No self-respecting IT nerd would suggest a Windows box for such crucial operations. It must be some half-assed manager sent by the management to "control" costs in a nuke plant because the fat cats could not get enough income to buy another yacht. And that half-assed manager must have suggested in typical PPT way that replacing Solaris machines with WIndows was cheaper $1500 per seat.
Ask the RIAA where they pull their numbers out from, I'd reach for the same place. That would be their collective methane-spewing asses. You would definitely not want to reach for the same place.
40 years was figurative. Legally speaking, i never implied each one of them spent 40 years. Plus i don;t think corporate execs from RIAA spent anytime at all in slammer.
MediaSentry's action may have been illegal, but it was not harmful. Ahhh... am sorry, but MediaDefender/Sentry operating in Texas without a Private Investigator's license is illegal. Violating state laws on anything is called illegal: It may/not be harmful but definitely illegal. And when anyone breaks a law they deserve to be punished. Are you stating that even if an activity is illegal it should be condoned if it does not cause any harm??? Funny isn't it? I download a few Kanye West tunes, Akon songs, etc., and i think i cause no harm. So why does RIAA sue me to death and why is the AG so particular on sending me to jail?
Well, even if you seriously believe, that Chinese government is less (or even comparably) evil than America's, than you really are even more of an idiot, than your poorly constructed arguments sug I never suggested any government is Evil or Good. I merely asked you the definition of Evil: Which your highly competent brain does not seem to comprehend; since you are so conditioned by the corporate media to parrot whatever it says.
Resorting to insults is not a way to cover up your lack of wit.
Ohhhh. I love this debate:
Well, that's simply a lie. I now ask you to present a single case of hacker going to jail for 40 years for anything... Kevin Mitnick, Dutch court sentencing two hackers for ToxBot, Robert Moore, Adrian Lamo, Jonathan James, ParMaster, Vasiliy Gorshikov and Alexey Ivanov & so on... In short, when you and i infect ONE computer, am caught, renditioned, and sentenced worse than a drug dealer. When a HUGE donation-giving corporation does it, the case it settled out of court: How come the Secret Service NEVER investigates corporations, drags their execs to court, sentence them and send them to slammer? Can you provide ONE example where a corporation was convicted, its execs arrested, sentenced?
Why should they be arrested? They did pay, what they were ordered to pay... Yes, But did They Pay? When i have a civil liability to someone, i HAVE to pay. And when ordered by a court, i better pay, else i face jail or bankruptcy. Tell me how is the non-voting-non-citizen RIAA execs not sent to jail. Oh, don't give me the crap about corporate veil.
MediaSentry has done no Harm??? Am quoting from Court case file: had been secretly entered by the record companies agents, MediaSentry. Now, courts have long held computers are personal property (like cars and homes). They can't be secretly entered into without permission from the owner. The same guy who did this to Paris Hilton was arrested and convicted. The same act by MediaSentry has not resulted in their conviction. Why?
So, you want the FTC (the Executive) to prosecute this thought-crime ? No. I never claimd that legally in my sentence preceding it.
hey are propped up by China's (routinely evil) government, they are complicit in the government's censorship Evil??? How do you classify it as Evil? Under what standards? Does subsidizing Gas to $2.39 a gallon in China means its Evil? Does the fact that they want to feed their billion with cheap non-GM crops NOT sold by Monsanto evil? Tell me? So you now want China to be shut down because they are Evil? What is Evil? Explain Please? I thought Evil was when you rendition your own citizens to another country: Evil was invading another country on Lies, Evil was spying on your citizens by breaking the law. China does it too, but their own laws state is as Legal. So no Evil there -:) Copyright Infringement is not crime similar to Murder: Yet its sentence is more years than Manslaughter in US.
Am thoroughly disgusted by the illegal activities of these music companies and their hypocrisy. Sony infected many computers with a dangerous trojan, which would have sent any hacker to 40 years in Prison, and they escaped conviction or even a fine. RIAA has been ruled against many times in court and ordered to pay lawyers fees to a poor single mom, and still they are loose: No arrest, no seizure of their equipment, etc. MediaSentry and other RIAA hackers violate state laws in Montana, California, Texas and a host of states and yet continue to operate even though they are illegal. None has been sued yet and their findings are valid in a court of law: Its like a thief acting as a witness to a houseowner against another thief. RIAA would be happy if the whole internet shut down tomorrow but they still can produce music at zero cost and sell it for $29.99 an album.
