What? No they aren't. This isn't telephone serviceâ"it's internet service. There are no regulations requiring them to provide service out in the boondocks.
Cable tv/internet franchises almost always come with a build out requirement, or the cable companies would never do more than cherry pick profitable areas and build there.
[March 2014] Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference, [Verizon CFO] Shammo said the company would not consider other markets until it generates more cash within the wireline business.
"I am not going to build beyond the current LSAs (local service acquisitions) that we have built out," Shammo said. "We have to generate more cash within the wireline business and once we do that and I feel that FiOS has returned its cost of capital, then we can look at expansion, but at this point we're happy with what we have."
These are the same people that are allowing their copper network to rot out in order to push people onto FiOS.
Why should we-the-people have to wait for a conglomerate to make the business case for bringing service to our communities? Especially if we can do it now.
It is entirely plausible that speed limit is 70, speedometer reads 70, car is actually going 72, and radar reads 73.
It's my understanding that speedometers are not allowed to under report your speed. The manufacturing tolerances are such that the speed can show you going faster than you are, but never slower.
OTOH I'm not sure how you can reasonably legislate pics taken from drones. Do you now define a private location to include the airspace above it? But what if I am in public airspace, yet high enough to see over a wall?
Instead of playing with theoretical situations, it's easier to focus on the basic tenets of the law:
If you can see it from a "normal" location, it's not an invasion of privacy. If you use a R/C to look over a fence, it's like using a ladder to look over the fence. It's not a viewpoint the average person has, therefore you're invading their privacy.
TFA talks about how they propose to "reasonably legislate" I'd encourage you to read it.
You just proved my point in its entirety. You think one is wrong and the other isn't. Others believe both are wrong. You even use the same language as homophobes. They think that homosexuality is not normal, healthy or acceptable.
You can't compare pedophilia and homosexuality because ONE OF THEM INVOLVES MINORS WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEGALLY CONSENT.
Sure, the age of consent is arbitrary and varies from state to state, but that's the fundamental difference. And I don't see the slippery slope argument that leads from consenting adults to children to animals. It's just not there.
I fucking loathe insurance companies, and deeply resent the government forcing me to pay them in order to drive.
In some states you can self insure by posting cash or a bond. But if anything happens, you have unlimited personal liability.
Insurance isn't about you, it's about the people you might hurt. It's a necessary evil, though I'd support an Obamacare style mandate for auto insurance companies to pay out a minimum of premiums or rebate the balance back to their customers.
A forum with real-names policy is basically worthless, which is precisely why the Powers that Be try to push them. Stripping people of the shield of anonymity makes dissenting opinions easier to silence through chilling effects.
If you've ever seen the kind of awfulness people willingly post through their facebook logins, I don't think you can reasonably claim that no anonymity = chilled speech.
What the hell kind of setup does this actually affect anyway? So you lookup an internal name only after you get an NXDOMAIN from a root server or something? I've not been a sysadmin/netadmin by profession in a few years, [...]
Oh, that's the problem right there. You've assumed that because you know how to set things up correctly, everyone will set their DNS correctly.
Congratulations, genuine readers, and happy April Fools' Day!
We sometimes get the sense that some people are commenting on NPR stories that they haven't actually read. If you are reading this, please like this post and do not comment on it. Then let's see what people have to say about this "story."
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As you might expect, a lot of people commented on that without clicking through.
I consider satire to be something of a public service. If you don't bother to check the source of your information, you deserve the embarrassment (or misinformation) that follows.
But I have toyed with the idea of testing T-Mobile's unlimited data plan in its place - if the Comcast price creep continues unabated, I might actually do it.
You might have a fixed wireless broadband provider in your area. That would be the best and cheapest option.
T-Mobile's "unlimited" is actually unlimited 2G + 1/3/5 GB of tethered 4G. The hotspot/table plans are unlimited 2G + 1/3/5/7/9/11 GB of tethered 4G.
/I happen to live too far away for DSL and in a fixed wireless coverage gap, so I'm stuck with Cable.
As other states follow California's lead, it will become more and more difficult for coal plants to stay in operation.
