a battle at the low end is one that leaves no victors.
When WalMart (and Amazon) find out that low margins combined with high volume leads to zero profit, they're gonna be so pissed. Your observation finally explains why WalMart disappeared from the economy, a death by a thousand mom'n'pop cuts.
Congress says different laws for information services vs telecommunications services. So the FCC can just take a telecommunication service and relabel it as an information service (or vice versa) to get whatever they want, without bothering to get Congress' permission, or Congress having to change the telecom act.
If this shit is legal, then I know how Trump can get his wall after all, without Congress authorizing a cent. Just redefine the wall as Medicare or preschool services or something like that, and then he can spend any money Congress allocates to those things, on the wall instead. And he can even "make Mexico pay for it" by simply redefining USA as Mexico.
Well, obviously something must have completely terrorized them! What have Australians been terrorized by, if not terrorists?
The local wildlife? Maybe. I know I sure as fuck wouldn't dare touch anything if I went there. But I don't think that's it.
Invasive species? Maybe. But I still laugh my ass off whenever I watch that Cane Toads movie. I don't think people can be scared when they're laughing.
What else could it be that has them so terrorized? Some terrorist must have totally defeated them, demanded their surrender, and got it, like what happened here in USA in 2001.
You are more boring to a distant adversary who has a very weak relationship with you, compared to a nearby adversary who both rules over you and is also ruled by you. (e.g. The Austrialian government has more reason to fuck with Australians than the Austrian government does. And the Austrian government has more reason to fuck with Austrians than Australians.)
Unknown, but he wants to relabel a telecommunications service as an information service. Whether well or badly intended, it's clearly a dishonest, ends-justifies-the-means move.
the post will be called a homosexual Nazi homophobic racist rant against black people, but oh well.
You left out child pornographers and I didn't see any references to either Judaism or Islam, so please keep working on your material. BTW, this is merely intended as constructive criticism; I wouldn't have said anything at all, unless I liked your work.
Someone. Usually it turns out to be many people, while also being a small fraction of humanity too.
Everything is obscure or weird; this is what the "long tail" is about. If you add up the top 100 youtube channels, there's still a good chance that not a single one of them will be about anything that you have ever heard of or that you would like even if you checked it out. And that's not an attribute of you; the same would likely apply to anyone. Your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate probably hasn't ever heard of anything in the top 100 either, or even if he has, he might not like any of it.
Probably.
Of course, there might be something in the top 100 that you (or your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate) are familiar with. And if not familiar with it, you still might end up liking it. You never know unless you look.
And of course, whether any particular individual happens to have heard of this stuff or not, it's a 100% sure thing that someone has. These are still popular things, even if they're also obscure. 30 million is a lot of people, while also being a tiny fraction of the world (so, not many people after all, depending on how you look at it).
It reminds me of my second-favorite joke from "Cheers", a sitcom where one character is a former pro baseball player (here I am telling people what "Cheers" is; this is the world we now live in, where plenty of people really and truly might not know (but of course my TV generation is silly-familiar with this stuff)). At one point Sam Malone says, "A lot of people don't know this, but I happen to be very famous." Great line.
I live in a trailer park, and lets just say quite a bit of cat5 cable runs from trailer to trailer.
More communities need to be doing this. We're not networked with our neighbors; it's totally crazy and inefficient. If one person has downloaded something from a data center hundreds of miles away, the next person should be downloading it from next door, not the same long-distance, super-busy network.
"mom-and-pop" to shorthand it, are at the mercy of middlemen, essentially who are extracting the profit out of the industry.
Something is better than nothing. When my wife and I have had a few beers and bong hits, we simply are not going out, period. It isn't going to happen. No way. Your sit-down restaurant's best case scenario is $0.00. Zip, nothing, nada. Restaurant loses, unconditionally.
But if neither of us feel like cooking, you still might get a sale. However many pennies profit that middleman got you, was more profit than you were going to get. Restaurant wins.
