You need to learn some economics. By donating the stock, he's gifted it pre-capital gains tax. Now, it's going to get cashed out by a tax exempt organization that can then spend it back on operating costs that likely go back to Bill via exempt or at least otherwise reduced taxes... likely in a country with little oversight on these things.
It doesn't help that the interface was disgusting too. It's almost as if they didn't want it to succeed but someone said "do it, we need this". I can't think of a redeeming quality Google+ had. They even tried to break YouTube with it.
The FCC saying "fuck it, everyone do what you want" sucks, but the most significant reason this is a problem is the monopolies that local municipalities authorize. If the state/county/city levels of government where prevented in interfering, then competition would be an actual market balancer. Smaller ISPs would happily take the droves of pissed consumers.
With the Internet being an service that inherently crosses state lines, the Federal government has every right to tell these government levels that their rules/laws are invalid.
The fight for Net Neutrality should start by freeing the last mile. Give us real options for which net we get on.
Lonely includes being sad that one has no friends or company.... they specifically sad that technology would partially satisfy our social needs. That means we aren't lonely, but just living a more solitary life.
Sounds fucking fantastic to me. My Echo has never made her problems mine to deal with.
You've got it all wrong... The conspirators are as follows: 1) Government. They want people to extend their productive years so they can keep taxing the revenue and delay Social Security. 2) The Farm industry. They want you eating "real food" so they can charge their premiums for organic produce. They need the money to pay John Deer's extortion. 3) The Shoe industry. I mean, it's obvious. They want you to wear out your shoes so you go buy new ones. 4) Media industry. With all the commercial free viewing options, a half-hour less streaming is less data they need to pay for. You're monthly rate doesn't care about your usage. 5) The medical industry. Gotta drag out those Medicare payments.
I need some mod points.... This is exactly right. Net Neutrality getting undermined and killed will only serve the media industry. Cord cutting won't be possible once all the datacaps come down and streaming services get throttled.
Right!! They probably don't have their own cell phone plan either. The 90% userbase should be all they care about. That's a ton of kids who will grow up and get account for themselves.
Videos should only be 8-15 minutes long anyways:)... after that, my ass starts to get sore from sitting on the crapper. The longer 20+ minute videos just seem to sit in my Watch Later queue and never get watched. If I have that much time, then I'll fire up Netflix/Hulu and catchup on my actual TV shows.
Tech workers have been saying the best talent is self trained for decades. No university can teach someone how to be a passionate nerd. As for their motives.... I think it's much simpler. People with degrees want more money, so they can pay off the loans.
AMC has their "Cinema Suites". They're reserved seating (recliners) with food service and are 18+ only. Theaters are learning. One mom-pop operation near me even has a child-care option for the younger families.
You got this wrong... the court (judge) should adhere to the strict letter of the law. Legislators should just make sure they word things properly. It's the juries job through Jury Nullification to interpret the intent/justice of the law.
When a jury shows a history of dismissing a case, it nullifies the law. This is how "common law" rulings are built. Future cases get lost because the lawyers show the case history
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” - Lincoln He isn't wrong.
It doesn't matter how dumb a kid is.... They're the target audience. After 17, life gets real damn busy. First you have four years of building debt, then you have a lifetime of trying to dig your way out of the hole.
It's the 13-17s that have so much free time that they literally can't find a way to fill the boredom. That's ad watching time.... you know... Google's only real product.
Gotta check the legal fine print on this one. Haven't most positions been retitled from "Programmer" to something else a while back? It's easy enough to talk around the skills and call the job something else.
My pfSense firewall has an alias (group of IPs) that it routes via VPN. Originally it was only my OrangePi torrent server, but with the new legislation, I've moved my phone and PC into the group. My 6 Rokus go out unprotected, but I have to imagine for security Netflix and Hulu use HTTPs for all their control signaling, so short of throttling by the ISP, I don't see them being rewarded for trying to read that data.
Even if they decide they don't have a use for it, why the hell would they crash it into the ocean. I really don't see why they wouldn't just mothball the bitch and maintain it in orbit.
Best case, it's there if they need it for something. Worst case, it's a valuable study into how an unmaintained craft holds up.
