>>>>>And the cost of upgrading this 4% would come from corporation's multimillion dollar profits. Like corporate charity. >> >>This is completely identical to taxing all of the customers of the corporation
No it isn't "identical" to a 2 dollar tax. If the FCC mandated cable/telephone companies must provide 3 Mbit/s internet to every customer that requests it, that money would mostly come from the corporation itself. Yes some of the money would come from customer bills, but a large chunk of the money would also come from employee salaries ("Sorry Bill no raise this year") and corporate profits (they'd earn 1 billion instead of 1.1 billion). I'd sooner suck the money out of the megarich megacorp than from the poor citizens.
>>>It needn't be a random guess. If another species of harvester ant exhibits similar behaviour, that's pretty good evidence that the behaviour is older than the rift between the species.
Unles it's convergent evolution: Two different species discovering the same solution independently. (Oh and yes ants can "discover" new methods. They have brains that can learn new methods as thousands of generations pass by.)
>>>no, hp is a ford, dell is lincoln, and asus is mercury. apple is still bmw.
Not hardly. A better comparision is PC/Honda/Toyota versus Apply/Acura/Lexus. You're basically talking about the same identical unit, made by the same identical people, but with different badges.
As one of my signatures says: I got a PC that is identical to a Mac Mini (except the form factor) and costs half as much. I'm sure if I had wanted to I could have found a PCmini as well, and still spent several hundred less, while still having the identical CPU, RAM, and HDD space.
>>>All the ultrabooks and "surface"s in the world won't change the fact that Windows computers are a commodity
Let's have a car analogy: A car used to be unique with all kinds of looks and interfaces (imagine driving with a throttle stick instead of wheel+pedal). Now they all look pretty identical (wedge-shaped for max aerodynamics). The only thing that differentiates them is headlight style and size. Perhaps PCs should try different shapes (looks like a car... or a ball... or a book).
I interviewed with them in 1999. Back then they seemed like an excellent company, with a campus that reminded me of college (lots of small buildings interconnected by pathways).
You're just out-of-touch. I could list several homegrown bands. Example:
Hyper Crush. They started in their basement, and touring small venues (clubs), and had their first #1 hit last year. NOW I suspect you'll dismiss my example as "not real music" but who are you to define what is real or not? They fit your description of a "band making it big" and it just happened a few months ago.
Funny how pro-"it's my body and my right" abortionists are anti-marijuana, anti-freedom-to-choose your own health insurance, and so on.
BACK TO ANTS: It's a false conclusion to say they have been using a distibuted network "for millions of years". That is a random guess. For all we know they just discovered this method in the last 1000 years, and were using some other organization prior to that.
>>>From my reading of the FCC's Internet Access Report, that analysis came from people with >200 kbps connections
That was 4 years ago. When Obama took office he asked the FCC to redefine it, so now 3 Mbit/s == broadband. And 96% of Americans either hav or can get it. That's almost as good as TV access (99%).
There is not a single thing my service cannot do that yours can. Hell you only need dialup to surf the web or listen to radio or download torrents. The 1 Mbit/s upgrade enables the video streaming.
>>>When you have a set of geographical monopolies as telephone or Internet companies, which one do you force to provide coverage to anyone outside a certain area?
Obvious answer: Whoever currently holds the monopoly on telephone or cable tv in that area. For example: A friend of mine who is stuck on dialup would call Charter Cable and demand broadband, and they would HAVE to provide it per the FCC ruling. (Or he could call his phone company Verizon.) And the cost of upgrading this 4% would come from corporation's multimillion dollar profits. Like corporate charity.
>>>So that would be 10% of 1Gbit = 100Mbit right now, which seems reasonable.
For a definition where "reasonable" == not realistic. Not even the Japanese have universal 100 Mbit/s. Their national average according to speedtest is just ~25 Mbit. Realistically how much speed does a person need to watch hulu or youtube?
