Thanks (to all three of ye). I enjoy being told "Blade Runner is actually called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by three separate persons. I already knew that, and really didn't need to be told in triplicate, but I appreciate the effort. "E"
"One day, after a fellow old hermit as died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, Felix Bush decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits the local funeral home director to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the open. But will he be able to get anybody to come? And will he be able to reveal his secrets? "
Zzzzz. Also I'm not sure but I think I saw this movie back in the 1930s with five star actors like Edna May, Hattie McDaniel, and Jimmy Stewart (i.e. the greats). So it's really not as "original" as you think.
And short stories of course (not a complete list): 1. Beyond Lies the Wub 2. Roog 3. Paycheck 4. Second Variety (Screamers) 5. Imposter 6. The King of the Elves 7. Adjustment Team 8. Foster, You're Dead 9. Upon the Dull Earth 10. Autofac 11. The Minority Report 12. The Days of Perky Pat 13. Precious Artifact 14. A Game of Unchance 15. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall) 16. Faith of Our Fathers 17. The Electric Ant 18. A Little Something For Us Tempunauts 19. The Exit Door Leads In 20. Rautavaara's Case 21. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon And some other random ones - Fair Game, The Hanging Stranger, The Eyes have it; The Golden Man; The Turning Wheel; The Last of the Masters; The Father-Thing; Strange Eden; Tony and the Beetles; Null-O; To Serve the Master; Exhibit Piece; The Crawlers; Sales Pitch; Shell Game; Upon the Dull Earth; Foster, you're dead; Pay for the Printer; War Veteran; The Chromium Fence; Second Variety.
The Man in the High Castle (1962) Martian Time-Slip (1964) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965) Now Wait for Last Year (1966) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) Ubik (1969) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) A Scanner Darkly (1977) A Maze of Death (1970) VALIS (1981) The Divine Invasion (1981) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
>>>Sometimes the U.S. government acts against the popular will of the people -- and thank goodness for it.
FALSE. Most people didn't care if blacks went to school with whites. "The People" i.e. the majority were fine with it, and by Brown v. BOE virtually all schools north of Carolina were already integrated. (My mom's school had blacks and whites as far back as the 1930s.)
It's also worth noting that segregation only existed because the US Government MADE it happen. The USG had the opportunity in the 1880s to kill segregation before it really took hold, but instead the USG said "yeah segregation is fine" and suddenly it became a national mandate. What had been a small policy in a few backwards Southern cities became a nationwide mandate enforced by the US Government. (Ditto the later segregation of the integrated, colorblind army.)
And last but not least, the USG also tried to enforce bussing programs, where whites were forced to go to innercity schools while blacks were bussed to suburban schools. The People stood-up and protested against this idiocy, and the program repealed within a decade.
Not everything the USG does is holy. Or good. In fact on balance I'd say the USG has done more Harm over the last 150 years then good.
Which means revealing classified information to the JAG ("I found documents that say...."), so Manning would still be in jail. Your solution is a non-solution.
This is the danger Eisenhower warned us about - an industrial-military that is unaccountable for its constitutional violations.
>>>you *can't* make venison tacos or eggs benedict or blueberry cobbler in a microwave.
Sure you can. Just because you lack the skills doesn't mean it can't be done. I've cooked all kinds of recipes in the microwave, and they are quire good. The key is just like an oven or stove - don't cook at full power.
>>>The GUI version of something takes huge bloated memory space to look pretty
Amiga Workbench and Kolibri OS are GUIs, and they fit on a 1440k floppy. Puppy Linux and its GUI fit inside just 0.06 gig of memory. Once again you make a false presumption about what can or cannot be done.
>>>You pointedly ignore that Microsoft owners are also people with rights.
The owners are free to hire lawyers (for example to defend themselves from a murder charge), call their Congressman (lobbying), demonstrate in public (free speech), and so on . They simply aren't free to do it using Microsoft money, which is a separate entity and doesn't have rights (IT is not a person). IT has privileges granted by its government-issued corporate license, and nothing more.
BTW "owners" is a poor choice of words when talking about corporations. No one person can claim to "own" Microsoft or Apple or GM. They aren't like Bob's Bakery, which is owned by bob.
