The leakiest thing about Trump is his mouth, for better or for worse. He doesn't hold back anything, so there isn't anything interesting for WikiLeaks to publish.
So getting saddled with another capital and debt laden division now is a good idea why? If TWC was a stinker, then it stand to reason the AT&T will be a stinker as well. Unless it turns out that not being affiliated with a carrier is harmful to a content provider's business model. Like our network will carry your content only if your network carries our content. Sounds like mob bosses divvying up territory.
OK, allow the purchase to take place. But then apply the FCC's authority over common carriers to the entire entity. Because nobody can be expected to pry apart the (necessarily proprietary) entanglements, cross division subsidies and preferential pricing deals that the separate parts can engage in.
Time Warner, you want a federal regulator crawling around in the studio system (as close to organized crime as this country permits to exist)? Have fun.
No problem. AT&T just needs to spin off their broadband, cellular and telecom operations. And then they can become a content provider.
I think this was behind the split between Time Warner (Warner Bros) studios and Time Warner cable. some years ago. To avoid antitrust problems. And those reasons should still be valid.
Everyone wants your phone number so that they can link the account in their database to other information that contains your phone number.
FTFY.
I wrote a check the other day (with no phone # pre-printed) and the clerk asked for one to write down. I decided to run a test and said, "No phone." He asked, "What?!" I replied, "I don't have a phone." He looked like he was going to shit himself, but accepted the check anyway.
Phone numbers accepted in this manner have little to do with security or identity verification. By the time the number is exposed as a fake, the thief is out the door with the goods. And if it was actually me that bounced a check, my bank handles it. And not by phone.
Also, the telcos have been raped so many times by the feds and law enforcement that when they ask for subscriber data, they just hand it over, close their eyes and play dead. As a result, accessing any account data the telcos have on you is trivially easy for anyone from private detectives to foreign intelligence services.
Too late for that. They've already announced the scanning to the public. That would be a gag order violation right there. If nobody goes to jail, it's possible that it was not an authentic NSL.
It's possible that the FBI served some middle managers with the NSL and forbade them from informing their superiors. Happens all the time with investigations. When I worked for Boeing, they were absolutely paranoid about employees being 'turned' by the feds to rat out unethical/illegal company practices. They had a corporate policy requiring any contact by gov't officials to be reported to management. But if the FBI letter says 'tell no one', the consequences could be a jail term vs just getting fired.
It's also possible that a fake NSL was served by agents working for some foreign security service posing as FBI*. A couple of fake badges and guns and I doubt many data center admins would question the order, let alone check on it's validity.
*Or actual FBI moonlighting for someone else. Everyone thinks Snowden was an anomaly. He was in that he went to the press with what he had. The revolving door between private company security and gov't TLAs is pretty busy. Its not unknown for some official to do a little 'research' for a future employer.
During the Bush administration, the posted regulation at the local Post Office permitted carry by those possessing a valid state CCW. Under the Obama administration, the signs were revised to restrict this to carry by 'officials'. Same law, different interpretations.
Today, the FCC is claiming authority over my company. So I choose not to be a common carrier. Tomorrow, the FTC tries to regulate me. Now I'll be a common carrier.
Bullshit. It's not up to a company to pick and choose its regulatory environment. If it is doing common carrier stuff, the FCC should sent a letter saying, "You're fall under my jurisdiction." Don't want to be a common carrier? Then sell off those parts of your business that provide those services.
Maybe. But then there's that little bit in TFS that says "it reduces the need for fertilizer". Which means less petrochemical input into the food cycle. That could be a good thing.
It's all about ROI. "quality real estate", as defined by the developers are units that rent for $5000 or more a month. Or sell for a couple of million minimum. So the homeless are out of that market. And that empty lot they were camping on is now a pricey high rise.
In Seattle, the building regulations have persuaded developers to provide a percentage of 'affordable' units in their plans. But some loopholes have allowed them to bundle development projects. One expensive high rise in town with one cheap rent building out in the sticks.
They have tried to force the integration of low cost housing in among the expensive units. But that has failed. Rich people don't like living next door to bums. Heck, even bums don't like living next door to bums. The wino who quietly vomits in the common hallway doesn't like listening to the heroin addict who couldn't get a fix screaming next door. That's why they live in tents.
Anyone homeless needs to be offered reliable shelter, food, medicine, clothes
It's been tried. And with the food, shelter, etc. usually come rules of conduct. No thanks say the heroin addicts and people with mental problems. They live under the freeway off-ramps because the rules most closely match their lifestyle. To be precise: none.
and a plan to get out of their predicament towards a productive lifestyle.
They are happy with the lifestyle that they have. Want to give them some handouts? Fine, thanks. But that isn't going towards a better lifestyle. Sometimes it isn't even going toward food. Gotta have that meth or cheap booze.
We had a program in Seattle some years ago that involved participating businesses to accept meal coupons which the public could buy and hand to the cardboard sign guys. It didn't work, unless you actually liked being screamed at by winos for not handing out cash.
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The leakiest thing about Trump is his mouth, for better or for worse. He doesn't hold back anything, so there isn't anything interesting for WikiLeaks to publish.
So they spun it off.
So getting saddled with another capital and debt laden division now is a good idea why? If TWC was a stinker, then it stand to reason the AT&T will be a stinker as well. Unless it turns out that not being affiliated with a carrier is harmful to a content provider's business model. Like our network will carry your content only if your network carries our content. Sounds like mob bosses divvying up territory.
