It's not business model or the law. It's hardware/technology.
Bull. Non-DRM'd cable TV worked just fine in the analog era. If switching to digital makes that use-case stop working, it just means that whoever designed the digital system fucked up. This is by no means something that "couldn't" be done -- that much is proven by the fact that it was done with analog -- it's just that the cable cartel chose not to do it because they don't give a shit about consumer rights, and the regulatory-captured FCC let them get away with it.
I'm not a huge fan of DRM, but using it doesn't overturn Carterfone if CableCARD or equivalent is available.
Again, bull. The entire point of CableCARD (form the cable cartel's perspective) is that it allowed them to pay lip service to third-party devices while making it as difficult as possible to actually use them. Remember, the cable cartel ran the certification process for hardware whose makers wanted it to be compatible with CableCARD -- which is why there are only very few CableCARD computer TV capture devices on the market, and (IIRC) all but one (the exception being the HDHomeRun) only allow the stream to be captured to Windows Media Center's DRM'd media format. Constructing a Free Software DVR (e.g. MythTV) that works with CableCARD is many orders of magnitude harder than it ought to be.
The way it should work is that DRM should simply be illegal in the first place, so the cable company would not be in a position to be gatekeepers at all.
You don't complain about having to stick a SIM card in your cell phone. This is essentially the same thing.
Of course I complain about that! Carriers should absolutely not be allowed to pick and choose what devices get used on their network (other than blocking devices without a valid and paid account or which are attacking the network, obviously).
How do you keep an Internet-only cable subscriber from getting free HBO without degrading your service?
Don't know; don't care; not my problem. Maybe the answer is, "you don't!"
The issue is that DRMing everything and effectively overturning Carterphone should not be an allowable "solution." If your business model conflicts with a good law, then it's your business model, not the law, that needs to change!
What I want to know is, WTF happened to "any lawful device?!" (Other than the obvious answer -- FCC corruption -- that is.) There's no reason the Carterphone decision shouldn't apply to cable networks just as well as it does to phone networks.
For that to be true, you need to cite statistics showing that other countries have a similarly gigantic proportion of their population institutionalized in asylums.
First of all, I'll reiterate bloodhawk's point above, that coal has worse long-term impact than nuclear disasters too.
Second, the main long-term impact of Chernobyl and Fukushima (beyond the lifetimes of the humans involved) is that Russia and Japan have ended up with some accidental mandatory wilderness conservation! From the perspective of every species that isn't humanity, they were probably a net positive.
Look, Chernobyl and Fukushima sucked for their victims. I get that, and I'm not trying to minimize it. But abandoning nuclear because of things like that is like abandoning air travel ("the safest form of travel," they say) in favor of playing chicken on the highway because a plane crashes every once in a while. It's an emotional, irrational overreaction that just doesn't make any damn (statistical) sense.
It's not about whether the person involved felt threatened; it's about whether an impartial observer agrees that it was reasonable for the person to have felt threatened.
At least, that's how it's supposed to be. When the person claiming self-defense is a police officer, all bets are off...
That's why in America, the Bill of Rights -- whose purpose is to protect the people's freedom -- is written in terms of imposing limitations on the government. In other words, it doesn't say "the people have X right," it says "the government shall not infringe the people's right of X." That's totally by design, because the Framers understood the point the OP just made.
No, so you can repair/update the electrical or plumbing by popping off a panel, doing the work, then snapping it back on again instead of having to demolish and re-finish the drywall.
The thing that makes science science is the Scientific Method, not studying natural phenomena. You could do the latter and just as easily end up with astrology or folk medicine instead.
Flat tax. Progressive taxation is what Europe has and so many EU residents are really struggling.
Oh noes! Not progressive taxation! Never mind that back in the prosperous '50s "good ol' days" taxes here were even more progressive than they are now...
If I could matter transport to San Francisco instantly, whenever I wanted, you'd bet I'd live in a lovely rural setting rather than some built-up metropolis.
Good point. I'd probably pick a private tropical island...
*** Or not SF, it might be Marin County, the home of Starfleet Headquarters.
According to Memory Alpha, Starfleet Academy is in Marin County (in the vicinity of Horseshoe Bay), but Starfleet Headquarters is across the Golden Gate, on the Presidio.
I was a little amused that Uhura and Chekov in 1986 had no idea where "Alameda" was, despite it being a major feature of San Francisco Bay (just a few dozen miles from Starfleet Headquarters). I suppose you could make the argument that all the names had changed by then, but it seems rather unlikely.
It could be that taking transporters everywhere (instead of actually experiencing the journey from A to B) gives you a terrible sense of direction.
Or in reality, the writers were just trying too hard to make the movie a comedy.
And yet those characters that personally required a FTL craft could acquire one for their needs, and in a reasonable amount of time.
Which characters were those? The ones I remember were military/science/government-approved people who requisitioned one, criminals (or rogue military officers) who stole one, or merchants flying around in a beat up piece of shit. Even for Quark, it was the fulfillment of a life-long dream or something when his rich cousin gave him a [sabotaged] shuttlecraft.
