Once you've sent it to me it's not your e-mail any longer. It's mine to do as I with wish.
If it were otherwise then you're not sending me e-mail, but instead a license agreement to read your words for a limited period of time. If that's the case, then there needs to be a click-through license agreement first.
I am in favor of Net Neutrality regulations and laws, not because I like regulations and laws (I don't), but that I am finding them necessary in this case.
We supposedly have Truth in Advertising laws already on the books, but super-fast, all-you-can-eat, Internet connections are still being advertised. I'd start by applying the existing law to those claims.
I'd like to be sold a truthful amount of bandwidth (DSL tends to be more honest in this area than cable), and not some inflated peak amount that I can only hit when going to the cable sponsored local bandwidth tester site. And when I have that honest amount of bandwidth available to me, I want to be the one to set the QoS levels of my traffic within that bandwidth amount - not the cable company. When I know what I have available to me, then I can best allocate how to use it.
First the cable companies started killing BT, and other filesharing apps to some lesser degree. I believe that to have been a Red Herring. When that was complained loudly about they offered to just cap usage in general, instead of limiting certain bandwidth-intensive applications.
Who does this benefit? The cable companies, of course. Think of the business they're in. They deliver video. But so do a lot of other people on the Internet. Kill everybody else's video feeds because that is the high bandwidth application for the rest of us and pretty soon you'll only be able to receive uninterrupted HD video over your broadband connection from your local cable company. They will become a monopoly in video distribution (and charge every provider for distributing their videos), and all because we insisted that they throttle all traffic equally on their vastly oversold networks.
All they're waiting for is DOCSIS 3.0 to roll out so that they can promise us even more bandwidth that we can't use since they won't even let us used our promised current bandwidth under DOCSIS 2.0. A royal screwing is on its way if your cable ISP in particular isn't clamped down on hard by the federal government by way of the FCC.
And why does it have to be the federal government and the FCC. Because the cable companies have already managed to get all local regulation preempted by the federal government to avoid more stringent local rules, so the feds are the only ones left who are allowed to do it!
It should draw enough fire to burn it down completely.
Hey, Canada keeps telling their southern neighbor how superior they are in all regards. Here's a way to show it by not being led by the nose by the USA.
The RIAA should be required to pay every cent of the Defense's costs, as well as for pain, suffering, and time lost defending this truly meritless case! For them to say that each party must bear their own costs is beyond the Height of Arrogance, and a poke in the eye of Justice itself!
It's possible to be educated beyond your intelligence, which leaves you a clueless elite. Obviously just because some people are educated on how to get their personal computer onto the Internet, they clearly don't navigate the hazards out there very well.
Will the iPhone eventually kill the iPod? If you're going to carry a phone and an MP3 player anyway, won't you want to combine them? Especially since Apple is ripping the iTouch people for extra dosh on every upgrade.
Hmm. Clinton was impeached though. Where have you been? He was only the 2nd impeached president of the US.
You are correct. I should have said convicted. The House of Representatives impeaches, and the Senate holds a trial to convict by a 2/3's majority. While the Democrats in the House have enough votes - though not likely the courage since it is an obvious tit-for-tat response to the Clinton impeachment - for passing Articles of Impeachment, they are not close at all in the Senate for conviction and removal from office.
Dennis Kucinich is such a joke and a waste of time with is posturing. Bush isn't going to get impeached any more than Clinton was ever impeached - and for precisely the same reason. The president's own political party in each case will block it in the Senate, provided it ever gets there to start with. Kucinich is a fool, and has just demonstrated it to the world!
It would be honest to break out the charges indicating that you are buying your phone over time (typically the 2 years of your contract), and here are the actual cost of your phone, voice, and separate data charges you're paying. Then, like credit APR's , they should be required to print in the largest type in the ad/contract the cost per minute of voice, and the cost per minute/megabyte of data. That would make comparisons at least reasonably possible.
If anything this is going to do wonders for Apple iPhone sales in a downward direction. Make it even harder for them to reach the magic 10 million sales in a year -- make that 18 months now.
Seems that I first heard the boast that Apple would sell 10 million iPhones it was going to be the year (12 months) after introduction. Now that has inflated to 10 million in 18 months. Did I miss the memo?
