No, the theory is that government should provide things, not necessarily just the necessities, to citizens where for-profit companies wouldn't
But what about instances where private for-profit companies provide poor quality unreliable service? Should a municipality, if petitioned by the citizens, respond "We're sorry, but a private company is already providing that service."?
We live in a rural community. People consider themselves lucky to get DSL. There is no cable option. Some people get long range WiFi. We consider ourselves to be extremely lucky because we can get 3mb DSL service. The service is, for the most part, fairly reliable, but we have periods of very poor throughput and lots of dropped packets. The local telco has shown very little interest in building out to provide faster more reliable service.
Our local co-op owned power company is looking seriously at building out a strong, fast, reliable broadband system. They already have a good chunk of fiber in place throughout the area for use by the county and a few businesses. They want to build out using wireless solutions for the last mile. Except for a few "Wi-Fi is damaging my brains" type people, the local folks are strongly in favor of it.
Rural infrastructure problems are exactly the areas where the standard municipality Vs business issues break down. Businesses don't see enough profit to warrant expanding or even maintaining the services. If municipalities don't step in, then people have to do with substandard service or no service at all.
I've always stopped whatever I'm doing during take off and landing. It doesn't matter if I'm in a really good spot in a book, or engrossed in a great conversation; at these times I stop. Even if I were allowed to used a portable electronic device, I'd still stop for landings and take offs.
Why? This will sound strange. Take offs and landings are the riskiest phase of a flight. I don't want to die and miss out on the experience. For whatever reason, I want to be in the here and now in the event of a catastrophic failure. I think it would be a shame to leave the present plain of existence (no pun intended) without being aware of the events that led up to the departure.
Everybody is different, and all family situations are different. In my case I have a wife who works full time, no kids, and no dogs. So these were the rules that worked for me. They might not work for you.
1) Have an office. A room set aside from the rest of the house that other family members don't need to access. 2) Treat your home office like a work office. You have times that you start and times that you end... more or less. 3) Get dressed for work. I don't mean tie and jacket, unless that's what floats your boat. I would wear jeans, t-shirt, and sneakers. The idea being that you want to mentally differentiate "lounging" from "working". This also helps protect your lounging times. 4) When your are at work, you are at work. We quickly settled on the rule that my wife would come into the office to let me know she was home, then head off. When I was done at work I would leave the office and walk into what ever room she was in announcing "Honey, I'm home." 5) I took breaks. For the first time in years I actually ate lunch someplace other than working at my desk. I'd go downstairs and make coffee when I wanted it. When you're hitting your head against a brick wall (I did software development) take a walk around the neighborhood. You don't need to explain yourself to anybody but yourself. 6) And this is important; when you are not at work, don't work. My office was also my household office so it was where I did bills, email, etc. But I was always careful to not just take a quick peak at whatever I'd been working on earlier. In my case, this was the hardest part. I'd get an idea on something to try that might solve a problem. The temptation is to sneak away for a just a few minutes... next thing you know it's 11:00pm and your wife is asking if you're ever coming to bed.
Good luck. I enjoyed working from my home office. But it all came to an end when I hired my first employee and my wife said "No employees working in the house." So then I was back to a downtown office again.
It was a bit heavy handed, but if you read the article (Yeah, yeah. I know. Slashdot readers never....) you would fine the quote "...fueling speculation that Penguin’s actions may be directed at Amazon,"
But heavy handed or not, the point is a valid one.
Because he isn't looking for a compatibility list. krinderlin said "So what 802.11n routers do you have with DD-WRT? What would you recommend for PCIe x1 and USB adapters?" Notice that he said "what... do you have..." not what will work with.
I got a gps with voice prompting for my company van because I was afraid I was going to get in, or cause, a wreck trying to read the Thomas Guide. My short term memory isn't that great, especially if I'm thinking through my next job before I get to it. Having a gps system voice prompt me around a major metropolitan area is, for me, a significantly safer option. But then again, I don't blindly drive off the road into a river/ravine/building just because my gps told me to.
