System may experience unexpected downtime. Downtime occurrences may be, but are not limited to, the following:
"Sick Kegger" being thrown at a home nearby. Release of popular video games such as Halo Infinity, Duke Nukem Forever, and DaiKatana 2* Release of new video game consoles Bad weather Sale on glow bracelets at the dollar store.
Additionally, user experience subject to change at any time. Ambient temperature will greatly impact system availability and responsiveness.
The Quality of Service protocols are mostly ineffective and Service Level Agreements are completely out of the question.
OT but if you're fighting currency inflation because your treasuries printing presses are working overtime then destroying currency in the form of war gear may be a good idea.
That's an interesting viewpoint, but only on the face of it.
Let's disregard the voluntary vs non-voluntary argument and look at this from the absolute necessities argument that you're presenting.
Unless you're living off the land in the hills building your shelter from logs and mud either you or the vendor of your three basics WILL use the services of a business. That business will be taxed by the government and pass that cost to you.
Food? Trucking companies, grocery stores, rail carriers, farmers, tractor dealers and manufacturers, irrigation system dealers and manufacturers, THOSE companies dealers and manufacturers.
Water? Treatment plant, water service, treatment supplies, cartage to get those supplies to the treatment facility, raw materials for making the pipe, raw materials for making the treatment supplies.
Shelter? The list here is endless. Building materials, building supplies, trucking companies, cement, rail carriers, logging companies.
Even living a 1930's lifestyle there is no practical way you are going to avoid doing business with a company who is being directly taxed by the government. There is absolutely no way you are going to avoid doing business with a company who does business with someone whose being directly taxed by the government. (2 Degrees of separation)
So unless you're willing to wear an animal skin loincloth and live in a mud hut there is almost zero chance you will not be impacted by the government running up the price of doing business.
Quoth Gandhi_2 "Let big business pay for the privilege of using our spectrum. This is a good way to raise revenue without raising taxes."
Your logic train has derailed. The more you charge business of any kind, regardless of size, for their raw material the more they charge for their finished product. This is how business works.
So while your sentiment of "Charge those big business bastards out the wazooo!" *sounds* good all it means in reality is that the finished good will be more expensive for you to buy!
Presto! The Government has just created a hidden tax ON YOU and you were cheer leading them all the way!
You know I'd like to make some really witty and pithy retort and redeem myself but unfortunately, you're right. It's not the hardware, it's the code running it.
There is your proof that electric / alternate fuel vehicles are about to hit the mainstream. "They" are building the systems to keep the tax revenue flowing as fewer and fewer people buy gasoline.
I do not like chat. As a solution it demands near instant availability which is something that people who are not at their desk all day or people who work directly with clients do not have.
Is your situation really that important that it needs multiple people to communicate in real time? If it is then depending on the time sensitivity either build a conference call or schedule a meeting. Otherwise you're just feeding your ego and interrupting the day of your coworkers.
You bring out some good points but I'd like to add convenience to your list.
DVD Burners are inconvenient in two striking ways:
First, there is no access to the stinking GUIDE! A DVR has access, one way or another, to the program scheduling. Without that a DVD Burner has to be programmed to record manually and that's just too much of a hassle.
Second, after having a TIVO going back to a system that requires manual programming is bad enough. Going back to a system that requires manual programming AND the manual insertion of media is just too much.
100 Amps even for 6 minutes is essentially unworkable!
Most homes are equipped with TOTAL electrical service of 200 amps or less. Most older homes are 120-140A and my new home is 150A.
Are you suggesting to use upwards of 75% of the total electric service to charge your car? Even for six measly minutes? When your wife kicks on the microwave you'll blow your main breaker!
This doesn't even take into account apartment dwellers! Where are they going to get a 100A circuit from to do this? Most wall circuits are 20A or less.
Actually the best data about relative accident rates is from the INSURANCE companies. They say that the fastest rising rate of accidents is among riders over 40.
FYI, I'm 36. I think I'm past the "young" rider stage.:)
The fact is that older guys are more likely to have accidents. Slower reactions, years of neglected skills IF they ever rode when they were young (RUB is more than a TLA), skills that worked on a 400lb dirtbike are ineffective on a 1000lb street machine, etc.
I have a smallish mylar balloon from when my son was born eight years ago. It's still as full and floaty as ever. My wife and I pull it out and marvel at it a couple of times a year.
