Then we need to burn the sorry-ass football game two-party system and get more viewpoints effectively represented in government. Neither party likes that because legislators could lose their job at a moment's notice. Yet they'll force right-to-work down everyone else's throat? What's wrong with this picture?
The intent of government services isn't to make a profit, just to cover cost.
Yes, and the government should never act as a buyer's club because it'll hurt all the poor widdle capitalist's feelings. They were told from birth they had a right to be middlemen and *sniff* it was their favorite toy! Pro tip: Your interests as a consumer are in direct conflict with a private ISP's business interests. The consumer will lose, every time. Did we have these kinds of problems 400 years ago when to incorporate you had to serve the public interest lest the Crown pull your charter?
Or like Palo Alto, CA. 100mbps symmetric FTTH in 2000 for some ridiculously low price, if you lived downtown. Today in Michigan I've still got less than a tenth of that, and asymmetric.
While it is indeed possible for static electricity to jostle bus lines, power supply lines, etc..., I find it rather unlikely that static discharge would add an extra 10111011100 (binary) votes for a candidate. I would find a power of two (such as 2048 or 4096) more plausible, but still unlikely.
1536 (110 0000 0000) is a reasonable possibility, two bits right next door.
Problem: In many locales it's illegal to share your bandwidth (in Michigan, the pretext is masking a user's identity).
Problem2: In the US a device capable of transmitting over such a long range would not be Part 15 compliant, and the FCC creating a license class for community networks seems unlikely.
Problem3: The entire confederation is probably sharing the same outbound link to the Internet, or one of few. The performance improvements will probably be less than expected.
Problem4: Breach of contract. Access is provided for private home use only. Anyone participating in the confederation is likely to be cut off, and an ISP or anyone else could trivially enumerate the network by rolling a truck.
Problem5: Privacy. Who's wasting my bandwidth on Debbie Does Quahog? Alternately, who's wasting my bandwidth on Disney crap?
Individual rights - the freedom to trade voluntarily toward mutual benefit is capitalism. You can try to separate them all you want, for no purpose other than to make it more palatable to readers (and your own brain), but you're still violating rights nonetheless. Rights are always violated when anyone is forced do with their property, their person, their privacy, their values, things other than what they desire to do. The only force-backed entity in the US, to my knowledge, is the government, no?
Anyone with the resources to fight a civil "wrongful death" lawsuit can use armed private guards.
given the existance of a current monopoly in that market
You're ignoring the demand for better service. If this demand is large enough, people will get what they want.
The majority of Americans demand a nanny state. Interesting paradox, no?
My other argument against it is that it is folly to believe that a functional system can exist where no individual gives up rights in exchange for benefit.
According to what argument? Show it. Where's your evidence? Where's your rationale? How do inalienable rights disappear to support your pet desire for a "collective good"?
The US Constitution could be read as exactly that sort of contract (if you read it; the Declaration of Independence is at best a "signing statement"). I don't believe that the high level of infrastructure development we know today could have arisen under anarcho-syndicalism, nor do I particularly believe that anarcho-syndicalism is necessarily a stable system.
Then we'll give you 5 amp current limited service and you can chuck your microwave, hair dryer, baseboard heater, washing machine,... how's that working out for you?
In life you get what you truly believe you deserve. Be picky. Don't jump on the first job that comes along. Be willing and able to have NO job from time to time -- it does wonders for your perspective.
How can a business stipulate that you cant use accepted legal forms of payment?
I remember reading recently that it was settled law for a business to not accept cash as payment. Don't remember where I heard that, or I'd refer you to it.
They get the fee from the listing, AND the pay-pal service fee. Double dipping and restrictive business practices from a virtual monopoly.
Google's core competency is maintaining an inventory of eyeballs for ads. Selling ads on an auction site is a bit of gymnastics I can't quite imagine.
Also consider regulatory hurdles. Google Auctions won't happen in a Democratic FTC, because Google would be leveraging a monopoly. Google Auctions won't happen in a Republican FTC, because Meg Whitman is a GOP poster girl and big-business Republicans stick together.