This isn't a pacifist vs free expression thought, or a think-of-the-children and how there minds might be warped, type of comment. A lot of people enjoy FPS and other types of shooter games. Nothing wrong with that. But I personally like thinking / exploring games. The Myst series was my ideal type of game. I don't want an adrenalin fix. I want an immersive environment that presents me with challenges and puzzles which allow me to think quietly and not fight a clock. But based upon what is available on the marketplace, I am a very small minority which is not catered to by the gaming industry. Oh well, I keep hoping for something new.
First, I note that you are happy to insult another person while posting as an AC. If you are going to insult someone, at least have the balls to sign in as a real person.
"Guys like me" drive up till near the merge point (say 10-20 cars away depending on the speed), align with a space between two cars, then gradually move into the space that the cooperative driver next to you creates. The gradual lane change makes the whole process smoother and therefore faster.
I agree that people who merge in 1/4 of a mile or 1/2 a mile before the merge create problems. But the people that drive around a series of mostly merged cars and then jam into the line a few cars up create the worst problems. There in a rush. They don't look beyond their hood ornament. And they want to be first in line. As a result they jam into a space they want causing the driver they've just cut off to brake suddenly. That creates a ripple effect of brakes which brings everything to a stop.
Oh. You mean you wanted actual facts? You are obviously confused about the American political system. You don't have to have facts, just make any old statement the you think supports you position. And claiming that something raises/lowers taxes gets extra bonus points.
The "go around again" option is a really great feature of rotaries. While motorcycling in England we weren't sure which smaller road to take from the large rotary in Leeds. So we went around again while my wife unfolded the table sized Michelin road map, and again while I read highway numbers to her. Then happily headed down the road we needed to take. We didn't block up traffic, have to go down a wrong road, bang a u-turn, or all the other problems of traditional intersections. Although I'm sure that we caused some strange looks while riding around in circles with a huge map spread out in the wind.
But the article rightfully points out that the "traditional" American driver will have some serious adjusting to do. Cooperative driving is a must, something we just don't do. Anybody who has been stuck in a traffic jam caused by a highway lane closure has witnessed it. Everybody jams up to the merge point then does the "me first" game. Those that try to merge smoothly and early are rewarded by a pushy jerk that drives around them and roars up to the merge point to try and jam themselves in to line.
Maybe it is a matter of growing up. America isn't a teenager anymore. As a general population I think we need to start thinking more like adults.
I probably shouldn't respond to somebody who's handle is 'countertrolling', but...
If you've read any of the information on this subject, you'd know that the contract with Apple requires that you price eBooks the same as what Apple sells them for. So raising the price is not an option.
While I don't choose to watch slasher type films, and don't play FPS games, I do watch some shows with pretty graphic content. Ever watch an episode of Bones? It doesn't phase me in the least. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a show on PBS regarding sectarian violence during the US invasion of Iraq. It show footage of a number of individuals firing upon a pickup truck on a city street and clearly killing the driver. That image disturbed me deeply and it took many days for me to stop feeling depressed and angered by what I had watched.
It became quite clear to me that our minds process images differently based upon whether the are known to be fiction or truth. Or at least I hope that is the norm. Perhaps psychopaths don't differentiate in the same manner.
In some areas, at least in the USA, the infrastructure is not thoroughly built out. We live in a rural area. Recently the EMTs tried to call for a Life Flight for the victim of a serious auto accident. Turns out that the telephone company had taken down the long distance phone link for scheduled maintenance. Cell phones were of no use because the cell tower sends the signal via copper out of the area for switching, then back into the area for connection to the dialed party. Without a switched local copper phone line, the cell system was useless.
If it were not for the ability of the emergency dispatcher to contact the state EOC via RADIO (yes that old fashion technology) the accident victim would most likely have died.
So, yes, radio technology is "old school". But it is an important means of communications, especially in the case of emergencies. That's why the ARRL motto is "When all else fails".