The Clean Air Act was passed in 1970. Existing coal plants were grandfathered in, with the assumption that they'd eventually be upgraded or replaced. Instead, the coal industry has been operating the same dirty plants for >40 years.
The only reason "it will become more and more difficult for coal plants to stay in operation" is because the EPA has set a date for the closure of this loophole.
In the months leading up to the beginning of the market's first compliance period, several stakeholders objected to the resource shuffling rules and began agitating for reforms.
I have always had delayed sleep phase disorder (self-diagnosis)
Melatonin no longer works: after some occasional use, it now only works in high doses;
Melatonin isn't a sleeping pill* and you're probably not using it correctly.
The correct** way to use melatonin is in low doses 5~8 hours before bed time. Melatonin is your brain's way of saying "hey, it's dark out, let's push over the chemical dominoes that will lead to sleep."
On the other end, when you wake up, you either need a light box or some sunshine. (Ideally you want a light source of at least 10,000 lumens at 480nm (IIRC)) This sets off another chain of chemical reactions that let your brain know that it's time to wake up. As a result, it prevents your sleep phase from shifting forward by however much your delay is.
*Most of the usage directions you find online are wrong. **I'm not a sleep doctor but I talked to one recently, you should too.
Most countries that ratified the Bioweapons Convention just moved all their offensive research under the umbrella of defensive programs.
The difference between "we're making this stuff to kill people" and "we're making this stuff to design defenses against killing people" is one of semantics.
Taxes should be flat across the spectrum. You shouldn't get a break because you are extremely rich or poor. Besides, a flat tax is naturally progressive. If you make more, you pay more.
A flat tax is only "progressive" if you abuse the word to mean something else and completely ignore how everyone else is using the word progressive.
Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on.
That's the author of the Declaration of Independence writing to the "Father of the Constitution" and author of the Bill of Rights.
Better still, let's not tax income or property. Since all money in the economy is eventually spent, let's simply tax consumption and fund our society that way. Everyone consumes - those that consume less will pay less tax.
How did this get modded up. Everyone has a basic level of consumption: food, water shelter, clothing, transportation. For the poorest, this basic level of consumption makes up most of their spending.
It's the difference between a 10% tax on 90% of your income or 1% of your income. That's not progressive, that's not better, that's not fairer. And the founding fathers thought it was dumb.
[...] I'd want him to hire the best qualified people in a completely "blind" way. If that means 90% are male, or 80% white, or 85% female, or whatever the numbers work out to be because those were the best people to get the job done, then so be it.
The decision has been made and the MBAs are happy to write up a proposal that justifies any corporate goal.
So if you say that you want a "blind" process, they'll come back at you with something about mixed gender and multi-racial/ethnic groups combining synergies to create explosive new innovations yadda yadda yadda.
In the long run, this can only be a good thing, as almost no changes involving women or minorities in the workforce have come about organically. So this is as close to "organic" as a change gets, compared to the laws and lawsuits that have brought women and minorities to where they are today.
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What? No they aren't. This isn't telephone serviceâ"it's internet service. There are no regulations requiring them to provide service out in the boondocks.
Cable tv/internet franchises almost always come with a build out requirement,
or the cable companies would never do more than cherry pick profitable areas and build there.
[March 2014] Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference, [Verizon CFO] Shammo said the company would not consider other markets until it generates more cash within the wireline business.
"I am not going to build beyond the current LSAs (local service acquisitions) that we have built out," Shammo said. "We have to generate more cash within the wireline business and once we do that and I feel that FiOS has returned its cost of capital, then we can look at expansion, but at this point we're happy with what we have."
These are the same people that are allowing their copper network to rot out in order to push people onto FiOS.
Why should we-the-people have to wait for a conglomerate to make the business case for bringing service to our communities?
Especially if we can do it now.
Just because it's no longer legal to grow genetically modified foods in China doesn't mean that Chinese corporations won't use them.
Yea, but the CEOs risk execution if they do.
The Chinese Government doesn't fuck around with multi-year trials and then a bullshit penalty.
It is entirely plausible that speed limit is 70, speedometer reads 70, car is actually going 72, and radar reads 73.
