The rights are still there. Even in cases of imminent domain, the locality in question must give you fair market value if they forcibly take the property. If you are using land attached to public improvements, the community justifiably will expect you to pay your share of those common improvements (read: roads, sewers, sanitation etc.). Like all "rights," property rights are creations of the state. Without the state, your rights are only as valid as your ability to kill or be killed.
While we're at it, why don't we just abolish property rights entirely. You know, just because you occupied that house first shouldn't stand in the way of me moving in, locking you out and cashing out all the equity, leaving you to pay off the principal now that you're living on the street.
Seriously, people, these devices were put in place for very well-founded reasons. Just because a thing can be abused does not mean it is worthless. To its logical conclusion, this argument would abrogate the entirety of civilization in favor of complete anarchy.
ICANN is clearly the lesser of two evils for the simple fact that it is a non-profit with only $6M in revenue. Their _only_ interest is in ensuring the stability of the internet. One cannot say the same of Verisign. As for the potential to be government controlled, it is currently rather like the Federal Reserve in that there is a direct relationship, but no direct control, so that the whims of politicians don't destabilize the entire system.
IMNSHO Budweiser is a damn sight better than Pilsner Urquell, which is, to paraphrase Eric Idle, like having sex in soiled kitty litter.
Now, Black Label. THAT'S fscking close to water. Shite's brewed in Africa and they blame it on us. "America's Lively & Lusty," whatever, like a cheap damned whore, maybe, but not like a beer.
There's another miserable equation in the article and most common assumptions that Java=J2EE=Java BEANS=EJBs.
Wrong wrong wrong... Most [good] J2EE developers are quite keen to avoid EJBs unless they actually make sense to use. More often than not it makes no sense to bother with EJBs. To say that the complexitites of EJB deployments are a death knell to Java makes about as much sense as saying that VBA will kill.Net.
Try going 3000 miles. On Amtrak, a trip from Los Angeles to Washington, DC costs $208 ONE WAY, which is exactly the same price as a direct, ROUND TRIP flight on Jet Blue. However, it takes about four hours on Jet Blue compared to eighty six hours on Amtrak. Do you really want to sit in a coach seat for eighty six hours? Probably not. Ok, so add a bedroom for the first half. Now it's $538--ONE WAY. Seriously, $330 for a fold-down bed and an aluminum toilet? I spent three days at the Washington Mayflower for that price. Are they joking? Want to get home? Now it's $1,076 for 172 hours on the train as opposed to $200 for eight hours on a jet, so in a way the jet is four times as expensive as the train. It's just the train is 2200% slower.
NAAAAAH, it was a government conspiracy that killed rail travel... riiiiight.
I agree completely, certainly on utterly pointless crap like Hummers. However, given the other facilities costs, it has always amazed me what crap furniture gets placed in offices. If I spend five minutes per day arguing with my furniture or even one extra trip to the watercooler to stretch from poor ergonomics, that adds up quickly. At my last job, my space, which was 12'x8', cost $3500 per month in facilities charges. Over five years, that's $210,000. In an office of 40 people, over five years, that's $8,000,000 and this was in a pretty spartan place, the armrests on my chair fell of at least once a day for godssake, albeit sitting on some of the most expensive real estate known to man.
In that office, one minute per day per employee, whether lost or gained, was worth 173 hours of labor, or about $4,160 per year. Fifteen minutes per day lost or gained would equal $780,000, or about $20,000 per employee, which is less than one percent of the facilities budget. Three percent productivity or one percent of the facilities budget. The only guarantee is that you'll spend the money somewhere. The only difference is which account takes the hit for it.
Since ergonomics is largely a game of speculation as far as the MBAs are concerned, it is my suspicion that most businesses figure they'll go on the cheap and just fire people for low productivity, which is stupid, because turnover is far more costly than furniture and complimentary coffee.
