You know which internet fad has NEVER went away? Pirating. Before the internet we swapped disks with the bandwidth of a station wagon doing 100mph down the freeway and when the internet really took off we got Napster. The Man may have smacked it down, but it popped right back up with a different name so many times now. Right now the big name is Bittorrent. That'll eventually change but it will never go away. The illegality of it is based on the same flawed logic that makes consuming weeds grown in your back yard illegal. Namely the fact that the guys at the top can't make money off of it. Correction: the guys at the top can't make the amount of money they want. For some reason, just making a profit isn't good enough. You have to make stupidly high profits. There's never enough money even when there is!
I am certain he was referring to CxO salaries- not the installers/techs/admins. Everyone knows the blue collar guys wages have been flat for quite awhile but every quarter from most every segment of industry we hear about all of the cash those big boys rake in while they cut quality, service, or quantity. Golden parachutes and all that. Otherwise, I like your post!
The tired call of "just put the government in charge of it and everything will be fine" is something you're supposed to grow out of after awhile.
You accuse others of not seeing your point but you haven't paid attention to history. When left to their own devices, corporations congregate to a monopoly or a small consortium- just like the commo companies currently have! Standard Oil, Microsoft, & the old Bells are just 3 examples of this. If the natural state of a company is to devour it's competition, maximize it's profits, & lock in income (which all 3 appear to be true) then why not skip the bullshit and just make one regulated entity? Free market ideas work good on things that are low overhead, quickly consumed, or frivolous in nature but utilities are none of those. Believing that profit-seeking corporations when left to their own devices will magically do the right thing is the notion that you're supposed to grow out of. You're dreaming of rainbow skies and magical ponies and they simply don't exist.
What I find the most interesting about government corruption is just how cheap these bastards are! $89K??? Really? This is the 21st century. You aren't even gonna get a phone call from me until you give my secretary $89K! Comcast alone has a market cap of 139.5 BILLION so unless I start hearing offers ending in million, you can just go the fuck home:D Congress really is full of cheap ass whores. You can't even buy a decent Maserati for $89K.
Nice job playing the commie card but I'm afraid you did it incorrectly and therefore YOU are wrong. See you compared a city-wide infrastructure that isn't dynamic to an entity that can be moved on a whim. I can put up a shoe store anywhere and then pick it right up and move it across town. Hell I can put it in the back of a truck and drive it around or even forego the property all together and put it on the web exclusively. Same goes for sandwiches and cheese. What you can't do easily is decide to have something like 5 competing road companies constantly paving over each other, 5 water companies constantly digging up the street and everyone's yard, or me deciding that I just want to have my own nuke reactor in my back yard. You are wrong because utilities exist. Every city has some kind of utility because we all know the hassles and heartaches associated with letting any old fly-by-night start a city-wide construction project. I will agree that redundancy would be nice but it really isn't feasible for the scale that these infrastructures work at. You'd realistically have 2 or 3 competitors tops. We already have that- one cable oriented and one copper oriented. Cell service is expanding nicely but it still has the same old problem that you can't just throw a 100ft tower up anywhere you want. To make your plan work, as has been pointed out to you multiple times already, would be to have the city own the infrastructure and allow net neutral access to get that competition you desire. I love that idea but the incumbent providers have bought the judges off to smack net neutrality laws down. Go bitch at those guys!
Dude, did you just seriously tell that guy that because he had a choice between a douche and a turd sandwich that everything was ok? You can't be serious. That's like saying a deal you can't refuse is still a deal. We all know that's bullshit!
In case you actually want to get something else and have a view of the southern sky, you can put up a satellite dish for DirecTV or DISH attached to a piece of plywood. Throw it out on the deck/balcony/patio/whatever and you'll be good to go. I did this on many apartment complexes in Chattanooga. I had available to the ultra-paranoid users a selection of fake items such as rocks, crates, and barrels that you could throw over the top of the dishes so the landlord wouldn't know and they were transparent as far as the dish was concerned. These are also used in the McMansion HOA's that ban dishes. In the event you don't have an outside area to place such items, you can just sit the dish in front of the window provided you're lucky enough to have the building turned the correct way. I did a few of those installs too. The glass doesn't attenuate the signal too much but if you let it frost heavily you'll get signal dropout. Ideally you shouldn't have to resort to such sneaky techniques. I think the exclusive deals are total bullshit but one of humanities greatest traits falls under the category of "If there's a will, there's a way"
Is this the Technocrat site you're referring to? If so, that is just as horribly laid out and offensive to my eyes as the beta site is. There's enough white space on each side for 2 more columns each. Besides that though, what the hell is with everyone going to column layouts anyway? The row layout of slashdot is far superior especially on mobile devices. If that is the supposed new hangout for us, I'll see y'all elsewhere.
I must be doing something wrong. I have never been able to tag anything and there isn't a nice set of instructions to do so. Do you have to be a paying member or something to tag this stuff?
