I've heard the "density" statement so many times and I don't buy it.
Because they've always been horseshit, that's why. The "but but Amurica is ruuural" argument might explain why you have slow, expensive internet in upper Alaska, where you could fly a helicopter for a hundred miles in any direction and not see another person.
It does not explain why internet access is slow and expensive in San Francisco or Manhattan, which have high density populations.
Verizon's CEO made around $20 million last year. The top 100 people in the company combined made maybe $100 million (probably less).
Salaries were only one of half a dozen things he mentioned, yet you're ignoring the rest, almost as if you were being disingenuous.
Spending lots of excess money on capital equipment to add capacity to serve customers who don't pay you nearly enough to cover the investment you have to make to serve them is definitely a failure of corporate duty.
Do you sprinkle sugar on those corporate boot heels before licking them, or do you do it straight up?
Are you? The more social services there are, the more people there will be like the parent poster, because they were able to focus on school, and not if they were going to be homeless the next week.
Though, hopefully they wouldn't be elitist pricks about it, like the parent poster.
I now pay four times in taxes alone compared to what I made here in the first year. It took me 15 years and a lot of hard work and perseverance to get to this point. Now some communist comes out of the woodwork and says I need to "share". But dude, I already "share". Even with my great accountant doing my taxes, Uncle Sam takes fully 29% of what I make, with nearly zero accountability for how this money is being spent.
Uh huh. And you're ok with a trust fund wanker making 100 times what you do while doing no work to speak of, because the wanker's last name is Walton or Clinton?
Yes, the scion of a wealthy right-wing family was 'born on third base and thought she hit a triple', to borrow Molly Iven's line on another child of right-wing parents who only made in life because of who his parents were. Why do you ask?
You're discussing equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
Which is horseshit sloganeering to begin with.
Hint: I grew up dirt poor and wanted to get out of it.
Another temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Hint: if you really grew up poor, then you really must have seen drug addled delinquent assholes make it much farther in life than you have, because they had rich asshole parents who steered them into positions earning six figures as their first "real" job.
You first. Starting with how NAFTA and how it makes it very difficult for countries like Venezuela to create an ag sector that pays a living wage, as their export market has to compete with U.S. crops subsidized below cost. Then maybe venture on to currency manipulation, and working with the Saudi's to ramp up oil production to hurt their shared geopolitical targets (Venezuela, Russia, Iran).
I notice more willful jinogist blindness. A thousand military bases around the world isn't about defense any more than England had colonies all over the planet.
It's the empire, stupid.
The United States is surrounded by two large friendly nations, and the world's two largest oceans, bedwetter. Coast Rica doesn't even have an army - how many times have they been invaded recently? The U.S. could get by completely with the various Guard forces (Air, Coast & National) and disband the rest of the military completely, along with the NSA and the CIA.
of course your have to exclude the Japanese invading some of the Aleutian Islands in WWII
1) Operation != invasion, bedwetter 2) Alaska wasn't a state until the end of the 50's.
The Germany/Hitler thing shows not all democracies are good
Okay. Name one democracy the U.S. overthrew to prevent a genocide or a regional war, or you're a raving moron who needs to pick up a remedial history book along with a new set of plastic sheets.
Until your cheap flash card lives up to its price and dies on you, and you have the Fun Project of figuring out what was stored on the card, and what was stored on the devices built-in storage. Then there's the fact that plenty of Android devices come without a card slot or a user-replaceable wankery.
There are public access paths, but private property owners have been known to fence them off or hang illegal/fake signs prohibiting public access to discourage people from using the paths.
Or make their "fence" out of gigantic boulders that make foot traffic difficult and motorized traffic impossible.
Prove it. Prove that we won't be attacked by any opportunist with armed forces if we disband ours.
Prove that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
Stop being a fool.
You first, bedtwetter. The only opportunist that needs reigning in is the United States. Spends more than the rest of the world combined, has a thousand military bases around the world, has a penchant for overthrowing democracies - and it hasn't been invaded since the War of 1812.