That said, the biggest mistake most businesses make is in their choice of real estate as everything else is relative to that. Someone gets VC and all of a sudden they're moving into a 10,000 square feet at $80 per... want to know where all your dot com investent money went? Ask Trizec, not Herman Miller.
What a cop-out. "I don't have time." Please. If you have an argument, make it. If you can't be bothered to come up with one, don't pretend to have one.
National airlines only started privatizing in the late 1980s and they still aren't remotely divested enough to consider them anything but highly subsidized. There is no "flaw" in that argument--BECAUSE THERE'S NO ARGUMENT! It's a statement of fact.
Passenger rail died in the United States largely due to the automobile industry and the availability of air travel--the same reason the trans-atlantic oceanliners died off as a mode of transport. Government intervention, which created Amtrak in 1971, was designed to SAVE rail travel, not destroy it. It isn't profitable and would not exist today but for massive subsidy.
Just what 100% commercial private railway did you have in mind?
Almost all railways are national interests, including passenger service in the United States. Only _very_ recently has privatization become fashionable for railservice and it is usually marked by miserable failure. Take Britain where it was suggested that they basically dump British rail north of Manchester because there's no profit in servicing BFE. That's the point of state-owned services. The state will not dump a region simply because it isn't making a buck and the service is more important than profit.
The vast majority of airlines are state-sponsored (outside the U.S., that is) and vary from states as majority stakeholders to 100% state-ownership. American carriers being privately held is more the exception to the rule.
If not for massive government investment, international travel would still resemble an Indiana Jones plot line.
...we're talking about RFIDs for checkout, not prescription writing. Since all prescriptions are manually filled and _must_ be verified by hand there is ZERO gain to be had by changing from printed labels to RFID, certainly not in the name of privacy. Ooops, I didn't get a lucky-special bag, now I'm beaten to death for my morphine scrip that is broadcasting itself all over creation. GREAT.
We have spent billions of dollars and centuries of research and development on a technology to prevent this kind of abuse. It can be embedded or layered onto another invention called "paper." Using a portable delivery device known as a "pen," pricing information can be recorded at the point of delivery. This technology can also be combined with device we call a "printer" to produce "bar-codes" that are machine readable. The resulting data-carrier, referred to as a "label," can be enclosed in another device known as a "bag" or "envelope," thus preventing any unwanted scanning by third-parties.
Seriously, why the hell does your medical information need to be transmitted by radio to a fscking cash register? We can't train people to fscking READ anymore? Christ.
I used to get calls from postings on Monster and Dice all the time--five years ago. Like another poster, once I would refresh my profile, I'd get calls almost immediately (not within 20 minutes, but less than 24 hours). It was like that for several years. VERY good responses from real companies. I got headhunted from an online profile to a very good contract position that went to permanent. I still get responses from desperate headhunters around the country, but the jobs are no where near as well matched and they only come every few weeks or months.
It is much better these days to go to local listings. The work I have now I got from internal job boards and local newspaper classifieds. The simple fact is that a company posting to Dice or Monster will get a stack of 1000 resumes even for the most obscure requirements. If they post to a local newspaper or an internal board, they'll get ten. No one wants to skim though thousands of resumes, so a great number of positions will never even show up on the big boards. There simply are too many people with 20 years experience and five degrees competing for jobs paying half of what they're worth. Get local, find a company that sounds interesting and is hiring, or has recently been hiring, and do it the old fashioned way: schmooze. Besides, it's less soul destroying than apathetically clicking through Dice.
Another caution: Do NOT pay for the services of the big boards. They're just predators looking for prey. Great, they'll submit your resume--with 999 others, and charge you fifty bucks. Take your money and spend it on good stationery, dry-cleaning and your telephone bill.
Oh, now that's being unfair. Another administration dropped "the bomb" and started the arms race. If there is any point-source cause that can be attributed to much of the troubles of the last sixty years, it's that. That the only standard by which this administration has been a success is the criterion "has not engaged in nuclear war" should give pause, not the least because it has entertained the thought... Then again, this is the country that names its missiles "patriots."
