What ever happened to Common carrier status ?
If ISP's start charging like this, surely they should loose any common carrier status they claim to have now and become responsible for what they carry, opening them up to all the liabilities that come with that.
If they are anything other than big dumb pipes they have to accept responsibility for all the child porn and copy write material flowing across there networks.
40GiB/mo ?? Please, where do you get that?
Please, I want. My android has a 3GiB/mo fair use, not certain what happens if I exceed it but the phone is trying hard, so I will find out soon.
Where can I get 40GiB/mo?
Your problem appears to be with integration rather than ethnicity. Why not base an immigration policy on that instead? Then the problem becomes how to measure your level of integration in society.
Not strictly true, we needed a UK address for Sky to send there junk mail to but we paid with a credit card and viewed Sky TV in Switzerland for a couple of years. There is a company who will install the sky satellite dish and box with card all over Europe, but I am not sure how legit they are or if they affiliated with Sky in any way (my guess is no)
Whilst hoping that the earth is not all that exceptional, I think the moon plays a significant part in stabilizing the climate and rotation of the earth. Not only that but just being there protects the earth from impact. What hits the moon doesnt hit the earth. The moons effect on the oceans is seen by many as significant.
If the planet you detect undergoes violent disturbances every 100,000 years or so life is going to find it real tough to get anywhere.
I thought it went:
Its not the asshole in front and its not the asshole behind, it's the asshole behind the man in front and in front of the man behind.
Ok I give Up, somewhere on this thread is a real good troll but I cant quite figure out who it is. Do they really believe the stuff they are writing and are just mistaken...? I would prefer to think they are mistaken but a few years reading slashdot
says different.
So I decided to throw my Mod points away for this thread by posting cos I just cant make up my mind.
Yes, cos since the cold war ended the US has become a Superpower monopoly, OK China is catching up but the US is doing a microsoft on them and keeping them as restricted as it can.
The US is stagnating like any monopoly thats held too long does. It doesnt have to inovate to get ahead cos its already there, so it stagnates.
Surely if you do pay the BBC TV/Radio licence then what you can do with what you have licenced really depends on the terms of the licence. You are not paying for the content but only for a licence to view that content under the conditions set out in that licence.
In fact it seems similar to other media licence issues where you are buying a licence for that media and not the actual media itself.
Surely it depends on the what the licence small print allows its buyer to do ?
Surely if you do pay the BBC TV/Radio licence then it really depends on the terms of the licence. You are not paying for the content but only for a licence to view that content under the conditions set out in that licence.
In fact it seems similar to other media licence issues where you are buying a licence for that media and not the actual media itself.
Surely it depends on the what the licence small print allows the buyer to do ?
You are not the only one getting a bit sick of this, Here in the UK manhole covers are no longer round. They are square and split diagonally. Yes they can fall down the manhole, although the two halfs are loosely bolted together and Yes they are a real bugger to get back out again. I know I have built enough sewer lines. The round neck is usually covered in a flat slab with a square hole in it. On that, between 2 and 4 courses of bricks are laid and then the frame is cemented on, into which goes the cover. The cover slab can generally be twisted enough to line everything up with the kerb so as not to look too odd. Generyll speaking the most important thing about cover placement in a road is to avoid placing the cover directly under the tyres of most cars. So they will normally try to place them in the middle of the lane. This reduces the amount of impact damage the manhole sustains and probably avoids vehicles slipping on the metal covers.
I didnt see the documentary you mention, but I was a civil engineer and I was in Kuala Lumpur when the towers were being built. The rumour was that one tower was built on the bedrock and the other tower was built on clay. From what we experienced of the geology under Kuala Lumpur I would say this was quite feasable. They had different teams of contractors building each tower, One French and one German (I think) and held a race on which tower went up the fastest. The tower on the bedrock won as the other tower had to stop every so often to allow the building to settle. The other rumour going around was that when they came to fix the bridge, the bridge was nearly half a meter to small due to the clay founded tower leaning. Half a meter sounds like a lot to me but I would be very suprised if the bridge fitted exactly as it was supposed too.