OK, allow the purchase to take place. But then apply the FCC's authority over common carriers to the entire entity. Because nobody can be expected to pry apart the (necessarily proprietary) entanglements, cross division subsidies and preferential pricing deals that the separate parts can engage in.
Time Warner, you want a federal regulator crawling around in the studio system (as close to organized crime as this country permits to exist)? Have fun.
Warner Bros content
No problem. AT&T just needs to spin off their broadband, cellular and telecom operations. And then they can become a content provider.
I think this was behind the split between Time Warner (Warner Bros) studios and Time Warner cable. some years ago. To avoid antitrust problems. And those reasons should still be valid.
Everyone wants your phone number so that they can link the account in their database to other information that contains your phone number.
FTFY.
I wrote a check the other day (with no phone # pre-printed) and the clerk asked for one to write down. I decided to run a test and said, "No phone." He asked, "What?!" I replied, "I don't have a phone." He looked like he was going to shit himself, but accepted the check anyway.
Phone numbers accepted in this manner have little to do with security or identity verification. By the time the number is exposed as a fake, the thief is out the door with the goods. And if it was actually me that bounced a check, my bank handles it. And not by phone.
Also, the telcos have been raped so many times by the feds and law enforcement that when they ask for subscriber data, they just hand it over, close their eyes and play dead. As a result, accessing any account data the telcos have on you is trivially easy for anyone from private detectives to foreign intelligence services.
who are still forbidden of informing anyone.
Too late for that. They've already announced the scanning to the public. That would be a gag order violation right there. If nobody goes to jail, it's possible that it was not an authentic NSL.
Time to jailbreak a Tesla.
Who the hell do they think they are? Microsoft?
It's possible that the FBI served some middle managers with the NSL and forbade them from informing their superiors. Happens all the time with investigations. When I worked for Boeing, they were absolutely paranoid about employees being 'turned' by the feds to rat out unethical/illegal company practices. They had a corporate policy requiring any contact by gov't officials to be reported to management. But if the FBI letter says 'tell no one', the consequences could be a jail term vs just getting fired.
It's also possible that a fake NSL was served by agents working for some foreign security service posing as FBI*. A couple of fake badges and guns and I doubt many data center admins would question the order, let alone check on it's validity.
*Or actual FBI moonlighting for someone else. Everyone thinks Snowden was an anomaly. He was in that he went to the press with what he had. The revolving door between private company security and gov't TLAs is pretty busy. Its not unknown for some official to do a little 'research' for a future employer.
... looking for his potato shipment.
Mine is being over-clocked by caffeine.
Indirectly, that is. If you are in the CEO's blood line, you've got a job.
Please hand your Samsung Note 7 to the technician at the counter.
formal policy to follow federal law.
During the Bush administration, the posted regulation at the local Post Office permitted carry by those possessing a valid state CCW. Under the Obama administration, the signs were revised to restrict this to carry by 'officials'. Same law, different interpretations.
I see you've never had to care for an infant.
Eventually, the infant will learn to feed itself. Then, when it's 35 years old or so, it will move out and it's not your problem anymore.
highly charged political election season
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
To say otherwise would put the SEC in charge of a day trader's murder trial.
Or put the Post Office in charge of concealed carry policies.
Wait. They do that now.
entities that claim to be common carriers
Today, the FCC is claiming authority over my company. So I choose not to be a common carrier. Tomorrow, the FTC tries to regulate me. Now I'll be a common carrier.
Bullshit. It's not up to a company to pick and choose its regulatory environment. If it is doing common carrier stuff, the FCC should sent a letter saying, "You're fall under my jurisdiction." Don't want to be a common carrier? Then sell off those parts of your business that provide those services.
Maybe. But then there's that little bit in TFS that says "it reduces the need for fertilizer". Which means less petrochemical input into the food cycle. That could be a good thing.
loosening the market for quality real estate
It's all about ROI. "quality real estate", as defined by the developers are units that rent for $5000 or more a month. Or sell for a couple of million minimum. So the homeless are out of that market. And that empty lot they were camping on is now a pricey high rise.
In Seattle, the building regulations have persuaded developers to provide a percentage of 'affordable' units in their plans. But some loopholes have allowed them to bundle development projects. One expensive high rise in town with one cheap rent building out in the sticks.
They have tried to force the integration of low cost housing in among the expensive units. But that has failed. Rich people don't like living next door to bums. Heck, even bums don't like living next door to bums. The wino who quietly vomits in the common hallway doesn't like listening to the heroin addict who couldn't get a fix screaming next door. That's why they live in tents.
Anyone homeless needs to be offered reliable shelter, food, medicine, clothes
It's been tried. And with the food, shelter, etc. usually come rules of conduct. No thanks say the heroin addicts and people with mental problems. They live under the freeway off-ramps because the rules most closely match their lifestyle. To be precise: none.
and a plan to get out of their predicament towards a productive lifestyle.
They are happy with the lifestyle that they have. Want to give them some handouts? Fine, thanks. But that isn't going towards a better lifestyle. Sometimes it isn't even going toward food. Gotta have that meth or cheap booze.
We had a program in Seattle some years ago that involved participating businesses to accept meal coupons which the public could buy and hand to the cardboard sign guys. It didn't work, unless you actually liked being screamed at by winos for not handing out cash.