Government MUST be accountable for its actions when they are operating in error.
Ha ha ha! You must stop drinking cool-aid. I will give you an example: If we owe any money to the government, it has the power to seize us, our property, our lives and even our children, auction them and get its dues paid. BUT, if the government has any dues to us, the law does not apply since we are *part* of the government: which is bullshit since i can make the same argument and refuse to pay government any dues. How comes laws never address this gross injustice?
3-D??? WTF, in 25 years time, my son will have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmIf-slNEC8/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4714135.stm/ as his birthday gift at the least. Plus some cool star-trek-like holosuites that will allow him to "explore" the 'beauty' and wonders of human kind... My only worry is i will be too old for all of that holo excitement... My other worry is Windows will still be running all the holosuites, and just at the moment of clima...it asks me to Activate Windows!
You don't get it, do you? The problem is dispersion of sudden spikes in power. Electricity cannot be stored like water or air. You can't use the sudden spikes taper it down and spread it over a week or so. A 10,000 volt electric spike can't be tapered down to 110 volts and spread over 91 days. Your alternate grid or parallel as you call it will do what with the spikes? Send it ground? Use it to dig up earth worms (like in Godzilla movie)? Charge a few batteries? Are you crazy? That spike will stay for 10 seconds or so and even if capacitors can be somehow adapter to use it to charge instantly (highly unlikely) how do you discharge them? If we accomodate spikes from wind farms we would have been farming electricity from lightning by now, and the biggest wars would be fought in the wettest of places on Earth and not in Iraq.
I too have an LG Viewty, an iBook G4, a Nokia 6600, my iPod mini, and the battery-operated SUV my 3-yr son drives (the charger is very similar to a nokia phone charger). Organisation is key: i charge my iPod at work: The white cable always is connected to my PC. The iBook G4 feeds off its charger which is permanently hooked to UPS power supply that also feeds my SLI-config PC. Yes, the laptop stays close to PC, and yes its neanderthal for a slashdotter to keep it that way, but the charger doesn't get lost this way. The Viewty (KU990) is tricky since the charger gets lost quickly enough in my clutter. But i have found one wall socket at home where the charger stays connected to permanently. I plug the phone in when i reach home, and take it out when i leave for work. The Nokia is my company's: i don't care if its charged or not. Not my money, so if i happen to answer it i check for battery and if it has run out, i replace the viewty charger with Nokia charger (and this is why my LG Viewty is down today). I found that having fixed location chargers for moving devices creates some discipline and order. Plus you don't have to haul the chargers every day. iPod Mini runs out of charge?=Work PC. LG Viewty: Fixed wall socket. iBook G4: Charger near UPS. Nokia: Charger at same wall socket as Viewty. (when not charging, it lies in my bag). SUV: The charger is placed near kitchen. My wife plugs the charger in when she makes coffee in morning. My son brings the SUV to kitchen when it needs to be charged (which is about 11.30 AM when the kitchen is free). No one is allowed to move chargers. Not even my son is exempt from this law: This way i don't lose chargers and things are organised. Devices can move; Chargers can't. (when i travel, everything goes into my laptop bag). Unfortunately this made me once carry the SUV charger too for about a week.
"The biggest blow to citizen constitutional authority came in 1886. The US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, that a private corporation was a "natural person" under the US Constitution, sheltered by the 14th Amendment [(even though that amendment had been written and ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves) [3]] , which requires due process in the criminal prosecution of "persons." Following this ruling, huge, wealthy corporations were allowed to compete on "equal terms" with neighborhood businesses and individuals. "There was no history, logic or reason given to support that view," Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas wrote 60 years later. [4]" Quoted verbatim from http://www.ratical.org/corporations/ Seems you know nothing about how corporations came into being in America, and in addition use non-sequitor without knowing its actual purpose and meaning. Please, please surrender your US citizenship. Its Foxnews-watching idiots like you who spoil this Great country for all.
That's what used to be the law in US-especially in the Wild West days. Corporates got their *person* powers during wild west. So the rule applies to them.
