Why can't I own my own last mile? If I have the cash, run a cable to hook up with whatever provider I prefer that runs down the closest shared right away, or link up wirelessly with one of the towers opererated by various competing. Why must a monopoly utility own the wires in my yard, the ones that only my household uses?
No problem. If you decide to buy the product, you know which channel to watch and in about 15 minutes, you will be ready to pace your order with the knowledge tha soon, you will be smilin, too.
If it is owned by the state, then the video is public domain. Even if it is a private corporation operating under a state granted monopoly, the state has rights to the footage if it was placed there for public safety. If it is available as evidence in court, for accident investigations or whatever, it is available for other public uses by people other than the state or the NJTA. Standards for keeping publicly owned information classified are high and are completely different than copyright which the stae doesn't have a right to use, since we, all of us, are the state.
Not exactly. All you would need are these special glasses and headsets, they could easily be incorporated in a helmet, that filter out or completely replace what you see with a spamfree view of your surroundings. Lets just hope the spamfilter is correct when it filters out the cars around you, especially that one with the pizza advertisemnet wraped all over it.
I don't understand the fascination newspeople have with scoops and breaking news. IMHE, scoops/breaking news articles are usually full of errors if they contain more than one line. If they want to do more than provide a headline, they need to do a decent job getting their facts straight, which they won't do if they value speed. I've heard so much blabber from newspeople about the news cycle that just doens't make since.
Besides, when I use Google News, I don't blindly click on the top headline. I look to the right to see which news service provided it. Then I will click on it if I know that provider to do a reasonable job of getting the facts straight. I don't care who "broke" the story as in getting published first, not if they also "broke" the facts. I'd rather the stories were rated on accuracy and informativeness. My favorite news stories are those with lots of facts and not much analysis. That's my other beef, reporters who would rather write long columns with their not so humble opinion with very little real information to support it.
Active personnel: 1,426,713 (Ranked 2nd) Reserve personnel: 858,500 (List of countries by size of armed forces) You can count on a lot of those personnel defecting or going AWOL should the government go to war against its own people. So, yeah, that's why the government uses (or tries to use) the boiling frog techniqe of turning up the heat slowly enough that we think we are comfortable when we are on the verge of being boiled alive. The game is for them to keeping pushing on the limits to our civil liberties in the name of security, while those who risk sounding unpatriotic push back.
No vocal moron leads by himself. When selecting our leaders, we should really pay more attention to the Cheneys, Roves, etc, that he is bringing with him.
I've seen enough legal immigrants to know that they also work very hard at low cost compared to natural born Americans (i'm talking about US citizens by birth, BTW, not the people who were here prior to European colonization). That has been the situation almost since the beginning of this country.
My top requirement for a reformed immigration system is that legal immigration be increased by a sizable amout and allow provisions for unskilled workers with clean character. That includes respect for US immigration law. Our economy and our geography have room for a lot more good people. Reducing illegals in the country will not create a huge vacuum if they are immediately replaced with people willing to play by the rules. Even if the laws are changed to retroactively legalize overstaying a visa or crossing the border, the fact that it was illegal at the time still indicates a character flaw that remains. And do we really want to legalize overstaying a visa or crossing the border without one?
Any engineer that can't write himself or herself a $5000 free for a year loan off their credit card doesn't have the financial IQ to start a company. Anyone who gives away equity for that paultry sum flunks that test. If the prototype is a success, you can always mortgage the house. If you can't do it in your spare time, take a leave or a long vacation.
When my husband died, I rented a coffin for $200. We used it for almost a week before finally getting him cremated. Not bad, I guess considering what a motel goes for around here.
At least when we get there, we will be immune to the bacteria and will have weakened or wiped out tlhe alien life forms. We could just move into their houses, etc.
I'm glad engineering colleges don't have this "no degree for drinkers" policy. There's not enough H1B visas in the world to deal with that situation. Besides, Indian engineers probably drink, too. It's necessary for properly assimulating the complex math, science, and etc.
Yeah, they started sending me PC Magazine, too. But, IIRC, Byte was turning into one of those Shpper things where all the articles were concerned with which grey box packed the most megaflops, as if I cared. It had ceased to be the mag that taught me about PGP, Smalltalk, and similar exciting ideas.
Big box retailers are interested in volume and marginal pricing. The range of music they pick, the bands that get prominent shelf space and the albums that appear in the advertising will all be driven by the bottom line.
