that it's assumed people not paying for it would actually pay for it? I see that's covered. How about this - maybe this study was done for some other reason, like to prop up stock prices? Or maybe drive them down a bit so someone can buy at a lower cost? nah, that would be wrong, they're good guys.... Oh look a squirrel.
"California is the best place in the USA to produce vegetables, period". Right, and we were all a lot worse off without CA growing vegetables. Wait, didn't the CA food industry started in the 1920s? It might be a good place to grow them year round but there are more variables to growing vegetables such as, wait for it, adequate water supply.
"Those vast fields in the midwest mostly produce export crops, and corn for fuel ethanol which is grown continuously and with synthetic fertilizers that literally destroy topsoil and turn it into an inert hydroponic growth medium." A good percentage is also grown for fed and seed. It was roughly 40% fuel to 36% feed 5 years ago, the rest exported. So I was a bit off on the seed part but still have to grow seed corn. Ask DeKalb, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Cool hats btw.
Also, there's been plenty of advancement in agriculture that doesn't destroy the topsoil and helps minimize usage of fertilizers and weed / insect killer. No till is gain popularity for example. Bio-engineering of the plants is another area that has been advancing.
Tomatos, green beans, cucumbers, peppers all grow fine in the Midwest soil, not year round but that's why people use to can vegetables and have cellars. Grow big gardens, harvest and store for the winter until next year. If the CA vegetable industry were to drop off things would be rough for a few years but people would figure it out. And IMO the Midwest would be in good shape quicker than other areas.
Ok, rtfa - boys buying outfits is the game changer. Eh, it's the same thing as them buying weapons or other items. Outfits are just an extension and not a game changer. Most of them just want their character to look like their idea of cool, be it some armor or a tutu.
Which could lead to the share holders forcing the CXXs and board to step down or be thrown out because they aren't doing what's in the best interest of the company, increasing share value, revenue, etc. The genie is out of the bottle and they are going to fight tooth and nail to stop this, see the current NN fight.I know this is about BB not internet but similar situation just a different battlefield.
Exactly right except the part you left out where they get exclusive license in the majority of towns and cities. I thinking of a term of what they call that and it's not capitalism....
I want to disagree with you since I went to college but you're not wrong when you say "Coding is incredibly complicated, to be good, only experience pays". I think were college helps is to get you access to the material and equipment when no other means may exist. When I got my degree personal computers were still fairly new and expensive, 1000$ for a home setup, and that was easily a down payment on a car so homes were rushing out to buy them. My kid went into physics and you don't find my homes with linear accelerators so IMO another area where college is a good idea. My other kid has no idea what to do so local college it is until they figure it out. So it's not all a waste of time. And not everyone can be a ditch digger too.
Doesn't matter if it's legal either. History + money will cover up the fact that your ancestors sold bootleg liquor or ran numbers, sold drugs, dealt in human trafficking. Ask the Bushes, the Kennedy's, etc etc etc
How about the pipe provider doesn't muck with the stream at all and the end devices determine the QoS? That's not what they are doing though. They are saying it's not your data stream since it's going over our pipes, you have to pay us to manage it and/or not muck with it. What if the water company said they would prioritize your water usage? Want water to wash your car, pay more for it.
^^^ THIS. While I can get faster speeds it's much more expensive since the only other option is 1.5 Mbps DSL. I've even looked into local companies offering a mesh network but they can't connect to me.
Fair enough but what happens when your parents are the only ones using e-mail and a few sites so that tier is aged out and their forced to subscribed to a higher tier? That's exactly what they did to me with cable. Each year or so they'd force the basic up a bit. I finally got sick of it and quit cable all together. When satellite did the same, they were out the door too. And Why should I subsidize your parents when they become the few people using e-mail and demand that tier be kept around? I've set it in this thread earlier, keep your hands off my data stream. Just do your job and connect me to the internet. It's NOTB what I do on it. Only when I impact other customers should they intervene.
Yeah, that's a big issue. All the more reason to break up companies like comcast, verizon, att that have wireless/isp/cable/b2b services. Just do the damn service and don't play games because your company also wants to force users to pay more for the same service that isn't costing them any more than if they just leave it alone.
I'm not talking about filtering. Although it appears that has been done in the past (can't find the article I'm thinking of right now) it may have just been a simple mistake. I'm talking about packet shaping and traffic prioritization of my internet connection. The ISP has few, if any, good reasons to prioritize my network traffic.AND revenue is not one of them. However since they are loosing the battle of content revenue against services like netflix, hulu, amazon, they can now start to look at options where I have to pay more or the service provider has to pay more to get that service at my connection. My biggest problem with this is that I pay for the connection (and it's not cheap) so just give me a connection and keep your money grubbing mitts off of it. If I choose to stream Netflix or Youtube or play Steam all day that's my business and they shouldn't be charging me extra because they can't force me into their cable package in addition to the internet.
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Where are these new secluded grounds? I've searched and searched but it seems all the world is filled
that it's assumed people not paying for it would actually pay for it? I see that's covered. How about this - maybe this study was done for some other reason, like to prop up stock prices? Or maybe drive them down a bit so someone can buy at a lower cost? nah, that would be wrong, they're good guys.... Oh look a squirrel.
