someone posts something reasonable, well thought out, and well stated, and it gets modded funny. not surprising around here, when you can just say something bad about religion or conservatives or capitalism and get instant +5 insightful
pirates do use "technologies such as bittorrent" to pirate. they also use usenet and usb sticks. the statement is not false. false would saying "all bittorrent users are pirates", "bitorrent has no legitimit use", etc.
this is a case of bias, but its your bias, not theirs. simply stating a thing in a simple way is not in and of itself bias.
Naturally they change the TOS to reflect the throttling and require agreement before allowing you to connect again, and oh by the way, connecting again is automatic agreement.
In order to better serve you with high speed internet we have instituted a fee for VPN access. This fee is to partly defray costs associated with internet piracy, the primary use of VPN service, and the overhead from allowing VPN connections, which as we all know are bandwidth intensive.
sometimes that poorer performance, that reduced bottom line, happens because of the demands of the union. higher pay, additional benefits, it has to come from somewhere. and its possible, it actually a lot, that the unions themselves create the toxic overhead that kills a company.
in this case the company is trying to recover from the recession like everyone else. they asked employees to take some concessions now, to be repaid later, to help the company get through and profitable again. and the one union basically said "screw you". and now the company is going under, and the union's members willbe without a job.
and if i was in that union, i would be kicking the ass of every union rep involved on my way out of the union because they are stupid.
Because black republicans arent real blacks. they're either simply traitors to their kind, or merely black on the outside. Even 4 years ago when I was still in ATL i was told this repeatedly.
examination in a vacuum leaves you blind to certain things. like that the bill was passed at a time when many public departments were (and still are) having trouble funding their pension plans even for the people they have recieving pensions now, let alone in the next few years. the USPS is simply the largest of those entities.
the notion is a good one, the term simply seems to have been too much too fast.
the USPS is part of the essential infrastructure our country, our civilization we know it even, relies on to exist.
imagine if UPS or fedex or both went out of business. the why of it doesnt matter, just imagine they did. important/essential communication that we rely on no longer flows through them. now also imagine that someone had the bright idea, lets ditch the USPS....oops. Now instead of having something that garunteed communication across the country, even if industry failed (and there were private couriers that operated alongside usps before ups), there's nothing. sure someone would step into the gap eventually. but after how long?
businesses grow, they merge, they split, they buy each other out....its the life cycle of business. it happens. and sometimes those businesses make bad decisions and die. Look at Hostess and the coming twinkie shortage.
when those businesses are part of the essential infrastructure of the nation, when we have become dependent upon them, and they die....its never good. Its happened before. It will happen again. Killing the USPS is not a good idea.
If it had been up to private industry nearly a third of the nation still wouldnt have phone lines. If it had been up to private industry, many small towns wouldnt even have paved roads. (and those debates still happen, where residents of big cities say "why should we pay a tax to help build a road thru a town of 20 people?")
If it had been up to private industry, the last 5% of the population still wouldnt have internet access.....oops. That one is still true.
you need a lesson ont he history and purpose of the usps.
When we created the USPS we basically got together and said something along the lines of "Freedom of communication is important to our nation, our lives, our rights and the exercise there of. Thus we establish an entity to facilitate that communication and garuntee it." Something like that. As such such, its important to keep the USPS around. Private industry is great, but it doesnt do -everything- great. Sometimes it decides that its cheaper to miss out on the last 3% of potential customers cause the cost of reaching them is "too high" (ie, "the last mile" in telecomm...and the reason the fed was the one that paid for stringing phone lines everywhere, even to the way out reaches that wouldnt be profitable). similar thoughts are why the fed built the interstate and highway system, which includes highways that no business would have laid down, at least not for years and possibly not even then (contrast the interstate system with the railroad system which was built (and still owned) entirely by private business; see how worse the coverage of the RR system is, and the places they bypassed)
The USPS needs to adapt, sure. I'll agree to that. The USPS should be scrapped? No, never. There's a recent wired opinion piece about patents, and how its important to instead of just patching the system, we need to instead look at the original intents and thoughts in order to truly fix it. Same thing here. Look at the original intent and purpose of the USPS...and now apply that to the modern world: maybe the USPS should be involved in online communication. Honestly I think a strong case could be made for the USPS and FCC being merged or at least sharing duties; little complicated here as the USPS is somewhat seperated from the Fed and the FCC is not. But hopefully you see where my thoughts are.
