Oh right, we busted up the phone monopoly decades ago, now if you don't like your phone service, YOU CAN MOVE TO ANOTHER FUCKING STATE.
But hey, if they cancel my service over this, I can demand phone service back thanks to their franchise contract and universal access laws. If they charge me to turn it back on, I'll have the city council going over that contract to see what can be done about getting some real competition in here.
, get over it, and STFU already. I still don't see the issue.
Why is visio's non-activation trying to get the user to buy a second copy of Office? How is the average user supposed to figure out that when they try to update office and Microsoft tells them they can't update office until they buy office, that the problem is actually somewhere else?
treating my labor and their money like it's some sort of 'thing' to be 'traded'!
Judging from how long companies have been whining about how the labor market is so tight compared to how recently the salaries they offered began to increase to reflect that disparity in supply, I'd say you'd be one of the first to do so.
sometimes the law is going to be bent, malformed and broken to get at what most people would feel is "right".
Of course, being treated like a criminal after leaving the cash register and having to prove that you just paid for everything you just paid for is more than merely an inconvenience as you wait in yet another line, it's what's "right".
But you said "nuh uh" so I guess we need to take your word for it.
And you said "is so" so I guess we need to take your word for it? Even if you wish to call it a contract (which it is not by any definition of "contract" since the federal government did not exist until after it was signed and you cannot have a contract with only one party) it doesn't change the fact that the Constitution assigns to the US Government specific powers, and places specific limits on those powers, and specific exceptions to those limits.
The US Constitution is a sort of contract between the Federal Government and the People
The US Constitution is nothing of the sort. It outlines the explicit powers of the federal government and explicit limits on those powers, with explicit exceptions to those limits, it has been amended in certain scopes to include local governments as well.
It would be ridiculous to try to made the document apply to people outside of the US
There is only one Constitution, and that document only applies to the government, at all times, period. There is no "special" Constitution outlining the powers of the government with respect to non-citizens.
Actually the secret is that the craft actually will be manned by a shrine maiden and a demon sent to investigate the appearance of a fake moon, and find out where the real moon has been hidden. The rover is three metric tons thanks to the bulletproofing they had to add;)
The gist is, I carve out my own little space on the Internet with guaranteed ad showing, protection from download copying, and digital rights management. To do this, I must:
Make a web browser, all of my own. I probably want to simplify / change HTML to move, as you say, from a generic content, to a content model that is more useable, and also, to cheaply sweeten the pie for the retailers I'm trying to entice Go for it. Let us all know how Tjstork Online turns out.
those aren't the fees I am referring to. Nice job of completely missing the point.
If the fees Amazon pays for the lines to transfer their data are not the fees you're referring to, you'll have to first make your point by explaining what fees you're talking about before accusing me of missing whatever point you had.
but once the cable company lays the line, it's obligated to charge him the same price it charges all the other customers
Golly gee shucks. The original poster talks about crying a river, but I guess the cable company shouldn't have contracted with the government to guarantee a monopoly if the terms were just so damn onerous.
It could be easy to implement, just a bitmap that comes down the wire telling the system what channels it is allowed to show. Customer wants to change... call in on a touchtone phone, enter their subscriber number (or use caller ID and a PIN?), select their changes and receive a new bitmap.
Of course, the real problem isn't that there will be "chaos", the real problem is that people will subscribe to the channel they're watching for the duration of the show, then to change the channel they call in and drop that channel and add a new one so they never have to pay for more than one channel at a time.
Could be fixed by only issuing new bitmaps at the start of each billing cycle.
Sure, if you want to live in your own little fantasy world, they don't have to pay a cent.
When you join us back in the real world, you'll find that they have been paying. They're paying a pretty penny for their OC-12s and their redundant connections and so on. They'll still be paying for the bandwidth that they use, even under this "new" approach.
No, the point is that what you pay for is what you get, rather than you paying for a service, and whether you get that service or not depends on whether amazon, itms, youtube, et al pony up "their share" on top of what they're already paying for their connection.
Sounds like something some management-type would tell someone to do. Or maybe the admin saw too many Star Trek reruns and thought the company should lower the shields so they can beam the data up.
then we will have to charge you more." Simple economics?
The problem with your economics is that they're not charging the BBC at all right now because they have absolutely no business relationship with them.
The situation these carriers want is no different than if you had a phone on the AT&T cell network and Verizon billed you (at whatever rate they wanted since you don't have a contract with them setting one, let's say $5000 a minute) for calling a friend on the Verizon network, after all you were "using" their network. Oh and by the way, your friend still had to pay his phone bill for the minutes he used to talk to you.
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All fear "the swifly spiking onslaught of the Storm Worm!"
It's product placement for Swiffer dusters, able to swifly swiff up dust, viruses and worms.
It's a "perfect world" situation, because it depends on your experts really being experts, and we all know how often a loser with experience is hired into a position they aren't qualified to fill.
Not only that, in the absence of Junior programmers, you have nobody to promote to the Senior position. Which I guess is great if you want to whine to the government about how hard it is to find skilled workers that were magically endowed with their Senior-level prowess.
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grow a brain
LOL, thanks, I already have one.
get a mobile
And expensive high-latency low-bandwidth internet access? I'm sure that's a substitute for DSL in whatever world of rainbows and unicorns you live in.
get VoIP
"We're sorry, due to network congestion your call cannot be completed. Please try again later."
email/send an IM
That's just brilliant, why didn't I think of that, after they cut off my service, I can just send an email over the inter.... heyyy wait a minute.
why give them your money?
Oh right, we busted up the phone monopoly decades ago, now if you don't like your phone service, YOU CAN MOVE TO ANOTHER FUCKING STATE.
