What if you fell into the center of the dish while doing this unrolling the last roll of foil... You might be roasted in your own juices. Unfortunately the years of brining your inner cavities with mountain dew & cheetos will not make you very succulent to your guests.
It certainly doesn't help when a new company or a town wants to build new infrastructure, but the old communications company either has an exclusivity contract in place with the city or threatens to sue the city which would result in a protracted legal battle costing the citizens millions of dollars.
You might even find this on a smaller scale where your apartment complex is locked into only one provider due to the contract they signed.
The market is such that even if competition wants to come in and foot the bill, it's not lucrative due to the way the communications companies have muddied the market. While that's going on they're busy merging with each other to amass even more power to snuff out competition.
Bandwidth for the ISP should be even cheaper for the ISP than what the OP pays for it. Where do you think your home connection ends up going to? A large datacenter run by your ISP that is located strategically to allow for the ISP to reap cheap bandwidth. On top of that, they possibly don't even pay for much bandwidth at all & instead setup peering agreements with backbone providers. Yet broadband prices keep going up. The last mile is not cheap to maintain, but a lot of the intiail costs have already been recouped as far as setting up initial infrastructure & the ISPs are very slow at upgrading or even maintaining their network.
Prices keep going up because there is no reasonable competition. Usually it's either cable for $X or DSL, that after you are forced into getting a POTS line put in and then their addt'l fees is just as much yet half the speed.
Except you have to remove Tabs Mix Plus if you want to install it, also the color scheme looks like a unicorn dragged it's ass across the left side of my browser. I also don't like the nesting. I use VertTab, but even that lacks one of the nice features of Opera's tabs, where you can click to minimize the tab, great for toggling between two websites.
When has biased media ever cut to the chase? Most everything is craftily worded to route the viewer to preconceived cookie-cutter talking points & sound bites. Almost anything on the republican side boils down to veiled hatred/racism in the guise of patriotism, religious freedom for Christians only, gay hate, tax hate & abortion hate. Pick any of those four or five talking points & that's pretty much where any conversation with the republican party boils down to.
As far as the Democrats, they are a lot of talk with out doing much at all & have their links to big business with needs that need satiated.
Neither party really gets down to the hear of the matter. You never hear hour or two hour long debates in their full on taxation in America or why x is good because of y. There's no true rebuttal. You get 30-seconds of someone going "taxes are bad" or "taxes are good", there is no substance to political debate. It's all about striking an emotional chord on hot button issues and running with it. This is a problem with all mainstream media now, as everyone has fallen in love with the money it brings. More viewers = more money, hot button issues without substance = more viewers. Everything boils down to money, marketing & power. The truth is usually left in the trash.
Can you at least agree that the environment needs some protection? I don't think people want lead in their water, asbestos in their homes or acid rain in their cities. The environment needs more protection than it currently has. Effectively shitting all over your home is not a wise decision, closing your eyes doesn't make it stink any less.
So let's restate what you're saying a bit more accurately: The goal of society and government is to benefit certain people to the detriment of other people, based on who is part of the largest group and hence has the most votes.
Your vision of the role of government sounds like mob rule to me.
Wrong, I would say it's role is to ensure a fair, equal & just society for all. This may include rebalancing that wouldn't be motivated by political influence.
Here is how our current system works & perhaps you're happier with it this way:
The goal of society and government is to benefit wealthy corporations or people to the detriment of other people, based on who can best horde wealth, buy representatives, lock out or collude with competition & exploit their work force and/or consumers.
So you want to legislate morality. We must all believe in your ethics, and anyone who doesn't follow your ethical code must be punished, and those who do should benefit.
If you wanted to say that the purpose of government is to prevent people from unjustly enriching themselves to the detriment of others, then perhaps we could agree. Then it would just be a matter of determining what is "just".
Please explain what you feel is "just" and how your answers aren't in some way fueled by ethics and morals? Basically you're saying exactly what he said, you're just using different words.
So you think that if you agree when you sign up that you won't use more than a certain amount of bandwidth, and you end up using more than that, Comcast should just have to suck it up? I'm glad I'm not doing business with you.
Uhh, no. He's talking about how they discriminated against bittorrent traffic, all the while saying they weren't doing anything. Legal, illegal, grey area torrent traffic was affected. Didn't matter. Basically it showcased that Comcast was willing to affect specific services on their network. What's to stop them from throttling hulu, youtube, comedy central, all the while prioritizing Comcast.net?