When we created the USPS we basically got together and said something along the lines of "Freedom of communication is important to our nation, our lives, our rights and the exercise there of. Thus we establish an entity to facilitate that communication and garuntee it." Something like that. As such such, its important to keep the USPS around. Private industry is great, but it doesnt do -everything- great. Sometimes it decides that its cheaper to miss out on the last 3% of potential customers cause the cost of reaching them is "too high" (ie, "the last mile" in telecomm...and the reason the fed was the one that paid for stringing phone lines everywhere, even to the way out reaches that wouldnt be profitable). similar thoughts are why the fed built the interstate and highway system, which includes highways that no business would have laid down, at least not for years and possibly not even then (contrast the interstate system with the railroad system which was built (and still owned) entirely by private business; see how worse the coverage of the RR system is, and the places they bypassed)
The USPS needs to adapt, sure. I'll agree to that. The USPS should be scrapped? No, never. There's a recent wired opinion piece about patents, and how its important to instead of just patching the system, we need to instead look at the original intents and thoughts in order to truly fix it. Same thing here. Look at the original intent and purpose of the USPS...and now apply that to the modern world: maybe the USPS should be involved in online communication. Honestly I think a strong case could be made for the USPS and FCC being merged or at least sharing duties; little complicated here as the USPS is somewhat seperated from the Fed and the FCC is not. But hopefully you see where my thoughts are.
Ya. You go girl! Tell him how it is Mr AC! It's not like there are market forces like competition that cause inefficient businesses to fail or anything. Or that industries, even governement run ones, that when faced with a lack of competition become bloated messes that devote ever increasing amounts of their budget to fuel their ever growing beauracracies instead of to delivering their supposed products.
Ya just ignore those things and accuse others of ignorance.
And of those chirlden serving life without parole, how many are doing it because of file sharing rather than extremely violent crimes such multiple homicide? How many of these "children" are actually 16 17 even 17.9 years old, childen only in the letter of the law, not in physiological or mental development?
Your back handed attempt at insulting the US is foolish.
Now figure out a way to mass produce it and slap it on a robot. Or make a new artificial heart.
I appreciate that this is a first step. But sometimes I get tired of the "scientists in a lab figured out a way to make a few molecules/micrograms/reallyreallytinyinsignificantamounts of X after 1000 hours of labor". I'm much more interested in the practicality of things, and until you can efficiently mass produce in usable quatities i almost (not quite though) dont care. yes i am impatient.
The CDC has a Biohazard Level 4 lab in the middle of downtown Atlanta, one of the biggest sprawlingest metro cities in the country (ATL itself only has ~1mil people population...but the entire metro and all the people that work there comes to around 9m, and thus is why ATL traffic suck so damn bad; ATL is the biggest city without a real, modern, metro system, and it desperately needs one..so glad I moved..but im getting off topic). Point is: its scary as hell to have such a thing in the middle of so many people. Likewise, its scary as hell to ranchers to have some one researching MCD in the middle of prime cow country.
But in the end its still just an engineering problem. You do what you can, and we're actually pretty good at making these Level 4 labs.
And if somethng shoudl go wrong, you just set off the nuke in the basement. (Oh sure, they deny its there....but we know....we know....)
the command line hasnt been -required- for a while. one of the biggest expansions to linux use was when the distros started including GUIs that you didnt need to setup through the CL....they just worked out of hte box much like windows. one of the first i remember using was Suse (i forget the year) and it was nice and easy to customize through the GUI.
sure, some of the coolest stuff is in the CL, but if you look fo rit, you'll usually find that someone else has also had the same idea of writing an app or something to accomplish some tedious CL function.
nor should they get rid of the CL. its still nice to get in there and work some CL-fu at times.
discussing with a friend from england one day we talked about differences similar to this one. And at one point he said something along the lines of "and that is precisely the difference. You are an American citizen, I am a British -subject-."