The Baidu search engine should show its middle finger publicly at RIAA and also sue them for defamation.
Nope. Let me illustrate my example as a Consumer/Reader: I bought 12 Mobipocket DRM ebooks from www.paperbackdigital.com Paperback allowed me to embed two mobi PID into all my ebooks. Fine. I read it on the subway on my Dell Axim X5. And on my Home PC. Unfortunately, i sold my PC and bought another. Guess what? The mobi reader PID was different and my ebooks would not open. In addition, the seller is out of business and i have no way to read my books that i paid for.
How would you feel, if you published a book through a publisher, and when the revenues start coming in (NYTimes bestseller), your publisher is bankrupt (not your fault), and you get paid Nothing, even though the company that bought it gets all your money? Would you not sue the buyer company and ask them to pay you? Your book earns a million dollars for the publisher's buyer, but you don't get a single cent because the original publisher you signed up with was bankrupt?
Or, imagine your publisher telling you that you are free to switch publishers for a better deal, but the old publisher still holds the magic glasses with which any buyer can read your books? (That is what DRM is: Forcing everyone to buy special glasses without which i cannot read the book i bought).
Book stealing is dangerous for you: I agree. But percentage-wise it is very low. People buying music over iTunes STILL exceed that of music stealers.
Book stealing and copying has been around since 1500s when the Church first decreed death penalty for those who hand-wrote Bibles without church's authorisation or were not Monks. You can't do much.
But if you stop treating your buyers like thieves they will start respecting you. Take their money and continue to treat them like thieves and force them to Adobe or Mobi DRM, you deserve to lose. Take for instance www.authorsonline.co.uk which is a fine online publisher of ebooks. Their Adobe ebooks don't contain crappy DRM. Of course you are only prevented from Printing their ebook, But that is a small price to pay when you can read the book anywhere.
I like the way they trust me, and i have vowed not to lend out their ebooks to any friend. OTOH, the mobi crap i was saddled with? I downloaded copies of all of the books i own from torrents and elsewhere. After all i paid for those mobi books, and iam ascertaining my right to read them: One way or the other.
And government officers don't go to jail for non-compliance with FOIA requests http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/ukpga_20000036_en_6#pt4-l1g52/ The Act clearly says non-compliance is equal to Contempt of court. as if it had committed a contempt of court http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Contempt_of_court/ and contempt of court is not exactly a license to go scot-free. In fact it says: if he confesses the court will punish him by fine or imprisonment, or both, at its discretion. So what it means the court can and will imprison someone for contempt of court if the party does not obey a FOIA request substantiated by the commissioner. So a government officer can and http://www.swarb.co.uk/lisc/ConCo20002000.php/> will be sent to jail for the same.
am under no obligation to give you the CCTV footage that I took of you If you are a government-owned organisation you better comply or you face long terms in Jail. Yes, the government may be Big Brother, but FOIA (what's in UK) allows me to demand almost anything unclassified held by government.
A great experiment is an experiment that leaves a crater from which you can walk... ...straight into Jail. With our current fear mongering, the overzealous FBI who look to burnish their badges with reflected glory, i bet if you try to repeat the chemistry experiments of 1950s at home, you would be hauled to Jail, sued by EPA, OSHA and not to mention blacken your name forever with DHS and never allowed to fly again (or allowed only after a thorough all-orifices-examination with gloves). Yes, i like to provide my son with the same wonderful carefree environment i had in 1980s...However that is not going to come back. Hell, i can't even find the solid-fuel-powered rockets at local toy shop and if you make one yourself to teach your son about gunpowder, then you have committed a felony with DHS, Secret Service visits, and all nasty fox news coverage about how you are trying to make your son into.... The sue-happy folks of 1980s, and 1990s stopped us from having any fun and 9/11 just made it a crime. Welcome to the New Millenium Folks: Where Virtual Frogs, and virtual cadavers are what you learn in Medical School and how it is so-ill-prepared for the Real world of blood, where you cannot buy H2So4 without being no-knocked at your home...and where teachers are sued for teaching children about making babies.
No measures? Why can't they actually add more routers, increase capacity to handle more traffic? After all by Moore's law my computing capacity doubles every 18 months. And during the 1950s, companies actually doubled their capacity to service customers instead of just throttling them. Its like saying am being restricted from using my phone between 9 Am and 3 PM because Bell has more customers who talk more often and more long over existing phone lines. Isn't that stupid and dumb? This is exactly how a corporate would react: Manage instead of Leading. Throttle everyone so that their revenue remains intact, expenses remain low, while customers goto hell. How about increasing expenses, raising number/service to customers and increasing profit? Is that too hard? Or did AT&T 1950s management go out of style?
