*Net Neutrality and the eBay Community: A Call to Action*
As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a request to get involved in a debate in the U.S. Congress. However, today I feel I must.
Right now, the telephone and cable companies in control of Internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the Internet. It might be hard to believe, but lawmakers in Washington are seriously debating whether consumers should be free to use the Internet as they want in the future.
The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of dollars to promote legislation that would divide the Internet into a two-tiered system.
The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.
The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.
Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and inspiration that come with them.
The power belongs with Internet users, not the big phone and cable companies. Let's use that power to send as many messages as possible to our elected officials in Washington. Please join me by clicking here right now to send a message to your representatives in Congress before it is too late. You can make the difference.
Thank you for reading this note. I hope you'll make your voice heard today.
Sincerely,
Meg Whitman President and CEO eBay Inc.
P.S. If you have any questions about this issue, please contact us at government_relations@ebay.com .
the only way we'll go back 2 the moon is if the democrats realize that the _only_ name at the top of _every_ LDM plaque is none other than RMNixon...can't have that eternal monument;-)
>the number of people to whom the internment of Japanese during World War is an issue is rapidly diminishing.
while that was an egregious violation of human rights, i'd like to point out what might have happened had fdr_not_done that...no, not sabotage...
it's far more likely that many jap-ams et al would have been lynched by mobs, as happened during ww1 to germans: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/1/
the internment camps were most definitely not death camps on the nazi model: to call them concentration camps is a ignorant if not outright bigoted slur...
i'm not aware of any deaths due to fdr's relocation camps (to spin it the other way;-) more like protective custody, a lesser of 2 evils (which doesn't reflect highly on the nativist majority)-:
wurd & xL run ok, but my canon scanner s/w won't install on my hfs+ case-sensitive f/s:-(installs fine on a case-insens hfs+ machine) but i would blame m$ for case-insensitive mindset that bred the canon installer:-P
he also exploited scare tactics: at county fairs he plugged a dc generator into a pen of sheep w/o harm, then plugged in an alternator: fried mutton;-) but that gave states the idea to execute prisoners w/ ac...
back then electrocution wasn't a word, so they used the name of the alternator's manufacturer, giving rise to their famous ad line:
i remember when the republican colorcode was blue & the dems were red (as in commie;-) but at some time the media reversed the coding...so when u point out that clinton:
>(a) recognizing that deficits matter,
this was traditionally a republican complaint when the dems ran congress...
>(b)making the politically hard choice to raise taxes in 1993
this was always the dems s.o.p;-)
>(c) holding the line on overall spending
again, something the repubs always moaned about the dems not doing...
maybe the color-coding reversal was an acknowledgement of the new reality;-}
never had the plea$ure of using a large format camera, betabug;-) nothin like an 8x10 contact print 4 detail, tho;-) i've got an old 2.25 bronica, but no t&s there...and i sure do miss kodachrome25;-)
otoh, i'm trying 2 get panotools working on osx...that's the closest i'm gonna get 2 perspective correction...
and then there's hdr...i'm sure depth of field could b synthesized just as multiple exposures can b combined...
large format cameras usually do allow perspective correction & depth of field control, since they usually have a bellows between the lens & film, and both of those can be tilted & shifted: putting the film plane parallel to the from of the building, then shifting the lens to make the image fall back on center...
but t&s is not limited to large & medium format cameras...canon made a t&s lens for its 35mm line.
my priorities have changed: i only listen to live music anymore, and only zydeco 4 dancin;-)
the ability 2 record sound (& pictures, 4 that matter) fundamentally changed everything: local musicians could no longer make a living, music became ubiquitous instead of being something special shared between people: we now experience it with a machine.
well, my 1st unix project (after several yrs on vms...now_that_was a developers' environment:-) was on a configuration mgmt system(yup, reinventing the wheel...ur tax $$$ @ work;-)
so this cms aped the dec editor's auto-incrementing versioning system: filename;0 specified the latest version, but unlike the vax system, checking in a new version resulted in the previous version zero being renumbered 1, prev.#1->2, etc.
this meant that checkpointing on a particular version number was impossible: the numbers constantly changed:-P
so during a team meeting where us new members were introduced to this brilliant design, i said what moron came up with this???