I mean, that the mainstream avg person sees linux as the OS for nerdy, contrarian, anti-establishment type peoples (ie, Linux) and it now become itself mainstream in that it basically runs the cell phone world (yes i know linux servers have runt he net for years...but thats not mainstream)
And then it gets even cooler when you consider that iOS, still with the same familiar looks Apple has long been known for, is derived from Unix (via OSX).
Flamewar? Bah. Just a bit of sibling rivalry as they curb stomp Windows into oblivion in the largest/quickest growing platform market.
Ive had several personal instances where contacting the BBB corrected a dispute with a company. like saying represent yourself and dont both using an attorney when you have legal trouble because a few of them are crooks.
In the time of ancient greece warfare meant armies of hundreds of thousands of men standing opposite each other, and then coming together until one side was completely dead; usually the winning side wasn't too much better off either. wars were fought and won in a handful of gigantic battles with 10s if not hundreds of thousands of casualties. today we fight more but smaller battles that are more decisive and have far far far fewer casualties, and even those casualties are much much more likely to survive.
so yes, we have come a long way.
Slavery. Doesnt even need mentioning. We have come a long way.
Genocide. In the time of ancient greece there were hundreds of other civilizations we barely know anything about, that we have never heard of. Due to genocide. (re: how wars were fought) Most definitely come a long way from that. The incidents are isolated and few and they do not go unchecked; and the rest of the world has done their damnedest to stop such incidents. RE: WWII, Bosnia, etc etc et al. Very definitely come a long way.
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someone posts something reasonable, well thought out, and well stated, and it gets modded funny.
not surprising around here, when you can just say something bad about religion or conservatives or capitalism and get instant +5 insightful
pirates do use "technologies such as bittorrent" to pirate. they also use usenet and usb sticks. the statement is not false.
false would saying "all bittorrent users are pirates", "bitorrent has no legitimit use", etc.
this is a case of bias, but its your bias, not theirs. simply stating a thing in a simple way is not in and of itself bias.
Naturally they change the TOS to reflect the throttling and require agreement before allowing you to connect again, and oh by the way, connecting again is automatic agreement.
Dear Customer,
In order to better serve you with high speed internet we have instituted a fee for VPN access. This fee is to partly defray costs associated with internet piracy, the primary use of VPN service, and the overhead from allowing VPN connections, which as we all know are bandwidth intensive.
Signed,
Your local ISP's MAFIAA representitive
sometimes that poorer performance, that reduced bottom line, happens because of the demands of the union. higher pay, additional benefits, it has to come from somewhere. and its possible, it actually a lot, that the unions themselves create the toxic overhead that kills a company.
in this case the company is trying to recover from the recession like everyone else. they asked employees to take some concessions now, to be repaid later, to help the company get through and profitable again. and the one union basically said "screw you". and now the company is going under, and the union's members willbe without a job.
and if i was in that union, i would be kicking the ass of every union rep involved on my way out of the union because they are stupid.
You couldnt even leave the twinkie post free of your BS????
GIVE IT A REST DUDE!
Nah. What better way to remove indigenous species to make it easier to colonize!?
Because black republicans arent real blacks. they're either simply traitors to their kind, or merely black on the outside. Even 4 years ago when I was still in ATL i was told this repeatedly.
Twinkies are already pretty valuable in the post apocalyptic world.