Will buying this improve your social score in China?
https://xkcd.com/327/
"California is the best place in the USA to produce vegetables, period". Right, and we were all a lot worse off without CA growing vegetables. Wait, didn't the CA food industry started in the 1920s? It might be a good place to grow them year round but there are more variables to growing vegetables such as, wait for it, adequate water supply.
"Those vast fields in the midwest mostly produce export crops, and corn for fuel ethanol which is grown continuously and with synthetic fertilizers that literally destroy topsoil and turn it into an inert hydroponic growth medium." A good percentage is also grown for fed and seed. It was roughly 40% fuel to 36% feed 5 years ago, the rest exported. So I was a bit off on the seed part but still have to grow seed corn. Ask DeKalb, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Cool hats btw.
Also, there's been plenty of advancement in agriculture that doesn't destroy the topsoil and helps minimize usage of fertilizers and weed / insect killer. No till is gain popularity for example. Bio-engineering of the plants is another area that has been advancing.
Tomatos, green beans, cucumbers, peppers all grow fine in the Midwest soil, not year round but that's why people use to can vegetables and have cellars. Grow big gardens, harvest and store for the winter until next year. If the CA vegetable industry were to drop off things would be rough for a few years but people would figure it out. And IMO the Midwest would be in good shape quicker than other areas.
You misspelled 'selling'. It's not spelled 'giving'.
LOL! In other news water is wet and sky is blue.
Ok, rtfa - boys buying outfits is the game changer. Eh, it's the same thing as them buying weapons or other items. Outfits are just an extension and not a game changer. Most of them just want their character to look like their idea of cool, be it some armor or a tutu.
Serious question what is the change here? This model has been in place for years now with DLC. What's the shift away from that model?
"a sadistic person who enjoys watching other people suffer" There's a word for that: schadenfreude.
"and gangsters don't hang dudes that cause problems" What? What is that about?
Which could lead to the share holders forcing the CXXs and board to step down or be thrown out because they aren't doing what's in the best interest of the company, increasing share value, revenue, etc. The genie is out of the bottle and they are going to fight tooth and nail to stop this, see the current NN fight.I know this is about BB not internet but similar situation just a different battlefield.
Exactly right except the part you left out where they get exclusive license in the majority of towns and cities. I thinking of a term of what they call that and it's not capitalism....
Hey don't look at that man behind the curtain! Shhh.... Now we have to go prioritize our traffic over competitors traffic and charge customers for it.
homes WEREN"T rushing out to buy them. where's the edit button again?
I want to disagree with you since I went to college but you're not wrong when you say "Coding is incredibly complicated, to be good, only experience pays". I think were college helps is to get you access to the material and equipment when no other means may exist. When I got my degree personal computers were still fairly new and expensive, 1000$ for a home setup, and that was easily a down payment on a car so homes were rushing out to buy them. My kid went into physics and you don't find my homes with linear accelerators so IMO another area where college is a good idea. My other kid has no idea what to do so local college it is until they figure it out. So it's not all a waste of time. And not everyone can be a ditch digger too.
Bring on the dancing horses.
I call lion shit.
Doesn't matter if it's legal either. History + money will cover up the fact that your ancestors sold bootleg liquor or ran numbers, sold drugs, dealt in human trafficking. Ask the Bushes, the Kennedy's, etc etc etc
How about the pipe provider doesn't muck with the stream at all and the end devices determine the QoS? That's not what they are doing though. They are saying it's not your data stream since it's going over our pipes, you have to pay us to manage it and/or not muck with it. What if the water company said they would prioritize your water usage? Want water to wash your car, pay more for it.
^^^ THIS. While I can get faster speeds it's much more expensive since the only other option is 1.5 Mbps DSL. I've even looked into local companies offering a mesh network but they can't connect to me.
Fair enough but what happens when your parents are the only ones using e-mail and a few sites so that tier is aged out and their forced to subscribed to a higher tier? That's exactly what they did to me with cable. Each year or so they'd force the basic up a bit. I finally got sick of it and quit cable all together. When satellite did the same, they were out the door too. And Why should I subsidize your parents when they become the few people using e-mail and demand that tier be kept around? I've set it in this thread earlier, keep your hands off my data stream. Just do your job and connect me to the internet. It's NOTB what I do on it. Only when I impact other customers should they intervene.
Yeah, that's a big issue. All the more reason to break up companies like comcast, verizon, att that have wireless/isp/cable/b2b services. Just do the damn service and don't play games because your company also wants to force users to pay more for the same service that isn't costing them any more than if they just leave it alone.
I'm not talking about filtering. Although it appears that has been done in the past (can't find the article I'm thinking of right now) it may have just been a simple mistake. I'm talking about packet shaping and traffic prioritization of my internet connection. The ISP has few, if any, good reasons to prioritize my network traffic.AND revenue is not one of them. However since they are loosing the battle of content revenue against services like netflix, hulu, amazon, they can now start to look at options where I have to pay more or the service provider has to pay more to get that service at my connection. My biggest problem with this is that I pay for the connection (and it's not cheap) so just give me a connection and keep your money grubbing mitts off of it. If I choose to stream Netflix or Youtube or play Steam all day that's my business and they shouldn't be charging me extra because they can't force me into their cable package in addition to the internet.