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Bull. Non-DRM'd cable TV worked just fine in the analog era. If switching to digital makes that use-case stop working, it just means that whoever designed the digital system fucked up. This is by no means something that "couldn't" be done -- that much is proven by the fact that it was done with analog -- it's just that the cable cartel chose not to do it because they don't give a shit about consumer rights, and the regulatory-captured FCC let them get away with it.
Again, bull. The entire point of CableCARD (form the cable cartel's perspective) is that it allowed them to pay lip service to third-party devices while making it as difficult as possible to actually use them. Remember, the cable cartel ran the certification process for hardware whose makers wanted it to be compatible with CableCARD -- which is why there are only very few CableCARD computer TV capture devices on the market, and (IIRC) all but one (the exception being the HDHomeRun) only allow the stream to be captured to Windows Media Center's DRM'd media format. Constructing a Free Software DVR (e.g. MythTV) that works with CableCARD is many orders of magnitude harder than it ought to be.
The way it should work is that DRM should simply be illegal in the first place, so the cable company would not be in a position to be gatekeepers at all.
Of course I complain about that! Carriers should absolutely not be allowed to pick and choose what devices get used on their network (other than blocking devices without a valid and paid account or which are attacking the network, obviously).
Don't know; don't care; not my problem. Maybe the answer is, "you don't!"
The issue is that DRMing everything and effectively overturning Carterphone should not be an allowable "solution." If your business model conflicts with a good law, then it's your business model, not the law, that needs to change!
On the contrary; any lawful device is what ClearQAM solved! CableCard was the cable cartel's trojan horse to defeat it.
What I want to know is, WTF happened to "any lawful device?!" (Other than the obvious answer -- FCC corruption -- that is.) There's no reason the Carterphone decision shouldn't apply to cable networks just as well as it does to phone networks.
For that to be true, you need to cite statistics showing that other countries have a similarly gigantic proportion of their population institutionalized in asylums.
First of all, I'll reiterate bloodhawk's point above, that coal has worse long-term impact than nuclear disasters too.
Second, the main long-term impact of Chernobyl and Fukushima (beyond the lifetimes of the humans involved) is that Russia and Japan have ended up with some accidental mandatory wilderness conservation! From the perspective of every species that isn't humanity, they were probably a net positive.
Look, Chernobyl and Fukushima sucked for their victims. I get that, and I'm not trying to minimize it. But abandoning nuclear because of things like that is like abandoning air travel ("the safest form of travel," they say) in favor of playing chicken on the highway because a plane crashes every once in a while. It's an emotional, irrational overreaction that just doesn't make any damn (statistical) sense.
We only get worked up about nuclear disasters because they're so unusual. Coal is a disaster in its normal operation!
Let's be honest: given how little horsepower it had (205), the 1984 Corvette should have been an economy car!
It's not about whether the person involved felt threatened; it's about whether an impartial observer agrees that it was reasonable for the person to have felt threatened.
At least, that's how it's supposed to be. When the person claiming self-defense is a police officer, all bets are off...
His willingness to use such an unethical strategy proves Trump is a terrible choice all by itself.
Hey, I didn't claim it succeeded at its purpose...
How is this a troll? It's fundamentally correct!
That's why in America, the Bill of Rights -- whose purpose is to protect the people's freedom -- is written in terms of imposing limitations on the government. In other words, it doesn't say "the people have X right," it says "the government shall not infringe the people's right of X." That's totally by design, because the Framers understood the point the OP just made.
It's too bad, really; I like C# as a language but I wish the APIs weren't so Microsoft-centric.
Not to mention, I'd claim Debian's package management system as prior art.
No, so you can repair/update the electrical or plumbing by popping off a panel, doing the work, then snapping it back on again instead of having to demolish and re-finish the drywall.
Not as much as you might think. Until the industrial revolution, nails had to be made one at a time by a blacksmith and were thus freaking expensive.
The thing that makes science science is the Scientific Method, not studying natural phenomena. You could do the latter and just as easily end up with astrology or folk medicine instead.
To be honest, except for the military and borders part all the rest of that could be done by state or local governments.
Not to mention, it worked a lot better than in Star Trek V...
Oh noes! Not progressive taxation! Never mind that back in the prosperous '50s "good ol' days" taxes here were even more progressive than they are now...
Good point. I'd probably pick a private tropical island...
According to Memory Alpha, Starfleet Academy is in Marin County (in the vicinity of Horseshoe Bay), but Starfleet Headquarters is across the Golden Gate, on the Presidio.
It could be that taking transporters everywhere (instead of actually experiencing the journey from A to B) gives you a terrible sense of direction.
Or in reality, the writers were just trying too hard to make the movie a comedy.
According to Memory Alpha, all of Mudd's starships were either bought with counterfeit money or stolen outright.
In Deep Space Nine, almost all of those trading ships were either government-sanctioned, non-Federation, or both.
Which characters were those? The ones I remember were military/science/government-approved people who requisitioned one, criminals (or rogue military officers) who stole one, or merchants flying around in a beat up piece of shit. Even for Quark, it was the fulfillment of a life-long dream or something when his rich cousin gave him a [sabotaged] shuttlecraft.
Even then, scarcity would become a problem when two people decide they want the same whole planet.
A hippie WWII bomber pilot, and later a police officer? Far out, man!