For $40 you get a guaranteed MINIMUM bandwidth of X with a potential to burst to Y.
And "backward" countries like China (Hongkong) offer 100MB of bandwidth for $48. That's their "entry" offer.
Taxpayers funded the gov organization (DARPA) which created the Internet. How did it come to be "owned" by the corporations? The same way the White man stole the land from the Indians. When you own the law you make the rules.
So, how is spinning a neutral liquid metal going to create an electric field?
Are they hoping that rotating Sodium will be like moving a solid piece of Iron through the magnetic field of the earth, inducing current in the Sodium, which then creates a secondary EMF, which then creates a secondary magnetic field...?
Without Earth's magnetic field are they lifting themselves by their own bootstraps?
BUT, the reason why Gates liked Win95 was that it marked the beginning of their illegal contracts with the OEMs, which prevented the OEMs from putting any other OS or desktop on their PCs, thus beginning 13 years of monopoly which created the massive stockpile of cash that made Gates the richest man in the world.
Win 3.11 FWG offered 32 bit protected mode, true apartment model multitasking, built in networking, remote desktop connections, and minimized the need for DOS. It was much better than Win 3.1 and, as history has shown, was superior to Win95 in speed and stability. Win95 was SO buggy, unstable and insecure that the ONLY WAY they could force people to stay with it was to make sure that it was their ONLY CHOICE. Monopolies do that.
Where was the FTC and the DOJ while this was taking place?
During Clinton's last term the DOJ brought action against Microsoft, not for violating the Sherman-Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which they surely did, but for "bundling" some apps with the Win95. Regardless, they won the case and the appeal, and Judge Jackson was sure that the only way to protect the American public was to break up Microsoft, just the way AT&T was broken up some years before.
Bill Gates must believe in miracles because he got one. George Bush defeated Al Gore and one of his first acts was to replace the successful DOJ team with a new team and changed their mission from one of prosecution to co-conspiracy.
Seizing the opportunity, and being the scofflaw that they are, Microsoft created a phony "grass roots" campaign (James Pendergrast led it and it became known as "astroturfing") accusing the government of "attacking" Microsoft because it was a "successful" corporate enterprise and the government was infested with anti-capitalist socialist. Congressmen even received letters with signatures of people whose place of residence were cemeteries! Despite that blatant abuse, and through political back room deals and payoffs, they got Judge Jackson replaced on the bench with a hyphenated name judge who was more compliant and had been given paid vacations to resorts where "law seminars" were taught on how to circumvent, from the bench, the codified restrictions on illegal and/or immoral business practices. This replacement judge was "successful" (how hard could it be to give up?) in negotiating an "agreement" with Microsoft which was so weak it was worthless precisely because it was toothless. And, to make sure Microsoft abides by this "agreement", the judge assigned three monitors to watch over Microsoft to be sure they didn't violate the "agreement", even though it was toothless. Microsoft didn't mind because they were given the privileged of choosing two of the three monitors. Not only that, the monitors were given offices on Microsoft's campus, where Microsoft could watch over and control them! Such a deal. One every convicted felon could only wish for. Not only that, the "agreement" effectively ended any chance of prosecuting Microsoft for other crimes and gave them carte blanc to continue similar crimes without fear of prosecution.
Strangely, Enron Chief Executive Officer Ken Lay publicly stated that the best way to view Enron was as the Microsoft of the energy field. Let's trust Lay, a Ph.D. economist, and examine Enron through a Microsoft-style window.... The most important tool Enron used to inflate its earnings was its ability to pay wages and other expenses in stock rather than cash.
More than 90 percent of all the wages paid to Enron executives were paid in stock, not cash. Investors often forget that all it takes to create new stock is a resolution of the board of directors and a photocopier.
Remarkably, the Internal Revenue Service allows a tax deduction for wages paid in stock, yet these same wages are not required to be charged as an expense to the income statement the public sees.
If you were operating a business, wouldn't you love to give your banker an income statement that excluded half of your wage ex
in the past we liberated people and today we do the opposite.
We are doing the same thing here, too.
The "PATRIOT" ACT has destroyed to Constitution and the Bill of Right and the Judicial branch is too absorbed in its own oppressive political agenda to care. If you or your friend or the local library gets a letter from the FBI they are prevented from talking about it to anyone. You can't even tell your wife. Even if THEY decide you are innocent, if they found out you told your wife you'd go to prison for years.
