I think that is the rare situation. More often it is "But I want to watch football." or "The only other choice is AT&T (fill in your local telephone company) and they have just as bad of service with even slower speeds."
If the companies response is to drop you as a customer, then making things difficult is a waste of your time. Just drop the service yourself. If you can get enough people to boycott the companies, they will change their behavior. Good luck with that though. The sports addiction in the US is simply too strong to rein in the cable companies.
That makes no sense. You are falling for the human shield tactic. The company hires service reps to act as human shields, and people like you let them do whatever they want for fear of punishing the shield on the phone.
Comcast and CenturyLink are corporations that are under the control of "rich" people. The corporations make no decisions on the corporation's actions or policies. Those are decided by the "rich" people who control the corporations. Comcast and CenturyLink are not "public utilities". That is a large part of the problem. The government gives them special privileges, but does not hold them to the standards of an actual utility.
It absolutely is. That is why a laugh when I hear people from the EU trying to explain how their government structure is fundamentally different than ours. Ours started out like the EU, and has been consistently corrupted into what it is today. The EU will face the same challenge that the US did. At some point, some of their states will decide they don't like the federal government and want to secede. At that time, the EU will be faced with the same decision that the USA was faced with when the southern states decided to secede from the US. Either lose a large chunk of their political and economic power or conquer the seceding states. If they choose the later, they will then be structured like the US. A single ruling federal government that lets states rule on subjects that the federal government allows them to.
I'm pretty big on states rights and I am pretty quick to criticize abuse of the interstate commerce clause, but regulating interstate telephone calls is clearly within the scope of the interstate commerce clause. The Feds should have no say about intrastate calls, but given that there is no way for a caller to be sure that their call really is an intrastate call, practicality would fall to the consumer to assume the stricter of the state/federal laws.
Given that the nature of the telephone network, it wouldn't be crazy to allow federal law to cover the entire network. The alternative is to let whatever state has the harshest rule be the entity that makes federal law, since even if you call your next door neighbor, there is no guarantee that you were not routed through the state with the harshest laws.
It most certainly does not rule out dyson spheres. Any civilization advanced enough to build a dyson sphere would likely be able to build them in a way that we would have a hard time detecting them. I'm not saying aliens are responsible for dark matter, but it definitely isn't evidence against.
Besides, interaction with normal matter is the ONLY way that we identify dark matter. So says CERN.
I'm not going to defend the OP's writing skills, but if his writing is nearly unreadable to you, you might want to consider the quality of the education you received as well.
Even better is to require the company to hire a local worker at equal wages who produce nothing. The premise of H1B is that there are no local workers with the correct skill set to do the job. let the company hire all the H1Bs that they want. Just make them pay full wages to a local worker to train them to do the job. Given that this will double the pay that the companies claim is the prevailing wage, even if they are driving wages down, it will still cost them significantly more than just a local worker. This will give them incentive to actually train the local so that an H1B is not necessary. This would give businesses the flexibility to get workers when needed, while protecting the future by improving the skills of locals.
It is really more meaningful than you understand. If it was meaningless, Sony would not have lied. (if in fact they did lie) Sony is using the tactic of stealing a little bit from huge numbers of people. When put together it becomes a lot of money. Now, I can already hear the, "But I don't care about the small amount they might have stolen from me." The problem with that line of reasoning is that there are thousands of companies doing it to you. If 20 thousand companies each steal $5 from you, not one of them has stolen enough to be considered meaningful, but they each take that $5. It's like being eaten by ants.
So, sure. You could say that this individual situation is meaningless, but the constant barrage of company lies not only creates a real meaningful cost to consumers, but it also destroys faith in our economy.
I always find it amazing how Apple users keep trying to convince everyone that 'everyone' is buying Macs 'now'. OSX only has ~5% more market share than Linux for the desktop. Certainly, if Linux on the desktop is a toy, then certainly so is OSX.
That being said, with ~2 billion computers in the world, that means there is somewhere in the ballpark of 33.6 million Desktop Linux users. That is nothing to sneeze at. And there is somewhere in the ballpark of 132.8 million OSX users.
My phone shows that I have used ~1.95GB of cellular data since July 7th. You can be sure that I am not going to be paying anywhere near $1,950 for this month's phone bill. If you are paying $1 per MB, you have been conned.
BS. the term 'luser' is specifically juvenile IT people thinking that they are being witty. They are not, and the lame excuse of 'local user' doesn't make their openly hostile attitude OK. The fact that you recognize one would need to be an idiot to use that term openly shows that you know full well that it is intended to be a double entendre.
Any IT person that uses that term should immediately look for a different career path.
That would be one sweet booby trap if Nokia management started work on those android phones post sale agreement, pre-sale completion, just to have it blow up on Microsoft as revenge for the gutting Microsoft performed on Nokia.
Exactly. Apple was stupid for just taking the "customer's" word for it that the phone number called was valid. It is no smarter than someone who gives out their bank info and password to a cold caller that claims to be from their bank.
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About a s priceless as smashing the window of their car. Ha Ha. Vandalism isn't new just because it is "on a computer".
Exactly. Consider how stupid "Movie" sounds. It started out a lot dumber sounding than "Internet of Things".
Of course, when your entire user space is emulated, why not do your JIT on the metal?
We can hope. There was a time that the same could have been said about the US.
