Re:Infastructure + Content = Power Grab
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No you got it all backward. There is decent competition on the backbone level.
There's a natural monopoly on the local level.
One good thing this act has in it is provisions to encourage localities to take control of last mile. Even as a Libertarian I diverge from the party line and believe that the last mile natural monopoly should be municipally controlled.
Putting some fake competition into a natural monopoly via "must carry" laws never works out very well. Just make the physical last mile media locally owned and let the companies that want to use it rent it from the city/county.
The backbones aren't monopolies. The monopolies are only on local loop service.
ATT/Verizon/Bell South.... Hmm I wonder where I've seen those names before.:)
I hope no net neutrality passes. This stupid ploy that the Baby Bells are making to reassert their nationwide monopoly will be their downfall. There's plenty of recourse the other major backbone providers can use to totally bitchslap them if they try anything sleezy.
Re:They already pay their "fair share".
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Suppose I'm Google's ISP. I notice you start throttling traffic to Google. A have a very simple solution. No more peering for you. You deal with angry customers that can't get to Google.
Nothing will come of this. It's all bullshit "what ifs". There's no such thing as a "good new law".
Telecomm providers always had the right to give you crappier service.
If you wanted a T3 and didn't care how bottlenecked it was upstream you can buy it from a local ISP. If you want one that can max out to nearly any other site, you buy from a Tier 1 ISP.
If the Tier 1 starts to offer you crappy service, you change to another one.
If the Tier 1 ISPs collude to offer subpar service and fixed prices, then fix that with antitrust.
As long as it's a free market, there's nothing to worry about. While you may only get to choose 1 or 2 ISPs for your home broadband use, anyone with major bandwidth can choose at least 5 or 10 different Tier 1 ISPs.
Regarding the last mile, this same bill also explicitely authorizes localities to provide last mile service. I'm not sure why a federal bill would be needed to permit this, but there it is.
the manufacture of crystal meth involves the use of many caustic, highly toxic compounds in hazardous "cooking" conditions that are prone to explosion.
That's not a valid reason (even if it were true). The auto parts shop contains many caustic, highly toxic compounds that are prone to explosion too.
If we are going to ban anything that is potentially dangerous if abused, we have lost something very serious.
A PVR that doesn't need to rely on blind luck and often incorrect listings to know if it's recording the right thing.
My Tivo often mischannels to PBS. I'm pretty sure this algorithm should be able to tell Family Guy from the "Boring ass old people talking about politics hour".
Thermite is surprisingly ineffective at melting a hard disk. It takes a lot more of it than one would expect. Most of the heat is lost to radiant energy and molten metal spit out if you just make a pile on top of the drive and light it.
You think WalMart is the first company to use predatory pricing? Come on, that's just ignorant. And that's assuming they even do. In my experience their prices don't go up, they stay low. It's not like they lower them just to drive someone out then raise them.
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No you got it all backward. There is decent competition on the backbone level.
There's a natural monopoly on the local level.
One good thing this act has in it is provisions to encourage localities to take control of last mile. Even as a Libertarian I diverge from the party line and believe that the last mile natural monopoly should be municipally controlled.
Putting some fake competition into a natural monopoly via "must carry" laws never works out very well. Just make the physical last mile media locally owned and let the companies that want to use it rent it from the city/county.
The backbones aren't monopolies. The monopolies are only on local loop service.
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ATT/Verizon/Bell South.... Hmm I wonder where I've seen those names before.
I hope no net neutrality passes. This stupid ploy that the Baby Bells are making to reassert their nationwide monopoly will be their downfall. There's plenty of recourse the other major backbone providers can use to totally bitchslap them if they try anything sleezy.
Suppose I'm Google's ISP. I notice you start throttling traffic to Google. A have a very simple solution. No more peering for you. You deal with angry customers that can't get to Google.
Nothing will come of this. It's all bullshit "what ifs". There's no such thing as a "good new law".
Telecomm providers always had the right to give you crappier service.
If you wanted a T3 and didn't care how bottlenecked it was upstream you can buy it from a local ISP. If you want one that can max out to nearly any other site, you buy from a Tier 1 ISP.
If the Tier 1 starts to offer you crappy service, you change to another one.