The RICCO ACT has become an alternate funding source for law enforcement agencies and has allowed the cops to become the crooks. Get some jail house snitch to claim you sold him drugs, just to cut a deal for himself, and you'll be the victim of a 3 AM raid. They will steal all your property of any value and either keep it or fence it. Even if you prove yourself innocent (how about that reversal of law!) the RICCO ACT doesn't require that they return your property because it has been declared "guilty".
Nothing will be done about these situations because Congress has learned that they can BUY their way into remaining in office by adding "earmarks" (a euphemism for pork barrel spending) to bills which are nothing more than paying their constituents to vote for them. When the graft of such self serving activity was pointed out to many of them they got "clever" and began voting for earmarks for other congressmen who had promised to vote for THEIR earmarks.
You, apparently, don't mind being paid to vote for your current congressmen, especially if it funds your drugs and porn.
And you wonder why the current political process is such a joke.
It's not the DOE's fault. The Congress and Senate slashed the budget, not the DOE.
Exactly.
We need to whack about 50% of the Congress and Senate, then whack their health insurance plan by 50%, so that they can come back down to Earth and learn to live like the rest of us.
Ya, sure you do. And Ballmer uses Linux on his laptop and contributes to FOSS too.
I use VS2003/C++ to write GUI front ends to Oracle at work using Qt4. I use the same source on Linux with Kate as the editor. Kate is lighter, faster, has just as reliable code completion, and with Kdbg debugging is gui too, and is also faster and gives more info.
My PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe powered laptop using KDE 3.5.9 has MORE power than XP Pro. It will have EVEN MORE power when KDE 4.1 arrives.
Using XP gives me the feeling of wearing handcuffs and having Big Brother over my shoulder telling me what I can and can't do.
I find it amazing how people who were all "visualize world peace", "think of the children", "let's sing cumbaya", and "brotherhood of mankind" who became part of the OLPC community via the G1G1 program can turn on a dime and be so vitriolic, judgmental, intolerant, and cynical when people don't fall lock-step into their beliefs.
I fit NONE of those groups, but giving to poor kids laptops that will force them into a proprietary lock-in to a twice convicted monopolist, briber of ISO standards, etc., is criminal. It's like letting Al Capone handle the beer concession.
To support a proprietary lock-in scheme suggests you have a stock interest in Microsoft, or are an employee of Microsoft, or depend upon Microsoft products for your living. I am in NON of those groups either.
After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980's.
Federal and Congressional investigators have issued subpoenas for the documents since 1994, and the White House has said it did not have them. The originals disappeared from the Rose Law Firm, in which Mrs. Clinton was a partner, shortly before Mr. Clinton took office.... Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, Republican of New York, tonight called the discovery of the copies of the records "the second miraculous discovery within the past 24 hours."
Mr. D'Amato, who is chairman of the Senate Whitewater committee, was referring to the disclosure on Thursday of a two-year-old memorandum written by a former Presidential aide. The memorandum said that Mrs. Clinton had played a far greater role in the dismissal of employees of the White House travel office than the Administration has acknowledged.
By their sheer volume -- 115 pages -- and the variety of contacts and conferences they document, the Rose billing records raise new questions about Mrs. Clinton's account of her work that are likely to give new impetus to investigations in Congress and by Federal prosecutors.
For example, the records, which refer to Mrs. Clinton at various points as H.R.C., Hillary Clinton or H. Clinton, show she billed Madison for more than a dozen discussions with an Arkansas businessman, Seth Ward. Mr. Ward played a leading role in one of Madison's largest losses, a $4 million land deal that regulators later criticized the Rose firm for helping structure. Mr. Ward is the father-in-law of the former associate attorney general, Webster L. Hubbell, who was also a partner in the Rose firm.
The release of the records is the latest of several instances in which the Clinton White House has declared a document search to be exhaustive, only to later stumble on important material. For example, White House officials initially said that Vincent W. Foster Jr., the deputy White House counsel, left no indication of why he committed suicide on July 20, 1993. But later, an aide found the remnants of a note describing Mr. Foster's disenchantment with Washington.
mmmm... I wasn't aware that a "non-violent" thief was immune to shotgun pellets or slugs. Is that just the.410 shells or does the immunity include 12 gage as well?