Exactly! Corporates are the new royalty: Exempt from laws and above the common folk. Countries like India routinely jail CEOs and hold them personally responsible for their corporation's fiascos: fiscally or criminally. The corporations need another strong SOX Act: holding the CEO's personally responsible for civil crimes, and holding the entire board responsible for criminal ones. Corporations sure will shout a lot, fearmonger about fleeing country and economy failing, plus people losing jobs, increased prices etc., The corporate controlled media will definitely raise a BIG cry. 1) I say strike them down with an iron fist: Use the same laws Bush used to threaten citizenry. 2) Give teeth to FCC and FTC, plus make sure the laws are in place to prevent corporate control of media and business: Companies owning newspapers cannot own TV or radio stations either directly or indirectly. 3) Similarly, voting rights are limited to 10% irrespective of shares held (laws in india). 4) Start a few high-profile cases (not like the stupid Microsoft anti-monopoly case): like passing a law that starts a minimum payment to be made for environmental damage at $1.1 billion and capping it at average of 5-years turnover of a company. Exxon case would be reopened and forced to pay higher charges. 5) Make banckruptcy harder for corporates: Once they file under chapter 11, all executives paid above $500,000 a year (including benefits), would have to return all their pay they received for past one year. And no tax credits. 6) Make tax credits available to natural persons too: Driving to work as a salaried employee? Tax credit for Gas and oil changes and repairs. Whatever exemptions corporations get (donations, daycare, medical insurance, etc) should also benefit natural persons too: salaried ones. The reduction in income for state and federal governments will make them increase corporate taxes. 7) Make illegal any donations to candidate's campaign by any corporate. One natural person to another capped at $1,000 per donor. 8) Software piracy by a corporate? Jail time for entire board (since its criminal). Planting a virus on another's PC unauthorisedly? Jail for CEO whether authorised by CEO or not. 9) Similarly all corporate civil and criminal convictions should be displayed prominently on its website along with being forced to register as a "criminal" with local police when a corporate moves into a Town. That is what all criminals do. Right? If Walmart is convicted of hiring illegal workers, then its website and each place of work should bear that mark of shame, plus the local police station should contain photos of Walmart's corporate face saying its a criminal. 10) Settlements if available to corporates as option should be made available to natural persons too. If Sony can "settle" hacking cases, i can cite same precedent to the judge and the law should allow me to settle at same terms corporates do. 11) If a corporate owes me money and refuses to pay on demand, i should have the freedom to file an injunction with local judge for declaring the corporate as bankrupt and to seize its property for sale. (Norway has it).
Typical pseudo-emotional response to change the tone of the discussion and to bury the original question. Much like the same tactic republicans take when questioned uncomfortably about Big Oil or Iraq failure. The question here is whether corporates should be criminally responsible for breach of privacy. There are two parts to it: 1. A contract that a person has signed with another. 2. The breach of contract which makes it a breach of trust. Result: Penalties payable determined based on past judgements, case involved, etc. Corporations always claim they have same rights as an individual. Agreed. If i sign a contract with a corporate and provide my private information to it under trust (which is what all contractsw are), the corporate is bound to protect that trust. Failure to do so, entails breaking the contract, which is illegal in some states outright, but debatable in others. If i provided my credit card details to a hotel waiter for swiping my card and she is careless in handling the same thus allowing the information to be stolen, she is responsible criminally for deliberately doing so, even if that was not her intent. She is bound to be convicted, and sentenced either to jail or community service (paris-hilton-rich), and ordered to pay restitution. Since a corporate claims to be a person, its operating license can be suspended, its CEO jailed and convicted. And in your above example: if the woman happens to be a 26-yr old teacher taking "advantage" of a 16-yr old boy, she should be sentenced to 290-years in jail. (Same time a man serves).
