My post about the Slashcott finally working posted, but without my username attached, even though it looked normal in Preview, and then when I reloaded the page it was gone completely.
And then with more people with more money, businesses respond by raising prices until $15 no longer has the buying power it used to.
Why'd you stop your analysis half way?
Because these businesses have no competition that will underprice them by a bit and take all their customers?
You can tinker a little with the law of supply and demand, like this would, but you can't repeal it altogether.
To be fair, eventually that $15 won't have the same buying power, just as the $1.60 per hour 1968 Federal Minimum Wage no longer has the buying power it did back then (4 to 5 gallons of gas or packs of cigarettes, or 16 soft drinks or candy bars, or 10 comic books, or 2 paperback books, or a fast food meal for 2, or movie tickets for 2, etc.)
But that's eventually, not instantaneously, and in the meantime, it can do some good and stimulate local economies.
There's a comic book store up there, or maybe it's in San Francisco, that's complaining, but another way of looking at it is that there are actually too many comic book stores in the area for the demand and that the workers have been subsidizing the customers before now.
I'm not saying the store owner might not have an actual problem, but apparently he's not anticipating any increase in demand for his merchandise despite more people in the community having more money available to spend.
If your store is easier for someone to get to than is Wal-Mart or the like, or they like the service better than waiting half an hour for an "associate" to happen by, maybe with that extra per hour in their pockets some of these people will decide it's worth it to go to your place instead and spend the time saved with the family they see so little of because of working all the time.
People on the low end of the pay scales who get extra money spend it, which boosts the local economy, which means more jobs as more staff are hired to handle the increased business, which means even more spending which boosts the local economy which means more jobs....
It's why massive borrowing at near zero interest rates to spend on massive amounts of infrastructure repair and creation would actually be a good idea, because more people would have paychecks to spend locally.
Wheeler, 69, does not need to seek another job when he departs the FCC, and that freedom enables him to make the decisions he thinks is right, according to people close to the chairman.
Judging simply from his age, it's very implausible that his actions were part of a ploy to seek secure employment after the FCC.
He won't be too old to sit on some corporate Boards of Directors.
But radio isn't paying royalties or licensing fees or whatever you want to call it on their performance, they're paying it for the having composed it part, so whether the composer is a recording artist is irrelevant to that.
Hardly seems worth the bother of going to all the trouble that would be necessary to put the media server in one of the worst possible and least accessible locations one could choose.
I'd almost rather put it in the attic. It would need more cooling, but at least you could get to it.
Is your crawl space accessible from inside the house?
The club or dance hall or whatever paid to license the music for people to listen to while dancing, but they didn't pay to license the music to be used in recordings of that activity, so the person recording the activity gets to pay (one way or the other).
Post the videos without a soundtrack if it's just the dancing that's important.
"And the municipalities are nullifying the will of private citizens."
Every time the politicians running a municipality enact something desired by less than 100% of the residents it's "nullifying the will of private citizens", but it's also enforcing the will of other private citizens. If it does something which nullifies the will of a majority of the residents, said politicians will find themselves replaced come the next election.
Almost all of the members of the NC legislature are not residents of Wilson and I daresay the ones who voted for that law were more concerned with what TWC wanted than what Wilsonites did.
I feel reasonably sure that the elected officials in Wilson who got Greenlight started were residents of Wilson and a lot more in touch with the wishes for faster broadband of their fellow residents, wishes which TWC and Embarq weren't interested in dealing with until Wilson started Greenlight, and then, as I recall hearing at the time, all of a sudden they started whining about how they were going to "real soon now".
In my neighborhood in a different NC city, where we're only about 3 blocks from a switching station, I heard "real soon now" about DSL as Carolina Telephone and Telegraph became Sprint became Embarq became CenturyLink. At some point I gave up and went with cable modem.
Allowing the FCC to nullify state law sounds pretty damn outrageous. I.E. it has Barack Obama's fingerprints all over it and deserves to go down in flames in the courts. As for allowing towns to set up their own ISP's, I don't see a problem with it as long as the town citizenry gets a vote and they don't go deep into debt and ask to get bailed out by the state later. What towns ought to do though is make it possible for companies to build or improve their networks, something the FCC can't pretend to have any control over.
Actually the FCC is preventing states from nullifying the will of municipalities.
Make no mistake, these laws, no matter what rationales are offered, are only about protecting outfits like Comcast and Time Warner Cable from competition, and keeping certain areas reserved for them until they feel like getting around to providing service in them.
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...but I see the Slashcott has finally had an effect.
: - )
That's weird.
My post about the Slashcott finally working posted, but without my username attached, even though it looked normal in Preview, and then when I reloaded the page it was gone completely.
...to see what happens to posts with the word Slashcott in them, since the one a few minutes ago disappeared without a trace.
My Slashcott finally worked!
: - )
When cable first came along it was mostly just the over the air channels (and all the ads they carried), but supposedly with fewer reception problems.
Stuff like HBO, Showtime, et cetera, came along, that were optional for extra money, and those channels were the ones bragging about no commercials.
Of course that was several decades ago, and a lot has changed since then.
So Myanmar is the metric version of Burma?
...would be my guess.
...who immediately thought of Harry Harrison's "I Always Do What Teddy Says"?
> Is it really that hard to grasp that concept?
