Yes, because unions have never been corrupted. Unions have never grown into entities more concerned with their own survival than looking out for the wellbeing of their membership.
Ugh! They always claim that too. Are they not aware of any other part of the United States or is there actually a neighborhood somewhere in India called "New Jersey"?
Now, the American call centers seem to be reserved for the highest level technical folks, who have years of experience, and know what they're doing.
You must never have had to call Verizon Wireless support;)
The sooner we get rid of the petty tribal "us vs them" mentality we get from all the imaginary lines we've drawn on our globe, the better.
Those imaginary lines are a lot more important than you think. My country guarantees me several freedoms that other countries (or even the UN Declaration of Human Rights) don't provide for. You'll have a hard time convincing me of the wisdom of getting rid of those "imaginary" lines.
You say "destroy national sovereignty" (and all of the restrictions therein) like it's a bad thing.
You see restrictions where I see freedoms. Globalization has already created a race to the bottom for labor and environmental standards. Will our freedoms and rights be next in line? Will the United States be forced to adopt European restrictions on free speech? Will Europe be forced to adopt Islamic restrictions on free speech? Will the United States, Finland, Switzerland and Norway be forced to adopt stricter gun control laws?
I don't see how dropping restrictions on people moving will necessarily destroy national sovereignty or identity.
If you tell a Government that they can't control how many people cross their border is that not by it's very definition a restriction on national sovereignty?
How would it help anyway? How many Americans would really want to move to India when their job gets outsourced? How many Irish would want to move to Poland? Leaving aside the lower standard of living (compared to the US) in most places where jobs are outsourced what about language and cultural barriers?
I can't wait to see what happens when our economy takes such a nosedive, and unemployment becomes rampant that companies start moving jobs here since our labor is so much cheaper than china, india, taiwain, etc...
Actually our economy won't get that bad but a lot of economists were talking about what $200-$300/bbl oil would do to free trade. At a certain point it will become more expensive to ship goods than to just produce them here at home. The various economists and talking heads all disagreed as to what that point was but all agreed that it would happen sooner or later if oil prices had kept skyrocketing.
Of course the economic meltdown has dragged oil down but how long is that really going to last?
This is what happens when capital and goods can freely cross borders but people can't. Capital will simply chase poverty in a never ending circle around the globe. When one poor, desperate country starts to get wealthy, corporations will simply move to the next one, and let the first slip back into poverty.
So what's the solution? If you get rid of the restrictions on people moving you destroy national sovereignty and identity. If you get rid of free trade/adopt protectionism you drag the economy down a few pegs and probably destroy at least as many jobs as you save.
I hate what we've become but I'm at a loss for how to fix it. Ideas?
In fact, being a native of Nantucket allows me to charge you 50 cents for each use of the word "Nantucket" (it's actually $3000, but we divide the royalties up amongst the entire population -- 50 cents is just my cut). However, if you can pull some strings to get us our own statehood (which we've tried for before) or our own nuclear missile base (from "Boston Legal"), I'll let my 50 cents slide.
Hey, you might not have your own state but you did have your own TV show. That's more than my hometown (which has 20 times your population) has ever gotten;)
P2P has, most recently and very publicly, become a headache for high speed Internet providers. P2P traffic taxes their infrastructure, so they make moves to block or at least limit it, including everything from additional charges through routing changes, to downright packet manipulation.
Yeah, P2P has become a headache for ISPs but how much of that headache is caused on music vs video? I could download/upload 60 mp3s and probably not have the same impact on my ISP as the neighbor downloading last nights American Idol......
Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new sane, Slashdot-answering, fair-use-aware internet overlord.
I've never heard the Chairman of a Subcommittee referred to as an overlord before;) At least know I'll know who to blame when my friends send me an internet and it gets tangled up in enormous amounts of material.
Or...maybe the govt. doesn't want it easy for the general public to spend their pre-tax dollars as they see fit on medical needs?