Zürich, Switzerland operates a free bike rental service. Turn up at one of the many bike rental places throughout the city, with proof of identity (normally your passport) and they will give you a bike, scooter, tricycle or roller blades for the rest of the day. Pretty cool and gets used a hell of a lot.
Not Gwindows or GLinux Googles operating system would "run" in your browser. Therefore making the OS as we now know it some sort of hardware abstraction layer.
This is what Microsoft is so afarid of. It gets the OS off the desktop and out of the computer. It doesnt matter what "hardware abstraction" your running Windows, Linux, OSX whatever if you can run Googles browser your Office apps and all your files would be available through that. Prehaps you have the google equivilent of "exe"'s stored locally so you can run offline, but most of your files would be remotly stored.
Thats what MS doesnt want, it makes their cash cows irrelavent.
Well, it maybe not quite as funny as it seems. Google are providing functionality to enable searching through your emails. What else does Google do? They search images. 1TB would be a nice place to store your photos/images and have a search function pull them out.
How many Gig of photos do you have?
Then again, quite how they would put images on an email server I dont know.
To take your analogy to far, you should arrest the engineers who built the alley and the planners who planned it.
The point is not to close the alley but to arrest the drug pusher. Why not treat the desease rather than covering up the symptoms.
Closing the alley will just move the drugs elsewhere just as closing Kazaa will move the sharers elsewhere.
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What ever happened to Common carrier status ? If ISP's start charging like this, surely they should loose any common carrier status they claim to have now and become responsible for what they carry, opening them up to all the liabilities that come with that. If they are anything other than big dumb pipes they have to accept responsibility for all the child porn and copy write material flowing across there networks.
40GiB/mo ?? Please, where do you get that? Please, I want. My android has a 3GiB/mo fair use, not certain what happens if I exceed it but the phone is trying hard, so I will find out soon. Where can I get 40GiB/mo?
Damn thats the same combination I use on my luggage!
Your problem appears to be with integration rather than ethnicity. Why not base an immigration policy on that instead? Then the problem becomes how to measure your level of integration in society.
I do now!
Not strictly true, we needed a UK address for Sky to send there junk mail to but we paid with a credit card and viewed Sky TV in Switzerland for a couple of years. There is a company who will install the sky satellite dish and box with card all over Europe, but I am not sure how legit they are or if they affiliated with Sky in any way (my guess is no)
Is that a Brazil reference by any chance ?
me too ;-)
Whilst hoping that the earth is not all that exceptional, I think the moon plays a significant part in stabilizing the climate and rotation of the earth. Not only that but just being there protects the earth from impact. What hits the moon doesnt hit the earth. The moons effect on the oceans is seen by many as significant. If the planet you detect undergoes violent disturbances every 100,000 years or so life is going to find it real tough to get anywhere.
Maybe it refers to CD's and DVD's. That would get them about the same distance !
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Hey, Do you know my brother, Eddie?
I thought it went:
Its not the asshole in front and its not the asshole behind, it's the asshole behind the man in front and in front of the man behind.
Ok I give Up, somewhere on this thread is a real good troll but I cant quite figure out who it is. Do they really believe the stuff they are writing and are just mistaken ...?
I would prefer to think they are mistaken but a few years reading slashdot says different.
So I decided to throw my Mod points away for this thread by posting cos I just cant make up my mind.
Best troll I have seen in a real long time.
Yes, cos since the cold war ended the US has become a Superpower monopoly, OK China is catching up but the US is doing a microsoft on them and keeping them as restricted as it can.
The US is stagnating like any monopoly thats held too long does. It doesnt have to inovate to get ahead cos its already there, so it stagnates.
Yes I read it as monkeys too, but then we are both wrong !
Surely if you do pay the BBC TV/Radio licence then what you can do with what you have licenced really depends on the terms of the licence. You are not paying for the content but only for a licence to view that content under the conditions set out in that licence. In fact it seems similar to other media licence issues where you are buying a licence for that media and not the actual media itself.
Surely it depends on the what the licence small print allows its buyer to do ?