And then with more people with more money, businesses respond by raising prices until $15 no longer has the buying power it used to.
Why'd you stop your analysis half way?
Because these businesses have no competition that will underprice them by a bit and take all their customers?
You can tinker a little with the law of supply and demand, like this would, but you can't repeal it altogether.
To be fair, eventually that $15 won't have the same buying power, just as the $1.60 per hour 1968 Federal Minimum Wage no longer has the buying power it did back then (4 to 5 gallons of gas or packs of cigarettes, or 16 soft drinks or candy bars, or 10 comic books, or 2 paperback books, or a fast food meal for 2, or movie tickets for 2, etc.)
But that's eventually, not instantaneously, and in the meantime, it can do some good and stimulate local economies.
Everybody posting comments on this article is required to add either the words "... in the long term", or "... in the short term".
If either of these phrases is omitted, the comment will be modded down.
You have been warned.
Wasn't it an economist who said something like "In the long term, we're all dead."?
In fairness, the point is made that the price is printed on the cover so he can't exceed that.
There's a comic book store up there, or maybe it's in San Francisco, that's complaining, but another way of looking at it is that there are actually too many comic book stores in the area for the demand and that the workers have been subsidizing the customers before now.
I'm not saying the store owner might not have an actual problem, but apparently he's not anticipating any increase in demand for his merchandise despite more people in the community having more money available to spend.
If your store is easier for someone to get to than is Wal-Mart or the like, or they like the service better than waiting half an hour for an "associate" to happen by, maybe with that extra per hour in their pockets some of these people will decide it's worth it to go to your place instead and spend the time saved with the family they see so little of because of working all the time.
People on the low end of the pay scales who get extra money spend it, which boosts the local economy, which means more jobs as more staff are hired to handle the increased business, which means even more spending which boosts the local economy which means more jobs....
It's why massive borrowing at near zero interest rates to spend on massive amounts of infrastructure repair and creation would actually be a good idea, because more people would have paychecks to spend locally.
Comcast previously promised the city they would provide service for their entire monopoly area if this went through...
Telecom companies are famous for *making* promises.
Making good on them, not so much.
They'd have probably gotten around to your area about the same time as your first Social Security check.
Wheeler, 69, does not need to seek another job when he departs the FCC, and that freedom enables him to make the decisions he thinks is right, according to people close to the chairman.
Judging simply from his age, it's very implausible that his actions were part of a ploy to seek secure employment after the FCC.
He won't be too old to sit on some corporate Boards of Directors.
What are these multiple providers of which you speak?
Where I live we have the choice of Time-Warner cable or no cable, and there's no sign of that changing in my lifetime.
Did you just describe IF Strips without using the term?
Actually they pay whoever owns the publishing rights, whether they wrote any music or not.
But radio isn't paying royalties or licensing fees or whatever you want to call it on their performance, they're paying it for the having composed it part, so whether the composer is a recording artist is irrelevant to that.
...short story "I Always Do What Teddy Says".
Hardly seems worth the bother of going to all the trouble that would be necessary to put the media server in one of the worst possible and least accessible locations one could choose.
I'd almost rather put it in the attic. It would need more cooling, but at least you could get to it.
Is your crawl space accessible from inside the house?
The club or dance hall or whatever paid to license the music for people to listen to while dancing, but they didn't pay to license the music to be used in recordings of that activity, so the person recording the activity gets to pay (one way or the other).
Post the videos without a soundtrack if it's just the dancing that's important.
"And the municipalities are nullifying the will of private citizens."
Every time the politicians running a municipality enact something desired by less than 100% of the residents it's "nullifying the will of private citizens", but it's also enforcing the will of other private citizens. If it does something which nullifies the will of a majority of the residents, said politicians will find themselves replaced come the next election.
Almost all of the members of the NC legislature are not residents of Wilson and I daresay the ones who voted for that law were more concerned with what TWC wanted than what Wilsonites did.
I feel reasonably sure that the elected officials in Wilson who got Greenlight started were residents of Wilson and a lot more in touch with the wishes for faster broadband of their fellow residents, wishes which TWC and Embarq weren't interested in dealing with until Wilson started Greenlight, and then, as I recall hearing at the time, all of a sudden they started whining about how they were going to "real soon now".
In my neighborhood in a different NC city, where we're only about 3 blocks from a switching station, I heard "real soon now" about DSL as Carolina Telephone and Telegraph became Sprint became Embarq became CenturyLink. At some point I gave up and went with cable modem.
The bad news is that your property taxes will double to pay for it.
[citation needed]
He wants to believe it, therefore it must be true.
Allowing the FCC to nullify state law sounds pretty damn outrageous. I.E. it has Barack Obama's fingerprints all over it and deserves to go down in flames in the courts. As for allowing towns to set up their own ISP's, I don't see a problem with it as long as the town citizenry gets a vote and they don't go deep into debt and ask to get bailed out by the state later. What towns ought to do though is make it possible for companies to build or improve their networks, something the FCC can't pretend to have any control over.
Actually the FCC is preventing states from nullifying the will of municipalities.
Make no mistake, these laws, no matter what rationales are offered, are only about protecting outfits like Comcast and Time Warner Cable from competition, and keeping certain areas reserved for them until they feel like getting around to providing service in them.