Now, the main threat to cable operators is alternative forms of television - satellite and IPTV. The satellite operators don't have to pay the cable operators to broadcast their signals, and the phone companies are also monopolies that are rapidly expanding - FIOS, VDSL - techologies that can deliver more video bandwidth than cable, and still have room left over for lots of data.
FYI most telecoms in the midwest are deploying ADSL2 (ITU G.992.5 Annex M) which yeilds ~24Mbit down 1Mbit up. This is actually the IPTV delivery platform for companies like CenturyTel. and several midwest Co-Ops
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
There is no doubt that increase tax revenue is good for a budget but the problem with me is two fold. First, Private property taken for private use is not public use. Or at least wasn't until recently. Obviously all taxed properties in a cities tax base are for city the to use because they collect taxes, and of course taxes are for public use. Bamm dangerous prescient (Which I'm certain you agree with)
The other issue I have is with just compensation. If the land, which is taxed, is being taken then given to someone else so it can be taxed more, then what compensation should that person receive? I don't think just compensation means the cost of the property. It means the loss of liberty, the cost of moving, all expenses associated with being force out of your property, cost of employment, sentimental value, the cost of a new property (Which now wouldn't be yours anyway because it would be taxed and all things taxed in the city is now for public use.) It is very dangerous and I don't think the City of New London will be justly compensating any of the people/land owners force for forfit.
On a side note, if they would just plant some Chaffseed, Gerardia, or Pogonia which are considered endangered, it might make the property even more of a hard pill to swallow, since it would require yet another expensive law suit, since the property is already planned to be mowed over with new development.
The amount of traffic generated by resets really isn't that bad, unless there is swarming from ignore the resets or simply doesn't assume the packet will even make it, usually P2P application.
How do I know? I work for the company that uses this Patent 6,044,402 but I don't think China will be sending a check anytime soon.
A Telco I worked for about 6 months ago was already ramping up their infrastructure to handle the bandwidth of Content delivery. The Downfall? They were rolling it out using DSL2 as the deliver model. So if you have coper to your house, you get a DSL2 modem with a video switch and Ethernet Cable for DSL AND you're still charged for DSL through the nose (3MB/512Kb is 89$ a month in most markets they serve)
Since they are a small dog with only about 2.5 million lines, but they are all about the ability to selling their customers "Priority Service"
What is even better is there are a few emerging markets that are All Fiber to the home and because of a mix of greed and government regulation. You can get Ethernet over DSL over Fiber ATM over CO DSL over Backbone ATM at blazing speeds of 3MB/512Kb with no plan to upgrade. There is a 600Mbit pipe (Mostly setup for Video Delivery) on the side of someone's house and they sell "DSL" Service over it.
On a side note, it is REALLY funny listening to people from a PSTN background talk about Video and Internet delivery. Most of them have absolutely no knowledge of packet data. And when fiber comes in to newly developed markets (Read Suburbs) existing techs are simply too expensive to retrain.
business has one responsibility: to make profit for their shareholders
Kinda. After being a partner in several companies and have watched Public Companies. The Business has one responsibility and that is to do what ever the business owner says.
Most of the time that one thing is to make money. Other times it is crusades to help the environment, or show another company what you can do, etc. , etc.
After being fed up with something in Thunderbird (It just started crashing because of a Self Signed Certificate problem) I upgrade to the Latest CVS of 3.0 Alpha 1 and boy howdy it is an upgrade. Even as alpha software I have had less issues with it than I did with 1.5 and most of the annoyances are either made less annoying or don't exsist.
Frankly, I don't know what the big deal is with ICANN rejecting it. While not an avid porn view, I'd think another TLD would be great. sex.xxx se.xxx naughty.xxx could be great domains to have if I ran such things.
We already have.biz and.tv, and another domain simply adds to the variety of domains available.
(I do think that any legislature REQUIRING xxx to exist AND pornography websites MUST go there is total Bullshit in an election year.)
It isn't just H&R Block BILLIONS of hours will be spend preparing income taxes for this year. BILLIONS. Of that time, how much do you think is billable by companies or people who make a living preparing complex income taxes.
Their business is to be the middle man between you and your money (taken by the federal government). While H&R's short term loan at insane rates is icky, your gripe should be the government for having more than a 3 lines on the 1099.