Comcast doesn't want video on the internet to succeed and would rather have you subscribe to their video service instead of entertaining the notion that they might turn into a dumb pipe someday.
I feel that, media production/distribution & data distribution should all be broken up to avoid conflict of interest and content/data monopoly. My grand dream is that your ISP provides a dumb connection to a gateway of your choice. They are not allowed to sell anything other than a dumb IP connection. If they want to sell VOIP or IPTV with that, then they will have to spin-off to another company. If they want to own content production companies(e.g. NBC studios) that too will need to be spun off into a separate entity who sells to the IPTV providers, which is accessed over the IP connection. Also there would be requirements for open access, so they can't horde or prevent a competitor from gaining access to content or distributing service over the connection.
Communication/media companies are already too large & they strongly lean towards regional monopolies. Ultimately capitalism has that fatal flaw where striving for ever greater profits / "efficiencies", usually results in companies merging and merging and merging & when they can't merge they collude with each other to shutout competition. Capitalism is almost an oxymoron because while it espouses free market ideals, it's inhabitants usually are actively pursuing the opposite of a free market.
There needs to be regulations & rules setup to maintain the market. We can't just set a basic framework and expect everyone to play by those rules forever, or for those rules to still even be valid decade after decade.
The goal of society & government is to benefit the people, not large mega telecommunications companies.
While it is unknown whether any of the men were indeed named in the WikiLeaks documents, it’s clear the Taliban believes they have been cooperating with Western forces and the Afghan government.
Part of the problem perhaps with entertainment items is that you cannot return them once purchased. It's hard to send a message to these companies that you're dissatisfied, they can go "well, we already have your money, what do we care?".
I would say that those who are producing video games need to be quite skilled to do their job. With the economy in the crapper, employers are going to be pushing the envelope in what they can get away with. Even high-end jobs that need highly skilled people can pull that BS & there aren't always jobs your sector hiring, so jumping ship is usually not an option.
"Intel's payments allegedly make up 75% of Dell's quarterly operating income? " - during SOME quarters, not all of them. Also suppressing competition can be worth sacrificing theoretical profits. Even if you only make $1 per widget, if you're the only one selling widgets, you'll still make a killing.
...and BP had their super top-dollar hat that they just put on the well standing by the entire time, but the mean.gov was making them try other solutions than the one that finally worked. B.S.
If the.gov was telling them what to do & when, it doesn't seem BP had any better ideas.
Nor am I one of those assholes who feels the government is infallible. Corruption is rife in all institutions.
Moratoriums on drilling & making BP put up $20 billion in escrow, doesn't make BPs gusher, gush any more or less. Moratorium isn't really a bad idea, as it's obvious these people do not know how to fix blown out well. The Ixtoc spill 30 years ago was in shallower waters and it took them forever to cap that well as well.
The booms & barriers issue is an interesting one, but building giant sand berms off the coast would be a major undertaking and unlikely to stop the oil as oil can just go around, unless we're going to build a giant berm around the entire gulf coast which doesn't seem feasible. Booms require constant attention, so you would need a huge workforce to do that. I don't think they are bad ideas, but they may be unfeasible.
You know, nothing pisses me off more than people responding to a post saying only "THIS". Please, keep it to yourself if that's all you can contribute. I feel bad for thewasted bandwidth and computing power that was exhausted on that little brain fart of a post.
Those fine engineers with their top hat, top kill and junkshot. BP engineers really had this one under control, only took them 91 days to get it to stop gushing. I am sure if the.gov wasn't running around holding BP responsible, the spill would have been stopped much more quickly. By magic or something.
Sure maybe they reused the same beat over and over and their lyrics were poofy, but the chicks were hot and playing with Legos while listening to Ace of Bass on the radio weren't bad times at all..
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What if you fell into the center of the dish while doing this unrolling the last roll of foil... You might be roasted in your own juices. Unfortunately the years of brining your inner cavities with mountain dew & cheetos will not make you very succulent to your guests.
It certainly doesn't help when a new company or a town wants to build new infrastructure, but the old communications company either has an exclusivity contract in place with the city or threatens to sue the city which would result in a protracted legal battle costing the citizens millions of dollars.
