I can understand why the EFF might consider this a real victory, but the fact still stands that they have an enormous amount of influence over our government. Frankly, any legislation that is passed by special interest lobby is too much, small victory though it may be. If you want to preserve your rights and freedom the only way is to severly restrict the power and scope of the federal government to such an extent where they are unable to enact anti consumerist laws due to the influence of companies.
This is news? Incidentally, you might want to publish something on Local Comic "Bloodninja"...
Are you trying to say this is supposed to be a news website? That's news to me.
If the government didn't mandate format and frequency standards, your TV stations would step all over each others' signal, and you would need to buy a new TV if you switched cable companies (just like you have to buy a new cell phone when you switch cell companies; just like you have to have a different cable-box for different cable companies, and your TiVo can't decode premium channels without a stupid IR-blaster (until we get the new FCC mandated CableCard equipment)).
The free market is not the answer to every question.
There would have to be some type of organization or consortium that was in charge of distributing these signals, and assigning them to TV stations. How would this form you ask? Well, I'm not exactly sure, but somehow there managed to be organizations formed to oversee internet issues. I really don't think the industry would allow this to chaos to happen, with so much money at stake.
As for your other examples of buying different cell phones, I welcome the competition. This allows companies to come up with new and better products all the time. They have to, or they die. The same goes with cable boxes and such. With the free market, the best products have a much better chance of winning in the end than with the government controlling everything.
Also, with FCC mandated CableCards, you may not have to buy an IR blaster but you are certainly still paying for the priveledge of using this new stuff. After all, your taxes go to fund the FCC and all their regulations. And the most disturbingly immoral part of it is, that ordinary citizens who might not care much for using cable cards are being forced to pay for the FCC's operations as well, through their taxes at gunpoint.
It always amazes me that people see government control as the best solution for anything. Especially in areas such as technology.
At $2999 for the Dell, and $2999 for a dual G5 2.5GHz from Apple, I would say Apple has the value here. But if you rather, you can buy the Dell... I am saving my pennies for the Apple.
You really aren't making a valid comparison. To be fair you should be comparing a dual G5 and dual Xeon 3.06. A quick google search turned up a dual Xeon 3.06 system for sale on ebay for $810. I'm not sure how much it would be from a vendor, because I don't have time to find that. This alone should show that Apple really is hideously overpriced. Of course, I think everyone knows this already.
If you want to make a comparison, you should wait for Apple to release a dual core processor... not just a machine with two processors on one motherboard.
You complain that Dell is over priced while singing the praises of Apple in the same breath? How very amusing! I can't believe you even presume to be serious about this.
I'm still in my first IT job out of college. Been here for a year and they still pay me very poorly. I have about $1000 on my credit cards and a modest car to pay off. I am still looking for a higher paying job but have also been considering a side job as well.
I've played the piano my whole life and work as an IT assistant during the day. I've been meaning to brush up on my keyboarding skills, start a blues/funk band, and play a few gigs for a little money on the side.
I was almost hired for a.NET job near Cleveland last week. I've also applied at about 10 other.NET/C# jobs in Cleveland. Seems like it really is picking up.
If you miracously fix something, understand why. Students seem like they can not resist randomly moving code around, and sometimes this does fix things. If this happens, take some time to understand what you moved and why it might have fixed the problem
I've had c++ problems in the past where I have miraculously fixed errors by moving a brace up to the previous line. Or, also literally moving one var declaration before another. To this day I still have no idea why declaring one int before another made the program work. This is why I hate c++. Oh yeah, I was using gcc too.
Here's how I would figure the damages: Let's take the first debate as an example. Nielsen ratings for this debate were as follows -
Rating: 39.4
Share: 57
# of Homes: 43,046,000
# of Viewers: 62,459,000
Since I don't know what the rate would be of a 30 second commercial with this kind of an audience, I will use another tv program and figure it from there. A 30 second commercial during the show "Friends", according to Forbes.com, was $473,500. This show had 21.82 million viewers. Therefore, a 30 second commercial with 62.46 million viewers at the same price level would be $1,355,399. The debates last 90 minutes, which would be 180 30 second commercials. 90 * 1,355,399 is $121,985,925. Cut this into 3 since there would be 3 people with equal time to express their views. That comes to $40,661,975 lost revenue for the LP.
Of course, this is the price for TV commercials, which obviously wouldn't have nearly as much attention given to them as the captive audience the debates get - i.e. people would be flipping channels, getting bathroom breaks, etc during the space of a normal commercial. So, one could argue the price would be even higher than the 40 million figure given above.
Republicans are more socialist than many people give them credit for. They support welfare state, government sponsored education, massive government spending and taxation, government legislation of morality, etc etc. The minimum wage that you mention is also in reality a socialist concept.
It would likely cost quite a bit less to pay for a private service than through taxes. And that thing about making a lot of people very poor is unfounded. The United States got along quite fine with low taxes for over 100 years.
Honestly, I really would rather pay a private company for security services than the government. That way if you don't like one security company's services, or if it was too expensive, you can always go to another company. Socialism doesn't give you this choice.
I dont think Richard is a genetic anomaly though... IIRC his parents are just martial arts and bodybuilding nuts.
If his parents are martial arts and bodybuilding nuts, then their genes likely don't produce much myostatin (therefore enabling them to be proficient in their vocation). So it probably is genetic.
What ads? I'm using mozilla and adblock so I can't see 'em. I'm surprised a Linux guru such as this isn't doing the same. Makes me wonder if he's using IE or something.