But hey, if they cancel my service over this, I can demand phone service back thanks to their franchise contract and universal access laws. If they charge me to turn it back on, I'll have the city council going over that contract to see what can be done about getting some real competition in here.
, get over it, and STFU already. I still don't see the issue.
Why is visio's non-activation trying to get the user to buy a second copy of Office? How is the average user supposed to figure out that when they try to update office and Microsoft tells them they can't update office until they buy office, that the problem is actually somewhere else?
start blaming the Jews or the Freemasons or something.
Damn those free masons, putting us hard-working stone workers out of a job. All I wanted to do was have a nice house and feed my kids!
treating my labor and their money like it's some sort of 'thing' to be 'traded'!
Judging from how long companies have been whining about how the labor market is so tight compared to how recently the salaries they offered began to increase to reflect that disparity in supply, I'd say you'd be one of the first to do so.
sometimes the law is going to be bent, malformed and broken to get at what most people would feel is "right".
Of course, being treated like a criminal after leaving the cash register and having to prove that you just paid for everything you just paid for is more than merely an inconvenience as you wait in yet another line, it's what's "right".
Sounds exactly like a contract to me.
I guess that's because it is.
But you said "nuh uh" so I guess we need to take your word for it.
And you said "is so" so I guess we need to take your word for it? Even if you wish to call it a contract (which it is not by any definition of "contract" since the federal government did not exist until after it was signed and you cannot have a contract with only one party) it doesn't change the fact that the Constitution assigns to the US Government specific powers, and places specific limits on those powers, and specific exceptions to those limits.
If you actually think that the US Constitution applies to everyone in the World
I think the US Constitution applies to the US Government at all times, even when the US Government is dealing with non-Americans.
The US Constitution is a sort of contract between the Federal Government and the People
The US Constitution is nothing of the sort. It outlines the explicit powers of the federal government and explicit limits on those powers, with explicit exceptions to those limits, it has been amended in certain scopes to include local governments as well.
It would be ridiculous to try to made the document apply to people outside of the US
There is only one Constitution, and that document only applies to the government, at all times, period. There is no "special" Constitution outlining the powers of the government with respect to non-citizens.
What's novel about this?
There is nothing novel about police incompetence, they're humans too.
without PARC there'd be no mouse
google wouldn't work without either of these companies
Google needs a mouse to work?
Actually the secret is that the craft actually will be manned by a shrine maiden and a demon sent to investigate the appearance of a fake moon, and find out where the real moon has been hidden. The rover is three metric tons thanks to the bulletproofing they had to add ;)
Make a web browser, all of my own. I probably want to simplify / change HTML to move, as you say, from a generic content, to a content model that is more useable, and also, to cheaply sweeten the pie for the retailers I'm trying to entice Go for it. Let us all know how Tjstork Online turns out.
those aren't the fees I am referring to. Nice job of completely missing the point.
If the fees Amazon pays for the lines to transfer their data are not the fees you're referring to, you'll have to first make your point by explaining what fees you're talking about before accusing me of missing whatever point you had.
but once the cable company lays the line, it's obligated to charge him the same price it charges all the other customers
Golly gee shucks. The original poster talks about crying a river, but I guess the cable company shouldn't have contracted with the government to guarantee a monopoly if the terms were just so damn onerous.
would probably throw cable into utter chaos
It could be easy to implement, just a bitmap that comes down the wire telling the system what channels it is allowed to show. Customer wants to change... call in on a touchtone phone, enter their subscriber number (or use caller ID and a PIN?), select their changes and receive a new bitmap.
Of course, the real problem isn't that there will be "chaos", the real problem is that people will subscribe to the channel they're watching for the duration of the show, then to change the channel they call in and drop that channel and add a new one so they never have to pay for more than one channel at a time.
Could be fixed by only issuing new bitmaps at the start of each billing cycle.
I pay so that Amazon doesn't have to
Sure, if you want to live in your own little fantasy world, they don't have to pay a cent.
When you join us back in the real world, you'll find that they have been paying. They're paying a pretty penny for their OC-12s and their redundant connections and so on. They'll still be paying for the bandwidth that they use, even under this "new" approach.
the security of a contract?
Since when does one need the security of a contract to read a book and tell people what you thought of it?
No, the point is that what you pay for is what you get, rather than you paying for a service, and whether you get that service or not depends on whether amazon, itms, youtube, et al pony up "their share" on top of what they're already paying for their connection.
Sounds more like a complicated steam engine to me.
The only thing more awesome than rocket-powered cybernetics is steampunk cybernetics.
Someone get the title changed, quick!
And wtf was it doing down in the FIRST place?
Sounds like something some management-type would tell someone to do. Or maybe the admin saw too many Star Trek reruns and thought the company should lower the shields so they can beam the data up.
then we will have to charge you more." Simple economics?
The problem with your economics is that they're not charging the BBC at all right now because they have absolutely no business relationship with them.
The situation these carriers want is no different than if you had a phone on the AT&T cell network and Verizon billed you (at whatever rate they wanted since you don't have a contract with them setting one, let's say $5000 a minute) for calling a friend on the Verizon network, after all you were "using" their network. Oh and by the way, your friend still had to pay his phone bill for the minutes he used to talk to you.
All fear "the swifly spiking onslaught of the Storm Worm!"
It's product placement for Swiffer dusters, able to swifly swiff up dust, viruses and worms.
It's a "perfect world" situation, because it depends on your experts really being experts, and we all know how often a loser with experience is hired into a position they aren't qualified to fill.
Not only that, in the absence of Junior programmers, you have nobody to promote to the Senior position. Which I guess is great if you want to whine to the government about how hard it is to find skilled workers that were magically endowed with their Senior-level prowess.
So easy, a rat's brain could do it.
Don't know about chimps though.