The best place for complete info is broadband scandal. Lots of footnotes, actual wording from contracts is included. It's a free ebook and worth a perusal at the least.
The 20 page NJ case study shows how bell was allowed a rate increase specifically for fiber to the home, took in a billion extra from this and only had an outlay of about 79 million. They also paid almost a billion extra in dividends.
What I blame the lawmakers for is making laws and rules and then never enforcing them, or even seeing if the rules are being carried out and/or turning a blind eye. I blame the telcos for stifling competition by acting like the monopolies they are.
The dirty secret that never makes it to regular news is Telco's, by law, are a monopoly. The country was divided up amongst the baby bells and if you want interconnect with them they set the terms and pricing - if they allow it at all. The '96 telco reform act forced interconnects but the FCC under Bush got rid of all those pesky little rules.
Oh and taxpayers have already footed 300 billion for "high speed" internet that was never delivered and is conveniently forgotten. Politicians are paid off well. My local congressman Upton (Mi-R), if the Reps get control of the house, will be chair of the House telecommunications subcommittee. The telco's give 30K+ a year in campaign financing and his voting record shows he's in their pocket.
I'd love competition but we have corporatism and that's hard to top.
I agree with some of your points, that terrorism isn't over with. Except you can't count Iraq. If only Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. So we go into Iraq based on known lies, for a war that was only going to cost a few billion, with the army we had, not that we wanted. Then we're surprised when our boys are being fought tooth and nail and killed because we're invading another country just because our president was cleaning up his daddy's mess?
Let's look at movies for an example - There was the Patriot, Mel Gibson as the swamp rat, fighting guerrilla wars to protect his land. Or we have Red Dawn, it's even being remade, showing youth doing terrorism to stop the invaders. All movies Americans loved when it's defending our country. When the natives are defending against us invading is it right to call it terrorism?
But when the terrorists are attacking our way of life because we have too many freedoms (and not just blowback from the US being the US), and we get rid of these freedoms... who's won?
it's kind of like a place to store hard printed wikis and borrow at will, amazon also sells them. Printing a wiki would be very handy when the world's telecommunications fall apart when the zombie hordes start marching.
So who's going to be the first to file a freedom of information act for the images? Sounds like a lot of work for 32K images of blurry pr0n, but I'm sure there's a website for it somewhere.
I have a Samsung Mobile from Sprint, it's running 2.1 and will no longer be upgraded by Sprint according to their news release.
Another annoyance with carriers having to provide the upgrade is they toss in extra junk programs. I have an amazon MP3 store, sprint live Nascar, and other apps that can not be removed. Samsung also tossed in a few non-standard apps, like Moxier Mail, which costs $25 on the app store. So there are some minor benefits to using the network provided Android.
I like these kernel hacks, if they cause enough problems it may force Sprint to give me 2.2!
I agree with your enforced mediocrity. I assume part of this is no child left behind and other crap make the teachers teach to the test, and not actually educate. How kids graduate without knowing how to read, without ever being held back, is shocking.
I'm still amazed at the new GPA systems some schools use. If it's a 'hard class' it may go above a 4.0 for an A. The local school had kids graduating with 4.2 and above grades. Of course knowing the local school district they probably just bump everyone up +1.0 simply to get kids graduating.
First off, let me state I work in the trades. For new construction ADA makes perfect sense. It's the requiring old structures that want to renovate, or the grandfather timeframe expired, or new city ordinances go in effect that forces an update to ADA that causes real issues. A local hole in the wall barber shop spent a fortune to make an ADA compliant bath. While there we asked if he had ever had a handicap customer ask to use the bathroom. He said once in his 30 years.
The real kicker is that many people in wheelchairs or disabled, at least in the homes I've been in for work, don't have ADA compliance in their own homes. They simply can't handle the expense of potentially large renovations to get the added clearances, new fixtures, etc.
My libertarian minded self thinks government places should be ADA compliant. Personal businesses on new construction sure. Existing privately owned, even if they serve the public, structures should be exempt and up to the individual to determine if it benefits them to do so.
The feds and states have been working hard to ensure there are no known collision rates above zero by prohibiting searches of the database to see just how bad it is. The LA Times has a nice writeup about the problem. Basically they don't want scientists doing blind studies because it shows DNA isn't absolute especially for cases that have no other evidence.