Actually in a twisted sort of way, the companies will welcome this: 1. It makes them 'good' guys in customer views. Corporation paying FCC for something and providing it free to customers. Great publicity. 2. The 25MHz actually will be so bad in usage that free dial-up internet will be better. The corporation will just shrug and say they are mightily trying... 3. Publish adverts for their superfast-BT-throttled broadband service that customers can pay for -:) Classic marketing at its best! Kevin Martin will end up as CTO/CIO/CFO of Verizon when he leaves FCC.
The number of lawyers is directly proportional to the prevelance of rule of law. It essentially means the country & public take the rule of law seriously and its applied universally. Meaning if i catch you shoplifting i just don't thrash you and throw you out(costs $0.00): i file a complaint, sue you ($200/Hr lawyer), and you hire another lawyer($210/Hr) and spend 3 days in court. End result, you are convicted and sentenced to 45 yrs in a Federal Prison.
Am not sarcastic, am just stating facts. Take for instance Indonesia or Nigeria: They just thrash you and either you escape or you die: Simple. No rule of law here....and i don't know whether to support the simplicity of no-lawyers world or to praise the rule-of-law-lawyers world...
every major university should be kissing Republican ass Believe me, they already are. Unless these university heads don't want to up to end up fired, or have funding denied to them completely they must kis$ republican as$. Failing which either funding would be denied, or they would be fired, or Spitzer'ed. Statistically you are correct. But someone did say that statistics are like bikinis: They show what is unnecessary but hide what is vital. Repubicans fund studies that support their neocon views like support for anti-abortions, creationism (BTW did you know 6 of 10 teachers in Texas support creationism), debunking global warming theories, etc. Reagan just changed the funding strategy so that Universities which are opposite the neocon views (supporting Choice, Global Warming) suddenly found themselves devoid of Federal Funding. Reagan fashionably said these universities are "freed" from government control & funding and can raise their funding in private. Much like cutting off school fees by parents of their 10 yr old, because their 10 yr old refused to goto bed on time. Reagan didn't want his surgeon general to talk about AIDS. He increased military science funding for Star Wars by atleast 300%.
Again, statistically you are correct: Total Federal Funding for Science has always been high in Republican period and lower in Democrats. That's because republicans pork-barrel our money to their favorite corporates under federal guise. Democrats stop giving away that money and instead save pay it to universities for basic science. Republican support mostly has been for specific military & neocon purposes and Not Basic Science that Vannevar Bush recommended in 1954. Much like how Nazis spent on science to support their genetic purity theory, etc. You are right: Republicans did spend a lot on science: So did the Nazis. And dollar for dollar, the Nazis spent a LOT on Science.
Sorry about the spelling. Welcome to civilized debate: Speed and Movement are part of the blitzkrieg accompanied by massive concentration of firepower. Without the massive firepower provided by Tanks (Panzers), your much vaunted speed & movement would be literally of no use. That along with 3-dimensional control of air & land around the area of attack is what made blitz succeed in Belgium and France, and why it failed during Battle of Bulge (hint: speed and movement were there, but no 3-D control and certainly no massive firepower to counter the Shermans and AT).
Coming back to topic: Rallies do not translate to anti-votes necessarily. 10,000 people from 16 different precints do not necessarily make a candidate-defeating vote force.
First: Overwhelming Force the first criteria of Blitz is absent. You may consider Speed & Movement, but the prime necessity is candidate-removing-vote-force and fear it inspires in the heart of the MPs. Remember, the Battle of France was lost not just because of Speed. It was lost when back-end troops (artillery, sappers, etc) saw Tanks coming out of nowhere onto roads that did not have fighting: Deep in enemy territory. Nothing terrifies an MP more than watching a video of a massive rally in his hometown against him while he is in Montreal fighting for his corporate friends. Goal: Inspire Fear and sure-defeat mentality in the enemy's mind. Psych warfare, blah
Second: Now, your favorite: speed and movement of massive rallies with people from 16 precints is again missing. It is possible to organize it locally with more massive amounts of people. You could quickly organize a 10,000 people rally limited to a single precint and get FULL coverage everywhere.