I think that is the rare situation. More often it is "But I want to watch football." or "The only other choice is AT&T (fill in your local telephone company) and they have just as bad of service with even slower speeds."
If the companies response is to drop you as a customer, then making things difficult is a waste of your time. Just drop the service yourself. If you can get enough people to boycott the companies, they will change their behavior. Good luck with that though. The sports addiction in the US is simply too strong to rein in the cable companies.
That makes no sense. You are falling for the human shield tactic. The company hires service reps to act as human shields, and people like you let them do whatever they want for fear of punishing the shield on the phone.
Comcast and CenturyLink are corporations that are under the control of "rich" people. The corporations make no decisions on the corporation's actions or policies. Those are decided by the "rich" people who control the corporations. Comcast and CenturyLink are not "public utilities". That is a large part of the problem. The government gives them special privileges, but does not hold them to the standards of an actual utility.
It absolutely is. That is why a laugh when I hear people from the EU trying to explain how their government structure is fundamentally different than ours. Ours started out like the EU, and has been consistently corrupted into what it is today. The EU will face the same challenge that the US did. At some point, some of their states will decide they don't like the federal government and want to secede. At that time, the EU will be faced with the same decision that the USA was faced with when the southern states decided to secede from the US. Either lose a large chunk of their political and economic power or conquer the seceding states. If they choose the later, they will then be structured like the US. A single ruling federal government that lets states rule on subjects that the federal government allows them to.
I'm pretty big on states rights and I am pretty quick to criticize abuse of the interstate commerce clause, but regulating interstate telephone calls is clearly within the scope of the interstate commerce clause. The Feds should have no say about intrastate calls, but given that there is no way for a caller to be sure that their call really is an intrastate call, practicality would fall to the consumer to assume the stricter of the state/federal laws.
Given that the nature of the telephone network, it wouldn't be crazy to allow federal law to cover the entire network. The alternative is to let whatever state has the harshest rule be the entity that makes federal law, since even if you call your next door neighbor, there is no guarantee that you were not routed through the state with the harshest laws.
It most certainly does not rule out dyson spheres. Any civilization advanced enough to build a dyson sphere would likely be able to build them in a way that we would have a hard time detecting them. I'm not saying aliens are responsible for dark matter, but it definitely isn't evidence against.
Besides, interaction with normal matter is the ONLY way that we identify dark matter. So says CERN.
Short breaks can be worse. Imagine having people at work taking a vacation every 5 weeks.
I'm not going to defend the OP's writing skills, but if his writing is nearly unreadable to you, you might want to consider the quality of the education you received as well.
Even better is to require the company to hire a local worker at equal wages who produce nothing. The premise of H1B is that there are no local workers with the correct skill set to do the job. let the company hire all the H1Bs that they want. Just make them pay full wages to a local worker to train them to do the job. Given that this will double the pay that the companies claim is the prevailing wage, even if they are driving wages down, it will still cost them significantly more than just a local worker. This will give them incentive to actually train the local so that an H1B is not necessary. This would give businesses the flexibility to get workers when needed, while protecting the future by improving the skills of locals.
Well, until the US starts shipping actively infected individuals to densely populated cities inside the US. You know like what is happening now.
Exactly. You have a greater chance getting killed in your car than you do having the cops break down your door because of open wifi.
It is really more meaningful than you understand. If it was meaningless, Sony would not have lied. (if in fact they did lie) Sony is using the tactic of stealing a little bit from huge numbers of people. When put together it becomes a lot of money. Now, I can already hear the, "But I don't care about the small amount they might have stolen from me." The problem with that line of reasoning is that there are thousands of companies doing it to you. If 20 thousand companies each steal $5 from you, not one of them has stolen enough to be considered meaningful, but they each take that $5. It's like being eaten by ants.
So, sure. You could say that this individual situation is meaningless, but the constant barrage of company lies not only creates a real meaningful cost to consumers, but it also destroys faith in our economy.
I always find it amazing how Apple users keep trying to convince everyone that 'everyone' is buying Macs 'now'. OSX only has ~5% more market share than Linux for the desktop. Certainly, if Linux on the desktop is a toy, then certainly so is OSX.
That being said, with ~2 billion computers in the world, that means there is somewhere in the ballpark of 33.6 million Desktop Linux users. That is nothing to sneeze at. And there is somewhere in the ballpark of 132.8 million OSX users.
My phone shows that I have used ~1.95GB of cellular data since July 7th. You can be sure that I am not going to be paying anywhere near $1,950 for this month's phone bill. If you are paying $1 per MB, you have been conned.
BS. the term 'luser' is specifically juvenile IT people thinking that they are being witty. They are not, and the lame excuse of 'local user' doesn't make their openly hostile attitude OK. The fact that you recognize one would need to be an idiot to use that term openly shows that you know full well that it is intended to be a double entendre.
Any IT person that uses that term should immediately look for a different career path.
That would be one sweet booby trap if Nokia management started work on those android phones post sale agreement, pre-sale completion, just to have it blow up on Microsoft as revenge for the gutting Microsoft performed on Nokia.
This is what I think of whenever I hear something about "fucking love science".
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
Pretty well sums up the quality of the concerns.
That would introduce a whole new set of problems.
Exactly. Apple was stupid for just taking the "customer's" word for it that the phone number called was valid. It is no smarter than someone who gives out their bank info and password to a cold caller that claims to be from their bank.