When there's competition, someone will arise to fill that niche. When there's no competition or competition is unfairly hobbled by regulation or subsidization of one set of competitors over another, you only get a very minor deviation of competition among a collective "monopoly".
Are you suggesting that regional ISPs paid for and performed all of the work of building out the broadband infrastructures that they're operating on?
Because that is simply not the case and the money invested in subsidizing the projects would have been better spent treating the actual physical pipe as a utility rather than what is transported on it.
Why would you need to run cable several times over?
That's not how it's done in other parts of the world with massive bandwidth capacities. There's no reason the government can't build-out the infrastructure and then lease access to whoever wants to provide services over them. The problem is, ISPs are given monopolies to areas, because we're treating the *ISP* as the utility, instead of treating the actual pipe as the utility. Therefore, we'd have an independent "utility" that does nothing but maintain the physical pipe and has no interest in what travels over it, which is then leased at whatever going wholesale rate by the actual ISPs.
Then, the ISPs compete with each other on service and price.
In actuality, I'm almost certain that means he opposes regulation *and* subsidization and government facilitated regional monopolies. In other words, he supports fixing the actual problem that we've caused in the first place instead of perpetuating it and only painting over it with more bullshit regulation that won't ensure us of anything.
The right answer is to dismiss the concept of net-neutrality, but also dismiss all of the regional monopolies propped up by government. As show, time and time again, competition breeds better pricing and better service and better attention to customer wants and needs. When you don't have competition (regional monopolies subsidized by government), you get the same sort of service you can expect from any other local utility or bureaucratic office (DMV, for example).
Conversations about net-neutrality suffer the same sort of inherent fundamental flaws that conversations about health care do. We make ourselves blind to the real problem and try to apply little bandages to otherwise massive gaping wounds. Instead of fixing the problem that arises from having no choice in service carrier, we demand *further* regulation to solve the problems of regulation. Instead of fixing the problem of ridiculously expensive health care that could bankrupt even a fairly wealthy human being with even a one night hospital stay by addressing the incredible cost (often a result of the system of "someone else is going to pay this, so what does it matter how incredibly expensive this is?!", we try to fix the problem that we've caused by not addressing the price gouging, but by deciding "instead of the individual making the medical industries rich, we'll pass the buck on to the 'government' and have everyone collectively make the medical industries rich".
We are so myopic in this country. Such short attention spans and memories. So easily swayed and lead by sound-bites. All we can do is fix the upper-most layer of a problem, because we're too stupid to dig any deeper and fix what caused the problem in the first place.
Stop milking the current game and work on the next expansion or the next title in the franchise or something entirely new? Think of all the wasted time in "let's add five new stupid missions to this open world game!" and "let's add fourteen new hats and twelve tee-shirts!" development.
How is it that a game used to be able to launch and six months or a year later, they could release a huge $30 expansion pack with a crap-ton of content and a lot of thought put into it? Yet, today, they have to release new content every two to four weeks from and including the date of launch -- mostly filled with meaningless crap and padding rather than full-fledged content?
No, if you went by the professional community and the educator community, every teenager is a simmering pot of hostility looking to explode in an act of domestic terrorism or they're clinically depressed. Or both. Teenagers who are absolutely severely and clinically depressed to the point that urgent intervention is needed are pretty easy to spot to any parent or teacher who is even remotely observant. This isn't going to detect anything that they wouldn't already detect and raise concern over and nobody who can't be bothered enough to catch obvious signs of exceptional problems in their kid (beyond just the catastrophe that being a teenager is, to begin with) can't be bothered enough to use this (however you would implement it). Unless we're planning to have some other institution or agency foist it on people, in which case dealing with an individual's depressions becomes the last of our worries.
If your teenage child is *not* feeling depressed, you need to be concerned. For fuck's sake, as much a part of life being depressed is for adults, it's a damn near obligatory for a teenager. Being a teenager is shitty. Homework, bullies, fights, hormones, dating, sex, broken homes, abuse, shitty educations, shitty school systems, apathetic teachers, discovering your own views on the world and your own personality apart from your up-bringing and peer-group, grades, scholarships, college worries. If your kid is depressed, has mood swings, or even has entertained the idea of suicide, guess what -- THEY'RE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER TEENAGER WHO HAS EVER EXISTED.
That's not quite the same thing. I mean, it's mechanical, yes, but . . .
The IBM Model M (I have the reproduction from PCKeyboard, too) is a buckling spring keyboard, It *is* a mechanical keyboard, but it is quite different from the switches. The first thing is that it's incredibly loud, but it also has a different tactile experience to it. It's a fantastic model - especially if you don't mind the loud report and are typing/programming.
