I have no idea why you are blaming the Catholic Church on this. For one thing, the Cathol Church LIKES Harry Potter. As for whoever this minister is, I have no idea why they are giving a sermon. And I can not even be sure that he is Catholic from what you say. The only ones who I have ever heard give a sermon in a Catholic Church are priests.
The story says it was impossible to test deployment on the ground. I'm thinking that impossible means 'rather expensive'.
It could very well have been impossible to test on the ground. After all, we have one thing here in abundance that isn't up there. Gravity. The arms are made to be deployed in ZeroG/freefall and on the earth we can't exactly test that.
The atmospheric pressure we feel at sea level (about 14.7lbs/in^2, IIRC) doubles every 33ft underwater. You have a typo. Presure is doubled at 33ft. But it does not double every 33ft. If it doubled every 33ft, the pressure at the bottom would be about 2*10^319 lbs/in^2. Pressure increases linearly by about 1 atmoshpere every 33 ft.
I have compassion for them, too, as it would seem that they're all former molestation victims themselves
Having been through my first (of several) seminars on how to spot and stop child abuse, I can tell you that most peadophiles were not molested when they were younger. Go talk to someone in law enforcement that deals with this. Most have never been abused and just have this urge.
I don't understand why they don't use LTO Digital Tape. LTO-3 currently holds 400GB (using no on tape compression). Is $0.30US/GB http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?grp=TM L
Is very reliable and will last for a very long time. It is great for archiving and is what TV stations use. Also, if they are serious about archiving, why are they not considering higher bit rates? If they are going to do this then they should be considering 50 Mbit instead of 20 Mbit. Shure it takes up a lot of space, but that is why you use LTO. Also, every ~two years they come out with the next gen that has double the capacity of the previous version. And the new gens can read the older tapes.
I see no reason that this shouldn't eventually happen to internet access, especially since we are in the so called "Information Age". What is debatable is whether our not we've crossed the threshold between luxury and utility.
Thanks AC. I now see this as the main debate going on here. But currently, I do not consider it to have crossed that threshold as the others have.
Currently, all I see it as is someone wanting to get votes for a service that is not yet necessary and will more than likely besubsidised in some way or given a "progressive" pricing structure like taxes are.
The maine reason why I see telcos and other not providing fast internet to them yet is due to it not being profitable yet. If you look, the telcos such as verizon are putting in Fibre to relatively dense areas. When they are up and making money they will start moving on down the line to others. The places looking for wifi here still have phones (and therefore modems) just not much that is faster. Although, I do have to say that there is still a significant enough number of people in this country that do not have phones or are on party lines (that the telcos are working on getting to them).
>Also, I really worry what will happen if VOIP gets all around and a large segment give up landlines, what hapens when the power goes out?
The wife was worried about this too, until she realized all of our phones were portable phones anyhow which would have been useless when the power was out. I have a cell phone for when the power is out. And if there is some armageddon like event that leaves the power out in a major metropolis like philly for more then 2 or 3 days, then we probably have bigger problems on our hands:).
I always keep at least one phone that does not use the wall outlet, only the telephone line. I have low quality reception with cells (many trees around). Cellphone towers have about a 24 hour power supply (rarely more). And if this gets spread, why would many people keep a cellphone when they can use this VOIP? If it gets to be as cheap as is implied (and they don't worry about power going out).
VOIP phones still have real phone numbers....you can call my VOIP phones from a regular phone and vice versa.
Two questions on this. First, who is providing the translation from Internet to Landlines. Second, Who is providing the "Lookup" from VOIP Telephone number to your IP? (probably the same people, but it still would be necessary when widespread)
And yet FedEx and UPS are both legally prevented from handling first class mail. Plus the USPS has all sorts of government provided perks, such as immunity from most OSHA regulations. It's not real competition. Think first class postage would cost as much as it did if FedEx and UPS could compete in that market?
While I can not debate the OSHA regulations exemption, I can debate the "first class" part. Nothing is preventing me from sending a letter via FedEx to someone (as I have done in the past). I see UPS and FedEx competing for packages that are delivered in the same time frame as first class is, they just call them something different. So I'm not sure if that is a valid point.
As for the OSHA regs and some of the others mentioned there? In defence of the post office for the other non-OSHA alowances granted to them (yes, I know this is slightly lame but I must say it) No one else must (and I do mean must, as I understand it) deliver to absolutely everywhere in the country.
VOIP seems to me (under its current incarnation) to be something that works fine for friends and family calling when you are at home with a fixed landline., when you have plenty of bandwidth. Next, I list it's failings (so far).
