Because (in this hypothetical scenario) Google has no contractual relationship with ATT. They pay their upstream provider for whatever bandwidth they think they need.
AT&T/Yahoo: Oh, you want to use Google Video? Gee, what a shame, Google hasn't paid us to prioritize packets, even though it's you, not them who's using our bandwidth. But since Google hasn't paid extortion, you get to watch that video at 19.2Kbps. On the other hand, if you use our Wonderful AT&T partner(tm) (insert company name here), you get it at 3Mbps.
Full disclosure: I live in L.A., which has probably the worst public transportation system of any major metropolitan area in the US.
I would define that time as wasted. Why would I spend 4 hours roundtrip commuting, thus essentially minimizing any time I might have with my wife and kids?
They did that at my local market, under the guise of "standardizing across the chain".
Of course, nobody can find anything any more, and the reordering is not logical (some of the frozen organics are in the freezer section, others have been moved next to the veggies, etc...).
It's been 6 months now, and as you walk the aisles when you shop, you still hear people complaining that they can't find a damn thing.
2) I will tax the top 5% and distribute the wealth through increased funding for basic academic research, reimburse college loans for students carrying 3.2GPA or higher, national daycare programs, and national health care programs.
Requires legislation. You can have your pet congressman introduce legislation to do so.
3) Prosecute the supreme court justices who appointed Bush, and every person in the federal governemnt who continued to aid and abet the terrorist regime.
a) Sovereign Immunity b) Someone else has pointed out that the fraud (if any) was not the USSC's fault, and someone had to cut the Gordian Knot.
4) Establish a department of peace, reduce military funding, and give anyone a seat a a negotiating table so we do not have to fight them "over there" or "over here".
a) Requires legislation (see 1 and 2). b) Who is "anyone"? c) Define "negotiating table" 5) Reparations for the victims of hurrican katrina who were failed by their governments.
Again, requires legislation. Congress has the power of the purse.
6) Introduce and pass a bill eliminating campaign contributions once and for all. Also ensure that any elected public official gives up the right to privacy of their financial information. Pass strict laws (including jail terms) for politicians who take bribes from interest groups.
Good luck getting that past the inevitable court challenge.
7) Abolish the electoral college system. Create a new system in which No president can be elected without at least 60% of the popular vote. Perhaps allow voters to choose their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4rth, and so on choice. Use weighted averaging to determine which candidate is most popular.
Damn near impossible. Requires a Constitutional Amendment. Good luck with that. Let me know 40 years from now how you did. 8) Completely re-write copyright and patent law. Reduce copyright terms to 5 years, place far greater weight on prior art. If a "one-click" type patent can be proved identical to an algorithm written in 1975 in some obscure computer science textbook then that patent is immediately and irrevocably dissolved.
a) Requires legislation. Copyright is explicitly listed as a Congressional power. b) Puts us in violation of the Berne Convention, which according to Article VI of the Constitution is co-equal with laws passed by Congress.
9) Federalize technologies like these and dramatically increase funding for alternative energy technologies. Create awards and grants that provide generous wealth incentives for innovators.
You were planning on paying/compensating the "owners" of such technologies, weren't you? Or do you also think that the Constitution (specifically Amendment 5) is just a piece of paper. 10) Legalize file-sharing and constitutionally equate it to freedom of speech, write net-neutrality into law. Clean sweep of the FCC and recreate it as a body which exists solely for the promotion of faster, more reliable, ubiquitous communication services to individual citizens.
a) The first part requires legislation and then a Constitutional Amendment (your words, not mine). b) The second is doable, but may require legislation, depending on the charter of the FCC as currently legislated by Congress. 11) In the same way Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System; fund and build a massive fiber layout to solve the last mile problem once and for all. Include provisions for alternative solutions like wireless hubs and repeaters. Portion a federal budget for the continuous maintenance of this network.
Again, requires legislation. As I said before, Congress has the power of the purse, NOT the president.
Is it perfect? No. Is it in the interest of civil liberties? Nope. Is it a good step in a world full of people who would love to see you and I dead simply because of the country we were born in? You betcha.
Not necessarily. Libertarians believe in the free market.
In my opinion, where there isn't a free market (abusive monopoly, natural monopoly), some form of regulation is required. It should be the minimum necessary, of course, though.
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Thanks. Misread that.
He was sitting in an antitime field.
I'm assuming a typo.
Both electromagnetic and gravitational potentials have a simple 1/r dependence
Should be 1/r^2.
Because (in this hypothetical scenario) Google has no contractual relationship with ATT. They pay their upstream provider for whatever bandwidth they think they need.
What a tool.
Note to self: Idiots don't read SARCASM tags. Find some other mechanism, such as a clue-by-four for them, so that I'll be compliant with the ADA.
You don't understand. Those cheese-eating surrender-monkeys CAVED IN to the Evil Terrorist Content Pirates[tm].
Clearly we must support our patriotic "content producers" to defeat the evildoers.
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You misunderstand Net Neutrality.
The Net Neutrality issue is:
AT&T/Yahoo: Oh, you want to use Google Video? Gee, what a shame, Google hasn't paid us to prioritize packets, even though it's you, not them who's using our bandwidth. But since Google hasn't paid extortion, you get to watch that video at 19.2Kbps. On the other hand, if you use our Wonderful AT&T partner(tm) (insert company name here), you get it at 3Mbps.
