Libertarianism != Republican Party, Republicans use regulation, like IP protection, as corporate welfare. Libertarians see IP and other regulation as what they are, protecting big business at the expense of the small business. With out such regulation, then companies would be free to compete with big companies, and sense the big companies would not have their incumbent protection and government granted monopolies (IP) there would be nothing they could do to stop the competition.
This should be extended to all negligent driving. Eating, drinking, putting on makeup, shaving, etc.
It should not be a primary offense (one a cop can pull you over for). You kill someone, get 15 years, and then have to have limited driving privileges for 10 years after you get out.
It doesn't matter how many times he does it, if he can avoid getting into an "accident" then he should be allowed to do it. Once he gets into an "accident", then that is when laws like Utah's are good. 15 year prison term for causing someone's death is probably not enough. They should have restricted driving privileges after they get out, for at least the next 10 years.
Taking a look at wikipedia will show that it supports the same frequencies as T-Mobile USA's 3G network, so it should work here too. Granted you still have the problem with T-Mobile not having that great of a 3G network.
An unlocked Android phone will only work on GSM/GPRS/EDGE. T-Mobile and AT&T use different frequency allocations for UMTS, UMTS 850/1900 for AT&T and 2100/1700 MHz for TMobile. What would be great is if we can get a quad band Android phone that supported those frequencies, but as of yet, there is none.
Or cut Orion and just give SpaceX $40 million a launch. With that kind of money other companies could be formed that would compete with SpaceX for the contract of launching cargo and manned missions.
That is what ASIMO and other robots coming out of Japan are for, with outsourcing taking away the white collar jobs, and robots taking away the blue color jobs, we'll all be unemployed. Public sector employees will swell, as taxes goto new heights to support them, in the end, the US becomes a third world banana republic...
There are also four mainstream Cell Phone providers, and they already Collude on things like SMS picing.
Comcast is a dumb pipe, just like ATT/Verizon, etc. Municipalities need to get there hands out of the lobbyist cookie jar and realize it would be better off for their citizens to just lay the fiber themselves then to contract it out to one (in some places two) companies who will screw the consumer given any chance to do so.
If they don't want to lay the fiber, then lay down 1-2 meter concrete conduits in all of the public easements, then any one who wants to lay fiber can run them through these conduits with out tearing up everyones driveway every other week.
Just to point out, Bush was never a Conservative on fiscal matters. He ran his whole campaign in 2000 on the fact that he was a "compassionate" conservative.
What this country needs is to go back to is a Democratic President with a Republican Congress, (like we had for most of the Clinton years), plus a Constitutional Amendment giving the Executive a Line Item Veto, would do a lot to clean up this countries financial woes.
Of course the Republicans would probably spend more time trying to impeach the Democrat because he got a blow job for an intern...
Which is why we should focus on the Lagrange points, and sending missions to asteroids and comets. Asteroids could be mined, and Comets could be used for establishing fuel depots at the Lagrange points. NASA should expand COTS so we can get companies like SpaceX and OribitalSciences among others developing heavy lifters. I think that would be a more achievable goal and have a higher utilitarian value then the chest thumping Nationalism that comes with putting a man on the Moon and Mars.
Here is a radical option, drop FICA and Medicare taxes, seeing that College age students will never benefit from the programs because they will be long broke by the time the students reach retirement. Combined that with dropping the aggregate (State + Federal) Corporate tax rate to less than 10% and you will see Companies rushing into the US, bye bye 10% unemployment.
Unfortunately, we are headed in the exact opposite direction with a Government take over of health care. Taxes are going to go through the roof to support all of the spending going on and the US will still not be able to reach it's obligations. Combined that with Cap and Tax, and other countries are starting to look a lot better then the US, especially India and China (sense they don't have the same emissions requirements under Kyoto because they are "developing" countries)
So no, raising taxes in the middle of a recession is not the answer, We are already why to the right on the Laffer Curve and going further to the right is just going to push up unemployment more.
Let me be the first to say, damn, I sure am glad my ancestor fought the British and won their independence. Granted, it is only a matter of time before we are required to do the same thing here in the US. Thus far US courts have found that giving up a passpharse to an encryption key violates the 5th Amendment right to not self-incriminate. But that hasn't gone to the Supreme Court yet, which means it is only a 5 v 4 decision away from requiring everyone to divulge their encryption keys to law enforcement.
Yes, because we need more regulation in private business. Walmart is a prime example of a company that uses regulation to it's advantage. They want a mandate for health insurance because they know it will raise Targets health care costs, and they want a high minimum wage because they know smaller businesses will be forced to raise there prices to compensate.