Third: Control of 3-D space: Airwaves, talk shows, Advert time on TV, soap-box shoutings in parks. That is again missing in a national sense because of the T&E involved in it. This is possible in a local precint-wise where your people are more in number and the voter-force is large enough to upset even an incumbent.
You are probably nostalgic about Velvet Revolution, Fall of the Berlin Wall, etc., Remember these were directed against a Maginot-Line=Government which is stationary. Till date no such rallies have made corporates change their mind or the governments supported by them: Brazil Amazon saving, War, Mortgage crisis, GM food. Even Exxon Valdez.
When you are fighting an Undead vampire who has speed, maneuverability and Force who can outlive you and your grandsons, it makes sense to hit them at their weakest spot: The people who are voted to make laws that bind the Undead. You need to take out emotion and passion out of the fight: Remember: Emotion is your weakest link. Fight logically and conserve resources to continue the struggle. Not expend it like in Battle of Bulge or the Stalingrad Seige Battles.
Not True. In fact its opposite: Anything that Bush says, is automatically anathema to this government. stance on NAFTA, Mad Cow, Gitmo, Rendition, War, etc. However, this does not extend to corporations.
Any elected government by its very nature cannot work for the People who elected it, IF the elected gets their election funding from non-voters. This rally WILL fail. I can bet on it. Not Because the corporates will win, etc., (which is all true), BUT the nature of this rally is too diffuse. You guys need to follow the Blitzkreig approach: Concentrate all your voting power, financing campaigns, etc., to one or two important senators who stand to lose a lot if they lose the election (especially the ministers). Target them like hell, conduct HUGE rallies in their hometown [only], campaign for them to support Net Neutrality in their precincts, fund adverts for the same in the constituency. Once such huge firepower is directed to a short place, you will the Maginot Line breaking down.
This is what Blitzkreig was all about: Concentration of Armor at a small point, to enable a breakthrough and infantry follows the gap. Apply the same principle, and within a year once you conduct about 5 rallies changing ALL 5 ministers/MPs voting, you will see the rest falling in line. Good Luck
Think about it: if I get my DNA sequenced and find out that I'm a walking health hazard, then I'll buy the most comprehensive policy out there. If I find out I'm genetically clear, I scale down my coverage, or drop it completely. Meanwhile, the insurer can't adjust my premium to accurately reflect my risk I welcome such debates. Continuing your trail, if an insurer has access to my DNA problems (and i don't or can't), continues to bill me at normal rate, and when i claim my insurance, cite the DNA and drop me instantly. Isn't that assymetric action or more politely called as wire fraud?
What about insurance contracts which are iron-clad: like Lines of Credit at a bank? The insurer and myself share my health knowledge: i can't hide it, and the insurer can't claim it didn't know. So, if i make a valid claim, the contract forces the insurer to pay my claim, else i can go to the court and get the insurer declared insolvent at insurer's cost. Wait a second! Isn't that how insurance contracts operate today?
It is the _job_ of insurance companies to predict risk and adjust rates accordingly Yup. Agreed. And it is also the job of an insurance company to pay lawful claims instantly, and the job of the government to instantly dissolve an insurance company which has been convicted of refusing to pay a valid claim. After all if the insurance company wants to accurately price its products with such detailed information, then its other sole duty is to pay claims instantly when they are valid. In laws of accounting, every credit has a debit. Like Yin and Yang. Similarly, when the insurance gets the ability to genetically discriminate between its clients, then the yang states if it fails to pay claims instantly it is to be dissolved and its promoters/directors barred from forming companies ever again. Sounds fair?
No. Let me correct it for you: In order to upload peace, freedom, civilization and culture, we [the UK Govt] have to convict all those who advocate peace(aiding enemy Act), freedom(supporting the enemy), civilization(sedition), culture(subverting social life). Now you get it? Each and every act passed by the commons could be and would be used to arrest, convict, and incarcerate even a peace-loving, liberal person. Just change what the definition of each of the words mean, and you have a winner.
It is very, very surprising to me that House of Commons which is made of elected people passes laws restricting the freedom of the same people, while the House of Lords who inherit their seats make every attempt to protect freedom of speech and liberty.
Probably the RIAA can: if mexicans had iPods with illegal music on them. Then you don't need to pay border guards. RIAA will gladly do the job for you. On a serious note, what if i stuck the iPod mini in my a$$ (literally) and ask the customs agent to pull it out to inspect it?
