Yes, Brad Miller (http://www.bradmillerlaw.com) is part of the Neo-con fantasy team of school busting (which starts by going after the teachers), "reformers," that are a Colorado who's-who of wealthy, "business-people,": Steve Schuck, C. Edward McVaney, KEith King, Ralph Nagel, and Alex Cranberg, among others. Their idle hands have been directly involved in school district politics in Douglas, Colorado Springs (both District 11 and District 8), Jefferson, Greeley-Evans, Mesa Valley and Thompson school districts, working to elect and tear apart (while profiting) a district by financing candidates to do their bidding. All the while the oligarchs, DO NOT LIVE IN THOSE DISTRICTS.
Miller has billed over $800,000 to JeffCo in the last 18 months for, "consulting," the board of education. Also, he owns Charter School Solutions, LLC, which, after he helps his cronies to destabilize a school district, he then swoops in, contract in hand, and profits by, "consulting," how to open, run and operate charter schools.
These are old school business types, and they are only after money. Regardless of the political cloth they attempt to dress their positions in, it all comes down to how much they can profit for themselves and their associates.
I used to work for MCI as a analyst. My job was to "fix" problems in the billing systems. If an issue was over $20,000 then we would consider resolving it. On several occasions, I came across unreported problems that were costing the customer more money than advertised, and I was told that we' "only resolve issue that are brought to us by customer complaint." Also, if an issue impacted more customers than the complaining customer, no refund was granted, except to the customer that complained. 99% of the issues I was assigned had one complaintant, but impacte 100's if not 1,000's of additional MCI customers.
One issue that sticks out in my mind dealt with the personal 800 service users being charged international rates for a domestic call. Someone forgot the jump in a nested loop. Oops. That COBOL can be trickey. lol.
The 4AD band in question in your sig is Throwing Muses. The lyrics are from the song 'Fish' on the 4AD compilation that derived its name from the lyric.
It is not the dietary, or additive sugar, in the modern American diet that contributes to the, "exploding rates of osteoporosis...," as much as it is the large amounts of sodium (salt, in many and various forms: table salt, MSG, etc.) that is added to processed foods of all kinds (from cold cereal to sweets (which also contains those additive sugars we are focusing on)) that is the major factor in the rise in osteoporosis, as sodium, especially the large amounts we get now compared to 100 years ago, drives calcium out of the bones and into the bloodstream where it is excreted by the kidneys and also combines with suspended cholesterol to form arterial plaque which has contributed to the dramatic rise in heart disease and stroke in our society.
If you do not believe me (I use my given name), then you could spend 4-5 years as a dietetics major in college, or do the research: I suggest starting with the American Dietetics Association, http://www.eatright.org/.
Check out that ugly power regulator in the upper left corner. Even if this is a demo board, a cleaner job should have been done with the prototype's part selection, mounting and soldering. This must be a joke, as that thing does not even have a heat sink on it. I think I will pass, and get one of those nifty new 1GHz dually's Apple now has.
Although the demise of Sprint ION was much heralded, I receive an E-mail from Sprint Broadband (SBB) the following day that informed me that SBB would no longer be accepting any new customers, either Business or Consumer. You can see for yourself at http://sprintbroadband.com/
This is a bummer really, as, since Sprint figured out how to do wireless, my service really cranks: 2Mbps down, and 500 Kbps up. Great Stuff. Unfortunately, I had to slog through 7 or 8 months of speeds slower than dial-up.
What really gets me about all of this is the contest between SBB, MCIW and AT&T. They were all out there buying up all the MMDS licenses they could. First, MCI bails out of the deal they were putting together with SBB a couple years back. SBB goes ahead and rolls out the service, and cannot meet demand. AT&T never really got off the ground.
