THIS IS NOT WITHIN A LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S JURISDICTION!!
The FCC regulates radio spectrum and the Internet, because both are Interstate services.
Local laws making bandwidth stealing a crime will also likely get overturned in federal court.
There's something in this country called the SEPARATION OF POWERS. It gives the federal government the right to regulate: "Interstate Commerce". Since radio waves don't respect state boundaries, courts have determined they are INTERSTATE in nature!!
The Internet has also been defined as an Interstate service.
Local Govts have NO RIGHT to regulate EITHER of these! Recently, Florida passed a law making the operation of a pirate radio station within the state a felony. It WILL be struck down by the first appeal of any conviction. Why? AGAIN, because the states DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to regulate Interstate Commerce!!
The FCC is one of the most politically corrupt Govt. divisions. They literally bend over for large companies and law firms. I personally have seen them apply the same rules two opposite ways in two identical situations.
The NAB is one of the biggest lobbiests (read: BRIBERS) out there. The MPAA and RIAA are right up there too.
Don't expect the FCC to EVER come down on the side of the consumer in anything - they never do!
I've always thought that nuclear power was viable, but NOT the way it has been done in the past in the USA. Too many types of plants, most stick built and one of a kind.
I'd prefer the way that France does it, where there's many smaller reactors, all the same type. This way spare parts are always available "off the shelf" and there's always a pool of well trained plant operators.
One big problem though is disposing of nuclear waste. Trucking it across the country to Nevada is NOT a good plan to dispose of these.
What really bothers me about all this is the President's "F**k the laws, I have a job to do" attitude. How is this any different then the attitudes of the terrorists?
We've all heard the saying: "Two wrongs don't make a right". Hasn't the Bush adminstration?
The United States is a nation of LAWS...So many of you constantly remind us of that fact whenever p2p is mentioned here...yet many of these same people believe that our President has the right to IGNORE laws he doesn't want to follow.
I PAY for a certian speed Internet service (Pay too much by the way - Eirope and Asia pay MUCH LESS for BETTER service!).
NOW, my ISP (who AGAIN I remind you, already GETS A CHECK from me every month for 3000/768 Internet service), wants to be PAID EXTRA for my being able to use VOIP or Google at the speed for which I'm ALREADY PAYING FOR?
If that be the case, then WHY should I be charged at all? How is this any different then Verizon changing my friends for calls I make to THEM from my UNLIMITED PHONE SERVICE?
The Republicans want to regulate the PEOPLE to death!
They want to insert themselves into what we read, what we see on TV or listen to on the radio, our private discussions and/or proceedures between us and our medical care givers and lawyers.
They want to bug our telephone conversations, look at what books we buy or borrow from the library (and also decide what books the library can loan us!), monitor our banking transactions, monitor whate we go (via GPS in our cell phones), issue us a national ID card ("Your PAPERS, pleeeasse!") and on and on ad nauseum!
Finally, let's not forget that they want to be able to jail us without charge and/or access to a lawyer.....
Seems to me that the only ones that they want to deregulate are big corporations...the rest of us are already feeling the crush of their black leather boot on our throats!
I already HAVE and PAY FOR a high speed Internet connection! What right does my ISP have to throttle it DOWN for those companies who won't pay their "double dip" protection money?
Seriously though, how is this any different them paying the local criminal gang "Protection money"? I mean we already HAVE the police to "protect us", so why should we have to pay someone else?
Answer: Because if you DON'T pay them, they burn your store down!
Therefore, this it NO DIFFERENT then that, simply because Google and I both already PAY our ISP's for Internet service!! Now my ISP literally wants wants: "Protection money" to 'protect' the packets I've already paid for.
If the Mafia or the Bloods and Crips do this, the Govt. busts them. If big business does it the Govt. apparently PROTECTS and ENCOURAGES them!
Like I said earlier: "We have the best Govt. that money can buy!
For example, let's say you have Verizon DSL and want to use Google. If Google doesn't pay Verizon their 'blood money" that 3000/768 connection you have will CREAW when you try to use Google.
Get it? Verizon waznts to be paid TWICE - once by you (for YOUR service) and again by Google (for sending Googel to YOU).
If I remember, about a year ago here on Slashdot, I read about a DSL ISP who got busted by the FCC for doing exactly this. They got fined a heap of money.
I pay for Internet and WANT Internet, NOT just port 80 for web browsing.
So Far both Cox and Verizon DSL do NOT block VOIP - a good thing for me, as I have both of them.
I bought an e machines Sempron 3300 machine just before Chrietmas that's as least as good as this one in every way - for $284.00 with a $50.00 dollar rebate (Final price $234.00 INCLUDING Mass sales tax!).