I replaced my Model M with a Leopold Tenkeyless with brown switches from Elite Keyboards. It's essentially the model and brand they're replacing the fantastic and beloved Filcos with. People have various preferences, but I find the sound and tactile response of browns to be ideal for someone who does a lot of different things (gaming, writing, coding, etc). If I were *purely* gaming, I would probably use reds or blacks. If I were typing, I'd probably use blues.
What I *definitely* wouldn't do is blow $100 on an in-house Newegg brand marketed at "31337 hax04z and g4m3rZ". The Leopold is only $100 and while a solid mechanical switch keyboard *can* run you several hundred dollars (or even $300-$400 for something like the Happy Hacker keyboard, which I actually find to have some serious flaws), you only really need about $100 for one of the best keyboard experiences you're ever going to get.
Of course, any of these is going to be superior to a shitty chiclet/membrane/low-profile keyboard.
As to why I switched from the Model M? Primarily, because I've started coding in an environment that I'm sharing with another person and neither of us wanted to hear a loud buckling-spring keyboard non-stop. Cherry switches aren't silent, but compared to a buckling spring, they might as well be!:)
Yes. And and the last one happened almost 250 years ago. Good luck with that. Until mini-vans, $5 coffee, and Monday Night Football are effected, nobody is going to lift a finger to do a fucking thing, much less take radical actions.
Exactly. Before training doughnut-munchers to troll twitter and facebook for information on criminal activities, how about we spend those time and resources educating them on constitutional basics so that they violate those of the people they protect less often? Cops aren't lawyers. Their job is to just sort of enforce laws with blunt-force and let someone else sort things out, later. But imagine if they were educated just a little bit about the constitution? (Cops know nearly nothing about the constitution or the law, hence why they so easily and frequently and STUPIDLY violate it on a daily basis). Give them anything more complicated than giving out parking tickets or responding to a break-in and they're like my dog trying to comprehend string-theory.
All of these discussions trying to justify somehow restricting the ability of someone to sell a product they have is absurd and offensive. To who in the hell is "well, it prevents a company from making even MORE money" a viable rationalization for stripping a consumer of their rights?
No, because we're still busy spending seven trillion dollars to bailout financial institutions while simultaneously pissing ourselves over the "massive" NASA budget for trivial shit like furthering the reach of all fucking human-kind.
My parents once told me the story of how they were thirteen years old when the entire world came to a stop and held its breath as one of mankind's greatest accomplishments was broadcast on television, surrounded by endless coverage and a great sense of excitement, hope, pride, and community.
If I were to have kids, I could some day tell them of how I was seven years old when a bunch of people blew up in a space shuttle launch. Then I could tell them about how when I was in my mid-twenties when a bunch of people blew up in a space-shuttle re-entry that wasn't really televised live on major networks, but was covered a lot immediately afterward as people tried to disparage the idea of space-exploration, because it was "too dangerous". Then I could tell them how we wasted a bunch of money, because we forgot we were supposed to measure in metric; not imperial. Then I could tell them about how one of the biggest space-related stories for an entire decade was how a crazy diaper-wearing jilted person who murdered their lover. Then I could tell them about how the ISS started falling apart and was near the end of its life and we had to start bumming rides from other countries, because we ditched the "shuttle" program and pretty much just crossed our fingers that private industry would pick up the slack. Then I could tell them about how I had to count on an old geek tech discussion site to give me links to some obscure space-related websites to watch streams of space events like landing rovers on fucking *Mars*, because the general public didn't give a shit unless the rover was the rich teenage slut of a famous family airing her sex tape or could swing a bat really well.
Then, I could tell them "my entire generation went without any real world-wide awe-inspiring community-building space exploration moment of hope like a generation or two before us did, but hopefully YOUR generation will get to experience something like that".
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Who cares if they take away our liberties, as long as they hate fags and love jesus as much as we do, right?
$43k for males, but that was seven years ago, so I have no idea how much higher it may be, today. So it's closer to 15 years.
When there's competition, someone will arise to fill that niche. When there's no competition or competition is unfairly hobbled by regulation or subsidization of one set of competitors over another, you only get a very minor deviation of competition among a collective "monopoly".
Are you suggesting that regional ISPs paid for and performed all of the work of building out the broadband infrastructures that they're operating on?
Because that is simply not the case and the money invested in subsidizing the projects would have been better spent treating the actual physical pipe as a utility rather than what is transported on it.