Do you have to pay taxes this year (Did you make more than 8000 dollars)? (Yes) (No) How much did income did you recieve in 2005? [Number] How much income tax do you owe for 2005 (Line 2 x.20? [Number]
Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I would think jail time and fines would be abridging the freedom of the press. While I know there are already examples of this being violated, (I.E. Jailing members of the press because they won't disclose their sources) I think the law is pretty clear about who has freedoms and whose freedoms should not be abridged.
Make it a public utility. As much as I don't like the government running things I do like the idea of having things that are deemed necessary utilities be owned by the government. I think power and phone are easy to add to the list. I don't mean the government should become the phone and power company. I mean the government should own the means of transmission and anyone who wants to compete for providing services over those lines can.
I have lived and voted in several districts in Wisconsin. The system that is in place now in most Municipalities is a scantron like form. You complete the arrow pointing toward the person, referendum, or party you're voting for.
When you complete the ballot you put it into a counter, that will reject the ballad if it is unreadable, over voted, or under voted. It prints out the record for a real time tally internally, and I'm certain it is able to run a report, and you have to go through the ballots anyway for write in candidates. Easy, Fast, tamper resistant, verifiable.
Why do we need to change the system in Wisconsin? Because we can and it is another great way to spend money on it now, rather than, uhm, making silly deals with Indian Gaming.
I think the real problem is people don't realize how much they are taxed anyway.
For example, I get my paycheck from my employer. I pay witholding for Income Tax, Medicade, State Medicade, Sate With-holding, SS Tax and a couple other FICA like taxes, and my employer also pays on top of that. So even in the begining when I get my money is already skimmed off the top, for most people probably more than 25%. Then I go and by an Apple and some Gas for the 7/11. Sales tax on the apple (in most states), sales tax on the gas I buy, federal gas tax, state gas tax. property tax for the store I bought it from, all the gas taxes for the company brought both the apple and the gas to the store so I could buy it.
This isn't ment to be accurate number wise, just a showing that the most powerful thing we give our goverment is the power to tax. And if people actually knew what they were paying and how much is wasted collecting the money then spending the money, it would make people sick......but not sick enough of to pay less.
There is a surcharge that is capped at 6.50 called the Subscriber line charge that is assessed by pretty much every carrier. Most carriers will only reiburse the charge when compelled by goverment programs. It is assest on a per line basis and you will probably never get it off your bill, since it can be hidden behind a goverment sounding name, but isn't required collection.
A basic breakdown of typical charges and taxes can be found at the FCC.
As for the National Access Fee, that is simple. It can ONLY be assessed by your long distance carrier, if you have no carrier, there is no one that can charge it. Again, you may have some sort of toll restriction in place. Upon thinking about it further, it is possible that the Tariff for your area may allow/require (I really hate the PSC/PSU scapegoat telephone companies use) a restriction of some sort. The FCC has an okay website for explaining the charges and the layout of your bill.
This isn't true. You can set yourself to be No Pic (10x1) for Long Distance. 10x1 means your calls are routed by which ever carriers equipment pics it up first, and isn't preset so they don't even guarantee you can make an LD call. The ILEC/CLEC can charge a one time Fee to change your pic, but they cannot charge you for having it set to 10x1 nor can they charge any surcharges like the National Access Fee.
What they are probably charging you for is a Toll Restriction, which is usually extremely high, that costs about 2 - 10 dollars per month. It is an optional service and you can have it removed from your bill, unless you are receiving a handful of government benefits that require a toll restriction, in which-case, you be reimbursed for it anyway.
ADSL2 is here in the US. It is in actually deployment in La Crosse Wisconsin, but do they do internet over it? No, it is actually the delivery platform for Digital Television. Will they offer it as an internet option? Probably not, the local Telco that is offering IPTV charges 59.95 per month for 3mb/512k via ADSL.
Wow, a story of the court system working correctly.
FBI: We want to track people. While I know we can't do it through the regular Law Enforcement Channels, I think we can do it through the Stored Communication Act.
Court: Well, Congress has many laws in place, and your rights in law are not really clear. However; law enforcement in every other application of law requires probable cause. So you must show probably cause, any other rights or limitations will need to be established further and clarified by Congress.
No "Creative" Solutions, No making crap up, No looking to irrelevant material, Just doing their job.
As a side note, ADSL2 isn't just a deliver platform for internet, but the local telco CenturyTel, uses it as a IPTV platform and is actually rolling it out live in february. Since videos streams of reasonable quality require ~20Mb, I'm not so skeptical.