And OMG, these days we can finally have something other than pizza. So we win too.
how can you ever turn a profit as a small company when tech talent is out there to squeeze you as soon as you do?
Sell food. Grubhub doesn't have food. Uber doesn't have food.
I could imagine that we'll just become a country of order takers.. dominated by flavorless food dictated by corporate efficiency recipes
McDonalds and Walmart convenience meals have been a thing for decades. Yes, some customers are into it, but some aren't.
It used to be that people came to this country in order to integrate and become citizens - "the great melting pot"
The melting pot happened, but is it really what people were trying to do?
However, certain cultures in south and central america (and I assume others) are far, far more likely to have people who have no interest in becoming citizens and instead want the better life living here gives, while attempting to not integrate with the rest of society.
As a native-born white US citizen, I'm not sure that's any difference than my attitude, either. Nobody wants to get assimilated. ST:TNG had a whole villain civilization based on that! And whether you want it or not, the Borg nailed it with with "resistance is futile." It happens, even if everyone tries to prevent it.
If I could continue to live here in America but without the responsibilities of citizenship and not having to add weird arbitrary cultural baggage to my life, how bad would that be? Some of society I wanna integrate with, but I'm probably like every single other person reading this, in that I'd rather avoid integrating with the other 90% of society. Sturgeon's Law applies. 10% of America is still a big fuckin' country full of a lot of fun, though. Stugeon's Law isn't bad; it's just how things are.
"the melting pot" made us stronger, what is happening in this situation is dividing us.
No, this'll make us stronger too. No matter who you are, I bet you anything that 10% of the new people have some great food. And that's how it will start. 100 years from now, they'll be just another cuisine, like Italian and Mexican and like how one of Texas' best-known beers is a.. bock?! (WTF, it might not be a good bock but it's sure as hell not yet another light American lager.)
Next time you call this a bad thing, I want you to buy a time machine ticket to a 2118 restaurant. You'll see. It'll be fine.
What are they going to do, have inspectors check every piece of IoT garbage that gets imported from China to make sure that it complies with their password policy?
If it's like most other laws, no. What you do is wait for someone to complain, then you investigate the complaint. You never need to go looking for trouble; the public will happily volunteer to bring it to you. (The public has various motivations to do this, and caring about the password issue might possibly even be one of them.)
Amazon lied in their testimony about what "letting the smoke out" means. Are you really so naive as to think it really means that the employees who assembled it, were given frequent bong breaks? No, dammit. Just check urban dictionary and you'll see that it's a term for a broken computer. And please, when Apple started crying about how their reputation is ruined, they were totally distracting you from their assertion that "When I said 'all our computers are cracked' I was talking about microfractures on the rubber legs on the bottom of the case." OMFG, you believe this shit, really?!
I, for one, found Bloomberg's testimony credible. Bloomberg might not remember exactly when the machines got cracked and then the smoke got let out, but clearly something happened and if Amazon is going to obviously lie about it then that just makes it easier to decide who to believe.
After the current round of POs get filled, I'm going to recommend we exclude any more Amazon and Apple purchases. You just wait until next month when it's time for the new purchase orders. We aren't going to tolerate having a vendor like that in our supply chain anymore. Our company is better than that, and we're finally going to stand up for ourselves.
The saddest part of all that is that while I expect liberals to maybe disagree (or at least be ambivalent) about that, I sure as fuck expect conservatives to be 100% behind your statement without the slightest hesitation. IMHO it's the very core of conservativism, moreso than even "low taxes" or "states' rights." It's right up there with preferring free markets over central planning, since it's a variant of the same underlying idea: mistrust of power, fear of arrogant power.
But Republicans disagree with you, and worse, they disagree even more than Democrats do. It's one of the reasons (among several, especially since 2016) I'd plot 'em as being left of Democrats.
You know what grinds my gears? When Republicans say they're conservative. That's just a plain lie. Republicans, stop fucking lying about being right-wing. You're not. If you were right-wing, you'd either be voting Libertarian or Democrat. Embrace your radical liberalism, Republicans. Come out of the closet. I guarantee that Democrats will let you use "their" bathroom.