That doesn't make sense either though. You can get a tax deduction on medical expenses when you file your income taxes if you are so inclined. The big advantage to an HSA or Flex account is that it makes that deduction automatic and also includes your social security/medicare taxes.
With this, I qualify for a Health Savings Account, that this year, I can load up with $2900 pre-tax dollars to use for my health needs. It is not a use or lose thing...and it earns money too.
I'd like to know that the rationale was for restricting HSAs to those with high-deductible plans. I'd much rather take part in an HSA for my own medical expenses rather than the "flexible" spending account that's anything but.
I love how they get to call something "flexible" when it comes with a "use it or lose it" provision and you can only adjust your election once a year.
If it takes a Porsche to motivate you through med school, then I don't want you as a doctor anyway. Much smarter people work for a lot less in non-medical fields.
It's got nothing to do with wanting a Porsche and I'm rather disappointed that the herd gave you a +5 for that remark. Do you have any idea of the amount of student loan debt that the typical med student has by the time they finish with medical school? Do you have any idea how much malpractice insurance costs?
And to what great use are Verizon and AT&T putting this spectrum?
Well the great use from them is the ability to shut out their competitors. I find it ironic that you need to write a detailed justification when you request IP space from ARIN but a much more limited resource is just auctioned off the highest bidder.
Screw IPV6, let's just charge money for IP allocations and let the marketplace figure it out......
Which, by the way, is a succinct explanation of why socialized medicine sucks.
Nah, they'll just cap what Doctors and Hospitals can charge for their services, thus shifting the problem from one of overpaying to one of people not deciding to enter the medical field......
I know some people are pretty bad off, but if you are that concerned about television you should be able to drop $40 on a converter box and not have the government pay for it.
Even if it was a governmental policy that caused your old TV tuner to cease being functional? The government made billions of dollars auctioning off the public airwaves to Verizon and AT&T. We aren't even going to get a third pipe out of the deal because for better or worse they sold them to the highest bidder instead of selling them for the public good (as the airwaves used to be licensed).
I'm not known as a big fan of Governmental hand-outs/interference in the marketplace but this seems like a problem that was created by a Governmental policy. There are other problems to this policy too beyond the cost of the converter boxes -- the digital signal just doesn't perform as well in many situations.
and guess who has a pair of big guys come around and start accidentally breaking the stuff in your lounge room until you sign a repayment plan?
I'm calling bullshit on you. I know a little bit about debt collectors -- went deeply into debt at one point and eventually had to file bankruptcy. I never had anybody come smashing stuff in my living room to get payment out of me. The most they ever did was huff and puff on the phone. They never even bothered to file suit against me, although they can obviously do that if they decide it might be profitable.
Perhaps you borrowed money from Tony Soprano instead of Capital One?
Which is why every residential Internet user is having to use NAT to connect more than one device to their always-on Internet connection
Yeah, it's a real PITA not being able to have a globally valid IP address for my TiVo.....
and why things like VoIP boxes (that require transparent two-way connectivity) require special ways of setting them up rather than just plugging into an Ethernet port in the wall
Yeah if only there was some sort of easy solution to this problem.
If you don't think we do, fire up the configuration page of your router, and take a look at the "DMZ" and "port redirection" pages.
Wouldn't that router just need to be replaced by a firewall if everything had a globally valid IP?
I did one better. The next time I went there I used pay-at-the-pump and filled my car in $0.50 increments. It didn't cost me anything extra and I'm sure it screwed them over in credit card fees;) That was a really amusing credit card statement to look at too.......
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Yes, because unions have never been corrupted. Unions have never grown into entities more concerned with their own survival than looking out for the wellbeing of their membership.
CSR: We are in ... uhhh ... New Jersey.
Ugh! They always claim that too. Are they not aware of any other part of the United States or is there actually a neighborhood somewhere in India called "New Jersey"?
Now, the American call centers seem to be reserved for the highest level technical folks, who have years of experience, and know what they're doing.
