It's not a magic bullet, but let's be realistic. There are bad examples of each. Where I live we have private water and sewer in addition to the other private services you have, and it's miserable. The costs are 5x what they are in adjoining towns that have municipal water and sewer, and there is no end of problems. Twice in the past two years we had to curtail water use because of capacity and contamination problems. One case was caused by a three year delay on repairing some plant equipment because it would have exceeded their 'budget'. During the aftermath of Sandy they did not have sufficient backup power to keep the water pressure up, so there were places that no no drinking water after the storm.
We have a good gas supplier, very happy with them. In the time I lived here zero problems with them. However our electricity supply is a company owned by First Energy. They are completely screwing us at every opportunity. They Never trim trees or do any maintenance. There are constant problems with stray voltage. Post Sandy we were without power for two weeks because the substations in our area were flooded because the sump pumps had not been maintained. Out of state crews brought in to repair the damage stated publicly that the entire electrical system had basically no maintenance done on it for many years (which is basically when First Energy took over). Now that they are faced with the fact they need to start maintenance again they have asked for a multi-billion rate hike. Some other areas served by different electric companies came through in reasonable shape.
Cable companies, don't get me started. We have a decent one, Cablevision. However until FIOS became available in my area their responsiveness to customers stank to high heaven, and they would cap you if you did too much uploading. As soon as FIOS became available we started getting regular updates to internet service and customer service improved dramatically. There are even times when there is price competition. And yes, now we have no caps because of the competition. I feel sorry for folks who live in areas where there is no competition for their internet or TV service.
Which is of course the goal of this bill - eliminate competition.
The first two stories on the front page of Slashdot are based on articles from conservative troll publications, the Washington Examiner and the Daily Mail.
Combine that with autonomous vehicles and you could have all sorts of fun. For example an activist could spam a local chemical company with several thousand cars barricading their plant.
Or a businessman could pay a hacker to have every car driving by his location to stop for 30 seconds in order to give maximum exposure to his billboards and other signage.
That YOU HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY when you disclose data to third parties.
It's a basic characteristic of the current legal system. It lets the post office accumulate files of the outside of every envelope that passes through their system, it allows the NSA to search metadata associated with every phone call and tcp/ip packet that passes over the internet, and it allows collection of this sort of information without any oversight from the courts.
It's called the Third Party Doctrine.
Since modern systems never forget, it means technology has handed government vastly greater surveillance powers.
The only way to change it is to get laws changed. In some cases, like health care records there are laws that prohibit this. BUT not in general.
OK, so you have made the choice not to put in the salt storage and buy the plows. Fine.
BUT when you make that choice you have to keep the consequences of that choice in mind when you make the choice of whether or not the city stays open when there is a threat of a storm.
Why does it have to contain actual science? Surely the readership here is well aware of the religious roots of Creationism, and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
It is appalling that this malarkey is taught in schools using public money.
The question is how fast will the car be for that lap? Dragging around a big old steel tank plus powering a badass compressor, or running on batteries that you have to drag around the rest of the race suggests that you have some real tradeoffs here.
Not sure I'd have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr. Simberg does, but he has a point. Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change "hockey-stick" graph.
If Steyn's motive was scientific inquiry and he was conducting the discourse in refereed journals I would agree with you.
That's not it though. He has no science background and he's into politically motivated demagoguery, court actions and making a public circus of it. His attacks of the judge in the case got his defense team to quit.
The US electric generation system was deregulated in 2002 by the same people who brought you the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and two useless wars.
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Considering US debts are overwhelmingly dollar denominated the effects of inflation on ability to repay debt are quite muted.
They just haven't been forgotten yet.
You hope it ends abruptly. All too often it's a slow death from cancer or Alzheimer's that bankrupts your family.
It's not a magic bullet, but let's be realistic. There are bad examples of each. Where I live we have private water and sewer in addition to the other private services you have, and it's miserable. The costs are 5x what they are in adjoining towns that have municipal water and sewer, and there is no end of problems. Twice in the past two years we had to curtail water use because of capacity and contamination problems. One case was caused by a three year delay on repairing some plant equipment because it would have exceeded their 'budget'. During the aftermath of Sandy they did not have sufficient backup power to keep the water pressure up, so there were places that no no drinking water after the storm.
We have a good gas supplier, very happy with them. In the time I lived here zero problems with them. However our electricity supply is a company owned by First Energy. They are completely screwing us at every opportunity. They Never trim trees or do any maintenance. There are constant problems with stray voltage. Post Sandy we were without power for two weeks because the substations in our area were flooded because the sump pumps had not been maintained. Out of state crews brought in to repair the damage stated publicly that the entire electrical system had basically no maintenance done on it for many years (which is basically when First Energy took over). Now that they are faced with the fact they need to start maintenance again they have asked for a multi-billion rate hike. Some other areas served by different electric companies came through in reasonable shape.