Now they're rare too? Who needs gold when you got a twinkie warehouse!
examination in a vacuum leaves you blind to certain things. like that the bill was passed at a time when many public departments were (and still are) having trouble funding their pension plans even for the people they have recieving pensions now, let alone in the next few years. the USPS is simply the largest of those entities.
the notion is a good one, the term simply seems to have been too much too fast.
the USPS is part of the essential infrastructure our country, our civilization we know it even, relies on to exist.
imagine if UPS or fedex or both went out of business. the why of it doesnt matter, just imagine they did. important/essential communication that we rely on no longer flows through them. now also imagine that someone had the bright idea, lets ditch the USPS....oops. Now instead of having something that garunteed communication across the country, even if industry failed (and there were private couriers that operated alongside usps before ups), there's nothing. sure someone would step into the gap eventually. but after how long?
businesses grow, they merge, they split, they buy each other out....its the life cycle of business. it happens. and sometimes those businesses make bad decisions and die. Look at Hostess and the coming twinkie shortage.
when those businesses are part of the essential infrastructure of the nation, when we have become dependent upon them, and they die....its never good. Its happened before. It will happen again. Killing the USPS is not a good idea.
If it had been up to private industry nearly a third of the nation still wouldnt have phone lines.
If it had been up to private industry, many small towns wouldnt even have paved roads. (and those debates still happen, where residents of big cities say "why should we pay a tax to help build a road thru a town of 20 people?")
If it had been up to private industry, the last 5% of the population still wouldnt have internet access.....oops. That one is still true.
you need a lesson ont he history and purpose of the usps.
When we created the USPS we basically got together and said something along the lines of "Freedom of communication is important to our nation, our lives, our rights and the exercise there of. Thus we establish an entity to facilitate that communication and garuntee it." Something like that. As such such, its important to keep the USPS around. Private industry is great, but it doesnt do -everything- great. Sometimes it decides that its cheaper to miss out on the last 3% of potential customers cause the cost of reaching them is "too high" (ie, "the last mile" in telecomm...and the reason the fed was the one that paid for stringing phone lines everywhere, even to the way out reaches that wouldnt be profitable). similar thoughts are why the fed built the interstate and highway system, which includes highways that no business would have laid down, at least not for years and possibly not even then (contrast the interstate system with the railroad system which was built (and still owned) entirely by private business; see how worse the coverage of the RR system is, and the places they bypassed)
The USPS needs to adapt, sure. I'll agree to that. The USPS should be scrapped? No, never. There's a recent wired opinion piece about patents, and how its important to instead of just patching the system, we need to instead look at the original intents and thoughts in order to truly fix it. Same thing here. Look at the original intent and purpose of the USPS...and now apply that to the modern world: maybe the USPS should be involved in online communication. Honestly I think a strong case could be made for the USPS and FCC being merged or at least sharing duties; little complicated here as the USPS is somewhat seperated from the Fed and the FCC is not. But hopefully you see where my thoughts are.
When we created the USPS we basically got together and said something along the lines of "Freedom of communication is important to our nation, our lives, our rights and the exercise there of. Thus we establish an entity to facilitate that communication and garuntee it." Something like that. As such such, its important to keep the USPS around. Private industry is great, but it doesnt do -everything- great. Sometimes it decides that its cheaper to miss out on the last 3% of potential customers cause the cost of reaching them is "too high" (ie, "the last mile" in telecomm...and the reason the fed was the one that paid for stringing phone lines everywhere, even to the way out reaches that wouldnt be profitable). similar thoughts are why the fed built the interstate and highway system, which includes highways that no business would have laid down, at least not for years and possibly not even then (contrast the interstate system with the railroad system which was built (and still owned) entirely by private business; see how worse the coverage of the RR system is, and the places they bypassed)
The USPS needs to adapt, sure. I'll agree to that. The USPS should be scrapped? No, never. There's a recent wired opinion piece about patents, and how its important to instead of just patching the system, we need to instead look at the original intents and thoughts in order to truly fix it. Same thing here. Look at the original intent and purpose of the USPS...and now apply that to the modern world: maybe the USPS should be involved in online communication. Honestly I think a strong case could be made for the USPS and FCC being merged or at least sharing duties; little complicated here as the USPS is somewhat seperated from the Fed and the FCC is not. But hopefully you see where my thoughts are.
Let the punishment fit the crime!
Ya. You go girl! Tell him how it is Mr AC!
