My phone is 3 to 4 times faster than my basic cable (15/0.8) at home.
But how fast would it complete, say, a 30 GB download of a game purchased on Steam? Cable at 15 Mbps completes it in 5 hours; cellular Internet would take months because of the much smaller cap that most cellular ISPs enforce.
Cell phone internet in my area is cheaper than wired internet.
And there exist cell phone plans in my area that are cheaper than Xfinity Internet. It all depends on how much data you use per month, and with Windows 10 pushing 3 GB builds every few months, $5 to $10 per GB can become expensive.
as TFA says, there are free public options for internet access, even if they're not great
Given the banker's hours that many public libraries keep, an option that closes for the night or weekend before you arrive from school or work is not an option at all. If you get off work at 5, for instance, good luck taking the bus from work to the library and getting any substantial work done before the library closes at 6.
Really? If we only had cars and suddenly motorcycles and pickup trucks were introduced, would we say people are "abandoning" cars when car sales suddenly take a drop?
If car sales decline enough that car makers no longer see economies of scale in continuing to produce compact cars, people who have a valid use case for a compact car will be disappointed. The same thing happened to 10 inch compact laptops at the end of 2012.
In situation like this it often helps to use the SMTP of your ISP as smart host.
Which becomes difficult if you use your laptop, tablet, or smartphone on more than one ISP, such as your home ISP and your cellular ISP, or your home ISP and public Wi-Fi. It can also complicate the SPF policy that you declare for your domain. Or do most ISPs' SMTP servers support roaming access?
There is almost no place in the world which is populated which has population densities as low as the USA.
Finland's population density according to World Bank's population density table is half that of the United States, with Sweden between them. Yet I'm told Sweden and Finland have better home Internet connectivity than the United States.
Then a defense to a charge of slander would be that the act of supporting communist causes is not a crime because Congress lacked Constitutional authority to make it a crime in the first place.
Because someone skilled enough to code their own game is not going to be skilled enough to, say, write code for a website so you can download/register/activate it.
First, coding a website is a different skill from coding a game. A small 1- to 3-man indie studio may have to hire someone. But more importantly, "write code for a website" works for PC games, not so much for console games because the console maker limits who is allowed to have a devkit and how many titles are allowed to be released.
Are you kidding? Is there some tiny bubble west of the lake that has magically bad service?
Seattle proper has zoning laws such that a supermajority of property owners must approve any new utility installation. A vacant property counts as a no vote, and an absentee landlord counts as a no vote. This leaves residents of affected areas with dial-up, which is too slow for video on demand; satellite, which has a monthly usage allowance too low for nightly video on demand; and fixed cellular, which has a monthly usage allowance comparable to that of satellite. Laws in suburbs may differ.
There is no point in having completely separate network for watching video and another one for all other information.
True, in the case of video on demand. But "channel"-oriented video, with many people in the same neighborhood watching the same programming at the same time, needs a separate network until the major ISPs figure out how to implement multicast rather than just firewalling it off.
You may want to check out Sling TV. Their basic package has ESPN, ESPN2, CNN, and quite a few other channels built into it for $20/month
In some areas, $20/month covers an upgrade from Internet-only service to a bundle of Internet and expanded basic TV service (including ESPN, ESPN2, CNN, and the like). Comcast, for example, calls its expanded basic TV service "Digital Starter".
For pretty much anything at a national scale, their content is available via their apps, their site
Yeah, once you "Please enter the username and password issued to you by a participating cable or satellite TV provider," which is the norm for "TV Everywhere" services nowadays. C-SPAN.org has already announced that it is going this way for its Washington Journal morning call-in show and everything else live except for the House and Senate floor coverage.
As for news, what are you getting that's any different than what you can get online or OTA for cheaper/free?
One presidential primary debate in 2016 has been on PBS. All the rest have been exclusive to cable.
Then why hasn't any administration since then attempted to enforce the CCA? Perhaps because the Attorney General knows full well that a judge is far more likely than not to throw it out under identical reasoning.
And what does limiting of scope of copyright have to do with your assertion that you're some how magically protected from government copyright laws?
I never intended to assert "magic". It's just that courts recognize that "government copyright laws" are a limit on speech, and in order to temper that limit, they recognized fair use in case law. The doctrine was later codified in the Copyright Act of 1976.
Sub question: when is the mouse going to be in public domain?