Increased regulation only hurts smaller businesses and the middle class, and before you go off on how deregulation and Phil Gramm started the recession, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act did for more to push private banks to give loans out to people who could not afford them, through, guess what? Regulation. If we would have just let AIG, Fannie and Freddie fail, we would be a lot better of then the Keynesian's who have taken over Government (That includes Bush, who, along with his Treasury Secretary and the Fed said we needed to bail everyone out or else).
The whole problem is the artificial scarcity that is promoted by the FCC selling licenses to the airwaves. Abolish the FCC, and let the people take back the airwaves.
Which is why we should deprecate them and turn toward country level TLD's. Let individual countries have control over what domains are allowable. If a company, say Google, has a server in the US, their.com name would end up as google.com.us, if they have a server in Germany, it would be google.com.de. A government web site in the US would be congress.gov.us or in Germany, bundestag.gov.de.
This could even extend to political organizations with in a State. So, in the US, fl.gov.us would be the root to all of the Florida state government web sites, where as ut.gov.us would be for Utah's state government.
There are plenty more examples, but it comes down to de-centralizing control over DNS to the lowest level of political representation.
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Here is hoping Google can get there new windowing system up and running. Maybe we can use it to get rid of the monstrosity that is X on the desktop. X is the probably the single application that is holding Linux back wider adoption.
Whatever codec Google chooses for Youtube, then that codec will end up with hardware support. If that is VP8, then there will be hardware decoders for VP8.
The problem *is* quality, H.264 is the best codec by far, the only thing holding it back is it's patent licensing. If VP8 delivers on it's better quality than H.264, then that would be a great thing for video on the Web.
iirc, you can get a software patent in Europe, it just won't be enforced. something about US Software Companies hammering the EU Commission for software patents. They won't take no for an answer, they continue to push for them. But they also want to make sure they get their patent so when the day comes, they will have something to enforce.
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They are the poor souls who will really be cursing Blizzard for Starcraft 2 not having LAN support!
Libertarianism != Republican Party, Republicans use regulation, like IP protection, as corporate welfare. Libertarians see IP and other regulation as what they are, protecting big business at the expense of the small business. With out such regulation, then companies would be free to compete with big companies, and sense the big companies would not have their incumbent protection and government granted monopolies (IP) there would be nothing they could do to stop the competition.
This should be extended to all negligent driving. Eating, drinking, putting on makeup, shaving, etc.
It should not be a primary offense (one a cop can pull you over for). You kill someone, get 15 years, and then have to have limited driving privileges for 10 years after you get out.
It doesn't matter how many times he does it, if he can avoid getting into an "accident" then he should be allowed to do it. Once he gets into an "accident", then that is when laws like Utah's are good. 15 year prison term for causing someone's death is probably not enough. They should have restricted driving privileges after they get out, for at least the next 10 years.
Taking a look at wikipedia will show that it supports the same frequencies as T-Mobile USA's 3G network, so it should work here too. Granted you still have the problem with T-Mobile not having that great of a 3G network.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_I7500
Quad Band GSM, not UMTS. According to the wikipedia article you linked to, the dev phone only has 3G WCDMA (1700/2100 MHz).
Of course, others have suggested to by a G1/G2 off ebay from Canada unlocked as Rogers uses the same frequencies as at&t in the States.
An unlocked Android phone will only work on GSM/GPRS/EDGE. T-Mobile and AT&T use different frequency allocations for UMTS, UMTS 850/1900 for AT&T and 2100/1700 MHz for TMobile. What would be great is if we can get a quad band Android phone that supported those frequencies, but as of yet, there is none.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Mobile_Telecommunications_System#Spectrum_allocation
So Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage are now doing experiments to verify general relativity and string theory?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon
Or cut Orion and just give SpaceX $40 million a launch. With that kind of money other companies could be formed that would compete with SpaceX for the contract of launching cargo and manned missions.
That is what ASIMO and other robots coming out of Japan are for, with outsourcing taking away the white collar jobs, and robots taking away the blue color jobs, we'll all be unemployed. Public sector employees will swell, as taxes goto new heights to support them, in the end, the US becomes a third world banana republic...
Even if this was true, at&t and tmobile use different frequencies for UMTS in the US. You'll be able to do Edge on TMobile, but NOT 3G.
There are also four mainstream Cell Phone providers, and they already Collude on things like SMS picing.
Comcast is a dumb pipe, just like ATT/Verizon, etc. Municipalities need to get there hands out of the lobbyist cookie jar and realize it would be better off for their citizens to just lay the fiber themselves then to contract it out to one (in some places two) companies who will screw the consumer given any chance to do so.
