Corporations, which — like EZ-Pass — are given monopoly by the government.
The government gives monopolies to all sorts of companies. This is nothing new. Though in this case it's the state governments doing the granting rather than the feds. I thought your type was all states rights nonsense.
The government's threats against us evolve and aren't limited to the old known evil of unwarranted eavesdropping.
What that has to do with cars is beyond me.
The Senator in TFA is scoring cheap points by harking at car-manufacturers over imaginary threats from hypothetical hackers, rather than going after the clear and present dangers enumerated.
You mean the threat of your car being tracked by EZ-Pass? The threat you can avoid BY NOT TAKING TOLL ROADS.
Somewhere in Chicago a community is missing its organizer.
And you seem to be missing any sort of common sense. I'm done with you.
They call themselves "Coalition of the Radical Left", so since you're fine identifying them as 'radical left-wing' rather than their proper name, you seem to be part of the 'every'.
Back in the earliyish days of cell phones (1994ish) I had a cell phone that would cause my computer speakers to power off about a half second before the phone would ring.
I don't think the entire 9.99EUR goes to the labels for distirbution. Spotify needs to keep some of that in order to run their operations, and I can't imagine that's cheap.
How about getting rid of "this light bulb uses 3 times less power than this other one!". It's not mathematically correct to say. You can day "bulb a uses 30% of the power of bulb b" or "bulb b requires three times the power of bulb a", but saying that something is three times less just makes no sense.
I'd argue that a taxpayer would have more of a say than a customer - a taxpayer is a voter and can make enough noise with neighbors to actually get something to happen. Believe me, it's happened in my town and not in a good way(IMO), but voters have a tremendous power that customers just do not have. A group of 20 people complaining during a town meeting will be far more effective than the same 20 people at Verizon's shareholder meeting. All politics is local.
You said:
For each issue I've taken an active stand in, about twenty vocal fuzzy-warm feel-good liberal nitwits captivated the imagination of the small minded city council members who thought their actions would be world-changing events.
Yes, it would be preferable for a company to do the buildout - they're probably doing it for other towns and might be able to do it cheaper and with better expertise than a town trying to do it by themselves. Then again, they have to make a profit and thus it might not be profitable for them to go into an area (as is the case here apparently).
I'd argue that a taxpayer would have more of a say than a customer - a taxpayer is a voter and can make enough noise with neighbors to actually get something to happen. Believe me, it's happened in my town and not in a good way(IMO), but voters have a tremendous power that customers just do not have. A group of 20 people complaining during a town meeting will be far more effective than the same 20 people at Verizon's shareholder meeting. All politics is local.
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64-bit CPU, 8 cores, and 10x the speed (in Dhrystone VAX MIPS) for about 3x the cost. The more players in this space the better is my thought.
My argument was reducto ad absurdem.[sic]
Hey, you said it.
Oh please. You're comparing taking a toll road to having a house? Get real.
Corporations, which — like EZ-Pass — are given monopoly by the government.
The government gives monopolies to all sorts of companies. This is nothing new. Though in this case it's the state governments doing the granting rather than the feds. I thought your type was all states rights nonsense.
The government's threats against us evolve and aren't limited to the old known evil of unwarranted eavesdropping.
What that has to do with cars is beyond me.
The Senator in TFA is scoring cheap points by harking at car-manufacturers over imaginary threats from hypothetical hackers, rather than going after the clear and present dangers enumerated.
You mean the threat of your car being tracked by EZ-Pass? The threat you can avoid BY NOT TAKING TOLL ROADS.
Somewhere in Chicago a community is missing its organizer.
And you seem to be missing any sort of common sense. I'm done with you.
I'm not accepting anything since you haven't really made any point. So thanks for at least admitting you were wrong.
I countered that statement (not entirely accurate one, BTW),
Oh this should be good. Why is it not accurate?
I'm not sure what you're getting at.
You're not required to take a toll road.
No, but you seem to be.
Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should.
They call themselves "Coalition of the Radical Left", so since you're fine identifying them as 'radical left-wing' rather than their proper name, you seem to be part of the 'every'.
Yes, because every person that identifies with liberal policies is a radical left wing. Thanks for being part of the problem.
Stop it.
I'm sure that's the case, but I've never had a cell phone since that had that kind of an effect on other systems.
Back in the earliyish days of cell phones (1994ish) I had a cell phone that would cause my computer speakers to power off about a half second before the phone would ring.
I'm terribly sorry you're unable to read.
Because lady parts
I don't think the entire 9.99EUR goes to the labels for distirbution. Spotify needs to keep some of that in order to run their operations, and I can't imagine that's cheap.
How about getting rid of "this light bulb uses 3 times less power than this other one!". It's not mathematically correct to say. You can day "bulb a uses 30% of the power of bulb b" or "bulb b requires three times the power of bulb a", but saying that something is three times less just makes no sense.
Meanwhile, no competing service could possibly appear — because you can not "fight city hall".
Cell phones aren't competing?
I said:
I'd argue that a taxpayer would have more of a say than a customer - a taxpayer is a voter and can make enough noise with neighbors to actually get something to happen. Believe me, it's happened in my town and not in a good way(IMO), but voters have a tremendous power that customers just do not have. A group of 20 people complaining during a town meeting will be far more effective than the same 20 people at Verizon's shareholder meeting. All politics is local.
You said:
For each issue I've taken an active stand in, about twenty vocal fuzzy-warm feel-good liberal nitwits captivated the imagination of the small minded city council members who thought their actions would be world-changing events.
You proved my point.
Soo.....you proved my point.
Because free wifi across an entire city is exactly the same as paid high speed internet in small towns.
You aren't active in your local government, are you? Your loss.
Yes, it would be preferable for a company to do the buildout - they're probably doing it for other towns and might be able to do it cheaper and with better expertise than a town trying to do it by themselves. Then again, they have to make a profit and thus it might not be profitable for them to go into an area (as is the case here apparently).
I'd argue that a taxpayer would have more of a say than a customer - a taxpayer is a voter and can make enough noise with neighbors to actually get something to happen. Believe me, it's happened in my town and not in a good way(IMO), but voters have a tremendous power that customers just do not have. A group of 20 people complaining during a town meeting will be far more effective than the same 20 people at Verizon's shareholder meeting. All politics is local.