Perhaps you should inform the Police and security agencies that their favorite choice of weapon is useless against such a well shielded adversary. I'm sure they will be glad to know BEFORE they trust their lives to such a useless weapon.
the poor in underdeveloped countries enter the digital age by creating a really inexpensive laptop and equipping it with a free operating system so the OS won't cost as much as the laptop and the people won't have to pay license fees to the world's richest person.
Well, the world's richest person won't have none of that. When attempts are made to get you to put an SD port on the laptop fails, the next step is to get rid of the employee who is opposing the "Secure Digital" port. Method? Pay off his boss? Net result? He's demoted, other employees are told not to report to him so he has nothing to do and no one to do it with. His position is eliminated and what he used to do is now done by a technical Luddite who takes orders from someone else. The laptop now has an SD port and can run Microsoft's XP. Too bad it will be too expensive for the poor to use. Was that the game plan to begin with?
Moon dust agitated by the passage of the terminator line may account for several things, including the gradual erosion of the footprints left on the Moon by the astronauts, but it won't explain problems due to the Earth's magnetotail.
In all diagrams of the Earth's magnetic shield and tail one notices that the Earth is at the strongest point of the Magnetic field, and that the Moon is 60 Earth radii away from source of the magnetic fields. Compared to the magnetic field at the surface of the Earth the magnetic field strength in the vicinity of the Moon must be at least 8.6e^-19 weaker. Electrostatic effects of the passage of the Solar Wind must be MUCH stronger, and the astronauts were fully exposed to that with no appreciable harm or side effects.
"the patent office was incompetent when it came to space matters".
To "space matters." ??
Some corporate bozo just found out the incompetence of the USTPO isn't just in software patents, it's stupidity crosses ALL boundaries and affects every activity, personal or otherwise.
Giant corporations and multinationals have purchased the USTPO lock, stock and barrel. It's snuggled up in their pockets right next to the USDept Of Justice, our Congress, and those Judges who are given expensive trips to re-educate them in ways they can help corporations circumvent the Sherman-Clayton Anti-Trust Act, and other laws.
Windows PROPRIETARY formats, of course. By virtue of its illegal desktop MONOPOLY what ever format Microsoft rolls out for any file automatically becomes the default "standard", no voting or user approval necessary, even IF everyone else has to pay to use it, which they will.
Nice way to neutralize all competition, too.
I have little doubt that this was the plan all along.
All they had to do was to grea$e as few wheel$, both corporate and political, and the deal was done, just the way Al Capone greased the Police, Judges and politicians of Chicago.
So, folks, you'll soon find out how painful it will be to live in a "Chicago-style" PC environment where Steve "Big Al" Ballmer calls all the shots. Don't worry, he'll set up soup-lines for all you starving programmers out there, just the way Al Capone setup up soup-lines for, and gave small, trival jobs to Chicagoans, as long as they didn't complain about his illegal activities or the shoddy quality of his alcohol.
Crawford added that what America needs is "access to a general communication structure that is open with universal access," a notion characterized by Russell as a "tragic mistake" and invoked an image of a single, regulated monopoly.
"More pipes into the home is the key," Russell said.
We already have "more pipes" and their bandwidths are too narrow and too expensive. We pay $70 for 10MB and many European and Asian countries pay $15 for 40MB to 100MB.
We should have had a PUBLICLY OWNED 100GB optical fiber pipe across the nation FIFTEEN YEARS AGO but the cable and telcos reniged on their promise to build it after Congress gave them to money to do so in order to prevent local governments from building their own. Much of that pipe my city government installed is still buried and is still good. One line goes under my yard. We should demand that the cable and telcos FULFILL their promise and finish the job they were paid to do, and finish it without being paid a single penny more or raising their rates. That's right... take it out of the profits and stockholder dividends. The stockholder's didn't mind receiving windfall dividends while the cable and telcos management was taking the money and paying themselves huge salaries and bonuses and giving those dividends. It's time to pay up, with interest... just like they'd charge.
Since the US Military no longer uses shortwave radio a shoot down of our communication & GPS satellites would make us blind and deaf.
This project reduces the size and increases the number of putative targets the Chinese anti-satellite missiles would have to hit to eliminate our space born communication, tracking and attack systems.
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For $40 you get a guaranteed MINIMUM bandwidth of X with a potential to burst to Y.
And "backward" countries like China (Hongkong) offer 100MB of bandwidth for $48. That's their "entry" offer.
