That reasonably priced 6.8/10 pizza you can get delivered to your house in 30 minutes is complete crap because a more expensive 8.5/10 pizza exists somewhere within a 60 minute drive of your house. You should all be shamed mercilessly for even thinking about eating food the cool kids would never even look at!
And then the large monopoly ISPs buy up the tower space or in the case of WISPs using the ISM bands, place Canopy modems at strategic locations exchanging fake traffic to block point to point WiFi.
It's a better conspiracy story if there are shadowy assassins though.
Oh yes, I'm sure the taxes that an Apple store shop assistant pays totally cover the road maintenance needed by trucks full of iPhones.
You thing Apple owns trucks? More likely they contract with a shipping company. The shipping company pays fuel and VAT and other taxes to cover their share of road maintenance.
Cities didn't get created to help Apple. Cities were built by the people, for the benefit of the people. The people should pay their own way, for their own benefit — not try to get someone else to pay their way for them.
Government services like protection of the glass storefronts of their stores.
Presumably they pay property taxes (or rent that ultimately goes to pay for property taxes) to cover the cost of law enforcement protection of their property.
And IP protection of their software and their designs.
I haven’t read the treaty, but I think Europe protects foreign IP in exchange for the US and other countries protecting European IP. If Europe wants out of that treaty, there's probably a way to end it. I doubt the treaty allows for holding IP protection hostage for a tax grab.
Phones. Software. Maps. Email. Cloud storage. Communications. Payment services. Publishing services. Apple makes products. Apple customers judge those products good.
Oh, I wasn't under the impression that Apple uses their own private road network in the EU, but I am clearly mistaken.
Does Apple use roads at all? Their contractors and customers and employees probably do, but then those people pay taxes for fuel and VAT and income and whatever else. So the road users pay for the roads they use. Any other reason Apple should pay?
Maybe it's because Apple doesn't pay any taxes in the EU...
Should they? In exchange for what government services? Seems like the government of the EU serves the people of the EU. The people of the EU should be paying for it.
Protestors produced nothing of any value to anyone, instead demanding productive people — people who create value for customers, employees, shareholders, and their communities — pay more.
Why should producers listen to demanders when demanders offer nothing of any value to anyone? Are remorseless demands fair? How is demanding things while offering nothing good for a society?
Lots of the towers already exist and are owned by 3rd parties like American Tower. It makes more financial sense for one tower company to rent antenna space to many companies than for comms companies to put up many redundant towers.
I'm not the one talking down to people and calling them "ignorant". In truth, "ignorance" is one thing both sides of the climate debate have in common — almost no one on either team understands how climate models work.
You'd think that lack of understanding would lead to some humility when making proclamations about future events. But no. Instead we get people talking out of their ass, repeating phrases they heard, and self-righteously proclaiming future doomsdays.
The world ended. Didn't you notice? - All the bees died and there's no food in the stores. - We all have 5 tropical diseases. My Ebola is really a bummer. Keeps me up at night. - New York City is underwater and the cast of Cats is anxiously clinging to the top of the Chrysler building, hissing at the rising water. - Polar bears retreated northward and are now all huddled around Superman's fortress of solitude drinking their last bottles of Coca-Cola. - Phoenix is so hot they moved their airport underground. - Everyone in Bangladesh drowned from the rising water. Some of us thought they'd step back from the surf rather than drown, because that's what we would do. But alas, the environmentalists were right. - Pineapples and bananas are a huge new cash crop in Siberia, but the Ebola everyone has is ruining people's appetite for smoothies.
So, in short, every prediction came true. Even the ones that contradicted the other ones.
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That reasonably priced 6.8/10 pizza you can get delivered to your house in 30 minutes is complete crap because a more expensive 8.5/10 pizza exists somewhere within a 60 minute drive of your house. You should all be shamed mercilessly for even thinking about eating food the cool kids would never even look at!
(Ok, not really shorter.)
And then the large monopoly ISPs buy up the tower space or in the case of WISPs using the ISM bands, place Canopy modems at strategic locations exchanging fake traffic to block point to point WiFi.
It's a better conspiracy story if there are shadowy assassins though.
Name-calling is neither reasoned nor persuasive.
Why?
Oh yes, I'm sure the taxes that an Apple store shop assistant pays totally cover the road maintenance needed by trucks full of iPhones.
