American science, as now shaped by the neoliberal corporate regimes in place since 1980 is now all about reaping the low lying fruit. Other countries are now the ones doing the real research, or it will be that way pretty soon.
sure we did, five decades ago. And now our "free trade, open markets" vultures have bled us so much that little countries like Korea are kicking our ass....
What a hoot to scroll through this slashdot page and see all the whining and screeching from the conformists/police-Staters/libertarians/freemarket cultists!
Don't worry, cultist--the analysis of this bill as posted by Zonk is wrong. Just see the post on this page by the Colorado leftist who points out that this bill instead outlaws muniWiFi.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled whining/screeching, on some OTHER post...
maybe if we hang a few telco executives, they will stop trying to take away our broadband by bribing our politicians (of course, we should only hang them after indictment, trial by a jury of their peers, conviction, and sentencing, of course.... )
But MOST PEOPLE DON'T have that much to spare. The fact is that the cable and telcos are PROFITEERING using a monopoly granted them by the state. Why is it that muni wifi goes for next to nothing? Because the actual costs are not that graet to provide broadband.
And the politicians have been bought off by the telcos and cable cos.
I guess most people, even most geeks, do not realize that this is really the most important technology fight we have in front of us. Cheap broadband is absolutely necessary for us to move forward.
or, in the words of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison, to "protect the opulent minority from the majority."
Most Americans at the time of the Revolution were firmly AGAINST the Constitution, but the rich bastards like Jefferson, Washington and Madison pushed it through secretly (the final details were not even widely publicized for decades afterwards).
The Founding Fathers were slaveowners, slave rapers, beaters of white servants (most of the house servants were much more white than black (e.g., Sally hemmings, Jefferson's slave, who was 7/8ths white)), and if they could hear all these modern day idiots prattling on about how the Constitution was written to how noble the constitution was supposed to be.
THe constitution was written to make sure that the rich could continue to do as they pleased, and that the poor could not do a damn thing about it.
you need to learn some history....past AND present.
Just ONE example: 18 THOUSAND Americans die every year because they lack access to basic healthcare. And why is it that they have no basic healthcare? All the other western nations do? Because plutocrats and corporations pay off the politicians so that they can continue to extort obscene profits from us for healthcare. I call that murder, organized crime. And I think that they ought to hang for it. I'm just saying', is all....
Refreshing. A plutocrat that actually does not cause me to fantasize about seeing them tried for crimes against the people, and then seeing them hang from a gallows. Nice change of plutoctratic pace....
The problem with ALL presidents and ALL politicians who really really WANT to be President is that they are evil, power hungry bastards who will do almost ANYTHING to become President.
A good president could be someone who is actually DRAFTED into the job. That is the only way to get a good president. THe only real qualifications are that they be decently educated and have an open mind, and have a life besides plotting and scheming to be President.
A zionist and a free trader. That is pretty rightwing.
Hilary is just another Politically correct, neoliberal, faux-progressive, rightwing Democrat. Bill Clinton was as rightwing as Nixon, probably more so. That rightwing bastard sold our jobs to the globalist corporations overseas.
This Rich Rightwing Bitch wife of his is as powerMAD and as powerHungry as Bill ever was. She is running for Prez in 2008.
Count on it!
Our job is to get a real Progressive nominated in 2008.
Hilary is just another Politically correct, neoliberal, faux progressives, rightwing Democrat. Bill Clinton was as rightwing as Nixon, probably more so. That rightwing bastard sold our jobs to the globalist corporations overseas.
This Rich Rightwing Bitch wife of his is as powerMAD and as powerHungry as Bill ever was. She is running for Prez in 2008.
Count on it!
Our job is to get a real Progressive nominated in 2008.
Ooh, well financed terrorists"! I'm all a-scared, now! We better let the gubmint take care of this problem for us! They will start by sending all our jobs overseas and have imported 3rd world immigrants come in to do what is left. Then we need to lower taxes on the rich to get rid of them well financed terrorists....
They are no doubt using it to try to assassinate or imprison some poor schmuck who dares to stand up to the American neoliberal regime...like Chavez, for example.
We don't know WHAT the fuck is going on when it comes to understanding the universe. We will, someday. But right now, we just need to assume that the universe will go on forever. That is the safest assumption to make, cuz all these wild assed guesses are just ruining science's credibility...
And what a coincidence that we are having a rash of articles trying to demonize and FUDize VOIP and WiFi. Just in time for all this legislation that the telcos and cable companies are trying to push through in many states, legislation that would outlaw municipal wifi, for example.
your comment is a strawman. Journalists are of course biased. But that does not make it OK to write articles that help the telco/cable company lobby. By your logic (and I use that word leniently here), if person X has a bias, then it is OK for person X to do a particular act Y, as long as it is in accordance with the bias of person X. To wit, having a bias is not a justification for doing a particular act.
Of course, this is all just a strawman. I have already pointed out that this article is propaganda. If you want to deal with that aspect of it, please do so.
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and their is often as good as the megacorporations, especially if you want something besides movies composed of something besides computer graphics.
American science, as now shaped by the neoliberal corporate regimes in place since 1980 is now all about reaping the low lying fruit. Other countries are now the ones doing the real research, or it will be that way pretty soon.
sure we did, five decades ago. And now our "free trade, open markets" vultures have bled us so much that little countries like Korea are kicking our ass....