I was thinking of a process similar to this. Simply assume that all road-warriors are worm infested. Any access physically on the premise or while away must be done via a VPN. This give you a physical (such as your WLAN idea) and logical (you can block and edit the data how ever you like) separation from the rest of the network. Sure it would probably be a hassle to setup and slower for the User, but it does provide a good separation for the manage and unmanaged machines.
I just had a weird thought. If the volume of Gasoline sales decrease, the tax collection decreases and the government will only be forced to raise the Taxes for the better good.
While I'm not sure about a point I was shooting for, I'm just mad that last I remember I was paying 49.9 cents per galloon in Taxes here in Wisconsin. Isn't that funny?
Bandwidth is an interesting issue I'm diving into currently. I just got hired on by a telephone company who's primary mission is servicing rural markets and a lot of new developments are getting FTTP (Fiber to the Premisis) from the get go. Speeds are ~200MBit and it appears they are trying to expand the telephone network to include TV content, Internet and Telephone services. It is in the US now, but only in places that are being built new now.
It is a fluff piece. We've had the ability to do this for years anywhere where in the world, it just requires someone with the money to deploy it. The US will have it as soon more houses are built with FTTP, as parts of the grid are replaced with FTTP (very, very, very, very slow process) or if state PUC/PSC would realize that the telephone network isn't the only delivery method for communications and stop a lot of stupid regulation...but that is another argument entirely.
Just put in a 15 hour day, hope that makes some sense.
I've heard this before back in the day and the term coined for about 5 years was "Unviable Tissue Mass"
I know someone personally that has a healthy teenage son that was born at 20 weeks. I'm certian fatality from pre mature birth has only lowered in the 10 years since he was born, then again, who would want an Unviable Tissue Mass.
Your comments reminded me of a person I heard talking on NPR last month. He had a new book describing how the world is becomming more and more flat.
To elaborate. People and businesses are able to communicate and exchange goods and services with ease and are no long tied down by geographical or (for the most part) geopolitical seperation.
It is the way of the future. I'm not sure quite how to embrace it here in the US, but other countries have realized it while we are still fighting the change. I truley think this is a political issue that needs to be solved, but as with most political descisions, it won't happen until it is too late to do anything meaningful.
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FYI most telecoms in the midwest are deploying ADSL2 (ITU G.992.5 Annex M) which yeilds ~24Mbit down 1Mbit up. This is actually the IPTV delivery platform for companies like CenturyTel. and several midwest Co-Ops
It's the economy stupid!
Lets take a look at the text at hand.
"nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
There is no doubt that increase tax revenue is good for a budget but the problem with me is two fold. First, Private property taken for private use is not public use. Or at least wasn't until recently. Obviously all taxed properties in a cities tax base are for city the to use because they collect taxes, and of course taxes are for public use. Bamm dangerous prescient (Which I'm certain you agree with)
The other issue I have is with just compensation. If the land, which is taxed, is being taken then given to someone else so it can be taxed more, then what compensation should that person receive? I don't think just compensation means the cost of the property. It means the loss of liberty, the cost of moving, all expenses associated with being force out of your property, cost of employment, sentimental value, the cost of a new property (Which now wouldn't be yours anyway because it would be taxed and all things taxed in the city is now for public use.) It is very dangerous and I don't think the City of New London will be justly compensating any of the people/land owners force for forfit.
On a side note, if they would just plant some Chaffseed, Gerardia, or Pogonia which are considered endangered, it might make the property even more of a hard pill to swallow, since it would require yet another expensive law suit, since the property is already planned to be mowed over with new development.
The amount of traffic generated by resets really isn't that bad, unless there is swarming from ignore the resets or simply doesn't assume the packet will even make it, usually P2P application.
How do I know? I work for the company that uses this Patent 6,044,402 but I don't think China will be sending a check anytime soon.
A Telco I worked for about 6 months ago was already ramping up their infrastructure to handle the bandwidth of Content delivery. The Downfall? They were rolling it out using DSL2 as the deliver model. So if you have coper to your house, you get a DSL2 modem with a video switch and Ethernet Cable for DSL AND you're still charged for DSL through the nose (3MB/512Kb is 89$ a month in most markets they serve)
Since they are a small dog with only about 2.5 million lines, but they are all about the ability to selling their customers "Priority Service"
What is even better is there are a few emerging markets that are All Fiber to the home and because of a mix of greed and government regulation. You can get Ethernet over DSL over Fiber ATM over CO DSL over Backbone ATM at blazing speeds of 3MB/512Kb with no plan to upgrade. There is a 600Mbit pipe (Mostly setup for Video Delivery) on the side of someone's house and they sell "DSL" Service over it.