An honest person does not expect to be paid for doing nothing. A person who does nothing deserves nothing. Do you not believe in the action of moral law?
I don't dispute that Snowden did a public service in the end. However, he also broke the law and for that there should be consequences.
And the lawbreaking Snowden reported on? Why aren't you guys demanding every employee of the NSA be hauled into court, right on up through the executive branch to the president himself? Why aren't you demanding Obama be charged with 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each instance of illegal warrantless wiretapping?
And why don't you authoritarians give two shits about the Constitution? If you did work for the government, you took the same Oath of Office that Snowden, Manning, Drake, and Kirkarou did. The only way for those men to uphold their oaths was to violate the laws protecting obscenely unconstitutional actions, like the NSA's warrantless wiretapping and the CIA's torture program.
But he cannot claim he shouldn't be served the treatment for such a decision.
Ah, yes, demanding whisteblowers face the law, while flatly ignoring the lawbreaking revealed by those whisteblowers. The penalty for violating FISA is punishable by up to 5 years and prison, and a $10,000 fine. Given the length and scale of NSA wiretapping, that probably means billions of years in collective prison time, and hundreds of trillions in fines, if FISA was enforced. Funny how you fascists are never demanding those laws be applied to the executive branch and the sort of contractor Snowden worked for.
Snowden could have done it otherwise.
No, he couldn't. Just ask John Kiriakou, who was investigating the CIA for torture and had his investigation shut down by "appropriate channels".
Look, this is basic economics. Capital seeks a certain rate of return in given economic conditions and a given economic context. When you raise taxes on corporations, you don't change that sought rate of return, which means that corporate governance adapts to shift the cost of the taxes elsewhere, so they don't come out of profits and returns meet expectations. Corporations that fail to do this lose, and their capital moves to others that do it well. This means that any taxes you nominally assess to corporations actually land on suppliers, employees or customers.
Except that's all basic capitalist bullshit. If corporations could make more money by squeezing suppliers, employees and customers, they would just fucking do it and not wait for an excuse to do so.
You bray on, thinking your some kind of wise sage, yet you've never heard of the remedial economic principle that all prices are set to maximize revenue. You really think that companies are sitting on their current pricing structure, when an increase of 3%, 5%, 25%, whatever, would bring in more profit without losing more customers than it was worth?
I am a very political person but for the most part I came here for non-political news. Just the straight up NASA did this... nVidia did that... Silicon Graphics is bought by Rackable Systems etc etc.
Then....have you considered....scrolling down to the articles on NASA etc? I DGAF about the story on Pokemon go, but you don't see me in there whining about it like a hipster wanker.
Incidentally, a cheaper pound is currently helping rich foreigners buy up yet more property as their dollars are going much further.
Distinction without a difference. The only people who are able to buy up property in significant amounts are 1%ers. For the working class stiff, she DGAF if she's paying rent to a local landlord, or a foreign one.
I note that in your oh-so-witty retort, you don't make time to retract the idiocy of your prior assertion that a GE approach to Brexit would have required "rally 75% of the populace to get 50.00001% of elected officials to agree with the majority".
Your idiocy. Representative democracy blocks the will of the majority, by design. In the case of the U.S., policy that is favored by 80% of the public - like a public option on health insurance - is killed in the bathtub. While policy that is loathed by both the left and the right - like telecom immunity - sails through Congress with only a roadbump of opposition. In the case of parliamentary governments, in both Canada and Britain, conservative governments have won solid majorities despite most of the population voting for other candidates.
Which means, slick, that if anyone intends to sway their elected government, they must get a super-majority if the populace on their side, in order to get 50.01% of the vote in Congress/Parliament.
including the hilarious notion that a cheap pound is good for the British economy because manufacturing exports benefit
A cheap pound makes it cheaper for foreigners to buy their products. Forget high school econ, this is remedial 2nd grade economics here. Which you apparently flunked. Now, you were braying on about being stupid?
