Utilities are fine for phone and electricity because they are mature technologies that don't change much year-to-year.
Really? And what of cable television? What revolutionary new technology has come out since the industry started that forced the retirement of the expensive bits of their infrastructure? The answer, of course, is "none". Many, if not most, of their customers are receiving service over a piece of coax that might be 30+ years old. Sure, the backhauls have been upgraded in a lot of places, just like water mains and electrical distribution lines are from time to time. IP networking is no different. Google knows this and saw the value in an expensive investment in infrastructure. The phone and TV cable monopolies do not. They don't have to. They're monopolies.
How blithely you ignore GP's observation that the xtian god is omniscient. He knew that his law would be broken. So there was absolutely no free will in that exercise. You rather miss the point of that particular piece of scripture. The message is clear, and is repeated throughout the Abrahamic scripture, "You are free to do what you will, but god will punish you if you go against his will." Reading between the lines a bit... "Either god does not care enough about you to remove temptation from you path, or he delights in punishing you when you cross him. Follow this (or that) set of rules and be spared. Don't follow and burn." The "right thing" is never the driver. Punishment is.
Surely, you are being sarcastic and I've just been whooshed. Surely you aren't arguing that personal responsibility has anything at all to do with the tragedy here, because that would just be too fucking stupid. You know, to suggest that the residents would somehow "just know" that an entire mountainside might come down and flatten their houses and kill them.
Fine. I will, because I don't give a shit about superficial things like the CEO's office or the car he drives. Walmart is a parasite on virtually every community in which they operate. Not only are their wages too low for their employees to actually live on, they actively promote the subscription to government services (welfare) by those employees. Privatize the profits and socialize the expenses, and then get some gullible apologist to talk about how "humbler" Walmart's leadership is.
Sure. Why not just take us all out back, put us against the wall, and shoot us? Real responsible attitude, corporate America. What a bunch of fucking jerks. Go ahead, loot and pillage the U.S., what the hell do you care anyway?
Your ire, while wholly appropriate, is misplaced. Corporations exist to make money for their shareholders. That is their highest priority. That is not evil or immoral. It just is what it is. You should be mad as hell at the elected officials who are carrying their (corporate America) water. They do have a moral obligation to look out for the people who elected them, and failures on that count are commonplace.
It would have been nice if someone would have shown some spine here. However, the fact that no one had the balls to stand up to the NSA really doesn't get them off the hook for anything.
I beg to differ... QWest did exactly that. Who's QWest, you say? Now, you're getting it.
We do (need that revolution), but it wont' happen because most people do not, or just refuse, to understand how bad things are. Science is hard, after all. Better to worry about things like abortion and gay marriage.
The most widespread violations of citizen's rights in the history of this nation, practices that have badly damaged the international reputation of the nation in both public and private sectors, appointed officials who have sworn to protect and defend The Constitution patently guilty of criminal behaviro being allowed to tell Congress to, essentially, go fuck itself, and the advice is "form a committtee". Seriously?
Most religion is blind belief. Still it can serve a purpose. If the community says that killing is wrong, then whether it is understood or not, there is a benefit.
Yes, but your implied assertion is that one needs religion in order to understand that killing is wrong. That, of course is nonsense. Some of the most moral people I know are atheists. The most immoral? So-called Christians. And I damn them and their religion because it allows them to wrap their psyches in a cloak of "forgiveness and salvation" despite their sins and their rank hypocrisy. That "purpose" I would rather not see served.
Frankly, I'm more scared of moderators than our government...
You should be more afraid of your government. You should definitely be more afraid of your government than "teh terrorists". Your fear of "teh terrorists" has convinced you to allow your government to do far more harm to our country.
I can personally guarantee* (*worth nothing, not redeemable for anything) that sound studios will not start producing multiple mixes just for the audiophiles.
They already have started, in fact. It's very common for the vinyl edition of an album to be less of a loudness wars catastrophe than the CD or MP3 digital downloads because vinyl customers tend to overlap with audiophiles. Two albums I can name off the top of my head where this was done are R.E.M.'s Accelerate and Rush's Clockwork Angels. After buying the CDs and hearing how they were brickwalled, I was happy to have supported the artist by buying at least something, but then I went to a torrent site, downloaded a vinyl rip and now play that exclusively on my home stereo.
And this sad state of affairs is what's driving Mr. Young to come up with a commercially supported medium to deliver that quality to users who would pay to have it.
I would. I'm tired of ripping vinyl.
Except that in every objective test the iOS devices show a near 0 THD, nearly flat recency response and a nearly perfect dynamic range. While perhaps "technically better" is the case with the Pono, the simple, physical, physiological and demonstrable fact that 100% of humans can not hear the differences
[citation needed]
I'll save you some time. It isn't there. My hearing is not the best but on gear that is capable of reproducing those differences even I can hear them. No, your iThing and Beats headphones do not fall into that category.
And talk about your ignorant lemming liberals following blindly along believing everything they're told.