You might even find this on a smaller scale where your apartment complex is locked into only one provider due to the contract they signed.
The market is such that even if competition wants to come in and foot the bill, it's not lucrative due to the way the communications companies have muddied the market. While that's going on they're busy merging with each other to amass even more power to snuff out competition.
Bandwidth for the ISP should be even cheaper for the ISP than what the OP pays for it. Where do you think your home connection ends up going to? A large datacenter run by your ISP that is located strategically to allow for the ISP to reap cheap bandwidth. On top of that, they possibly don't even pay for much bandwidth at all & instead setup peering agreements with backbone providers. Yet broadband prices keep going up. The last mile is not cheap to maintain, but a lot of the intiail costs have already been recouped as far as setting up initial infrastructure & the ISPs are very slow at upgrading or even maintaining their network.
Prices keep going up because there is no reasonable competition. Usually it's either cable for $X or DSL, that after you are forced into getting a POTS line put in and then their addt'l fees is just as much yet half the speed.
Except you have to remove Tabs Mix Plus if you want to install it, also the color scheme looks like a unicorn dragged it's ass across the left side of my browser. I also don't like the nesting. I use VertTab, but even that lacks one of the nice features of Opera's tabs, where you can click to minimize the tab, great for toggling between two websites.
When has biased media ever cut to the chase? Most everything is craftily worded to route the viewer to preconceived cookie-cutter talking points & sound bites. Almost anything on the republican side boils down to veiled hatred/racism in the guise of patriotism, religious freedom for Christians only, gay hate, tax hate & abortion hate. Pick any of those four or five talking points & that's pretty much where any conversation with the republican party boils down to.
As far as the Democrats, they are a lot of talk with out doing much at all & have their links to big business with needs that need satiated.
Neither party really gets down to the hear of the matter. You never hear hour or two hour long debates in their full on taxation in America or why x is good because of y. There's no true rebuttal. You get 30-seconds of someone going "taxes are bad" or "taxes are good", there is no substance to political debate. It's all about striking an emotional chord on hot button issues and running with it. This is a problem with all mainstream media now, as everyone has fallen in love with the money it brings. More viewers = more money, hot button issues without substance = more viewers. Everything boils down to money, marketing & power. The truth is usually left in the trash.
What else should we expect from the same company that brought us PlaysForSure, which doesn't always "Play For Sure".
Can you at least agree that the environment needs some protection? I don't think people want lead in their water, asbestos in their homes or acid rain in their cities. The environment needs more protection than it currently has. Effectively shitting all over your home is not a wise decision, closing your eyes doesn't make it stink any less.
...and who is she going to call to help her hook up the new one?
So let's restate what you're saying a bit more accurately: The goal of society and government is to benefit certain people to the detriment of other people, based on who is part of the largest group and hence has the most votes.
Your vision of the role of government sounds like mob rule to me.
Wrong, I would say it's role is to ensure a fair, equal & just society for all. This may include rebalancing that wouldn't be motivated by political influence.
Here is how our current system works & perhaps you're happier with it this way:
The goal of society and government is to benefit wealthy corporations or people to the detriment of other people, based on who can best horde wealth, buy representatives, lock out or collude with competition & exploit their work force and/or consumers.
So you want to legislate morality. We must all believe in your ethics, and anyone who doesn't follow your ethical code must be punished, and those who do should benefit.
If you wanted to say that the purpose of government is to prevent people from unjustly enriching themselves to the detriment of others, then perhaps we could agree. Then it would just be a matter of determining what is "just".
Please explain what you feel is "just" and how your answers aren't in some way fueled by ethics and morals? Basically you're saying exactly what he said, you're just using different words.
So you think that if you agree when you sign up that you won't use more than a certain amount of bandwidth, and you end up using more than that, Comcast should just have to suck it up? I'm glad I'm not doing business with you.
Uhh, no. He's talking about how they discriminated against bittorrent traffic, all the while saying they weren't doing anything. Legal, illegal, grey area torrent traffic was affected. Didn't matter. Basically it showcased that Comcast was willing to affect specific services on their network. What's to stop them from throttling hulu, youtube, comedy central, all the while prioritizing Comcast.net?
Comcast doesn't want video on the internet to succeed and would rather have you subscribe to their video service instead of entertaining the notion that they might turn into a dumb pipe someday.