If the Tier 1 ISPs collude to offer subpar service and fixed prices, then fix that with antitrust.
As long as it's a free market, there's nothing to worry about. While you may only get to choose 1 or 2 ISPs for your home broadband use, anyone with major bandwidth can choose at least 5 or 10 different Tier 1 ISPs.
Regarding the last mile, this same bill also explicitely authorizes localities to provide last mile service. I'm not sure why a federal bill would be needed to permit this, but there it is.
the manufacture of crystal meth involves the use of many caustic, highly toxic compounds in hazardous "cooking" conditions that are prone to explosion.
That's not a valid reason (even if it were true). The auto parts shop contains many caustic, highly toxic compounds that are prone to explosion too.
If we are going to ban anything that is potentially dangerous if abused, we have lost something very serious.
That envelope X-ray spray is just dust off. Hold the can of dust-off upside down and spray the envelope.
Doesn't work well with security envelopes, but works fine with normal ones.
Off the top of my head:
A PVR that doesn't need to rely on blind luck and often incorrect listings to know if it's recording the right thing.
My Tivo often mischannels to PBS. I'm pretty sure this algorithm should be able to tell Family Guy from the "Boring ass old people talking about politics hour".
That's not the case. Printing to PDF doesn't rasterize the file.
PDF's an open standard. MS seems to be FUDding it up for some reason.
Thermite is surprisingly ineffective at melting a hard disk. It takes a lot more of it than one would expect. Most of the heat is lost to radiant energy and molten metal spit out if you just make a pile on top of the drive and light it.
Actually it's hard to hit a disk hard enough to bend the platters with a sledge. The spindle is pretty solid.
I found a hydraulic press works pretty well though.
You think WalMart is the first company to use predatory pricing? Come on, that's just ignorant. And that's assuming they even do. In my experience their prices don't go up, they stay low. It's not like they lower them just to drive someone out then raise them.
Listerine is like 30% ethanol anyway. Would anyone really notice if you had a small listerine bottle filled with more pure stuff?
I don't think fuel cells will let you carry on anything you couldn't carry on anyway.
Yes that's what it comes down to.
People don't have any political allegiances when it comes to what amounts to 100% compatible platforms. There's no reason to. It's a pure meritocracy.
Maybe because it's not "franchise rehash 10" from EA?
The Linden made trees are like that, but there's not much selection in those.
Residents can only use primitives to construct stuff. Basically CSG except without all the boolean operators.
People will still use camping chairs to game the popular places listings.
When AMD starts to suck and stagnate.
When AMD starts to try to force non-standard patent encumbered RAM on everyone.
etc.
Except for the Duo, Intel's line still pretty much sucks. If Intel can crank out more chips like the Duo though, fuck AMD.
You know as well as I that if his competitor did that, the arbitration would turn the name over to him in a minute.
Funny you mention that.
That's kinda what we did in college. We didn't have a "fight club", but I invented a game.
It was like Sumo except you had Pugil sticks (you know like american gladiators). Boxing headgear, cup if you wanted it, that's about it.
Anyway, 10 foot diameter ring on the ground. Both hands have to stay on the stick. Don't hit the other guys hands with the hard part of your stick.
First one to get pushed out of the ring 3 times or to fall 3 times loses. Falling means a knee or hand or more on the ground.
That's all the rules. Other than that go wild beating the hell out of your opponent.
Anyway we called the game "Toshi".. it means like "spirit of battle" or some shit, at least according to this japanese dictionary my friend had.
It's much more strenuous than one would think.
Trinary is valid when referring to the number system. Ternary just means "three way", it's a more generic term.
What does safely mean?
What if it's a choice between running into a flock of birds or risking airframe damage from a large control input?
There are hard choices, and the real world doesn't lend itself well to entirely scripted responses.
Doesn't ILS take most of the guesswork out of landing too? I mean assuming you aren't landing in torrential rain or on a sheet of ice or something.
It's higher than that I suspect. Fonts on paper look shitty at 300dpi, ok at 600, but really 1200 or 2400 is more the standard for plate output.
Heh you ever play "Perry Mason, the case of the mandarin murder" on the C64? Mile a minute action!