Under current law, elements of Mickey Mouse that appeared in the original Mickey trilogy (Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie) enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. Claims against third-party derivative works under U.S. trademark law would likely be precluded by the precedent set in Dastar v. Fox that a trademark cannot be used as an ersatz copyright.
If you're referring to "perpetual copyright on the installment plan", as some critics of copyright call it, the Supreme Court implied in its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft that a third successive extension would likely constitute "legislative misbehavior". The 1976 extension was for harmonization to the life of grandchildren term recognized by parties to the Berne Convention, making up the majority of the developed world. The 1998 extension was for harmonization to Europe, which had updated this standard for longer life expectancies. To which major developed market would a third successive extension before 2024 harmonize?
A ruling in one district is not binding on judges in other districts, but it gives them something to copy and paste when laughing a prosecutor out of court.
A law is on the books until it is repealed, but that doesn't make it enforceable. Even though the ruling of the federal district court in Arizona isn't binding outside that district, other federal courts are likely to reach the same conclusion for the same reasons. Has the Communist Party USA or any other peaceful Communist organization been prosecuted under this law outside Arizona in the four decades since the federal district court threw it out in Arizona?
I stretch the First Amendment no thinner than the the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft stretched it. The Court held that fair use is the statutory implementation of a First Amendment limit on the scope of copyright.
In 1973 a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional
What do you think Arizona's ruling has to do with anything? Arizona could rule that you still had the right to own slaves, it doesn't matter at all. It's a *Federal* statute that still exists [...] Arizona has no legal authority to overturn Federal legislation
The court located in Arizona that interpreted this federal statue was a federal district court.
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My phone is 3 to 4 times faster than my basic cable (15/0.8) at home.
But how fast would it complete, say, a 30 GB download of a game purchased on Steam? Cable at 15 Mbps completes it in 5 hours; cellular Internet would take months because of the much smaller cap that most cellular ISPs enforce.
Cell phone internet in my area is cheaper than wired internet.
And there exist cell phone plans in my area that are cheaper than Xfinity Internet. It all depends on how much data you use per month, and with Windows 10 pushing 3 GB builds every few months, $5 to $10 per GB can become expensive.
as TFA says, there are free public options for internet access, even if they're not great
Given the banker's hours that many public libraries keep, an option that closes for the night or weekend before you arrive from school or work is not an option at all. If you get off work at 5, for instance, good luck taking the bus from work to the library and getting any substantial work done before the library closes at 6.
Really? If we only had cars and suddenly motorcycles and pickup trucks were introduced, would we say people are "abandoning" cars when car sales suddenly take a drop?
If car sales decline enough that car makers no longer see economies of scale in continuing to produce compact cars, people who have a valid use case for a compact car will be disappointed. The same thing happened to 10 inch compact laptops at the end of 2012.
The cost of buying four smartphones adds up quickly, as does the monthly service.
Then buy one smartphone and three pay-per-minute flip phones.
You don't need a mobile phone either.
Good luck getting a ride home without one, especially if the location where you are at the moment refuses to let you call home on their land line.
Browsing (not including any large file downloads) and email?
That depends on how many new 3 GB builds of Windows 10 Microsoft decides to push to users.
Cell phones are an expensive luxury.
What you said was true before payphones largely disappeared.
In situation like this it often helps to use the SMTP of your ISP as smart host.
Which becomes difficult if you use your laptop, tablet, or smartphone on more than one ISP, such as your home ISP and your cellular ISP, or your home ISP and public Wi-Fi. It can also complicate the SPF policy that you declare for your domain. Or do most ISPs' SMTP servers support roaming access?
There is almost no place in the world which is populated which has population densities as low as the USA.
Finland's population density according to World Bank's population density table is half that of the United States, with Sweden between them. Yet I'm told Sweden and Finland have better home Internet connectivity than the United States.
Then a defense to a charge of slander would be that the act of supporting communist causes is not a crime because Congress lacked Constitutional authority to make it a crime in the first place.
Because someone skilled enough to code their own game is not going to be skilled enough to, say, write code for a website so you can download/register/activate it.
First, coding a website is a different skill from coding a game. A small 1- to 3-man indie studio may have to hire someone. But more importantly, "write code for a website" works for PC games, not so much for console games because the console maker limits who is allowed to have a devkit and how many titles are allowed to be released.
If I want to watch the Red Sox, or AMC where I live, I either watch them through Comcast, or not at all.
What did Comcast do to prevent DirecTV and Dish Network from carrying those channels?
Are you kidding? Is there some tiny bubble west of the lake that has magically bad service?