I do also like one of the previous ideas about shuttling it over to the moon. I just question how much energy it would need to overcome earths gravity and break free from it's orbit. It is a bit massive.
This will fail... they'll just file a subsidiary law firm in the favorable jurisdiction and then file from their new HQ. The only truly viable solution is to reform IP law, and that is an undertaking that no politician will go near.... unless its to give their backers even more control.
Setting up the load balancing VPN made a drastic improvement in p2p file transfers. The router is beefy though. I had an i5-650 ITX system that was a home theater until I replaced it with an Amlogic S905X Kodi box. The hardware decoding for h.265 was proving to be a requirement.
In any case, I had a perfectly good PC and needed a router. I dropped in a dual port Gigabit NIC and installed pfSense on an 8gb SSD (pulled from an HP multifunction printer). The system actually maintains 5 VPN connections. There are the 4 for PIA, then a 5th to a private OpenVPN server that serves as a bridge for my family to make sharing between each other very easy (albeit slow due to upload limitations on each end).
They already have laws that enable the police to address Cell phone drivers... they just NEVER enforce it.... It's called "reckless driving".
For Texas: Sec. 545.401. RECKLESS DRIVING; OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an offense if the person drives a vehicle in wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by: (1) a fine not to exceed $200; (2) confinement in county jail for not more than 30 days; or (3) both the fine and the confinement.
I would say that using a cell phone while driving is a clear "wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property".
With PIA I can pay annually with a Walmart giftcard I paid cash for... so "billing" isn't really an issue. As for options, my router runs the VPN, so all the quick shutdown stuff they like to promote don't really apply. I have 4 of the 5 sessions load-balanced on the router to 4 different datacenters. The 5th I reserve for my cell phone if I ever need public wifi. The load-balancing is really nice. It allows my p2p client to not be bottlenecked by a single VPN session.
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How is it replacing them.... it's forcing corporations to hire larger firms to handle the deluge of cases they would have otherwise not received.
You need to learn some economics. By donating the stock, he's gifted it pre-capital gains tax. Now, it's going to get cashed out by a tax exempt organization that can then spend it back on operating costs that likely go back to Bill via exempt or at least otherwise reduced taxes... likely in a country with little oversight on these things.
It doesn't help that the interface was disgusting too. It's almost as if they didn't want it to succeed but someone said "do it, we need this". I can't think of a redeeming quality Google+ had. They even tried to break YouTube with it.
Wow... some people can't take a joke.... Modded down as Flamebait (-1).
It's like somebody put all my shitty tastes and adolescent fantasies into a blender and made a TV series out of it.
Holy shit... I finally know how to describe this to others! Thanks. I'm still trying to figure out how I didn't know about it until just recently.
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I have to imagine someone is working on making a custom "Skill".
The FCC saying "fuck it, everyone do what you want" sucks, but the most significant reason this is a problem is the monopolies that local municipalities authorize. If the state/county/city levels of government where prevented in interfering, then competition would be an actual market balancer. Smaller ISPs would happily take the droves of pissed consumers.
With the Internet being an service that inherently crosses state lines, the Federal government has every right to tell these government levels that their rules/laws are invalid.
The fight for Net Neutrality should start by freeing the last mile. Give us real options for which net we get on.
Lonely includes being sad that one has no friends or company.... they specifically sad that technology would partially satisfy our social needs. That means we aren't lonely, but just living a more solitary life.
Sounds fucking fantastic to me. My Echo has never made her problems mine to deal with.
You've got it all wrong... The conspirators are as follows:
1) Government. They want people to extend their productive years so they can keep taxing the revenue and delay Social Security.
2) The Farm industry. They want you eating "real food" so they can charge their premiums for organic produce. They need the money to pay John Deer's extortion.
3) The Shoe industry. I mean, it's obvious. They want you to wear out your shoes so you go buy new ones.
4) Media industry. With all the commercial free viewing options, a half-hour less streaming is less data they need to pay for. You're monthly rate doesn't care about your usage.
5) The medical industry. Gotta drag out those Medicare payments.
I need some mod points.... This is exactly right. Net Neutrality getting undermined and killed will only serve the media industry. Cord cutting won't be possible once all the datacaps come down and streaming services get throttled.
Right!! They probably don't have their own cell phone plan either. The 90% userbase should be all they care about. That's a ton of kids who will grow up and get account for themselves.