Except...not buying it. Google has more than enough money to charge the farce of national security letters in court and lobby politicians, they just choose not to do so. Because the USG pays them money for compliance.
It's standard advice given to ALL firearms owners to be extremely careful telling an officer that they have a firearm in a traffic stop situation.
Uh huh. And if the driver DID NOT tell the cops he was armed, and had been shot the second the cop noticed he had a weapon, you'd be yelling that he should have told them he was armed. Ad-hoc reasoning is neat, that way.
Their is a huge amount of competition in this space in the EU, but as it stands nobody wants to implement 5G as it is not commercially viable under current laws. not sure what is so hard to understand about that.
Willfully obtuse? To repeat, and no, this isn't hard: if competition is so fierce that no company would dream of abusing the lack of net neutrality, then why are these telecos banding together and demanding there be no net neutrality in the EU?
You do realise that the computer you're using is mostly made via automated processes, don't you? Are you going to boycott that as well?
You do realize that's attacking a straw man with an irrelevant comparison? Unless you can point to the U.S. factory that was ran by HP, Dell, Apple etc etc that had employed tens of thousands of people, only to fire most of them to drive up "shareholder revenue", of course.
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Because they've always been horseshit, that's why. The "but but Amurica is ruuural" argument might explain why you have slow, expensive internet in upper Alaska, where you could fly a helicopter for a hundred miles in any direction and not see another person.
It does not explain why internet access is slow and expensive in San Francisco or Manhattan, which have high density populations.
That's funny, since you're the guy defending the guy raiding the penny jar (hint: Verizon).
Salaries were only one of half a dozen things he mentioned, yet you're ignoring the rest, almost as if you were being disingenuous.
Do you sprinkle sugar on those corporate boot heels before licking them, or do you do it straight up?
Currency manipulation, artificial shortages, and other CIA-backed shitbaggery. Why are you commenting on a topic you lack remedial knowledge of?
Yes, it is.
Yes, you do.
Are you? The more social services there are, the more people there will be like the parent poster, because they were able to focus on school, and not if they were going to be homeless the next week.
Though, hopefully they wouldn't be elitist pricks about it, like the parent poster.
Dude, never go full Nelson
Uh huh. And you're ok with a trust fund wanker making 100 times what you do while doing no work to speak of, because the wanker's last name is Walton or Clinton?
Yes, the scion of a wealthy right-wing family was 'born on third base and thought she hit a triple', to borrow Molly Iven's line on another child of right-wing parents who only made in life because of who his parents were. Why do you ask?
Which is horseshit sloganeering to begin with.
Another temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Hint: if you really grew up poor, then you really must have seen drug addled delinquent assholes make it much farther in life than you have, because they had rich asshole parents who steered them into positions earning six figures as their first "real" job.
You first. Starting with how NAFTA and how it makes it very difficult for countries like Venezuela to create an ag sector that pays a living wage, as their export market has to compete with U.S. crops subsidized below cost. Then maybe venture on to currency manipulation, and working with the Saudi's to ramp up oil production to hurt their shared geopolitical targets (Venezuela, Russia, Iran).
I notice more willful jinogist blindness. A thousand military bases around the world isn't about defense any more than England had colonies all over the planet.
It's the empire, stupid.
The United States is surrounded by two large friendly nations, and the world's two largest oceans, bedwetter. Coast Rica doesn't even have an army - how many times have they been invaded recently? The U.S. could get by completely with the various Guard forces (Air, Coast & National) and disband the rest of the military completely, along with the NSA and the CIA.
1) Operation != invasion, bedwetter 2) Alaska wasn't a state until the end of the 50's.
Okay. Name one democracy the U.S. overthrew to prevent a genocide or a regional war, or you're a raving moron who needs to pick up a remedial history book along with a new set of plastic sheets.
Until your cheap flash card lives up to its price and dies on you, and you have the Fun Project of figuring out what was stored on the card, and what was stored on the devices built-in storage. Then there's the fact that plenty of Android devices come without a card slot or a user-replaceable wankery.
