Why not eliminate the cap altogether? It's absolutely garbage that a land line should be capped. Neither of the services I have available (Cablevision and FIOS) have caps.
I think caps would go away real quick if this practice of exclusive broadband franchises were to come to an end.
What complete bullcrap. There are still some 40% or so of people who file by mail. And as far as reference libraries, less than one percent of the Library of Congress is online.
Many political issues have a political solution or can be addressed by politics.
The problem here is not political. It is thermodynamics. Thermodynamics takes what it wants. Thermodynamics doesn't care about politics. Thermodynamics doesn't care what you think about it.
The other side isn't winning. There aren't two sides to thermodynamics.
The problem is that even if there is a popular consensus in the developed countries to reduce CO2 emissions it will never fly in the developing world. The political issues associated with controlling CO2 emissions in the developing world totally dwarf the current issues in the developed nations.
Unfortunately the human mind hasn't evolved in a way that makes it intuitively able to handle maths and a strict naturalistic approach to problem solving. It takes a lot of work and education to make that mode of thinking automatic. It doesn't help that we are constantly exposed to magical thinking from birth; it greatly confuses the issue.
Magical thinking is simply error and a way of avoiding the hard work needed to solve problems using more sound approaches.
I was in a car in the late 60's with my father when a bolt holding the air filter on came off and dropped into the carb jamming the throttle wide open. This was a bad ass Buick 445 V8 so we took off like a scalded cat.
I reached over and turned off the ignition and we coasted to a safe stop. I was 12 at the time.
The problem with these people is they have no idea how their car works or how to drive. So we are going to put in more safety systems which of course make how a car operates less transparent.
The judge in the extradition case did actually rule that O'Dwyer had violated British laws. So please don't make statements that O'Dwyer's activities were legal under British law when in fact there is a court ruling that they weren't.
"However, Judge Purdy rejected the argument from Mr Oâ(TM)Dwyerâ(TM)s barrister, Ben Cooper of Doughty Street Chambers, because of the control the student had over what links were posted on TVShack.net and TVShack.cc. He set up the second website a day after authorities shut down the first in July 2010. The main page of the new version included the cover image from a rap single called âoeF*** the Policeâ, according to American prosecutors. âoeFirstly both TVShack websites were entirely in the hands of Richard Oâ(TM)Dwyer and his co conspirators requiring third parties to sign up to TVShack and be vetted before going further,â Judge Purdy said. The judge agreed with John Jones, barrister for the United States government, that âoebecause he was intimately involved in deciding who was allowed to post links on the TVShack websites, which links would be postedâ, Mr Oâ(TM)Dwyerâ(TM)s alleged conduct was a criminal offence under British copyright law."
It's not just live data located in the US. It's data in Australia managed by a US company that could be subject to a US warrant, or even backups of Aus servers hosted in the US.
Yes, the US trade representative is merely doing his job. Hopefully that cuts both ways - that he is informing his superiors about the guffaws that his statements are triggering.
Ultimately it might trigger some reciprocity or treaty generation that would make it less important what country was hosting the data.
No, the algorithms are quite different. In one case the time is obtained from a predetermined lookup table, and the other the time is determined by the total run time of the program that was entered.
If you do further research you will find that in Europe the problem is much worse. For example post the Wakefield article in Lancet measles vaccination rates dropped to 80-85% causing several outbreaks and the British Medical Society to declare measles as endemic in GB.
Are you sure your children will never want to travel to Europe? Or somebody from Europe will never visit your town? Last year the largest outbreak in the US in 15 years occurred from this source.
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> The same agenda the left has always been about.
Brought to you from a political viewpoint that wants to outlaw contraception for women and tells people who they can and cannot marry.
Yes, I should have left off the %.
Why not eliminate the cap altogether? It's absolutely garbage that a land line should be capped. Neither of the services I have available (Cablevision and FIOS) have caps.
I think caps would go away real quick if this practice of exclusive broadband franchises were to come to an end.
What complete bullcrap. There are still some 40% or so of people who file by mail. And as far as reference libraries, less than one percent of the Library of Congress is online.
Mod parent -1 'insensitive clod' please.
You have a very narrow social group. The same Pew survey found smartphone penetration is only about 35% of the population.
I saw a senior executive at an internet company get dragged off in handcuffs after pinning a female developer against a wall during working hours.
Not rape but close enough to make every woman who was an employee there pretty damn uncomfortable.
Unfortunately your information is very spotty, no doubt as a result of reading popularized accounts of climate history.
For example the idea that it was warmer in the past based on the idea Greenland was green in the past is just nonsense. Read:
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/envs501/downloads/Jakobsson%20et%20al.%202010.pdf
Miller 2010... Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic
Alley 2010... History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights
Popularized web accounts published by political organizations are useless.
As far as solar minima, again that's poppycock, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_cycles
$4 billion is 0.0003% of our national economy.