And how did one button is all anyone ever needs now become button(s)?
Uh... because the first Intel iMac and MacBook Pro are 32-bit only?
And so we're going to be tied to 32-bits for years to come because Apple was too stupid to wait for the 64-bit processors to become available only a few months later? Why not just burn those early adopters the way Apple traditionally had burned other EA's? There aren't that many anyway, and that's a stupid excuse to hold everyone else back for years to come.
1: Claim to only "delay" Bittorrent traffic while actually killing it with reset packages.
2: When called on the carpet by the FCC, claim that you were only taking "reasonable network management" approaches.
3: Pretend to appease the FCC by claiming in the future that you will "slow all net traffic equally" when managing your network.
4: Heavy users (i.e. those streaming videos to RoKu) find this 8Mbs promised and paid for bandwidth reduced to <800Kbs rendering RoKu unable to stream. And with no onboard storage, no preloading of content ahead of viewing.
5: When Comcast video services are never slowed no matter how contested the network becomes, poo poo critics as oversensitive wusses.
Pretty much every P2P app lets you set your transmit and receive caps, but I've yet to see one that lets you automatically vary them by the time of day. Such a feature would help many of us be better good citizens about how we use our bandwidth.
If you don't want to advertise to music lovers who have extra money to spend since they're not wasting it on overpriced CD's then by all means boycott.
eBay needs a competitor who is willing to sell all the things eBay won't (lawfully acquired ivory, concert and sporting tickets of all types, legal second-hand copies of AutoCad, Scientology e-meters), along with everything else. Also one who takes payments other than PayPal. Someone like that ought to eventually eat eBay's lunch.
Protect our freedom first, then worry about our safety
It must be pointed out that without safety, and "freedom" being used as a shield for attacks against our society, there is no freedom left to protect because you aren't safe to exercise it any longer.
Alltel is a highly valuable and strategic roaming partner to the top four providers, and this acquisition would put long-term pressure on pricing and terms of those arrangements.
That alone should be more than sufficient to nix the deal. Anything that would upset the balance in the market this much should require more than stringent guarantees of access at current prices for the next century -- and not for the next 18 months as would be more likely proposed.
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If it were otherwise then you're not sending me e-mail, but instead a license agreement to read your words for a limited period of time. If that's the case, then there needs to be a click-through license agreement first.
We supposedly have Truth in Advertising laws already on the books, but super-fast, all-you-can-eat, Internet connections are still being advertised. I'd start by applying the existing law to those claims.
I'd like to be sold a truthful amount of bandwidth (DSL tends to be more honest in this area than cable), and not some inflated peak amount that I can only hit when going to the cable sponsored local bandwidth tester site. And when I have that honest amount of bandwidth available to me, I want to be the one to set the QoS levels of my traffic within that bandwidth amount - not the cable company. When I know what I have available to me, then I can best allocate how to use it.
First the cable companies started killing BT, and other filesharing apps to some lesser degree. I believe that to have been a Red Herring. When that was complained loudly about they offered to just cap usage in general, instead of limiting certain bandwidth-intensive applications.
Who does this benefit? The cable companies, of course. Think of the business they're in. They deliver video. But so do a lot of other people on the Internet. Kill everybody else's video feeds because that is the high bandwidth application for the rest of us and pretty soon you'll only be able to receive uninterrupted HD video over your broadband connection from your local cable company. They will become a monopoly in video distribution (and charge every provider for distributing their videos), and all because we insisted that they throttle all traffic equally on their vastly oversold networks.
All they're waiting for is DOCSIS 3.0 to roll out so that they can promise us even more bandwidth that we can't use since they won't even let us used our promised current bandwidth under DOCSIS 2.0. A royal screwing is on its way if your cable ISP in particular isn't clamped down on hard by the federal government by way of the FCC.
And why does it have to be the federal government and the FCC. Because the cable companies have already managed to get all local regulation preempted by the federal government to avoid more stringent local rules, so the feds are the only ones left who are allowed to do it!
Hey, Canada keeps telling their southern neighbor how superior they are in all regards. Here's a way to show it by not being led by the nose by the USA.
