Google and Facebook have deep pockets. If NN is really important to them now's the time to put up or shut up.
But as for nerds moving on, we're in the same boat as most Americans: Worried about our jobs or our shrinking paychecks if we've got jobs. It's hard to focus on anything else. Even those of us that're doing OK need to understand that issues like NN get swamped out by the shear number of folks struggling economically. That's why you don't abandon anyone to the whims of fate. If you leave folks high and dry a demagogue will come along, organize them and turn them against you. It's why after WWII we rebuilt Japan and Europe instead of extracting tribute. It saved us money in the long run. And that run wasn't even that long.
the phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" was popularized by right wing think tanks trying to demonize help from the government. There is no teacher alive that wouldn't tell the mayor to go pound sand if asked if this was a good idea. If they wanted to help they could spend more on consoling services.
No, this is pure evil. The question is what, specific evil prompted it? I'd genuinely like to know. And I hop the folks in Chicago figure it out so they can shut it down and maybe vote the clown out that suggested this.
the lie is that the fixed costs necessity bandwidth caps. Given the enormous profitability of Internet and the massive government subsidies on top of those profits it's clear that it does not. The subtext to your original comment is that bandwidth caps are acceptable because costs must be contained. A bit of knowledge at the costs involved shows that to be false. And that's before we talk about stuff like network speed, QoS, throttling options and advanced network techniques. We're being had. And it's really, really obvious.
it's cheaper to have them internet accessible. That's the basic problem with nuclear power. It's perfectly safe if you take all necessary precautions. But sooner or later some small government types come in, convince everyone they can cut their taxes by being every so much more efficient as a private company, take over and find running a nuke plant is _hard_. Like, really hard; and finally they start cutting corners and running the plants longer than they're supposed to.
Until you can convince upwards to 90% of the population that having a nuclear power plant run by the lowest bidder is a bad idea I'm gonna oppose nuclear.
Only a few top games every make any money to speak of. What's propping the mobile marketplace up is the high exchange rate for certain currencies make it possible for folks in Vietnam, China, East Europe, etc to sell apps to Americans, Canadians and parts of Europe and make a decent living. Then there's a few big hits that go viral like Angry Birds and that one Kardashian app. Other than that everybody loses money.
for the well to do. Tolls, like sales tax, are a regressive taxation. They're meant to let the rich have services but put most of the cost of those services on the working class. They didn't get rich by spending money ya know.
another way is that toll roads exist to force the poor to use slower, crappier modes of transit. Hell, our entire car based society exists for that. We all suffer through wars, air pollution and an overall lower standard of living save for a few so well off they can stand above it. And most of them still spend 90 minutes a day commuting. And even if we ignore all that toll lanes are still a regressive tax, disproportionately hurting lower wage earners for whom the tolls represent a larger percentage of their income.
Oh, and can you at least RTFS? The entire point of the article is that they found getting rid of HOV lanes increased congestion. Even in a system where the majority of folks were abusing the system (Jakarta). I suppose you might have a point about toll lanes, but that's not what anyone was talking about.
when the only thing they have that's of any value is suddenly without value? I don't see how they can hope to invest away that problem because outside of oil there just isn't anything there. On the plus side the US might stop 'liberating' them...
folks know this is going on. You think they didn't notice those typos in their spreadsheets? It was allowed as a quick and dirty way to account for occasional low ratings. The story is they're using it to cover up dropping viewership. Probably from Streaming, video games, folks who can't afford cable after the last big economic crash, etc, etc.
the working class all over the world is constantly at each other's throats. I'm well aware that my interests should align with those of India's working class. But the fact is I can do little to make their country the sort of place they want to stay in. There's just no political will for what would be needed to do that (things like high tariffs on goods made with poorly paid labor or polluting factories). What there _is_ political will for is cutting immigration. And as the saying goes, a general goes to war with the army he's given.
But you're right, if we stopped to think about it we're realize how screwed up it all is. How we should all welcome each other with open arms. But if we really stopped to think about it we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place...
and a fairly good one. Why not ask the Netherlands, France, UK, Germany, etc how socialism in the form of Single Payer works out for them? Or how about Australia, which our own president admits has a better healthcare system.
Venezuela is an economy in freefall because they have exactly one valuable commodity: oil. Oil is crap right now. Oil will recover and so will Venezuela. If they weren't being punished by right wingers and denied the kinds of aid countries like that used to get when they fell on hard times we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The 1% aren't masters of anything. Their Grand Daddies passed that wealth on. And they weren't masters either. Google "Survival Bias" sometime.
And your suggestion about being free is lovely until you need a heart stent. Do you have the slightest inkling about what life was like before modern civilization? The term is so broad I could spend hours explaining the wonders of plumbing, water treatment, medicine, food growing and food safety.