Taxpayers funded the gov organization (DARPA) which created the Internet. How did it come to be "owned" by the corporations? The same way the White man stole the land from the Indians. When you own the law you make the rules.
So, how is spinning a neutral liquid metal going to create an electric field?
Are they hoping that rotating Sodium will be like moving a solid piece of Iron through the magnetic field of the earth, inducing current in the Sodium, which then creates a secondary EMF, which then creates a secondary magnetic field...?
Without Earth's magnetic field are they lifting themselves by their own bootstraps?
BUT, the reason why Gates liked Win95 was that it marked the beginning of their illegal contracts with the OEMs, which prevented the OEMs from putting any other OS or desktop on their PCs, thus beginning 13 years of monopoly which created the massive stockpile of cash that made Gates the richest man in the world.
...
Win 3.11 FWG offered 32 bit protected mode, true apartment model multitasking, built in networking, remote desktop connections, and minimized the need for DOS. It was much better than Win 3.1 and, as history has shown, was superior to Win95 in speed and stability. Win95 was SO buggy, unstable and insecure that the ONLY WAY they could force people to stay with it was to make sure that it was their ONLY CHOICE. Monopolies do that.
Where was the FTC and the DOJ while this was taking place?
During Clinton's last term the DOJ brought action against Microsoft, not for violating the Sherman-Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which they surely did, but for "bundling" some apps with the Win95. Regardless, they won the case and the appeal, and Judge Jackson was sure that the only way to protect the American public was to break up Microsoft, just the way AT&T was broken up some years before.
Bill Gates must believe in miracles because he got one. George Bush defeated Al Gore and one of his first acts was to replace the successful DOJ team with a new team and changed their mission from one of prosecution to co-conspiracy.
Seizing the opportunity, and being the scofflaw that they are, Microsoft created a phony "grass roots" campaign (James Pendergrast led it and it became known as "astroturfing") accusing the government of "attacking" Microsoft because it was a "successful" corporate enterprise and the government was infested with anti-capitalist socialist. Congressmen even received letters with signatures of people whose place of residence were cemeteries! Despite that blatant abuse, and through political back room deals and payoffs, they got Judge Jackson replaced on the bench with a hyphenated name judge who was more compliant and had been given paid vacations to resorts where "law seminars" were taught on how to circumvent, from the bench, the codified restrictions on illegal and/or immoral business practices. This replacement judge was "successful" (how hard could it be to give up?) in negotiating an "agreement" with Microsoft which was so weak it was worthless precisely because it was toothless. And, to make sure Microsoft abides by this "agreement", the judge assigned three monitors to watch over Microsoft to be sure they didn't violate the "agreement", even though it was toothless. Microsoft didn't mind because they were given the privileged of choosing two of the three monitors. Not only that, the monitors were given offices on Microsoft's campus, where Microsoft could watch over and control them! Such a deal. One every convicted felon could only wish for. Not only that, the "agreement" effectively ended any chance of prosecuting Microsoft for other crimes and gave them carte blanc to continue similar crimes without fear of prosecution.
Strangely, Enron Chief Executive Officer Ken Lay publicly stated that the best way to view Enron was as the Microsoft of the energy field. Let's trust Lay, a Ph.D. economist, and examine Enron through a Microsoft-style window.
The most important tool Enron used to inflate its earnings was its ability to pay wages and other expenses in stock rather than cash.
More than 90 percent of all the wages paid to Enron executives were paid in stock, not cash. Investors often forget that all it takes to create new stock is a resolution of the board of directors and a photocopier.
Remarkably, the Internal Revenue Service allows a tax deduction for wages paid in stock, yet these same wages are not required to be charged as an expense to the income statement the public sees.
If you were operating a business, wouldn't you love to give your banker an income statement that excluded half of your wage ex
We are doing the same thing here, too.
The "PATRIOT" ACT has destroyed to Constitution and the Bill of Right and the Judicial branch is too absorbed in its own oppressive political agenda to care. If you or your friend or the local library gets a letter from the FBI they are prevented from talking about it to anyone. You can't even tell your wife. Even if THEY decide you are innocent, if they found out you told your wife you'd go to prison for years.
The RICCO ACT has become an alternate funding source for law enforcement agencies and has allowed the cops to become the crooks. Get some jail house snitch to claim you sold him drugs, just to cut a deal for himself, and you'll be the victim of a 3 AM raid. They will steal all your property of any value and either keep it or fence it. Even if you prove yourself innocent (how about that reversal of law!) the RICCO ACT doesn't require that they return your property because it has been declared "guilty".