I installed a back alarm in my service van after I almost hit a pedestrian that walked out behind me because they were to busy talking on their cell phone. You know what? A month later another person walking out behind me as I was backing up! My backup alarm is not a polite sound and I am self conscious about it. So if people still walk out behind me when I backing, they'll still step out in front of a moving car regardless of the noise it makes.
The photo of the unit shows what appears to be a Clark Pump as used in Spectra Watermaker systems. (http://www.spectrawatermakers.com) These are popular in recreation long distance sailboats as they require less power for a given output than traditional RO systems.
As for reliability and longevity, much depends on the design. If you keep pressures reasonable, and flow excess raw water back to its source, the RO membranes will last many years and thousands of hours of use. The key is not running pressures so high that the membrane gets clogged with solids from the raw water. Pre filtering the raw water also is critical to not fouling the membranes. We run a 30 micron then 10 micron filter before out high pressure pump. The prefilters only need to be changed when fouled so their life span depends on the turbidity of the raw water.
We live aboard our boat and run a watermaker instead of using shoreside water sources. The unit is not as energy efficient as the MIT units. We have used it for years, have over 500 hours on it, and it has had near zero maintenance. In cold water, currently seawater is about 48F, we get 15gph, at 55F+ we get 18gph which is the max rated output, and above that we need to run at lower pressures to not saturate the membrane. We can get greater throughput by adding additional membranes. Adding a second membrane would double our output. (Sorry for the non metric units.) The Clark Pump system will get lower output, but the longevity of the membranes should be comparable. Membrane prices vary, but are typically in the US$250-US$500 range.
I have two email addresses on yahoo.com. One is a jumble of letters and numbers which I use to for access to things I have no desire to ever see again. Dump things like "we'll email you the download link". That email address, which has been around for 7+ years gets the odd spam here and there.
The other yahoo.com email address is used only to enroll in a number of Yahoo groups and never given out or used for email. (I'm a ham and for whatever reason the ham community has fallen in love with Yahoo groups.) This second email address receives between 100-200 spams per week.
Keeping in mind that the second email address has never been given out, where did the spammers get my email address from? I can only assume that either Yahoo sells email addresses used in groups for "targeted advertising" or that they have a huge security hole through which the leak Yahoo group email address.
I disagree. You have obviously never dealt with the elderly. My mother (mid-70's) gets completely derailed when Comodo pops up asking here to confirm access to the net by Firefox after a new version install.
Different people have different abilities. Some otherwise intelligent people get completely flummoxed trying to follow instructions related to computers. Until S/MIME or other encryption methods can be installed and configured as easy as most anti-virus programs (click to start, click to accept defaults, click to confirm eula gobbledygook, click to finish) it will not be accepted by the masses.
In reality, until encryption is included, and activated by default, by the major email clients, it won't be in common use.
Sure, they've come out with an uninstall process. But who here thinks that Ma and Pa PC User have a chance in hell of correctly performing the necessary steps? For that matter, who thinks that the common user of a PC will even be aware of the issue in the first place?
Yes FF allows add-ons. Yes, MS has every right to create an add-on for FF. What really worries me is when a company creates an add-on for the product of their primary competitor which threatens the stability and security of their competitor's product. At a minimum this is dirty pool. To me it just looks like MS continuing to wallow in the sewage of unfair competition.
That said, I find it a bit whacked that on one hand we have part of our government demanding filtering and selective blocking of websites in public locations and schools. While at the same time a different part of our government is supporting and funding software to bypass filtering and blocking.
Maybe we should drop the Politically Correct filtering efforts and quit wasting everybody's money. After all, isn't that what our government seems to be saying to other countries? Or is it just our country and our allies that are allowed to filter? Come on USA, get your story straight.
I tend to agree that Twitter is a waste of bandwidth. But that doesn't mean the offense should be taken any less seriously.
To paraphrase: Then they came for the Twitters. I did not speak out; I was not a Twitter. ... and we all know how that ends.
