The reason at least Belgium has so much fast connections was due to pricing. Dialup you need to pay by the minute. Last price I recall was 45BEF (Just over 1EUR) per hour. That is on top of your account. With ADSL I pay now 10EUR for the ADSL connection (As I MUST have a phone number as well)
So the moment you would be 10 hours or more online, ADSL would be cheaper. So the step to ADSL was 'forced' by the single phone company. Cable was not an option at that moment.
Yet what does speed matter if you can't realy use it, because your provider has installed a limit on the amount of how much you can use?
The people I know who own an iPhone is about 25% who think it is a stupid buy because noting works and you have to pay for almost everything and it misses a LOT of features you would expect, 25% who just like it and 50% who have no idea there are alternatives and think it is the bestest ever.
The latter are the people are those who think that owning an iPhone makes them cool.
No. It shows why Marketing people are payed more then the technical ones. because THEY make the real money and let people THINK it is their choice and that something unknown is better then something known.
How about "Fire" in a cinema? For me "Free speech" is about voicing your opinion and yes it will be a fine line between saying "will have" and "should have".
Without reading the article I would say it is about getting money from one part and not giving it to the other party. Just blocking accounts, so business as usual.
And this being a good things? PayPal accounts are already disabled for unrelated activities. Money is blocked by them for almost random reasons.
This makes it legal for them to steal your money. Or do you think it gets returned to the original person?
How this works? They will invent something and ship him over. Unfortunately it is a one way street. Many people would LOVE to get some people trialed for allowing e.g. torture.
I also download TV shows, but will never buy them. However if I would be unable to download them, I would still not buy them.
I also realize that shows shown in one place are not suddenly public domain and I have no special rights to see them. Just like I do not have a special right when somebody printed only 100 books or only painted one painting.
So even if I might be a pirate, they do not lose any money on me. I stopped buying before downloading was possible for me (or copying in any other way). The moment I stop downloading, it won't increase their sales.
And even for those that would start buying, the increase will be limited. Money can be spend only once. If I spend it on music, I perhaps would not be able to buy a car.
Oh: Some advertisement for RIAA free music: http://bandcamp.com/ Clearly stating how much they take and where the rest of the money goes to. 15% or 10% and the rest goes to the band. Band makes their own price and can even give away albums or singles. Download in m3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.
What is much more important is the 2.6 percent. Sydney has 4.5 million people, so 10.000 seems like a low number to me. It would be interesting to see these numbers from other cities and/or countries.
Downside will be that the number 10.000 sounds like a lot and will be treated as such by the media.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm is a good place to start. Even though it is directed at Windows users, it works on any OS that uses a hosts file.
It is not about if THEY care. It is about if WE care and obviously WE don't. Otherwise WE would put an end to this charade. And when I say WE, I mean "WE, the people..."
Why is there no outrage? Why are there still people on planes? The reason is simple: WE do not care.
Because now what we can do is put the TSA on the streets and randomly check people on the streets. This will make it unpossible for terrorists to attack us in crowded places as so many people here kindly warned us about would be easy to do.
Citizens, do not be alarmed. This is for YOUR safety. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
On another note, if the terrorists hate us because our freedom, do they like us more now?
You want to give these idiots a gun? On a plane? They will shoot people because they feel like it. And the 'training' will be the same as what they get now.
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The reason at least Belgium has so much fast connections was due to pricing. Dialup you need to pay by the minute. Last price I recall was 45BEF (Just over 1EUR) per hour. That is on top of your account.
With ADSL I pay now 10EUR for the ADSL connection (As I MUST have a phone number as well)
So the moment you would be 10 hours or more online, ADSL would be cheaper. So the step to ADSL was 'forced' by the single phone company. Cable was not an option at that moment.
Yet what does speed matter if you can't realy use it, because your provider has installed a limit on the amount of how much you can use?
At least they are honest and upfront about it. I can imagine some countries would rather do all the snooping behind peoples back.