We hear this often from the drooling ditto-heads on the right, and yet again, nothing to substantiate it. No, "studies" conducted by energy industry shills do not count. Produce credible citations to support your assertion, or STFU.
...should not pontificate about "hackers". OK, I'll spot her the inept use of the term, but aside from that, when it comes to cyber security, Diane McWhorter is clearly an idiot. She uses a public mail server to send her passwords to herself, across the Internet, unecrypted, and it's somebody else's fault when such idiotic stunts result in compromised security?
Ms. McWhorter, It has nothing to do with "glorification". Criminals and miscreants will steal your shit if they can, often just because they can. The motivation doesn't matter. What matters is that they will. What matters even more is that one can, with a few simple steps, drive the likelihood of such a theft down to near zero. So when you fail to take those steps, you are being stupid. Its like never locking your house or your car and then crying foul when someone points out your negligence to you.
This! If I had a dollar for every line of code written by very "productive" coders that was part of an architecture that was actually a nightmare when it comes to scalability, availability, or manageability, I'd have a lot of dollars. There is more to "computer science" than programming; a lot more.
WTF? So AGW is just an unscientific cult, foisted on us by evil scientists? Y'all forgot to include the scientists lying about evolution, and aborshuns, and gay marriage and other things the bible says is true. Talk about your ignorant rednecks...
People need to be educated in a general sense to evaluate this stuff rationally. If you take a bunch of uneducated redneck hicks and have an authority figure tell them how it should be they're going to be suspicious because they don't have the tools to evaluate the claims and for most of their life authority figures have FUCKED them.
And yet..., they will still vote for those same authority figures who simply tell them what they want to hear.
...all the Internets will be Facebook.
On the bright side, though, I can see battles a-brewing over providing even Facebook "enhanced" Internet to oppressed people from the air. Harder to cut that cable, ya know?
All banks are covered by the FDIC. Oh, wait... Make that "real" banks that deal in "regulated" currency. The libertarian fan-boys seem to forget that this kind of BS (MtGox, Flexcoin, etc., not to mention easily manipulated volatility) are exactly the reason why real currency is regulated. You want to play "The Man can't touch my money", fine. Just don't cry to The Man about it when bad things happen.
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Utilities are fine for phone and electricity because they are mature technologies that don't change much year-to-year.
Really? And what of cable television? What revolutionary new technology has come out since the industry started that forced the retirement of the expensive bits of their infrastructure? The answer, of course, is "none". Many, if not most, of their customers are receiving service over a piece of coax that might be 30+ years old. Sure, the backhauls have been upgraded in a lot of places, just like water mains and electrical distribution lines are from time to time. IP networking is no different. Google knows this and saw the value in an expensive investment in infrastructure. The phone and TV cable monopolies do not. They don't have to. They're monopolies.
Two words: free will.
How blithely you ignore GP's observation that the xtian god is omniscient. He knew that his law would be broken. So there was absolutely no free will in that exercise. You rather miss the point of that particular piece of scripture. The message is clear, and is repeated throughout the Abrahamic scripture, "You are free to do what you will, but god will punish you if you go against his will." Reading between the lines a bit... "Either god does not care enough about you to remove temptation from you path, or he delights in punishing you when you cross him. Follow this (or that) set of rules and be spared. Don't follow and burn." The "right thing" is never the driver. Punishment is.
Congratulations on completely missing the irony in GP's post.
Surely, you are being sarcastic and I've just been whooshed. Surely you aren't arguing that personal responsibility has anything at all to do with the tragedy here, because that would just be too fucking stupid. You know, to suggest that the residents would somehow "just know" that an entire mountainside might come down and flatten their houses and kill them.
Bitch about Walmart employees all you want...
Fine. I will, because I don't give a shit about superficial things like the CEO's office or the car he drives. Walmart is a parasite on virtually every community in which they operate. Not only are their wages too low for their employees to actually live on, they actively promote the subscription to government services (welfare) by those employees. Privatize the profits and socialize the expenses, and then get some gullible apologist to talk about how "humbler" Walmart's leadership is.
Sure. Why not just take us all out back, put us against the wall, and shoot us? Real responsible attitude, corporate America. What a bunch of fucking jerks. Go ahead, loot and pillage the U.S., what the hell do you care anyway?
Your ire, while wholly appropriate, is misplaced. Corporations exist to make money for their shareholders. That is their highest priority. That is not evil or immoral. It just is what it is. You should be mad as hell at the elected officials who are carrying their (corporate America) water. They do have a moral obligation to look out for the people who elected them, and failures on that count are commonplace.
It would have been nice if someone would have shown some spine here. However, the fact that no one had the balls to stand up to the NSA really doesn't get them off the hook for anything.
I beg to differ... QWest did exactly that. Who's QWest, you say? Now, you're getting it.
We do (need that revolution), but it wont' happen because most people do not, or just refuse, to understand how bad things are. Science is hard, after all. Better to worry about things like abortion and gay marriage.