What if this had been inflicted against Slashdot? Everybody would be up in arms about it. You should defend Twitter as you would want others to defend any website which is meaningful to you.
Ummm, no. Licensed amateur operators have "ham" radios. They also happen to be people. The opposite is not necessarily true. In this day and age telephones are ubiquitous, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, when all else fails, there are the ham operators. Our ARES group has provided emergency comms when the local phone system and 911 service has failed. We are an adjunct to the telephone system, not a replacement for it. And you'd better hope it stays that way or the spectrum will be so jammed with chit-chat that it will make CB channel 19 in the late 70's sound like an empty echo.
I don't know Monavie from a hole in the wall, but are you suggesting that they have the right to restrict the sale of a physical item that was legitimately bought? Assuming the OP buys a physical item with no signed contractual agreement not to resell it, what basis does the manufacturer have to prohibit the sale.
Come on. It it were Sony/BMG trying to prevent him from reselling a brand new, still in the wrapper, Rap-Snoop-Poop-Dog's Greatest Hits album, you'd be all over Sony. According to your views, now we don't even own the physical items we purchase.
According to these guys, my Mac is infected with Windows XP viruses. Ok, now I'm not that gullible, but the sad part is that there are plenty of people that are and believe whatever they read. Of course these are the same people that send birthday cards to little whats-his-name who wants to be in the Guinness's Book of World Records.
At one level I'm sympathetic, but at another I think that people need to learn to be more than a little skeptical on the internet. So instead of getting money returned to the people that purchased this junk, how about using it to fund advertising programs that politely ask "How can you be so stupid?" (Obviously not saying it like that.) Education is the only thing that will change this in the long run. Otherwise they'll just fall for whatever the next trick is that comes along.
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No, the theory is that government should provide things, not necessarily just the necessities, to citizens where for-profit companies wouldn't
But what about instances where private for-profit companies provide poor quality unreliable service? Should a municipality, if petitioned by the citizens, respond "We're sorry, but a private company is already providing that service."?
We live in a rural community. People consider themselves lucky to get DSL. There is no cable option. Some people get long range WiFi. We consider ourselves to be extremely lucky because we can get 3mb DSL service. The service is, for the most part, fairly reliable, but we have periods of very poor throughput and lots of dropped packets. The local telco has shown very little interest in building out to provide faster more reliable service.
Our local co-op owned power company is looking seriously at building out a strong, fast, reliable broadband system. They already have a good chunk of fiber in place throughout the area for use by the county and a few businesses. They want to build out using wireless solutions for the last mile. Except for a few "Wi-Fi is damaging my brains" type people, the local folks are strongly in favor of it.
Rural infrastructure problems are exactly the areas where the standard municipality Vs business issues break down. Businesses don't see enough profit to warrant expanding or even maintaining the services. If municipalities don't step in, then people have to do with substandard service or no service at all.
I've always stopped whatever I'm doing during take off and landing. It doesn't matter if I'm in a really good spot in a book, or engrossed in a great conversation; at these times I stop. Even if I were allowed to used a portable electronic device, I'd still stop for landings and take offs.
Why? This will sound strange. Take offs and landings are the riskiest phase of a flight. I don't want to die and miss out on the experience. For whatever reason, I want to be in the here and now in the event of a catastrophic failure. I think it would be a shame to leave the present plain of existence (no pun intended) without being aware of the events that led up to the departure.
Everybody is different, and all family situations are different. In my case I have a wife who works full time, no kids, and no dogs. So these were the rules that worked for me. They might not work for you.
1) Have an office. A room set aside from the rest of the house that other family members don't need to access.
2) Treat your home office like a work office. You have times that you start and times that you end... more or less.
3) Get dressed for work. I don't mean tie and jacket, unless that's what floats your boat. I would wear jeans, t-shirt, and sneakers. The idea being that you want to mentally differentiate "lounging" from "working". This also helps protect your lounging times.