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Oh yeah, AT&T? Well, I'm going to put a "Type R" sticker on my phone, making your phones all seem slow and lame by comparison.
When WalMart (and Amazon) find out that low margins combined with high volume leads to zero profit, they're gonna be so pissed. Your observation finally explains why WalMart disappeared from the economy, a death by a thousand mom'n'pop cuts.
Congress says different laws for information services vs telecommunications services. So the FCC can just take a telecommunication service and relabel it as an information service (or vice versa) to get whatever they want, without bothering to get Congress' permission, or Congress having to change the telecom act.
If this shit is legal, then I know how Trump can get his wall after all, without Congress authorizing a cent. Just redefine the wall as Medicare or preschool services or something like that, and then he can spend any money Congress allocates to those things, on the wall instead. And he can even "make Mexico pay for it" by simply redefining USA as Mexico.
Californians are going to be in for a rude wakeup call when the miners get to the end of the electricty veins.
Well, obviously something must have completely terrorized them! What have Australians been terrorized by, if not terrorists?
The local wildlife? Maybe. I know I sure as fuck wouldn't dare touch anything if I went there. But I don't think that's it.
Invasive species? Maybe. But I still laugh my ass off whenever I watch that Cane Toads movie. I don't think people can be scared when they're laughing.
What else could it be that has them so terrorized? Some terrorist must have totally defeated them, demanded their surrender, and got it, like what happened here in USA in 2001.
You are more boring to a distant adversary who has a very weak relationship with you, compared to a nearby adversary who both rules over you and is also ruled by you. (e.g. The Austrialian government has more reason to fuck with Australians than the Austrian government does. And the Austrian government has more reason to fuck with Austrians than Australians.)
Unknown, but he wants to relabel a telecommunications service as an information service. Whether well or badly intended, it's clearly a dishonest, ends-justifies-the-means move.
That really is the policy.
And they should even be allowed to sell the device, so that it becomes someone else's in exchange for money.
You left out child pornographers and I didn't see any references to either Judaism or Islam, so please keep working on your material. BTW, this is merely intended as constructive criticism; I wouldn't have said anything at all, unless I liked your work.
Not even Al Capone? Fucking ingrate!
Someone. Usually it turns out to be many people, while also being a small fraction of humanity too.
Everything is obscure or weird; this is what the "long tail" is about. If you add up the top 100 youtube channels, there's still a good chance that not a single one of them will be about anything that you have ever heard of or that you would like even if you checked it out. And that's not an attribute of you; the same would likely apply to anyone. Your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate probably hasn't ever heard of anything in the top 100 either, or even if he has, he might not like any of it.
Probably.
Of course, there might be something in the top 100 that you (or your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate) are familiar with. And if not familiar with it, you still might end up liking it. You never know unless you look.
And of course, whether any particular individual happens to have heard of this stuff or not, it's a 100% sure thing that someone has. These are still popular things, even if they're also obscure. 30 million is a lot of people, while also being a tiny fraction of the world (so, not many people after all, depending on how you look at it).
It reminds me of my second-favorite joke from "Cheers", a sitcom where one character is a former pro baseball player (here I am telling people what "Cheers" is; this is the world we now live in, where plenty of people really and truly might not know (but of course my TV generation is silly-familiar with this stuff)). At one point Sam Malone says, "A lot of people don't know this, but I happen to be very famous." Great line.
America must be doing really shitty if the constituents who want this are statistically significant.
More communities need to be doing this. We're not networked with our neighbors; it's totally crazy and inefficient. If one person has downloaded something from a data center hundreds of miles away, the next person should be downloading it from next door, not the same long-distance, super-busy network.
No, you don't have to do that.
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Good God, don't scare me like that! I'm not 64-bit-time compliant yet! Didn't we just have one of those?!?
Something is better than nothing. When my wife and I have had a few beers and bong hits, we simply are not going out, period. It isn't going to happen. No way. Your sit-down restaurant's best case scenario is $0.00. Zip, nothing, nada. Restaurant loses, unconditionally.