The people I know who own an iPhone is about 25% who think it is a stupid buy because noting works and you have to pay for almost everything and it misses a LOT of features you would expect, 25% who just like it and 50% who have no idea there are alternatives and think it is the bestest ever.
The latter are the people are those who think that owning an iPhone makes them cool.
No. It shows why Marketing people are payed more then the technical ones. because THEY make the real money and let people THINK it is their choice and that something unknown is better then something known.
How about "Fire" in a cinema? For me "Free speech" is about voicing your opinion and yes it will be a fine line between saying "will have" and "should have".
The INTEND is the big difference.
Without reading the article I would say it is about getting money from one part and not giving it to the other party. Just blocking accounts, so business as usual.
And this being a good things? PayPal accounts are already disabled for unrelated activities. Money is blocked by them for almost random reasons.
This makes it legal for them to steal your money. Or do you think it gets returned to the original person?
Once the MAFIAA gets hold of this, a buffering phone is the least of your worries.
Perhaps it is more along the lines of "O woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." so it might be the correct analogy after all.
Apple did not kill floppies.
Netflux does not kill DVDs.
How this works? They will invent something and ship him over. Unfortunately it is a one way street. Many people would LOVE to get some people trialed for allowing e.g. torture.
I have one running as a server. The fan inside is broken so no cooling at all. It runs around 100C for several months now.
For one, it would make running a government agency less fun.
I also download TV shows, but will never buy them. However if I would be unable to download them, I would still not buy them.
I also realize that shows shown in one place are not suddenly public domain and I have no special rights to see them. Just like I do not have a special right when somebody printed only 100 books or only painted one painting.
So even if I might be a pirate, they do not lose any money on me. I stopped buying before downloading was possible for me (or copying in any other way). The moment I stop downloading, it won't increase their sales.
And even for those that would start buying, the increase will be limited. Money can be spend only once. If I spend it on music, I perhaps would not be able to buy a car.
Oh: Some advertisement for RIAA free music: http://bandcamp.com/ Clearly stating how much they take and where the rest of the money goes to. 15% or 10% and the rest goes to the band. Band makes their own price and can even give away albums or singles.
Download in m3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.
What is much more important is the 2.6 percent. Sydney has 4.5 million people, so 10.000 seems like a low number to me. It would be interesting to see these numbers from other cities and/or countries.
Downside will be that the number 10.000 sounds like a lot and will be treated as such by the media.
I so wish that would be true.
In times where people get grabbed at airports, wiretaps are done at almost random, why would the NSA NOT use and abuse google?
US citizens: you have made your nest (by voting between two evils) now sleep in it.
Search engines should have been 'opt-in' and not 'opt-out' with robots.txt (that doesn't work for all search engines)
Full ack. I used to know peoples phone numbers. Now I don't. I do remember others things that I used not to.
And it is not even related to computing alone. It happens with everything. People we meet. Things we learned at school. Places we visited.
So basically we remember what we need and we forget what we don't need. Forgetting is not a bad thing, it is human.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm is a good place to start. Even though it is directed at Windows users, it works on any OS that uses a hosts file.
It is not about if THEY care. It is about if WE care and obviously WE don't. Otherwise WE would put an end to this charade. And when I say WE, I mean "WE, the people ..."
Why is there no outrage? Why are there still people on planes? The reason is simple: WE do not care.
Conclusion: skinny people get more sex.
Because now what we can do is put the TSA on the streets and randomly check people on the streets. This will make it unpossible for terrorists to attack us in crowded places as so many people here kindly warned us about would be easy to do.
Citizens, do not be alarmed. This is for YOUR safety.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
On another note, if the terrorists hate us because our freedom, do they like us more now?
And then compare it to Australia. Even combined it does not get that much.
I am not sure what worries me more. The fact that I googled it, or the fact that it actually excists: http://www.carlas.com/
You want to give these idiots a gun? On a plane? They will shoot people because they feel like it. And the 'training' will be the same as what they get now.
If that were true, many more people would stand up to it.