4) When your are at work, you are at work. We quickly settled on the rule that my wife would come into the office to let me know she was home, then head off. When I was done at work I would leave the office and walk into what ever room she was in announcing "Honey, I'm home."
5) I took breaks. For the first time in years I actually ate lunch someplace other than working at my desk. I'd go downstairs and make coffee when I wanted it. When you're hitting your head against a brick wall (I did software development) take a walk around the neighborhood. You don't need to explain yourself to anybody but yourself.
6) And this is important; when you are not at work, don't work. My office was also my household office so it was where I did bills, email, etc. But I was always careful to not just take a quick peak at whatever I'd been working on earlier. In my case, this was the hardest part. I'd get an idea on something to try that might solve a problem. The temptation is to sneak away for a just a few minutes... next thing you know it's 11:00pm and your wife is asking if you're ever coming to bed.
Good luck. I enjoyed working from my home office. But it all came to an end when I hired my first employee and my wife said "No employees working in the house." So then I was back to a downtown office again.
It was a bit heavy handed, but if you read the article (Yeah, yeah. I know. Slashdot readers never....) you would fine the quote "...fueling speculation that Penguin’s actions may be directed at Amazon,"
But heavy handed or not, the point is a valid one.
Because he isn't looking for a compatibility list. krinderlin said "So what 802.11n routers do you have with DD-WRT? What would you recommend for PCIe x1 and USB adapters?" Notice that he said "what ... do you have ..." not what will work with.
Yeah I got the same message after submitting my survey responses.
Maybe the response to what would you like changed should be a survey that doesn't think you've already taken it when you haven't.
I got a gps with voice prompting for my company van because I was afraid I was going to get in, or cause, a wreck trying to read the Thomas Guide. My short term memory isn't that great, especially if I'm thinking through my next job before I get to it. Having a gps system voice prompt me around a major metropolitan area is, for me, a significantly safer option. But then again, I don't blindly drive off the road into a river/ravine/building just because my gps told me to.
This isn't a pacifist vs free expression thought, or a think-of-the-children and how there minds might be warped, type of comment. A lot of people enjoy FPS and other types of shooter games. Nothing wrong with that. But I personally like thinking / exploring games. The Myst series was my ideal type of game. I don't want an adrenalin fix. I want an immersive environment that presents me with challenges and puzzles which allow me to think quietly and not fight a clock. But based upon what is available on the marketplace, I am a very small minority which is not catered to by the gaming industry. Oh well, I keep hoping for something new.
First, I note that you are happy to insult another person while posting as an AC. If you are going to insult someone, at least have the balls to sign in as a real person.
"Guys like me" drive up till near the merge point (say 10-20 cars away depending on the speed), align with a space between two cars, then gradually move into the space that the cooperative driver next to you creates. The gradual lane change makes the whole process smoother and therefore faster.
I agree that people who merge in 1/4 of a mile or 1/2 a mile before the merge create problems. But the people that drive around a series of mostly merged cars and then jam into the line a few cars up create the worst problems. There in a rush. They don't look beyond their hood ornament. And they want to be first in line. As a result they jam into a space they want causing the driver they've just cut off to brake suddenly. That creates a ripple effect of brakes which brings everything to a stop.
Oh. You mean you wanted actual facts? You are obviously confused about the American political system. You don't have to have facts, just make any old statement the you think supports you position. And claiming that something raises/lowers taxes gets extra bonus points.
Crudely put. But accurate.
The "go around again" option is a really great feature of rotaries. While motorcycling in England we weren't sure which smaller road to take from the large rotary in Leeds. So we went around again while my wife unfolded the table sized Michelin road map, and again while I read highway numbers to her. Then happily headed down the road we needed to take. We didn't block up traffic, have to go down a wrong road, bang a u-turn, or all the other problems of traditional intersections. Although I'm sure that we caused some strange looks while riding around in circles with a huge map spread out in the wind.