However, for businesses they still require some sort of connection to people with regular phones. VOIP does not provide the same Quatlity of Service (yet) as land lines. Wireless does not have the same capabilities as a cell phone (bandwidth issues when you add in internet and interference) and a whole host of other things that land lines can do that VOIP can not.
Don't get me wrong, I think VOIP is a great idea. It's probably how we will get video phones (unless the telcos like verizon really speed up their fibre roll out)[would wireless hinder this?]. But for the forseable future I don't see it as a replacement for land lines. Also, I really worry what will happen if VOIP gets all around and a large segment give up landlines, what hapens when the power goes out? (one reason I will keep a landline even with my Cellphone).
Also, for calling and VOIP, who will run the DNS equivalent? I don't think people want to call MAC Addresses and there will be a need for the Phone/VOIP transision at some point in the system for out of area calls.
That there would still be roads even if there were no public roads. Also, the total nubmer of public roads make most private roads unecessary and unsuportable. And, basically, that your original quote "If conservatives had their way... We would have no roads, because if they market requird roads, it would build roads. " is not true.
I think that municipalities should not offer free access. If they want to offer a pay service, that's fine. If the do offer a pay service then it needs to be operated only by the funds it takes in. Otherwise it would unfair competition with private companies.
If I understand what you are saying, you are saying that it should be setup how the postal service is? As a private company that is mandated to providing a service at cost and paying it's own way? Although, the Post Office has changed slightly (originaly the post office didn't have to take all the packages it does today). And we still have competitors such as FedEx and UPS and probably another few that I don't know of. Not to mention all the courier services in the big cities.
Ok, first off that 3 dollar bill had monika on it.
Next, All those services you listed are required for public safety (Police, Fire, and to add, water and sewer) and living. Education to a certain extent is a necessity. Internet to the home is not a necessity. If you "NEED" the internet (though I would question why since I can't think of how it could be life or death), you can go to your public library and use the terminal there. But internet to the home is not a necesity, it is a luxury.
this would eventually lead to the death of telcos, so you can imagine the forces that want to stop this.
Please explain how this would lead to the death of telcos. I know of no one that offers phone service to anyone without going through a telco network. That provides the same quality of service. That provides T1,T3, OCX lines and many other business level connections. That, well, you get the idea.
The telcos aren't going anywhere. They'll just evolve like they have been doing. As for wireless? Give me wires. I neither trust the security on wireless yet nor is it as fast and reliable as wired over the distances we are talking.
Should private companies have to compete with a body that has limitless funds, manpower and preferential access to sell their product? Discuss:)
Don't forget:
Has direct lawful (?) ability to have competitors taxed at a different rate than themselves.
Has direct lawful (?) ability to block competitors access to building/construction permits, right of way, etc.
Has direct lawful (?) ability to have taxes levied against competitors added to their own coffers.
To those that still don't want SS to be privatized (or eliminitated), let me ask for this compromise. Allow for me (make it optional, not mandatory) to invest half of what I pay to SS in any way I choose. I would still be paying into SS, but I would still have some control over the other half. If you want, you can stil put it all into SS, but don't require it.
Really? Doesn't that assume that you have at least 15% of margin to play with? A lot of business would kill for that much.
Depends on how you count what a margin is. If you mean 15% above what the product cost, that can be a lot until you take out electricity, rent, paychecks and so on. Broadcast (TV) components have high margins like that (actually, a lot more), but much lower profit since you maybe sell 500 of an item, then there is maintenance and other stuff.
If, however, you mean 15% after all costs are totaled in, that is what they would kill for. Margins on TV DVDs are 40% from what I have read (sorry, no link). But after a lot of things it becoms lower.
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I have no idea why you are blaming the Catholic Church on this. For one thing, the Cathol Church LIKES Harry Potter. As for whoever this minister is, I have no idea why they are giving a sermon. And I can not even be sure that he is Catholic from what you say. The only ones who I have ever heard give a sermon in a Catholic Church are priests.
I'm pretty sure that's Penny Arcade. THough I can't remember the specific date.
Games for the Cube:
Mariokart
Pikmin
FZeroGX
Shall I continue? There are also others for the PS2 such as DDR and many RPGs.
Like here?
It's called the Crusoe Processor by Transmeta. And yes, it is an x86 processor.
The story says it was impossible to test deployment on the ground. I'm thinking that impossible means 'rather expensive'.
It could very well have been impossible to test on the ground. After all, we have one thing here in abundance that isn't up there. Gravity. The arms are made to be deployed in ZeroG/freefall and on the earth we can't exactly test that.
