What is this frigging doublespeak that to me seems to say nothing special at all? This especially irks me: "the ability to bridge app creators and Linux distributions using a universal framework, making it possible to bring this kind of software to operating systems that encourage open collaboration".
History proves otherwise. Most of what you consider progress is the result of a very small minority of gifted individuals whose discoveries and inventions were EXPLOITED FOR PROFIT by a very small minority of greedy individuals. The progress would have happened even if profit had been removed from the process. History also contains examples of just that, progress that was cooperative and collaborative instead of competitive. Promoting this distortion of history demonstrates that you are one of the greedy, not the gifted.
The toll roads that do exist, with rare exceptions like 17 Mile Drive, are still publicly owned. The existence of the tolls means they were (re-)built since the heyday of tax-funded highway building in the country (before my time). That is also why they're "better quality": they're simply newer. For reasons I can't fathom, people so despised the idea of a new tax or bond to pay for roadwork or a bridge that they voted for the institution of a toll instead. Yes, we're certainly arguing about who gets the money, because the toll money is the public trust getting repaid and it's not for profit.
Of course, as the airwaves are national property, so the copper, fiber optic, and microwaves of the Internet should also be. Information infrastructure is too critical in the Information Age to let regional monopolies hold it hostage.
BTW, my favorite corollary is the American system of national highways, owned by the people and not by the companies who constructed each piece of them. Can you imagine the nightmarish toll system for profit that would exist now if the construction companies had been allowed to claim ownership instead of being merely subcontractors?
Of course, as the airwaves are national property, so the copper, fiber optic, and microwaves of the Internet should also be. Information infrastructure is too critical in the Information Age to let regional monopolies hold it hostage.
Congratulations, you've just joined a very select fraternity of those who understand what true "network neutrality" would look like. Ignore the other response from the idiot who doesn't get it because he's been brainwashed by libertarian B.S. In his mindless hatred of all forms of guv'mint, he fails to grasp that by definition nothing owned by the public can possibly be a monopoly.
Solipsist much? The whole point of scientific research is a steady approach-by-halves to the Truth. The truth, as it is best known at any given time, is derived from an objective consensus dependent on the current sum of human observation. Then there is subjective truth, which isn't based upon much in the way of facts at all, instead based in emotional need buttressed by delusional "reasoning" and manufactured "facts".
Do you find the "facts" presented by David Icke terribly compelling? Why the fuck should you or we be swayed by the existence of delusional idiots who agree with David Icke? Why the fuck should we be swayed to any belief simply by safety in numbers in the absence of anything else? Objective facts still matter to some of us, even if we are a minority.
The current implementation skews influence in favor of the businesses.
That was the entire reason for my objection. It's being abused - as the Supreme Court knew it would be when they rendered that decision - to avoid legitimate responsibility that only class action lawsuits can reasonably address and pad corporate profit margins in the process. We all hate lawyers who abuse the class action system, and there are many, but the class action system exists because it serves a purpose that only lawsuits brought by, say, state attorneys general could otherwise serve. There are only so many state attorneys general, only so many cases they can manage, and not all of them share the same motives and values.
Let me give you a very relevant example of Valve being assholes. Do you recall a few years back when Valve decided to jump on the forced-arbitration-clause bandwagon let loose by the Supreme Court? When the "change in terms of service" arrived, I decided that I'd had enough and refused to agree to the new terms. Paypal had given me the right to opt out of the similar change to its agreement. Refusing with no opt-out of course meant that I would be barred from the Steam DRM system and thus unable to play the games I had purchased. I wrote to Valve, asking for refunds for the very few games I had, explaining that the refunds were indeed warranted if I would be banned from access to them over a legal technicality.
Valve refused my request with prejudice. That is the real face of Valve, and the alleged "consumer protection" laws in the United States allow Valve to wear that face with scorn and impudence.
More and bigger plants will also mean even faster exhaustion of micro-nutrients from the soil. Since not all the biomass produced in that soil is being recycled into it - the whole point of agriculture is our removal and use of parts of the plants - then the soil will slowly be exhausted of its non-infinite supply of those nutrients. The future results is food crops that contain less of those micro-nutrients, leaving future generations that consume them with a deficit. We've already seen this effect in the last century or less. A very deliberate effort could be made to restore what is exhausted, but this is COMMERCIAL agriculture FOR PROFIT; money is the ultimate motivation, not long-term soil health or the health of people who eat what grows from it.
So he's exploiting his class and privilege to "benefit" whom? Himself. How noble of him. Is his continued delay of inevitable death at this late stage of his life so crucial to civilization that it warrants exploitation of funds from a massive benefit concert that could likely save hundreds or thousands of "less important" lives if used more ethically?