Videos should only be 8-15 minutes long anyways :) ... after that, my ass starts to get sore from sitting on the crapper. The longer 20+ minute videos just seem to sit in my Watch Later queue and never get watched. If I have that much time, then I'll fire up Netflix/Hulu and catchup on my actual TV shows.
Tech workers have been saying the best talent is self trained for decades. No university can teach someone how to be a passionate nerd. As for their motives.... I think it's much simpler. People with degrees want more money, so they can pay off the loans.
AMC has their "Cinema Suites". They're reserved seating (recliners) with food service and are 18+ only. Theaters are learning. One mom-pop operation near me even has a child-care option for the younger families.
You got this wrong... the court (judge) should adhere to the strict letter of the law. Legislators should just make sure they word things properly. It's the juries job through Jury Nullification to interpret the intent/justice of the law.
When a jury shows a history of dismissing a case, it nullifies the law. This is how "common law" rulings are built. Future cases get lost because the lawyers show the case history
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” - Lincoln
He isn't wrong.
And here I go thinking it was an acronym SWAG (Stuff We All Get). That's what I get for listening to Michael Scott.
It doesn't matter how dumb a kid is.... They're the target audience. After 17, life gets real damn busy. First you have four years of building debt, then you have a lifetime of trying to dig your way out of the hole.
It's the 13-17s that have so much free time that they literally can't find a way to fill the boredom. That's ad watching time.... you know... Google's only real product.
Gotta check the legal fine print on this one. Haven't most positions been retitled from "Programmer" to something else a while back? It's easy enough to talk around the skills and call the job something else.
My pfSense firewall has an alias (group of IPs) that it routes via VPN. Originally it was only my OrangePi torrent server, but with the new legislation, I've moved my phone and PC into the group. My 6 Rokus go out unprotected, but I have to imagine for security Netflix and Hulu use HTTPs for all their control signaling, so short of throttling by the ISP, I don't see them being rewarded for trying to read that data.
Even if they decide they don't have a use for it, why the hell would they crash it into the ocean. I really don't see why they wouldn't just mothball the bitch and maintain it in orbit.
Best case, it's there if they need it for something. Worst case, it's a valuable study into how an unmaintained craft holds up.
I do also like one of the previous ideas about shuttling it over to the moon. I just question how much energy it would need to overcome earths gravity and break free from it's orbit. It is a bit massive.
This will fail... they'll just file a subsidiary law firm in the favorable jurisdiction and then file from their new HQ. The only truly viable solution is to reform IP law, and that is an undertaking that no politician will go near.... unless its to give their backers even more control.
Setting up the load balancing VPN made a drastic improvement in p2p file transfers. The router is beefy though. I had an i5-650 ITX system that was a home theater until I replaced it with an Amlogic S905X Kodi box. The hardware decoding for h.265 was proving to be a requirement.
In any case, I had a perfectly good PC and needed a router. I dropped in a dual port Gigabit NIC and installed pfSense on an 8gb SSD (pulled from an HP multifunction printer). The system actually maintains 5 VPN connections. There are the 4 for PIA, then a 5th to a private OpenVPN server that serves as a bridge for my family to make sharing between each other very easy (albeit slow due to upload limitations on each end).
They already have laws that enable the police to address Cell phone drivers... they just NEVER enforce it.... It's called "reckless driving".
For Texas:
Sec. 545.401. RECKLESS DRIVING; OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an offense if the person drives a vehicle in wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by:
(1) a fine not to exceed $200;
(2) confinement in county jail for not more than 30 days; or
(3) both the fine and the confinement.
I would say that using a cell phone while driving is a clear "wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property".
With PIA I can pay annually with a Walmart giftcard I paid cash for... so "billing" isn't really an issue. As for options, my router runs the VPN, so all the quick shutdown stuff they like to promote don't really apply. I have 4 of the 5 sessions load-balanced on the router to 4 different datacenters. The 5th I reserve for my cell phone if I ever need public wifi. The load-balancing is really nice. It allows my p2p client to not be bottlenecked by a single VPN session.
PIA installed on a pfSense firewall. Then the wifi router can be put in AP mode and the tiny CPU won't bottleneck your wifi.