You're right. Measles, small pox, etc, etc,... they just decided they didn't like infecting people any more and want to die out. If had nothing to do with vaccinations.
The fact that people with vaccinations DON'T catch the disease they are vaccinated against is just a huge coincidence. We should be applauding Measles and Small Pox for voluntarily dying out all on their own without vaccines working.
I, for one, would like to give a big hearty thank you to Small Pox for voluntarily stop spreading itself. Dog is no longer man's best friend; all hail Small Pox.
Most Armadillos are carriers of the leprosy virus. And yes, they can spread it to humans. Could wipe out all leprosy from humans and it still find it's way back to us.
Any short term stay in a bunker will start smelling pretty wretched quite quickly. If all utilities falter, the poop corner of the bunker will get pretty nasty pretty quickly.
I'm not sure how that is an advantage since on most networks it doesn't count against your 4G usage and is free anyway. The only people who that would be an advantage for are people who live in the middle of nowhere that doesn't get cellphone coverage- or people on some strange plan that doesn't give you free texting (do any still exist?)
I will say though... other than sports being harder to watch, I'm much happier with having Netflix and Hulu than I was when I had cable. I like being able to pick what I want, rather than reality TV shows being on every channel and that's my only option. History Channel reality TV, discovery channel reality TV... ARGH!
Streaming is fragmenting though. Yahoo is stealing some shows from Hulu. CBS is going solo. BBC is launching their own separate channel. Soon it will be more expensive to cut the cord because streaming is fragmenting so badly.
Unfortunately a great number of us don't have any alternative once we cut the cord.
Sure, I'm not paying $80 a month in cable bills any more- but I'm still paying $50 for the data (no option- they have a monopoly on connections fast enough to stream). So- then I add Hulu, and Netflix (the wife has Amazon from a student account). Bang- I'm right back to the price I started with.
Or even better- use regular text messaging, comes with every phone, is free on most networks, and doesn't use any of your 4g data allotment. Never seen the attraction to WhatsApp.
Law? The government of India is trying to tell an American company what to do. They have no more jurisdiction over WhatsApp than the North Korean government has over me. And that's a good thing.
They're perfectly entitled to tell Facebook what WhatsApp can do when it is operating in India. Just like the Kim administration could decide to feed you to the dogs, like he did his uncle, if you were to step foot in North Korea.
I understand the reservations, and on a certain level I agree with you.
However, cable companies don't really work like the rest of the free-market economy.
1) You have local monopolies. There is no normal invisible-hand working to help the consumer vote with their business. Sure, there are alternatives popping up in recent years, but no true direct competitor. Monopolies have to be governed to prevent abuses.
2) They could become crucial information disseminators in times of invasion, natural disaster, or other emergency. Government has a vested interest in being able to reach the population in times of emergency.
3) It's something people care about so, right or wrong, government feels it has to be involved. Government regulates all sorts of stuff. That's what they do, they govern. Depending on your individual political outlook you might want them governing less or more, but governing stuff is what they're all about.
In truth, anyone who has enough money and/or power gets to circumvent the law easier than poor people or average Joes.
A poor man and a rich man get charged with the same crime with the same amount of evidence; the rich man is more likely to walk away a free man. Various reasons: better access to better lawyers; society are more likely to take for granted the word of a well-dressed well groomed person than some scruffy guy in a hoody.
Yeah, I'm sure it's very geographically dependent, who is the incompetent carrier in your city may be variable. For me it's FedEx too. I groan when I see a package is coming via FedEx; UPS almost never a problem. FedEx = 50% chance of package being late or delivered to someone else's house.
On the surface it sounds good; but if companies get sued for being hacked then more people will try hacking companies that piss them off (or in some cases maybe who are rivals).
Get fired? Hack your employer so that they get sued as payback. Rival kicking your arse? Hire some Russian miscreants to hack them.
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I'm so lonely, even Alexa refuses to talk to me anymore.
To be fair a little dance is a slippery slope.
First you do a little dance, that leads to making a little love, and then you get down tonight. Get down tonight.
Nonsense, Apple invented the headphones and the headphone jack. I refuse to believe anything else.
Apple has now invented the headphone jack. What a revolutionary invention. Suck it Android!
You're right. Measles, small pox, etc, etc,... they just decided they didn't like infecting people any more and want to die out. If had nothing to do with vaccinations.
The fact that people with vaccinations DON'T catch the disease they are vaccinated against is just a huge coincidence. We should be applauding Measles and Small Pox for voluntarily dying out all on their own without vaccines working.