And yet, have you not on multiple occasions expressed your disdain for violations of your 2nd amendment rights? It clearly has no exceptions as written so which is it? Are the amendments absolute or are they interpreted? If you can figure that out, you'll solve a problem no one else seems to be able to do.
You're totally trolling dude. There is no way you believe the first couple paragraphs you posted. It goes against everything you typically post and even your damned sig! You enjoy play devil's advocate dontcha? criminal informant behavior, direct interference with a covert operation...HA! That's priceless. Why do you hate our freedom?
Your debating skills are weak. We aren't talking about turning your high beams on and leaving them that way. It's a flash. The analog would be tooting your horn, not laying on the bullhorn at 3am outside my apartment. Making a big deal out of a light flash that lasts a second or less is just bitching to be bitching imho. You aren't hurting anyone with that. It isn't like it's a laser. I will say you Canadians have it right about the whole spirit of the law. It IS about safety, but sadly here in the US, like everything we do, it's all about the money.
What? That's insane! I know you guys have quite a popular aftermarket car racing/modding scene so how does everyone get around that? Do they claim they aren't fogs but driving lights? Or is it one of those things that the cops don't actually enforce unless they just want to pull you over?
He also made comments about the slaves being happy using approximately the same argument you did. I was pointing that out cause you should steer away from such analysis at this time. It is unpopular.
You're gonna have to clarify that. Drug tests are still alive and kicking and they are pretty much mandatory for any job above minimum wage. I don't think anyone of importance has realized anything. We're on the same page though. I hate them with a passion, and evidently so do you.
From your link:
"Manna is meant to be a thought-provoking read or conceptual prototype rather than an entertaining novel"
And just like 1984, I am sure Mr. Brain didn't think it would be taken as neither but as an instructional manual on how to make it so. I don't want to live on this planet anymore:(
If we all had that luxury! It takes money to move and if you have the best job in a town of mostly minimum wage, as geo stated, exactly how are you supposed to pay for this move? While it was common 10 years ago, many companies have cut out moving expense bonuses just as another cost "savings" measure. Ya know, more of that exact same stuff geo mentioned in his post. You also say you only see your family twice a year. To me, that means you have no spouse or kids. Get back to me when you do and tell us all stories about all that money you have now.
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You know which internet fad has NEVER went away? Pirating. Before the internet we swapped disks with the bandwidth of a station wagon doing 100mph down the freeway and when the internet really took off we got Napster. The Man may have smacked it down, but it popped right back up with a different name so many times now. Right now the big name is Bittorrent. That'll eventually change but it will never go away. The illegality of it is based on the same flawed logic that makes consuming weeds grown in your back yard illegal. Namely the fact that the guys at the top can't make money off of it. Correction: the guys at the top can't make the amount of money they want. For some reason, just making a profit isn't good enough. You have to make stupidly high profits. There's never enough money even when there is!
I am certain he was referring to CxO salaries- not the installers/techs/admins. Everyone knows the blue collar guys wages have been flat for quite awhile but every quarter from most every segment of industry we hear about all of the cash those big boys rake in while they cut quality, service, or quantity. Golden parachutes and all that. Otherwise, I like your post!
You accuse others of not seeing your point but you haven't paid attention to history. When left to their own devices, corporations congregate to a monopoly or a small consortium- just like the commo companies currently have! Standard Oil, Microsoft, & the old Bells are just 3 examples of this. If the natural state of a company is to devour it's competition, maximize it's profits, & lock in income (which all 3 appear to be true) then why not skip the bullshit and just make one regulated entity? Free market ideas work good on things that are low overhead, quickly consumed, or frivolous in nature but utilities are none of those. Believing that profit-seeking corporations when left to their own devices will magically do the right thing is the notion that you're supposed to grow out of. You're dreaming of rainbow skies and magical ponies and they simply don't exist.
What I find the most interesting about government corruption is just how cheap these bastards are! $89K??? Really? This is the 21st century. You aren't even gonna get a phone call from me until you give my secretary $89K! Comcast alone has a market cap of 139.5 BILLION so unless I start hearing offers ending in million, you can just go the fuck home :D Congress really is full of cheap ass whores. You can't even buy a decent Maserati for $89K.
Nice job playing the commie card but I'm afraid you did it incorrectly and therefore YOU are wrong. See you compared a city-wide infrastructure that isn't dynamic to an entity that can be moved on a whim. I can put up a shoe store anywhere and then pick it right up and move it across town. Hell I can put it in the back of a truck and drive it around or even forego the property all together and put it on the web exclusively. Same goes for sandwiches and cheese. What you can't do easily is decide to have something like 5 competing road companies constantly paving over each other, 5 water companies constantly digging up the street and everyone's yard, or me deciding that I just want to have my own nuke reactor in my back yard. You are wrong because utilities exist. Every city has some kind of utility because we all know the hassles and heartaches associated with letting any old fly-by-night start a city-wide construction project. I will agree that redundancy would be nice but it really isn't feasible for the scale that these infrastructures work at. You'd realistically have 2 or 3 competitors tops. We already have that- one cable oriented and one copper oriented. Cell service is expanding nicely but it still has the same old problem that you can't just throw a 100ft tower up anywhere you want. To make your plan work, as has been pointed out to you multiple times already, would be to have the city own the infrastructure and allow net neutral access to get that competition you desire. I love that idea but the incumbent providers have bought the judges off to smack net neutrality laws down. Go bitch at those guys!