>>>You only need fiber to the neighborhood patch panel.
AS I SAID: That is more expensive for US than it was for Japan, because the US is not packed as tightly. We don't have a 10,000 people per square mile.
Jeez. Why do I have to keep repeating myself? Maybe it's because americans have lost touch with their dollars - they've forgotten that things COST money and don't just magically appear in your stores, or on telephone poles.
I suppose Verizon and other DSL providers could raise the prices to $200/month and connect everyone with Fiber-to-Every-Corner and 50 Mbit/s DSL hookups, but who in the hell is going to pay that kind of bill?
I have not sworn an oath to protect my country or politicians. I have sworn an oath to uphold the Supreme law of the land, known as the US and State Constitutions. AKA the will of the people, written down in black-and-white.
>>>The reason you get those numbers is 1) you are taking Western Europe and Eastern Europe together - the latter has only in the last couple of years been able to afford to pick up the pace. >>>
Way to demonstrate you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Eastern Europe is generally FASTER than western europe. It's the slow countries in the non-communist west that drag-down the overall EU average, whereas the former communist nations have new installations that are nice and speedy. (Same reason why Russia is #1 in my list.)
It's old infrastructure (west;slow) versus new infrastructure (east;fast). As for accuracy, the numbers are from Speedtest.net. There's no source more accurate than them, since they are using actual real world data across physical lines.
Probably because they don't think spanking-off to HD playboy videos at 100 megabit/second is important enough to raise taxes another $1000 per year. And I agree with them.
>>>EU is a group of sovereign states. Nobody can impose such a decision on a sovereign state.
Funny. The US imposes its rule on the sovereign states all the time. And I've heard the EU has over-ruled several of its governments, like Italy. So how can states claim to be truly "sovereign" if the EU can use its Court to force compliance?
James Madison, author of the Constitution, says this: "It grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the nonimporting, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves. Not as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government, in which alone, however, the remedial power could be lodged." - Letter to Cabell, February 13, 1829.
Far from granting Congress the power to create the massive regulatory, central economic planning, nearly limitless government in which we live today..... the Commerce Clause was intended to be a restriction on States. The federal government has the power to resolve trade disputes among the states and essentially provide for free trade among the states, not to regulate INTRAstate affairs.
"With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character of unlimited power, which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." --James Madison
Cling to your 9th and 10th amendment rights (right to privacy is one of those non-enumerated rights). It appears that's what the Member States of the Union are doing: "Half the states in the country have affirmatively barred themselves from implementing REAL ID or they have passed resolutions objecting to the national ID law." (Congress shall exercise no power reserved to the States.)
BTW does the European Union have a single ID that all europeans must carry? If the EU tried to force the adoption of such an ID, how would the citizens or states react?
HD-FM == 220 kbit/s (approximately - it varies depending how the engineer adjusts the setting). So multiply by 3600 seconds, 24 hours, and 30 days to get ~70 gigabytes per station.
HD-AM is 40 or 60 kbit/s (again: varies station to station). HD-TV is ~19,000 kbit/s per 6 MHz station. HD-cable is ~38,000 kbit/s per 6 MHz
>>>By your logic, I can be denied access to a lawyer
Strawman argument. Individual rights to hire other services can NOT be abrogated by congress. It violates amendments 9 and 10 plus other rights codified at the State level, plus basic contract law. .
>>>You say that can be denied. What changed?
No I didn't. If a CEO gets charged with murdering his wife, he can still hire a lawyer for defense in court. That is an inalienable right.
In contrast if the corporation gets sued (for example: Ford Pintos are exploding), only the corporation suffers punishment, not you personally. That's why corporations exist: to create a shield to protect the individual from harm. In fact most CEOs just bail ship when they see a corporation going downhill. It's called a "golden parachute" in modern slang terms. .
Now if you are the owner of a COMPANY, rather than a corporation, then yeah you have full liability for the acts of your company (a house you built collapses and killed someone - you could be charged for manslaughter). In such a case you'd still have the right to hire a lawyer to defend yourself, since You are the one who is being charged.