What a hoot to scroll through this slashdot page and see all the whining and screeching from the conformists/police-Staters/libertarians/freemarket
cultists!
Don't worry, cultist--the analysis of this bill as posted by Zonk is wrong. Just see the post on this page by the Colorado leftist who points out that this bill instead outlaws muniWiFi.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled whining/screeching, on some OTHER post...
he wrote the Declaration of Independence, which has been used as part of court cases, which is common law, which means it is defacto part of our LAW.
Look, Shitferbrains, don't bother taking on someone who has read more books than you will ever even come within touching distance of....
maybe if we hang a few telco executives, they will stop trying to take away our broadband by bribing our politicians (of course, we should only hang them after indictment, trial by a jury of their peers, conviction, and sentencing, of course.... )
But MOST PEOPLE DON'T have that much to spare. The fact is that the cable and telcos are PROFITEERING using a monopoly granted them by the state.
Why is it that muni wifi goes for next to nothing? Because the actual costs are not that graet to provide broadband.
And the politicians have been bought off by the telcos and cable cos.
I say they all need to get some time in jail.
The telcos and cable companies OWN us. They paid the Republicrats for us.
hey, it could go either way. But my money is on it falling down...on us.
I guess most people, even most geeks, do not realize that this is really the most important technology fight we have in front of us. Cheap broadband is absolutely necessary for us to move forward.
or, in the words of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison, to "protect the opulent minority from the majority."
Most Americans at the time of the Revolution were firmly AGAINST the Constitution, but the rich bastards like Jefferson, Washington and Madison pushed it through secretly (the final details were not even widely publicized for decades afterwards).
The Founding Fathers were slaveowners, slave rapers, beaters of white servants (most of the house servants were much more white than black (e.g., Sally hemmings, Jefferson's slave, who was 7/8ths white)), and if they could hear all these modern day idiots prattling on about how the Constitution was written to how noble the constitution was supposed to be.
THe constitution was written to make sure that the rich could continue to do as they pleased, and that the poor could not do a damn thing about it.
that is about how much they actually pay out in rebates yearly....
you need to learn some history....past AND present.
Just ONE example: 18 THOUSAND Americans die every year because they lack access to basic healthcare. And why is it that they have no basic healthcare? All the other western nations do? Because plutocrats and corporations pay off the politicians so that they can continue to extort obscene profits from us for healthcare. I call that murder, organized crime. And I think that they ought to hang for it. I'm just saying', is all....
Refreshing. A plutocrat that actually does not cause me to fantasize about seeing them tried for crimes against the people, and then seeing them hang from a gallows. Nice change of plutoctratic pace....
...America is a great and free nation. Just don't compare us to any other western nation...
The problem with ALL presidents and ALL politicians who really really WANT to be President is that they are evil, power hungry bastards who will do almost ANYTHING to become President.
A good president could be someone who is actually DRAFTED into the job. That is the only way to get a good president. THe only real qualifications are that they be decently educated and have an open mind, and have a life besides plotting and scheming to be President.
A zionist and a free trader. That is pretty rightwing.
Hilary is just another Politically correct, neoliberal, faux-progressive, rightwing Democrat. Bill Clinton was as rightwing as Nixon, probably more so. That rightwing bastard sold our jobs to the globalist corporations overseas.
This Rich Rightwing Bitch wife of his is as powerMAD and as powerHungry as Bill ever was. She is running for Prez in 2008.
Count on it!
Our job is to get a real Progressive nominated in 2008.
Hilary is just another Politically correct, neoliberal, faux progressives, rightwing Democrat. Bill Clinton was as rightwing as Nixon, probably more so. That rightwing bastard sold our jobs to the globalist corporations overseas.
This Rich Rightwing Bitch wife of his is as powerMAD and as powerHungry as Bill ever was. She is running for Prez in 2008.
Count on it!
Our job is to get a real Progressive nominated in 2008.
Ooh, well financed terrorists"! I'm all a-scared, now!
We better let the gubmint take care of this problem for us! They will start by sending all our jobs overseas and have imported 3rd world immigrants come in to do what is left. Then we need to lower taxes on the rich to get rid of them well financed terrorists....
They are no doubt using it to try to assassinate or imprison some poor schmuck who dares to stand up to the American neoliberal regime...like Chavez, for example.
you oughta sue their asses....
We don't know WHAT the fuck is going on when it comes to understanding the universe. We will, someday. But right now, we just need to assume that the universe will go on forever. That is the safest assumption to make, cuz all these wild assed guesses are just ruining science's credibility...
Abbott is being paid by SBC to assassinate Vonage. It's that simple. Check Abbott's bank acct. No dbout it has grown much fatter...
And what a coincidence that we are having a rash of articles trying to demonize and FUDize VOIP and WiFi. Just in time for all this legislation that the telcos and cable companies are trying to push through in many states, legislation that would outlaw municipal wifi, for example.
What a coincidence...
your comment is a strawman. Journalists are of course biased. But that does not make it OK to write articles that help the telco/cable company lobby. By your logic (and I use that word leniently here), if person X has a bias, then it is OK for person X to do a particular act Y, as long as it is in accordance with the bias of person X. To wit, having a bias is not a justification for doing a particular act.
Of course, this is all just a strawman. I have already pointed out that this article is propaganda. If you want to deal with that aspect of it, please do so.