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I can understand why the EFF might consider this a real victory, but the fact still stands that they have an enormous amount of influence over our government. Frankly, any legislation that is passed by special interest lobby is too much, small victory though it may be. If you want to preserve your rights and freedom the only way is to severly restrict the power and scope of the federal government to such an extent where they are unable to enact anti consumerist laws due to the influence of companies.
This is news? Incidentally, you might want to publish something on Local Comic "Bloodninja"... Are you trying to say this is supposed to be a news website? That's news to me.
If the government didn't mandate format and frequency standards, your TV stations would step all over each others' signal, and you would need to buy a new TV if you switched cable companies (just like you have to buy a new cell phone when you switch cell companies; just like you have to have a different cable-box for different cable companies, and your TiVo can't decode premium channels without a stupid IR-blaster (until we get the new FCC mandated CableCard equipment)). The free market is not the answer to every question.
There would have to be some type of organization or consortium that was in charge of distributing these signals, and assigning them to TV stations. How would this form you ask? Well, I'm not exactly sure, but somehow there managed to be organizations formed to oversee internet issues. I really don't think the industry would allow this to chaos to happen, with so much money at stake.
As for your other examples of buying different cell phones, I welcome the competition. This allows companies to come up with new and better products all the time. They have to, or they die. The same goes with cable boxes and such. With the free market, the best products have a much better chance of winning in the end than with the government controlling everything.
Also, with FCC mandated CableCards, you may not have to buy an IR blaster but you are certainly still paying for the priveledge of using this new stuff. After all, your taxes go to fund the FCC and all their regulations. And the most disturbingly immoral part of it is, that ordinary citizens who might not care much for using cable cards are being forced to pay for the FCC's operations as well, through their taxes at gunpoint.
It always amazes me that people see government control as the best solution for anything. Especially in areas such as technology.
Maybe all these things should be banned. After all, the government only pays for them by stealing our money.
At $2999 for the Dell, and $2999 for a dual G5 2.5GHz from Apple, I would say Apple has the value here. But if you rather, you can buy the Dell... I am saving my pennies for the Apple.
You really aren't making a valid comparison. To be fair you should be comparing a dual G5 and dual Xeon 3.06. A quick google search turned up a dual Xeon 3.06 system for sale on ebay for $810. I'm not sure how much it would be from a vendor, because I don't have time to find that. This alone should show that Apple really is hideously overpriced. Of course, I think everyone knows this already.
If you want to make a comparison, you should wait for Apple to release a dual core processor... not just a machine with two processors on one motherboard.
You complain that Dell is over priced while singing the praises of Apple in the same breath? How very amusing! I can't believe you even presume to be serious about this.
I saw your sig and I am a HUGE Mose Allison fan. That guy has style!
I'm still in my first IT job out of college. Been here for a year and they still pay me very poorly. I have about $1000 on my credit cards and a modest car to pay off. I am still looking for a higher paying job but have also been considering a side job as well.
I've played the piano my whole life and work as an IT assistant during the day. I've been meaning to brush up on my keyboarding skills, start a blues/funk band, and play a few gigs for a little money on the side.
I was almost hired for a .NET job near Cleveland last week. I've also applied at about 10 other .NET/C# jobs in Cleveland. Seems like it really is picking up.
Really? I haven't noticed. Where can I sign up? One geek with writing skills in Ann Arbor, at your service.
I've had c++ problems in the past where I have miraculously fixed errors by moving a brace up to the previous line. Or, also literally moving one var declaration before another. To this day I still have no idea why declaring one int before another made the program work. This is why I hate c++. Oh yeah, I was using gcc too.
I just realized I made a mistake - It should have been 180 * 1,355,399 / 3 = 81,323,940.
Rating: 39.4
Share: 57
# of Homes: 43,046,000
# of Viewers: 62,459,000
Since I don't know what the rate would be of a 30 second commercial with this kind of an audience, I will use another tv program and figure it from there. A 30 second commercial during the show "Friends", according to Forbes.com, was $473,500. This show had 21.82 million viewers. Therefore, a 30 second commercial with 62.46 million viewers at the same price level would be $1,355,399. The debates last 90 minutes, which would be 180 30 second commercials. 90 * 1,355,399 is $121,985,925. Cut this into 3 since there would be 3 people with equal time to express their views. That comes to $40,661,975 lost revenue for the LP.
Of course, this is the price for TV commercials, which obviously wouldn't have nearly as much attention given to them as the captive audience the debates get - i.e. people would be flipping channels, getting bathroom breaks, etc during the space of a normal commercial. So, one could argue the price would be even higher than the 40 million figure given above.
Republicans are more socialist than many people give them credit for. They support welfare state, government sponsored education, massive government spending and taxation, government legislation of morality, etc etc. The minimum wage that you mention is also in reality a socialist concept.
It would likely cost quite a bit less to pay for a private service than through taxes. And that thing about making a lot of people very poor is unfounded. The United States got along quite fine with low taxes for over 100 years.
You left out an option: 4. Act responsibly.
Honestly, I really would rather pay a private company for security services than the government. That way if you don't like one security company's services, or if it was too expensive, you can always go to another company. Socialism doesn't give you this choice.
I dont think Richard is a genetic anomaly though... IIRC his parents are just martial arts and bodybuilding nuts.
If his parents are martial arts and bodybuilding nuts, then their genes likely don't produce much myostatin (therefore enabling them to be proficient in their vocation). So it probably is genetic.
What ads? I'm using mozilla and adblock so I can't see 'em. I'm surprised a Linux guru such as this isn't doing the same. Makes me wonder if he's using IE or something.