You must never have had to call Verizon Wireless support ;)
The sooner we get rid of the petty tribal "us vs them" mentality we get from all the imaginary lines we've drawn on our globe, the better.
Those imaginary lines are a lot more important than you think. My country guarantees me several freedoms that other countries (or even the UN Declaration of Human Rights) don't provide for. You'll have a hard time convincing me of the wisdom of getting rid of those "imaginary" lines.
You say "destroy national sovereignty" (and all of the restrictions therein) like it's a bad thing.
You see restrictions where I see freedoms. Globalization has already created a race to the bottom for labor and environmental standards. Will our freedoms and rights be next in line? Will the United States be forced to adopt European restrictions on free speech? Will Europe be forced to adopt Islamic restrictions on free speech? Will the United States, Finland, Switzerland and Norway be forced to adopt stricter gun control laws?
I don't see how dropping restrictions on people moving will necessarily destroy national sovereignty or identity.
If you tell a Government that they can't control how many people cross their border is that not by it's very definition a restriction on national sovereignty?
How would it help anyway? How many Americans would really want to move to India when their job gets outsourced? How many Irish would want to move to Poland? Leaving aside the lower standard of living (compared to the US) in most places where jobs are outsourced what about language and cultural barriers?
I can't wait to see what happens when our economy takes such a nosedive, and unemployment becomes rampant that companies start moving jobs here since our labor is so much cheaper than china, india, taiwain, etc...
Actually our economy won't get that bad but a lot of economists were talking about what $200-$300/bbl oil would do to free trade. At a certain point it will become more expensive to ship goods than to just produce them here at home. The various economists and talking heads all disagreed as to what that point was but all agreed that it would happen sooner or later if oil prices had kept skyrocketing.
Of course the economic meltdown has dragged oil down but how long is that really going to last?
This is what happens when capital and goods can freely cross borders but people can't. Capital will simply chase poverty in a never ending circle around the globe. When one poor, desperate country starts to get wealthy, corporations will simply move to the next one, and let the first slip back into poverty.
So what's the solution? If you get rid of the restrictions on people moving you destroy national sovereignty and identity. If you get rid of free trade/adopt protectionism you drag the economy down a few pegs and probably destroy at least as many jobs as you save.
I hate what we've become but I'm at a loss for how to fix it. Ideas?
In fact, being a native of Nantucket allows me to charge you 50 cents for each use of the word "Nantucket" (it's actually $3000, but we divide the royalties up amongst the entire population -- 50 cents is just my cut). However, if you can pull some strings to get us our own statehood (which we've tried for before) or our own nuclear missile base (from "Boston Legal"), I'll let my 50 cents slide.
Hey, you might not have your own state but you did have your own TV show. That's more than my hometown (which has 20 times your population) has ever gotten ;)
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But what if I wanna sell my meth in US customary units?
You sound like an RIAA investigator.
Are the RIAA investigators really so incompetent that they'd need to troll Slashdot looking for advic.... scratch that, they are that incompetent.
P2P has, most recently and very publicly, become a headache for high speed Internet providers. P2P traffic taxes their infrastructure, so they make moves to block or at least limit it, including everything from additional charges through routing changes, to downright packet manipulation.
Yeah, P2P has become a headache for ISPs but how much of that headache is caused on music vs video? I could download/upload 60 mp3s and probably not have the same impact on my ISP as the neighbor downloading last nights American Idol......
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Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new sane, Slashdot-answering, fair-use-aware internet overlord.
I've never heard the Chairman of a Subcommittee referred to as an overlord before ;) At least know I'll know who to blame when my friends send me an internet and it gets tangled up in enormous amounts of material.
Or...maybe the govt. doesn't want it easy for the general public to spend their pre-tax dollars as they see fit on medical needs?
That doesn't make sense either though. You can get a tax deduction on medical expenses when you file your income taxes if you are so inclined. The big advantage to an HSA or Flex account is that it makes that deduction automatic and also includes your social security/medicare taxes.