Cable companies, don't get me started. We have a decent one, Cablevision. However until FIOS became available in my area their responsiveness to customers stank to high heaven, and they would cap you if you did too much uploading. As soon as FIOS became available we started getting regular updates to internet service and customer service improved dramatically. There are even times when there is price competition. And yes, now we have no caps because of the competition. I feel sorry for folks who live in areas where there is no competition for their internet or TV service.
Which is of course the goal of this bill - eliminate competition.
The first two stories on the front page of Slashdot are based on articles from conservative troll publications, the Washington Examiner and the Daily Mail.
It's really getting ridiculous around here.
Combine that with autonomous vehicles and you could have all sorts of fun. For example an activist could spam a local chemical company with several thousand cars barricading their plant.
Or a businessman could pay a hacker to have every car driving by his location to stop for 30 seconds in order to give maximum exposure to his billboards and other signage.
You have already surrendered that privacy to the banks. If you don't let regulators have it too, exactly how effective do you think they will be?
The only way to roll it back is to pass new laws that eliminate the Third Party Doctrine.
That YOU HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY when you disclose data to third parties.
It's a basic characteristic of the current legal system. It lets the post office accumulate files of the outside of every envelope that passes through their system, it allows the NSA to search metadata associated with every phone call and tcp/ip packet that passes over the internet, and it allows collection of this sort of information without any oversight from the courts.
It's called the Third Party Doctrine.
Since modern systems never forget, it means technology has handed government vastly greater surveillance powers.
The only way to change it is to get laws changed. In some cases, like health care records there are laws that prohibit this. BUT not in general.
OK, so you have made the choice not to put in the salt storage and buy the plows. Fine.
BUT when you make that choice you have to keep the consequences of that choice in mind when you make the choice of whether or not the city stays open when there is a threat of a storm.
EPIC FAIL.
Isn't that about what the market share is for network TV?
15 years ago my biggest problem when dealing with HTML was when the clients were print designers.
I guess it hasn't changed. We aren't going to have display postscript on the small mobile devices that are so prevalent now.
Sorry, the web and print are two different media. It isn't going to look the same.
If you need really fine control use PDF.
Stop trying to cram a month's work of clothing into an overnight bag.
&tc.
Mann is a significant contributor to the scientific literature.
Steyn is not. He is NOT doing science in any way form or mode.
End of story.
> There is no way to test supernatural notions.
SOME supernatural notions. Many supernatural notions, say like spontaneous generation have been disproved.
Reasonable inductive analysis can be used to exclude supernatural hypothesis until such can be experimentally verified.
The Quran does not contain a complete chronology of creation, and Muslim scholars do not believe in Young Earth creationism.
The primary gap between Islam and Evolutionary Biology is the origin of man, which is treated as directly the result of actual intervention by God.
Why does it have to contain actual science? Surely the readership here is well aware of the religious roots of Creationism, and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
It is appalling that this malarkey is taught in schools using public money.
In the US, states have the primary responsibility for education.
That works out ok for states like Massachusetts who have a well educated population and liberal government; their schools are absolutely world-class.
http://www.mass.gov/governor/p...
The question is how fast will the car be for that lap? Dragging around a big old steel tank plus powering a badass compressor, or running on batteries that you have to drag around the rest of the race suggests that you have some real tradeoffs here.
You have to be daft to consider email over the public internet to be private. It never has been and never will be.
Wrong technology to use in carrying out any kind of sensitive communications of any sort.
No, an O.M.
Not sure I'd have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr. Simberg does, but he has a point. Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change "hockey-stick" graph.
- Mark Steyn
National Review had it's lawyers defending Steyn, until at least a public attack by Steyn against the case's judge embarrassed them.
So they quit the case and are talking about dropping the National Review as a client.
If Steyn's motive was scientific inquiry and he was conducting the discourse in refereed journals I would agree with you.
That's not it though. He has no science background and he's into politically motivated demagoguery, court actions and making a public circus of it. His attacks of the judge in the case got his defense team to quit.
That's generally NOT the path to truth.
In other words you have a cognitive bias that leads you to reject one of the largest bodies of modern scientific research.
Good!
Harry Truman.
The US electric generation system was deregulated in 2002 by the same people who brought you the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and two useless wars.
Nothing to do with the current administration.
Sorry to disappoint you.