Which is more expensive. The Japanese simply used the copper wires that already ran into everyone's home (i.e. the phonelines), so it was cheap and easy for them. It won't be that easy for the americans.
>>>In urban areas we aren't getting the level of service that happens in Japan or Korea or even (I think?) some European countries
Yet another myth. Okay yes Korea/Japan have great speeds, but they also live in sardine apartments where they can install short-run VHDSL which gets 50 Mbit/s at 1/2 mile from the central server. --- Urban americans simple do not live that tightly, so the same technology does not work for us. Our DSL extends over miles and therefore operates slower. So even if we tried the Japanese solution (upgrade to VHDSL) it would not work.
As for Europe, it's no better than we are. If you compare the US federation with other continent-spanning federations you see this: Mbit/s 1: 12.3 Russian Federation 2: 10.3 US 3: 10.0 EU 4: 9.3 Canada 5: 8.0 Australia 6: 4.8 Brazil 7: 3.8 China 8: 3.4 Mexico
>>>Their main concern is minimizing expenses while maximizing profit.
It is a logical choice. - The longer you wait, the cheaper upgrading becomes. Upgrade to a 3000 megahertz single core P4 five years ago and spend $1500. Make the same upgrade today and spend $150. The same decreasing cost applies to upgrades in Servers and DSL or cable or fiber lines.
Do they really have a choice? Remember this article is about WIRELESS internet, and the wireless spectrum simply doesn't have enough room to handle everyone streaming 5 gigabytes of data every month.
Trivia:
Wireless television streams ~19 Mbit/s == ~6000 gigabytes per month, per station. Wireless FM streams ~70 GB/month per station. Wireless AM == 13 GB/month per station.
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Thanks (to all three of ye). I enjoy being told "Blade Runner is actually called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by three separate persons. I already knew that, and really didn't need to be told in triplicate, but I appreciate the effort. "E"
Oh and by the way, the book DOES have 'Blade Runner' in the title, which was added later to make it more marketable: http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Movie-Tie--Philip-Dick/dp/0345350472
"One day, after a fellow old hermit as died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, Felix Bush decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits the local funeral home director to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the open. But will he be able to get anybody to come? And will he be able to reveal his secrets? "
Zzzzz.
Also I'm not sure but I think I saw this movie back in the 1930s with five star actors like Edna May, Hattie McDaniel, and Jimmy Stewart (i.e. the greats). So it's really not as "original" as you think.
And short stories of course (not a complete list):
1. Beyond Lies the Wub
2. Roog
3. Paycheck
4. Second Variety (Screamers)
5. Imposter
6. The King of the Elves
7. Adjustment Team
8. Foster, You're Dead
9. Upon the Dull Earth
10. Autofac
11. The Minority Report
12. The Days of Perky Pat
13. Precious Artifact
14. A Game of Unchance
15. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall)
16. Faith of Our Fathers
17. The Electric Ant
18. A Little Something For Us Tempunauts
19. The Exit Door Leads In
20. Rautavaara's Case
21. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
And some other random ones - Fair Game, The Hanging Stranger, The Eyes have it; The Golden Man; The Turning Wheel; The Last of the Masters; The Father-Thing; Strange Eden; Tony and the Beetles; Null-O; To Serve the Master; Exhibit Piece; The Crawlers; Sales Pitch; Shell Game; Upon the Dull Earth; Foster, you're dead; Pay for the Printer; War Veteran; The Chromium Fence; Second Variety.
Blade Runner is actually one of his lesser books. Philip has produced tons of great science-based fiction (and some fantasy):
http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Collection/dp/1598530496
The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Martian Time-Slip (1964)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965)
Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Ubik (1969)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)
A Maze of Death (1970)
VALIS (1981)
The Divine Invasion (1981)
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
>>>Sometimes the U.S. government acts against the popular will of the people -- and thank goodness for it.
FALSE. Most people didn't care if blacks went to school with whites. "The People" i.e. the majority were fine with it, and by Brown v. BOE virtually all schools north of Carolina were already integrated. (My mom's school had blacks and whites as far back as the 1930s.)