I, for one, would like to give a big hearty thank you to Small Pox for voluntarily stop spreading itself. Dog is no longer man's best friend; all hail Small Pox.
Most Armadillos are carriers of the leprosy virus. And yes, they can spread it to humans. Could wipe out all leprosy from humans and it still find it's way back to us.
Any short term stay in a bunker will start smelling pretty wretched quite quickly. If all utilities falter, the poop corner of the bunker will get pretty nasty pretty quickly.
If India's jobs got cut they will move to the Philippines or Nigeria. They won't come back to the US.
Only once it is cheaper to use labour in the US than any other country will the jobs come back.
They were raising the rates every year even before cord-cutting became common.
I think it's possible that in the future, you'll pay $100 a month+ for cable internet (and they'll throw in the tv channels for free).
There way of forcing you to pay for cable-tv. Why not? They've got no competition in most markets.
I'm not sure how that is an advantage since on most networks it doesn't count against your 4G usage and is free anyway. The only people who that would be an advantage for are people who live in the middle of nowhere that doesn't get cellphone coverage- or people on some strange plan that doesn't give you free texting (do any still exist?)
I will say though... other than sports being harder to watch, I'm much happier with having Netflix and Hulu than I was when I had cable. I like being able to pick what I want, rather than reality TV shows being on every channel and that's my only option. History Channel reality TV, discovery channel reality TV... ARGH!
Streaming is fragmenting though. Yahoo is stealing some shows from Hulu. CBS is going solo. BBC is launching their own separate channel. Soon it will be more expensive to cut the cord because streaming is fragmenting so badly.
Unfortunately a great number of us don't have any alternative once we cut the cord.
Sure, I'm not paying $80 a month in cable bills any more- but I'm still paying $50 for the data (no option- they have a monopoly on connections fast enough to stream). So- then I add Hulu, and Netflix (the wife has Amazon from a student account). Bang- I'm right back to the price I started with.
Or even better- use regular text messaging, comes with every phone, is free on most networks, and doesn't use any of your 4g data allotment. Never seen the attraction to WhatsApp.
Law? The government of India is trying to tell an American company what to do.
They have no more jurisdiction over WhatsApp than the North Korean government has over me. And that's a good thing.
They're perfectly entitled to tell Facebook what WhatsApp can do when it is operating in India. Just like the Kim administration could decide to feed you to the dogs, like he did his uncle, if you were to step foot in North Korea.
I understand the reservations, and on a certain level I agree with you.
However, cable companies don't really work like the rest of the free-market economy.
1) You have local monopolies. There is no normal invisible-hand working to help the consumer vote with their business. Sure, there are alternatives popping up in recent years, but no true direct competitor. Monopolies have to be governed to prevent abuses.
2) They could become crucial information disseminators in times of invasion, natural disaster, or other emergency. Government has a vested interest in being able to reach the population in times of emergency.
3) It's something people care about so, right or wrong, government feels it has to be involved. Government regulates all sorts of stuff. That's what they do, they govern. Depending on your individual political outlook you might want them governing less or more, but governing stuff is what they're all about.
Maybe someone should invent an autism vaccine to prevent people getting autism.
In truth, anyone who has enough money and/or power gets to circumvent the law easier than poor people or average Joes.
A poor man and a rich man get charged with the same crime with the same amount of evidence; the rich man is more likely to walk away a free man. Various reasons: better access to better lawyers; society are more likely to take for granted the word of a well-dressed well groomed person than some scruffy guy in a hoody.
Uber took away the taxi driver jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a taxi driver.
Amazon took away independent courier jobs, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a courier.
You know how this ends ...
Slashdot took away my sanity, but it's OK because I wasn't using it anyway?
Yeah, I'm sure it's very geographically dependent, who is the incompetent carrier in your city may be variable. For me it's FedEx too. I groan when I see a package is coming via FedEx; UPS almost never a problem. FedEx = 50% chance of package being late or delivered to someone else's house.
If I thought that we could modify butter to clean up the environment would that make me a nutter butter?
I see you are trying to terminate Sarah O'Conner, would you like me to open a Word Document?
At least they will all have Slashdot to communicate on to share their woes.
The worst part is you couldn't program C++ on the C65.
On the surface it sounds good; but if companies get sued for being hacked then more people will try hacking companies that piss them off (or in some cases maybe who are rivals).
Get fired? Hack your employer so that they get sued as payback. Rival kicking your arse? Hire some Russian miscreants to hack them.