And if "the company" is paying for it, then when it all boils down to it, other employees are actually helping to foot the bill
Ahhh.. No. if the company foots the bill for daycare, the money does NOT come out of employees or even executives' pay. It comes out of the corporate taxes that companies pay: federal and state. The $37000 the company spends is completely tax deductible. That is why corporates always pay lower taxes than individuals.
I _WANT_ the game industry to have money so more games will come out
More games is not necessarily better games. The ancient games like Asteroids, Space Invaders, were innovative at that time because they were refreshingly original and creative. Once in a blue moon, a company like Nintendo comes along and invents Wii. BUT mostly the more money corporates see in a product range, the more product they will produce of same type. Take FPS: Wolfenstein gave way to CoD, MoH, Crysis, and Doom gave way to Unreal, etc., was there any real innovation along? Like a hardware, software combo (Glove and Glock)?? Nope. Individuals getting more money==Fresher, newer games. Corporates getting more money==Same-old-genre, heftier graphics games. Much like movie sequels. I would rather see the game industry try to innovate rather than suing and kicking their customers off....and please stop calling it "piracy": No one has any idea what a pirate means and how the British Common law dealt with "real" pirates on high seas.
Booze is really not good for health. Having been in India, i have been charmed by their villages and ubiquitous rail, but have seen the binge drinking they do. Two bottles of hard alcohol which would shame even a russian are the daily rations of many a laborer. Plus as you say the constitution prevents it, so the court is just upholding it; just like US courts uphold the constitution however bad the law is (15 yrs for stealing games, versus suspended sentence for DUI).
Welcome to US of A: Where illegally copying a game gets you jail time while driving intoxicated gets you community service. The land of free, where anyone with enough money never needs to goto jail for any crime.
The democrats spine-less, shameless, frightened cowards who think Obama is their Jesus. Led by the *literal* pussy Pelosi, they are a shell of their formidable prowess in 1970s. This is why the Democrats deserve to lose. And not just lose narrowly: they deserve to lose EVERY seat they contest in November. Obama should lose so heavily to McCain that he leaves for Kenya permanently. But i wonder even if such a defeat will make democrats realize what they are doing wrong. They will make a few noises, but then go back to suckling from their corporate parents' teets to get a few dollars for their families. The Democrats should be swift-boated as a whole. If FDR were alive today, he would have had two heart attacks just watching the cowering dogs who call themselves democrats.
Oh Yeah?? Have you ever used it mister? If not, please go out, buy a Home Premium copy, install it, and try to install nvidia drivers. Better yet, try installing a good game like Company of Heroes, Crysis and see how it "slows" down your system. And don't start advising me about tuning Vista: The only good tuning it needs is a size 8 electric drill shoved into its creator's as$ for making it.
That exactly how the Indian ISP scene works today. Pay per GB much like a cellphone plan. Works very well for all of us. Heavy users like me (30-50GB a month average) pay about $100 per month for a 2-8 Mbps connection speed (variable at demand of user: i set the 8 Mbps for times between 1.30 Am and 6.30 AM). My sister pays $30 for email, picasa etc at 2 Mbps. No throttling, No torrent blockage, nothing. Raw internet. You have to choose your plans carefully though: By mistake if you opt for a lower traffic plan (say 2 GB traffic a month) and end up downloading 30 GB, then you pay $450 ! (which is what i ended up paying once). Other than that its pretty much equal for all.
Hmmm on same logic my Bill Paying bandwidth is severly restricted by my bank balance. Shall i inform comcast that i shall start throttling payments to them for heavy bills? What sort of stupid logic is yours (not to mention illegal). Comcast signed a contract with i accepted its advertisement for a 8 Mbps DSL. Period. If they do NOT provide it, they are begging to be sued in a class action suit or worse a criminal infringement. FCC seriously needs to grow balls and suspend their license to operate: much like FDIC does for banks. Pull the plug and reimburse the customers from comcast's pockets. Unfortunately, Bush will intervene and either say this is a State Security matter or pardon comcast, and people will vote for McCain again. Somebody needs to put these corporate pests in their place. And it has to be someone from top.
