At first glance your argument appears valid. But even high population areas suck in comparison to other countries. If it was just rural areas and small cities that had bad Internet I would agree with you. However take any of the major metro US markets and compare to any similar major metro markets in other top countries and you'll see the US is vastly underserved by our telco / cable duopoly.
My local congress critter was sitting house chair of the House subcommittee on telecommunications. His entire plan for increased internet presence was given to him by major telcos - roll back the '96 deregulation act that forced competition and they promise they'll make things faster. Telcos were some of his largest campaign donors. That got rolled back, the promises didn't materialize, and the congressman went on to the more powerful Energy subcommittee. Ahh politics!
It's now up to 300 billion in accounting. Of course it'd take some politicians with real convictions to hold them accountable so we know that won't ever happen.
I'd also like a citation. I won't dispute that MS does some neat things but I've seen a lot of Pro-MS postings tossing buzzwords around lately. At least this posting was on a relevant story.
I won that game. Fall down hole, find a part, levitate out. I kept playing hoping it was worth it. Sadly.. it wasn't.
It shows that even aliens have crappy jobs to do.
John Archibald Wheeler was also a supporter of a participatory universe - as noted in the wiki page. Quantum physics needs an observer so the universe evolves to have an observer present to make it happen. So next time you look through a powerful telescope at something no one has seen before, remember, Thou art God
They'll make better ads. I've seen a few sites that detect ad blocking and won't show links if you have it on. I doubt this will catch on with mainstream sites but the workarounds are out there.
I read TFA and see that the person charged made the mistake to friend someone he didn't know was a copyright holder. So yes he was the exit node, he was stabbed in the back by a "friend". I don't necessarily agree with the finding but if you use retroshare and only friend people that are oh.. friends.. then you should be fine.
Oddly enough my nephew saw one of those Genesis plug in handheld games that has 80+ old school games and he wants it for xmas. He has gameboys, a 7 inch android, a wii, and a PC with steam, and he wants something with a blast to the past appeal. Makes me want to dig out the old pong system with the score slider on the case and wrap that up.
For the ManPro - Manufacturing Processes - class at GMI (Before it became Kettering) we did green sand casting. Had to pour the molten aluminum in and were warned entering the room if you so much as sneeze, spit, sweat, etc in the vicinity of the aluminum you will get hurt, badly. That was a fun class!
The idea of shows filming their season cliff hangers before a renewal makes it hard for shows to function. Although with Lost building up hype, or the BSG "They have a plan" was just outright lies. TV isn't alone on dragging things out. Any Wheel of Time fan had to feel cheated when it started taking over a page to describe a dress or over 2 decades to finish a trilogy.
On TV Fringe has somewhat closed the hanging threads.I'm glad they managed to get a 1/2 season to work on this. Eureka did the same thing with a half season closer. I recall Angel was notified they weren't being picked up so Whedon decided to go for broke on the ending. But it's far too rare.
The NSA is already grabbing everything and storing it. The NSA can store all they want, it's only an intercept when a human sees it. So if they realize Mr. Smith may be worth investigating they can then pull every email/phone/whatever else they're storing up from the past and it's totally legal.
Why hasn't anyone written a good firefox plugin to make gmail GPG workable?
Back when Meraki came out they were a great product. Cheap products that did mesh that just worked. I used them for years giving free wifi to a small area that transferred over 1TB to thousands of clients. Then Google bought them - or invested into them, not sure the exacts - and I didn't notice much of a difference at first. I wanted to expand my area and found the cheap products were end of lifed and no more. They had more expensive multiband gear and then enterprise. I could upgrade but it wasn't worth the expense to add two units when I could redo my whole area by going with openmesh. I've been happy with openmesh, another simple mesh wifi that just works. In fact I'm using it right now, my house is 2 hops from the commercial connection at the office, about 1km away.
I never used the enterprise level gear. If it was as easy to use as the cheap gear I can see why it'd have value. I am surprised that it's a billion dollar value. I wonder how much profit Google made through this?
I had been reading comics around the reboot and just gave up on DC. Marvel does a variety of reboots to a point and restarts numbers at #1 on a near regular basis but that's a series not a whole continuity change. But the crossover mania, even not having to err.. pay much.. for comics got so it wasn't worth the time. Last year's Fear itself storyline was over 100 comics. That'd be a lot of money shelled out to follow one storyline.
I agree. Unless the kid is already wealthy sell, be a success, then do something fun or start another. Easier to be a success if you don't have to worry about bills.
How many of us went through the dotcom era and wish we had sold out the first chance we got instead of hanging on? In hindsight I would have been far happier, and better off, if I had cashed in when I could have.
Just watch your back, that IRS can be crafty. Years ago a local barber was audited. They decided he was paying too little in taxes based on the towel service he used, one haircut per towel was more income than he declared. He settled that and started doing his own laundry.
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At first glance your argument appears valid. But even high population areas suck in comparison to other countries. If it was just rural areas and small cities that had bad Internet I would agree with you. However take any of the major metro US markets and compare to any similar major metro markets in other top countries and you'll see the US is vastly underserved by our telco / cable duopoly.