But the article rightfully points out that the "traditional" American driver will have some serious adjusting to do. Cooperative driving is a must, something we just don't do. Anybody who has been stuck in a traffic jam caused by a highway lane closure has witnessed it. Everybody jams up to the merge point then does the "me first" game. Those that try to merge smoothly and early are rewarded by a pushy jerk that drives around them and roars up to the merge point to try and jam themselves in to line.
Maybe it is a matter of growing up. America isn't a teenager anymore. As a general population I think we need to start thinking more like adults.
I probably shouldn't respond to somebody who's handle is 'countertrolling', but...
If you've read any of the information on this subject, you'd know that the contract with Apple requires that you price eBooks the same as what Apple sells them for. So raising the price is not an option.
While I don't choose to watch slasher type films, and don't play FPS games, I do watch some shows with pretty graphic content. Ever watch an episode of Bones? It doesn't phase me in the least. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a show on PBS regarding sectarian violence during the US invasion of Iraq. It show footage of a number of individuals firing upon a pickup truck on a city street and clearly killing the driver. That image disturbed me deeply and it took many days for me to stop feeling depressed and angered by what I had watched.
It became quite clear to me that our minds process images differently based upon whether the are known to be fiction or truth. Or at least I hope that is the norm. Perhaps psychopaths don't differentiate in the same manner.
I know. I know. Don't feed the trolls. But...
In some areas, at least in the USA, the infrastructure is not thoroughly built out. We live in a rural area. Recently the EMTs tried to call for a Life Flight for the victim of a serious auto accident. Turns out that the telephone company had taken down the long distance phone link for scheduled maintenance. Cell phones were of no use because the cell tower sends the signal via copper out of the area for switching, then back into the area for connection to the dialed party. Without a switched local copper phone line, the cell system was useless.
If it were not for the ability of the emergency dispatcher to contact the state EOC via RADIO (yes that old fashion technology) the accident victim would most likely have died.
So, yes, radio technology is "old school". But it is an important means of communications, especially in the case of emergencies. That's why the ARRL motto is "When all else fails".
I installed a back alarm in my service van after I almost hit a pedestrian that walked out behind me because they were to busy talking on their cell phone. You know what? A month later another person walking out behind me as I was backing up! My backup alarm is not a polite sound and I am self conscious about it. So if people still walk out behind me when I backing, they'll still step out in front of a moving car regardless of the noise it makes.
The photo of the unit shows what appears to be a Clark Pump as used in Spectra Watermaker systems. (http://www.spectrawatermakers.com) These are popular in recreation long distance sailboats as they require less power for a given output than traditional RO systems.
As for reliability and longevity, much depends on the design. If you keep pressures reasonable, and flow excess raw water back to its source, the RO membranes will last many years and thousands of hours of use. The key is not running pressures so high that the membrane gets clogged with solids from the raw water. Pre filtering the raw water also is critical to not fouling the membranes. We run a 30 micron then 10 micron filter before out high pressure pump. The prefilters only need to be changed when fouled so their life span depends on the turbidity of the raw water.
We live aboard our boat and run a watermaker instead of using shoreside water sources. The unit is not as energy efficient as the MIT units. We have used it for years, have over 500 hours on it, and it has had near zero maintenance. In cold water, currently seawater is about 48F, we get 15gph, at 55F+ we get 18gph which is the max rated output, and above that we need to run at lower pressures to not saturate the membrane. We can get greater throughput by adding additional membranes. Adding a second membrane would double our output. (Sorry for the non metric units.) The Clark Pump system will get lower output, but the longevity of the membranes should be comparable. Membrane prices vary, but are typically in the US$250-US$500 range.
I have two email addresses on yahoo.com. One is a jumble of letters and numbers which I use to for access to things I have no desire to ever see again. Dump things like "we'll email you the download link". That email address, which has been around for 7+ years gets the odd spam here and there.