I seriously bet $1,000 that the group is like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Funded by telecom corporates. Dig deeper into this group by "recommending" they be sent to a psychiatric ward in Gitmo, and you will see the truth spilling out. God, i wish the Gestapo were around today. They would so get the truth out of these jokers and they don't even break your teeth.
meanwhile wipe all your computers and run Linux that'll teach'em That is the WRONG way to lose a case. A better way is to: Deny them entrance into your premises. When they try to force in, call the local FBI enforcement office and claim you are being held hostage by kidnappers. The FBI storms the place with a SWAT team. BSA will have a hard time getting the charges dismissed by the local sympathetic judge.
How about the time when a 'mistake' lets me withdraw 1 million from an account which the banker thought was mine, even though i objected it was not? Can i claim the same defense and escape the noose? NO!! The FBI will prosecute me for Mail Fraud and 37 other charges even though it was the banks' fault in forcing me to withdraw money from someone's account. Moody's explanation is like a child giving an explanation for spilt orange juice on the carpet: The bottle was heavy. Moody's execs should be prosecuted for mail fraud and sentenced, plus the judge should throw this fraud explanation back to their faces and seize their Social Security amounts.
So, do the people that helped you get a cut of the $12.95? That is the main problem of crowd sourcing or open sourced works. Who profits off wikipedia? The maintainer, the contributors, ? How do we distribute? Is it the cost of printing (which is permissible) or more?
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No self-respecting IT nerd would suggest a Windows box for such crucial operations.
It must be some half-assed manager sent by the management to "control" costs in a nuke plant because the fat cats could not get enough income to buy another yacht.
And that half-assed manager must have suggested in typical PPT way that replacing Solaris machines with WIndows was cheaper $1500 per seat.
I download a few Kanye West tunes, Akon songs, etc., and i think i cause no harm. So why does RIAA sue me to death and why is the AG so particular on sending me to jail? Well, even if you seriously believe, that Chinese government is less (or even comparably) evil than America's, than you really are even more of an idiot, than your poorly constructed arguments sug I never suggested any government is Evil or Good. I merely asked you the definition of Evil: Which your highly competent brain does not seem to comprehend; since you are so conditioned by the corporate media to parrot whatever it says.
Resorting to insults is not a way to cover up your lack of wit.
In short, when you and i infect ONE computer, am caught, renditioned, and sentenced worse than a drug dealer. When a HUGE donation-giving corporation does it, the case it settled out of court: How come the Secret Service NEVER investigates corporations, drags their execs to court, sentence them and send them to slammer? Can you provide ONE example where a corporation was convicted, its execs arrested, sentenced? Why should they be arrested? They did pay, what they were ordered to pay... Yes, But did They Pay? When i have a civil liability to someone, i HAVE to pay. And when ordered by a court, i better pay, else i face jail or bankruptcy. Tell me how is the non-voting-non-citizen RIAA execs not sent to jail. Oh, don't give me the crap about corporate veil. MediaSentry has done no Harm??? Am quoting from Court case file: had been secretly entered by the record companies agents, MediaSentry. Now, courts have long held computers are personal property (like cars and homes). They can't be secretly entered into without permission from the owner. The same guy who did this to Paris Hilton was arrested and convicted. The same act by MediaSentry has not resulted in their conviction. Why? So, you want the FTC (the Executive) to prosecute this thought-crime ? No. I never claimd that legally in my sentence preceding it. hey are propped up by China's (routinely evil) government, they are complicit in the government's censorship Evil??? How do you classify it as Evil? Under what standards? Does subsidizing Gas to $2.39 a gallon in China means its Evil? Does the fact that they want to feed their billion with cheap non-GM crops NOT sold by Monsanto evil? Tell me? So you now want China to be shut down because they are Evil? What is Evil? Explain Please?
I thought Evil was when you rendition your own citizens to another country: Evil was invading another country on Lies, Evil was spying on your citizens by breaking the law.
China does it too, but their own laws state is as Legal. So no Evil there -:)
Copyright Infringement is not crime similar to Murder: Yet its sentence is more years than Manslaughter in US.
Am thoroughly disgusted by the illegal activities of these music companies and their hypocrisy.
Sony infected many computers with a dangerous trojan, which would have sent any hacker to 40 years in Prison, and they escaped conviction or even a fine.
RIAA has been ruled against many times in court and ordered to pay lawyers fees to a poor single mom, and still they are loose: No arrest, no seizure of their equipment, etc.
MediaSentry and other RIAA hackers violate state laws in Montana, California, Texas and a host of states and yet continue to operate even though they are illegal. None has been sued yet and their findings are valid in a court of law: Its like a thief acting as a witness to a houseowner against another thief.