it was the project manager's, who was conducting the meeting;-}
but i outlasted him on the project;-)
and as a _citizen_ i have the constitutional right to self-defense. but then u sorry _subjects_ don't have a constitution, now, do u?;-)
"it sez raht there in the connnnnnnn-stitution
it's really a-ok to have a reh-volution
when the leaders that u choose
really don't fit the shoes" --brewer&shipley
dunno if the frats @ lehigh still have bedraces, but i helped build & test the 1st go-kart style bed;-) most frats just stuck bicycle wheels on a bedframe, steering by yanking it around turns. since the only requirement was a 'mattress', we gutted a little one & rolled the cover up behind the seat;-)
lehigh's campus is on a hill, although the race didn't have much of a downhill run, i of course had 2 test it from the top;-) @ nite, of course, the better 2 c oncoming cars around the hairpin turns...where i discovered the short wheelbase gave it spectacular oversteer;-)
military/naval culture evolved over the millennia into its sexist, homophobic state for exactly this reason (alexander the great notwithstanding;-) and recent social-engineering to change that culture is doomed:-(
i'm not opposed 2 women & gays in the military, but putting 18 y.o.s together in close quarters will result in pregnancies - duh! not 2 conducive to the mission...is it any wonder the superstition against women on ships arose? (xref: garcia's cover of 'handsome cabin boy';-)
reminds me of a gas-pump short-volume scam: the pump had been rigged to deliver less than a full gallon. of course people would eventually notice, and the gummint gas-pump inspector guy would come out & take samples.
and he would always find that the pumps were dead-accurate...wtf???
seems the scammers knew that the inpectors always took some specific volume: 1 gal., 5, whatever, and coded the pump to deliver those volumes accurately;-);-);-)
i think what u r talking about is the rural/urban dichotomy: few (sub)urban dwellers know anything about how anything works, from food (if it's not in the store...) to hot water (call the super;-)
and now humanity's reached the point where more people live in cities/urban areas than outside...reminds me of an old sci-fi novel (title/author lost in the mists;-) about humanity living exclusively in mega-towers...
my 512mb/1.25mhz/15" aL pbook has been swapping like mad; sometimes an app would just hang for minutes at a time:-(
i did notice that i had frequent mds activity, and i remember a warning about a problem w/incomplete indexing if the machine was rebooted b4 indexing was finished, so i turned spotlight off, and it does seem to be much better...
next i'm gonna try re-enabling spotlight & let it finish...
"Scholarships, in the merit-based sense, do not substantially exist at...most top schools."
r.r. was just on npr this a.m. stating that most schools have largely abandoned needs-based discounts (aka: scholarships;-) for the express purpose of competing for "star students" to boost their usn&wr ranking...
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*Net Neutrality and the eBay Community: A Call to Action*
As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a request to get involved in a debate in the U.S. Congress. However, today I feel I must.
Right now, the telephone and cable companies in control of Internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the Internet. It might be hard to believe, but lawmakers in Washington are seriously debating whether consumers should be free to use the Internet as they want in the future.
The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of dollars to promote legislation that would divide the Internet into a two-tiered system.
The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.
The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.
Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and inspiration that come with them.
The power belongs with Internet users, not the big phone and cable companies. Let's use that power to send as many messages as possible to our elected officials in Washington. Please join me by clicking here right now to send a message to your representatives in Congress before it is too late. You can make the difference.
Thank you for reading this note. I hope you'll make your voice heard today.
Sincerely,
Meg Whitman
President and CEO
eBay Inc.
P.S. If you have any questions about this issue, please contact us at government_relations@ebay.com .
the only way we'll go back 2 the moon is if the democrats realize that the _only_ name at the top of _every_ LDM plaque is none other than RMNixon...can't have that eternal monument;-)
sorta like the pot calling the kettle black;-)
while that was an egregious violation of human rights, i'd like to point out what might have happened had fdr_not_done that...no, not sabotage...
it's far more likely that many jap-ams et al would have been lynched by mobs, as happened during ww1 to germans: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/1/
the internment camps were most definitely not death camps on the nazi model: to call them concentration camps is a ignorant if not outright bigoted slur...
i'm not aware of any deaths due to fdr's relocation camps (to spin it the other way;-) more like protective custody, a lesser of 2 evils (which doesn't reflect highly on the nativist majority)-:
hell, remember the ridiculous grainless blow-uops in the _movie_ blow up?
otoh, i remember seeing microscopic enlargements of kodachrome (II, not 25;-) slides in pop.photog/whatever a looooong time ago...
let the finder hide reality from the user, but give me the bits...
wurd & xL run ok, but my canon scanner s/w won't install on my hfs+ case-sensitive f/s:-(installs fine on a case-insens hfs+ machine) but i would blame m$ for case-insensitive mindset that bred the canon installer:-P
"ice melting due to warming"
c le/2006/03/02/AR2006030201712.html
actual subhead in friday's dead-tree version of http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
i'll scan it when i get home;-)
he also exploited scare tactics: at county fairs he plugged a dc generator into a pen of sheep w/o harm, then plugged in an alternator: fried mutton;-) but that gave states the idea to execute prisoners w/ ac...
;-);-);-)
back then electrocution wasn't a word, so they used the name of the alternator's manufacturer, giving rise to their famous ad line:
"you can be sure if it's westinghoused"
i remember when the republican colorcode was blue & the dems were red (as in commie;-) but at some time the media reversed the coding...so when u point out that clinton:
>(a) recognizing that deficits matter,
this was traditionally a republican complaint when the dems ran congress...