There Be Water In Them Thar Hills.
Would make it so much easier to set up a colony.
The atmospheric pressure we feel at sea level (about 14.7lbs/in^2, IIRC) doubles every 33ft underwater. You have a typo. Presure is doubled at 33ft. But it does not double every 33ft. If it doubled every 33ft, the pressure at the bottom would be about 2*10^319 lbs/in^2. Pressure increases linearly by about 1 atmoshpere every 33 ft.
I have compassion for them, too, as it would seem that they're all former molestation victims themselves
Having been through my first (of several) seminars on how to spot and stop child abuse, I can tell you that most peadophiles were not molested when they were younger. Go talk to someone in law enforcement that deals with this. Most have never been abused and just have this urge.
I don't understand why they don't use LTO Digital Tape. LTO-3 currently holds 400GB (using no on tape compression). Is $0.30US/GBM L
http://www.cdw.com/shop/search/results.aspx?grp=T
Is very reliable and will last for a very long time. It is great for archiving and is what TV stations use. Also, if they are serious about archiving, why are they not considering higher bit rates? If they are going to do this then they should be considering 50 Mbit instead of 20 Mbit. Shure it takes up a lot of space, but that is why you use LTO. Also, every ~two years they come out with the next gen that has double the capacity of the previous version. And the new gens can read the older tapes.
I see no reason that this shouldn't eventually happen to internet access, especially since we are in the so called "Information Age". What is debatable is whether our not we've crossed the threshold between luxury and utility.
Thanks AC. I now see this as the main debate going on here. But currently, I do not consider it to have crossed that threshold as the others have.
Currently, all I see it as is someone wanting to get votes for a service that is not yet necessary and will more than likely besubsidised in some way or given a "progressive" pricing structure like taxes are.
The maine reason why I see telcos and other not providing fast internet to them yet is due to it not being profitable yet. If you look, the telcos such as verizon are putting in Fibre to relatively dense areas. When they are up and making money they will start moving on down the line to others. The places looking for wifi here still have phones (and therefore modems) just not much that is faster. Although, I do have to say that there is still a significant enough number of people in this country that do not have phones or are on party lines (that the telcos are working on getting to them).
>Also, I really worry what will happen if VOIP gets all around and a large segment give up landlines, what hapens when the power goes out?
:).
The wife was worried about this too, until she realized all of our phones were portable phones anyhow which would have been useless when the power was out. I have a cell phone for when the power is out. And if there is some armageddon like event that leaves the power out in a major metropolis like philly for more then 2 or 3 days, then we probably have bigger problems on our hands
I always keep at least one phone that does not use the wall outlet, only the telephone line. I have low quality reception with cells (many trees around). Cellphone towers have about a 24 hour power supply (rarely more). And if this gets spread, why would many people keep a cellphone when they can use this VOIP? If it gets to be as cheap as is implied (and they don't worry about power going out).
VOIP phones still have real phone numbers....you can call my VOIP phones from a regular phone and vice versa.
Two questions on this. First, who is providing the translation from Internet to Landlines. Second, Who is providing the "Lookup" from VOIP Telephone number to your IP? (probably the same people, but it still would be necessary when widespread)
And yet FedEx and UPS are both legally prevented from handling first class mail. Plus the USPS has all sorts of government provided perks, such as immunity from most OSHA regulations. It's not real competition. Think first class postage would cost as much as it did if FedEx and UPS could compete in that market?
While I can not debate the OSHA regulations exemption, I can debate the "first class" part. Nothing is preventing me from sending a letter via FedEx to someone (as I have done in the past). I see UPS and FedEx competing for packages that are delivered in the same time frame as first class is, they just call them something different. So I'm not sure if that is a valid point.
As for the OSHA regs and some of the others mentioned there? In defence of the post office for the other non-OSHA alowances granted to them (yes, I know this is slightly lame but I must say it) No one else must (and I do mean must, as I understand it) deliver to absolutely everywhere in the country.
VOIP seems to me (under its current incarnation) to be something that works fine for friends and family calling when you are at home with a fixed landline., when you have plenty of bandwidth. Next, I list it's failings (so far).
However, for businesses they still require some sort of connection to people with regular phones. VOIP does not provide the same Quatlity of Service (yet) as land lines. Wireless does not have the same capabilities as a cell phone (bandwidth issues when you add in internet and interference) and a whole host of other things that land lines can do that VOIP can not.