Both work as low as 300 kbit/s (yes I've verified that). Multiply by the number of people living in a home. It's 2.2 on average. Make it an even 3 and you have about 1 Mbit/s minimum for a 3-person family to all stream hulu or youtube at the same time.
Who said anything about "taking our ball home"? I'm perfectly happy to TRADE with Euros. I just bought several old Analog magazines from a British gentleman.
But that doesn't mean I want to fight their wars! If for example: Britain or France suddenly decided to go to war against Iran. That's why we should disentangle ourselves as allies, so WE the people through congress get to decide if Libya is worth fighting, rather than it be an automatic declaration decided by a treaty.
My current 100,000,000-hertz wide service is "broader" in frequencies than the 4,000-hertz wide service (dialup) I have before. Therefore the term broadband is appropriate..... it is not narrowband. Furthermore I don't WANT faster than 1 Mbit/s.
I have the option to get 50 if I so choose from Comsucks, but I voluntarily choose the slower service because it's cheaper ($14.99). Who the hell is the FCC to add another 13% tax to my plan each month? I don't want it. And frankly I can't afford it.
No he had it right the first time. Over half the budget goes towards either Social Security or Medicare. The military spending is only ~20% of the total budget and after Obama's cuts kick-in, it will drop even lower.
Why do foreigners think it's okay to insult Americans again and again? You're calling us "opossums". I had one British guy say if we don't reelect Obama it will prove we are a "backwards nation". And on and on. Lately everywhere I go I see Europeans slagging-off on Americans.
It makes me think the U.S. should quit NATO rather than be allied with people who hate us. ("We should avoid entangling alliances with european powers that could draw us into bloodshed..... rest assured while one European leader runs-around mad, and the others act as if they are halfway there themselves, we shall remain at peace here in North America." - George Washington)
Correction: According to the FCC itself only 4% of Americans are stuck with service slower than 3 Mbit/s. Many of them, like myself, do already have broadband but we do not meet that unusually high requirement. (I have 1 Mbit/s and it works just fine; don't need anything faster.)
Instead of taxing the customers, the FCC should be taxing the companies by passing a simple mandate that they Must provide 3 Mbit/s wired service to any customer who asks for it. These billion-dollar corporations can afford to fund this subsidy for a mere 4% of the population.
"You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Certainly there is not a word in the constitution that gives that power to the Justices any more than the other branches. The Constitution wisely divided this power among all three branches and the state governments." - Thomas Jefferson (and close friend of James Madison, the actual author of the Constitution).
Madison vetoed many many bills with the argument that Congress can not exercise powers that are not specifically enumerated in the list he created. Oh and I'd like to know: If the federals have the power to ban any and all things they desire, why haven't they banned the sale of natural, unpasteurized milk in Pennsylvania and other states? (ponder). Probably because they know they don't have juris diction over a member state's territory.
Agreed. Romney or Obama. Who cares who wins? Oh and this isn't really news. Every election for the last 30 years or so has had more non-voters than voters, because the non-voters are "not sure" who they prefer. So they just stay home.
This. If you can tolerate her blowing $100 a month shopping at outlet stores buying shirts/shoes/pants they she doesn't need (she already has two closets full of them), then she can tolerate your once-a-month D&D tournament.
But I have to admit I find the words "dungeon crawling" and "fun" to be incompatible. I've never understood the appeal of RPGs even when I sat-in on friends' games. I can tolerate Final Fantasy or Skies of Arcadia but only because they have strong storylines (like a playable movie). I can't play through the old NES final fantasies..... the dungeon crawls get boring & the story is minimal. I'd rather watch a movie, listen to a college lecture, or read a book.
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>>>>>And the cost of upgrading this 4% would come from corporation's multimillion dollar profits. Like corporate charity.
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>>This is completely identical to taxing all of the customers of the corporation
No it isn't "identical" to a 2 dollar tax. If the FCC mandated cable/telephone companies must provide 3 Mbit/s internet to every customer that requests it, that money would mostly come from the corporation itself. Yes some of the money would come from customer bills, but a large chunk of the money would also come from employee salaries ("Sorry Bill no raise this year") and corporate profits (they'd earn 1 billion instead of 1.1 billion). I'd sooner suck the money out of the megarich megacorp than from the poor citizens.