Nothing will be done about these situations because Congress has learned that they can BUY their way into remaining in office by adding "earmarks" (a euphemism for pork barrel spending) to bills which are nothing more than paying their constituents to vote for them. When the graft of such self serving activity was pointed out to many of them they got "clever" and began voting for earmarks for other congressmen who had promised to vote for THEIR earmarks.
You, apparently, don't mind being paid to vote for your current congressmen, especially if it funds your drugs and porn.
And you wonder why the current political process is such a joke.
The Congress and Senate slashed the budget, not the DOE.
Exactly.
We need to whack about 50% of the Congress and Senate, then whack their health insurance plan by 50%, so that they can come back down to Earth and learn to live like the rest of us.
He always won 100% of the vote in Cuba's elections, even when "opponents" were given opportunities to "run".
The OEM desktop is just about as "free" as Cuba's politics, and Linux is given as much latitude as Castro's opponents.
(nt)
Ya, sure you do. And Ballmer uses Linux on his laptop and contributes to FOSS too.
I use VS2003/C++ to write GUI front ends to Oracle at work using Qt4. I use the same source on Linux with Kate as the editor. Kate is lighter, faster, has just as reliable code completion, and with Kdbg debugging is gui too, and is also faster and gives more info.
My PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe powered laptop using KDE 3.5.9 has MORE power than XP Pro. It will have EVEN MORE power when KDE 4.1 arrives.
Using XP gives me the feeling of wearing handcuffs and having Big Brother over my shoulder telling me what I can and can't do.
I fit NONE of those groups, but giving to poor kids laptops that will force them into a proprietary lock-in to a twice convicted monopolist, briber of ISO standards, etc., is criminal. It's like letting Al Capone handle the beer concession.
To support a proprietary lock-in scheme suggests you have a stock interest in Microsoft, or are an employee of Microsoft, or depend upon Microsoft products for your living. I am in NON of those groups either.
I doubt you are "sorry" and you are also wrong.
It can't be done on "nonF/OSS" IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD the "nonF/OSS". That WAS the whole point of the OLPC, before NN sold out to Microsoft.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE4D81239F935A35752C0A960958260
...
After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980's.
Federal and Congressional investigators have issued subpoenas for the documents since 1994, and the White House has said it did not have them. The originals disappeared from the Rose Law Firm, in which Mrs. Clinton was a partner, shortly before Mr. Clinton took office.
Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, Republican of New York, tonight called the discovery of the copies of the records "the second miraculous discovery within the past 24 hours."
Mr. D'Amato, who is chairman of the Senate Whitewater committee, was referring to the disclosure on Thursday of a two-year-old memorandum written by a former Presidential aide. The memorandum said that Mrs. Clinton had played a far greater role in the dismissal of employees of the White House travel office than the Administration has acknowledged.
By their sheer volume -- 115 pages -- and the variety of contacts and conferences they document, the Rose billing records raise new questions about Mrs. Clinton's account of her work that are likely to give new impetus to investigations in Congress and by Federal prosecutors.
For example, the records, which refer to Mrs. Clinton at various points as H.R.C., Hillary Clinton or H. Clinton, show she billed Madison for more than a dozen discussions with an Arkansas businessman, Seth Ward. Mr. Ward played a leading role in one of Madison's largest losses, a $4 million land deal that regulators later criticized the Rose firm for helping structure. Mr. Ward is the father-in-law of the former associate attorney general, Webster L. Hubbell, who was also a partner in the Rose firm.
The release of the records is the latest of several instances in which the Clinton White House has declared a document search to be exhaustive, only to later stumble on important material. For example, White House officials initially said that Vincent W. Foster Jr., the deputy White House counsel, left no indication of why he committed suicide on July 20, 1993. But later, an aide found the remnants of a note describing Mr. Foster's disenchantment with Washington.
PC Psychology problem.
The cases of people protecting their homes, stores, property or person with firearms aren't "few in number", they are just under reported by a media that is anti 2nd Amendment.
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/Information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1746
mmmm... I wasn't aware that a "non-violent" thief was immune to shotgun pellets or slugs. Is that just the .410 shells or does the immunity include 12 gage as well?
