Because Verizon and Comcast customers are subject to binding arbitration. (Hey if they don't like it, they can always refuse and use one of the [nonexistent] other ISPs instead, so what's the problem?)
"Ubuntu puts the control back into the hands of our partners"
That, right there, makes everything about these new smartphones, and Ubuntu in general, entirely worthless. The entire point of all this is to put control in the hands of the USERS, not "partners!"
This sort of issue is why the Free Software Foundation was created. It wasn't because Stallman had some kind of political agenda, it's because he wanted to fix the driver for his printer, but couldn't because it was proprietary. The "Internet of Things" has the exact same problem, and the exact same solution.
The other things manufacturers need to do is quit releasing "FooRouter 300N-xpyvbei83qr-100.1-a" and "FooRouter 300N-xpyvbei83qr-100.2-a" with completely different and incompatible hardware.
Over such bullshit as Obamacare, or welfare, or abortion? We can agree to disagree. We can find a compromise that works for everyone, if we stop letting the power structure call all the shots and control every debate with the black and white all or nothing rhetoric.
You know what? If the "Tea Party" would STFU about those things, then your idea might work. But they don't -- the Tea Party is part of the problem.
What you really want -- and what I want -- is some kind of libertarian/green coalition (socially liberal, fiscally conservative at least at the Federal level, and States' Rights-oriented), but the Tea Party is not that.
Strictly speaking, President Obama cannot just declare that ISPs are Common Carriers. I expect the law says that the FCC determines that, and FDR or some such signed the law that established the FCC, at the time the Common Carrier status was to regulate the phone companies.
And who is in charge of the FCC? The correct answer is Obama, not the chairman of the FCC, in the same way that Obama, not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in charge of the military.
If the power to declare ISPs as common carriers lies with the FCC (as opposed to Congress), then that power lies with Obama.
The GP's point is that excessive spending (or anything connected to the budget whatsoever) is the least of the reasons why Obama is bad. If you want to complain about Obama, complain about how he reneged on his promises to close Guantanamo, end domestic spying, repeal the PATRIOT [sic] Act, respond meaningfully to things like FOIA requests and these petitions, etc. In other words, complain about how he is a treasonous, totalitarian liar who should be both impeached and tried for crimes against humanity in international court.
(I would almost wonder why the Republicans haven't tried to impeach, except the answer is obviously that they see nothing wrong with such behavior, given that Bush Jr. did the same thing.)
The FCC can either classify ISPs as telecommunications providers or not, that's pretty much it.
Obama has weighed in to the extent that he's able.
These sentences are logically incompatible. Obama is the head of the executive branch; he therefore has absolute authority over the FCC. If the FCC is authorized by Congress to classify ISPs as telecommunication providers, then Obama can dictate that it does so.
So if you think the material was removed or disabled maliciously and on purpose (rather than due to mistake or misidentification) you're committing perjury by filing the counter-claim?
Currently, the global BGP table requires around 256mb of RAM. IPv6 makes this problem 4 times worse.
So, routers running BGP need 1GB* of RAM to support IPv6? Considering that my phone has twice that much memory, it doesn't seem like that big a problem....
(* I assume by "256mb" you meant 256 megabytes, not millibits.)
You are paying for the rental license, you can't just replace it with a copy from wal mart.
Why not? Either you're paying for the "rental license" in which case you still have the rights to it and therefore are entitled to replace the physical tape at minimal cost, or the license is meaningless and you never needed permission to rent out your physical tape in the first place.
2) Being a licensed rental copy, the replacement cost is in the range of a hundred dollars or more.
So what? The special "rental license" ought to have remained with the rightful owner, and is therefore irrelevant for deciding what this woman owes. It's not as if she started up her own video rental company with it, after all!
At the point she lost it, it's value should have "reverted" to the retail price of a consumer-licensed tape, and the video store should have been legally entitled to get a replacement tape at that same cost. Anything else is legal insanity.
Read the post he was replying to, dumbass. That person was advocating allowing multiple companies to "lay cable" (i.e., install non-shared redundant wiring).