Many political issues have a political solution or can be addressed by politics.
The problem here is not political. It is thermodynamics. Thermodynamics takes what it wants. Thermodynamics doesn't care about politics. Thermodynamics doesn't care what you think about it.
The other side isn't winning. There aren't two sides to thermodynamics.
The problem is that even if there is a popular consensus in the developed countries to reduce CO2 emissions it will never fly in the developing world. The political issues associated with controlling CO2 emissions in the developing world totally dwarf the current issues in the developed nations.
Unfortunately the human mind hasn't evolved in a way that makes it intuitively able to handle maths and a strict naturalistic approach to problem solving. It takes a lot of work and education to make that mode of thinking automatic. It doesn't help that we are constantly exposed to magical thinking from birth; it greatly confuses the issue.
Magical thinking is simply error and a way of avoiding the hard work needed to solve problems using more sound approaches.
What really slows things down is the volume of data we are asking our machines to handle. Your Atari ST doesn't play HD video, for example.
We used to say Andy [Grove] giveth but Bill [Gates] taketh away.
These days though it's more the result of hard drive capacity growing faster than CPU power.
Which is good for me professionally because I like to work on algorithms for web scale data handling.
The Consumer Reports survey covers new cars.
24 hours to get a warrant under dire circumstances? That's just asking for problems.
Typical response to a legal ruling that you disagree with: judge xxx is corrupt.
So what evidence do you have for this hypothesis? Other than the circular one of course.
Sorry, Toyota reliability is still top notch. My family has owned 6 of them and they have all lasted 20 years at least.
2012 Consumer Reports top 9 most reliable brands were Japanese. Scion, Lexus and Toyota were three of those 9.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/new-cars/cr-recommended/best-worst-in-car-reliability/reliability-findings/reliability-findings.htm
I was in a car in the late 60's with my father when a bolt holding the air filter on came off and dropped into the carb jamming the throttle wide open. This was a bad ass Buick 445 V8 so we took off like a scalded cat.
I reached over and turned off the ignition and we coasted to a safe stop. I was 12 at the time.
The problem with these people is they have no idea how their car works or how to drive. So we are going to put in more safety systems which of course make how a car operates less transparent.
The judge in the extradition case did actually rule that O'Dwyer had violated British laws. So please don't make statements that O'Dwyer's activities were legal under British law when in fact there is a court ruling that they weren't.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9013803/Student-Richard-ODwyer-can-be-extradited-over-TV-website.html
"However, Judge Purdy rejected the argument from Mr Oâ(TM)Dwyerâ(TM)s barrister, Ben Cooper of Doughty Street Chambers, because of the control the student had over what links were posted on TVShack.net and TVShack.cc.
He set up the second website a day after authorities shut down the first in July 2010. The main page of the new version included the cover image from a rap single called âoeF*** the Policeâ, according to American prosecutors.
âoeFirstly both TVShack websites were entirely in the hands of Richard Oâ(TM)Dwyer and his co conspirators requiring third parties to sign up to TVShack and be vetted before going further,â Judge Purdy said.
The judge agreed with John Jones, barrister for the United States government, that âoebecause he was intimately involved in deciding who was allowed to post links on the TVShack websites, which links would be postedâ, Mr Oâ(TM)Dwyerâ(TM)s alleged conduct was a criminal offence under British copyright law."
It's not just live data located in the US. It's data in Australia managed by a US company that could be subject to a US warrant, or even backups of Aus servers hosted in the US.
Yes, the US trade representative is merely doing his job. Hopefully that cuts both ways - that he is informing his superiors about the guffaws that his statements are triggering.
Ultimately it might trigger some reciprocity or treaty generation that would make it less important what country was hosting the data.
There is nothing illegal about being a monopoly, and in fact they are not as a quick search in Amazon for thermostat would immediately determine.
No, the algorithms are quite different. In one case the time is obtained from a predetermined lookup table, and the other the time is determined by the total run time of the program that was entered.
This article describes 3 different diseases where there have been breakdowns in herd immunity in the US:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/05/health/la-he-vaccines-herd-immunity-20110801
If you do further research you will find that in Europe the problem is much worse. For example post the Wakefield article in Lancet measles vaccination rates dropped to 80-85% causing several outbreaks and the British Medical Society to declare measles as endemic in GB.
Are you sure your children will never want to travel to Europe? Or somebody from Europe will never visit your town? Last year the largest outbreak in the US in 15 years occurred from this source.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2011-10-21/Unvaccinated-behind-largest-US-measles-outbreak-in-years/50852098/1
A lot of people are going to the London Olympics this year. Some have predicted it will trigger a measles epidemic in the US.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9156762/London-2012-Olympics-may-spark-measle-outbreak-US-warns.html
People like you are compromising the society you live in by playing at amateur epidemiologist. It is immoral behavior.