My wife and I were the victims of gang violence (well, just some inner-city middle schoolers who broke our car window while we were in the car, causing my wife's face to bleed) and I definitely think it caused me to lean to the right
Politics don't enter into it. Your foot slipped onto the accelerator. Tragically you couldn't see where you were going and ran over one of the kids. A few times.
People defined as liberal are rarely if ever the ones shouting down the opposition.
Compare the styles of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Judge Judy vs. Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Judge Wapner. Where are the left-wing wingnuts?
If anything they like to talk everything out too much so nothing ever gets done.
Have you considered that doing something, anything often worsens the problem? See: war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terror, DMCA.
This is why the democratic party is so fragmented and why they frequently lose in elections because they don't have solidarity.
One-person-one-vote elections are the most clever means I have ever seen for disenfranchising citizens. If it weren't for them and the two-party system which it mutually reinforces, American politics would have some depth beyond whether the plutocrats throw bones to simple theocrats or maudlin technocrats while they loot the nation for all its[1] worth. This is why you will never see this happen.
Sigh. I'm holding my nose and voting Obama the Republican over Palin the Whore of Babylon. This election sucks even more than the last one.
And now you think your hard work and your pieces of paper are going to magically deal with these issues, because you are entitled to the retirement your parents had, even though you didn't bear the large families that support such a retirement.
Well, personally I'll be more than happy to die when I can't live for myself anymore.
Thing is, the best thing that can happen is that we manage to divest ourselves of responsibility for you old bastards and turn our limited resources to caring for and creating more young people. The worst thing that can happen is that we exhaust what little we have in a misguided attempt to care for you as our civilization spirals towards oblivion.
The absolute worst thing we can do right now is create any more young people. Have you noticed that land area, ocean area, available landfill volume, oil production, etc. isn't keeping pace with the size of your brood?
Why do you think the property values are going down? It's not specultation, it's surplus. There aren't enough people to fill the houses, therefore, they are practically worthless. You'll be trading your deeds for a hunk of bread before it's all done, if anyone is even interested.
Yes, yes it is surplus that home values are down. It takes a certain amount of capital to buy a house. Fewer people have that kind of capital, in many cases because ignorance -- of their sexual options and of others' rights -- led them to create children they weren't ready for.
Also, people are starting to ask what they get from all that extra interest paid for home ownership that they don't get by renting, and are finding that the extra income is better spent buying staples like food, transportation and heat for their living spaces rather than lawns to mow, furnaces/windows/pipes to replace, and someplace to live in 30 years if they are fortunate enough to stay in one place that long due to a volatile economy.
As far as I'm concerned, you and your entire generation can go to hell, and any of the young people who idolize your way of life can go with you.
I sure as hell don't idolize your way of life. Call me in 20 years when you're fighting against your own kids for your job.
FTFA: "IBM said that computational scaling overcomes these limitations by using mathematical techniques to modify the shape of the masks and the characteristics of the illuminating source used to image the circuits for each layer of an integrated circuit."
It would seem way more efficient, and less costly to me.
Priced out copper lately? Those 4/0 AWG wires you'll need to pull to handle a few googleracks aren't that cheap, and think of how many you have to pull...
Think of that long dc cable as a big-ass resistor. Apply I=P/E and P=I^2*R to see that your cables start losing a lot of power themselves the lower the voltage goes. Add inductance, the complexities of trying to regulate the voltage at 1000 different points,... you just really don't wanna go there.
Keep your regulator close to your equipment. It'll appreciate you.
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SQL database in the browser? Oh christ. It's like emacs all over again.
Innumeracy perpetuates the status quo. Therefore, the status quo has an interest in perpetuating innumeracy.
Then we need to burn the sorry-ass football game two-party system and get more viewpoints effectively represented in government. Neither party likes that because legislators could lose their job at a moment's notice. Yet they'll force right-to-work down everyone else's throat? What's wrong with this picture?
Yes, but Canada also has multiple political parties and a functional voting system.