Funny, I just moved from Long Beach six months ago. A week later I was in Nashville, TN and a week after that I was in Washington and now I'm missing a box, which last I checked got rerouted in Baltimore and apparently into a wormhole. If perchance your parcel arrived with three slightly used servers, a handful of switches and routers and a lovely executive chair, kindly forward it to me. At least the chair. While I'm waiting for UPS to figure out where the hell all my crap is, I'd at least like to be comfortable. I'd rather not know where it has been, let alone have a constant running tally. Knowing my stuff is now sitting in Oaugoudougou does me no good unless I am also in Oaugoudougou.
If fascists are objectively pacifist, then I suppose Mussolini was just bringing peace to Ethiopia.
'All I want is a little peace. A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France...' - Mel Brooks, as Adolf Hitler
No, it uses raised ink, not embossing--not that either is difficult to reproduce or degrade by machine washing. Besides, unless you work for the treasury or a counterfeiting operation, how many examples could you be certain you've seen (or not seen)?
They already do. However, there are many, many issues of US currency out there. Part of the problem is that all US currency is legal tender. If you can conterfeit a 1980 note, that's as good as a 2004. Could you tell a counterfeit 1980 $5 or $10 note with a line of people at your register? Would you sit there dutifully checking every bill under a UV light to make sure the paper is good? Nah, you just hope to god it's good and leave it to the bank to sort out, who most of the time don't check anything but the pH of $20 or larger notes anyway. You'll get more scrutiny with $50s and $100s, but hardly ever, if ever, $1-10 notes. Also, what of vending machines (read also: Slot Machines)? If you think that Vegas and Atlantic City haven't sent a few lobbyists out on this one, think again.
Even at 10G, which I admittedly haven't checked on in two years, you're talking $30/Mbit. No the pricing is not linear, obviously so, but this guy is talking about expecting effectively an entire T1 worth of bandwidth off his university network--most of which do not have 10G connections. Expecting a certain level of service from a university connection is one thing, but the $49/month residential pricing doesn't cover the costs of 100% usage 100% of the time. This type of usage costs universities a lot of money and a great number of students are demanding what this guy seems to think should be given. So they spend a couple million dollars per year to make it possible for students to use the network for purposes wholly unrelated to their studies or they put in a new business school. I'd hardly blame them for making the latter choice. Plain and simple, if you want to use that much bandwidth, buy your own connection.
As you may have noticed in many other threads, that is not the price for constant symmetrical service (and, besides, we're talking about running servers, not leeching). Residential pricing is based on BURSTED rates, not sustained rates. You do NOT have a true, dedicated 1.5Mbps connection for $49.95. You are getting that price because your provider is assuming 99.9% latency for 99.9% of their customers (yeah, I'm exaggerating, but not by much). Start looking at the upstream provider rates and much about bandwidth throttling will become readily apparent. Your residential pricing and advertised transfer rates are based on the same assumptions of latency that go into any network design. Oh god... not this topic again. Christ... too late.
Mmmkay. Motion picture movie ticket sales alone account $10 billion, which is 90% of the revenues of the entire video game industry. I smell some major hyperbole.
I run into more 'bugs' related to forcing program logic to 'simulate the real world,' when the problem is the real world process itself (or the habitual circumvention thereof), than just about anything else.
When HAL started killing people, they blamed the programmer instead of the executives who demanded the program be allowed to lie. That's not a bug. That's human error. It has always been human error. No metaphorical model will change that. If everything is abstracted to behave as it would in the real world, it will take a psychoanalyst instead of an engineer to find the root cause and I don't really want to deal with my computer's abandonment issues to figure out why it isn't correctly compounding interest for the accounting department.
I'm all for adding an ammendment as it would bring the US Constitution on a par with the rest of civilization.