One must ask, who put whomever in charge at these telco's? SBB makes $50 a month off of me and several thousand other people (and $150/month off of hundred's of business') in the 'Springs alone, and they cannot pay for the antenna's and equipment? Heck, it is even their fiber that serves the distribution antenna, so no cost to transport my packets is really incurred by having to lay cable to my house, or to they distribution antenna. Their revenues are about $1.8 million/year just in this area and they are suspending service aquisition. It is just a matter of time until they cut it off in whole. With a 35 mile reach, I would be trying to get as many people as possible onto this service. It is WAY cheaper than DSL to setup and support.
But hey, I am only the Capacity Planner at a teleconferencing company with a high growth rate, a large customer base, and lots of income. What do I know?
Call Qwest Small business, and request D-Channel service. This is a little known ISDN service that provisions only a 16 Kbps D-Channel over existing copper; no B-Channels. You will get a usable 9.6 Kbps (remember, it is digital, not analog, so, although 9.6 Kbps sounds slow, it is not that same as a modem, as it uses conditioned pairs, and the data is digital; not as many lost packet, and no retries) and this should be more than enough for the telemetry application you descibe. And it is cheap. ATM's networks use it sometimes instead of Frame Relay, when the network engineer knows what they are doing.
The next step is to encapsulate x.25 over this link. That way you can create your own x.25 secure VPN of sorts,) and you can send TCP/IP over it. The nice thing is that one can gather all data at a central site that can use any data link that supports x.25 (slick 56, ISDN, TCP/IP, whatever.
I recommend you use Motorola gear, it always worked well for me. I used a vendor in the Denver area when I was consulting, NetLink Technologies, and they were very helpful.
If I tell you anymore, I will have to bill you. Please address any questions to my E-mail address.
Although, I support your M&M hypothosis, I think you should re-evaluate where you live, compared to where most people live. Admittly, a college may be a perfect place for a NAN, however, I am speaking to the larger community that does not live at or near a college.
Judging by your remarks, you seem to be more interested in song swapping, and you are right, a NAN may be the thing you need, but, keeping with the spirit of the seed post, this product may not be a "do-able" one for mass consumtion.
To think Metricom would basically have been the same thing, and they ended up in the.com wastebin.
I am not speaking about several different machines at your residence, my provider does not mind either. However, they, and everyone else, prohibts using their service to provide service to others, whether you profit from it or not. Meaning, what you do is fine, however, if you include another potential business customer, your provider will be upset.
Providers do not want to lose business, or, POTENTIAL business.
MP3's of music on your hard drive are illegal when you do not own a CD/tape/LP/45/78/8-track/reel-to-reel of that music. But, I bet you have some of that anyway do you not?
I thought so.
Who do you think police the airwaves during wartime? The same types people that were using Ham's. Like you said, "..a good pool of technical types to recruit from."
I do not agree with this, I remeber back in the old days of Netware, it was all the rage to get a T1 or even a Frac. T1 into the Internet.
My University went so far as to get not only a dedicated connection, but a redundant link, and put in a collasped FDDI backbone in as well. We were so high tech that we put in Cat. 5 wire when the only equipment anyone could get was 10BaseT hubs, not switches, and bridge the whole thing together with Bay repeaters.
The same goes for the corparate world; do most small, medium, or big businesses need to be connected into the Internet? Probably not, but, it sure is nice to be, and prospective users of NAN's are going to think the same way. Plus, I do not know where you live, but I certainly do NOT want my neighbors MP3's, if the even know what a MP3 is (hey, some people do not, really), and I am sure I do not want their files, or to provide endless hours of tech support for free. No thanks.
If I wanted to share with my peer group, I would, hmmmm... go out to the Internet, hit up some IRC, Usenet/ or/. problem solved.
And I avoid the problems and logistics of putting together a NAN.
Can you say Ham? At one time (50-70 years ago) the Ham's, usually a youngish person or even a kid or teenager, would be the one source of information for rural communities (the U.S. has become a great deal more urbanized, and wired, since WWII). Newspapers employed them in small towns. And they were a big source of information during war time. Remember the the radio set is the equivelent of the PC back then.