No - if we want diverse musical forms to survive the big box stores, it will be despite them, not because of them. Unless the big box retailers set up kiosks or some such system to sell the long tail. They can record a CD on the spot, just as easily as they can make photo CD's.
The trick is finding what you like in the first place. The usual systems are friends, internet, and radio. We will always have friendly word of mouth, and the internet is a great resouce that we didn't have a couple of decades ago. Not only does it enhance word of mouth, it allows bands and fans to expose music, taking over the main role of commercial radio. It is better at that anyway, since obscure bands with hardworking and loyal fans can get exposure without the cooperation of the traditional recording industry. Of course, I haven't listened to commercial radio since the 70's. My radio buttons are all set on NPR, college stataions, and a station with decent traffic reporting.
Don't know about you, but engineers are routinely struck from juries simply because lawyers can't deal with people who think logically. So, if you are an engineer, it is very hard to get tried by a jury of your peers.
Thanks for your comment. As an citizen of the USA, I've frequently wondered about the pros and cons of coalition governments as compared to what we have. Something has got to change, but you can't change the system unless you are the system, and if the system works for you, why change it?
Shouldn't they have gone after Apple back in the 80's when Jobs was "inspired" by the work at Xerox Parc? Why haven't they sued Apple for using a mouse? Shouldn't patent suits happen before an innovation becomes the de facto industry standard interface?
or maybe Disney is getting ready to sue everyone over the mouse
Not only did you not read the article, you didn't even read the/. abstract. They are only allowing data calls, voice isn't enabled. Sounds like a good idea to me.
I don't know why the IRS doesn't just send a bill to American taxpayers. It's been suggested. They have enough information to do this for most taxpayers. Instead, we all have to do the paperwork, send it in, and they check the bottom line with their own calculations. Why not the other way around? I guess a lot of people would just pay without verifying or they might not notifiy the IRS of an error that would cost them money.
All the guns in hands and training in safety and efectiveness is useless if it takes 2 hours to respond.
The RA who was killed seems like a great kid. He was the first responder. If he had a gun, could we have trusted him to use it instead of or in addition to calling the cops.
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Why can't I own my own last mile? If I have the cash, run a cable to hook up with whatever provider I prefer that runs down the closest shared right away, or link up wirelessly with one of the towers opererated by various competing. Why must a monopoly utility own the wires in my yard, the ones that only my household uses?
No problem. If you decide to buy the product, you know which channel to watch and in about 15 minutes, you will be ready to pace your order with the knowledge tha soon, you will be smilin, too.
If it is owned by the state, then the video is public domain. Even if it is a private corporation operating under a state granted monopoly, the state has rights to the footage if it was placed there for public safety. If it is available as evidence in court, for accident investigations or whatever, it is available for other public uses by people other than the state or the NJTA. Standards for keeping publicly owned information classified are high and are completely different than copyright which the stae doesn't have a right to use, since we, all of us, are the state.
Not exactly. All you would need are these special glasses and headsets, they could easily be incorporated in a helmet, that filter out or completely replace what you see with a spamfree view of your surroundings. Lets just hope the spamfilter is correct when it filters out the cars around you, especially that one with the pizza advertisemnet wraped all over it.
I don't understand the fascination newspeople have with scoops and breaking news. IMHE, scoops/breaking news articles are usually full of errors if they contain more than one line. If they want to do more than provide a headline, they need to do a decent job getting their facts straight, which they won't do if they value speed. I've heard so much blabber from newspeople about the news cycle that just doens't make since.
Besides, when I use Google News, I don't blindly click on the top headline. I look to the right to see which news service provided it. Then I will click on it if I know that provider to do a reasonable job of getting the facts straight. I don't care who "broke" the story as in getting published first, not if they also "broke" the facts. I'd rather the stories were rated on accuracy and informativeness. My favorite news stories are those with lots of facts and not much analysis. That's my other beef, reporters who would rather write long columns with their not so humble opinion with very little real information to support it.
Reserve personnel: 858,500 (List of countries by size of armed forces) You can count on a lot of those personnel defecting or going AWOL should the government go to war against its own people. So, yeah, that's why the government uses (or tries to use) the boiling frog techniqe of turning up the heat slowly enough that we think we are comfortable when we are on the verge of being boiled alive. The game is for them to keeping pushing on the limits to our civil liberties in the name of security, while those who risk sounding unpatriotic push back.