Currently, we're relying on piecemeal precedent of prior interpretation and specific instances (see: HIPAA), which is an unreliable and horrendously expensive way to establish something that should be straight forward.
However, we should watch out for the caveats other countries have written. In the case of Iceland, Article 71 clearly establishes the right to privacy--and then gives an escape that the current U.S. administration would use as a blank check that would bring us right back to square one.
"Everyone shall enjoy freedom from interference with privacy, home, and family life.
Bodily or personal search or a search of a person's premises or possessions may only be conducted in accordance with a judicial decision or a statutory law provision. This shall also apply to the examination of documents and mail, communications by telephone and other means, and to any other comparable interference with a person's right to privacy.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph above, freedom from interference with privacy, home and family life may be otherwise limited by statutory provisions if this is urgently necessary for the protection of the rights of others."
South Africa is much more straight-forward about this, for reasons that should be obvious, stating in Chapter 2, Section 14,
"14. Everyone has the right to privacy, which includes the right not to have
1. their person or home searched;
2. their property searched;
3. their possessions seized; or
4. the privacy of their communications infringed."
That's it. No ifs ands or buts. As it should be. If those rights are going to be violated by the state, there better be one hell of a good reason, not just a fishing expedition.
Yeah, about a buck per disc, but keep in mind you could fit the entire years worth in the trunk and get it in four hours, which was more the thrust of the argument.
A car leaves Los Angeles for San Diego at 60mph, stops in San Diego for fifteen minutes and returns by the same route at the same speed. If a single CD-R has the capacity for 700 million bytes and a byte has eight bits, roughly 5.6 billion bits in total, how many bits per second would you require to transfer those bits in 15,300 seconds? Answer: 366kbps.
If each 1Mb/s/month of bandwidth costs $500 and one hundred people want to download CDs as quickly as a 240 mile round trip on a constant basis, how much bandwidth would be required and what would it cost? Answer 36Mb/s at a cost of $216,000 per year.
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The rights are still there. Even in cases of imminent domain, the locality in question must give you fair market value if they forcibly take the property. If you are using land attached to public improvements, the community justifiably will expect you to pay your share of those common improvements (read: roads, sewers, sanitation etc.). Like all "rights," property rights are creations of the state. Without the state, your rights are only as valid as your ability to kill or be killed.
While we're at it, why don't we just abolish property rights entirely. You know, just because you occupied that house first shouldn't stand in the way of me moving in, locking you out and cashing out all the equity, leaving you to pay off the principal now that you're living on the street.
Seriously, people, these devices were put in place for very well-founded reasons. Just because a thing can be abused does not mean it is worthless. To its logical conclusion, this argument would abrogate the entirety of civilization in favor of complete anarchy.
ICANN is clearly the lesser of two evils for the simple fact that it is a non-profit with only $6M in revenue. Their _only_ interest is in ensuring the stability of the internet. One cannot say the same of Verisign. As for the potential to be government controlled, it is currently rather like the Federal Reserve in that there is a direct relationship, but no direct control, so that the whims of politicians don't destabilize the entire system.
IMNSHO Budweiser is a damn sight better than Pilsner Urquell, which is, to paraphrase Eric Idle, like having sex in soiled kitty litter.
Now, Black Label. THAT'S fscking close to water. Shite's brewed in Africa and they blame it on us. "America's Lively & Lusty," whatever, like a cheap damned whore, maybe, but not like a beer.
There's another miserable equation in the article and most common assumptions that Java=J2EE=Java BEANS=EJBs.
.Net.