My local congress critter was sitting house chair of the House subcommittee on telecommunications. His entire plan for increased internet presence was given to him by major telcos - roll back the '96 deregulation act that forced competition and they promise they'll make things faster. Telcos were some of his largest campaign donors. That got rolled back, the promises didn't materialize, and the congressman went on to the more powerful Energy subcommittee. Ahh politics!
It's now up to 300 billion in accounting. Of course it'd take some politicians with real convictions to hold them accountable so we know that won't ever happen.
Deadwood was a great history lesson.
I'd also like a citation. I won't dispute that MS does some neat things but I've seen a lot of Pro-MS postings tossing buzzwords around lately. At least this posting was on a relevant story.
Story made me think of this old manifesto http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
I won that game. Fall down hole, find a part, levitate out. I kept playing hoping it was worth it. Sadly.. it wasn't. It shows that even aliens have crappy jobs to do.
John Archibald Wheeler was also a supporter of a participatory universe - as noted in the wiki page. Quantum physics needs an observer so the universe evolves to have an observer present to make it happen. So next time you look through a powerful telescope at something no one has seen before, remember, Thou art God
Time to switch to Planetside 2.
They'll make better ads. I've seen a few sites that detect ad blocking and won't show links if you have it on. I doubt this will catch on with mainstream sites but the workarounds are out there.
I read TFA and see that the person charged made the mistake to friend someone he didn't know was a copyright holder. So yes he was the exit node, he was stabbed in the back by a "friend". I don't necessarily agree with the finding but if you use retroshare and only friend people that are oh.. friends.. then you should be fine.
Oddly enough my nephew saw one of those Genesis plug in handheld games that has 80+ old school games and he wants it for xmas. He has gameboys, a 7 inch android, a wii, and a PC with steam, and he wants something with a blast to the past appeal. Makes me want to dig out the old pong system with the score slider on the case and wrap that up.
For the ManPro - Manufacturing Processes - class at GMI (Before it became Kettering) we did green sand casting. Had to pour the molten aluminum in and were warned entering the room if you so much as sneeze, spit, sweat, etc in the vicinity of the aluminum you will get hurt, badly. That was a fun class!
The idea of shows filming their season cliff hangers before a renewal makes it hard for shows to function. Although with Lost building up hype, or the BSG "They have a plan" was just outright lies. TV isn't alone on dragging things out. Any Wheel of Time fan had to feel cheated when it started taking over a page to describe a dress or over 2 decades to finish a trilogy.
On TV Fringe has somewhat closed the hanging threads.I'm glad they managed to get a 1/2 season to work on this. Eureka did the same thing with a half season closer. I recall Angel was notified they weren't being picked up so Whedon decided to go for broke on the ending. But it's far too rare.
The science channel showed firefly, that's as close to a sci fi channel that's out there. I have no idea what that 'syfy' channel is.
The NSA is already grabbing everything and storing it. The NSA can store all they want, it's only an intercept when a human sees it. So if they realize Mr. Smith may be worth investigating they can then pull every email/phone/whatever else they're storing up from the past and it's totally legal.
Why hasn't anyone written a good firefox plugin to make gmail GPG workable?
Out of business from lack of sales if I recall. I think the last I bought from them was quake 3 in the tin box.
Back when Meraki came out they were a great product. Cheap products that did mesh that just worked. I used them for years giving free wifi to a small area that transferred over 1TB to thousands of clients. Then Google bought them - or invested into them, not sure the exacts - and I didn't notice much of a difference at first. I wanted to expand my area and found the cheap products were end of lifed and no more. They had more expensive multiband gear and then enterprise. I could upgrade but it wasn't worth the expense to add two units when I could redo my whole area by going with openmesh. I've been happy with openmesh, another simple mesh wifi that just works. In fact I'm using it right now, my house is 2 hops from the commercial connection at the office, about 1km away.
I never used the enterprise level gear. If it was as easy to use as the cheap gear I can see why it'd have value. I am surprised that it's a billion dollar value. I wonder how much profit Google made through this?
Life is out there, they just ran off and hid in black holes waiting for us to dig them out.
I had been reading comics around the reboot and just gave up on DC. Marvel does a variety of reboots to a point and restarts numbers at #1 on a near regular basis but that's a series not a whole continuity change. But the crossover mania, even not having to err.. pay much.. for comics got so it wasn't worth the time. Last year's Fear itself storyline was over 100 comics. That'd be a lot of money shelled out to follow one storyline.
It was all about the vast amounts of profits to be made. Cheney's past company Halliburton with no bid contracts is a good example.
Pffft, I still use MUDs to communicate with friends
I agree. Unless the kid is already wealthy sell, be a success, then do something fun or start another. Easier to be a success if you don't have to worry about bills.
How many of us went through the dotcom era and wish we had sold out the first chance we got instead of hanging on? In hindsight I would have been far happier, and better off, if I had cashed in when I could have.
Surprised Bezos hasn't done something like this to go along with his 10,000 year clock.
but I am enjoying the show.
It's all you people enjoying the free shows that got him in trouble in the first place!
Just watch your back, that IRS can be crafty. Years ago a local barber was audited. They decided he was paying too little in taxes based on the towel service he used, one haircut per towel was more income than he declared. He settled that and started doing his own laundry.