It's also worth noting that segregation only existed because the US Government MADE it happen. The USG had the opportunity in the 1880s to kill segregation before it really took hold, but instead the USG said "yeah segregation is fine" and suddenly it became a national mandate. What had been a small policy in a few backwards Southern cities became a nationwide mandate enforced by the US Government. (Ditto the later segregation of the integrated, colorblind army.)
And last but not least, the USG also tried to enforce bussing programs, where whites were forced to go to innercity schools while blacks were bussed to suburban schools. The People stood-up and protested against this idiocy, and the program repealed within a decade.
Not everything the USG does is holy. Or good. In fact on balance I'd say the USG has done more Harm over the last 150 years then good.
>>>Contacting JAG
Which means revealing classified information to the JAG ("I found documents that say...."), so Manning would still be in jail. Your solution is a non-solution.
This is the danger Eisenhower warned us about - an industrial-military that is unaccountable for its constitutional violations.
>>>you *can't* make venison tacos or eggs benedict or blueberry cobbler in a microwave.
Sure you can. Just because you lack the skills doesn't mean it can't be done. I've cooked all kinds of recipes in the microwave, and they are quire good. The key is just like an oven or stove - don't cook at full power.
>>>The GUI version of something takes huge bloated memory space to look pretty
Amiga Workbench and Kolibri OS are GUIs, and they fit on a 1440k floppy. Puppy Linux and its GUI fit inside just 0.06 gig of memory. Once again you make a false presumption about what can or cannot be done.
>>>You pointedly ignore that Microsoft owners are also people with rights.
The owners are free to hire lawyers (for example to defend themselves from a murder charge), call their Congressman (lobbying), demonstrate in public (free speech), and so on . They simply aren't free to do it using Microsoft money, which is a separate entity and doesn't have rights (IT is not a person). IT has privileges granted by its government-issued corporate license, and nothing more.
BTW "owners" is a poor choice of words when talking about corporations. No one person can claim to "own" Microsoft or Apple or GM. They aren't like Bob's Bakery, which is owned by bob.
>>>You only need fiber to the neighborhood patch panel.
AS I SAID: That is more expensive for US than it was for Japan, because the US is not packed as tightly. We don't have a 10,000 people per square mile.
Jeez. Why do I have to keep repeating myself? Maybe it's because americans have lost touch with their dollars - they've forgotten that things COST money and don't just magically appear in your stores, or on telephone poles.
I suppose Verizon and other DSL providers could raise the prices to $200/month and connect everyone with Fiber-to-Every-Corner and 50 Mbit/s DSL hookups, but who in the hell is going to pay that kind of bill?
>>>Breaking faith with your country
I have not sworn an oath to protect my country or politicians.
I have sworn an oath to uphold the Supreme law of the land, known as the US and State Constitutions. AKA the will of the people, written down in black-and-white.
How many lives were saved by making the document "secret" which revealed Hillary had stolen credit card numbers from visiting dignitaries?
>>>He did the crime,
I doubt it. The docs were also being leaked to the New York Times, and they say their source was not a private. This looks like a frame job to me.
>>>The reason you get those numbers is 1) you are taking Western Europe and Eastern Europe together - the latter has only in the last couple of years been able to afford to pick up the pace.
>>>
Way to demonstrate you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Eastern Europe is generally FASTER than western europe. It's the slow countries in the non-communist west that drag-down the overall EU average, whereas the former communist nations have new installations that are nice and speedy. (Same reason why Russia is #1 in my list.)
It's old infrastructure (west;slow) versus new infrastructure (east;fast). As for accuracy, the numbers are from Speedtest.net. There's no source more accurate than them, since they are using actual real world data across physical lines.
Probably because they don't think spanking-off to HD playboy videos at 100 megabit/second is important enough to raise taxes another $1000 per year.
And I agree with them.
>>>EU is a group of sovereign states. Nobody can impose such a decision on a sovereign state.
Funny. The US imposes its rule on the sovereign states all the time. And I've heard the EU has over-ruled several of its governments, like Italy. So how can states claim to be truly "sovereign" if the EU can use its Court to force compliance?
>>>It is where it always is, the commerce clause.
James Madison, author of the Constitution, says this: "It grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the nonimporting, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves. Not as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government, in which alone, however, the remedial power could be lodged." - Letter to Cabell, February 13, 1829.