It's obvious that there is a way to contain this slippery gas!;-)
Oh I looooove that last argument, as I do all arguments where the larger states are somehow superior to the smaller ones.
Listen, those large states are pretty beholden to the smaller ones. At the very least the energy and food output of those smaller "flyover" states make life enjoyable in the larger states.
As an example, over 30% of the energy used on the East Coast is generated from coal mined in Wyoming. If no one chose to live in Wyoming how would the grid be powered? Same issue with natural gas, uranium, trona, and other substances vital, or close to it, for modern living.
The midwest that it seems all 'coasters want to impugn as uncivilized backwards rednecks provides much of what those same 'coasters EAT. Wheat, Corn, Soybeans (tofu anyone?), Beef, Pork, Lamb, etc.
Now, explain to me why we should punish those people who choose a less metropolitan lifestyle by stripping away at their electoral clout?
Anyway, I'm failing to see the downside of what you describe. I honestly, really and for true, would LIKE it if Congress were to slow down and actually have to spend more time in consideration of what they are doing. When did this imperative about gettings things done start? For the most part when Congress is busy it's simply busy increasing the nubmer of laws that you have to live under.
Older riders, the ones on those Harley-Davidson's and GoldWings have a higher accident and fatality rates.
So while the young rider on a crotch rocket is living, and riding, dangerously, the older guy on a Harley is more likely to suffer an accident involving injury and death.
This article is older but will give you the gist of why this is:
Slashdot Mirror
How could you not have heard it? It's been said for every version of Windows ever released!
OT I know but replace "asshats" with "The Media" and "Iran" with "United States" and the situation seems fairly familiar to me.
*Note*
System may experience unexpected downtime. Downtime occurrences may be, but are not limited to, the following:
"Sick Kegger" being thrown at a home nearby.
Release of popular video games such as Halo Infinity, Duke Nukem Forever, and DaiKatana 2*
Release of new video game consoles
Bad weather
Sale on glow bracelets at the dollar store.
Additionally, user experience subject to change at any time. Ambient temperature will greatly impact system availability and responsiveness.
The Quality of Service protocols are mostly ineffective and Service Level Agreements are completely out of the question.
*Just Kidding.
OT but if you're fighting currency inflation because your treasuries printing presses are working overtime then destroying currency in the form of war gear may be a good idea.
Just a thought.
As I read your post the /. tag line is "The door is the key.". Amusing.
What are you talking about?
Both Sony and Microsoft have a well established, and documented, history of announcing shipped instead of sold numbers!
Last I checked both are listed on the NYSE. Do MSFT and SNE ring any bells for you?
Well, why not?
You know how the saying goes "German's mature late or not at all." It's been true for every full blooded German I've ever met...including myself.
That's an interesting viewpoint, but only on the face of it.
Let's disregard the voluntary vs non-voluntary argument and look at this from the absolute necessities argument that you're presenting.
Unless you're living off the land in the hills building your shelter from logs and mud either you or the vendor of your three basics WILL use the services of a business. That business will be taxed by the government and pass that cost to you.
Food? Trucking companies, grocery stores, rail carriers, farmers, tractor dealers and manufacturers, irrigation system dealers and manufacturers, THOSE companies dealers and manufacturers.
Water? Treatment plant, water service, treatment supplies, cartage to get those supplies to the treatment facility, raw materials for making the pipe, raw materials for making the treatment supplies.
Shelter? The list here is endless. Building materials, building supplies, trucking companies, cement, rail carriers, logging companies.
Even living a 1930's lifestyle there is no practical way you are going to avoid doing business with a company who is being directly taxed by the government. There is absolutely no way you are going to avoid doing business with a company who does business with someone whose being directly taxed by the government. (2 Degrees of separation)
So unless you're willing to wear an animal skin loincloth and live in a mud hut there is almost zero chance you will not be impacted by the government running up the price of doing business.
Quoth Gandhi_2 "Let big business pay for the privilege of using our spectrum. This is a good way to raise revenue without raising taxes."
Your logic train has derailed. The more you charge business of any kind, regardless of size, for their raw material the more they charge for their finished product. This is how business works.
So while your sentiment of "Charge those big business bastards out the wazooo!" *sounds* good all it means in reality is that the finished good will be more expensive for you to buy!
Presto! The Government has just created a hidden tax ON YOU and you were cheer leading them all the way!