The most widespread violations of citizen's rights in the history of this nation, practices that have badly damaged the international reputation of the nation in both public and private sectors, appointed officials who have sworn to protect and defend The Constitution patently guilty of criminal behaviro being allowed to tell Congress to, essentially, go fuck itself, and the advice is "form a committtee". Seriously?
Considering 50 million American out of work. One wonders that American corporations can't invest in American workforces.
Let me make it clear for you... We don't care. Why the fuck should we care?
Regards,
Corportate America
Most religion is blind belief. Still it can serve a purpose. If the community says that killing is wrong, then whether it is understood or not, there is a benefit.
Yes, but your implied assertion is that one needs religion in order to understand that killing is wrong. That, of course is nonsense. Some of the most moral people I know are atheists. The most immoral? So-called Christians. And I damn them and their religion because it allows them to wrap their psyches in a cloak of "forgiveness and salvation" despite their sins and their rank hypocrisy. That "purpose" I would rather not see served.
Frankly, I'm more scared of moderators than our government...
You should be more afraid of your government. You should definitely be more afraid of your government than "teh terrorists". Your fear of "teh terrorists" has convinced you to allow your government to do far more harm to our country.
They already have started, in fact. It's very common for the vinyl edition of an album to be less of a loudness wars catastrophe than the CD or MP3 digital downloads because vinyl customers tend to overlap with audiophiles. Two albums I can name off the top of my head where this was done are R.E.M.'s Accelerate and Rush's Clockwork Angels. After buying the CDs and hearing how they were brickwalled, I was happy to have supported the artist by buying at least something, but then I went to a torrent site, downloaded a vinyl rip and now play that exclusively on my home stereo.
And this sad state of affairs is what's driving Mr. Young to come up with a commercially supported medium to deliver that quality to users who would pay to have it. I would. I'm tired of ripping vinyl.
Except that in every objective test the iOS devices show a near 0 THD, nearly flat recency response and a nearly perfect dynamic range. While perhaps "technically better" is the case with the Pono, the simple, physical, physiological and demonstrable fact that 100% of humans can not hear the differences
[citation needed]
I'll save you some time. It isn't there. My hearing is not the best but on gear that is capable of reproducing those differences even I can hear them. No, your iThing and Beats headphones do not fall into that category.
I challenge any 68 year old rocker to a double blind test to hear the difference between MP3 and Pono.
On gear capable of actually rendering the differences the differences are stark. I bet even you could hear them.
But conversations among liberals or progressives are decidedly 100% anti-gun. "Gather them all up and throw them away"
Holy shit. Stereotype much, asshole?
And talk about your ignorant lemming liberals following blindly along believing everything they're told.
We hear this often from the drooling ditto-heads on the right, and yet again, nothing to substantiate it. No, "studies" conducted by energy industry shills do not count. Produce credible citations to support your assertion, or STFU.
Me? Nothing. Why?
That giant whooshing sound is you not getting what is implied in my italicized question.
...should not pontificate about "hackers". OK, I'll spot her the inept use of the term, but aside from that, when it comes to cyber security, Diane McWhorter is clearly an idiot. She uses a public mail server to send her passwords to herself, across the Internet, unecrypted, and it's somebody else's fault when such idiotic stunts result in compromised security?
Ms. McWhorter, It has nothing to do with "glorification". Criminals and miscreants will steal your shit if they can, often just because they can. The motivation doesn't matter. What matters is that they will. What matters even more is that one can, with a few simple steps, drive the likelihood of such a theft down to near zero. So when you fail to take those steps, you are being stupid. Its like never locking your house or your car and then crying foul when someone points out your negligence to you.
This! If I had a dollar for every line of code written by very "productive" coders that was part of an architecture that was actually a nightmare when it comes to scalability, availability, or manageability, I'd have a lot of dollars. There is more to "computer science" than programming; a lot more.
Same agenda-driven bullshit. Different day. Next.
WTF? So AGW is just an unscientific cult, foisted on us by evil scientists? Y'all forgot to include the scientists lying about evolution, and aborshuns, and gay marriage and other things the bible says is true. Talk about your ignorant rednecks...
People need to be educated in a general sense to evaluate this stuff rationally. If you take a bunch of uneducated redneck hicks and have an authority figure tell them how it should be they're going to be suspicious because they don't have the tools to evaluate the claims and for most of their life authority figures have FUCKED them.
And yet..., they will still vote for those same authority figures who simply tell them what they want to hear.
...all the Internets will be Facebook.
On the bright side, though, I can see battles a-brewing over providing even Facebook "enhanced" Internet to oppressed people from the air. Harder to cut that cable, ya know?
All banks are covered by the FDIC. Oh, wait... Make that "real" banks that deal in "regulated" currency. The libertarian fan-boys seem to forget that this kind of BS (MtGox, Flexcoin, etc., not to mention easily manipulated volatility) are exactly the reason why real currency is regulated. You want to play "The Man can't touch my money", fine. Just don't cry to The Man about it when bad things happen.