The real problem that may be encountered with NAN's is when a neighborhood group gets together a NAN (and assuming there are no technical/ fiscal problems) and wants a connection to the Internet.
Okay, fine, it either gets routed through an ADSL, cable or wireless broadband connection, which works great... until the provider figures out that behind their ONE, $50/month connection lurks 5-10 households. I think they (AT&T, LEC's or Sprint Broadband, etc.) will react negativly to this; it violates the Terms of Use agreements I have seen for any of these services, plus they will be losing upwards of $500+/month in revenue.
Boom, the connection is turned down, and/or several nasty letters threating legal action are sent out. Maybe they insist on an upgrade to a costlier business class service, for a significantly higher rate (around $250/month minimum).
Never mind that one person is responsible for the connection to the Internet may move, or have a disagreement with another neighbor, and pull the plug. One could go on about the multitude of non-technical problems that could occur with this type of setup for days.
It would be interesting to see how all this will pan out. But, I do not think it will be more than a niche product until the bigger aspects of this (connection to the Internet, or other NAN's, can be worked out).
There is no such thing as an "old 5ESS" as these are Lucent's 'new' class 5 (or 4, depending on configuration) switches. Lucent has recently made a big deal about the 5ESS being able to give 6 9's of uptime. These switches are currently produced. See: http://www.lucent.com/products/solution/0,,CTID+20 02-STID+10055-SOID+935-LOCL+1,00.html
In fact, AT&T is currently supplementing their Class 1, 4ESS switched network with 5ESS switches to handle nailed-up and data connections in order to allow the 4E's to handle more voice swithing. This makes sense as a 5E is around $25-40 million depending on interface and configuration, but the 4ESS has a cost of about $240 million, and thus is a switch that is rarely made.
The 4ESS is the "big daddy" phone switch, not the 5ESS, it is small potato's.
Actually, no I am not being young and foolish. I am being young and well paid.
Quite frankly, I am now, and have been in the past, responsible for the IT side of the house for companies with more than one or two employees. I do not, nor will I ever, have the time to educate end-users that can barely operate Windows to use KDE, Gnome or CDE based workstations. I have to keep the health of the business in mind, and, since most people have some sort of Windows experience, it is a no brainer.
As for the college crack: while you were busy playing patty-cake on the playground, I was hacking out my CS assignments on HP mini's in ASM (the only REAL language), and working on my Physics research using the Slackware (2.x) and a system I pieced together to run particle interaction simulations.
Grow up.
This is what I like to see: choice. Althought there is something to be said for standardization, it is hell on choice and leads to entities like M$.
Although I have standrdized on MS for the dsktop, I still am a Solaris pig for the back end. After all, the less the end users know about the server room, the better.
Although the winds on Mars are formidable, the atmosphere, especially at altitude, is much thinner than Earth's as Mars' mass is several times less than Earth's and thus it gravitational field is weaker, and unable to hold as much atmospheric gases as say the Earth or Jupiter, etc.
Therefore, even if the wind blows horribly, it is not as much of a problem as the mass/density of the Martian atmosphere is less; the winds push is less severe.
I am unsure if this is a the way to spend money on the ISS. Exactly how many shuttles or resupply ships are going to be docked at one time? can any supply that answer.
The cost in currency and time could have been better spent on other functions: experiments, testing manufacturing facilities or the next generation in space telescopes.
When are we as a planet going to stop messing around in near earth space and finally venture further into space: the moon; the asteriod belt; Mars; etc. I know that a station in orbit is needed, but can we go further for a change.
Why should Palm respond to a MS palm with an implementation using an OS unproven on its platform. Extolling the fashionable alternatives just to say it point to a clear lack on thoughtfullness.
>> Even if we couldn't observe the emitted X-rays, wouldn't the observation that the galaxy isn't flying apart from the centrifugal force caused by its apparent rotation show that we are indeed held in place by a large gravitational force?