Surely if you do pay the BBC TV/Radio licence then it really depends on the terms of the licence. You are not paying for the content but only for a licence to view that content under the conditions set out in that licence. In fact it seems similar to other media licence issues where you are buying a licence for that media and not the actual media itself.
Surely it depends on the what the licence small print allows the buyer to do ?
You are not the only one getting a bit sick of this,
Here in the UK manhole covers are no longer round.
They are square and split diagonally. Yes they can fall down the manhole, although the two halfs are loosely bolted together and Yes they are a real bugger to get back out again.
I know I have built enough sewer lines. The round neck is usually covered in a flat slab with a square hole in it. On that, between 2 and 4 courses of bricks are laid and then the frame is cemented on, into which goes the cover.
The cover slab can generally be twisted enough to line everything up with the kerb so as not to look too odd. Generyll speaking the most important thing about cover placement in a road is to avoid placing the cover directly under the tyres of most cars. So they will normally try to place them in the middle of the lane. This reduces the amount of impact damage the manhole sustains and probably avoids vehicles slipping on the metal covers.
I didnt see the documentary you mention, but I was a civil engineer and I was in Kuala Lumpur when the towers were being built. The rumour was that one tower was built on the bedrock and the other tower was built on clay. From what we experienced of the geology under Kuala Lumpur I would say this was quite feasable. They had different teams of contractors building each tower, One French and one German (I think) and held a race on which tower went up the fastest. The tower on the bedrock won as the other tower had to stop every so often to allow the building to settle. The other rumour going around was that when they came to fix the bridge, the bridge was nearly half a meter to small due to the clay founded tower leaning. Half a meter sounds like a lot to me but I would be very suprised if the bridge fitted exactly as it was supposed too.
Zürich, Switzerland operates a free bike rental service. Turn up at one of the many bike rental places throughout the city, with proof of identity (normally your passport) and they will give you a bike, scooter, tricycle or roller blades for the rest of the day. Pretty cool and gets used a hell of a lot.
Not Gwindows or GLinux
Googles operating system would "run" in your browser. Therefore making the OS as we now know it some sort of hardware abstraction layer.
This is what Microsoft is so afarid of. It gets the OS off the desktop and out of the computer. It doesnt matter what "hardware abstraction" your running Windows, Linux, OSX whatever if you can run Googles browser your Office apps and all your files would be available through that. Prehaps you have the google equivilent of "exe"'s stored locally so you can run offline, but most of your files would be remotly stored.
Thats what MS doesnt want, it makes their cash cows irrelavent.
According to the specs,
Size and weight (20-inch)
* Height: 18.6 inches (47.2 cm)
* Width: 19.4 inches (49.3 cm)
* Depth: 7.4 inches (18.9 cm)
* Weight: 25.2 pounds (11.4 kg)
Size and weight (17-inch)
* Height: 16.9 inches (43.0 cm)
* Width: 16.8 inches (42.6 cm)
* Depth: 6.8 inches (17.3 cm)
* Weight: 18.5 pounds (8.4 kg)
according to the specs
Size and weight (20-inch)
* Height: 18.6 inches (47.2 cm)
* Width: 19.4 inches (49.3 cm)
* Depth: 7.4 inches (18.9 cm)
* Weight: 25.2 pounds (11.4 kg)5
Size and weight (17-inch)
* Height: 16.9 inches (43.0 cm)
* Width: 16.8 inches (42.6 cm)
* Depth: 6.8 inches (17.3 cm)
* Weight: 18.5 pounds (8.4 kg)6
Well, it maybe not quite as funny as it seems. Google are providing functionality to enable searching through your emails. What else does Google do? They search images. 1TB would be a nice place to store your photos/images and have a search function pull them out. How many Gig of photos do you have? Then again, quite how they would put images on an email server I dont know.
To take your analogy to far, you should arrest the engineers who built the alley and the planners who planned it. The point is not to close the alley but to arrest the drug pusher. Why not treat the desease rather than covering up the symptoms. Closing the alley will just move the drugs elsewhere just as closing Kazaa will move the sharers elsewhere.