I don't see the problem with this law. Using the Internet isn't a right, it's a privilege
WHAT!?!?!
And here I was thinking people had the right to do anything so long as it wasn't disruptive to other people's right to do the same.
Silly me. I guess I ought to be sending thank you cards to society-at-large for being kind enough to grant me the *privilege* of using a networked computer or whatever the hell else it is that I do all day and night.
Meanwhile I'd be grateful for all the technological progress he contributes to. How petty to be concerned about your GPA. Are you in school to get a high GPA or are you in school to learn and help improve technology?
Put them all on the enhancers, especially the AIDS and Cancer researchers; and video game designers please.
Did you ever consider there is more than one way to design something? Your point, therefore, is invalid.
What??? How is his pointing out a way to measure fuel in a tank with all electronics being external of the tank made invalid by you pointing out there are multiple ways to measure fuel within a tank?
I believe your conclusion, in this instance, renders you invalid.
I think you're onto something here. Rhode Island passed something similar in the past year allowing Verizon to sell FiOS statewide without having to negotiate with each little town. What was happening before was Verizon would have to go kiss every little town selectman's ass handing over fist-fulls of money at a time just to have permission to offer FiOS tv and internet in their town. Negotiations were taking over a year in some instances and ended with Verizon handing over millions of dollars just to be able to offer people faster internet access.
In that instance individual town licenses were a barrier to competition, not an encouragement for it. Somehow the state senators and reps in RI grew big enough balls to tell their local piddly town governments to screw off and they just gave Verizon a state-wide license. Result? Statewide fios deployment in RI.
Verizon's looking to do the same thing right now in Massachusetts. Each town wanted a bigger bribe than the last just to be able to offer fiber optic internet service to the residents. So this past summer, fed up with greedy local governments, Verizon pulled out of all local negotiations in progress and has announced they won't be applying for anymore. They want a state-wide license like time-warner just got here in Ohio and like Verizon already has in RI. Until they get it, no more fios expansion to any new towns in Mass.
There, so now that that's out there now try and tell me how a state-wide franchise is going to hold back progress any more than the old town-by-town franchise scheme. I know Telco companies aren't the epitome of business ethics and they could be upgrading their networks a lot faster but these local town governments aren't exactly making it easy.
8 hrs in airports, planes and cramped into a sardine can of a seat or 3 days of slowly chugging along while reclining on a couch watching the world roll by?
Just get one of those rooms with your own shower. You get 3 square meals a day included with the ticket price. Bring the laptop with cellular internet access and plenty of movies/video games for when you're in the dead zones. Throw in a book or two and an intimate friend and it's the only way to travel. Really it's like being able to loaf around for a few days while having someone else cook and make your bed.
I've only been long distances on amtrak with a suite a few times but If I could afford it it's the only way I'd travel. Admittedly it's hard to choke up $2,000+ for a moving hotel room when Continental can provide the same end for $150.
I'd say go with a junk rig sail setup. You'll lose a little bit of efficiency but in exchange for a much simpler sail setup. It would simply be a matter of hoisting and lowering the sails rather than furling and unfurling.
Disclaimer: I wrote software managing the network for the third largest cable company in the US.
And from the sounds of it you were fired for being an uninformed nitwit. Verizon has been putting fiber directly into people's houses for years now. I do it everyday for a living.
I don't understand. So then why did you concent to a search if you were so against it? Just say, 'Sorry. I don't give you permission. Am I free to go now?'
If he's a dick about it then he's a dick about. Some people are dicks. Forgive him and move on as you drive away and let him keep living his miserable dickhead life.
If he wants to waste his time bringing in drug dogs to try to get probable cause then let him waste his time.
If you're afraid you're going to get a harsher fine for your alleged driving violation for not consenting to a search then take that up with a judge, they'd likely lower it to something more reasonable (heck they do that even if you don't have a good argument just as a reward for actually showing up at your appointed court date/time), and call his boss and report him. Sure one guy calling in and complaining about a cop might get shirked off, but people calling in every other month about the same cop starts getting noticed. Better yet stop speeding/rolling through stop signs/failing to signal/driving with bad brake lights or whatever else it was that got you pulled over in the first place.
Anyway, you should rethink your viewpoint. That was only one cop. There are millions.
Some of our minds are more divided than others, apparently.
I think perhaps you're not appreciating the parent's point enough.