Again, you're just a troll. But it worries me that somebody who isn't might read your post and take it seriously. That's basically what got us in this mess in the first place.
It's about 300,000 code monkeys. I don't know about you but I'm not trying to compete with German rocket scientists I'm trying to compete with programmers from Indian diploma mills.
like we had in the 80s and 90s before Reagan/Clinton. We don't need more info. Kids are awash in info. The internet means that with a little to no cash you can get practically everything you need on any subject up through the 400 college levels. Math, Engineering, Medicine. You name it. There's hands on stuff you can't learn otherwise, but 'Netflix for education' won't help there.
This is just another cynical attempt to justify the continued cuts to education. Works too.
the question isn't, do immigrants help the economy?, but rather, Does any of that economic benefit trickle down to the 99%? Some of it does in the form of McJobs supporting the white collar immigrant workforce. But so far in America almost all of those gains have gone to the top 1%. That's not me being a libtard, it's a fact.In America widespread income inequality and a lack of social services makes immigration a raw deal. Your entire quality of life here depends on your job.
Canada's a bit different. They at least has single payer and a moderately functional safety net (albeit not one as robust as the Scandinavian countries AFAIK). They might see some benefit. It depends on whether their ruling class can exploit the divide between city & rural voters to cut those services like they did in America. They're definitely trying.
lots of kids fail. I just put a kid through high school and it was brutal. And if you're not a) well-to-do b) a sports kid or c) rocking a 4.0+top 10 percentile SAT you're not going to college. You won't be able to raise the funds. My kid is doing it because we borrowed a shit load of money _and_ we're devoting just about every spare penny to the costs those loans don't cover. And yes, we got Pell Grants, a scholarship and some tutition wavers. Ever since Regan/Clinton defunded the universities college _devours_ money.
You're a Community College professor? How can you not know this? Are you not listening to a damn thing your students say? And you wonder why they sit glassy eyed? Maybe it's become you're not teaching, you're preaching.
and it's the kind of thing that makes me think there's something genuinely evil behind it. There's no benefit here. If a kid doesn't have problems in life they'll be college bound. But a kid who does just got a whole new set of problems to worry about. More friction at home. More fights.
As for 'counselors' my kid just graduated. Her counselors were worse than useless. Overworked. Under trained and under resourced. They knew most of the kids were boned and made no secret of it. And this was in one of the best schools in the city. What I'm saying is any kid that doesn't have amazing parents (or at least rich ones) is screwed. Oh, and speaking of rich parents if you're the kind of rich brat that gets to travel for a year you can easily get exempted from this.
My guess is this is the local businesses looking to get cheap labor from desperate kids who now must have a job to graduate. We'll probably see more 'internships' where you're working full time for little or no pay. I can't think of another reason to push something this awful and this obviously unpopular. If anyone else knows what evil thing is behind this let me know.
but was a reason why she was denied access given? Perhaps the person that reviewed her request is pro-Muslim Ban the the person that reviewed the Iran/Syria ones is anti-Muslim Ban. Given the current political climate you'll forgive me if I don't want some extra scrutiny.
For the record I'll be switching to biz class service before the fees kick in. It'll be $12/mo more and 10 mbps slower (for $20/mo more I could be 40/mbps faster but I don't see the point). This has nothing to do with QoS. It's a money grab because they can. If we had a different administration they might get slapped down when they did it. At the very least they're upcoming buyouts for other companies would get denied. But right now they're feeling pretty bold.
I give them billions in taxpayer subsidies for it. They then pocket those subsidies, skip the network upgrades, shut down municipal broadband and then claim there's just not enough bandwidth. But there's always _plenty_ of bandwidth for their Pay-Per-View networks to stream in glorious 4k for $100 a program. Meanwhile their SEC filings show internet costs $9/mo to provide (customer service included).
Not to sound rude, but why is it so hard to accept that your being lied to?
to offer internet service. That came from their last SEC filing and if there's one place you don't lie it's your SEC filing. I pay $80/mo for service. That's $71/mo of pure profit times however many million subscribers. There's a reason they airdrop lawyers every time a town mayor sneezes and it comes out sounding like "Municipal Broadband". Broadband, like healthcare, is much, much cheaper when it's paid for by the government and they know it. They don't want _you_ knowing it.
to cover the cost of the move? I'm including the cost of selling my current home and buying a new one. I might need $40k. Maybe $100k if I have to get a new job and it doesn't pay as much. That's no trouble for you, is it? It's easy, right?
Yeah, I know, I'm feeding the trolls, but what scares me is somebody might mod this joker up.
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Google and Facebook have deep pockets. If NN is really important to them now's the time to put up or shut up.
