Everyone seems to be saying that junk snail-mail does cost the recipient like junk e-mail does. I do not believe this to be entirely true.
While the cost of producing the snail mail is on the sender, as well as the cost of mailing it, this cost of mailing is subsidized by everyone that uses the post office.
My previous job involved using the post office for delivery of a weekly newspaper. I can say, after having to deal with the costs of such mailings, that while the cost for first class letters and second class periodicals continue to rise, the cost for unsolicited mail are actually declining.
We are actually paying to subsidize this business, and it sickens me.
Now if I'd go to the counter to buy those cool new legos I'd be greeted with more embarassment than a guy buying a full case of condoms and adult diapers.
You should see the looks that you get when you go into a store and buy 150 of the same set!
I believe some of the high-end Kodak cameras have firewire connectors.
Unfortunately, these are also the ones in the $15,000 to $30,000 range. If you can afford that, I doubt that you'd be editing your pictures on an iMac, no matter how good they are. (A G4 with that cool flatscreen monitor apple has is what I would imagine...)
I think that we are missing the point of the US taking this action when we only talk about information that was coming out of Yugoslavia. Especially considering the fact that the action seemed specifically designed to stop traffic going INTO Yugoslavia.
I think that the underlying reason for this action is the info going INTO Yugoslavia from those people opposed to the NATO campaign. Specifically, information pertaining to NATO military activity, such as plane launces.
It has even been theorized that this was how they managed to shoot down a F-117 "stealth" fighter, by calculating it's trajectory based on e-mail reports of when it was launched, other physical sightings, what direction it was heading and then calculating what time it would arrive and then launching a missle to hit it.
This has also been given as a reason why some of NATO's prime targets were actually evacuated minutes before they were hit, because they had advanced warning that it was coming via e-mail.
I know first hand that war is not a laughing matter, but I can't help but find humor in the fact that the billion dollar NATO war machine has been rendered practically ineffective by a bunch of low-tech observers e-mailing ahead what they have seen. Especially effective when these pbservers are positioned close to military bases and can thus witness all launch activity.
I guess this gives new meaning to the terms electronic/information warfare, one that NATO probably hadn't counted on. Too bad for NATO that cutting off US feeds won't solve their problem, because as others have said, the internet was designed to route around such things.
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Everyone seems to be saying that junk snail-mail does cost the recipient like junk e-mail does. I do not believe this to be entirely true.
While the cost of producing the snail mail is on the sender, as well as the cost of mailing it, this cost of mailing is subsidized by everyone that uses the post office.
My previous job involved using the post office for delivery of a weekly newspaper. I can say, after having to deal with the costs of such mailings, that while the cost for first class letters and second class periodicals continue to rise, the cost for unsolicited mail are actually declining.
We are actually paying to subsidize this business, and it sickens me.
Now if I'd go to the counter to buy those cool new legos I'd be greeted with more embarassment than a guy buying a full case of condoms and adult diapers.
You should see the looks that you get when you go into a store and buy 150 of the same set!
(Hey, it was on sale, what cn I say!
I believe some of the high-end Kodak cameras have firewire connectors.
Unfortunately, these are also the ones in the $15,000 to $30,000 range. If you can afford that, I doubt that you'd be editing your pictures on an iMac, no matter how good they are. (A G4 with that cool flatscreen monitor apple has is what I would imagine...)
I think that we are missing the point of the US taking this action when we only talk about information that was coming out of Yugoslavia. Especially considering the fact that the action seemed specifically designed to stop traffic going INTO Yugoslavia.
I think that the underlying reason for this action is the info going INTO Yugoslavia from those people opposed to the NATO campaign. Specifically, information pertaining to NATO military activity, such as plane launces.
It has even been theorized that this was how they managed to shoot down a F-117 "stealth" fighter, by calculating it's trajectory based on e-mail reports of when it was launched, other physical sightings, what direction it was heading and then calculating what time it would arrive and then launching a missle to hit it.
This has also been given as a reason why some of NATO's prime targets were actually evacuated minutes before they were hit, because they had advanced warning that it was coming via e-mail.
I know first hand that war is not a laughing matter, but I can't help but find humor in the fact that the billion dollar NATO war machine has been rendered practically ineffective by a bunch of low-tech observers e-mailing ahead what they have seen. Especially effective when these pbservers are positioned close to military bases and can thus witness all launch activity.
I guess this gives new meaning to the terms electronic/information warfare, one that NATO probably hadn't counted on. Too bad for NATO that cutting off US feeds won't solve their problem, because as others have said, the internet was designed to route around such things.