Always bored by Apple Hatebois.
Or make their "fence" out of gigantic boulders that make foot traffic difficult and motorized traffic impossible.
Prove that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
You first, bedtwetter. The only opportunist that needs reigning in is the United States. Spends more than the rest of the world combined, has a thousand military bases around the world, has a penchant for overthrowing democracies - and it hasn't been invaded since the War of 1812.
Do you believe that Calvin wasn't full of shit?
And the lawbreaking Snowden reported on? Why aren't you guys demanding every employee of the NSA be hauled into court, right on up through the executive branch to the president himself? Why aren't you demanding Obama be charged with 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each instance of illegal warrantless wiretapping?
And why don't you authoritarians give two shits about the Constitution? If you did work for the government, you took the same Oath of Office that Snowden, Manning, Drake, and Kirkarou did. The only way for those men to uphold their oaths was to violate the laws protecting obscenely unconstitutional actions, like the NSA's warrantless wiretapping and the CIA's torture program.
Ah, yes, demanding whisteblowers face the law, while flatly ignoring the lawbreaking revealed by those whisteblowers. The penalty for violating FISA is punishable by up to 5 years and prison, and a $10,000 fine. Given the length and scale of NSA wiretapping, that probably means billions of years in collective prison time, and hundreds of trillions in fines, if FISA was enforced. Funny how you fascists are never demanding those laws be applied to the executive branch and the sort of contractor Snowden worked for.
No, he couldn't. Just ask John Kiriakou, who was investigating the CIA for torture and had his investigation shut down by "appropriate channels".
Civilization costs money.
That describes capitalism and unearned wealth, not taxation.
Except that's all basic capitalist bullshit. If corporations could make more money by squeezing suppliers, employees and customers, they would just fucking do it and not wait for an excuse to do so.
You bray on, thinking your some kind of wise sage, yet you've never heard of the remedial economic principle that all prices are set to maximize revenue. You really think that companies are sitting on their current pricing structure, when an increase of 3%, 5%, 25%, whatever, would bring in more profit without losing more customers than it was worth?
Really?
Then....have you considered....scrolling down to the articles on NASA etc? I DGAF about the story on Pokemon go, but you don't see me in there whining about it like a hipster wanker.
Hand waving + word salad = yawn.
Distinction without a difference. The only people who are able to buy up property in significant amounts are 1%ers. For the working class stiff, she DGAF if she's paying rent to a local landlord, or a foreign one.
Your idiocy. Representative democracy blocks the will of the majority, by design. In the case of the U.S., policy that is favored by 80% of the public - like a public option on health insurance - is killed in the bathtub. While policy that is loathed by both the left and the right - like telecom immunity - sails through Congress with only a roadbump of opposition. In the case of parliamentary governments, in both Canada and Britain, conservative governments have won solid majorities despite most of the population voting for other candidates.
Which means, slick, that if anyone intends to sway their elected government, they must get a super-majority if the populace on their side, in order to get 50.01% of the vote in Congress/Parliament.
A cheap pound makes it cheaper for foreigners to buy their products. Forget high school econ, this is remedial 2nd grade economics here. Which you apparently flunked. Now, you were braying on about being stupid?
Except...not buying it. Google has more than enough money to charge the farce of national security letters in court and lobby politicians, they just choose not to do so. Because the USG pays them money for compliance.
Uh huh. And if the driver DID NOT tell the cops he was armed, and had been shot the second the cop noticed he had a weapon, you'd be yelling that he should have told them he was armed. Ad-hoc reasoning is neat, that way.
Willfully obtuse? To repeat, and no, this isn't hard: if competition is so fierce that no company would dream of abusing the lack of net neutrality, then why are these telecos banding together and demanding there be no net neutrality in the EU?
You do realize that's attacking a straw man with an irrelevant comparison? Unless you can point to the U.S. factory that was ran by HP, Dell, Apple etc etc that had employed tens of thousands of people, only to fire most of them to drive up "shareholder revenue", of course.