Exactly, and thank you pointing this out. In fact according to one BBC documentary, Europe's commerce would grind to a halt in one week if IBM disappeared suddenly. Unfortunately ALL of the current generation hates mainframes (thanks to deft marketing by Microsoft) and thinks they are dinosaur relics of some forgotten age when people had to do sums actually by hand. The survival of the mainframe shows how a robust, well-built, and well-planned architecture can survive for a long time (as compared to Windows).
Unless FCC suspends the operating license of Comcast until comcast changes its policy, nothing is going to change. Unfortunately this FCC does not have even one ball to do that.
I have more karma to burn than you can keep answering me, so here goes:
don't know a single large organization that doesn't have a few Linux boxes doing real work
FEW. Is it mainstream? Has the Ubuntu logo replaced the millions of XP logos that greet every office goer every day for 360 days a year? (bank's way of defining a year). Until that happens, Linux is as rare as the dodo in the wild.
open wireless networks are all but guaranteed
Nope. All carriers have made "voluntary" promises to keep it open fearing FCC crackdown. Here is the clarification. You don't seem to get corporate philosophy, do you? They want a single party to shakedown for answers. For instance if the S/390 fails in my company, my board will demand answers from IBM. If my fedora linux server crashes and takes down entire network, the board has no one to nail to the wall, except the poor admin who would have been fired anyway. The reason Apple has a kill switch is exactly that: One single call to Apple from AT&T about an App that consumes their bandwidth and Jobs can commit app genocide. Period. Again, i repeat, Android will not succeed in enterprises and would be relegated to the slashdot crowd and technically savvy BECAUSE there is no central control. If Google puts its financial muscle behind it, then its OK, otherwise it will fail.
...and let IE 7.0 choke on the resulting massive string and die allowing hackers to control my PC through XP's gaping security holes? Stupid lady doesn't know shit about privacy or court opinions. If she so worries about it, why doesn't she prevent the RIAA-equivalent in canada from enforcing monitoring ISPs traffic? Dumb wh*re
Although the emotional slashdot crowd will mod me down i have karma to burn so here goes rational arguments: 1. Comparing Android and Linux as successful open source models is not correct. Linux runs on CURRENT hardware. It is NOT an emulator on Windows or Mac OS X. Android does NOT run on current hardware. I have two phones: LG Viewty KU990: Flash driven OS, and a Motorola V3 Razr (not the itunes crap). Can i use the PC-connect cables to flash the current OS on both phones to run Android? NO...Can i dual-boot? NO... 2. Apple's iPhone is current and has millions of customers. Android is virtual==zero customers. Developers want to see their code run on phones, not on emulators. iPhone is present, and to sound the proverb: A bird in hand is worth two in the bush... 3. Does not have support of carriers who fear open source more than Google. Remember that Apple has a kill switch for every iPhone App, so that if the carrier complains Apple can pull the switch. Android is open source and no single kill switch. No carrier would allow random apps to take down their network (even if its not practicable). This is similar to why Linux is not yet mainstream in large organisations. Yes, you guys can say it is an emulator and mimics calls to the "real" OS of the phone. The last thing a carrier wants is the phone receiver being overridden by some crude game written by a 13-year old who thinks it is "Hot". Corporates just don't think that way. Android will always remain the esoteric maverick OS for phones which if actually installed on the phone would make your provider disconnect your phone from network.
How did we come to accept a situation where that isn't the case?
By allowing private companies to contribute to parties. ALL candidates should be funded by public funds given by ALL people as surcharge on taxes. The playing field becomes equal. If that happens then things will fall in line. Am sure many 'dotters would criticize my approach as socialist: True. But then the much vaunted capitalism has resulted in this situation.
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Government MUST be accountable for its actions when they are operating in error.
Ha ha ha! You must stop drinking cool-aid.
I will give you an example: If we owe any money to the government, it has the power to seize us, our property, our lives and even our children, auction them and get its dues paid. BUT, if the government has any dues to us, the law does not apply since we are *part* of the government: which is bullshit since i can make the same argument and refuse to pay government any dues.