>>>It needn't be a random guess. If another species of harvester ant exhibits similar behaviour, that's pretty good evidence that the behaviour is older than the rift between the species.
Unles it's convergent evolution: Two different species discovering the same solution independently. (Oh and yes ants can "discover" new methods. They have brains that can learn new methods as thousands of generations pass by.)
>>>no, hp is a ford, dell is lincoln, and asus is mercury. apple is still bmw.
Not hardly. A better comparision is PC/Honda/Toyota versus Apply/Acura/Lexus. You're basically talking about the same identical unit, made by the same identical people, but with different badges.
As one of my signatures says: I got a PC that is identical to a Mac Mini (except the form factor) and costs half as much. I'm sure if I had wanted to I could have found a PCmini as well, and still spent several hundred less, while still having the identical CPU, RAM, and HDD space.
>>>All the ultrabooks and "surface"s in the world won't change the fact that Windows computers are a commodity
Let's have a car analogy:
A car used to be unique with all kinds of looks and interfaces (imagine driving with a throttle stick instead of wheel+pedal). Now they all look pretty identical (wedge-shaped for max aerodynamics). The only thing that differentiates them is headlight style and size. Perhaps PCs should try different shapes (looks like a car... or a ball... or a book).
I interviewed with them in 1999. Back then they seemed like an excellent company, with a campus that reminded me of college (lots of small buildings interconnected by pathways).
You're just out-of-touch. I could list several homegrown bands. Example:
Hyper Crush. They started in their basement, and touring small venues (clubs), and had their first #1 hit last year. NOW I suspect you'll dismiss my example as "not real music" but who are you to define what is real or not? They fit your description of a "band making it big" and it just happened a few months ago.
Then we just drag the judge into the streets and tar-and-feather him. It has all happened before. It will happen again.
Same here:
$5 cell
$15 internet
$7 dialup (for hotels)
$10 wired phone
free AntennaTV
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Funny how pro-"it's my body and my right" abortionists are anti-marijuana, anti-freedom-to-choose your own health insurance, and so on.
BACK TO ANTS: It's a false conclusion to say they have been using a distibuted network "for millions of years". That is a random guess. For all we know they just discovered this method in the last 1000 years, and were using some other organization prior to that.
>>>From my reading of the FCC's Internet Access Report, that analysis came from people with >200 kbps connections
That was 4 years ago. When Obama took office he asked the FCC to redefine it, so now 3 Mbit/s == broadband. And 96% of Americans either hav or can get it. That's almost as good as TV access (99%).
Honeypot?
Honeyrider?
Pussy Galore? "I must be dreaming"- Bond
I need the Piratebay file that contains all the magnet links. Anybody have it?
>>>Your internet service is pathetic
There is not a single thing my service cannot do that yours can. Hell you only need dialup to surf the web or listen to radio or download torrents. The 1 Mbit/s upgrade enables the video streaming.
>>>When you have a set of geographical monopolies as telephone or Internet companies, which one do you force to provide coverage to anyone outside a certain area?
Obvious answer:
Whoever currently holds the monopoly on telephone or cable tv in that area. For example: A friend of mine who is stuck on dialup would call Charter Cable and demand broadband, and they would HAVE to provide it per the FCC ruling. (Or he could call his phone company Verizon.) And the cost of upgrading this 4% would come from corporation's multimillion dollar profits. Like corporate charity.
>>> -1 I don't like what you said so I'm modding you down (-1 troll)
And again.
How do these people
get modpoints?
>>> -1 I don't like what you said so I'm modding you down (-1 troll)
Gee thanks cocksucker mod.
Sounds like you'd be better-off with cellular internet. VirginMobile has a Wifi device that costs $35/month at 3G speeds.
>>>So that would be 10% of 1Gbit = 100Mbit right now, which seems reasonable.