Perhaps you should inform the Police and security agencies that their favorite choice of weapon is useless against such a well shielded adversary. I'm sure they will be glad to know BEFORE they trust their lives to such a useless weapon.
the poor in underdeveloped countries enter the digital age by creating a really inexpensive laptop and equipping it with a free operating system so the OS won't cost as much as the laptop and the people won't have to pay license fees to the world's richest person.
Well, the world's richest person won't have none of that. When attempts are made to get you to put an SD port on the laptop fails, the next step is to get rid of the employee who is opposing the "Secure Digital" port. Method? Pay off his boss? Net result? He's demoted, other employees are told not to report to him so he has nothing to do and no one to do it with. His position is eliminated and what he used to do is now done by a technical Luddite who takes orders from someone else. The laptop now has an SD port and can run Microsoft's XP. Too bad it will be too expensive for the poor to use. Was that the game plan to begin with?
nt
ROF, llllllllll X 10000 :-)
That Ballmer is a real cut-up!!!
Moon dust agitated by the passage of the terminator line may account for several things, including the gradual erosion of the footprints left on the Moon by the astronauts, but it won't explain problems due to the Earth's magnetotail.
In all diagrams of the Earth's magnetic shield and tail one notices that the Earth is at the strongest point of the Magnetic field, and that the Moon is 60 Earth radii away from source of the magnetic fields. Compared to the magnetic field at the surface of the Earth the magnetic field strength in the vicinity of the Moon must be at least 8.6e^-19 weaker. Electrostatic effects of the passage of the Solar Wind must be MUCH stronger, and the astronauts were fully exposed to that with no appreciable harm or side effects.
Microsoft tweaks their Windows desktops and servers to eliminate compatibility with SAMBA and Linux, thus driving Linux OUT OF THE SERVER ROOM.
To "space matters." ??
Some corporate bozo just found out the incompetence of the USTPO isn't just in software patents, it's stupidity crosses ALL boundaries and affects every activity, personal or otherwise.
Giant corporations and multinationals have purchased the USTPO lock, stock and barrel. It's snuggled up in their pockets right next to the USDept Of Justice, our Congress, and those Judges who are given expensive trips to re-educate them in ways they can help corporations circumvent the Sherman-Clayton Anti-Trust Act, and other laws.
Windows PROPRIETARY formats, of course. By virtue of its illegal desktop MONOPOLY what ever format Microsoft rolls out for any file automatically becomes the default "standard", no voting or user approval necessary, even IF everyone else has to pay to use it, which they will.
Nice way to neutralize all competition, too.
I have little doubt that this was the plan all along.
All they had to do was to grea$e as few wheel$, both corporate and political, and the deal was done, just the way Al Capone greased the Police, Judges and politicians of Chicago.
So, folks, you'll soon find out how painful it will be to live in a "Chicago-style" PC environment where Steve "Big Al" Ballmer calls all the shots.
Don't worry, he'll set up soup-lines for all you starving programmers out there, just the way Al Capone setup up soup-lines for, and gave small, trival jobs to Chicagoans, as long as they didn't complain about his illegal activities or the shoddy quality of his alcohol.
right on top of active volcanoes and an earthquake prone island.
Yup.
time for the proper people to be paid off, thus assuring the continuation of the patent.
"More pipes into the home is the key," Russell said.
We already have "more pipes" and their bandwidths are too narrow and too expensive. We pay $70 for 10MB and many European and Asian countries pay $15 for 40MB to 100MB.
We should have had a PUBLICLY OWNED 100GB optical fiber pipe across the nation FIFTEEN YEARS AGO but the cable and telcos reniged on their promise to build it after Congress gave them to money to do so in order to prevent local governments from building their own. Much of that pipe my city government installed is still buried and is still good. One line goes under my yard. We should demand that the cable and telcos FULFILL their promise and finish the job they were paid to do, and finish it without being paid a single penny more or raising their rates. That's right... take it out of the profits and stockholder dividends. The stockholder's didn't mind receiving windfall dividends while the cable and telcos management was taking the money and paying themselves huge salaries and bonuses and giving those dividends. It's time to pay up, with interest... just like they'd charge.
Nah.
Since the US Military no longer uses shortwave radio a shoot down of our communication & GPS satellites would make us blind and deaf.
This project reduces the size and increases the number of putative targets the Chinese anti-satellite missiles would have to hit to eliminate our space born communication, tracking and attack systems.