Do you also support Amazon's no-sig-required delivery condition, which allows drivers to simply leave packages unattended and completely rejects the traditional "chain of evidence" for secure shipping and results in package theft and more?
Amazon is not the victim here, it's the perpetrator.
If Amazon's service winds up even vaguely resembling their favorite go-to delivery whore these days, OnTrac, I hope it dies in an inferno. Amazon likes to always specify no-sig-required with all of its deliveries now. Amazon does this to please the carrier and get a discount, because only one delivery attempt is ever required. Since the package will be simply left unattended if no immediate response to the delivery is apparent, this results in package theft, among other things. The Machiavellian behavior of some delivery drivers, ESPECIALLY those of OnTrac, to exploit this no-sig-required condition leads to some to the "other" consequences, like drivers dropping heavy packages six feet over a locked gate onto concrete on a rainy day (personal anecdote, happened twice).
It is that hard. Just ask Google how hard it is to get accurate transcription for its Voice service. Most of those transcriptions are so bad that their real value is as humor.
Do you not realize that Siri must utilize a significant backend resource at the other end of a data connection to be effective, and that the backend requires substantial resources to operate and maintain? Siri is not some standalone app you download and forget. An open source equivalent would not be free, and would require a Kickstart and guaranteed subscriptions to be feasible. I don't think the world is quite ready for such a thing yet, not in a country populated by people willing to vote for either Trump or Clinton.
I really dislike the savings as an income tax deduction. Not only is the savings deferred for up to a year, but the only way you'll ever receive it is by meticulously documenting everything. This savings is tacked-onto the process, in other words, instead of being an integral part of it. I don't believe that can succeed long term.
I really dislike the savings as an income tax deduction. Not only is the savings deferred for up to a year, but the only way you'll ever receive it is by meticulously documenting everything. This savings is tacked-onto the process, in other words, instead of being an integral part of it. I don't believe that can succeed long term.
I doubt this will be a compelling incentive if the cost of repair labor in Sweden is comparable to that in the United States. People don't repair things because (a) many are deliberately designed not to be easily reparable and (b) the labor cost of the "experts" is disproportionate to the value of having it repaired. Shaving a little bit off the sales tax of the bill is not going to offset the disproportionate cost of the alleged expertise.
Oh GODS, here we go again! Neither this nor any bundle of rules and laws can legitimately be called network neutrality. How has the discourse about about this crucial topic been so completely co-opted and misdirected?
Network neutrality is what happens when citizens collectively own the network infrastructure, not the various builders of bits and pieces of it. It's shared infrastructure, just like roads and highways: do we allow the builders and maintainers of those to retain ownership? No, they are contractors for a public trust.
The Internet is not different, yet certain vested interests have managed to divert attention from this and misdirect the conversation to techniques and tactics which they are already quite skilled at thwarting. The service providers are lying to you: as much as they claim to despise and fear network neutrality LAWS, those are exactly what they do want. What they do NOT want is any conversation that suggests a public buyout of the wires. As long as they physically control the wires, network neutrality cannot and will not ever exist.
Hey, Google, if your real motive here is truly to "save the (form) data", why not buy or license the use of the Lazarus extension's codebase and simply incorporate that into Chrome? Then you could leave our fucking backspace key mapped the way it's always been since 1995. The Lazarus extension for Firefox has been effectively negating that disaster for years now.
I hope you never need to use that gods-damned accordion hose at any distance past one foot. You'll acquire a very unwanted groupie. I also hope you don't have a bed or other furniture with a low undercarriage that demands cleaning underneath with an actual motorized brush-head... and by "low" I mean anything that the huge ball and frame of these vacuums can't fit under. I don't even have a ball model and there is NO furniture under which I can vacuum for cat fur with it. The "turbo" suction-driven attachment allegedly designed for pets is a joke.
Dyson's designs are only revolutionary from the manufacturer's point of view. I own one of his designs from the core vacuum product line; from a user standpoint it's VERY ineffective and irritating to use. Never again, for me. From the manufacturer's POV, however, the modular construction is both cheaper to produce and also cheaper to maintain and service.
Dyson's revolutionary designs benefit Dyson. Period. Don't be fooled by the marketing hype that turns design flaws from the user perspective into false benefits. That ability to portray a sow's ear as a silk purse is Dyson's real revolutionary accomplishment.
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Could it be because banking is the penultimate rent-seeking behavior? Nah.