Wrong wrong wrong... Most [good] J2EE developers are quite keen to avoid EJBs unless they actually make sense to use. More often than not it makes no sense to bother with EJBs. To say that the complexitites of EJB deployments are a death knell to Java makes about as much sense as saying that VBA will kill
Try going 3000 miles. On Amtrak, a trip from Los Angeles to Washington, DC costs $208 ONE WAY, which is exactly the same price as a direct, ROUND TRIP flight on Jet Blue. However, it takes about four hours on Jet Blue compared to eighty six hours on Amtrak. Do you really want to sit in a coach seat for eighty six hours? Probably not. Ok, so add a bedroom for the first half. Now it's $538--ONE WAY. Seriously, $330 for a fold-down bed and an aluminum toilet? I spent three days at the Washington Mayflower for that price. Are they joking? Want to get home? Now it's $1,076 for 172 hours on the train as opposed to $200 for eight hours on a jet, so in a way the jet is four times as expensive as the train. It's just the train is 2200% slower.
NAAAAAH, it was a government conspiracy that killed rail travel... riiiiight.
I agree completely, certainly on utterly pointless crap like Hummers. However, given the other facilities costs, it has always amazed me what crap furniture gets placed in offices. If I spend five minutes per day arguing with my furniture or even one extra trip to the watercooler to stretch from poor ergonomics, that adds up quickly. At my last job, my space, which was 12'x8', cost $3500 per month in facilities charges. Over five years, that's $210,000. In an office of 40 people, over five years, that's $8,000,000 and this was in a pretty spartan place, the armrests on my chair fell of at least once a day for godssake, albeit sitting on some of the most expensive real estate known to man.
In that office, one minute per day per employee, whether lost or gained, was worth 173 hours of labor, or about $4,160 per year. Fifteen minutes per day lost or gained would equal $780,000, or about $20,000 per employee, which is less than one percent of the facilities budget. Three percent productivity or one percent of the facilities budget. The only guarantee is that you'll spend the money somewhere. The only difference is which account takes the hit for it.
Since ergonomics is largely a game of speculation as far as the MBAs are concerned, it is my suspicion that most businesses figure they'll go on the cheap and just fire people for low productivity, which is stupid, because turnover is far more costly than furniture and complimentary coffee.
That said, the biggest mistake most businesses make is in their choice of real estate as everything else is relative to that. Someone gets VC and all of a sudden they're moving into a 10,000 square feet at $80 per... want to know where all your dot com investent money went? Ask Trizec, not Herman Miller.
What a cop-out. "I don't have time." Please. If you have an argument, make it. If you can't be bothered to come up with one, don't pretend to have one.
National airlines only started privatizing in the late 1980s and they still aren't remotely divested enough to consider them anything but highly subsidized. There is no "flaw" in that argument--BECAUSE THERE'S NO ARGUMENT! It's a statement of fact.
Passenger rail died in the United States largely due to the automobile industry and the availability of air travel--the same reason the trans-atlantic oceanliners died off as a mode of transport. Government intervention, which created Amtrak in 1971, was designed to SAVE rail travel, not destroy it. It isn't profitable and would not exist today but for massive subsidy.
Just what 100% commercial private railway did you have in mind?
Almost all railways are national interests, including passenger service in the United States. Only _very_ recently has privatization become fashionable for railservice and it is usually marked by miserable failure. Take Britain where it was suggested that they basically dump British rail north of Manchester because there's no profit in servicing BFE. That's the point of state-owned services. The state will not dump a region simply because it isn't making a buck and the service is more important than profit.
The vast majority of airlines are state-sponsored (outside the U.S., that is) and vary from states as majority stakeholders to 100% state-ownership. American carriers being privately held is more the exception to the rule.
If not for massive government investment, international travel would still resemble an Indiana Jones plot line.
...we're talking about RFIDs for checkout, not prescription writing. Since all prescriptions are manually filled and _must_ be verified by hand there is ZERO gain to be had by changing from printed labels to RFID, certainly not in the name of privacy. Ooops, I didn't get a lucky-special bag, now I'm beaten to death for my morphine scrip that is broadcasting itself all over creation. GREAT.