The other yahoo.com email address is used only to enroll in a number of Yahoo groups and never given out or used for email. (I'm a ham and for whatever reason the ham community has fallen in love with Yahoo groups.) This second email address receives between 100-200 spams per week.
Keeping in mind that the second email address has never been given out, where did the spammers get my email address from? I can only assume that either Yahoo sells email addresses used in groups for "targeted advertising" or that they have a huge security hole through which the leak Yahoo group email address.
In any case... What spam? Use Yahoo Groups!
I disagree. You have obviously never dealt with the elderly. My mother (mid-70's) gets completely derailed when Comodo pops up asking here to confirm access to the net by Firefox after a new version install.
Different people have different abilities. Some otherwise intelligent people get completely flummoxed trying to follow instructions related to computers. Until S/MIME or other encryption methods can be installed and configured as easy as most anti-virus programs (click to start, click to accept defaults, click to confirm eula gobbledygook, click to finish) it will not be accepted by the masses.
In reality, until encryption is included, and activated by default, by the major email clients, it won't be in common use.
Sure, they've come out with an uninstall process. But who here thinks that Ma and Pa PC User have a chance in hell of correctly performing the necessary steps? For that matter, who thinks that the common user of a PC will even be aware of the issue in the first place?
Yes FF allows add-ons. Yes, MS has every right to create an add-on for FF. What really worries me is when a company creates an add-on for the product of their primary competitor which threatens the stability and security of their competitor's product. At a minimum this is dirty pool. To me it just looks like MS continuing to wallow in the sewage of unfair competition.
First, I'll state that I support this, worldwide.
That said, I find it a bit whacked that on one hand we have part of our government demanding filtering and selective blocking of websites in public locations and schools. While at the same time a different part of our government is supporting and funding software to bypass filtering and blocking.
Maybe we should drop the Politically Correct filtering efforts and quit wasting everybody's money. After all, isn't that what our government seems to be saying to other countries? Or is it just our country and our allies that are allowed to filter? Come on USA, get your story straight.
I tend to agree that Twitter is a waste of bandwidth. But that doesn't mean the offense should be taken any less seriously.
To paraphrase:
... and we all know how that ends.
Then they came for the Twitters.
I did not speak out;
I was not a Twitter.
What if this had been inflicted against Slashdot? Everybody would be up in arms about it. You should defend Twitter as you would want others to defend any website which is meaningful to you.
Ummm, no. Licensed amateur operators have "ham" radios. They also happen to be people. The opposite is not necessarily true. In this day and age telephones are ubiquitous, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, when all else fails, there are the ham operators. Our ARES group has provided emergency comms when the local phone system and 911 service has failed. We are an adjunct to the telephone system, not a replacement for it. And you'd better hope it stays that way or the spectrum will be so jammed with chit-chat that it will make CB channel 19 in the late 70's sound like an empty echo.
Jim - a General Class licensed ham
I don't know Monavie from a hole in the wall, but are you suggesting that they have the right to restrict the sale of a physical item that was legitimately bought? Assuming the OP buys a physical item with no signed contractual agreement not to resell it, what basis does the manufacturer have to prohibit the sale.
Come on. It it were Sony/BMG trying to prevent him from reselling a brand new, still in the wrapper, Rap-Snoop-Poop-Dog's Greatest Hits album, you'd be all over Sony. According to your views, now we don't even own the physical items we purchase.
Please let me off this bus!
According to these guys, my Mac is infected with Windows XP viruses. Ok, now I'm not that gullible, but the sad part is that there are plenty of people that are and believe whatever they read. Of course these are the same people that send birthday cards to little whats-his-name who wants to be in the Guinness's Book of World Records.
At one level I'm sympathetic, but at another I think that people need to learn to be more than a little skeptical on the internet. So instead of getting money returned to the people that purchased this junk, how about using it to fund advertising programs that politely ask "How can you be so stupid?" (Obviously not saying it like that.) Education is the only thing that will change this in the long run. Otherwise they'll just fall for whatever the next trick is that comes along.