You thing Apple owns trucks? More likely they contract with a shipping company. The shipping company pays fuel and VAT and other taxes to cover their share of road maintenance.
Cities didn't get created to help Apple. Cities were built by the people, for the benefit of the people. The people should pay their own way, for their own benefit — not try to get someone else to pay their way for them.
Government services like protection of the glass storefronts of their stores.
Presumably they pay property taxes (or rent that ultimately goes to pay for property taxes) to cover the cost of law enforcement protection of their property.
And IP protection of their software and their designs.
I haven’t read the treaty, but I think Europe protects foreign IP in exchange for the US and other countries protecting European IP. If Europe wants out of that treaty, there's probably a way to end it. I doubt the treaty allows for holding IP protection hostage for a tax grab.
Taxes are what holds up and maintains infrastructure, health, food and shelter for the poor.
Why shouldn’t French people pay for government services to help French people?
Apple is receiving a lot
Such as ...?
What are they offering for the greater good?
Phones. Software. Maps. Email. Cloud storage. Communications. Payment services. Publishing services. Apple makes products. Apple customers judge those products good.
Oh, I wasn't under the impression that Apple uses their own private road network in the EU, but I am clearly mistaken.
Does Apple use roads at all? Their contractors and customers and employees probably do, but then those people pay taxes for fuel and VAT and income and whatever else. So the road users pay for the roads they use. Any other reason Apple should pay?
Maybe it's because Apple doesn't pay any taxes in the EU...
Should they? In exchange for what government services? Seems like the government of the EU serves the people of the EU. The people of the EU should be paying for it.
Protestors produced nothing of any value to anyone, instead demanding productive people — people who create value for customers, employees, shareholders, and their communities — pay more.
Why should producers listen to demanders when demanders offer nothing of any value to anyone? Are remorseless demands fair? How is demanding things while offering nothing good for a society?
Lots of the towers already exist and are owned by 3rd parties like American Tower. It makes more financial sense for one tower company to rent antenna space to many companies than for comms companies to put up many redundant towers.
Local governments don't control wireless comms.
It’s a line-of-site service. It will eventually be available in rural areas with line of site to a mobile phone tower.
Anyone with wireless spectrum is allowed. Did Google buy spectrum at the spectrum auction?
I'm not the one talking down to people and calling them "ignorant". In truth, "ignorance" is one thing both sides of the climate debate have in common — almost no one on either team understands how climate models work.
You'd think that lack of understanding would lead to some humility when making proclamations about future events. But no. Instead we get people talking out of their ass, repeating phrases they heard, and self-righteously proclaiming future doomsdays.
Instead what we got was record temperature and an astronomical increase in ignorant assholes.
Versus know-it-all assholes who can’t even begin to explain (or understand) how climate models work. But somehow it’s the other guy who's “ignorant”.
The world ended. Didn't you notice?
- All the bees died and there's no food in the stores.
- We all have 5 tropical diseases. My Ebola is really a bummer. Keeps me up at night.
- New York City is underwater and the cast of Cats is anxiously clinging to the top of the Chrysler building, hissing at the rising water.
- Polar bears retreated northward and are now all huddled around Superman's fortress of solitude drinking their last bottles of Coca-Cola.
- Phoenix is so hot they moved their airport underground.
- Everyone in Bangladesh drowned from the rising water. Some of us thought they'd step back from the surf rather than drown, because that's what we would do. But alas, the environmentalists were right.
- Pineapples and bananas are a huge new cash crop in Siberia, but the Ebola everyone has is ruining people's appetite for smoothies.
So, in short, every prediction came true. Even the ones that contradicted the other ones.
Will people ever get tired of mockery and posturing and "them vs. us" nonsense? Aren't we tired of it already?
Involuntary relocation is also very stressful. That stress also results is earlier deaths for some people.
Now it's just called journalism. Almost every story is like this. Some are more subtle about it.
But not Asians. Generational poverty seems to have skipped them. Why do think that happened?
Either Asians randomly outwitted destiny, or there’s something about Asian culture that allows Asians to overcome disadvantages.
How are bugs still possible? That's how security holes are still possible too.
AT&T, Comcast and Verizon have government rights of way that are not granted to others.
Then how about passing "government rights of way" neutrality?