How comes laws never address this gross injustice?
3-D???
WTF, in 25 years time, my son will have http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmIf-slNEC8/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4714135.stm/ as his birthday gift at the least.
Plus some cool star-trek-like holosuites that will allow him to "explore" the 'beauty' and wonders of human kind...
My only worry is i will be too old for all of that holo excitement...
My other worry is Windows will still be running all the holosuites, and just at the moment of clima...it asks me to Activate Windows!
You don't get it, do you?
The problem is dispersion of sudden spikes in power.
Electricity cannot be stored like water or air.
You can't use the sudden spikes taper it down and spread it over a week or so. A 10,000 volt electric spike can't be tapered down to 110 volts and spread over 91 days.
Your alternate grid or parallel as you call it will do what with the spikes? Send it ground? Use it to dig up earth worms (like in Godzilla movie)? Charge a few batteries? Are you crazy? That spike will stay for 10 seconds or so and even if capacitors can be somehow adapter to use it to charge instantly (highly unlikely) how do you discharge them?
If we accomodate spikes from wind farms we would have been farming electricity from lightning by now, and the biggest wars would be fought in the wettest of places on Earth and not in Iraq.
I too have an LG Viewty, an iBook G4, a Nokia 6600, my iPod mini, and the battery-operated SUV my 3-yr son drives (the charger is very similar to a nokia phone charger).
Organisation is key: i charge my iPod at work: The white cable always is connected to my PC.
The iBook G4 feeds off its charger which is permanently hooked to UPS power supply that also feeds my SLI-config PC. Yes, the laptop stays close to PC, and yes its neanderthal for a slashdotter to keep it that way, but the charger doesn't get lost this way.
The Viewty (KU990) is tricky since the charger gets lost quickly enough in my clutter. But i have found one wall socket at home where the charger stays connected to permanently. I plug the phone in when i reach home, and take it out when i leave for work.
The Nokia is my company's: i don't care if its charged or not. Not my money, so if i happen to answer it i check for battery and if it has run out, i replace the viewty charger with Nokia charger (and this is why my LG Viewty is down today).
I found that having fixed location chargers for moving devices creates some discipline and order. Plus you don't have to haul the chargers every day.
iPod Mini runs out of charge?=Work PC.
LG Viewty: Fixed wall socket.
iBook G4: Charger near UPS.
Nokia: Charger at same wall socket as Viewty. (when not charging, it lies in my bag).
SUV: The charger is placed near kitchen. My wife plugs the charger in when she makes coffee in morning. My son brings the SUV to kitchen when it needs to be charged (which is about 11.30 AM when the kitchen is free).
No one is allowed to move chargers. Not even my son is exempt from this law:
This way i don't lose chargers and things are organised.
Devices can move; Chargers can't. (when i travel, everything goes into my laptop bag). Unfortunately this made me once carry the SUV charger too for about a week.
Nope.
Can't cut in court. An agreement is a contract in this case. You too can terminate it without cause citing "improvement" to your personal life.
"The biggest blow to citizen constitutional authority came in 1886. The US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, that a private corporation was a "natural person" under the US Constitution, sheltered by the 14th Amendment [(even though that amendment had been written and ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves) [3]] , which requires due process in the criminal prosecution of "persons." Following this ruling, huge, wealthy corporations were allowed to compete on "equal terms" with neighborhood businesses and individuals. "There was no history, logic or reason given to support that view," Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas wrote 60 years later. [4]" Quoted verbatim from http://www.ratical.org/corporations/
Seems you know nothing about how corporations came into being in America, and in addition use non-sequitor without knowing its actual purpose and meaning.
Please, please surrender your US citizenship. Its Foxnews-watching idiots like you who spoil this Great country for all.
That's what used to be the law in US-especially in the Wild West days.
Corporates got their *person* powers during wild west. So the rule applies to them.
Exactly!