But as for nerds moving on, we're in the same boat as most Americans: Worried about our jobs or our shrinking paychecks if we've got jobs. It's hard to focus on anything else. Even those of us that're doing OK need to understand that issues like NN get swamped out by the shear number of folks struggling economically. That's why you don't abandon anyone to the whims of fate. If you leave folks high and dry a demagogue will come along, organize them and turn them against you. It's why after WWII we rebuilt Japan and Europe instead of extracting tribute. It saved us money in the long run. And that run wasn't even that long.
throw your weight behind the 2018 mid terms. Make it clear that they'll be blood at the polls when NN gets struck down.
the phrase "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" was popularized by right wing think tanks trying to demonize help from the government. There is no teacher alive that wouldn't tell the mayor to go pound sand if asked if this was a good idea. If they wanted to help they could spend more on consoling services.
No, this is pure evil. The question is what, specific evil prompted it? I'd genuinely like to know. And I hop the folks in Chicago figure it out so they can shut it down and maybe vote the clown out that suggested this.
the lie is that the fixed costs necessity bandwidth caps. Given the enormous profitability of Internet and the massive government subsidies on top of those profits it's clear that it does not. The subtext to your original comment is that bandwidth caps are acceptable because costs must be contained. A bit of knowledge at the costs involved shows that to be false. And that's before we talk about stuff like network speed, QoS, throttling options and advanced network techniques. We're being had. And it's really, really obvious.
it's cheaper to have them internet accessible. That's the basic problem with nuclear power. It's perfectly safe if you take all necessary precautions. But sooner or later some small government types come in, convince everyone they can cut their taxes by being every so much more efficient as a private company, take over and find running a nuke plant is _hard_. Like, really hard; and finally they start cutting corners and running the plants longer than they're supposed to.
Until you can convince upwards to 90% of the population that having a nuclear power plant run by the lowest bidder is a bad idea I'm gonna oppose nuclear.
Only a few top games every make any money to speak of. What's propping the mobile marketplace up is the high exchange rate for certain currencies make it possible for folks in Vietnam, China, East Europe, etc to sell apps to Americans, Canadians and parts of Europe and make a decent living. Then there's a few big hits that go viral like Angry Birds and that one Kardashian app. Other than that everybody loses money.
maybe stop fighting pointless wars. Solve our energy problems instead of exacerbating them to protect rich guys oil investments. That'd work too.
for the well to do. Tolls, like sales tax, are a regressive taxation. They're meant to let the rich have services but put most of the cost of those services on the working class. They didn't get rich by spending money ya know.
another way is that toll roads exist to force the poor to use slower, crappier modes of transit. Hell, our entire car based society exists for that. We all suffer through wars, air pollution and an overall lower standard of living save for a few so well off they can stand above it. And most of them still spend 90 minutes a day commuting. And even if we ignore all that toll lanes are still a regressive tax, disproportionately hurting lower wage earners for whom the tolls represent a larger percentage of their income.
Oh, and can you at least RTFS? The entire point of the article is that they found getting rid of HOV lanes increased congestion. Even in a system where the majority of folks were abusing the system (Jakarta). I suppose you might have a point about toll lanes, but that's not what anyone was talking about.
when the only thing they have that's of any value is suddenly without value? I don't see how they can hope to invest away that problem because outside of oil there just isn't anything there. On the plus side the US might stop 'liberating' them...
folks know this is going on. You think they didn't notice those typos in their spreadsheets? It was allowed as a quick and dirty way to account for occasional low ratings. The story is they're using it to cover up dropping viewership. Probably from Streaming, video games, folks who can't afford cable after the last big economic crash, etc, etc.
same for me. I got bumped out of the AP courses because there wasn't enough money for them.
it was good enough for most geeks in the 80s and 90s until the Indians came along. The jobs were easy, paid great and had great benefits.
the working class all over the world is constantly at each other's throats. I'm well aware that my interests should align with those of India's working class. But the fact is I can do little to make their country the sort of place they want to stay in. There's just no political will for what would be needed to do that (things like high tariffs on goods made with poorly paid labor or polluting factories). What there _is_ political will for is cutting immigration. And as the saying goes, a general goes to war with the army he's given.
But you're right, if we stopped to think about it we're realize how screwed up it all is. How we should all welcome each other with open arms. But if we really stopped to think about it we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place...
and a fairly good one. Why not ask the Netherlands, France, UK, Germany, etc how socialism in the form of Single Payer works out for them? Or how about Australia, which our own president admits has a better healthcare system.
Venezuela is an economy in freefall because they have exactly one valuable commodity: oil. Oil is crap right now. Oil will recover and so will Venezuela. If they weren't being punished by right wingers and denied the kinds of aid countries like that used to get when they fell on hard times we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The 1% aren't masters of anything. Their Grand Daddies passed that wealth on. And they weren't masters either. Google "Survival Bias" sometime.