>(b)making the politically hard choice to raise taxes in 1993
this was always the dems s.o.p;-)
>(c) holding the line on overall spending
again, something the repubs always moaned about the dems not doing...
maybe the color-coding reversal was an acknowledgement of the new reality;-}
i vaguely recall a sci-fi story about the post-spaceage future, when spaceflight had 2 b abandoned due 2 the lethal amount of space junk...
never had the plea$ure of using a large format camera, betabug;-) nothin like an 8x10 contact print 4 detail, tho;-) i've got an old 2.25 bronica, but no t&s there...and i sure do miss kodachrome25;-) otoh, i'm trying 2 get panotools working on osx...that's the closest i'm gonna get 2 perspective correction... and then there's hdr...i'm sure depth of field could b synthesized just as multiple exposures can b combined...
large format cameras usually do allow perspective correction & depth of field control, since they usually have a bellows between the lens & film, and both of those can be tilted & shifted: putting the film plane parallel to the from of the building, then shifting the lens to make the image fall back on center...
but t&s is not limited to large & medium format cameras...canon made a t&s lens for its 35mm line.
i am totally embarassed by behe;-}
my priorities have changed: i only listen to live music anymore, and only zydeco 4 dancin;-)
the ability 2 record sound (& pictures, 4 that matter) fundamentally changed everything: local musicians could no longer make a living, music became ubiquitous instead of being something special shared between people: we now experience it with a machine.
and we wonder why people feel aleinated...
well, my 1st unix project (after several yrs on vms...now_that_was a developers' environment:-) was on a configuration mgmt system(yup, reinventing the wheel...ur tax $$$ @ work;-) so this cms aped the dec editor's auto-incrementing versioning system: filename;0 specified the latest version, but unlike the vax system, checking in a new version resulted in the previous version zero being renumbered 1, prev.#1->2, etc. this meant that checkpointing on a particular version number was impossible: the numbers constantly changed:-P so during a team meeting where us new members were introduced to this brilliant design, i said what moron came up with this??? it was the project manager's, who was conducting the meeting;-} but i outlasted him on the project;-)
and as a _citizen_ i have the constitutional right to self-defense. but then u sorry _subjects_ don't have a constitution, now, do u?;-)
"it sez raht there in the connnnnnnn-stitution
it's really a-ok to have a reh-volution
when the leaders that u choose
really don't fit the shoes"
--brewer&shipley
dunno if the frats @ lehigh still have bedraces, but i helped build & test the 1st go-kart style bed;-) most frats just stuck bicycle wheels on a bedframe, steering by yanking it around turns. since the only requirement was a 'mattress', we gutted a little one & rolled the cover up behind the seat;-)
lehigh's campus is on a hill, although the race didn't have much of a downhill run, i of course had 2 test it from the top;-) @ nite, of course, the better 2 c oncoming cars around the hairpin turns...where i discovered the short wheelbase gave it spectacular oversteer;-)
it rilly should b .mbl
abbreviations always toss vowels...isn't hebrew like that?
military/naval culture evolved over the millennia into its sexist, homophobic state for exactly this reason (alexander the great notwithstanding;-) and recent social-engineering to change that culture is doomed:-(
i'm not opposed 2 women & gays in the military, but putting 18 y.o.s together in close quarters will result in pregnancies - duh! not 2 conducive to the mission...is it any wonder the superstition against women on ships arose? (xref: garcia's cover of 'handsome cabin boy';-)
reminds me of a gas-pump short-volume scam: the pump had been rigged to deliver less than a full gallon. of course people would eventually notice, and the gummint gas-pump inspector guy would come out & take samples.
and he would always find that the pumps were dead-accurate...wtf???
seems the scammers knew that the inpectors always took some specific volume: 1 gal., 5, whatever, and coded the pump to deliver those volumes accurately;-);-);-)
i think what u r talking about is the rural/urban dichotomy: few (sub)urban dwellers know anything about how anything works, from food (if it's not in the store...) to hot water (call the super;-)
and now humanity's reached the point where more people live in cities/urban areas than outside...reminds me of an old sci-fi novel (title/author lost in the mists;-) about humanity living exclusively in mega-towers...
my 512mb/1.25mhz/15" aL pbook has been swapping like mad; sometimes an app would just hang for minutes at a time:-(
i did notice that i had frequent mds activity, and i remember a warning about a problem w/incomplete indexing if the machine was rebooted b4 indexing was finished, so i turned spotlight off, and it does seem to be much better...
next i'm gonna try re-enabling spotlight & let it finish...
"Scholarships, in the merit-based sense, do not substantially exist at...most top schools." r.r. was just on npr this a.m. stating that most schools have largely abandoned needs-based discounts (aka: scholarships;-) for the express purpose of competing for "star students" to boost their usn&wr ranking...
sorry 2 feed a troll, but x3.8 works just fine on a 300mHz G3 clamshell:-)