For a definition where "reasonable" == not realistic. Not even the Japanese have universal 100 Mbit/s. Their national average according to speedtest is just ~25 Mbit. Realistically how much speed does a person need to watch hulu or youtube?
Both work as low as 300 kbit/s (yes I've verified that). Multiply by the number of people living in a home. It's 2.2 on average. Make it an even 3 and you have about 1 Mbit/s minimum for a 3-person family to all stream hulu or youtube at the same time.
Who said anything about "taking our ball home"? I'm perfectly happy to TRADE with Euros. I just bought several old Analog magazines from a British gentleman.
But that doesn't mean I want to fight their wars! If for example: Britain or France suddenly decided to go to war against Iran. That's why we should disentangle ourselves as allies, so WE the people through congress get to decide if Libya is worth fighting, rather than it be an automatic declaration decided by a treaty.
>>>1MBit is not exactly broadband
My current 100,000,000-hertz wide service is "broader" in frequencies than the 4,000-hertz wide service (dialup) I have before. Therefore the term broadband is appropriate..... it is not narrowband. Furthermore I don't WANT faster than 1 Mbit/s.
I have the option to get 50 if I so choose from Comsucks, but I voluntarily choose the slower service because it's cheaper ($14.99). Who the hell is the FCC to add another 13% tax to my plan each month? I don't want it. And frankly I can't afford it.
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No he had it right the first time. Over half the budget goes towards either Social Security or Medicare. The military spending is only ~20% of the total budget and after Obama's cuts kick-in, it will drop even lower.
Why do foreigners think it's okay to insult Americans again and again? You're calling us "opossums". I had one British guy say if we don't reelect Obama it will prove we are a "backwards nation". And on and on. Lately everywhere I go I see Europeans slagging-off on Americans.
It makes me think the U.S. should quit NATO rather than be allied with people who hate us. ("We should avoid entangling alliances with european powers that could draw us into bloodshed..... rest assured while one European leader runs-around mad, and the others act as if they are halfway there themselves, we shall remain at peace here in North America." - George Washington)
Correction: According to the FCC itself only 4% of Americans are stuck with service slower than 3 Mbit/s. Many of them, like myself, do already have broadband but we do not meet that unusually high requirement. (I have 1 Mbit/s and it works just fine; don't need anything faster.)
Instead of taxing the customers, the FCC should be taxing the companies by passing a simple mandate that they Must provide 3 Mbit/s wired service to any customer who asks for it. These billion-dollar corporations can afford to fund this subsidy for a mere 4% of the population.
"You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Certainly there is not a word in the constitution that gives that power to the Justices any more than the other branches. The Constitution wisely divided this power among all three branches and the state governments." - Thomas Jefferson (and close friend of James Madison, the actual author of the Constitution).
Madison vetoed many many bills with the argument that Congress can not exercise powers that are not specifically enumerated in the list he created. Oh and I'd like to know: If the federals have the power to ban any and all things they desire, why haven't they banned the sale of natural, unpasteurized milk in Pennsylvania and other states? (ponder). Probably because they know they don't have juris diction over a member state's territory.
Agreed. Romney or Obama. Who cares who wins?
Oh and this isn't really news. Every election for the last 30 years or so has had more non-voters than voters, because the non-voters are "not sure" who they prefer. So they just stay home.
This.
If you can tolerate her blowing $100 a month shopping at outlet stores buying shirts/shoes/pants they she doesn't need (she already has two closets full of them), then she can tolerate your once-a-month D&D tournament.
But I have to admit I find the words "dungeon crawling" and "fun" to be incompatible. I've never understood the appeal of RPGs even when I sat-in on friends' games. I can tolerate Final Fantasy or Skies of Arcadia but only because they have strong storylines (like a playable movie). I can't play through the old NES final fantasies..... the dungeon crawls get boring & the story is minimal. I'd rather watch a movie, listen to a college lecture, or read a book.
Oh well. To each his own pleasures.