You do not understand the situation. The government has decided that it can't force ISPs to not charge content providers. In other words, it ceded powers to corporations.
"Which isn't going to happen unless government gets a lot smaller."
How do you figure?
"So the only alternative is to not give them any more power."
Alternative to what? Who's giving who power?
"When people give the government power over the internet, naturally companies will seek to control what the government does with it."
When did the people ever have control over the internet? When did anyone give the government control. To the extent that the government does have control, they just took it. Why would less government control lead to less corporate control?
Your post is incoherent. Partly because you addressing an event that has shifted control away from the government toward corporations. Your thesis doesn't even fit the situation at hand.
My experience is exactly the same. If I had a nickel for every time a linux box has been killed by an update, I'd have about half a dollar. Do I still need to re-compile the kernel to get 3-D acceleration to work?
This is the thing that gets me about Kickstarter. Some guy who once design a great game goes on Kickstarter to fund a sequel. He ends up with $2 million dollars. Who the hell knows if he can manage the money? Nobody knows. He could have the best of intentions, but simply spend the money foolishly and end up broke with a half-finished product.
I'm not a big on the death penalty in general, but I don't see why we don't just use a firing squad. If they're worried about who'd do it, they could ask for volunteers. There'd be plenty.
I agree, but the nuclear industry is blase about it. Putting uneducated pencil pushers in charge of nuclear reactors is not an unfortunate anomaly, it's business as usual.
Plant operators should be as well qualified as airline pilots. They should be in simulators half the time dealing with as wide a variety of fake disasters as can be imagined. They should be tested and tested and tested, and quietly retired when they can't hack it anymore.
Fukushima was a nuclear disaster. Even if you want to write off anything that happens because of Ma Nature, that doesn't matter since good management post-tsunami could have easily prevented the melt-down and massive release.
I'm sympathetic to the nuclear industry, but industry proponents really need to get a grip. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were operated by morons. That just can't happen. It should never happen. There are plenty of smart folk, do what it takes to make sure one of them is in charge the next time a tsunami hits. Follow the damn regulations root out corruption. Bluster and sticking your head in the sand just isn't going to cut it anymore.
There's still a lot of Python that's ahead of *today*, not to mention the time that they made it.
Try showing Life of Brian to your Christian buddies.
That old woman's tirade against the lady of the lake will always serve as a wake up call against mythical reasoning. Basically a quarter of Python highlights the vapidity of public figures and the perception of the figures. That will never get old.
The summarizing Proust competition will forever perfectly satirize doomed attempts to bring high art to the mass market.
The U.S. at the moment could use a little bit of mocking of the military, Python style.
"How do yo know he's a king?" "He hasn't got shit all over him." More relevant now than then.
You may be surprised to learn that there were many founders, some with different ideas, and that some of the language in the constitution is a compromise.
religion as a store of knowledge is extremely valuable. Theology as an intellectual pursuit is barren and answers none of the questions that science has so far failed to answer. This bickering over the word "nothing" is exactly the kind of nonsense that theologians get caught up in. The word itself is just a label. A good scientist understands that and no doubt the original papers don't use that word except as summary or shorthand for a more specific idea.
Of course physicists have box envy. They've been stealing sand boxes since the beginning but they're always taking more. BTW, pretty much everything was the domain of theology until science gets in on the action, then the theologians end up looking petty and unimaginative once we find out what's really going on.
Why are you getting all stitched up about the word? It's not like theologians have any good theory about how something could come from nothing, or even if that's a question that needs answering.
A probability wave is an actual physical thing, and not just an abstraction that describes our inability to make precise measurements. It's the very nature of the wave that the events caused by it are unpredictable.
"Underlying this is an assumption that reality is not itself mathematical. This assumption isn't justified."
Sure there is. There is no model that describes what happens. We do have models that describe precisely how bad our models are. Current theory is that we can't do any better than that.
OTOH, I disagree with the grandparent. Physics has informed a lot of new Math, and Math has informed a lot of new physics.
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You do not understand the situation. The government has decided that it can't force ISPs to not charge content providers. In other words, it ceded powers to corporations.
"Which isn't going to happen unless government gets a lot smaller."
How do you figure?
"So the only alternative is to not give them any more power."
Alternative to what? Who's giving who power?
"When people give the government power over the internet, naturally companies will seek to control what the government does with it."