With this, I qualify for a Health Savings Account, that this year, I can load up with $2900 pre-tax dollars to use for my health needs. It is not a use or lose thing...and it earns money too.
I'd like to know that the rationale was for restricting HSAs to those with high-deductible plans. I'd much rather take part in an HSA for my own medical expenses rather than the "flexible" spending account that's anything but.
I love how they get to call something "flexible" when it comes with a "use it or lose it" provision and you can only adjust your election once a year.
If it takes a Porsche to motivate you through med school, then I don't want you as a doctor anyway. Much smarter people work for a lot less in non-medical fields.
It's got nothing to do with wanting a Porsche and I'm rather disappointed that the herd gave you a +5 for that remark. Do you have any idea of the amount of student loan debt that the typical med student has by the time they finish with medical school? Do you have any idea how much malpractice insurance costs?
And to what great use are Verizon and AT&T putting this spectrum?
Well the great use from them is the ability to shut out their competitors. I find it ironic that you need to write a detailed justification when you request IP space from ARIN but a much more limited resource is just auctioned off the highest bidder.
Screw IPV6, let's just charge money for IP allocations and let the marketplace figure it out......
Which, by the way, is a succinct explanation of why socialized medicine sucks.
Nah, they'll just cap what Doctors and Hospitals can charge for their services, thus shifting the problem from one of overpaying to one of people not deciding to enter the medical field......
I know some people are pretty bad off, but if you are that concerned about television you should be able to drop $40 on a converter box and not have the government pay for it.
Even if it was a governmental policy that caused your old TV tuner to cease being functional? The government made billions of dollars auctioning off the public airwaves to Verizon and AT&T. We aren't even going to get a third pipe out of the deal because for better or worse they sold them to the highest bidder instead of selling them for the public good (as the airwaves used to be licensed).
I'm not known as a big fan of Governmental hand-outs/interference in the marketplace but this seems like a problem that was created by a Governmental policy. There are other problems to this policy too beyond the cost of the converter boxes -- the digital signal just doesn't perform as well in many situations.
Your time is valuable, too.
I think of it as an entertainment expense ;)
and guess who has a pair of big guys come around and start accidentally breaking the stuff in your lounge room until you sign a repayment plan?
I'm calling bullshit on you. I know a little bit about debt collectors -- went deeply into debt at one point and eventually had to file bankruptcy. I never had anybody come smashing stuff in my living room to get payment out of me. The most they ever did was huff and puff on the phone. They never even bothered to file suit against me, although they can obviously do that if they decide it might be profitable.
Perhaps you borrowed money from Tony Soprano instead of Capital One?
Hey, I didn't say that there wasn't a reason to switch to IPV6. I just thought your examples of residential problems were a little exaggerated.
The company I work for just merged with another large problems, and we have massive problems with networks with overlapping RFC1918 networks.
You merged with another large problem? Sounds like my employer ;) Kidding aside, I've been there done that with network mergers. It's never fun :(
Which is why every residential Internet user is having to use NAT to connect more than one device to their always-on Internet connection
Yeah, it's a real PITA not being able to have a globally valid IP address for my TiVo.....
and why things like VoIP boxes (that require transparent two-way connectivity) require special ways of setting them up rather than just plugging into an Ethernet port in the wall
Yeah if only there was some sort of easy solution to this problem.
If you don't think we do, fire up the configuration page of your router, and take a look at the "DMZ" and "port redirection" pages.
Wouldn't that router just need to be replaced by a firewall if everything had a globally valid IP?
your card would've been disabled for the suspicious transaction pattern.
*shrug*, worked just fine. And did pay-at-the-pump even exist in the 80s?
I did one better. The next time I went there I used pay-at-the-pump and filled my car in $0.50 increments. It didn't cost me anything extra and I'm sure it screwed them over in credit card fees ;) That was a really amusing credit card statement to look at too.......