Why would you need to run cable several times over?
That's not how it's done in other parts of the world with massive bandwidth capacities. There's no reason the government can't build-out the infrastructure and then lease access to whoever wants to provide services over them. The problem is, ISPs are given monopolies to areas, because we're treating the *ISP* as the utility, instead of treating the actual pipe as the utility. Therefore, we'd have an independent "utility" that does nothing but maintain the physical pipe and has no interest in what travels over it, which is then leased at whatever going wholesale rate by the actual ISPs.
Then, the ISPs compete with each other on service and price.
In actuality, I'm almost certain that means he opposes regulation *and* subsidization and government facilitated regional monopolies. In other words, he supports fixing the actual problem that we've caused in the first place instead of perpetuating it and only painting over it with more bullshit regulation that won't ensure us of anything.
The right answer is to dismiss the concept of net-neutrality, but also dismiss all of the regional monopolies propped up by government. As show, time and time again, competition breeds better pricing and better service and better attention to customer wants and needs. When you don't have competition (regional monopolies subsidized by government), you get the same sort of service you can expect from any other local utility or bureaucratic office (DMV, for example).
Conversations about net-neutrality suffer the same sort of inherent fundamental flaws that conversations about health care do. We make ourselves blind to the real problem and try to apply little bandages to otherwise massive gaping wounds. Instead of fixing the problem that arises from having no choice in service carrier, we demand *further* regulation to solve the problems of regulation. Instead of fixing the problem of ridiculously expensive health care that could bankrupt even a fairly wealthy human being with even a one night hospital stay by addressing the incredible cost (often a result of the system of "someone else is going to pay this, so what does it matter how incredibly expensive this is?!", we try to fix the problem that we've caused by not addressing the price gouging, but by deciding "instead of the individual making the medical industries rich, we'll pass the buck on to the 'government' and have everyone collectively make the medical industries rich".
We are so myopic in this country. Such short attention spans and memories. So easily swayed and lead by sound-bites. All we can do is fix the upper-most layer of a problem, because we're too stupid to dig any deeper and fix what caused the problem in the first place.
I have a better idea.
Stop milking the current game and work on the next expansion or the next title in the franchise or something entirely new? Think of all the wasted time in "let's add five new stupid missions to this open world game!" and "let's add fourteen new hats and twelve tee-shirts!" development.
How is it that a game used to be able to launch and six months or a year later, they could release a huge $30 expansion pack with a crap-ton of content and a lot of thought put into it? Yet, today, they have to release new content every two to four weeks from and including the date of launch -- mostly filled with meaningless crap and padding rather than full-fledged content?
If you don't use Facebook and Twitter, you are suspicious and may be a terrorist, serial killer, etc.
If you don't participate in the new generation of mind-control(and reading) devices, you are suspicious and may be a terrorist, serial killer, etc.
No, if you went by the professional community and the educator community, every teenager is a simmering pot of hostility looking to explode in an act of domestic terrorism or they're clinically depressed. Or both. Teenagers who are absolutely severely and clinically depressed to the point that urgent intervention is needed are pretty easy to spot to any parent or teacher who is even remotely observant. This isn't going to detect anything that they wouldn't already detect and raise concern over and nobody who can't be bothered enough to catch obvious signs of exceptional problems in their kid (beyond just the catastrophe that being a teenager is, to begin with) can't be bothered enough to use this (however you would implement it). Unless we're planning to have some other institution or agency foist it on people, in which case dealing with an individual's depressions becomes the last of our worries.
If your teenage child is *not* feeling depressed, you need to be concerned. For fuck's sake, as much a part of life being depressed is for adults, it's a damn near obligatory for a teenager. Being a teenager is shitty. Homework, bullies, fights, hormones, dating, sex, broken homes, abuse, shitty educations, shitty school systems, apathetic teachers, discovering your own views on the world and your own personality apart from your up-bringing and peer-group, grades, scholarships, college worries. If your kid is depressed, has mood swings, or even has entertained the idea of suicide, guess what -- THEY'RE JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER TEENAGER WHO HAS EVER EXISTED.
That's not quite the same thing. I mean, it's mechanical, yes, but . . .
The IBM Model M (I have the reproduction from PCKeyboard, too) is a buckling spring keyboard, It *is* a mechanical keyboard, but it is quite different from the switches. The first thing is that it's incredibly loud, but it also has a different tactile experience to it. It's a fantastic model - especially if you don't mind the loud report and are typing/programming.