Firstly, there is no "centrifugal force." There are the forces of inertia, angular momentum, etc. You are looking for angular momentum, (inertia in a arc or circle). Secondly, if the mass of the object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy was large enough to hold the galaxy in place, it would distort the overall shape of the galaxy, removing its spiral characteristic.
Thanks,
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Yes, Brad Miller (http://www.bradmillerlaw.com) is part of the Neo-con fantasy team of school busting (which starts by going after the teachers), "reformers," that are a Colorado who's-who of wealthy, "business-people,": Steve Schuck, C. Edward McVaney, KEith King, Ralph Nagel, and Alex Cranberg, among others. Their idle hands have been directly involved in school district politics in Douglas, Colorado Springs (both District 11 and District 8), Jefferson, Greeley-Evans, Mesa Valley and Thompson school districts, working to elect and tear apart (while profiting) a district by financing candidates to do their bidding. All the while the oligarchs, DO NOT LIVE IN THOSE DISTRICTS. Miller has billed over $800,000 to JeffCo in the last 18 months for, "consulting," the board of education. Also, he owns Charter School Solutions, LLC, which, after he helps his cronies to destabilize a school district, he then swoops in, contract in hand, and profits by, "consulting," how to open, run and operate charter schools. These are old school business types, and they are only after money. Regardless of the political cloth they attempt to dress their positions in, it all comes down to how much they can profit for themselves and their associates.
I used to work for MCI as a analyst. My job was to "fix" problems in the billing systems. If an issue was over $20,000 then we would consider resolving it. On several occasions, I came across unreported problems that were costing the customer more money than advertised, and I was told that we' "only resolve issue that are brought to us by customer complaint." Also, if an issue impacted more customers than the complaining customer, no refund was granted, except to the customer that complained. 99% of the issues I was assigned had one complaintant, but impacte 100's if not 1,000's of additional MCI customers.
One issue that sticks out in my mind dealt with the personal 800 service users being charged international rates for a domestic call. Someone forgot the jump in a nested loop. Oops. That COBOL can be trickey. lol.
The 4AD band in question in your sig is Throwing Muses. The lyrics are from the song 'Fish' on the 4AD compilation that derived its name from the lyric.
It is not the dietary, or additive sugar, in the modern American diet that contributes to the, "exploding rates of osteoporosis...," as much as it is the large amounts of sodium (salt, in many and various forms: table salt, MSG, etc.) that is added to processed foods of all kinds (from cold cereal to sweets (which also contains those additive sugars we are focusing on)) that is the major factor in the rise in osteoporosis, as sodium, especially the large amounts we get now compared to 100 years ago, drives calcium out of the bones and into the bloodstream where it is excreted by the kidneys and also combines with suspended cholesterol to form arterial plaque which has contributed to the dramatic rise in heart disease and stroke in our society.
If you do not believe me (I use my given name), then you could spend 4-5 years as a dietetics major in college, or do the research: I suggest starting with the American Dietetics Association, http://www.eatright.org/.
Check out that ugly power regulator in the upper left corner. Even if this is a demo board, a cleaner job should have been done with the prototype's part selection, mounting and soldering. This must be a joke, as that thing does not even have a heat sink on it. I think I will pass, and get one of those nifty new 1GHz dually's Apple now has.
Although the demise of Sprint ION was much heralded, I receive an E-mail from Sprint Broadband (SBB) the following day that informed me that SBB would no longer be accepting any new customers, either Business or Consumer. You can see for yourself at http://sprintbroadband.com/
This is a bummer really, as, since Sprint figured out how to do wireless, my service really cranks: 2Mbps down, and 500 Kbps up. Great Stuff. Unfortunately, I had to slog through 7 or 8 months of speeds slower than dial-up.
What really gets me about all of this is the contest between SBB, MCIW and AT&T. They were all out there buying up all the MMDS licenses they could. First, MCI bails out of the deal they were putting together with SBB a couple years back. SBB goes ahead and rolls out the service, and cannot meet demand. AT&T never really got off the ground.