The RIAA should be required to pay every cent of the Defense's costs, as well as for pain, suffering, and time lost defending this truly meritless case! For them to say that each party must bear their own costs is beyond the Height of Arrogance, and a poke in the eye of Justice itself!
It's possible to be educated beyond your intelligence, which leaves you a clueless elite. Obviously just because some people are educated on how to get their personal computer onto the Internet, they clearly don't navigate the hazards out there very well.
Will the iPhone eventually kill the iPod? If you're going to carry a phone and an MP3 player anyway, won't you want to combine them? Especially since Apple is ripping the iTouch people for extra dosh on every upgrade.
You are correct. I should have said convicted. The House of Representatives impeaches, and the Senate holds a trial to convict by a 2/3's majority. While the Democrats in the House have enough votes - though not likely the courage since it is an obvious tit-for-tat response to the Clinton impeachment - for passing Articles of Impeachment, they are not close at all in the Senate for conviction and removal from office.
Dennis Kucinich is such a joke and a waste of time with is posturing. Bush isn't going to get impeached any more than Clinton was ever impeached - and for precisely the same reason. The president's own political party in each case will block it in the Senate, provided it ever gets there to start with. Kucinich is a fool, and has just demonstrated it to the world!
It would be honest to break out the charges indicating that you are buying your phone over time (typically the 2 years of your contract), and here are the actual cost of your phone, voice, and separate data charges you're paying. Then, like credit APR's , they should be required to print in the largest type in the ad/contract the cost per minute of voice, and the cost per minute/megabyte of data. That would make comparisons at least reasonably possible.
So where are the advertising watchdogs?
If anything this is going to do wonders for Apple iPhone sales in a downward direction. Make it even harder for them to reach the magic 10 million sales in a year -- make that 18 months now.
I think I'd know.
Oh, there goes one now!
And how did one button is all anyone ever needs now become button(s)?
And so we're going to be tied to 32-bits for years to come because Apple was too stupid to wait for the 64-bit processors to become available only a few months later? Why not just burn those early adopters the way Apple traditionally had burned other EA's? There aren't that many anyway, and that's a stupid excuse to hold everyone else back for years to come.
1: Claim to only "delay" Bittorrent traffic while actually killing it with reset packages.
2: When called on the carpet by the FCC, claim that you were only taking "reasonable network management" approaches.
3: Pretend to appease the FCC by claiming in the future that you will "slow all net traffic equally" when managing your network.
4: Heavy users (i.e. those streaming videos to RoKu) find this 8Mbs promised and paid for bandwidth reduced to <800Kbs rendering RoKu unable to stream. And with no onboard storage, no preloading of content ahead of viewing.
5: When Comcast video services are never slowed no matter how contested the network becomes, poo poo critics as oversensitive wusses.
6: PROFIT!
Pretty much every P2P app lets you set your transmit and receive caps, but I've yet to see one that lets you automatically vary them by the time of day. Such a feature would help many of us be better good citizens about how we use our bandwidth.
Okay, I've been waiting for a good 3D rendering of The Pirate Bay -- and all those cute blonde Swedish girls they mention.
I just take them apart and reassemble them as solved.
So much brainpower spent on trying to figure out a toy.
If you don't want to advertise to music lovers who have extra money to spend since they're not wasting it on overpriced CD's then by all means boycott.
How about that they do it right finally and have it only run on 64-bit Intel (or AMD) hardware?
eBay needs a competitor who is willing to sell all the things eBay won't (lawfully acquired ivory, concert and sporting tickets of all types, legal second-hand copies of AutoCad, Scientology e-meters), along with everything else. Also one who takes payments other than PayPal. Someone like that ought to eventually eat eBay's lunch.
With the reduction of providers competing for your business from 2 to 1, do not expect your rates to be going down any time soon.
You're foolish enough to think that a VZ and AT merger will benefit you as gaining the feature set of VZ + AT = both of you.
Expect more likely, both of you = - (VZ + AT).
It must be pointed out that without safety, and "freedom" being used as a shield for attacks against our society, there is no freedom left to protect because you aren't safe to exercise it any longer.
That alone should be more than sufficient to nix the deal. Anything that would upset the balance in the market this much should require more than stringent guarantees of access at current prices for the next century -- and not for the next 18 months as would be more likely proposed.