On a side note, it is REALLY funny listening to people from a PSTN background talk about Video and Internet delivery. Most of them have absolutely no knowledge of packet data. And when fiber comes in to newly developed markets (Read Suburbs) existing techs are simply too expensive to retrain.
Hear ends unformatted rant.
Kinda. After being a partner in several companies and have watched Public Companies. The Business has one responsibility and that is to do what ever the business owner says.
Most of the time that one thing is to make money. Other times it is crusades to help the environment, or show another company what you can do, etc. , etc.
After being fed up with something in Thunderbird (It just started crashing because of a Self Signed Certificate problem) I upgrade to the Latest CVS of 3.0 Alpha 1 and boy howdy it is an upgrade. Even as alpha software I have had less issues with it than I did with 1.5 and most of the annoyances are either made less annoying or don't exsist.
Just an FYI.
Frankly, I don't know what the big deal is with ICANN rejecting it. While not an avid porn view, I'd think another TLD would be great. sex.xxx se.xxx naughty.xxx could be great domains to have if I ran such things.
.biz and .tv, and another domain simply adds to the variety of domains available.
We already have
(I do think that any legislature REQUIRING xxx to exist AND pornography websites MUST go there is total Bullshit in an election year.)
It isn't just H&R Block BILLIONS of hours will be spend preparing income taxes for this year. BILLIONS. Of that time, how much do you think is billable by companies or people who make a living preparing complex income taxes.
.20? [Number]
Their business is to be the middle man between you and your money (taken by the federal government). While H&R's short term loan at insane rates is icky, your gripe should be the government for having more than a 3 lines on the 1099.
Do you have to pay taxes this year (Did you make more than 8000 dollars)? (Yes) (No)
How much did income did you recieve in 2005? [Number]
How much income tax do you owe for 2005 (Line 2 x
I can always dream
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I would think jail time and fines would be abridging the freedom of the press. While I know there are already examples of this being violated, (I.E. Jailing members of the press because they won't disclose their sources) I think the law is pretty clear about who has freedoms and whose freedoms should not be abridged.
We don't really need to regulate.
Make it a public utility. As much as I don't like the government running things I do like the idea of having things that are deemed necessary utilities be owned by the government. I think power and phone are easy to add to the list. I don't mean the government should become the phone and power company. I mean the government should own the means of transmission and anyone who wants to compete for providing services over those lines can.
Ah 2 AM ideas, gotta love em.
I have lived and voted in several districts in Wisconsin. The system that is in place now in most Municipalities is a scantron like form. You complete the arrow pointing toward the person, referendum, or party you're voting for.
When you complete the ballot you put it into a counter, that will reject the ballad if it is unreadable, over voted, or under voted. It prints out the record for a real time tally internally, and I'm certain it is able to run a report, and you have to go through the ballots anyway for write in candidates. Easy, Fast, tamper resistant, verifiable.
Why do we need to change the system in Wisconsin? Because we can and it is another great way to spend money on it now, rather than, uhm, making silly deals with Indian Gaming.
I think the real problem is people don't realize how much they are taxed anyway.
For example, I get my paycheck from my employer. I pay witholding for Income Tax, Medicade, State Medicade, Sate With-holding, SS Tax and a couple other FICA like taxes, and my employer also pays on top of that. So even in the begining when I get my money is already skimmed off the top, for most people probably more than 25%. Then I go and by an Apple and some Gas for the 7/11. Sales tax on the apple (in most states), sales tax on the gas I buy, federal gas tax, state gas tax. property tax for the store I bought it from, all the gas taxes for the company brought both the apple and the gas to the store so I could buy it.
This isn't ment to be accurate number wise, just a showing that the most powerful thing we give our goverment is the power to tax. And if people actually knew what they were paying and how much is wasted collecting the money then spending the money, it would make people sick......but not sick enough of to pay less.
There is a surcharge that is capped at 6.50 called the Subscriber line charge that is assessed by pretty much every carrier. Most carriers will only reiburse the charge when compelled by goverment programs. It is assest on a per line basis and you will probably never get it off your bill, since it can be hidden behind a goverment sounding name, but isn't required collection.
A basic breakdown of typical charges and taxes can be found at the FCC.