RIAA would be happy if the whole internet shut down tomorrow but they still can produce music at zero cost and sell it for $29.99 an album.
The Baidu search engine should show its middle finger publicly at RIAA and also sue them for defamation.
Nope.
Let me illustrate my example as a Consumer/Reader:
I bought 12 Mobipocket DRM ebooks from www.paperbackdigital.com Paperback allowed me to embed two mobi PID into all my ebooks. Fine.
I read it on the subway on my Dell Axim X5. And on my Home PC.
Unfortunately, i sold my PC and bought another. Guess what? The mobi reader PID was different and my ebooks would not open.
In addition, the seller is out of business and i have no way to read my books that i paid for.
How would you feel, if you published a book through a publisher, and when the revenues start coming in (NYTimes bestseller), your publisher is bankrupt (not your fault), and you get paid Nothing, even though the company that bought it gets all your money? Would you not sue the buyer company and ask them to pay you? Your book earns a million dollars for the publisher's buyer, but you don't get a single cent because the original publisher you signed up with was bankrupt?
Or, imagine your publisher telling you that you are free to switch publishers for a better deal, but the old publisher still holds the magic glasses with which any buyer can read your books? (That is what DRM is: Forcing everyone to buy special glasses without which i cannot read the book i bought).
Book stealing is dangerous for you: I agree. But percentage-wise it is very low. People buying music over iTunes STILL exceed that of music stealers.
Book stealing and copying has been around since 1500s when the Church first decreed death penalty for those who hand-wrote Bibles without church's authorisation or were not Monks. You can't do much.
But if you stop treating your buyers like thieves they will start respecting you. Take their money and continue to treat them like thieves and force them to Adobe or Mobi DRM, you deserve to lose.
Take for instance www.authorsonline.co.uk which is a fine online publisher of ebooks.
Their Adobe ebooks don't contain crappy DRM. Of course you are only prevented from Printing their ebook, But that is a small price to pay when you can read the book anywhere.
I like the way they trust me, and i have vowed not to lend out their ebooks to any friend. OTOH, the mobi crap i was saddled with? I downloaded copies of all of the books i own from torrents and elsewhere. After all i paid for those mobi books, and iam ascertaining my right to read them: One way or the other.
as if it had committed a contempt of court
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Contempt_of_court/ and contempt of court is not exactly a license to go scot-free. In fact it says: if he confesses the court will punish him by fine or imprisonment, or both, at its discretion. So what it means the court can and will imprison someone for contempt of court if the party does not obey a FOIA request substantiated by the commissioner.
So a government officer can and http://www.swarb.co.uk/lisc/ConCo20002000.php/> will be sent to jail for the same.
With our current fear mongering, the overzealous FBI who look to burnish their badges with reflected glory, i bet if you try to repeat the chemistry experiments of 1950s at home, you would be hauled to Jail, sued by EPA, OSHA and not to mention blacken your name forever with DHS and never allowed to fly again (or allowed only after a thorough all-orifices-examination with gloves).
Yes, i like to provide my son with the same wonderful carefree environment i had in 1980s...However that is not going to come back.
Hell, i can't even find the solid-fuel-powered rockets at local toy shop and if you make one yourself to teach your son about gunpowder, then you have committed a felony with DHS, Secret Service visits, and all nasty fox news coverage about how you are trying to make your son into....
The sue-happy folks of 1980s, and 1990s stopped us from having any fun and 9/11 just made it a crime.
Welcome to the New Millenium Folks: Where Virtual Frogs, and virtual cadavers are what you learn in Medical School and how it is so-ill-prepared for the Real world of blood, where you cannot buy H2So4 without being no-knocked at your home...and where teachers are sued for teaching children about making babies.
No measures? Why can't they actually add more routers, increase capacity to handle more traffic?
After all by Moore's law my computing capacity doubles every 18 months.
And during the 1950s, companies actually doubled their capacity to service customers instead of just throttling them.
Its like saying am being restricted from using my phone between 9 Am and 3 PM because Bell has more customers who talk more often and more long over existing phone lines.
Isn't that stupid and dumb?
This is exactly how a corporate would react: Manage instead of Leading. Throttle everyone so that their revenue remains intact, expenses remain low, while customers goto hell.
How about increasing expenses, raising number/service to customers and increasing profit?
Is that too hard? Or did AT&T 1950s management go out of style?