Seattle proper has zoning laws such that a supermajority of property owners must approve any new utility installation. A vacant property counts as a no vote, and an absentee landlord counts as a no vote. This leaves residents of affected areas with dial-up, which is too slow for video on demand; satellite, which has a monthly usage allowance too low for nightly video on demand; and fixed cellular, which has a monthly usage allowance comparable to that of satellite. Laws in suburbs may differ.
There is no point in having completely separate network for watching video and another one for all other information.
True, in the case of video on demand. But "channel"-oriented video, with many people in the same neighborhood watching the same programming at the same time, needs a separate network until the major ISPs figure out how to implement multicast rather than just firewalling it off.
I think you will find that a large number of those us subscribers are actually people in other countries.
Not this time. From the featured article: "for fairness’ sake we’ve left Netflix’s international subscriber figures out of this fight"
You may want to check out Sling TV. Their basic package has ESPN, ESPN2, CNN, and quite a few other channels built into it for $20/month
In some areas, $20/month covers an upgrade from Internet-only service to a bundle of Internet and expanded basic TV service (including ESPN, ESPN2, CNN, and the like). Comcast, for example, calls its expanded basic TV service "Digital Starter".
For pretty much anything at a national scale, their content is available via their apps, their site
Yeah, once you "Please enter the username and password issued to you by a participating cable or satellite TV provider," which is the norm for "TV Everywhere" services nowadays. C-SPAN.org has already announced that it is going this way for its Washington Journal morning call-in show and everything else live except for the House and Senate floor coverage.
As for news, what are you getting that's any different than what you can get online or OTA for cheaper/free?
One presidential primary debate in 2016 has been on PBS. All the rest have been exclusive to cable.
Then why hasn't any administration since then attempted to enforce the CCA? Perhaps because the Attorney General knows full well that a judge is far more likely than not to throw it out under identical reasoning.
And what does limiting of scope of copyright have to do with your assertion that you're some how magically protected from government copyright laws?
I never intended to assert "magic". It's just that courts recognize that "government copyright laws" are a limit on speech, and in order to temper that limit, they recognized fair use in case law. The doctrine was later codified in the Copyright Act of 1976.
Sub question: when is the mouse going to be in public domain?
Under current law, elements of Mickey Mouse that appeared in the original Mickey trilogy (Plane Crazy, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and Steamboat Willie) enter the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. Claims against third-party derivative works under U.S. trademark law would likely be precluded by the precedent set in Dastar v. Fox that a trademark cannot be used as an ersatz copyright.
If you're referring to "perpetual copyright on the installment plan", as some critics of copyright call it, the Supreme Court implied in its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft that a third successive extension would likely constitute "legislative misbehavior". The 1976 extension was for harmonization to the life of grandchildren term recognized by parties to the Berne Convention, making up the majority of the developed world. The 1998 extension was for harmonization to Europe, which had updated this standard for longer life expectancies. To which major developed market would a third successive extension before 2024 harmonize?
A ruling in one district is not binding on judges in other districts, but it gives them something to copy and paste when laughing a prosecutor out of court.
A law is on the books until it is repealed, but that doesn't make it enforceable. Even though the ruling of the federal district court in Arizona isn't binding outside that district, other federal courts are likely to reach the same conclusion for the same reasons. Has the Communist Party USA or any other peaceful Communist organization been prosecuted under this law outside Arizona in the four decades since the federal district court threw it out in Arizona?
I stretch the First Amendment no thinner than the the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft stretched it. The Court held that fair use is the statutory implementation of a First Amendment limit on the scope of copyright.
In 1973 a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional
What do you think Arizona's ruling has to do with anything? Arizona could rule that you still had the right to own slaves, it doesn't matter at all. It's a *Federal* statute that still exists [...] Arizona has no legal authority to overturn Federal legislation
The court located in Arizona that interpreted this federal statue was a federal district court.
Which U.S. law considers Marxism to be "criminal behaviour" and hasn't been ruled unconstitutional?
the Communist Control Act of 1954 signed into law by Eisenhower.
You can argue whether it WOULD be ruled constitutional
A federal district court in Arizona has ruled the CCA unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court has not yet overturned this district court's ruling.
Correcting errors that you identified in post #51931939:
Cities (and governments in general) have no incentives to save money and operate cost efficiently because they are not rewarded for that.
By whom? I was under the impression that more fiscally conservative voters valued members of city council who run a city like a business.