Corporates are the new royalty: Exempt from laws and above the common folk.
Countries like India routinely jail CEOs and hold them personally responsible for their corporation's fiascos: fiscally or criminally.
The corporations need another strong SOX Act: holding the CEO's personally responsible for civil crimes, and holding the entire board responsible for criminal ones.
Corporations sure will shout a lot, fearmonger about fleeing country and economy failing, plus people losing jobs, increased prices etc., The corporate controlled media will definitely raise a BIG cry.
1) I say strike them down with an iron fist: Use the same laws Bush used to threaten citizenry.
2) Give teeth to FCC and FTC, plus make sure the laws are in place to prevent corporate control of media and business: Companies owning newspapers cannot own TV or radio stations either directly or indirectly.
3) Similarly, voting rights are limited to 10% irrespective of shares held (laws in india).
4) Start a few high-profile cases (not like the stupid Microsoft anti-monopoly case): like passing a law that starts a minimum payment to be made for environmental damage at $1.1 billion and capping it at average of 5-years turnover of a company. Exxon case would be reopened and forced to pay higher charges.
5) Make banckruptcy harder for corporates: Once they file under chapter 11, all executives paid above $500,000 a year (including benefits), would have to return all their pay they received for past one year. And no tax credits.
6) Make tax credits available to natural persons too: Driving to work as a salaried employee? Tax credit for Gas and oil changes and repairs. Whatever exemptions corporations get (donations, daycare, medical insurance, etc) should also benefit natural persons too: salaried ones. The reduction in income for state and federal governments will make them increase corporate taxes.
7) Make illegal any donations to candidate's campaign by any corporate. One natural person to another capped at $1,000 per donor.
8) Software piracy by a corporate? Jail time for entire board (since its criminal). Planting a virus on another's PC unauthorisedly? Jail for CEO whether authorised by CEO or not.
9) Similarly all corporate civil and criminal convictions should be displayed prominently on its website along with being forced to register as a "criminal" with local police when a corporate moves into a Town. That is what all criminals do. Right? If Walmart is convicted of hiring illegal workers, then its website and each place of work should bear that mark of shame, plus the local police station should contain photos of Walmart's corporate face saying its a criminal.
10) Settlements if available to corporates as option should be made available to natural persons too. If Sony can "settle" hacking cases, i can cite same precedent to the judge and the law should allow me to settle at same terms corporates do.
11) If a corporate owes me money and refuses to pay on demand, i should have the freedom to file an injunction with local judge for declaring the corporate as bankrupt and to seize its property for sale. (Norway has it).
Typical pseudo-emotional response to change the tone of the discussion and to bury the original question.
Much like the same tactic republicans take when questioned uncomfortably about Big Oil or Iraq failure.
The question here is whether corporates should be criminally responsible for breach of privacy.
There are two parts to it:
1. A contract that a person has signed with another.
2. The breach of contract which makes it a breach of trust.
Result: Penalties payable determined based on past judgements, case involved, etc.
Corporations always claim they have same rights as an individual. Agreed.
If i sign a contract with a corporate and provide my private information to it under trust (which is what all contractsw are), the corporate is bound to protect that trust. Failure to do so, entails breaking the contract, which is illegal in some states outright, but debatable in others.
If i provided my credit card details to a hotel waiter for swiping my card and she is careless in handling the same thus allowing the information to be stolen, she is responsible criminally for deliberately doing so, even if that was not her intent.
She is bound to be convicted, and sentenced either to jail or community service (paris-hilton-rich), and ordered to pay restitution.
Since a corporate claims to be a person, its operating license can be suspended, its CEO jailed and convicted.
And in your above example: if the woman happens to be a 26-yr old teacher taking "advantage" of a 16-yr old boy, she should be sentenced to 290-years in jail. (Same time a man serves).
And if "the company" is paying for it, then when it all boils down to it, other employees are actually helping to foot the bill
Ahhh.. No. if the company foots the bill for daycare, the money does NOT come out of employees or even executives' pay.