Don't get me wrong, I think VOIP is a great idea. It's probably how we will get video phones (unless the telcos like verizon really speed up their fibre roll out)[would wireless hinder this?]. But for the forseable future I don't see it as a replacement for land lines. Also, I really worry what will happen if VOIP gets all around and a large segment give up landlines, what hapens when the power goes out? (one reason I will keep a landline even with my Cellphone).
Also, for calling and VOIP, who will run the DNS equivalent? I don't think people want to call MAC Addresses and there will be a need for the Phone/VOIP transision at some point in the system for out of area calls.
So exactly what is your point?
That there would still be roads even if there were no public roads. Also, the total nubmer of public roads make most private roads unecessary and unsuportable. And, basically, that your original quote "If conservatives had their way... We would have no roads, because if they market requird roads, it would build roads. " is not true.
I think that municipalities should not offer free access. If they want to offer a pay service, that's fine. If the do offer a pay service then it needs to be operated only by the funds it takes in. Otherwise it would unfair competition with private companies.
If I understand what you are saying, you are saying that it should be setup how the postal service is? As a private company that is mandated to providing a service at cost and paying it's own way? Although, the Post Office has changed slightly (originaly the post office didn't have to take all the packages it does today). And we still have competitors such as FedEx and UPS and probably another few that I don't know of. Not to mention all the courier services in the big cities.
Ok, first off that 3 dollar bill had monika on it.
Next, All those services you listed are required for public safety (Police, Fire, and to add, water and sewer) and living. Education to a certain extent is a necessity. Internet to the home is not a necessity. If you "NEED" the internet (though I would question why since I can't think of how it could be life or death), you can go to your public library and use the terminal there. But internet to the home is not a necesity, it is a luxury.
We would have no roads, because if they market requird roads, it would build roads.
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Actually, the market DOES build roads. They are Toll roads and Turn pikes. and are built using private funding only.
https://smart-tag.com/dulles_toll_road.htm
http://www.c-b.com/information%20center/transport
They have been around for a long time. Next argument please.
this would eventually lead to the death of telcos, so you can imagine the forces that want to stop this.
Please explain how this would lead to the death of telcos. I know of no one that offers phone service to anyone without going through a telco network. That provides the same quality of service. That provides T1,T3, OCX lines and many other business level connections. That, well, you get the idea.
The telcos aren't going anywhere. They'll just evolve like they have been doing. As for wireless? Give me wires. I neither trust the security on wireless yet nor is it as fast and reliable as wired over the distances we are talking.
Should private companies have to compete with a body that has limitless funds, manpower and preferential access to sell their product? Discuss :)
Don't forget:
Has direct lawful (?) ability to have competitors taxed at a different rate than themselves.
Has direct lawful (?) ability to block competitors access to building/construction permits, right of way, etc.
Has direct lawful (?) ability to have taxes levied against competitors added to their own coffers.
First off, a little hisotry. SS was called SS and not a pention due to the bad blood towards pensions in the 30's
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Social Security gives a crapy ROI (Return on Investment) It gives 2% after inflation has been taken into account http://www.socialsecurity.org/reformandyou/faqs.h
someput it at worse. Here's an SS calculator:http://www.heritage.org/research/featu
I could get a better ROI at a bank using FDIC CDs than using SS.
To those that still don't want SS to be privatized (or eliminitated), let me ask for this compromise. Allow for me (make it optional, not mandatory) to invest half of what I pay to SS in any way I choose. I would still be paying into SS, but I would still have some control over the other half. If you want, you can stil put it all into SS, but don't require it.
Really? Doesn't that assume that you have at least 15% of margin to play with? A lot of business would kill for that much.
Depends on how you count what a margin is. If you mean 15% above what the product cost, that can be a lot until you take out electricity, rent, paychecks and so on. Broadcast (TV) components have high margins like that (actually, a lot more), but much lower profit since you maybe sell 500 of an item, then there is maintenance and other stuff.
If, however, you mean 15% after all costs are totaled in, that is what they would kill for. Margins on TV DVDs are 40% from what I have read (sorry, no link). But after a lot of things it becoms lower.
Rest assured that if any of these buffered systems passes a threshold, results will be cataclysmic, if hard to predict.
What threshold, how can you know it will be cataclysmic, and you even say hard to predict, if it is at all possible to do so.
Lets start with: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national_story_skin/46 9987%3Fformat=html 3 1&art_id=qw1106022963550R131 a dID=300034074&messageID=300411450
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=
http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?thre
Showing the southpole has been holding steady temp: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/update/csci/show
Have you seen Minority Report yet? Considering they used retnal scanners in the movie?