When did the people ever have control over the internet? When did anyone give the government control. To the extent that the government does have control, they just took it. Why would less government control lead to less corporate control?
Your post is incoherent. Partly because you addressing an event that has shifted control away from the government toward corporations. Your thesis doesn't even fit the situation at hand.
How could a libertarian support net neutrality?
Depends on how hungry you are.
Yeah, except there's no window.
Only box I ever had with a rooted was a linux box. Some a-hole turned into a spam server.
My experience is exactly the same. If I had a nickel for every time a linux box has been killed by an update, I'd have about half a dollar. Do I still need to re-compile the kernel to get 3-D acceleration to work?
Nerds who knowingly paid for game that did not exist upset that game does not exist and go running to big government instead of wising up.
This is the thing that gets me about Kickstarter. Some guy who once design a great game goes on Kickstarter to fund a sequel. He ends up with $2 million dollars. Who the hell knows if he can manage the money? Nobody knows. He could have the best of intentions, but simply spend the money foolishly and end up broke with a half-finished product.
I'm not a big on the death penalty in general, but I don't see why we don't just use a firing squad. If they're worried about who'd do it, they could ask for volunteers. There'd be plenty.
Am I the only one who liked that movie? It was one of Ford's few good turns in recent years.
I agree, but the nuclear industry is blase about it. Putting uneducated pencil pushers in charge of nuclear reactors is not an unfortunate anomaly, it's business as usual.
Plant operators should be as well qualified as airline pilots. They should be in simulators half the time dealing with as wide a variety of fake disasters as can be imagined. They should be tested and tested and tested, and quietly retired when they can't hack it anymore.
Fukushima was a nuclear disaster. Even if you want to write off anything that happens because of Ma Nature, that doesn't matter since good management post-tsunami could have easily prevented the melt-down and massive release.
I'm sympathetic to the nuclear industry, but industry proponents really need to get a grip. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were operated by morons. That just can't happen. It should never happen. There are plenty of smart folk, do what it takes to make sure one of them is in charge the next time a tsunami hits. Follow the damn regulations root out corruption. Bluster and sticking your head in the sand just isn't going to cut it anymore.
There's still a lot of Python that's ahead of *today*, not to mention the time that they made it.
Try showing Life of Brian to your Christian buddies.
That old woman's tirade against the lady of the lake will always serve as a wake up call against mythical reasoning. Basically a quarter of Python highlights the vapidity of public figures and the perception of the figures. That will never get old.
The summarizing Proust competition will forever perfectly satirize doomed attempts to bring high art to the mass market.
The U.S. at the moment could use a little bit of mocking of the military, Python style.
"How do yo know he's a king?" "He hasn't got shit all over him." More relevant now than then.
That's the point.
You may be surprised to learn that there were many founders, some with different ideas, and that some of the language in the constitution is a compromise.
It does not exclude RPGs, stingers, or 100 lbs of high explosives.
religion as a store of knowledge is extremely valuable. Theology as an intellectual pursuit is barren and answers none of the questions that science has so far failed to answer. This bickering over the word "nothing" is exactly the kind of nonsense that theologians get caught up in. The word itself is just a label. A good scientist understands that and no doubt the original papers don't use that word except as summary or shorthand for a more specific idea.
Just reverse the polarity of the inertial dampeners.
Please, Russia, keep the style of this lunar rover.
Yet another slashdotter unsure if scientists have heard of the Sun.
Of course physicists have box envy. They've been stealing sand boxes since the beginning but they're always taking more. BTW, pretty much everything was the domain of theology until science gets in on the action, then the theologians end up looking petty and unimaginative once we find out what's really going on.
Why are you getting all stitched up about the word? It's not like theologians have any good theory about how something could come from nothing, or even if that's a question that needs answering.
A probability wave is an actual physical thing, and not just an abstraction that describes our inability to make precise measurements. It's the very nature of the wave that the events caused by it are unpredictable.
"Underlying this is an assumption that reality is not itself mathematical. This assumption isn't justified."
Sure there is. There is no model that describes what happens. We do have models that describe precisely how bad our models are. Current theory is that we can't do any better than that.
OTOH, I disagree with the grandparent. Physics has informed a lot of new Math, and Math has informed a lot of new physics.
"I wish the physicists would stop playing in the philosophical and theological sandbox."
Of course you do. Theologians have already had their sandbox reduced by scientists, and you wouldn't want it to shrink any more than it already has.