I could have bought TWO of these e machines for what they want for one of these.
Today, Dell has a high end desktop for $599.00 and that INCLUDES a 19 inch
8 ms LCD monitor.
Also, HP has machines on sale all the time that run close to half the price of this one.
Maybe we should be a better EXAMPLE to these people. I mean, on one hand we tell them how great democracy is, while at the same time the rich SCREW everyone else here! On one hand we tell then how much freedom we have here, but on the other hand we take AWAY freedoms every day.
The saying: "Every boy can be President" is complete, utter BULLSHIT...and everyone in the world knows that the USA lives on GREED! The USA is run by hypocrites, that were elected by special interest groups while most voters stay home apathetically watching HBO off their Satellite dishes and hoping that "Big Brother" just leaves them alone...
Prehaps if we actually LIVED what we CLAIMED, we'd have more credibility with others...but of course, our Govt. has enough problems getting cerdibility with it's own citizens these days!
Right now, the chip maker that's coming on strong is AMD! In a few years, INTEL might well be the also ran - and Skype with them!
I used to work for a radio station in Boston. The promotions director set up our station as the OFFICIAL radio station of HQ Hardware (does anyone remember them?). In the manager's meeting, I mentioned that there was a new up and coming mega hardware store called Home Depot. I was told that I knew nothing about promotions and that Home Depot was irrelevant compared to HQ.
NOW..12 years later BOTH HQ and this station are gone - having become completely irrelevant themselves.
Never hook yourself up with a "leader" if there's an up and comer right on their tail...that's what I say!
George W. Bush is one of the biggest control freaks I have ever seen! None of this surprises me. If he had his way, he'd be known as: "King George the First".
ANYTHING the Govt. gets involved with WILL be screwed up! This particular mess is being handled by the FCC and Congress. The FCC is probably the single most incompetant of all the federal agencies. I work in radio, and a 15 year old could manage spectrum better then these clowns do! Congress is not much better, since they've had a "FOR SALE" sign hanging at the front door of the Capitol Building since the Republicans took over in the mid '90's.
I worked on a laptop that belonged to the 48 Year old married Sales Manager of a radio Station I used to work for. She was complaining that it was very slow and it also slowed down her cable Internet connection when it was on at her home.
I found about 30 gigabytes of porn on it. Almost 3/4 of the HD was porno. There was quite a bit of kiddie porn there too. Somehow she had gotten a Trojan Horse on her computer and it had turned the laptop into a porn server. The reason her connection was so slow at home was that her machine was downloading porn to the perp!
Since then, I've NEVER assumed ANYTHING about any computer!
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The FCC regulates radio spectrum and the Internet, because both are Interstate services.
Local laws making bandwidth stealing a crime will also likely get overturned in federal court.There's something in this country called the SEPARATION OF POWERS. It gives the federal government the right to regulate: "Interstate Commerce". Since radio waves don't respect state boundaries, courts have determined they are INTERSTATE in nature!!
The Internet has also been defined as an Interstate service.Local Govts have NO RIGHT to regulate EITHER of these! Recently, Florida passed a law making the operation of a pirate radio station within the state a felony. It WILL be struck down by the first appeal of any conviction. Why? AGAIN, because the states DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to regulate Interstate Commerce!!
Don't expect the FCC to EVER come down on the side of the consumer in anything - they never do!
I'd prefer the way that France does it, where there's many smaller reactors, all the same type. This way spare parts are always available "off the shelf" and there's always a pool of well trained plant operators.
One big problem though is disposing of nuclear waste. Trucking it across the country to Nevada is NOT a good plan to dispose of these.We've all heard the saying: "Two wrongs don't make a right". Hasn't the Bush adminstration?
The United States is a nation of LAWS...So many of you constantly remind us of that fact whenever p2p is mentioned here...yet many of these same people believe that our President has the right to IGNORE laws he doesn't want to follow.Why
NOW, my ISP (who AGAIN I remind you, already GETS A CHECK from me every month for 3000/768 Internet service), wants to be PAID EXTRA for my being able to use VOIP or Google at the speed for which I'm ALREADY PAYING FOR?
If that be the case, then WHY should I be charged at all? How is this any different then Verizon changing my friends for calls I make to THEM from my UNLIMITED PHONE SERVICE?They want to insert themselves into what we read, what we see on TV or listen to on the radio, our private discussions and/or proceedures between us and our medical care givers and lawyers.
They want to bug our telephone conversations, look at what books we buy or borrow from the library (and also decide what books the library can loan us!), monitor our banking transactions, monitor whate we go (via GPS in our cell phones), issue us a national ID card ("Your PAPERS, pleeeasse!") and on and on ad nauseum!Finally, let's not forget that they want to be able to jail us without charge and/or access to a lawyer.....