Full disclosure: I live in L.A., which has probably the worst public transportation system of any major metropolitan area in the US.
I would define that time as wasted. Why would I spend 4 hours roundtrip commuting, thus essentially minimizing any time I might have with my wife and kids?
It's got to be either Minority Leader or Majority Whip, with 1 and 2 being President Pro-Tem and Majority Leader, respectively.
The difference is that both Diebold and their clients (the banks) have a vested interest in making sure ATMs *DO* record every transaction accurately.
That would lead to a slippery slope (or something....)
That's fine with MS. You have to buy a Windows license to do that.
The end result?
RIAA loses. Everyone gets a coupon worth $1 off the latest (DRM laden) Britney Spears CD.
Actually, Tarantella is *not* around. Sun bought them a while back.
Any geek knows it's "WHALERS" on the moon.
They did that at my local market, under the guise of "standardizing across the chain".
Of course, nobody can find anything any more, and the reordering is not logical (some of the frozen organics are in the freezer section, others have been moved next to the veggies, etc...).
It's been 6 months now, and as you walk the aisles when you shop, you still hear people complaining that they can't find a damn thing.
Care to explain that one? How is removing the artificial personhood of a corporation a return to fedualism?
I love your sig.
1) I will repeal corporate personhood.
Good idea, but requires legislation.
2) I will tax the top 5% and distribute the wealth through increased funding for basic academic research, reimburse college loans for students carrying 3.2GPA or higher, national daycare programs, and national health care programs.
Requires legislation. You can have your pet congressman introduce legislation to do so.
3) Prosecute the supreme court justices who appointed Bush, and every person in the federal governemnt who continued to aid and abet the terrorist regime.
a) Sovereign Immunity
b) Someone else has pointed out that the fraud (if any) was not the USSC's fault, and someone had to cut the Gordian Knot.
4) Establish a department of peace, reduce military funding, and give anyone a seat a a negotiating table so we do not have to fight them "over there" or "over here".
a) Requires legislation (see 1 and 2).
b) Who is "anyone"?
c) Define "negotiating table"
5) Reparations for the victims of hurrican katrina who were failed by their governments.
Again, requires legislation. Congress has the power of the purse.
6) Introduce and pass a bill eliminating campaign contributions once and for all. Also ensure that any elected public official gives up the right to privacy of their financial information. Pass strict laws (including jail terms) for politicians who take bribes from interest groups.
Good luck getting that past the inevitable court challenge.
7) Abolish the electoral college system. Create a new system in which No president can be elected without at least 60% of the popular vote. Perhaps allow voters to choose their 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4rth, and so on choice. Use weighted averaging to determine which candidate is most popular.
Damn near impossible. Requires a Constitutional Amendment. Good luck with that. Let me know 40 years from now how you did.
8) Completely re-write copyright and patent law. Reduce copyright terms to 5 years, place far greater weight on prior art. If a "one-click" type patent can be proved identical to an algorithm written in 1975 in some obscure computer science textbook then that patent is immediately and irrevocably dissolved.
a) Requires legislation. Copyright is explicitly listed as a Congressional power.
b) Puts us in violation of the Berne Convention, which according to Article VI of the Constitution is co-equal with laws passed by Congress.
9) Federalize technologies like these and dramatically increase funding for alternative energy technologies. Create awards and grants that provide generous wealth incentives for innovators.
You were planning on paying/compensating the "owners" of such technologies, weren't you? Or do you also think that the Constitution (specifically Amendment 5) is just a piece of paper.
10) Legalize file-sharing and constitutionally equate it to freedom of speech, write net-neutrality into law. Clean sweep of the FCC and recreate it as a body which exists solely for the promotion of faster, more reliable, ubiquitous communication services to individual citizens.
a) The first part requires legislation and then a Constitutional Amendment (your words, not mine).
b) The second is doable, but may require legislation, depending on the charter of the FCC as currently legislated by Congress.
11) In the same way Eisenhower built the Interstate Highway System; fund and build a massive fiber layout to solve the last mile problem once and for all. Include provisions for alternative solutions like wireless hubs and repeaters. Portion a federal budget for the continuous maintenance of this network.
Again, requires legislation. As I said before, Congress has the power of the purse, NOT the president.
Tell my wife I said ... "hello".
People who claim to be Windows techs who don't know who SysInternals are, aren't techs AFAIC.
I assume you mean "who don't know who SysInternals were".
The Beast of Redmond swallowed them back in '06.
Is it perfect? No. Is it in the interest of civil liberties? Nope. Is it a good step in a world full of people who would love to see you and I dead simply because of the country we were born in? You betcha.
Congratulations. The terrorists have won.
Don't forget PPC and MIPS (NT4 was released for those platforms aw well).
Not necessarily. Libertarians believe in the free market.
In my opinion, where there isn't a free market (abusive monopoly, natural monopoly), some form of regulation is required. It should be the minimum necessary, of course, though.
Libertarians run the gamut of the libertarian spectrum, just as Dems and GOP'ers run the gamut of the so-called liberal and conservative spectrums.