The intent of government services isn't to make a profit, just to cover cost.
Yes, and the government should never act as a buyer's club because it'll hurt all the poor widdle capitalist's feelings. They were told from birth they had a right to be middlemen and *sniff* it was their favorite toy! Pro tip: Your interests as a consumer are in direct conflict with a private ISP's business interests. The consumer will lose, every time. Did we have these kinds of problems 400 years ago when to incorporate you had to serve the public interest lest the Crown pull your charter?
Or like Palo Alto, CA. 100mbps symmetric FTTH in 2000 for some ridiculously low price, if you lived downtown. Today in Michigan I've still got less than a tenth of that, and asymmetric.
Because all technological advancement is driven by adult media?
That's what you're paying for until they refuse your money and thank you for playing.
While it is indeed possible for static electricity to jostle bus lines, power supply lines, etc..., I find it rather unlikely that static discharge would add an extra 10111011100 (binary) votes for a candidate. I would find a power of two (such as 2048 or 4096) more plausible, but still unlikely.
1536 (110 0000 0000) is a reasonable possibility, two bits right next door.
But I still call shenanigans.
Problem: In many locales it's illegal to share your bandwidth (in Michigan, the pretext is masking a user's identity).
Problem2: In the US a device capable of transmitting over such a long range would not be Part 15 compliant, and the FCC creating a license class for community networks seems unlikely.
Problem3: The entire confederation is probably sharing the same outbound link to the Internet, or one of few. The performance improvements will probably be less than expected.
Problem4: Breach of contract. Access is provided for private home use only. Anyone participating in the confederation is likely to be cut off, and an ISP or anyone else could trivially enumerate the network by rolling a truck.
Problem5: Privacy. Who's wasting my bandwidth on Debbie Does Quahog? Alternately, who's wasting my bandwidth on Disney crap?
This not about rights, it's about economics.
Individual rights - the freedom to trade voluntarily toward mutual benefit is capitalism . You can try to separate them all you want, for no purpose other than to make it more palatable to readers (and your own brain), but you're still violating rights nonetheless. Rights are always violated when anyone is forced do with their property, their person, their privacy, their values, things other than what they desire to do. The only force-backed entity in the US, to my knowledge, is the government, no?
Anyone with the resources to fight a civil "wrongful death" lawsuit can use armed private guards.
given the existance of a current monopoly in that market
You're ignoring the demand for better service. If this demand is large enough, people will get what they want.
The majority of Americans demand a nanny state. Interesting paradox, no?
My other argument against it is that it is folly to believe that a functional system can exist where no individual gives up rights in exchange for benefit.
According to what argument? Show it. Where's your evidence? Where's your rationale? How do inalienable rights disappear to support your pet desire for a "collective good"?
The US Constitution could be read as exactly that sort of contract (if you read it; the Declaration of Independence is at best a "signing statement"). I don't believe that the high level of infrastructure development we know today could have arisen under anarcho-syndicalism, nor do I particularly believe that anarcho-syndicalism is necessarily a stable system.
Then we'll give you 5 amp current limited service and you can chuck your microwave, hair dryer, baseboard heater, washing machine, ... how's that working out for you?
Someone will raise the question of whether a job requiring a science degree then becomes a form of religious discrimination. Hilarity WILL ensue.
In life you get what you truly believe you deserve. Be picky. Don't jump on the first job that comes along. Be willing and able to have NO job from time to time -- it does wonders for your perspective.
Tens of trillions of Chinese-held dollars dumped on the currency markets won't be pretty. Let's not go there.
How can a business stipulate that you cant use accepted legal forms of payment?
I remember reading recently that it was settled law for a business to not accept cash as payment. Don't remember where I heard that, or I'd refer you to it.
They get the fee from the listing, AND the pay-pal service fee. Double dipping and restrictive business practices from a virtual monopoly.
Yeah, the FTC probably won't like that.
Google's core competency is maintaining an inventory of eyeballs for ads. Selling ads on an auction site is a bit of gymnastics I can't quite imagine.