Doh!
You know I'd like to make some really witty and pithy retort and redeem myself but unfortunately, you're right. It's not the hardware, it's the code running it.
I use a SonicWall TS5 wireless at home. It is also completely immune.
Once again, cheap consumer junk FTL!
There is your proof that electric / alternate fuel vehicles are about to hit the mainstream. "They" are building the systems to keep the tax revenue flowing as fewer and fewer people buy gasoline.
I do not like chat. As a solution it demands near instant availability which is something that people who are not at their desk all day or people who work directly with clients do not have.
Is your situation really that important that it needs multiple people to communicate in real time? If it is then depending on the time sensitivity either build a conference call or schedule a meeting. Otherwise you're just feeding your ego and interrupting the day of your coworkers.
I can't decide if that "*inernal*" is supposed to read "*internal*" or "*infernal*". Something for the philosophers I guess.
You bring out some good points but I'd like to add convenience to your list.
DVD Burners are inconvenient in two striking ways:
First, there is no access to the stinking GUIDE! A DVR has access, one way or another, to the program scheduling. Without that a DVD Burner has to be programmed to record manually and that's just too much of a hassle.
Second, after having a TIVO going back to a system that requires manual programming is bad enough. Going back to a system that requires manual programming AND the manual insertion of media is just too much.
It's far easier, more convenient, to use a DVR.
Maybe because the peasants are helping to pay for it?
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This really has to be one of the few times I've seen someone argue for LESS public input here on
100 Amps even for 6 minutes is essentially unworkable!
Most homes are equipped with TOTAL electrical service of 200 amps or less. Most older homes are 120-140A and my new home is 150A.
Are you suggesting to use upwards of 75% of the total electric service to charge your car? Even for six measly minutes? When your wife kicks on the microwave you'll blow your main breaker!
This doesn't even take into account apartment dwellers! Where are they going to get a 100A circuit from to do this? Most wall circuits are 20A or less.
Actually the best data about relative accident rates is from the INSURANCE companies. They say that the fastest rising rate of accidents is among riders over 40.
:)
:)
FYI, I'm 36. I think I'm past the "young" rider stage.
The fact is that older guys are more likely to have accidents. Slower reactions, years of neglected skills IF they ever rode when they were young (RUB is more than a TLA), skills that worked on a 400lb dirtbike are ineffective on a 1000lb street machine, etc.
vroom vroom.
If the cable companies would execute it properly what you're describing is pretty much a Video On Demand system.
I thought he was bragging about having a wife with 52"...nevermind.
I have a smallish mylar balloon from when my son was born eight years ago. It's still as full and floaty as ever. My wife and I pull it out and marvel at it a couple of times a year.
;-)
It's obvious that there is a way to contain this slippery gas!
Oh I looooove that last argument, as I do all arguments where the larger states are somehow superior to the smaller ones.
Listen, those large states are pretty beholden to the smaller ones. At the very least the energy and food output of those smaller "flyover" states make life enjoyable in the larger states.
As an example, over 30% of the energy used on the East Coast is generated from coal mined in Wyoming. If no one chose to live in Wyoming how would the grid be powered? Same issue with natural gas, uranium, trona, and other substances vital, or close to it, for modern living.
The midwest that it seems all 'coasters want to impugn as uncivilized backwards rednecks provides much of what those same 'coasters EAT. Wheat, Corn, Soybeans (tofu anyone?), Beef, Pork, Lamb, etc.
Now, explain to me why we should punish those people who choose a less metropolitan lifestyle by stripping away at their electoral clout?
captcha - pedant
Sigh. There goes the shock value of this post.
Anyway, I'm failing to see the downside of what you describe. I honestly, really and for true, would LIKE it if Congress were to slow down and actually have to spend more time in consideration of what they are doing. When did this imperative about gettings things done start? For the most part when Congress is busy it's simply busy increasing the nubmer of laws that you have to live under.
I'll answer your last question.
Older riders, the ones on those Harley-Davidson's and GoldWings have a higher accident and fatality rates.
So while the young rider on a crotch rocket is living, and riding, dangerously, the older guy on a Harley is more likely to suffer an accident involving injury and death.
This article is older but will give you the gist of why this is:
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050918/NEWSREC0101/509180309/1001/NEWSREC0201
I am a motorcyclist.
Nope, not at all. GMTA!