We have spent billions of dollars and centuries of research and development on a technology to prevent this kind of abuse. It can be embedded or layered onto another invention called "paper." Using a portable delivery device known as a "pen," pricing information can be recorded at the point of delivery. This technology can also be combined with device we call a "printer" to produce "bar-codes" that are machine readable. The resulting data-carrier, referred to as a "label," can be enclosed in another device known as a "bag" or "envelope," thus preventing any unwanted scanning by third-parties.
Seriously, why the hell does your medical information need to be transmitted by radio to a fscking cash register? We can't train people to fscking READ anymore? Christ.
I used to get calls from postings on Monster and Dice all the time--five years ago. Like another poster, once I would refresh my profile, I'd get calls almost immediately (not within 20 minutes, but less than 24 hours). It was like that for several years. VERY good responses from real companies. I got headhunted from an online profile to a very good contract position that went to permanent. I still get responses from desperate headhunters around the country, but the jobs are no where near as well matched and they only come every few weeks or months.
It is much better these days to go to local listings. The work I have now I got from internal job boards and local newspaper classifieds. The simple fact is that a company posting to Dice or Monster will get a stack of 1000 resumes even for the most obscure requirements. If they post to a local newspaper or an internal board, they'll get ten. No one wants to skim though thousands of resumes, so a great number of positions will never even show up on the big boards. There simply are too many people with 20 years experience and five degrees competing for jobs paying half of what they're worth. Get local, find a company that sounds interesting and is hiring, or has recently been hiring, and do it the old fashioned way: schmooze. Besides, it's less soul destroying than apathetically clicking through Dice.
Another caution: Do NOT pay for the services of the big boards. They're just predators looking for prey. Great, they'll submit your resume--with 999 others, and charge you fifty bucks. Take your money and spend it on good stationery, dry-cleaning and your telephone bill.
Oh, now that's being unfair. Another administration dropped "the bomb" and started the arms race. If there is any point-source cause that can be attributed to much of the troubles of the last sixty years, it's that. That the only standard by which this administration has been a success is the criterion "has not engaged in nuclear war" should give pause, not the least because it has entertained the thought... Then again, this is the country that names its missiles "patriots."
Yikes.
Funny, I just moved from Long Beach six months ago. A week later I was in Nashville, TN and a week after that I was in Washington and now I'm missing a box, which last I checked got rerouted in Baltimore and apparently into a wormhole. If perchance your parcel arrived with three slightly used servers, a handful of switches and routers and a lovely executive chair, kindly forward it to me. At least the chair. While I'm waiting for UPS to figure out where the hell all my crap is, I'd at least like to be comfortable. I'd rather not know where it has been, let alone have a constant running tally. Knowing my stuff is now sitting in Oaugoudougou does me no good unless I am also in Oaugoudougou.
If fascists are objectively pacifist, then I suppose Mussolini was just bringing peace to Ethiopia. 'All I want is a little peace. A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France...' - Mel Brooks, as Adolf Hitler
Mir also means "world" as in "burning up as it careens into the." ISS is just going about it at a more American-style mosey...
No, it uses raised ink, not embossing--not that either is difficult to reproduce or degrade by machine washing. Besides, unless you work for the treasury or a counterfeiting operation, how many examples could you be certain you've seen (or not seen)?
They already do. However, there are many, many issues of US currency out there. Part of the problem is that all US currency is legal tender. If you can conterfeit a 1980 note, that's as good as a 2004. Could you tell a counterfeit 1980 $5 or $10 note with a line of people at your register? Would you sit there dutifully checking every bill under a UV light to make sure the paper is good? Nah, you just hope to god it's good and leave it to the bank to sort out, who most of the time don't check anything but the pH of $20 or larger notes anyway. You'll get more scrutiny with $50s and $100s, but hardly ever, if ever, $1-10 notes. Also, what of vending machines (read also: Slot Machines)? If you think that Vegas and Atlantic City haven't sent a few lobbyists out on this one, think again.