Catching someone in the act of something they have formerly discouraged others from doing and saying 'got chya!' is a bit fool-hardy. It's a mistake to expect that someone who talks about what is just and the best way to live is somehow immune to the temptations that prevent someone from living that best life.
Admittedly there's a difference between someone who says, "You're an asshole if you (insert hideous misguided action here.)!" and someone who says, "I think life might be better if we all tried to avoid (insert same misguided action here.)."
But I think the parent's point was well put, is too often ignored, and is worth repeating: The human mind is fortunately divided such that it can contemplate the ideal and the true before it itself embodies those things.
That's odd. I work for Verizon as a lineman and do lots of FiOS installs in the Boston area.
My foreman told us a month ago to stop taking down the copper just to improve our install times. Maybe at the CEO level there's a big conspiracy to eliminate common carrier lines but the 1st and 2nd level managers certainly don't care about it. And I know for sure the linemen don't.
I know when I install I only remove the copper in a few circumstances:
1. The customer specifically asks me to (usually for aesthetic reasons, they don't care for all the wires running over their lawn).
2. They have underground conduit so I have to use the old copper line to pull the new fiber through it.
3. The drops to their house go through thick foliage and rather than try to weave the fiber through a bazillion branches I'll tape it to the old copper line and just pull it through.
Other than that? Why would I spend 30 minutes cutting the old line, getting dirty gathering it up and then finding a place to dispose of it when I'm all done? I'm not going to do extra work for no reason. Particularly if there's good reason not to do that work. I say just wait for the next hurricane to knock it down for you. Then we can take it away.
Basically I think it's going to go one of two ways in the future.
1. Consumer complaints over price and service will ultimately lead to making the fiber network common carrier in a decade or so.
or
2. WiMAX, BPL, Cable, Cellular and Satellite will provide enough options for consumers that the number of people calling for the fiber to be made common carrier just won't reach a critical mass because most people will be satisfied with the existing communications options.
Your scenario's a little strange. I don't know why those guys would risk losing a new customer over something as silly as that. In the Boston area anyway they seem to bend over backwards to save an install.
Do you really think that you can "contain an errant government by force"?
Yes. What are they going to do, nuke an american town? Send in tanks? There are militias in Montana, Texas and New Mexico that could give a U.S. batallion a run for their money. Besides, a guerrila war is far more than an 'annoyance', it's warfare and a very effective method at that as the Vietnamese will attest. Not to mention American soldiers are Americans too, many of them are bound to rebel as well, taking a few tanks and bombs with them.
Imagine if one in three Hutus had had shotguns in their homes 15 years ago in Rwanda. You really think mass genocide would have been succesful? Even attempted? A civil war maybe, but genocide? No way.
Go ahead, try to tell me it could never happen here. I'm sure 20 years ago I could find 1,000 Rwandans who would have sworn to you the same thing about their own country.
I'm one of those people who think the ability to defend oneself is more important than a lot of other things, including a few tens of thousands of annual accidental deaths. To me it's a small price for a society to pay in order to ensure it won't be pushed around.
Why do children need to be on social networking sites?
Well, when I was a 16 year old 'child' being able to meet other local gay teenagers my age by using the internet made me feel a little more sane, a lot less 'sick' and a lot less lonely. - Growing up in a small town not being able to talk with anyone about my sexuality. I don't know what I'd have done without it.
Had my parents spied on me and found out I was gay before I was ready to tell them and prepared for their reactions things would have been a lot messier than they were (not they weren't messy despite my preparations).
I shiver to think about a 14 year old harmlessly researching sexuality trying to figure out what's going on with him or trying to make contact with his peers in similar situations when he's interrupted by a crazed parent flying through his bedroom door wanting to know what kind of devil has gotten into him.
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I don't see the problem with this law. Using the Internet isn't a right, it's a privilege
WHAT!?!?!
And here I was thinking people had the right to do anything so long as it wasn't disruptive to other people's right to do the same.
Silly me. I guess I ought to be sending thank you cards to society-at-large for being kind enough to grant me the *privilege* of using a networked computer or whatever the hell else it is that I do all day and night.
Meanwhile I'd be grateful for all the technological progress he contributes to. How petty to be concerned about your GPA. Are you in school to get a high GPA or are you in school to learn and help improve technology?
Put them all on the enhancers, especially the AIDS and Cancer researchers; and video game designers please.
Did you ever consider there is more than one way to design something? Your point, therefore, is invalid.
What??? How is his pointing out a way to measure fuel in a tank with all electronics being external of the tank made invalid by you pointing out there are multiple ways to measure fuel within a tank?