Far from granting Congress the power to create the massive regulatory, central economic planning, nearly limitless government in which we live today..... the Commerce Clause was intended to be a restriction on States. The federal government has the power to resolve trade disputes among the states and essentially provide for free trade among the states, not to regulate INTRAstate affairs.
"With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character of unlimited power, which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." --James Madison
Cling to your 9th and 10th amendment rights (right to privacy is one of those non-enumerated rights). It appears that's what the Member States of the Union are doing: "Half the states in the country have affirmatively barred themselves from implementing REAL ID or they have passed resolutions objecting to the national ID law." (Congress shall exercise no power reserved to the States.)
BTW does the European Union have a single ID that all europeans must carry? If the EU tried to force the adoption of such an ID, how would the citizens or states react?
HD-FM == 220 kbit/s (approximately - it varies depending how the engineer adjusts the setting). So multiply by 3600 seconds, 24 hours, and 30 days to get ~70 gigabytes per station.
HD-AM is 40 or 60 kbit/s (again: varies station to station).
HD-TV is ~19,000 kbit/s per 6 MHz station.
HD-cable is ~38,000 kbit/s per 6 MHz
>>>By your logic, I can be denied access to a lawyer
Strawman argument. Individual rights to hire other services can NOT be abrogated by congress. It violates amendments 9 and 10 plus other rights codified at the State level, plus basic contract law.
.
>>>You say that can be denied. What changed?
No I didn't. If a CEO gets charged with murdering his wife, he can still hire a lawyer for defense in court. That is an inalienable right.
In contrast if the corporation gets sued (for example: Ford Pintos are exploding), only the corporation suffers punishment, not you personally. That's why corporations exist: to create a shield to protect the individual from harm. In fact most CEOs just bail ship when they see a corporation going downhill. It's called a "golden parachute" in modern slang terms.
.
Now if you are the owner of a COMPANY, rather than a corporation, then yeah you have full liability for the acts of your company (a house you built collapses and killed someone - you could be charged for manslaughter). In such a case you'd still have the right to hire a lawyer to defend yourself, since You are the one who is being charged.
Which is more expensive. The Japanese simply used the copper wires that already ran into everyone's home (i.e. the phonelines), so it was cheap and easy for them. It won't be that easy for the americans.
>>>In urban areas we aren't getting the level of service that happens in Japan or Korea or even (I think?) some European countries
Yet another myth. Okay yes Korea/Japan have great speeds, but they also live in sardine apartments where they can install short-run VHDSL which gets 50 Mbit/s at 1/2 mile from the central server. --- Urban americans simple do not live that tightly, so the same technology does not work for us. Our DSL extends over miles and therefore operates slower. So even if we tried the Japanese solution (upgrade to VHDSL) it would not work.
As for Europe, it's no better than we are. If you compare the US federation with other continent-spanning federations you see this:
Mbit/s
1: 12.3 Russian Federation
2: 10.3 US
3: 10.0 EU
4: 9.3 Canada
5: 8.0 Australia
6: 4.8 Brazil
7: 3.8 China
8: 3.4 Mexico
>>>Their main concern is minimizing expenses while maximizing profit.
It is a logical choice.
- The longer you wait, the cheaper upgrading becomes. Upgrade to a 3000 megahertz single core P4 five years ago and spend $1500. Make the same upgrade today and spend $150. The same decreasing cost applies to upgrades in Servers and DSL or cable or fiber lines.
Do they really have a choice? Remember this article is about WIRELESS internet, and the wireless spectrum simply doesn't have enough room to handle everyone streaming 5 gigabytes of data every month.
Trivia:
Wireless television streams ~19 Mbit/s == ~6000 gigabytes per month, per station. Wireless FM streams ~70 GB/month per station. Wireless AM == 13 GB/month per station.
I prefer engineering notation (indices of 3,6,9):
50e-09 m
BTW why does it matter if they wrote 50 nanometers?
>>>the judges in the highest court in the land can be verifiably bought
Still waiting for a citation.
Eh.
Maybe you heard this on Faux news, and have no evidence. Seems likely.