One must ask, who put whomever in charge at these telco's? SBB makes $50 a month off of me and several thousand other people (and $150/month off of hundred's of business') in the 'Springs alone, and they cannot pay for the antenna's and equipment? Heck, it is even their fiber that serves the distribution antenna, so no cost to transport my packets is really incurred by having to lay cable to my house, or to they distribution antenna. Their revenues are about $1.8 million/year just in this area and they are suspending service aquisition. It is just a matter of time until they cut it off in whole. With a 35 mile reach, I would be trying to get as many people as possible onto this service. It is WAY cheaper than DSL to setup and support.
But hey, I am only the Capacity Planner at a teleconferencing company with a high growth rate, a large customer base, and lots of income. What do I know?
EOR (end of rant)
Wireless does not have to be the only answer.
Call Qwest Small business, and request D-Channel service. This is a little known ISDN service that provisions only a 16 Kbps D-Channel over existing copper; no B-Channels. You will get a usable 9.6 Kbps (remember, it is digital, not analog, so, although 9.6 Kbps sounds slow, it is not that same as a modem, as it uses conditioned pairs, and the data is digital; not as many lost packet, and no retries) and this should be more than enough for the telemetry application you descibe. And it is cheap. ATM's networks use it sometimes instead of Frame Relay, when the network engineer knows what they are doing.
The next step is to encapsulate x.25 over this link. That way you can create your own x.25 secure VPN of sorts,) and you can send TCP/IP over it. The nice thing is that one can gather all data at a central site that can use any data link that supports x.25 (slick 56, ISDN, TCP/IP, whatever.
I recommend you use Motorola gear, it always worked well for me. I used a vendor in the Denver area when I was consulting, NetLink Technologies, and they were very helpful.
If I tell you anymore, I will have to bill you. Please address any questions to my E-mail address.
Although, I support your M&M hypothosis, I think you should re-evaluate where you live, compared to where most people live. Admittly, a college may be a perfect place for a NAN, however, I am speaking to the larger community that does not live at or near a college.
.com wastebin.
Judging by your remarks, you seem to be more interested in song swapping, and you are right, a NAN may be the thing you need, but, keeping with the spirit of the seed post, this product may not be a "do-able" one for mass consumtion.
To think Metricom would basically have been the same thing, and they ended up in the
I am not speaking about several different machines at your residence, my provider does not mind either. However, they, and everyone else, prohibts using their service to provide service to others, whether you profit from it or not. Meaning, what you do is fine, however, if you include another potential business customer, your provider will be upset.
Providers do not want to lose business, or, POTENTIAL business.
MP3's of music on your hard drive are illegal when you do not own a CD/tape/LP/45/78/8-track/reel-to-reel of that music. But, I bet you have some of that anyway do you not?
I thought so.
Who do you think police the airwaves during wartime? The same types people that were using Ham's. Like you said, "..a good pool of technical types to recruit from."
I do not agree with this, I remeber back in the old days of Netware, it was all the rage to get a T1 or even a Frac. T1 into the Internet.
/. problem solved.
My University went so far as to get not only a dedicated connection, but a redundant link, and put in a collasped FDDI backbone in as well. We were so high tech that we put in Cat. 5 wire when the only equipment anyone could get was 10BaseT hubs, not switches, and bridge the whole thing together with Bay repeaters.
The same goes for the corparate world; do most small, medium, or big businesses need to be connected into the Internet? Probably not, but, it sure is nice to be, and prospective users of NAN's are going to think the same way. Plus, I do not know where you live, but I certainly do NOT want my neighbors MP3's, if the even know what a MP3 is (hey, some people do not, really), and I am sure I do not want their files, or to provide endless hours of tech support for free. No thanks.
If I wanted to share with my peer group, I would, hmmmm... go out to the Internet, hit up some IRC, Usenet/ or
And I avoid the problems and logistics of putting together a NAN.
