E-books are not books. They are not retail sales of merchandise. An e-book purchase is only a license. Amazon is using monopolistic behavior in e-book licensing to control pricing from publishers to extract monopolistic profits, to secure market share, and to reduce competition where Amazon is able to dictate access to customers who they control through their locked ecosystem. Amazon's ultimate goal is to bypass the publishers altogether, and control the licensing of books from authorship to consumer.
The problem is that the Federal Government over classifies jobs and information. There are lots of people with secret clearance who are not guarding state secrets, but what private companies would simply classify as confidential information. This creates an overly hostile, paranoid work environment where there is a tendency for the security personnel to abuse their power to create fear as an end unto itself.
Fundamentally, municipal fiber is ultimately the answer. It's expensive, but fundamentally necessary, even if we have to use eminent domain to buy it, and eventually shut it down.
You are apparently not the "smartest man in the thread". Enron was up to their eyeballs in manipulating the California energy market, and I blame GWB for allowing it to happen.
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Am I only only person who swears by nano?
Almost like some kind of scientific Nirvana?
Hoper Kanye doesn't see this.
Never truer words spoken. That was such a make-out ride in my teens.
Somehow I get the feeling China is creating there own problem in their push to regional dominance through provocations.
E-books are not books. They are not retail sales of merchandise. An e-book purchase is only a license. Amazon is using monopolistic behavior in e-book licensing to control pricing from publishers to extract monopolistic profits, to secure market share, and to reduce competition where Amazon is able to dictate access to customers who they control through their locked ecosystem. Amazon's ultimate goal is to bypass the publishers altogether, and control the licensing of books from authorship to consumer.
DEA math
I guess she can't leave me without a new sponsor.
I am sticking with Visual Basic 6
The problem is that the Federal Government over classifies jobs and information. There are lots of people with secret clearance who are not guarding state secrets, but what private companies would simply classify as confidential information. This creates an overly hostile, paranoid work environment where there is a tendency for the security personnel to abuse their power to create fear as an end unto itself.
How did he get so funky?
Sorry, I meant to say "buy all the cable" and shut it down.
Fundamentally, municipal fiber is ultimately the answer. It's expensive, but fundamentally necessary, even if we have to use eminent domain to buy it, and eventually shut it down.
No one cares about those channels. They care about the broadband connection since everything will switch to IPTV.
You are apparently not the "smartest man in the thread". Enron was up to their eyeballs in manipulating the California energy market, and I blame GWB for allowing it to happen.
It is the fuel costs that are killing general aviation. That is this largest plane rental cost for the casual pilot.
Think about that. All the pieces in Logic cost a small fortune not too long ago.
I have a large back catalog of 1990's Computer Shopper.
Graffiti should be a capital crime.
Governments don't necessarily value efficiency over other public policy goals which are inherently inefficient.
Android: The OS built from the ground up to spy on you.
Wax cylinders are the way to go. Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow.
BACCE has been around forever, too.
mmmm...steak, onion, and mushrooms with a sprig parsley. What were we talking about?
Live in the US and make $120k/year? That would be my preferred option.