gone outside the bounds of my service plan (Too many GB downloaded/uploaded). Until we can stand together and support the free exchange of information without tying it together with freedom to do whatever the hell you want net neutrality will fail.
So is population control not one of the direct solutions to global warming/overpopulation? If you really believe that global warming is going to kill us all, how can bikes solve the problem? The argument that this is a potential gateway program makes perfect sense, but I don't know what it is a gateway program into. Maybe a carbon tax/credit scheme. Maybe light rail. Maybe free balloons for everyone. I don't know. If someone has time to research ICLEI http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=iclei-home then please let me know. Until then I'll remain ignorant, yet still know that bicycles aren't the end point of this organization's movement for change. Still I'm sure whatever the end goal is it's "For the common good." (TM).
Trivial, perhaps not, but how long until we have targeted advertisements based on personal information gleaned from your RFID credit cards? It's a lot easier than any other identification method, and it's just the thing marketers would use. The point isn't that they contain personal information, but that they broadcast it to the world. When I use my credit card it goes into a database, that's fine I control when I use it, with an RFID card I lose the control over who can read that information. That's the difference.
Pretty sure that's been debunked. It's due to the iron in the ink, not an RFID transmitter. If it were true then the treasury has some of the most advanced and cheapest RFIDs on the planet.
Yes and no. If the technology was invasive enough it could potentially track your location by what reader you were near. My work is currently testing a scheme to monitor the movements of personnel based on their RFID badges. I don't count it as an invasion of privacy because I don't expect privacy at work, but If the government/businesses tried to do the same thing with my visa card it would be grounds for carrying cash. The potential for abuse is there. Also, the potential range is much greater than advertised.
Hmm... So if I say "FOR THE GREATER GOOD." I can pass any legislation without looking at the consequences or the opportunity cost. Good to know. It's like the new "Think of the children." Maybe we should just federally fund domestically made electric vehicles for everyone. It would be a boost to GM/Ford and lower our dependence on foreign oil. Sure it would be expensive, but it's "FOR THE GREATER GOOD." we can just get the money by taxing all the business since they have an unlimited amount of money and this will have no consequences on them or the economy as a whole. I shouldn't have said that. We're about to have a lame duck session of congress.
Well thank you for adding that to the conversation. Instead of talking rationally about the merits of any arguments we'll just go to name calling and generalizations. You are an intellectual one aren't you. Glad you got modded insightful.
Yup. No proof whatsoever that it does what they say it does. Could be simple editing of what is displayed. You see this same scam over and over again in different forms, just look at free energy videos.
Sorry citizen, but public officials cannot be recorded without their consent. It's not like you pay their salaries or anything. We went from a people that control the government, to a government that controls the people.
It doesn't matter if his point is legitimate, or if he clearly makes the statement that he wants time to study what the mayor has signed onto. He's a republican and he doesn't like bikes. This has nothing to do with an environmental initiative that is being spearheaded without review. Remember if you want bills to be read by congress before they are voted on then you are a racist who doesn't like the children or the poor. It's funny who people who opposed the Patriot Act for all the right reasons turn a blind eye to this new wave of legislation that is going through without checks or balances of any kind, and without even the time for everyone to know what it's all about. Remember Ted Stevens said the Internet is made of tubes, not that he did anything good or bad. Move along folks, nothing to see here other than a Republican who doesn't like bikes.
Ok, so if your household is running low on cash do you raise your kids allowances and add more chores? You cannot say new public projects will improve the economy because they don't actually bring more money in they just cause new money to be needed. I'm all in favor of fixing up our crumbling infrastructure, but I also realize that I currently pay for it's maintenance. Every time you go to the gas pump you pay for roads and bridges to be repaired, the problem is the company (the government) who is supposed to repair those roads has been spending the money in other places. So send them more money, that will fix the problem.
No Doubt? If the land was all free then you might be onto something, but people already own the land on which a rail system would be built. The track and trains are relatively cheap compared to the deals that will have to be made to lay them. Replacing airways with rail is feasible, but only if it is done slowly to allow the organization doing it to profit and reinvest in the system. Done quickly it would be an economic disaster that would remain unfinished and just rack up more cost.
A group of lumberjacks can go out and get degrees in history if they see better pay in that field. A person with a degree in history however is very unlikely to become a lumberjack even if the pay is better than any jobs he has available. That's the point. We are subsidizing degrees which are nearly worthless in this job market. Many high school graduates make MORE than their college graduate counterparts because they found a field that they were good at and paid well, vice a field that is flooded by poorly paid college graduates. Limits on training and experience are much more substantial than limits on education. But go on and criticize the economist that doesn't believe in the government paying for people to study underwater basket weaving.
In the case of government run health care the government loses money when it treats people who are sick.
Fixed that for you.
Guess they are also getting rid of the F-302s at McMurdo. Homeworld security must not be important to the current administration.
Also because the people that move the manila folders from desk to desk value their jobs too. When 5 jobs in an office could be eliminated by a software update in the private sector they eliminate the jobs. When the same thing happens in the public sector they either keep the old system or upgrade to a new system that creates 5 more jobs. My own experiences have show that when the government goes paperless you end up with twice the amount of paperwork because everyone still needs a hard copy. This is impossible to change with the current system because there are no rewards to managers who streamline their system, and there are draconian rules in place that prevent positive innovation.
On one hand this is a great victory for free speech/freedom of the press. On the other hand, if they start handing out press passes to anyone then there is a real threat for terrorists to easily get their hands on press passes. I just hope they do some kind of background check first. 'Hi I'm from Al Qaeda news and would like to bring some camera equipment backstage for the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. Don't mind the canisters marked anthrax, it's the new Kodak anthrax film. '
Carrier pigeons are faster. Not unusual to receive mail two months late.
I'm always suspicious when I see a study like this. Did the studies cited compare kids that play violent video games with kids that don't play violent video games or did they actually force kids to play violent video games with a control group that is not allowed to play violent video games. It's like arguing that beach towels cause skin cancer. Sure people that are more likely to have skin cancer also have more exposure to beach towels, but that doesn't mean the towel is the cause. I don't believe violent video games promote violence, but if you have a kid that is obsessed with a violent video game who then goes on a shooting spree then the problem was there before the game was.
Same general thing on ship. Internet secured prior to port visits for opsec, but half the officers have wives waiting for them in port. I just told my family that if they wanted to know where I was going they should just check the news because CNN would know before I did. Officers are assumed to be more responsible and therefore given more privileges, but in reality it doesn't work that way.
By you saying that you have to operate a jackhammer in a radiation suit you have shown your ignorance. We are talking about tritium here, not plutonium, and we are talking about contaminated water and not open fuel assemblies. Also radiation suits are very rarely used in the nuclear field because they are ineffective for their bulkiness and weight, the term you were looking for was anti-contamination suits which are nothing more than an outer-garment. Beyond that, sure you end up with more low level waste from the jackhammered concrete. So? It already would have to be handled as low level waste because it had radioactive pipes running through it. It's not impossible to fix a leak under or in concrete. Ask a plumber.