I feel that, media production/distribution & data distribution should all be broken up to avoid conflict of interest and content/data monopoly. My grand dream is that your ISP provides a dumb connection to a gateway of your choice. They are not allowed to sell anything other than a dumb IP connection. If they want to sell VOIP or IPTV with that, then they will have to spin-off to another company. If they want to own content production companies(e.g. NBC studios) that too will need to be spun off into a separate entity who sells to the IPTV providers, which is accessed over the IP connection. Also there would be requirements for open access, so they can't horde or prevent a competitor from gaining access to content or distributing service over the connection.
Communication/media companies are already too large & they strongly lean towards regional monopolies. Ultimately capitalism has that fatal flaw where striving for ever greater profits / "efficiencies", usually results in companies merging and merging and merging & when they can't merge they collude with each other to shutout competition. Capitalism is almost an oxymoron because while it espouses free market ideals, it's inhabitants usually are actively pursuing the opposite of a free market.
There needs to be regulations & rules setup to maintain the market. We can't just set a basic framework and expect everyone to play by those rules forever, or for those rules to still even be valid decade after decade.
The goal of society & government is to benefit the people, not large mega telecommunications companies.
From the Newsweek article you linked to:
While it is unknown whether any of the men were indeed named in the WikiLeaks documents, it’s clear the Taliban believes they have been cooperating with Western forces and the Afghan government.
...discovery doesn't have to be documentary the way History should (but sadly no longer is).
"It's Hitler Cyborg Secrets from Judeo-Christian Conspiracies of the Mayan Calendar Tech, next on Modern Marvels!"
Haters Gonna Hate,
Patent Trolls Gonna Litigate
Part of the problem perhaps with entertainment items is that you cannot return them once purchased. It's hard to send a message to these companies that you're dissatisfied, they can go "well, we already have your money, what do we care?".
I would mod you up if I hadn't just responded to your post...
I would say that those who are producing video games need to be quite skilled to do their job. With the economy in the crapper, employers are going to be pushing the envelope in what they can get away with. Even high-end jobs that need highly skilled people can pull that BS & there aren't always jobs your sector hiring, so jumping ship is usually not an option.
"Intel's payments allegedly make up 75% of Dell's quarterly operating income? " - during SOME quarters, not all of them. Also suppressing competition can be worth sacrificing theoretical profits. Even if you only make $1 per widget, if you're the only one selling widgets, you'll still make a killing.
...and BP had their super top-dollar hat that they just put on the well standing by the entire time, but the mean .gov was making them try other solutions than the one that finally worked. B.S.
If the .gov was telling them what to do & when, it doesn't seem BP had any better ideas.
Please get your fucked-up governmental regulations correct, sir. It was EPA regulations, not the Jones Act holding up the skimmers:
http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html#ixzz0sAN3FUyT
Nor am I one of those assholes who feels the government is infallible. Corruption is rife in all institutions.
Moratoriums on drilling & making BP put up $20 billion in escrow, doesn't make BPs gusher, gush any more or less. Moratorium isn't really a bad idea, as it's obvious these people do not know how to fix blown out well. The Ixtoc spill 30 years ago was in shallower waters and it took them forever to cap that well as well.
The booms & barriers issue is an interesting one, but building giant sand berms off the coast would be a major undertaking and unlikely to stop the oil as oil can just go around, unless we're going to build a giant berm around the entire gulf coast which doesn't seem feasible. Booms require constant attention, so you would need a huge workforce to do that. I don't think they are bad ideas, but they may be unfeasible.
You know, nothing pisses me off more than people responding to a post saying only "THIS". Please, keep it to yourself if that's all you can contribute. I feel bad for thewasted bandwidth and computing power that was exhausted on that little brain fart of a post.
Those fine engineers with their top hat, top kill and junkshot. BP engineers really had this one under control, only took them 91 days to get it to stop gushing. I am sure if the .gov wasn't running around holding BP responsible, the spill would have been stopped much more quickly. By magic or something.
Sure maybe they reused the same beat over and over and their lyrics were poofy, but the chicks were hot and playing with Legos while listening to Ace of Bass on the radio weren't bad times at all..
Yes it looks terrible, like something out of the 90s.
Well if you're into the FOSS philosophy, "near enough"(WebM/VP8) is better than "not at all"(H.264).