I'd agree. That, and if you had a good plan, you got to keep your good plan - even if you did things that would cause AT&T to switch your plan to a worse one.
It just seems odd that AT&T would let a leak stop them from acquiring T-Mobile.
As a very satisfied T-Mobile customer with flat-rate 3G, I'm not going to put it beyond AT&T to try some less-visible route to get rid of the only national carrier that doesn't try to meter data.
Some of us have worked for employers that made the extra hours worth it; that doesn't mean you'll have to exclude large businesses either as well.
How about fixing the overtime law to remove the IT exemption, along with something that makes requirements more reasonable(e.g. if you can't find someone, you're going to be on the hook for directly hiring someone - not as any form of a contractor - and training them as an FTE at full wage)?
Assess taxes on the spot for foreign owned assets, with strict penalties. Your exotic car becomes a liability for you, and an opportunity for the US to seize it.
Same thing for yachts - if it has a foreign flag, be prepared to pay tons for the privlege. Even if you think you can hide in international waters.
Enforce the tax law with zeal and indifference to influence. Then make sure loopholes are closed, and the accountants that find them punished.
Or one could more tightly integrate the IRS with the DoD, while making tax avoidance and corporate/economic scuttling(as practiced by those that deny prosperity - through tax evasion and hiring freezes - until they get their political will) an act of terrorism.
There is no part of the world the US's military cant go and no person they cannot repatriate. Say what you will, but when one wishes to destroy the US economy by threats or acts of offshoring, the US government is obligated to act to halt such activity without regard to jurisdiction.
You can have that when you have businesses committing to a long term (50+ year) presence in good faith and hiring people as-is in the US under the same terms. Otherwise those tax cut promises are empty words.
That is how the whole 1% vs 99% works. And more people becoming millionaires doesn't do anything but make far more people poor.
When opportunity is largely taken away by virtue of things like offshoring and the general contempt of regular, nonbusiness-owning people through things like contracted labor, you are correct.
The damage is done through their influence, not their wealth though. Any perceived expansion of the pie is negated by the influence that converts a dynamic pie into a near-fixed pie.
This just sounds like someone wants to kill the USPS and loot it.
Get rid of the pre-loading of pensions for 75 years as required by Congress, and they'd be a LOT closer to solvent - and no need to have slower packages.
...their government departments(including nominally private organizations like Huawei) and any company's assets within China all deserve to be compromised.
Of course, this won't sit well with the China apologists that will (inevitably) modbomb this - just that China gets too many passes than it really deserves.
Just like Google promised, they were quite open about why they didnt release the Honeycomb source...and no it isn't for Honeycomb - The history is there, but the tags aren't. Add tags to match the released devices globally, and all would be well.
It's nice that a large company actually adheres to its word. It's easy to do it when you're opaque.
Jean-Baptiste Queru: "I do not intend to globally tag Honeycomb releases, but I will consider tagging 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 in frameworks/base so that application developers can match the code that's running on devices."
(IMHO, not good enough to not release the entire platform.)
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That, and it has run on a wider range of IBM's own hardware versus Solaris and SPARC.
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Given how much they've done negatively to OpenSolaris (taking it from developer-friendly to "we don't care how many people get compromised, we're not going to hand out security updates without a large-fee contract", Oracle's made it worse than AIX.
It if allows unchecked code, it doesn't appear to be that much different than the previous version aside from version differences.
Hopefully it has no restrictions on what code can be done, thus being as full of an unlock as the previous one was. Otherwise it still makes ChevronWP7 another "embrace, extend, extinguish" job.
Given how Microsoft has handled Nokia, the name is quite fitting. Microsoft hasn't acquired Nokia permanently, they just have bought them a night at a time.
As another owner of the N900 and N770 tablet, I'd agree.
Get familiar with soldering the USB port legs on better when the warranty is out. If that isn't possible, find someone who will. While you can use the alternate ports for charging and data, it is not recommended.
The N900 is probably one of the rarest combinations around for having:
Full control out of the box: add rootsh or enable r&d mode. Massive storage for its time: 32GB EMMC + 1GB memory + SDHC slot. USB host for more if you use a custom kernel. Globally available unlocked: Buy the phone, worry about finding a GSM/3G carrier later. Carrier unfriendly: Customizable down to the level where carriers have trouble telling if you're tethering.
The N9 might be nice, but they missed it on a couple of critical places.
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I'd agree. That, and if you had a good plan, you got to keep your good plan - even if you did things that would cause AT&T to switch your plan to a worse one.
It just seems odd that AT&T would let a leak stop them from acquiring T-Mobile.
As a very satisfied T-Mobile customer with flat-rate 3G, I'm not going to put it beyond AT&T to try some less-visible route to get rid of the only national carrier that doesn't try to meter data.