For some interesting reading The Creature from Jekyll Island gives a good background on the creation of the Fed. It is the type of thing that you don't need a tinfoil hat to think it looks like a conspiracy.
As Forbes magazine Described the founding of the fed : Picture a party of the nation's greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily riding hundred of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written...
When people representing about 1/4 of the world's wealth get together to form a central bank, you know we're going to get screwed.
When will fox news start a heliumgate discussion how the science is skewed, we have yet to reach peak helium, and that humans couldn't possibly be at fault for this problem?
Also Dry Ice is far safer than the old MacGyver Hydrochloric acid and tinfoil in a soda bottle. They were all the rage around here after that episode came out.
I love his "I say that we need to focus on the future. I recognize that many still have a strong desire to focus on the past" response to probable broken laws by Bush and company. Has anyone played that clip at a court hearing? Your Honor, while I may have been speeding, let's not focus on the past, let's look towards the future..."
Agreements that were actually lived up to? Wow, that's a shock. Usually the telcos promise everything and deliver nothing. 300 billion worth of lies according to the last thing I saw
Until the baby bells get the 'no pre-paid phones' legislation. Right now they want an ID required. But with billions of profit on the line I'm sure they're lobbying hard to get rid of prepaid entirely.
We're looking at this all wrong. This is a hidden stimulus package in disguise. Seriously, think of all the IT people who will have to be hired looking at porn sites to define them and mandate a.xxx domain. When will the job offers start being posted? Finally a use for my decades of experience.
Of course should google have books.google.xxx for any of its banned books? Speaking of books filled with sodomy, incest, and guides to oral sex, will there be a mandated bible.xxx?
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Let me guess, Keanu Reeves was visiting and hit the right tone with his keyboard.
The best place for complete info is broadband scandal. Lots of footnotes, actual wording from contracts is included. It's a free ebook and worth a perusal at the least.
The 20 page NJ case study shows how bell was allowed a rate increase specifically for fiber to the home, took in a billion extra from this and only had an outlay of about 79 million. They also paid almost a billion extra in dividends.
What I blame the lawmakers for is making laws and rules and then never enforcing them, or even seeing if the rules are being carried out and/or turning a blind eye. I blame the telcos for stifling competition by acting like the monopolies they are.
The dirty secret that never makes it to regular news is Telco's, by law, are a monopoly. The country was divided up amongst the baby bells and if you want interconnect with them they set the terms and pricing - if they allow it at all. The '96 telco reform act forced interconnects but the FCC under Bush got rid of all those pesky little rules.
Oh and taxpayers have already footed 300 billion for "high speed" internet that was never delivered and is conveniently forgotten. Politicians are paid off well. My local congressman Upton (Mi-R), if the Reps get control of the house, will be chair of the House telecommunications subcommittee. The telco's give 30K+ a year in campaign financing and his voting record shows he's in their pocket.
I'd love competition but we have corporatism and that's hard to top.
I agree with some of your points, that terrorism isn't over with. Except you can't count Iraq. If only Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. So we go into Iraq based on known lies, for a war that was only going to cost a few billion, with the army we had, not that we wanted. Then we're surprised when our boys are being fought tooth and nail and killed because we're invading another country just because our president was cleaning up his daddy's mess?
Let's look at movies for an example - There was the Patriot, Mel Gibson as the swamp rat, fighting guerrilla wars to protect his land. Or we have Red Dawn, it's even being remade, showing youth doing terrorism to stop the invaders. All movies Americans loved when it's defending our country. When the natives are defending against us invading is it right to call it terrorism?
But when the terrorists are attacking our way of life because we have too many freedoms (and not just blowback from the US being the US), and we get rid of these freedoms... who's won?
I'm guessing a lot of the /. crowd is too young to remember Night Court?
it's kind of like a place to store hard printed wikis and borrow at will, amazon also sells them. Printing a wiki would be very handy when the world's telecommunications fall apart when the zombie hordes start marching.
And don't forget that IE is up to version 9, so FF4 will be 5 generations behind!
I think the government is already doing a good job on growing the number of disabled
yeah those freedom fries just didn't taste as good as the french ones
So who's going to be the first to file a freedom of information act for the images? Sounds like a lot of work for 32K images of blurry pr0n, but I'm sure there's a website for it somewhere.