Also consider regulatory hurdles. Google Auctions won't happen in a Democratic FTC, because Google would be leveraging a monopoly. Google Auctions won't happen in a Republican FTC, because Meg Whitman is a GOP poster girl and big-business Republicans stick together.
Not if you're in the consumer credit business as well.
I mean, really. If I want low-quality avant-garde nominally technological art pieces, I'll go to Makezine. That's why I don't.
Well, it's being released under the Affero GPLv3. I am not a supporter of Affero.
My wife and I were the victims of gang violence (well, just some inner-city middle schoolers who broke our car window while we were in the car, causing my wife's face to bleed) and I definitely think it caused me to lean to the right
Politics don't enter into it. Your foot slipped onto the accelerator. Tragically you couldn't see where you were going and ran over one of the kids. A few times.
People defined as liberal are rarely if ever the ones shouting down the opposition.
Compare the styles of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Judge Judy vs. Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Judge Wapner. Where are the left-wing wingnuts?
If anything they like to talk everything out too much so nothing ever gets done.
Have you considered that doing something, anything often worsens the problem? See: war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terror, DMCA.
This is why the democratic party is so fragmented and why they frequently lose in elections because they don't have solidarity.
One-person-one-vote elections are the most clever means I have ever seen for disenfranchising citizens. If it weren't for them and the two-party system which it mutually reinforces, American politics would have some depth beyond whether the plutocrats throw bones to simple theocrats or maudlin technocrats while they loot the nation for all its[1] worth. This is why you will never see this happen.
Sigh. I'm holding my nose and voting Obama the Republican over Palin the Whore of Babylon. This election sucks even more than the last one.
[1] Worth is used here as a noun, not an adverb.
And now you think your hard work and your pieces of paper are going to magically deal with these issues, because you are entitled to the retirement your parents had, even though you didn't bear the large families that support such a retirement.
Well, personally I'll be more than happy to die when I can't live for myself anymore.
Thing is, the best thing that can happen is that we manage to divest ourselves of responsibility for you old bastards and turn our limited resources to caring for and creating more young people. The worst thing that can happen is that we exhaust what little we have in a misguided attempt to care for you as our civilization spirals towards oblivion.
The absolute worst thing we can do right now is create any more young people. Have you noticed that land area, ocean area, available landfill volume, oil production, etc. isn't keeping pace with the size of your brood?
Why do you think the property values are going down? It's not specultation, it's surplus. There aren't enough people to fill the houses, therefore, they are practically worthless. You'll be trading your deeds for a hunk of bread before it's all done, if anyone is even interested.
Yes, yes it is surplus that home values are down. It takes a certain amount of capital to buy a house. Fewer people have that kind of capital, in many cases because ignorance -- of their sexual options and of others' rights -- led them to create children they weren't ready for.
Also, people are starting to ask what they get from all that extra interest paid for home ownership that they don't get by renting, and are finding that the extra income is better spent buying staples like food, transportation and heat for their living spaces rather than lawns to mow, furnaces/windows/pipes to replace, and someplace to live in 30 years if they are fortunate enough to stay in one place that long due to a volatile economy.
As far as I'm concerned, you and your entire generation can go to hell, and any of the young people who idolize your way of life can go with you.
I sure as hell don't idolize your way of life. Call me in 20 years when you're fighting against your own kids for your job.
FTFA: "IBM said that computational scaling overcomes these limitations by using mathematical techniques to modify the shape of the masks and the characteristics of the illuminating source used to image the circuits for each layer of an integrated circuit."
Heh, unsharp mask?
It would seem way more efficient, and less costly to me.
Priced out copper lately? Those 4/0 AWG wires you'll need to pull to handle a few googleracks aren't that cheap, and think of how many you have to pull...
Think of that long dc cable as a big-ass resistor. Apply I=P/E and P=I^2*R to see that your cables start losing a lot of power themselves the lower the voltage goes. Add inductance, the complexities of trying to regulate the voltage at 1000 different points,... you just really don't wanna go there.
Keep your regulator close to your equipment. It'll appreciate you.