What is this frigging doublespeak that to me seems to say nothing special at all? This especially irks me: "the ability to bridge app creators and Linux distributions using a universal framework, making it possible to bring this kind of software to operating systems that encourage open collaboration".
Profit is the driver for all progress.
History proves otherwise. Most of what you consider progress is the result of a very small minority of gifted individuals whose discoveries and inventions were EXPLOITED FOR PROFIT by a very small minority of greedy individuals. The progress would have happened even if profit had been removed from the process. History also contains examples of just that, progress that was cooperative and collaborative instead of competitive. Promoting this distortion of history demonstrates that you are one of the greedy, not the gifted.
The toll roads that do exist, with rare exceptions like 17 Mile Drive, are still publicly owned. The existence of the tolls means they were (re-)built since the heyday of tax-funded highway building in the country (before my time). That is also why they're "better quality": they're simply newer. For reasons I can't fathom, people so despised the idea of a new tax or bond to pay for roadwork or a bridge that they voted for the institution of a toll instead. Yes, we're certainly arguing about who gets the money, because the toll money is the public trust getting repaid and it's not for profit.
Of course, as the airwaves are national property, so the copper, fiber optic, and microwaves of the Internet should also be. Information infrastructure is too critical in the Information Age to let regional monopolies hold it hostage.
BTW, my favorite corollary is the American system of national highways, owned by the people and not by the companies who constructed each piece of them. Can you imagine the nightmarish toll system for profit that would exist now if the construction companies had been allowed to claim ownership instead of being merely subcontractors?
Of course, as the airwaves are national property, so the copper, fiber optic, and microwaves of the Internet should also be. Information infrastructure is too critical in the Information Age to let regional monopolies hold it hostage.
Congratulations, you've just joined a very select fraternity of those who understand what true "network neutrality" would look like. Ignore the other response from the idiot who doesn't get it because he's been brainwashed by libertarian B.S. In his mindless hatred of all forms of guv'mint, he fails to grasp that by definition nothing owned by the public can possibly be a monopoly.
Solipsist much? The whole point of scientific research is a steady approach-by-halves to the Truth. The truth, as it is best known at any given time, is derived from an objective consensus dependent on the current sum of human observation. Then there is subjective truth, which isn't based upon much in the way of facts at all, instead based in emotional need buttressed by delusional "reasoning" and manufactured "facts".
Do you find the "facts" presented by David Icke terribly compelling? Why the fuck should you or we be swayed by the existence of delusional idiots who agree with David Icke? Why the fuck should we be swayed to any belief simply by safety in numbers in the absence of anything else? Objective facts still matter to some of us, even if we are a minority.
Indeed.
That was the entire reason for my objection. It's being abused - as the Supreme Court knew it would be when they rendered that decision - to avoid legitimate responsibility that only class action lawsuits can reasonably address and pad corporate profit margins in the process. We all hate lawyers who abuse the class action system, and there are many, but the class action system exists because it serves a purpose that only lawsuits brought by, say, state attorneys general could otherwise serve. There are only so many state attorneys general, only so many cases they can manage, and not all of them share the same motives and values.
Let me give you a very relevant example of Valve being assholes. Do you recall a few years back when Valve decided to jump on the forced-arbitration-clause bandwagon let loose by the Supreme Court? When the "change in terms of service" arrived, I decided that I'd had enough and refused to agree to the new terms. Paypal had given me the right to opt out of the similar change to its agreement. Refusing with no opt-out of course meant that I would be barred from the Steam DRM system and thus unable to play the games I had purchased. I wrote to Valve, asking for refunds for the very few games I had, explaining that the refunds were indeed warranted if I would be banned from access to them over a legal technicality.
Valve refused my request with prejudice. That is the real face of Valve, and the alleged "consumer protection" laws in the United States allow Valve to wear that face with scorn and impudence.
More and bigger plants will also mean even faster exhaustion of micro-nutrients from the soil. Since not all the biomass produced in that soil is being recycled into it - the whole point of agriculture is our removal and use of parts of the plants - then the soil will slowly be exhausted of its non-infinite supply of those nutrients. The future results is food crops that contain less of those micro-nutrients, leaving future generations that consume them with a deficit. We've already seen this effect in the last century or less. A very deliberate effort could be made to restore what is exhausted, but this is COMMERCIAL agriculture FOR PROFIT; money is the ultimate motivation, not long-term soil health or the health of people who eat what grows from it.
So he's exploiting his class and privilege to "benefit" whom? Himself. How noble of him. Is his continued delay of inevitable death at this late stage of his life so crucial to civilization that it warrants exploitation of funds from a massive benefit concert that could likely save hundreds or thousands of "less important" lives if used more ethically?