Dude, did you just seriously tell that guy that because he had a choice between a douche and a turd sandwich that everything was ok? You can't be serious. That's like saying a deal you can't refuse is still a deal. We all know that's bullshit!
In case you actually want to get something else and have a view of the southern sky, you can put up a satellite dish for DirecTV or DISH attached to a piece of plywood. Throw it out on the deck/balcony/patio/whatever and you'll be good to go. I did this on many apartment complexes in Chattanooga. I had available to the ultra-paranoid users a selection of fake items such as rocks, crates, and barrels that you could throw over the top of the dishes so the landlord wouldn't know and they were transparent as far as the dish was concerned. These are also used in the McMansion HOA's that ban dishes. In the event you don't have an outside area to place such items, you can just sit the dish in front of the window provided you're lucky enough to have the building turned the correct way. I did a few of those installs too. The glass doesn't attenuate the signal too much but if you let it frost heavily you'll get signal dropout. Ideally you shouldn't have to resort to such sneaky techniques. I think the exclusive deals are total bullshit but one of humanities greatest traits falls under the category of "If there's a will, there's a way"
Keep making excuses for jack-booted thuggery. You're part of the problem, not the solution. There should not have been a warrant issued to begin with!
Is this the Technocrat site you're referring to? If so, that is just as horribly laid out and offensive to my eyes as the beta site is. There's enough white space on each side for 2 more columns each. Besides that though, what the hell is with everyone going to column layouts anyway? The row layout of slashdot is far superior especially on mobile devices. If that is the supposed new hangout for us, I'll see y'all elsewhere.
ORLY? Let me put on my wizard robe and hat!
Well there's yer problem right there! Should have used vi :D
Canadian insults are EPIC!
I must be doing something wrong. I have never been able to tag anything and there isn't a nice set of instructions to do so. Do you have to be a paying member or something to tag this stuff?
***puts on sombrero, readies Cheech Marin voice from Dusk Till Dawn**** *AHEM*
FUUUCK EEET!
And yet, have you not on multiple occasions expressed your disdain for violations of your 2nd amendment rights? It clearly has no exceptions as written so which is it? Are the amendments absolute or are they interpreted? If you can figure that out, you'll solve a problem no one else seems to be able to do.
You're totally trolling dude. There is no way you believe the first couple paragraphs you posted. It goes against everything you typically post and even your damned sig! You enjoy play devil's advocate dontcha? criminal informant behavior, direct interference with a covert operation...HA! That's priceless. Why do you hate our freedom?
Your debating skills are weak. We aren't talking about turning your high beams on and leaving them that way. It's a flash. The analog would be tooting your horn, not laying on the bullhorn at 3am outside my apartment. Making a big deal out of a light flash that lasts a second or less is just bitching to be bitching imho. You aren't hurting anyone with that. It isn't like it's a laser. I will say you Canadians have it right about the whole spirit of the law. It IS about safety, but sadly here in the US, like everything we do, it's all about the money.
What? That's insane! I know you guys have quite a popular aftermarket car racing/modding scene so how does everyone get around that? Do they claim they aren't fogs but driving lights? Or is it one of those things that the cops don't actually enforce unless they just want to pull you over?
I threw ya a bone. Thanks for taking point.
He also made comments about the slaves being happy using approximately the same argument you did. I was pointing that out cause you should steer away from such analysis at this time. It is unpopular.
You're gonna have to clarify that. Drug tests are still alive and kicking and they are pretty much mandatory for any job above minimum wage. I don't think anyone of importance has realized anything. We're on the same page though. I hate them with a passion, and evidently so do you.
From your link:
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"Manna is meant to be a thought-provoking read or conceptual prototype rather than an entertaining novel"
And just like 1984, I am sure Mr. Brain didn't think it would be taken as neither but as an instructional manual on how to make it so. I don't want to live on this planet anymore
Next you'll tell me Emacs won!
If we all had that luxury! It takes money to move and if you have the best job in a town of mostly minimum wage, as geo stated, exactly how are you supposed to pay for this move? While it was common 10 years ago, many companies have cut out moving expense bonuses just as another cost "savings" measure. Ya know, more of that exact same stuff geo mentioned in his post. You also say you only see your family twice a year. To me, that means you have no spouse or kids. Get back to me when you do and tell us all stories about all that money you have now.
Wow, Obi-wan. "This isn't the Libertarian you're looking for." Nice hand waving.