No vocal moron leads by himself. When selecting our leaders, we should really pay more attention to the Cheneys, Roves, etc, that he is bringing with him.
I've seen enough legal immigrants to know that they also work very hard at low cost compared to natural born Americans (i'm talking about US citizens by birth, BTW, not the people who were here prior to European colonization). That has been the situation almost since the beginning of this country.
My top requirement for a reformed immigration system is that legal immigration be increased by a sizable amout and allow provisions for unskilled workers with clean character. That includes respect for US immigration law. Our economy and our geography have room for a lot more good people. Reducing illegals in the country will not create a huge vacuum if they are immediately replaced with people willing to play by the rules. Even if the laws are changed to retroactively legalize overstaying a visa or crossing the border, the fact that it was illegal at the time still indicates a character flaw that remains. And do we really want to legalize overstaying a visa or crossing the border without one?
It might also prevent the problem of the poster being sued, even if it is bascially the same information.
Any engineer that can't write himself or herself a $5000 free for a year loan off their credit card doesn't have the financial IQ to start a company. Anyone who gives away equity for that paultry sum flunks that test. If the prototype is a success, you can always mortgage the house. If you can't do it in your spare time, take a leave or a long vacation.
That's not what they do in Washington, somebody l just said the Black Hawk Down incident was caused by Global Warming
When my husband died, I rented a coffin for $200. We used it for almost a week before finally getting him cremated. Not bad, I guess considering what a motel goes for around here.
At least when we get there, we will be immune to the bacteria and will have weakened or wiped out tlhe alien life forms. We could just move into their houses, etc.
I'm glad engineering colleges don't have this "no degree for drinkers" policy. There's not enough H1B visas in the world to deal with that situation. Besides, Indian engineers probably drink, too. It's necessary for properly assimulating the complex math, science, and etc.
It's the costume. the RIAA is into everything
Schools don't pay to fix back problems.
Yeah, they started sending me PC Magazine, too. But, IIRC, Byte was turning into one of those Shpper things where all the articles were concerned with which grey box packed the most megaflops, as if I cared. It had ceased to be the mag that taught me about PGP, Smalltalk, and similar exciting ideas.
No - if we want diverse musical forms to survive the big box stores, it will be despite them, not because of them. Unless the big box retailers set up kiosks or some such system to sell the long tail. They can record a CD on the spot, just as easily as they can make photo CD's.
The trick is finding what you like in the first place. The usual systems are friends, internet, and radio. We will always have friendly word of mouth, and the internet is a great resouce that we didn't have a couple of decades ago. Not only does it enhance word of mouth, it allows bands and fans to expose music, taking over the main role of commercial radio. It is better at that anyway, since obscure bands with hardworking and loyal fans can get exposure without the cooperation of the traditional recording industry. Of course, I haven't listened to commercial radio since the 70's. My radio buttons are all set on NPR, college stataions, and a station with decent traffic reporting.
Don't know about you, but engineers are routinely struck from juries simply because lawyers can't deal with people who think logically. So, if you are an engineer, it is very hard to get tried by a jury of your peers.
Thanks for your comment. As an citizen of the USA, I've frequently wondered about the pros and cons of coalition governments as compared to what we have. Something has got to change, but you can't change the system unless you are the system, and if the system works for you, why change it?
Shouldn't they have gone after Apple back in the 80's when Jobs was "inspired" by the work at Xerox Parc? Why haven't they sued Apple for using a mouse? Shouldn't patent suits happen before an innovation becomes the de facto industry standard interface?
or maybe Disney is getting ready to sue everyone over the mouse
Not only did you not read the article, you didn't even read the /. abstract. They are only allowing data calls, voice isn't enabled. Sounds like a good idea to me.
I don't know why the IRS doesn't just send a bill to American taxpayers. It's been suggested. They have enough information to do this for most taxpayers. Instead, we all have to do the paperwork, send it in, and they check the bottom line with their own calculations. Why not the other way around? I guess a lot of people would just pay without verifying or they might not notifiy the IRS of an error that would cost them money.
All the guns in hands and training in safety and efectiveness is useless if it takes 2 hours to respond.
The RA who was killed seems like a great kid. He was the first responder. If he had a gun, could we have trusted him to use it instead of or in addition to calling the cops.