Actually in a twisted sort of way, the companies will welcome this:
1. It makes them 'good' guys in customer views. Corporation paying FCC for something and providing it free to customers. Great publicity.
2. The 25MHz actually will be so bad in usage that free dial-up internet will be better. The corporation will just shrug and say they are mightily trying...
3. Publish adverts for their superfast-BT-throttled broadband service that customers can pay for -:)
Classic marketing at its best!
Kevin Martin will end up as CTO/CIO/CFO of Verizon when he leaves FCC.
The number of lawyers is directly proportional to the prevelance of rule of law.
...and i don't know whether to support the simplicity of no-lawyers world or to praise the rule-of-law-lawyers world...
It essentially means the country & public take the rule of law seriously and its applied universally. Meaning if i catch you shoplifting i just don't thrash you and throw you out(costs $0.00): i file a complaint, sue you ($200/Hr lawyer), and you hire another lawyer($210/Hr) and spend 3 days in court. End result, you are convicted and sentenced to 45 yrs in a Federal Prison.
Am not sarcastic, am just stating facts. Take for instance Indonesia or Nigeria: They just thrash you and either you escape or you die: Simple. No rule of law here.
Statistically you are correct. But someone did say that statistics are like bikinis: They show what is unnecessary but hide what is vital.
Repubicans fund studies that support their neocon views like support for anti-abortions, creationism (BTW did you know 6 of 10 teachers in Texas support creationism), debunking global warming theories, etc. Reagan just changed the funding strategy so that Universities which are opposite the neocon views (supporting Choice, Global Warming) suddenly found themselves devoid of Federal Funding. Reagan fashionably said these universities are "freed" from government control & funding and can raise their funding in private.
Much like cutting off school fees by parents of their 10 yr old, because their 10 yr old refused to goto bed on time.
Reagan didn't want his surgeon general to talk about AIDS.
He increased military science funding for Star Wars by atleast 300%.
Again, statistically you are correct: Total Federal Funding for Science has always been high in Republican period and lower in Democrats.
That's because republicans pork-barrel our money to their favorite corporates under federal guise. Democrats stop giving away that money and instead save pay it to universities for basic science.
Republican support mostly has been for specific military & neocon purposes and Not Basic Science that Vannevar Bush recommended in 1954.
Much like how Nazis spent on science to support their genetic purity theory, etc.
You are right: Republicans did spend a lot on science: So did the Nazis. And dollar for dollar, the Nazis spent a LOT on Science.
Sorry about the spelling.
Welcome to civilized debate:
Speed and Movement are part of the blitzkrieg accompanied by massive concentration of firepower.
Without the massive firepower provided by Tanks (Panzers), your much vaunted speed & movement would be literally of no use.
That along with 3-dimensional control of air & land around the area of attack is what made blitz succeed in Belgium and France, and why it failed during Battle of Bulge (hint: speed and movement were there, but no 3-D control and certainly no massive firepower to counter the Shermans and AT).
Coming back to topic: Rallies do not translate to anti-votes necessarily. 10,000 people from 16 different precints do not necessarily make a candidate-defeating vote force.
First: Overwhelming Force the first criteria of Blitz is absent. You may consider Speed & Movement, but the prime necessity is candidate-removing-vote-force and fear it inspires in the heart of the MPs. Remember, the Battle of France was lost not just because of Speed. It was lost when back-end troops (artillery, sappers, etc) saw Tanks coming out of nowhere onto roads that did not have fighting: Deep in enemy territory. Nothing terrifies an MP more than watching a video of a massive rally in his hometown against him while he is in Montreal fighting for his corporate friends. Goal: Inspire Fear and sure-defeat mentality in the enemy's mind. Psych warfare, blah
Second: Now, your favorite: speed and movement of massive rallies with people from 16 precints is again missing. It is possible to organize it locally with more massive amounts of people. You could quickly organize a 10,000 people rally limited to a single precint and get FULL coverage everywhere.
Third: Control of 3-D space: Airwaves, talk shows, Advert time on TV, soap-box shoutings in parks. That is again missing in a national sense because of the T&E involved in it. This is possible in a local precint-wise where your people are more in number and the voter-force is large enough to upset even an incumbent.
You are probably nostalgic about Velvet Revolution, Fall of the Berlin Wall, etc., Remember these were directed against a Maginot-Line=Government which is stationary.
Till date no such rallies have made corporates change their mind or the governments supported by them: Brazil Amazon saving, War, Mortgage crisis, GM food. Even Exxon Valdez.