Some of us have worked for employers that made the extra hours worth it; that doesn't mean you'll have to exclude large businesses either as well.
How about fixing the overtime law to remove the IT exemption, along with something that makes requirements more reasonable(e.g. if you can't find someone, you're going to be on the hook for directly hiring someone - not as any form of a contractor - and training them as an FTE at full wage)?
When you treat people like second-class citizens by making them contracted labor, especially in IT, this shouldn't be a surprise.
You forgot one of their old slogans that still applies to Verizon, and would apply to Netflix.
Instead of having flat-rate streaming movies, it's an add-on that dings you per movie.
Assess taxes on the spot for foreign owned assets, with strict penalties. Your exotic car becomes a liability for you, and an opportunity for the US to seize it.
Same thing for yachts - if it has a foreign flag, be prepared to pay tons for the privlege. Even if you think you can hide in international waters.
Enforce the tax law with zeal and indifference to influence. Then make sure loopholes are closed, and the accountants that find them punished.
Or one could more tightly integrate the IRS with the DoD, while making tax avoidance and corporate/economic scuttling(as practiced by those that deny prosperity - through tax evasion and hiring freezes - until they get their political will) an act of terrorism.
There is no part of the world the US's military cant go and no person they cannot repatriate. Say what you will, but when one wishes to destroy the US economy by threats or acts of offshoring, the US government is obligated to act to halt such activity without regard to jurisdiction.
You can have that when you have businesses committing to a long term (50+ year) presence in good faith and hiring people as-is in the US under the same terms. Otherwise those tax cut promises are empty words.
That is how the whole 1% vs 99% works. And more people becoming millionaires doesn't do anything but make far more people poor.
When opportunity is largely taken away by virtue of things like offshoring and the general contempt of regular, nonbusiness-owning people through things like contracted labor, you are correct.
The damage is done through their influence, not their wealth though. Any perceived expansion of the pie is negated by the influence that converts a dynamic pie into a near-fixed pie.
That doesnt mean you treat the people on top like deities while treating regular US citizens with contempt.
You'd be compounding the problem given that they aren't known for quality.
...when you overly optimize for business friendliness. Perhaps moving everything to the Third World was a bad idea after all.
Looks like you forgot about the "public service" bit.
This just sounds like someone wants to kill the USPS and loot it.
Get rid of the pre-loading of pensions for 75 years as required by Congress, and they'd be a LOT closer to solvent - and no need to have slower packages.
...their government departments(including nominally private organizations like Huawei) and any company's assets within China all deserve to be compromised.
Of course, this won't sit well with the China apologists that will (inevitably) modbomb this - just that China gets too many passes than it really deserves.
Just like Google promised, they were quite open about why they didnt release the Honeycomb source ...and no it isn't for Honeycomb - The history is there, but the tags aren't. Add tags to match the released devices globally, and all would be well.
It's nice that a large company actually adheres to its word.
It's easy to do it when you're opaque.
From the discussion :
Jean-Baptiste Queru:
"I do not intend to globally tag Honeycomb releases, but I will
consider tagging 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 in frameworks/base so that
application developers can match the code that's running on devices."
(IMHO, not good enough to not release the entire platform.)
That, and it has run on a wider range of IBM's own hardware versus Solaris and SPARC.
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Given how much they've done negatively to OpenSolaris (taking it from developer-friendly to "we don't care how many people get compromised, we're not going to hand out security updates without a large-fee contract", Oracle's made it worse than AIX.
It if allows unchecked code, it doesn't appear to be that much different than the previous version aside from version differences.
Hopefully it has no restrictions on what code can be done, thus being as full of an unlock as the previous one was. Otherwise it still makes ChevronWP7 another "embrace, extend, extinguish" job.
It couldn't be someone who has an axe to grind on Android phones, no?
Given their ways of being against their own citizens, as well as actively hacking those in the developed world, blacklist them as well.
That's the truth, despite what modbombing you might try.
Given how Microsoft has handled Nokia, the name is quite fitting. Microsoft hasn't acquired Nokia permanently, they just have bought them a night at a time.
As another owner of the N900 and N770 tablet, I'd agree.
Get familiar with soldering the USB port legs on better when the warranty is out. If that isn't possible, find someone who will. While you can use the alternate ports for charging and data, it is not recommended.
The N900 is probably one of the rarest combinations around for having:
Full control out of the box: add rootsh or enable r&d mode.
Massive storage for its time: 32GB EMMC + 1GB memory + SDHC slot. USB host for more if you use a custom kernel.
Globally available unlocked: Buy the phone, worry about finding a GSM/3G carrier later.
Carrier unfriendly: Customizable down to the level where carriers have trouble telling if you're tethering.
The N9 might be nice, but they missed it on a couple of critical places.