But I have always believed that the people should own the infrastructure that companies do business on.
Other than toll roads, we don't allow companies to own our public streets and then mandate to us who gets to use them to conduct business.
If the people (i.e. the government) owned the data infrastructure that telecoms do business on, it would allow for more competition because smaller companies could compete over the same lines without biased interferance from the owners of the lines.
In fact it would drive down the cost of the lines because the governmental authority over them would charge each company a fee to have access plus a usage charge. Total usage fees would remain the same no matter how many carriers compete for the same population, but the access charge income would rise with each carrier that entered the market.
Imagine the implications of a parallel universe where photons ARE baseballs.
Perhaps this can be proven by making the same experiment but a third person stands next to the laser pointer and then throws a baseball at the peice of paper.
If the baseball passes through the holes in the paper then we must have...
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But I have always believed that the people should own the infrastructure that companies do business on.
Other than toll roads, we don't allow companies to own our public streets and then mandate to us who gets to use them to conduct business.
If the people (i.e. the government) owned the data infrastructure that telecoms do business on, it would allow for more competition because smaller companies could compete over the same lines without biased interferance from the owners of the lines.
In fact it would drive down the cost of the lines because the governmental authority over them would charge each company a fee to have access plus a usage charge. Total usage fees would remain the same no matter how many carriers compete for the same population, but the access charge income would rise with each carrier that entered the market.
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I used 4-5 pumps for mine.
This looks like a great idea, I just hope it holds up well to age and fatigue.
That's the same thing they said about Cher, and just look what happened with that.
Dubbed Surfi-Sculpt
This is why British stuff doesn't do well in America. The name sounds too much like "Stiffy-Sculpt".
...campaign of legal terrorism...
Post 9/11 this phrase has a double meaning.
Both fairly describe the abuse of the RIAA/MPAA.
In Solviet Russia, The Technology Wears You!
Imagine the implications of a parallel universe where photons ARE baseballs.
Perhaps this can be proven by making the same experiment but a third person stands next to the laser pointer and then throws a baseball at the peice of paper.
If the baseball passes through the holes in the paper then we must have...
Oh wait, nevermind, I don't care.
The only reference to speed I can find is some sort of "ueber schnell" protocol.
I don't have iTunes you insensitive clod!
In other news, environmental scientists claim they have proof that Microsoft is to blame for global warming.
This sounds more like a commercial than news to me.
Those wiley Russians, always the first ones out the gate trying to stick it to the man.