When you are fighting an Undead vampire who has speed, maneuverability and Force who can outlive you and your grandsons, it makes sense to hit them at their weakest spot: The people who are voted to make laws that bind the Undead. You need to take out emotion and passion out of the fight: Remember: Emotion is your weakest link. Fight logically and conserve resources to continue the struggle. Not expend it like in Battle of Bulge or the Stalingrad Seige Battles.
Not True. In fact its opposite: Anything that Bush says, is automatically anathema to this government. stance on NAFTA, Mad Cow, Gitmo, Rendition, War, etc.
However, this does not extend to corporations.
Any elected government by its very nature cannot work for the People who elected it, IF the elected gets their election funding from non-voters.
This rally WILL fail. I can bet on it. Not Because the corporates will win, etc., (which is all true), BUT the nature of this rally is too diffuse.
You guys need to follow the Blitzkreig approach: Concentrate all your voting power, financing campaigns, etc., to one or two important senators who stand to lose a lot if they lose the election (especially the ministers). Target them like hell, conduct HUGE rallies in their hometown [only], campaign for them to support Net Neutrality in their precincts, fund adverts for the same in the constituency. Once such huge firepower is directed to a short place, you will the Maginot Line breaking down.
This is what Blitzkreig was all about: Concentration of Armor at a small point, to enable a breakthrough and infantry follows the gap.
Apply the same principle, and within a year once you conduct about 5 rallies changing ALL 5 ministers/MPs voting, you will see the rest falling in line.
Good Luck
What about insurance contracts which are iron-clad: like Lines of Credit at a bank? The insurer and myself share my health knowledge: i can't hide it, and the insurer can't claim it didn't know. So, if i make a valid claim, the contract forces the insurer to pay my claim, else i can go to the court and get the insurer declared insolvent at insurer's cost.
Wait a second! Isn't that how insurance contracts operate today?
After all if the insurance company wants to accurately price its products with such detailed information, then its other sole duty is to pay claims instantly when they are valid.
In laws of accounting, every credit has a debit. Like Yin and Yang.
Similarly, when the insurance gets the ability to genetically discriminate between its clients, then the yang states if it fails to pay claims instantly it is to be dissolved and its promoters/directors barred from forming companies ever again.
Sounds fair?
No. Let me correct it for you:
In order to upload peace, freedom, civilization and culture, we [the UK Govt] have to convict all those who advocate peace(aiding enemy Act), freedom(supporting the enemy), civilization(sedition), culture(subverting social life).
Now you get it?
Each and every act passed by the commons could be and would be used to arrest, convict, and incarcerate even a peace-loving, liberal person.
Just change what the definition of each of the words mean, and you have a winner.
It is very, very surprising to me that House of Commons which is made of elected people passes laws restricting the freedom of the same people, while the House of Lords who inherit their seats make every attempt to protect freedom of speech and liberty.
In a wierd way it is quixotic.
Probably the RIAA can: if mexicans had iPods with illegal music on them. Then you don't need to pay border guards. RIAA will gladly do the job for you.
On a serious note, what if i stuck the iPod mini in my a$$ (literally) and ask the customs agent to pull it out to inspect it?
I seriously bet $1,000 that the group is like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: Funded by telecom corporates.
Dig deeper into this group by "recommending" they be sent to a psychiatric ward in Gitmo, and you will see the truth spilling out.
God, i wish the Gestapo were around today. They would so get the truth out of these jokers and they don't even break your teeth.
A better way is to:
Deny them entrance into your premises.
When they try to force in, call the local FBI enforcement office and claim you are being held hostage by kidnappers.
The FBI storms the place with a SWAT team.
BSA will have a hard time getting the charges dismissed by the local sympathetic judge.
How about the time when a 'mistake' lets me withdraw 1 million from an account which the banker thought was mine, even though i objected it was not?
Can i claim the same defense and escape the noose?
NO!!
The FBI will prosecute me for Mail Fraud and 37 other charges even though it was the banks' fault in forcing me to withdraw money from someone's account.
Moody's explanation is like a child giving an explanation for spilt orange juice on the carpet: The bottle was heavy.
Moody's execs should be prosecuted for mail fraud and sentenced, plus the judge should throw this fraud explanation back to their faces and seize their Social Security amounts.
Who profits off wikipedia? The maintainer, the contributors, ?
How do we distribute?
Is it the cost of printing (which is permissible) or more?