I replaced my Model M with a Leopold Tenkeyless with brown switches from Elite Keyboards. It's essentially the model and brand they're replacing the fantastic and beloved Filcos with. People have various preferences, but I find the sound and tactile response of browns to be ideal for someone who does a lot of different things (gaming, writing, coding, etc). If I were *purely* gaming, I would probably use reds or blacks. If I were typing, I'd probably use blues.
What I *definitely* wouldn't do is blow $100 on an in-house Newegg brand marketed at "31337 hax04z and g4m3rZ". The Leopold is only $100 and while a solid mechanical switch keyboard *can* run you several hundred dollars (or even $300-$400 for something like the Happy Hacker keyboard, which I actually find to have some serious flaws), you only really need about $100 for one of the best keyboard experiences you're ever going to get.
Of course, any of these is going to be superior to a shitty chiclet/membrane/low-profile keyboard.
As to why I switched from the Model M? Primarily, because I've started coding in an environment that I'm sharing with another person and neither of us wanted to hear a loud buckling-spring keyboard non-stop. Cherry switches aren't silent, but compared to a buckling spring, they might as well be! :)
Of course, the most succinct and likely accurate statement on the entire subject of Wikileaks is moderated "off-topic". Way to go, mods.
Yes. And and the last one happened almost 250 years ago. Good luck with that. Until mini-vans, $5 coffee, and Monday Night Football are effected, nobody is going to lift a finger to do a fucking thing, much less take radical actions.
Son, you sound like a terrorist.
No. Abstaining from social networking makes you suspicious.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/
Exactly. Before training doughnut-munchers to troll twitter and facebook for information on criminal activities, how about we spend those time and resources educating them on constitutional basics so that they violate those of the people they protect less often? Cops aren't lawyers. Their job is to just sort of enforce laws with blunt-force and let someone else sort things out, later. But imagine if they were educated just a little bit about the constitution? (Cops know nearly nothing about the constitution or the law, hence why they so easily and frequently and STUPIDLY violate it on a daily basis). Give them anything more complicated than giving out parking tickets or responding to a break-in and they're like my dog trying to comprehend string-theory.
Unfortunately, your mother's maiden name never changes, so you're basically SOL at your bank, broker, utilities and other services, too.
The DMCA does not permit you to file false DMCA claims, under penalty and you can seek damages in court against false claims.
Yes. Good old Mr. Aerosmith.
It's a couple days work after taxes. Is 16hrs of work for a 4-8hr game really "affordable"?
All of these discussions trying to justify somehow restricting the ability of someone to sell a product they have is absurd and offensive. To who in the hell is "well, it prevents a company from making even MORE money" a viable rationalization for stripping a consumer of their rights?
No, because we're still busy spending seven trillion dollars to bailout financial institutions while simultaneously pissing ourselves over the "massive" NASA budget for trivial shit like furthering the reach of all fucking human-kind.
"including near-death experiences and the impact of belief in an afterlife on human behavior."
Those aren't "aspects of immortality". Those are aspects of religion, mythology, and in some cases -- insanity. What a waste of money.
My parents once told me the story of how they were thirteen years old when the entire world came to a stop and held its breath as one of mankind's greatest accomplishments was broadcast on television, surrounded by endless coverage and a great sense of excitement, hope, pride, and community.
If I were to have kids, I could some day tell them of how I was seven years old when a bunch of people blew up in a space shuttle launch. Then I could tell them about how when I was in my mid-twenties when a bunch of people blew up in a space-shuttle re-entry that wasn't really televised live on major networks, but was covered a lot immediately afterward as people tried to disparage the idea of space-exploration, because it was "too dangerous". Then I could tell them how we wasted a bunch of money, because we forgot we were supposed to measure in metric; not imperial. Then I could tell them about how one of the biggest space-related stories for an entire decade was how a crazy diaper-wearing jilted person who murdered their lover. Then I could tell them about how the ISS started falling apart and was near the end of its life and we had to start bumming rides from other countries, because we ditched the "shuttle" program and pretty much just crossed our fingers that private industry would pick up the slack. Then I could tell them about how I had to count on an old geek tech discussion site to give me links to some obscure space-related websites to watch streams of space events like landing rovers on fucking *Mars*, because the general public didn't give a shit unless the rover was the rich teenage slut of a famous family airing her sex tape or could swing a bat really well.
Then, I could tell them "my entire generation went without any real world-wide awe-inspiring community-building space exploration moment of hope like a generation or two before us did, but hopefully YOUR generation will get to experience something like that".