But if neither of us feel like cooking, you still might get a sale. However many pennies profit that middleman got you, was more profit than you were going to get. Restaurant wins.
And OMG, these days we can finally have something other than pizza. So we win too.
Sell food. Grubhub doesn't have food. Uber doesn't have food.
McDonalds and Walmart convenience meals have been a thing for decades. Yes, some customers are into it, but some aren't.
The melting pot happened, but is it really what people were trying to do?
As a native-born white US citizen, I'm not sure that's any difference than my attitude, either. Nobody wants to get assimilated. ST:TNG had a whole villain civilization based on that! And whether you want it or not, the Borg nailed it with with "resistance is futile." It happens, even if everyone tries to prevent it.
If I could continue to live here in America but without the responsibilities of citizenship and not having to add weird arbitrary cultural baggage to my life, how bad would that be? Some of society I wanna integrate with, but I'm probably like every single other person reading this, in that I'd rather avoid integrating with the other 90% of society. Sturgeon's Law applies. 10% of America is still a big fuckin' country full of a lot of fun, though. Stugeon's Law isn't bad; it's just how things are.
No, this'll make us stronger too. No matter who you are, I bet you anything that 10% of the new people have some great food. And that's how it will start. 100 years from now, they'll be just another cuisine, like Italian and Mexican and like how one of Texas' best-known beers is a .. bock?! (WTF, it might not be a good bock but it's sure as hell not yet another light American lager.)
Next time you call this a bad thing, I want you to buy a time machine ticket to a 2118 restaurant. You'll see. It'll be fine.
I'd say the opposite. It should be a trap, but it doesn't smell like one, and I don't even see how it can be one.
If it's like most other laws, no. What you do is wait for someone to complain, then you investigate the complaint. You never need to go looking for trouble; the public will happily volunteer to bring it to you. (The public has various motivations to do this, and caring about the password issue might possibly even be one of them.)
If you're able to do something better than someone else, there's probably a way to weaponize that.
Tough crowd!
Amazon lied in their testimony about what "letting the smoke out" means. Are you really so naive as to think it really means that the employees who assembled it, were given frequent bong breaks? No, dammit. Just check urban dictionary and you'll see that it's a term for a broken computer. And please, when Apple started crying about how their reputation is ruined, they were totally distracting you from their assertion that "When I said 'all our computers are cracked' I was talking about microfractures on the rubber legs on the bottom of the case." OMFG, you believe this shit, really?!
I, for one, found Bloomberg's testimony credible. Bloomberg might not remember exactly when the machines got cracked and then the smoke got let out, but clearly something happened and if Amazon is going to obviously lie about it then that just makes it easier to decide who to believe.
After the current round of POs get filled, I'm going to recommend we exclude any more Amazon and Apple purchases. You just wait until next month when it's time for the new purchase orders. We aren't going to tolerate having a vendor like that in our supply chain anymore. Our company is better than that, and we're finally going to stand up for ourselves.
Are you saying distrust of concentrated power means I'm a closet liberal?
I'm the guy with the reversed right/left axis?!
The saddest part of all that is that while I expect liberals to maybe disagree (or at least be ambivalent) about that, I sure as fuck expect conservatives to be 100% behind your statement without the slightest hesitation. IMHO it's the very core of conservativism, moreso than even "low taxes" or "states' rights." It's right up there with preferring free markets over central planning, since it's a variant of the same underlying idea: mistrust of power, fear of arrogant power.
But Republicans disagree with you, and worse, they disagree even more than Democrats do. It's one of the reasons (among several, especially since 2016) I'd plot 'em as being left of Democrats.
You know what grinds my gears? When Republicans say they're conservative. That's just a plain lie. Republicans, stop fucking lying about being right-wing. You're not. If you were right-wing, you'd either be voting Libertarian or Democrat. Embrace your radical liberalism, Republicans. Come out of the closet. I guarantee that Democrats will let you use "their" bathroom.