It's not like there are market forces like competition that cause inefficient businesses to fail or anything. Or that industries, even governement run ones, that when faced with a lack of competition become bloated messes that devote ever increasing amounts of their budget to fuel their ever growing beauracracies instead of to delivering their supposed products.
Ya just ignore those things and accuse others of ignorance.
And of those chirlden serving life without parole, how many are doing it because of file sharing rather than extremely violent crimes such multiple homicide? How many of these "children" are actually 16 17 even 17.9 years old, childen only in the letter of the law, not in physiological or mental development?
Your back handed attempt at insulting the US is foolish.
Now figure out a way to mass produce it and slap it on a robot.
Or make a new artificial heart.
I appreciate that this is a first step. But sometimes I get tired of the "scientists in a lab figured out a way to make a few molecules/micrograms/reallyreallytinyinsignificantamounts of X after 1000 hours of labor". I'm much more interested in the practicality of things, and until you can efficiently mass produce in usable quatities i almost (not quite though) dont care. yes i am impatient.
CDC in down town Atlanta.
Level 4 biohazard lab in the middle of 9-10million people.
Just sayin
The CDC has a Biohazard Level 4 lab in the middle of downtown Atlanta, one of the biggest sprawlingest metro cities in the country (ATL itself only has ~1mil people population...but the entire metro and all the people that work there comes to around 9m, and thus is why ATL traffic suck so damn bad; ATL is the biggest city without a real, modern, metro system, and it desperately needs one..so glad I moved..but im getting off topic). Point is: its scary as hell to have such a thing in the middle of so many people. Likewise, its scary as hell to ranchers to have some one researching MCD in the middle of prime cow country.
But in the end its still just an engineering problem. You do what you can, and we're actually pretty good at making these Level 4 labs.
And if somethng shoudl go wrong, you just set off the nuke in the basement.
(Oh sure, they deny its there....but we know....we know....)
the command line hasnt been -required- for a while. one of the biggest expansions to linux use was when the distros started including GUIs that you didnt need to setup through the CL....they just worked out of hte box much like windows. one of the first i remember using was Suse (i forget the year) and it was nice and easy to customize through the GUI.
sure, some of the coolest stuff is in the CL, but if you look fo rit, you'll usually find that someone else has also had the same idea of writing an app or something to accomplish some tedious CL function.
nor should they get rid of the CL. its still nice to get in there and work some CL-fu at times.
discussing with a friend from england one day we talked about differences similar to this one. And at one point he said something along the lines of "and that is precisely the difference. You are an American citizen, I am a British -subject-."
I think it's pretty damn cool.
I mean, that the mainstream avg person sees linux as the OS for nerdy, contrarian, anti-establishment type peoples (ie, Linux) and it now become itself mainstream in that it basically runs the cell phone world (yes i know linux servers have runt he net for years...but thats not mainstream)
And then it gets even cooler when you consider that iOS, still with the same familiar looks Apple has long been known for, is derived from Unix (via OSX).
Flamewar? Bah. Just a bit of sibling rivalry as they curb stomp Windows into oblivion in the largest/quickest growing platform market.
Ive had several personal instances where contacting the BBB corrected a dispute with a company. like saying represent yourself and dont both using an attorney when you have legal trouble because a few of them are crooks.
i still dont think you read the article or summary. youre statements still have nothing to do with article.
In the time of ancient greece warfare meant armies of hundreds of thousands of men standing opposite each other, and then coming together until one side was completely dead; usually the winning side wasn't too much better off either. wars were fought and won in a handful of gigantic battles with 10s if not hundreds of thousands of casualties. today we fight more but smaller battles that are more decisive and have far far far fewer casualties, and even those casualties are much much more likely to survive.
so yes, we have come a long way.
Slavery. Doesnt even need mentioning. We have come a long way.
Genocide. In the time of ancient greece there were hundreds of other civilizations we barely know anything about, that we have never heard of. Due to genocide. (re: how wars were fought) Most definitely come a long way from that. The incidents are isolated and few and they do not go unchecked; and the rest of the world has done their damnedest to stop such incidents. RE: WWII, Bosnia, etc etc et al. Very definitely come a long way.