It's my understanding that speedometers are not allowed to under report your speed.
The manufacturing tolerances are such that the speed can show you going faster than you are, but never slower.
OTOH I'm not sure how you can reasonably legislate pics taken from drones. Do you now define a private location to include the airspace above it? But what if I am in public airspace, yet high enough to see over a wall?
Instead of playing with theoretical situations, it's easier to focus on the basic tenets of the law:
If you can see it from a "normal" location, it's not an invasion of privacy.
If you use a R/C to look over a fence, it's like using a ladder to look over the fence.
It's not a viewpoint the average person has, therefore you're invading their privacy.
TFA talks about how they propose to "reasonably legislate"
I'd encourage you to read it.
Let's talk about a couple of the memes:
You forgot one: I definitely would NOT hit it. Just look at those sharp knees. She is way below my standar|
Fark doesn't spare anyone. Even its own privileged white males.
You just proved my point in its entirety. You think one is wrong and the other isn't. Others believe both are wrong. You even use the same language as homophobes. They think that homosexuality is not normal, healthy or acceptable.
You can't compare pedophilia and homosexuality because ONE OF THEM INVOLVES MINORS WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEGALLY CONSENT.
Sure, the age of consent is arbitrary and varies from state to state, but that's the fundamental difference.
And I don't see the slippery slope argument that leads from consenting adults to children to animals.
It's just not there.
Gays are human, too, thus they can be just as intolerant as any other human.
"Tolerate my intolerance" is a failed argument when it comes to civil rights.
Senator Somebody has filed "lawsuit" against your company. It is super-effective. All your assets are belong to him.
Ideally you would have a shell company that owns the vehicles and leases them to you.
It's how a lot of companies avoid liability.
If anything happens, the shell company declares bankruptcy and moves the assets to another shell.
I fucking loathe insurance companies, and deeply resent the government forcing me to pay them in order to drive.
In some states you can self insure by posting cash or a bond.
But if anything happens, you have unlimited personal liability.
Insurance isn't about you, it's about the people you might hurt.
It's a necessary evil, though I'd support an Obamacare style mandate for auto insurance companies to pay out a minimum of premiums or rebate the balance back to their customers.
A forum with real-names policy is basically worthless, which is precisely why the Powers that Be try to push them. Stripping people of the shield of anonymity makes dissenting opinions easier to silence through chilling effects.
If you've ever seen the kind of awfulness people willingly post through their facebook logins, I don't think you can reasonably claim that no anonymity = chilled speech.
2) Have you any evidence that other species of fish from the area have been ruled off limits due to heavy metals contamination?
http://www.mde.state.md.us/programs/Marylander/CitizensInfoCenterHome/Documents/Fish%20Consumption%20Docs/Maryland_Fish_Advisories_2014_Web_bluecatedit.pdf
Recommended Meals/Month varies from
"Avoid" and "1 every other month" to
"8" and "No Restrictions"
What the hell kind of setup does this actually affect anyway? So you lookup an internal name only after you get an NXDOMAIN from a root server or something? I've not been a sysadmin/netadmin by profession in a few years, [...]
Oh, that's the problem right there.
You've assumed that because you know how to set things up correctly, everyone will set their DNS correctly.
Sometimes satire is obvious, sometimes it isn't.
Why Doesn't America Read Anymore?
April 01, 2014
Congratulations, genuine readers, and happy April Fools' Day!
We sometimes get the sense that some people are commenting on NPR stories that they haven't actually read. If you are reading this, please like this post and do not comment on it. Then let's see what people have to say about this "story."
Best wishes and have an enjoyable day,
Your friends at NPR
As you might expect, a lot of people commented on that without clicking through.
I consider satire to be something of a public service.
If you don't bother to check the source of your information,
you deserve the embarrassment (or misinformation) that follows.
TLDR: Credulity is not a virtue.
But I have toyed with the idea of testing T-Mobile's unlimited data plan in its place - if the Comcast price creep continues unabated, I might actually do it.
You might have a fixed wireless broadband provider in your area.
That would be the best and cheapest option.
T-Mobile's "unlimited" is actually unlimited 2G + 1/3/5 GB of tethered 4G.