And your suggestion about being free is lovely until you need a heart stent. Do you have the slightest inkling about what life was like before modern civilization? The term is so broad I could spend hours explaining the wonders of plumbing, water treatment, medicine, food growing and food safety.
Again, you're just a troll. But it worries me that somebody who isn't might read your post and take it seriously. That's basically what got us in this mess in the first place.
It's about 300,000 code monkeys. I don't know about you but I'm not trying to compete with German rocket scientists I'm trying to compete with programmers from Indian diploma mills.
like we had in the 80s and 90s before Reagan/Clinton. We don't need more info. Kids are awash in info. The internet means that with a little to no cash you can get practically everything you need on any subject up through the 400 college levels. Math, Engineering, Medicine. You name it. There's hands on stuff you can't learn otherwise, but 'Netflix for education' won't help there.
This is just another cynical attempt to justify the continued cuts to education. Works too.
the question isn't, do immigrants help the economy?, but rather, Does any of that economic benefit trickle down to the 99%? Some of it does in the form of McJobs supporting the white collar immigrant workforce. But so far in America almost all of those gains have gone to the top 1%. That's not me being a libtard, it's a fact.In America widespread income inequality and a lack of social services makes immigration a raw deal. Your entire quality of life here depends on your job.
Canada's a bit different. They at least has single payer and a moderately functional safety net (albeit not one as robust as the Scandinavian countries AFAIK). They might see some benefit. It depends on whether their ruling class can exploit the divide between city & rural voters to cut those services like they did in America. They're definitely trying.
lots of kids fail. I just put a kid through high school and it was brutal. And if you're not a) well-to-do b) a sports kid or c) rocking a 4.0+top 10 percentile SAT you're not going to college. You won't be able to raise the funds. My kid is doing it because we borrowed a shit load of money _and_ we're devoting just about every spare penny to the costs those loans don't cover. And yes, we got Pell Grants, a scholarship and some tutition wavers. Ever since Regan/Clinton defunded the universities college _devours_ money.
You're a Community College professor? How can you not know this? Are you not listening to a damn thing your students say? And you wonder why they sit glassy eyed? Maybe it's become you're not teaching, you're preaching.
and it's the kind of thing that makes me think there's something genuinely evil behind it. There's no benefit here. If a kid doesn't have problems in life they'll be college bound. But a kid who does just got a whole new set of problems to worry about. More friction at home. More fights.
As for 'counselors' my kid just graduated. Her counselors were worse than useless. Overworked. Under trained and under resourced. They knew most of the kids were boned and made no secret of it. And this was in one of the best schools in the city. What I'm saying is any kid that doesn't have amazing parents (or at least rich ones) is screwed. Oh, and speaking of rich parents if you're the kind of rich brat that gets to travel for a year you can easily get exempted from this.
My guess is this is the local businesses looking to get cheap labor from desperate kids who now must have a job to graduate. We'll probably see more 'internships' where you're working full time for little or no pay. I can't think of another reason to push something this awful and this obviously unpopular. If anyone else knows what evil thing is behind this let me know.
but was a reason why she was denied access given? Perhaps the person that reviewed her request is pro-Muslim Ban the the person that reviewed the Iran/Syria ones is anti-Muslim Ban. Given the current political climate you'll forgive me if I don't want some extra scrutiny.
For the record I'll be switching to biz class service before the fees kick in. It'll be $12/mo more and 10 mbps slower (for $20/mo more I could be 40/mbps faster but I don't see the point). This has nothing to do with QoS. It's a money grab because they can. If we had a different administration they might get slapped down when they did it. At the very least they're upcoming buyouts for other companies would get denied. But right now they're feeling pretty bold.
I give them billions in taxpayer subsidies for it. They then pocket those subsidies, skip the network upgrades, shut down municipal broadband and then claim there's just not enough bandwidth. But there's always _plenty_ of bandwidth for their Pay-Per-View networks to stream in glorious 4k for $100 a program. Meanwhile their SEC filings show internet costs $9/mo to provide (customer service included).
Not to sound rude, but why is it so hard to accept that your being lied to?
to offer internet service. That came from their last SEC filing and if there's one place you don't lie it's your SEC filing. I pay $80/mo for service. That's $71/mo of pure profit times however many million subscribers. There's a reason they airdrop lawyers every time a town mayor sneezes and it comes out sounding like "Municipal Broadband". Broadband, like healthcare, is much, much cheaper when it's paid for by the government and they know it. They don't want _you_ knowing it.
to cover the cost of the move? I'm including the cost of selling my current home and buying a new one. I might need $40k. Maybe $100k if I have to get a new job and it doesn't pay as much. That's no trouble for you, is it? It's easy, right?
Yeah, I know, I'm feeding the trolls, but what scares me is somebody might mod this joker up.