Can you say Ham? At one time (50-70 years ago) the Ham's, usually a youngish person or even a kid or teenager, would be the one source of information for rural communities (the U.S. has become a great deal more urbanized, and wired, since WWII). Newspapers employed them in small towns. And they were a big source of information during war time. Remember the the radio set is the equivelent of the PC back then.
The real problem that may be encountered with NAN's is when a neighborhood group gets together a NAN (and assuming there are no technical/ fiscal problems) and wants a connection to the Internet.
Okay, fine, it either gets routed through an ADSL, cable or wireless broadband connection, which works great... until the provider figures out that behind their ONE, $50/month connection lurks 5-10 households. I think they (AT&T, LEC's or Sprint Broadband, etc.) will react negativly to this; it violates the Terms of Use agreements I have seen for any of these services, plus they will be losing upwards of $500+/month in revenue.
Boom, the connection is turned down, and/or several nasty letters threating legal action are sent out. Maybe they insist on an upgrade to a costlier business class service, for a significantly higher rate (around $250/month minimum).
Never mind that one person is responsible for the connection to the Internet may move, or have a disagreement with another neighbor, and pull the plug. One could go on about the multitude of non-technical problems that could occur with this type of setup for days.
It would be interesting to see how all this will pan out. But, I do not think it will be more than a niche product until the bigger aspects of this (connection to the Internet, or other NAN's, can be worked out).
There is no such thing as an "old 5ESS" as these are Lucent's 'new' class 5 (or 4, depending on configuration) switches. Lucent has recently made a big deal about the 5ESS being able to give 6 9's of uptime. These switches are currently produced. See: http://www.lucent.com/products/solution/0,,CTID+20 02-STID+10055-SOID+935-LOCL+1,00.html
In fact, AT&T is currently supplementing their Class 1, 4ESS switched network with 5ESS switches to handle nailed-up and data connections in order to allow the 4E's to handle more voice swithing. This makes sense as a 5E is around $25-40 million depending on interface and configuration, but the 4ESS has a cost of about $240 million, and thus is a switch that is rarely made.
The 4ESS is the "big daddy" phone switch, not the 5ESS, it is small potato's.
Actually, no I am not being young and foolish. I am being young and well paid.
Quite frankly, I am now, and have been in the past, responsible for the IT side of the house for companies with more than one or two employees. I do not, nor will I ever, have the time to educate end-users that can barely operate Windows to use KDE, Gnome or CDE based workstations. I have to keep the health of the business in mind, and, since most people have some sort of Windows experience, it is a no brainer.
As for the college crack: while you were busy playing patty-cake on the playground, I was hacking out my CS assignments on HP mini's in ASM (the only REAL language), and working on my Physics research using the Slackware (2.x) and a system I pieced together to run particle interaction simulations.
Grow up.
This is what I like to see: choice. Althought there is something to be said for standardization, it is hell on choice and leads to entities like M$.
Although I have standrdized on MS for the dsktop, I still am a Solaris pig for the back end. After all, the less the end users know about the server room, the better.
Although the winds on Mars are formidable, the atmosphere, especially at altitude, is much thinner than Earth's as Mars' mass is several times less than Earth's and thus it gravitational field is weaker, and unable to hold as much atmospheric gases as say the Earth or Jupiter, etc.
Therefore, even if the wind blows horribly, it is not as much of a problem as the mass/density of the Martian atmosphere is less; the winds push is less severe.
I am unsure if this is a the way to spend money on the ISS. Exactly how many shuttles or resupply ships are going to be docked at one time? can any supply that answer.
The cost in currency and time could have been better spent on other functions: experiments, testing manufacturing facilities or the next generation in space telescopes.
When are we as a planet going to stop messing around in near earth space and finally venture further into space: the moon; the asteriod belt; Mars; etc. I know that a station in orbit is needed, but can we go further for a change.
Why should Palm respond to a MS palm with an implementation using an OS unproven on its platform. Extolling the fashionable alternatives just to say it point to a clear lack on thoughtfullness.
Thanks,
Gerald Roebke.