The hotspot/table plans are unlimited 2G + 1/3/5/7/9/11 GB of tethered 4G.
/I happen to live too far away for DSL and in a fixed wireless coverage gap, so I'm stuck with Cable.
Unless you live in a city, in a major market, the odds of there being any competition are almost nil.
Developing a domestic PV panel industry, fueled by domestic rare earth minerals, would help a lot here.
You'd still need to process those rare earth metals.
And (for now) you can't do that without the ore passing through a Chinese owned refinery.
As other states follow California's lead, it will become more and more difficult for coal plants to stay in operation.
The Clean Air Act was passed in 1970.
Existing coal plants were grandfathered in, with the assumption that they'd eventually be upgraded or replaced.
Instead, the coal industry has been operating the same dirty plants for >40 years.
The only reason "it will become more and more difficult for coal plants to stay in operation" is because the EPA has set a date for the closure of this loophole.
Related reading: The Coal Industry Has Been Fear-Mongering for 40 Years Now
In the months leading up to the beginning of the market's first compliance period, several stakeholders objected to the resource shuffling rules and began agitating for reforms.
An effective law was passed and the regulated companies neutered the law through lobbying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
I have always had delayed sleep phase disorder (self-diagnosis)
Melatonin no longer works: after some occasional use, it now only works in high doses;
Melatonin isn't a sleeping pill* and you're probably not using it correctly.
The correct** way to use melatonin is in low doses 5~8 hours before bed time.
Melatonin is your brain's way of saying "hey, it's dark out, let's push over the chemical dominoes that will lead to sleep."
On the other end, when you wake up, you either need a light box or some sunshine.
(Ideally you want a light source of at least 10,000 lumens at 480nm (IIRC))
This sets off another chain of chemical reactions that let your brain know that it's time to wake up.
As a result, it prevents your sleep phase from shifting forward by however much your delay is.
*Most of the usage directions you find online are wrong.
**I'm not a sleep doctor but I talked to one recently, you should too.
Much more practical: send elected representatives on those trips.
Elected representatives are already visiting Israel.
Destination by Country: Israel
The trips are almost exclusively paid for by Israeli interest/lobbying groups,
so you can imagine that the agenda isn't the most neutral or nuanced.
I would aggressively punish apps that demand overly broad access to your data.
Most countries that ratified the Bioweapons Convention just moved all their offensive research under the umbrella of defensive programs.
The difference between "we're making this stuff to kill people" and "we're making this stuff to design defenses against killing people" is one of semantics.
Taxes should be flat across the spectrum. You shouldn't get a break because you are extremely rich or poor. Besides, a flat tax is naturally progressive. If you make more, you pay more.
A flat tax is only "progressive" if you abuse the word to mean something else and completely ignore how everyone else is using the word progressive.
Here's a letter from the 3rd President of the USA to the 5th President.
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
28 Oct. 1785
Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on.
That's the author of the Declaration of Independence writing to the "Father of the Constitution" and author of the Bill of Rights.
Better still, let's not tax income or property. Since all money in the economy is eventually spent, let's simply tax consumption and fund our society that way. Everyone consumes - those that consume less will pay less tax.
How did this get modded up.
Everyone has a basic level of consumption: food, water shelter, clothing, transportation.
For the poorest, this basic level of consumption makes up most of their spending.
It's the difference between a 10% tax on 90% of your income or 1% of your income.
That's not progressive, that's not better, that's not fairer.
And the founding fathers thought it was dumb.
[...] I'd want him to hire the best qualified people in a completely "blind" way. If that means 90% are male, or 80% white, or 85% female, or whatever the numbers work out to be because those were the best people to get the job done, then so be it.
The decision has been made and the MBAs are happy to write up a proposal that justifies any corporate goal.
So if you say that you want a "blind" process, they'll come back at you with something about mixed gender and multi-racial/ethnic groups combining synergies to create explosive new innovations yadda yadda yadda.
In the long run, this can only be a good thing, as almost no changes involving women or minorities in the workforce have come about organically.
So this is as close to "organic" as a change gets, compared to the laws and lawsuits that have brought women and minorities to where they are today.