Seems to me that the only ones that they want to deregulate are big corporations...the rest of us are already feeling the crush of their black leather boot on our throats!Seriously though, how is this any different them paying the local criminal gang "Protection money"? I mean we already HAVE the police to "protect us", so why should we have to pay someone else?
Answer: Because if you DON'T pay them, they burn your store down!Therefore, this it NO DIFFERENT then that, simply because Google and I both already PAY our ISP's for Internet service!! Now my ISP literally wants wants: "Protection money" to 'protect' the packets I've already paid for.
If the Mafia or the Bloods and Crips do this, the Govt. busts them. If big business does it the Govt. apparently PROTECTS and ENCOURAGES them!Like I said earlier: "We have the best Govt. that money can buy!
Seems to me that WE'RE becoming the very same: "Big bad bully" as we claimed the USSR was back in the '60's and '70's.
For example, let's say you have Verizon DSL and want to use Google. If Google doesn't pay Verizon their 'blood money" that 3000/768 connection you have will CREAW when you try to use Google.
Get it? Verizon waznts to be paid TWICE - once by you (for YOUR service) and again by Google (for sending Googel to YOU).Here in the United States, we have the best government that money can buy!
In other words, to SPY on United States citizens... Tell me, how long until some guy begins walking up to all of us asking: "YOUR PapEERS PLLeese?!"
AM: 32K bit
They use a codec similar to AAC.If I remember, about a year ago here on Slashdot, I read about a DSL ISP who got busted by the FCC for doing exactly this. They got fined a heap of money. I pay for Internet and WANT Internet, NOT just port 80 for web browsing. So Far both Cox and Verizon DSL do NOT block VOIP - a good thing for me, as I have both of them.
I bought an e machines Sempron 3300 machine just before Chrietmas that's as least as good as this one in every way - for $284.00 with a $50.00 dollar rebate (Final price $234.00 INCLUDING Mass sales tax!). I could have bought TWO of these e machines for what they want for one of these. Today, Dell has a high end desktop for $599.00 and that INCLUDES a 19 inch 8 ms LCD monitor. Also, HP has machines on sale all the time that run close to half the price of this one.
I own the RI franchise and the program is great.
The saying: "Every boy can be President" is complete, utter BULLSHIT...and everyone in the world knows that the USA lives on GREED! The USA is run by hypocrites, that were elected by special interest groups while most voters stay home apathetically watching HBO off their Satellite dishes and hoping that "Big Brother" just leaves them alone...
Prehaps if we actually LIVED what we CLAIMED, we'd have more credibility with others...but of course, our Govt. has enough problems getting cerdibility with it's own citizens these days!Yeah..and I'll bet that THEIR little dicks were hard during this fiasco!
I worked for these guys from 2002-2003 and asked how they could be accesting radio spots for offshore gambling. They told me to mind my business, and ultimately fired me. Now look at what happened to these clowns! http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060120/pl_usnw/past _promotion_of_illegal_gambling_costs_the_sporting_ news7_2_million__says_u_s__attorney210_xml
Right now, the chip maker that's coming on strong is AMD! In a few years, INTEL might well be the also ran - and Skype with them! I used to work for a radio station in Boston. The promotions director set up our station as the OFFICIAL radio station of HQ Hardware (does anyone remember them?). In the manager's meeting, I mentioned that there was a new up and coming mega hardware store called Home Depot. I was told that I knew nothing about promotions and that Home Depot was irrelevant compared to HQ. NOW..12 years later BOTH HQ and this station are gone - having become completely irrelevant themselves. Never hook yourself up with a "leader" if there's an up and comer right on their tail...that's what I say!
They're done.....
The man is purely evil.
Please give us the name of the firm so we can Slashdot their site off the web and overload their phone system into oblivion! Nasty assholes!
ANYTHING the Govt. gets involved with WILL be screwed up! This particular mess is being handled by the FCC and Congress. The FCC is probably the single most incompetant of all the federal agencies. I work in radio, and a 15 year old could manage spectrum better then these clowns do! Congress is not much better, since they've had a "FOR SALE" sign hanging at the front door of the Capitol Building since the Republicans took over in the mid '90's.
If I were a farmer, I'd be suing Monsanto for trashing MY crops with THEIR GM seeds!
I found about 30 gigabytes of porn on it. Almost 3/4 of the HD was porno. There was quite a bit of kiddie porn there too. Somehow she had gotten a Trojan Horse on her computer and it had turned the laptop into a porn server. The reason her connection was so slow at home was that her machine was downloading porn to the perp!
Since then, I've NEVER assumed ANYTHING about any computer!