It comes out of the corporate taxes that companies pay: federal and state.
The $37000 the company spends is completely tax deductible. That is why corporates always pay lower taxes than individuals.
I agree with most of your arguments except:
I _WANT_ the game industry to have money so more games will come out
More games is not necessarily better games. ...and please stop calling it "piracy": No one has any idea what a pirate means and how the British Common law dealt with "real" pirates on high seas.
The ancient games like Asteroids, Space Invaders, were innovative at that time because they were refreshingly original and creative. Once in a blue moon, a company like Nintendo comes along and invents Wii.
BUT mostly the more money corporates see in a product range, the more product they will produce of same type. Take FPS: Wolfenstein gave way to CoD, MoH, Crysis, and Doom gave way to Unreal, etc., was there any real innovation along? Like a hardware, software combo (Glove and Glock)?? Nope.
Individuals getting more money==Fresher, newer games.
Corporates getting more money==Same-old-genre, heftier graphics games.
Much like movie sequels.
I would rather see the game industry try to innovate rather than suing and kicking their customers off.
Booze is really not good for health.
Having been in India, i have been charmed by their villages and ubiquitous rail, but have seen the binge drinking they do.
Two bottles of hard alcohol which would shame even a russian are the daily rations of many a laborer.
Plus as you say the constitution prevents it, so the court is just upholding it; just like US courts uphold the constitution however bad the law is (15 yrs for stealing games, versus suspended sentence for DUI).
Welcome to US of A: Where illegally copying a game gets you jail time while driving intoxicated gets you community service.
The land of free, where anyone with enough money never needs to goto jail for any crime.
The democrats spine-less, shameless, frightened cowards who think Obama is their Jesus.
Led by the *literal* pussy Pelosi, they are a shell of their formidable prowess in 1970s.
This is why the Democrats deserve to lose. And not just lose narrowly: they deserve to lose EVERY seat they contest in November. Obama should lose so heavily to McCain that he leaves for Kenya permanently.
But i wonder even if such a defeat will make democrats realize what they are doing wrong.
They will make a few noises, but then go back to suckling from their corporate parents' teets to get a few dollars for their families.
The Democrats should be swift-boated as a whole.
If FDR were alive today, he would have had two heart attacks just watching the cowering dogs who call themselves democrats.
Honestly, Vista isnt that horrible.
Oh Yeah?? Have you ever used it mister?
If not, please go out, buy a Home Premium copy, install it, and try to install nvidia drivers. Better yet, try installing a good game like Company of Heroes, Crysis and see how it "slows" down your system. And don't start advising me about tuning Vista: The only good tuning it needs is a size 8 electric drill shoved into its creator's as$ for making it.
That exactly how the Indian ISP scene works today.
Pay per GB much like a cellphone plan. Works very well for all of us.
Heavy users like me (30-50GB a month average) pay about $100 per month for a 2-8 Mbps connection speed (variable at demand of user: i set the 8 Mbps for times between 1.30 Am and 6.30 AM).
My sister pays $30 for email, picasa etc at 2 Mbps.
No throttling, No torrent blockage, nothing. Raw internet.
You have to choose your plans carefully though: By mistake if you opt for a lower traffic plan (say 2 GB traffic a month) and end up downloading 30 GB, then you pay $450 ! (which is what i ended up paying once).
Other than that its pretty much equal for all.
Hmmm on same logic my Bill Paying bandwidth is severly restricted by my bank balance.
Shall i inform comcast that i shall start throttling payments to them for heavy bills?
What sort of stupid logic is yours (not to mention illegal).
Comcast signed a contract with i accepted its advertisement for a 8 Mbps DSL. Period.
If they do NOT provide it, they are begging to be sued in a class action suit or worse a criminal infringement.
FCC seriously needs to grow balls and suspend their license to operate: much like FDIC does for banks. Pull the plug and reimburse the customers from comcast's pockets.
Unfortunately, Bush will intervene and either say this is a State Security matter or pardon comcast, and people will vote for McCain again.