I believe your conclusion, in this instance, renders you invalid.
I think you're onto something here. Rhode Island passed something similar in the past year allowing Verizon to sell FiOS statewide without having to negotiate with each little town. What was happening before was Verizon would have to go kiss every little town selectman's ass handing over fist-fulls of money at a time just to have permission to offer FiOS tv and internet in their town. Negotiations were taking over a year in some instances and ended with Verizon handing over millions of dollars just to be able to offer people faster internet access.
In that instance individual town licenses were a barrier to competition, not an encouragement for it. Somehow the state senators and reps in RI grew big enough balls to tell their local piddly town governments to screw off and they just gave Verizon a state-wide license. Result? Statewide fios deployment in RI.
Verizon's looking to do the same thing right now in Massachusetts. Each town wanted a bigger bribe than the last just to be able to offer fiber optic internet service to the residents. So this past summer, fed up with greedy local governments, Verizon pulled out of all local negotiations in progress and has announced they won't be applying for anymore. They want a state-wide license like time-warner just got here in Ohio and like Verizon already has in RI. Until they get it, no more fios expansion to any new towns in Mass.
There, so now that that's out there now try and tell me how a state-wide franchise is going to hold back progress any more than the old town-by-town franchise scheme. I know Telco companies aren't the epitome of business ethics and they could be upgrading their networks a lot faster but these local town governments aren't exactly making it easy.
Broken arm? Pfft! A mechanic could fix that. Call when they're treating you for a brain tumor.
I believe it's the job of the person you are buying the island from to protect it against pirates. Else, what are you paying them for?
...they'll let you take a hot shower as well.
8 hrs in airports, planes and cramped into a sardine can of a seat or 3 days of slowly chugging along while reclining on a couch watching the world roll by?
Just get one of those rooms with your own shower. You get 3 square meals a day included with the ticket price. Bring the laptop with cellular internet access and plenty of movies/video games for when you're in the dead zones. Throw in a book or two and an intimate friend and it's the only way to travel. Really it's like being able to loaf around for a few days while having someone else cook and make your bed.
I've only been long distances on amtrak with a suite a few times but If I could afford it it's the only way I'd travel. Admittedly it's hard to choke up $2,000+ for a moving hotel room when Continental can provide the same end for $150.
I'd say go with a junk rig sail setup. You'll lose a little bit of efficiency but in exchange for a much simpler sail setup. It would simply be a matter of hoisting and lowering the sails rather than furling and unfurling.
My two cents as an armchair/weekend sailor.
Disclaimer: I wrote software managing the network for the third largest cable company in the US.
And from the sounds of it you were fired for being an uninformed nitwit. Verizon has been putting fiber directly into people's houses for years now. I do it everyday for a living.
I think the parent was talking about real environmental factors, that is to say, ones that effect humans, not fish.
I don't understand. So then why did you concent to a search if you were so against it? Just say, 'Sorry. I don't give you permission. Am I free to go now?'
If he's a dick about it then he's a dick about. Some people are dicks. Forgive him and move on as you drive away and let him keep living his miserable dickhead life.
If he wants to waste his time bringing in drug dogs to try to get probable cause then let him waste his time.
If you're afraid you're going to get a harsher fine for your alleged driving violation for not consenting to a search then take that up with a judge, they'd likely lower it to something more reasonable (heck they do that even if you don't have a good argument just as a reward for actually showing up at your appointed court date/time), and call his boss and report him. Sure one guy calling in and complaining about a cop might get shirked off, but people calling in every other month about the same cop starts getting noticed. Better yet stop speeding/rolling through stop signs/failing to signal/driving with bad brake lights or whatever else it was that got you pulled over in the first place.
Anyway, you should rethink your viewpoint. That was only one cop. There are millions.
I gave up tv and WoW too. I spend my weekends now pushing a hoop down the street with a stick.
It's called abstinence.
And to boot, it comes with the added benefit of curing the world of all human illnesses within only one generation.
Some of our minds are more divided than others, apparently.
I think perhaps you're not appreciating the parent's point enough.
Catching someone in the act of something they have formerly discouraged others from doing and saying 'got chya!' is a bit fool-hardy. It's a mistake to expect that someone who talks about what is just and the best way to live is somehow immune to the temptations that prevent someone from living that best life.
Admittedly there's a difference between someone who says, "You're an asshole if you (insert hideous misguided action here.)!" and someone who says, "I think life might be better if we all tried to avoid (insert same misguided action here.)."