How about the highlander II?
Highlander 2? That can't exist as there can be only one
You know that is a good facebook group idea right there. Or more likely a web page that doesn't involve having to use your real name.
I have a Samsung Mobile from Sprint, it's running 2.1 and will no longer be upgraded by Sprint according to their news release.
Another annoyance with carriers having to provide the upgrade is they toss in extra junk programs. I have an amazon MP3 store, sprint live Nascar, and other apps that can not be removed. Samsung also tossed in a few non-standard apps, like Moxier Mail, which costs $25 on the app store. So there are some minor benefits to using the network provided Android.
I like these kernel hacks, if they cause enough problems it may force Sprint to give me 2.2!
I agree with your enforced mediocrity. I assume part of this is no child left behind and other crap make the teachers teach to the test, and not actually educate. How kids graduate without knowing how to read, without ever being held back, is shocking.
I'm still amazed at the new GPA systems some schools use. If it's a 'hard class' it may go above a 4.0 for an A. The local school had kids graduating with 4.2 and above grades. Of course knowing the local school district they probably just bump everyone up +1.0 simply to get kids graduating.
First off, let me state I work in the trades. For new construction ADA makes perfect sense. It's the requiring old structures that want to renovate, or the grandfather timeframe expired, or new city ordinances go in effect that forces an update to ADA that causes real issues. A local hole in the wall barber shop spent a fortune to make an ADA compliant bath. While there we asked if he had ever had a handicap customer ask to use the bathroom. He said once in his 30 years.
The real kicker is that many people in wheelchairs or disabled, at least in the homes I've been in for work, don't have ADA compliance in their own homes. They simply can't handle the expense of potentially large renovations to get the added clearances, new fixtures, etc.
My libertarian minded self thinks government places should be ADA compliant. Personal businesses on new construction sure. Existing privately owned, even if they serve the public, structures should be exempt and up to the individual to determine if it benefits them to do so.
She should learn about Voip - but still, smart thinking on her part.
The feds and states have been working hard to ensure there are no known collision rates above zero by prohibiting searches of the database to see just how bad it is. The LA Times has a nice writeup about the problem. Basically they don't want scientists doing blind studies because it shows DNA isn't absolute especially for cases that have no other evidence.
For some interesting reading The Creature from Jekyll Island gives a good background on the creation of the Fed. It is the type of thing that you don't need a tinfoil hat to think it looks like a conspiracy.
As Forbes magazine Described the founding of the fed : Picture a party of the nation's greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily riding hundred of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written...
When people representing about 1/4 of the world's wealth get together to form a central bank, you know we're going to get screwed.
This is the funniest prank to a telemarketer I've heard homeowner acts as a detective at a murder investigation. Disclaimer, it's from bob and tom so they do the background laughing annoyance - but still good.
When will fox news start a heliumgate discussion how the science is skewed, we have yet to reach peak helium, and that humans couldn't possibly be at fault for this problem?
Also Dry Ice is far safer than the old MacGyver Hydrochloric acid and tinfoil in a soda bottle. They were all the rage around here after that episode came out.
I love his "I say that we need to focus on the future. I recognize that many still have a strong desire to focus on the past" response to probable broken laws by Bush and company. Has anyone played that clip at a court hearing? Your Honor, while I may have been speeding, let's not focus on the past, let's look towards the future..."
Agreements that were actually lived up to? Wow, that's a shock. Usually the telcos promise everything and deliver nothing. 300 billion worth of lies according to the last thing I saw
Until the baby bells get the 'no pre-paid phones' legislation. Right now they want an ID required. But with billions of profit on the line I'm sure they're lobbying hard to get rid of prepaid entirely.
"Who defines porn, anyway? What is it, exactly?"
We're looking at this all wrong. This is a hidden stimulus package in disguise. Seriously, think of all the IT people who will have to be hired looking at porn sites to define them and mandate a .xxx domain. When will the job offers start being posted? Finally a use for my decades of experience.
Of course should google have books.google.xxx for any of its banned books? Speaking of books filled with sodomy, incest, and guides to oral sex, will there be a mandated bible.xxx?