Somebody needs to put these corporate pests in their place. And it has to be someone from top.
Exactly, and thank you pointing this out.
In fact according to one BBC documentary, Europe's commerce would grind to a halt in one week if IBM disappeared suddenly.
Unfortunately ALL of the current generation hates mainframes (thanks to deft marketing by Microsoft) and thinks they are dinosaur relics of some forgotten age when people had to do sums actually by hand.
The survival of the mainframe shows how a robust, well-built, and well-planned architecture can survive for a long time (as compared to Windows).
Unless FCC suspends the operating license of Comcast until comcast changes its policy, nothing is going to change.
Unfortunately this FCC does not have even one ball to do that.
Dumb As$! GP referred to a day==24 hours. You go back to your nice cubicle.
I have more karma to burn than you can keep answering me, so here goes:
don't know a single large organization that doesn't have a few Linux boxes doing real work
FEW. Is it mainstream? Has the Ubuntu logo replaced the millions of XP logos that greet every office goer every day for 360 days a year? (bank's way of defining a year). Until that happens, Linux is as rare as the dodo in the wild.
open wireless networks are all but guaranteed
Nope. All carriers have made "voluntary" promises to keep it open fearing FCC crackdown. Here is the clarification.
You don't seem to get corporate philosophy, do you?
They want a single party to shakedown for answers. For instance if the S/390 fails in my company, my board will demand answers from IBM. If my fedora linux server crashes and takes down entire network, the board has no one to nail to the wall, except the poor admin who would have been fired anyway.
The reason Apple has a kill switch is exactly that: One single call to Apple from AT&T about an App that consumes their bandwidth and Jobs can commit app genocide. Period.
Again, i repeat, Android will not succeed in enterprises and would be relegated to the slashdot crowd and technically savvy BECAUSE there is no central control. If Google puts its financial muscle behind it, then its OK, otherwise it will fail.
...and let IE 7.0 choke on the resulting massive string and die allowing hackers to control my PC through XP's gaping security holes?
Stupid lady doesn't know shit about privacy or court opinions.
If she so worries about it, why doesn't she prevent the RIAA-equivalent in canada from enforcing monitoring ISPs traffic?
Dumb wh*re
Although the emotional slashdot crowd will mod me down i have karma to burn so here goes rational arguments:
1. Comparing Android and Linux as successful open source models is not correct. Linux runs on CURRENT hardware. It is NOT an emulator on Windows or Mac OS X. Android does NOT run on current hardware. I have two phones: LG Viewty KU990: Flash driven OS, and a Motorola V3 Razr (not the itunes crap). Can i use the PC-connect cables to flash the current OS on both phones to run Android? NO...Can i dual-boot? NO...
2. Apple's iPhone is current and has millions of customers. Android is virtual==zero customers. Developers want to see their code run on phones, not on emulators. iPhone is present, and to sound the proverb: A bird in hand is worth two in the bush...
3. Does not have support of carriers who fear open source more than Google. Remember that Apple has a kill switch for every iPhone App, so that if the carrier complains Apple can pull the switch. Android is open source and no single kill switch. No carrier would allow random apps to take down their network (even if its not practicable). This is similar to why Linux is not yet mainstream in large organisations.
Yes, you guys can say it is an emulator and mimics calls to the "real" OS of the phone. The last thing a carrier wants is the phone receiver being overridden by some crude game written by a 13-year old who thinks it is "Hot". Corporates just don't think that way.
Android will always remain the esoteric maverick OS for phones which if actually installed on the phone would make your provider disconnect your phone from network.
How did we come to accept a situation where that isn't the case?
By allowing private companies to contribute to parties.
ALL candidates should be funded by public funds given by ALL people as surcharge on taxes. The playing field becomes equal.
If that happens then things will fall in line.
Am sure many 'dotters would criticize my approach as socialist: True. But then the much vaunted capitalism has resulted in this situation.
So basically we need to kick Bush and Pelosi's collective asses?