But I think the parent's point was well put, is too often ignored, and is worth repeating: The human mind is fortunately divided such that it can contemplate the ideal and the true before it itself embodies those things.
Don't think it hasn't crossed my mind.
Problem is the wires are much too thin to be worth much considering all the insulation you have to burn off to get to the copper.
That's odd. I work for Verizon as a lineman and do lots of FiOS installs in the Boston area.
My foreman told us a month ago to stop taking down the copper just to improve our install times. Maybe at the CEO level there's a big conspiracy to eliminate common carrier lines but the 1st and 2nd level managers certainly don't care about it. And I know for sure the linemen don't.
I know when I install I only remove the copper in a few circumstances:
1. The customer specifically asks me to (usually for aesthetic reasons, they don't care for all the wires running over their lawn).
2. They have underground conduit so I have to use the old copper line to pull the new fiber through it.
3. The drops to their house go through thick foliage and rather than try to weave the fiber through a bazillion branches I'll tape it to the old copper line and just pull it through.
Other than that? Why would I spend 30 minutes cutting the old line, getting dirty gathering it up and then finding a place to dispose of it when I'm all done? I'm not going to do extra work for no reason. Particularly if there's good reason not to do that work. I say just wait for the next hurricane to knock it down for you. Then we can take it away.
Basically I think it's going to go one of two ways in the future.
1. Consumer complaints over price and service will ultimately lead to making the fiber network common carrier in a decade or so.
or
2. WiMAX, BPL, Cable, Cellular and Satellite will provide enough options for consumers that the number of people calling for the fiber to be made common carrier just won't reach a critical mass because most people will be satisfied with the existing communications options.
Your scenario's a little strange. I don't know why those guys would risk losing a new customer over something as silly as that. In the Boston area anyway they seem to bend over backwards to save an install.
It won't matter in the long run, once we have to start worrying about other planets.
And that won't matter in the longer run once we have to start worrying about the universe imploding.
The short run's the important one.
70% unemployment? Might I suggest relocating? Plenty of jobs in Boston...
We've all got heritage. I read about it, heard about it, appreciated it and moved on. You don't see me milking cows now do ya?
Get with the times. Preservation is for paintings not for economies.
You're not special. You don't get to break laws, even petty ones. Stop doing it or shut up and pay the fines.
bah, so don't play it and go reread a book.
Do you really think that you can "contain an errant government by force"?
Yes. What are they going to do, nuke an american town? Send in tanks? There are militias in Montana, Texas and New Mexico that could give a U.S. batallion a run for their money. Besides, a guerrila war is far more than an 'annoyance', it's warfare and a very effective method at that as the Vietnamese will attest. Not to mention American soldiers are Americans too, many of them are bound to rebel as well, taking a few tanks and bombs with them.
Imagine if one in three Hutus had had shotguns in their homes 15 years ago in Rwanda. You really think mass genocide would have been succesful? Even attempted? A civil war maybe, but genocide? No way.
Go ahead, try to tell me it could never happen here. I'm sure 20 years ago I could find 1,000 Rwandans who would have sworn to you the same thing about their own country.
I'm one of those people who think the ability to defend oneself is more important than a lot of other things, including a few tens of thousands of annual accidental deaths. To me it's a small price for a society to pay in order to ensure it won't be pushed around.
Why do children need to be on social networking sites?
Well, when I was a 16 year old 'child' being able to meet other local gay teenagers my age by using the internet made me feel a little more sane, a lot less 'sick' and a lot less lonely. - Growing up in a small town not being able to talk with anyone about my sexuality. I don't know what I'd have done without it.
Had my parents spied on me and found out I was gay before I was ready to tell them and prepared for their reactions things would have been a lot messier than they were (not they weren't messy despite my preparations).
I shiver to think about a 14 year old harmlessly researching sexuality trying to figure out what's going on with him or trying to make contact with his peers in similar situations when he's interrupted by a crazed parent flying through his bedroom door wanting to know what kind of devil has gotten into him.
I don't know about it taking too much time and too much money.
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Seems to have worked well for this guy: http://www.junkfax.org/fax/action/CA_how_to_sue.h
Nope, just a cover ploy to hide the fact that they have a manufacturing plant filled with Jobses.
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This would really have made my life a lot simpler when my tivo died a couple of weeks ago.
My goodness I know. It's a wonder how we make it through the day.