If they don't want to lay the fiber, then lay down 1-2 meter concrete conduits in all of the public easements, then any one who wants to lay fiber can run them through these conduits with out tearing up everyones driveway every other week.
Just to point out, Bush was never a Conservative on fiscal matters. He ran his whole campaign in 2000 on the fact that he was a "compassionate" conservative.
What this country needs is to go back to is a Democratic President with a Republican Congress, (like we had for most of the Clinton years), plus a Constitutional Amendment giving the Executive a Line Item Veto, would do a lot to clean up this countries financial woes.
Of course the Republicans would probably spend more time trying to impeach the Democrat because he got a blow job for an intern...
Which is why we should focus on the Lagrange points, and sending missions to asteroids and comets. Asteroids could be mined, and Comets could be used for establishing fuel depots at the Lagrange points. NASA should expand COTS so we can get companies like SpaceX and OribitalSciences among others developing heavy lifters. I think that would be a more achievable goal and have a higher utilitarian value then the chest thumping Nationalism that comes with putting a man on the Moon and Mars.
So are we going to finnaly find out how KITT went from a cylon to a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am?
Here is a radical option, drop FICA and Medicare taxes, seeing that College age students will never benefit from the programs because they will be long broke by the time the students reach retirement. Combined that with dropping the aggregate (State + Federal) Corporate tax rate to less than 10% and you will see Companies rushing into the US, bye bye 10% unemployment.
Unfortunately, we are headed in the exact opposite direction with a Government take over of health care. Taxes are going to go through the roof to support all of the spending going on and the US will still not be able to reach it's obligations. Combined that with Cap and Tax, and other countries are starting to look a lot better then the US, especially India and China (sense they don't have the same emissions requirements under Kyoto because they are "developing" countries)
So no, raising taxes in the middle of a recession is not the answer, We are already why to the right on the Laffer Curve and going further to the right is just going to push up unemployment more.
Miss read that as Henry Jones and was thinking how odd it is that there is a museum made after a fictional character...
Let me be the first to say, damn, I sure am glad my ancestor fought the British and won their independence. Granted, it is only a matter of time before we are required to do the same thing here in the US. Thus far US courts have found that giving up a passpharse to an encryption key violates the 5th Amendment right to not self-incriminate. But that hasn't gone to the Supreme Court yet, which means it is only a 5 v 4 decision away from requiring everyone to divulge their encryption keys to law enforcement.
Yes, because we need more regulation in private business. Walmart is a prime example of a company that uses regulation to it's advantage. They want a mandate for health insurance because they know it will raise Targets health care costs, and they want a high minimum wage because they know smaller businesses will be forced to raise there prices to compensate.
Increased regulation only hurts smaller businesses and the middle class, and before you go off on how deregulation and Phil Gramm started the recession, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act did for more to push private banks to give loans out to people who could not afford them, through, guess what? Regulation. If we would have just let AIG, Fannie and Freddie fail, we would be a lot better of then the Keynesian's who have taken over Government (That includes Bush, who, along with his Treasury Secretary and the Fed said we needed to bail everyone out or else).
The whole problem is the artificial scarcity that is promoted by the FCC selling licenses to the airwaves. Abolish the FCC, and let the people take back the airwaves.
Which is why we should deprecate them and turn toward country level TLD's. Let individual countries have control over what domains are allowable. If a company, say Google, has a server in the US, their .com name would end up as google.com.us, if they have a server in Germany, it would be google.com.de. A government web site in the US would be congress.gov.us or in Germany, bundestag.gov.de.
This could even extend to political organizations with in a State. So, in the US, fl.gov.us would be the root to all of the Florida state government web sites, where as ut.gov.us would be for Utah's state government.
There are plenty more examples, but it comes down to de-centralizing control over DNS to the lowest level of political representation.
"Not long ago, the Black Gate of Armonk swung open. The lights went out, my skin crawled, and dogs began to howl. I asked my neighbor what it was and he said, 'Those are the NazgÃl. Once they were human, now they are IBM's lawyers.'"
Here is hoping Google can get there new windowing system up and running. Maybe we can use it to get rid of the monstrosity that is X on the desktop. X is the probably the single application that is holding Linux back wider adoption.
Whatever codec Google chooses for Youtube, then that codec will end up with hardware support. If that is VP8, then there will be hardware decoders for VP8.
The problem *is* quality, H.264 is the best codec by far, the only thing holding it back is it's patent licensing. If VP8 delivers on it's better quality than H.264, then that would be a great thing for video on the Web.
iirc, you can get a software patent in Europe, it just won't be enforced. something about US Software Companies hammering the EU Commission for software patents. They won't take no for an answer, they continue to push for them. But they also want to make sure they get their patent so when the day comes, they will have something to enforce.