Interesting... so a white engineer marrying a black woman has approximately the lowest chance of divorce of any demographic permutation you could enumerate.
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Because Verizon and Comcast customers are subject to binding arbitration. (Hey if they don't like it, they can always refuse and use one of the [nonexistent] other ISPs instead, so what's the problem?)
That, right there, makes everything about these new smartphones, and Ubuntu in general, entirely worthless. The entire point of all this is to put control in the hands of the USERS, not "partners!"
This sort of issue is why the Free Software Foundation was created. It wasn't because Stallman had some kind of political agenda, it's because he wanted to fix the driver for his printer, but couldn't because it was proprietary. The "Internet of Things" has the exact same problem, and the exact same solution.
Isn't that all of them? I'd love to know which manufacturers (if any) actually individualize the passwords.
The other things manufacturers need to do is quit releasing "FooRouter 300N-xpyvbei83qr-100.1-a" and "FooRouter 300N-xpyvbei83qr-100.2-a" with completely different and incompatible hardware.
You know what? If the "Tea Party" would STFU about those things, then your idea might work. But they don't -- the Tea Party is part of the problem.
What you really want -- and what I want -- is some kind of libertarian/green coalition (socially liberal, fiscally conservative at least at the Federal level, and States' Rights-oriented), but the Tea Party is not that.
And who is in charge of the FCC? The correct answer is Obama, not the chairman of the FCC, in the same way that Obama, not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in charge of the military.
If the power to declare ISPs as common carriers lies with the FCC (as opposed to Congress), then that power lies with Obama.
The GP's point is that excessive spending (or anything connected to the budget whatsoever) is the least of the reasons why Obama is bad. If you want to complain about Obama, complain about how he reneged on his promises to close Guantanamo, end domestic spying, repeal the PATRIOT [sic] Act, respond meaningfully to things like FOIA requests and these petitions, etc. In other words, complain about how he is a treasonous, totalitarian liar who should be both impeached and tried for crimes against humanity in international court.
(I would almost wonder why the Republicans haven't tried to impeach, except the answer is obviously that they see nothing wrong with such behavior, given that Bush Jr. did the same thing.)
These sentences are logically incompatible. Obama is the head of the executive branch; he therefore has absolute authority over the FCC. If the FCC is authorized by Congress to classify ISPs as telecommunication providers, then Obama can dictate that it does so.
I just checked; it does not. (I tried both ways: using unicode character entities and using the <sup> tag.)
What else do you expect from something that sounds like a pet-name for venereal disease?
So what? It's still a violation of my privacy and therefore unethical.
So if you think the material was removed or disabled maliciously and on purpose (rather than due to mistake or misidentification) you're committing perjury by filing the counter-claim?
So, routers running BGP need 1GB* of RAM to support IPv6? Considering that my phone has twice that much memory, it doesn't seem like that big a problem....
(* I assume by "256mb" you meant 256 megabytes, not millibits.)
Why not? Either you're paying for the "rental license" in which case you still have the rights to it and therefore are entitled to replace the physical tape at minimal cost, or the license is meaningless and you never needed permission to rent out your physical tape in the first place.
So what? The special "rental license" ought to have remained with the rightful owner, and is therefore irrelevant for deciding what this woman owes. It's not as if she started up her own video rental company with it, after all!
At the point she lost it, it's value should have "reverted" to the retail price of a consumer-licensed tape, and the video store should have been legally entitled to get a replacement tape at that same cost. Anything else is legal insanity.
So the parents are in prison right now then, right? No? Then fuck off, you apologist asshole.
Read the post he was replying to, dumbass. That person was advocating allowing multiple companies to "lay cable" (i.e., install non-shared redundant wiring).
Fuck off, liar. That's true even in 5-million-people metropolises.
"Moneys" (or "monies") is a word only ever used by bureaucratic assholes (but I repeat myself).
Interesting... so a white engineer marrying a black woman has approximately the lowest chance of divorce of any demographic permutation you could enumerate.
And that's why it's guaranteed to be made up and not the name of a real country in that part of the world!
You're thinking of much more abstract problems than I was.
"pessimizing"
This makes me curious to know what the percentage is for interracial marriages.