Even at 10G, which I admittedly haven't checked on in two years, you're talking $30/Mbit. No the pricing is not linear, obviously so, but this guy is talking about expecting effectively an entire T1 worth of bandwidth off his university network--most of which do not have 10G connections. Expecting a certain level of service from a university connection is one thing, but the $49/month residential pricing doesn't cover the costs of 100% usage 100% of the time. This type of usage costs universities a lot of money and a great number of students are demanding what this guy seems to think should be given. So they spend a couple million dollars per year to make it possible for students to use the network for purposes wholly unrelated to their studies or they put in a new business school. I'd hardly blame them for making the latter choice. Plain and simple, if you want to use that much bandwidth, buy your own connection.
As you may have noticed in many other threads, that is not the price for constant symmetrical service (and, besides, we're talking about running servers, not leeching). Residential pricing is based on BURSTED rates, not sustained rates. You do NOT have a true, dedicated 1.5Mbps connection for $49.95. You are getting that price because your provider is assuming 99.9% latency for 99.9% of their customers (yeah, I'm exaggerating, but not by much). Start looking at the upstream provider rates and much about bandwidth throttling will become readily apparent. Your residential pricing and advertised transfer rates are based on the same assumptions of latency that go into any network design. Oh god... not this topic again. Christ... too late.
http://www.mpaa.org/useconomicreview/2002/02 Economic Review w-cover.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040126/265198_1.html
I run into more 'bugs' related to forcing program logic to 'simulate the real world,' when the problem is the real world process itself (or the habitual circumvention thereof), than just about anything else.
When HAL started killing people, they blamed the programmer instead of the executives who demanded the program be allowed to lie. That's not a bug. That's human error. It has always been human error. No metaphorical model will change that. If everything is abstracted to behave as it would in the real world, it will take a psychoanalyst instead of an engineer to find the root cause and I don't really want to deal with my computer's abandonment issues to figure out why it isn't correctly compounding interest for the accounting department.
I'm all for adding an ammendment as it would bring the US Constitution on a par with the rest of civilization.
Currently, we're relying on piecemeal precedent of prior interpretation and specific instances (see: HIPAA), which is an unreliable and horrendously expensive way to establish something that should be straight forward.
However, we should watch out for the caveats other countries have written. In the case of Iceland, Article 71 clearly establishes the right to privacy--and then gives an escape that the current U.S. administration would use as a blank check that would bring us right back to square one.
"Everyone shall enjoy freedom from interference with privacy, home, and family life.
Bodily or personal search or a search of a person's premises or possessions may only be conducted in accordance with a judicial decision or a statutory law provision. This shall also apply to the examination of documents and mail, communications by telephone and other means, and to any other comparable interference with a person's right to privacy.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph above, freedom from interference with privacy, home and family life may be otherwise limited by statutory provisions if this is urgently necessary for the protection of the rights of others."
South Africa is much more straight-forward about this, for reasons that should be obvious, stating in Chapter 2, Section 14,
"14. Everyone has the right to privacy, which includes the right not to have
1. their person or home searched;
2. their property searched;
3. their possessions seized; or
4. the privacy of their communications infringed."
That's it. No ifs ands or buts. As it should be. If those rights are going to be violated by the state, there better be one hell of a good reason, not just a fishing expedition.
Yeah, about a buck per disc, but keep in mind you could fit the entire years worth in the trunk and get it in four hours, which was more the thrust of the argument.
A car leaves Los Angeles for San Diego at 60mph, stops in San Diego for fifteen minutes and returns by the same route at the same speed. If a single CD-R has the capacity for 700 million bytes and a byte has eight bits, roughly 5.6 billion bits in total, how many bits per second would you require to transfer those bits in 15,300 seconds? Answer: 366kbps.
If each 1Mb/s/month of bandwidth costs $500 and one hundred people want to download CDs as quickly as a 240 mile round trip on a constant basis, how much bandwidth would be required and what would it cost? Answer 36Mb/s at a cost of $216,000 per year.
Any guesses why they're throttling you?