Do you also support Amazon's no-sig-required delivery condition, which allows drivers to simply leave packages unattended and completely rejects the traditional "chain of evidence" for secure shipping and results in package theft and more?
Amazon is not the victim here, it's the perpetrator.
If Amazon's service winds up even vaguely resembling their favorite go-to delivery whore these days, OnTrac, I hope it dies in an inferno. Amazon likes to always specify no-sig-required with all of its deliveries now. Amazon does this to please the carrier and get a discount, because only one delivery attempt is ever required. Since the package will be simply left unattended if no immediate response to the delivery is apparent, this results in package theft, among other things. The Machiavellian behavior of some delivery drivers, ESPECIALLY those of OnTrac, to exploit this no-sig-required condition leads to some to the "other" consequences, like drivers dropping heavy packages six feet over a locked gate onto concrete on a rainy day (personal anecdote, happened twice).
It is that hard. Just ask Google how hard it is to get accurate transcription for its Voice service. Most of those transcriptions are so bad that their real value is as humor.
Do you not realize that Siri must utilize a significant backend resource at the other end of a data connection to be effective, and that the backend requires substantial resources to operate and maintain? Siri is not some standalone app you download and forget. An open source equivalent would not be free, and would require a Kickstart and guaranteed subscriptions to be feasible. I don't think the world is quite ready for such a thing yet, not in a country populated by people willing to vote for either Trump or Clinton.
I really dislike the savings as an income tax deduction. Not only is the savings deferred for up to a year, but the only way you'll ever receive it is by meticulously documenting everything. This savings is tacked-onto the process, in other words, instead of being an integral part of it. I don't believe that can succeed long term.
I really dislike the savings as an income tax deduction. Not only is the savings deferred for up to a year, but the only way you'll ever receive it is by meticulously documenting everything. This savings is tacked-onto the process, in other words, instead of being an integral part of it. I don't believe that can succeed long term.
I doubt this will be a compelling incentive if the cost of repair labor in Sweden is comparable to that in the United States. People don't repair things because (a) many are deliberately designed not to be easily reparable and (b) the labor cost of the "experts" is disproportionate to the value of having it repaired. Shaving a little bit off the sales tax of the bill is not going to offset the disproportionate cost of the alleged expertise.
Oh GODS, here we go again! Neither this nor any bundle of rules and laws can legitimately be called network neutrality. How has the discourse about about this crucial topic been so completely co-opted and misdirected?
Network neutrality is what happens when citizens collectively own the network infrastructure, not the various builders of bits and pieces of it. It's shared infrastructure, just like roads and highways: do we allow the builders and maintainers of those to retain ownership? No, they are contractors for a public trust.
The Internet is not different, yet certain vested interests have managed to divert attention from this and misdirect the conversation to techniques and tactics which they are already quite skilled at thwarting. The service providers are lying to you: as much as they claim to despise and fear network neutrality LAWS, those are exactly what they do want. What they do NOT want is any conversation that suggests a public buyout of the wires. As long as they physically control the wires, network neutrality cannot and will not ever exist.
Hey, Google, if your real motive here is truly to "save the (form) data", why not buy or license the use of the Lazarus extension's codebase and simply incorporate that into Chrome? Then you could leave our fucking backspace key mapped the way it's always been since 1995. The Lazarus extension for Firefox has been effectively negating that disaster for years now.
That might be an apt comparison.
I hope you never need to use that gods-damned accordion hose at any distance past one foot. You'll acquire a very unwanted groupie. I also hope you don't have a bed or other furniture with a low undercarriage that demands cleaning underneath with an actual motorized brush-head... and by "low" I mean anything that the huge ball and frame of these vacuums can't fit under. I don't even have a ball model and there is NO furniture under which I can vacuum for cat fur with it. The "turbo" suction-driven attachment allegedly designed for pets is a joke.
Did I somehow still manage to leave you with the impression that I'm a fan of Dyson's (lack of) innovation? My bad.
Dyson's designs are only revolutionary from the manufacturer's point of view. I own one of his designs from the core vacuum product line; from a user standpoint it's VERY ineffective and irritating to use. Never again, for me. From the manufacturer's POV, however, the modular construction is both cheaper to produce and also cheaper to maintain and service.
Dyson's revolutionary designs benefit Dyson. Period. Don't be fooled by the marketing hype that turns design flaws from the user perspective into false benefits. That ability to portray a sow's ear as a silk purse is Dyson's real revolutionary accomplishment.