As for the National Access Fee, that is simple. It can ONLY be assessed by your long distance carrier, if you have no carrier, there is no one that can charge it. Again, you may have some sort of toll restriction in place. Upon thinking about it further, it is possible that the Tariff for your area may allow/require (I really hate the PSC/PSU scapegoat telephone companies use) a restriction of some sort. The FCC has an okay website for explaining the charges and the layout of your bill.
This isn't true. You can set yourself to be No Pic (10x1) for Long Distance. 10x1 means your calls are routed by which ever carriers equipment pics it up first, and isn't preset so they don't even guarantee you can make an LD call. The ILEC/CLEC can charge a one time Fee to change your pic, but they cannot charge you for having it set to 10x1 nor can they charge any surcharges like the National Access Fee.
What they are probably charging you for is a Toll Restriction, which is usually extremely high, that costs about 2 - 10 dollars per month. It is an optional service and you can have it removed from your bill, unless you are receiving a handful of government benefits that require a toll restriction, in which-case, you be reimbursed for it anyway.
ADSL2 is here in the US. It is in actually deployment in La Crosse Wisconsin, but do they do internet over it? No, it is actually the delivery platform for Digital Television. Will they offer it as an internet option? Probably not, the local Telco that is offering IPTV charges 59.95 per month for 3mb/512k via ADSL.
Wow, a story of the court system working correctly.
FBI: We want to track people. While I know we can't do it through the regular Law Enforcement Channels, I think we can do it through the Stored Communication Act.
Court: Well, Congress has many laws in place, and your rights in law are not really clear. However; law enforcement in every other application of law requires probable cause. So you must show probably cause, any other rights or limitations will need to be established further and clarified by Congress.
No "Creative" Solutions, No making crap up, No looking to irrelevant material, Just doing their job.
As a side note, ADSL2 isn't just a deliver platform for internet, but the local telco CenturyTel, uses it as a IPTV platform and is actually rolling it out live in february. Since videos streams of reasonable quality require ~20Mb, I'm not so skeptical.
I was thinking of a process similar to this. Simply assume that all road-warriors are worm infested. Any access physically on the premise or while away must be done via a VPN. This give you a physical (such as your WLAN idea) and logical (you can block and edit the data how ever you like) separation from the rest of the network. Sure it would probably be a hassle to setup and slower for the User, but it does provide a good separation for the manage and unmanaged machines.
I just had a weird thought. If the volume of Gasoline sales decrease, the tax collection decreases and the government will only be forced to raise the Taxes for the better good.
While I'm not sure about a point I was shooting for, I'm just mad that last I remember I was paying 49.9 cents per galloon in Taxes here in Wisconsin. Isn't that funny?
"Did you know, that if you want to avoid an R rating, you can only use the F-word once? Do you know what I say to that?" --Chilli
Bandwidth is an interesting issue I'm diving into currently. I just got hired on by a telephone company who's primary mission is servicing rural markets and a lot of new developments are getting FTTP (Fiber to the Premisis) from the get go. Speeds are ~200MBit and it appears they are trying to expand the telephone network to include TV content, Internet and Telephone services. It is in the US now, but only in places that are being built new now.
It is a fluff piece. We've had the ability to do this for years anywhere where in the world, it just requires someone with the money to deploy it. The US will have it as soon more houses are built with FTTP, as parts of the grid are replaced with FTTP (very, very, very, very slow process) or if state PUC/PSC would realize that the telephone network isn't the only delivery method for communications and stop a lot of stupid regulation...but that is another argument entirely.
Just put in a 15 hour day, hope that makes some sense.
I've heard this before back in the day and the term coined for about 5 years was "Unviable Tissue Mass"
I know someone personally that has a healthy teenage son that was born at 20 weeks. I'm certian fatality from pre mature birth has only lowered in the 10 years since he was born, then again, who would want an Unviable Tissue Mass.
No real point, just something to think about.
Westinghouse has had a prefab plant design for a little over a decade. If you want a plant in North America, Westinghouse has a design ready to go.
Your comments reminded me of a person I heard talking on NPR last month. He had a new book describing how the world is becomming more and more flat.
To elaborate. People and businesses are able to communicate and exchange goods and services with ease and are no long tied down by geographical or (for the most part) geopolitical seperation.
It is the way of the future. I'm not sure quite how to embrace it here in the US, but other countries have realized it while we are still fighting the change. I truley think this is a political issue that needs to be solved, but as with most political descisions, it won't happen until it is too late to do anything meaningful.