Yeah, there's nothing tongue-in-cheek about saying you hate someone, when you hate them. Invoking the nazis to prove you're right and the other guy is wrong... Godwin said someone would, so it might as well be you.
What else would I do? Pay for a wire into my house so that I could force people to use multiple numbers to reach me? I'm not important enough to have more than one phone number, thanks anyway.
You say the system is broken because the voters are apathetic, the GP said voters are apathetic because the system is broken. As evidence you point to local elections, which are incestuous and dishonest in SoCal, but very sincere and productive in NorCal (the two areas I've experienced). So local politics reflects local values. But what values do national elections reflect?
I say, as long as federal tax dollars are spent to promote the democratic and republican parties exclusively, we don't actually live in a democracy. Voters don't matter when the government itself will outspend your party.
For me, the requirements of a low monthly fee and the ability to run free software happen to outweigh the requirement of fewer things in my pocket, which is why I'm waiting for a Pandora PDA.
I wish I could say the same, but I have a 3 object maximum: wallet, keys, phone. Everything else stays in the bowl no matter how often I remind myself to pick it back up.
Buy a second-hand iphone 2g, jailbreak and unlock it, run FOSS and a prepaid SIM. That's still legal no matter how Jobs may rant.
Non-smart phones don't make any sense IMHO. The hardware for a music player, at least, is already there. Might as well use it.
You're saying that there is no difference at all in the manufacturing expense of an phone+mp3-player vs. a phone only device? Color me skeptical. Plus, my old nokia with a 5 line black&white screen and no internal number storage (all on the SIM) gets far superior battery life than my iPhone. I love my iphone, but that nokia still lives in my glovebox for emergencies. And my mom still carries a phone-only cheapie; I don't think she make a call on my iphone if her life depended on it. Simple phones are never going away.
Which is what the combination of a land line and a $10/mo prepaid plan is for.
You seem to be confused as to what a "phone" is. It's all well and good to have a landline and a prepaid plan, but I'm talking about the physical device that rests in my pocket.
When I had a Palm pilot and a cheap nokia, I had two devices in my pocket. Now that I have an iphone, I have one. That physical reality is why the iphone is superior to any other device I've ever owned: email, phone, music, notes and bookreader all-in-one. Plus a cheesy camera for laughs (no, I don't have a 3g let alone a 3gs).
Idea one has already been implemented in the USA, and fails. Sure, the apple I had at lunch was untaxed, but so was that fruit cornucopia on Mr Rich's banquette table. Not all fruit is a necessity.
I like idea 2. Set sales tax at 10%. Then say living on less than $1000 per month per person is unreasonable, so everyone gets 10% of that back, or $1200 per year. No audits, no exceptions.
If you want, you can keep income tax, but make it 20% of all income above $120/person in household. Way up above typical people, and very simple to calculate.
Only downside is you'd put most of the IRS out of work.
I own an iphone outright, yet I cannot use it as a phone without paying $20 more than a regular phone, even though I've disabled data usage. This is AT&T policy, because they consider my ipod-touch+phone to be their device.
When I switch to my Razr and use my ipod-touch-phone sans sim, I pay $20 a month less.
So saying that I "own" an iphone is disengenious, when they can legally (?) charge $20 extra for identical service.
You do know that twitter provides both a website and an RSS feeed, right?
In order to run an RSS feed, you either need bandwidth and a server, pay for a hosted server, or a twitter account. The bonus with twitter is that it automatically receives updates view twitterfox or SMS.
I like twitter is a handy way to disseminate information so that people can add and remove it from their newsreader themselves.
It's very simple: We have two elections, a primary and a run-off. If you run as Dem or Rep, the Feds pay for your primary ballots. If you run as third party, they don't.
I'm posting to resist modding you troll, since I think you're serious. Microsoft: (a) bundled software (b) pressured resellers to not unbundle (c) pressured resellers to not include alternatives (d) deliberately broke interoperability during "updates" so that working 3rd party alternatives would then break in undocumented ways.
Saying that they got in trouble only for (a) is misleading at best.
You say this because you're not colorblind. Green LEDs that turn amber when something breaks are absolutely the worst part of any project for me. Blue LEDs are simply wonderful.
Why, no. And in a similar vein, nothing more than convenience prevents me from not having a cellular telephone at all. I'm really not sure how this relates to the AT&T monopoly, however
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Yeah, there's nothing tongue-in-cheek about saying you hate someone, when you hate them.
Invoking the nazis to prove you're right and the other guy is wrong... Godwin said someone would, so it might as well be you.
Sir, I am interested in your project and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Scientists can convert to Fahrenheit, but having seen the billions of dollars this costs the USA in mistakes, they generally don't.
What else would I do? Pay for a wire into my house so that I could force people to use multiple numbers to reach me? I'm not important enough to have more than one phone number, thanks anyway.
You say the system is broken because the voters are apathetic, the GP said voters are apathetic because the system is broken.
As evidence you point to local elections, which are incestuous and dishonest in SoCal, but very sincere and productive in NorCal (the two areas I've experienced). So local politics reflects local values. But what values do national elections reflect?
I say, as long as federal tax dollars are spent to promote the democratic and republican parties exclusively, we don't actually live in a democracy. Voters don't matter when the government itself will outspend your party.
For me, the requirements of a low monthly fee and the ability to run free software happen to outweigh the requirement of fewer things in my pocket, which is why I'm waiting for a Pandora PDA.
I wish I could say the same, but I have a 3 object maximum: wallet, keys, phone. Everything else stays in the bowl no matter how often I remind myself to pick it back up.
Buy a second-hand iphone 2g, jailbreak and unlock it, run FOSS and a prepaid SIM. That's still legal no matter how Jobs may rant.
Non-smart phones don't make any sense IMHO. The hardware for a music player, at least, is already there. Might as well use it.
You're saying that there is no difference at all in the manufacturing expense of an phone+mp3-player vs. a phone only device? Color me skeptical. Plus, my old nokia with a 5 line black&white screen and no internal number storage (all on the SIM) gets far superior battery life than my iPhone. I love my iphone, but that nokia still lives in my glovebox for emergencies. And my mom still carries a phone-only cheapie; I don't think she make a call on my iphone if her life depended on it. Simple phones are never going away.
But then he'd still need a phone!
Which is what the combination of a land line and a $10/mo prepaid plan is for.
You seem to be confused as to what a "phone" is. It's all well and good to have a landline and a prepaid plan, but I'm talking about the physical device that rests in my pocket.
When I had a Palm pilot and a cheap nokia, I had two devices in my pocket. Now that I have an iphone, I have one. That physical reality is why the iphone is superior to any other device I've ever owned: email, phone, music, notes and bookreader all-in-one. Plus a cheesy camera for laughs (no, I don't have a 3g let alone a 3gs).
But then he'd still need a phone!
Apparently you missed his point entirely.
With (slightly) more land mass than Arizona, Finnish companies provide twice the coverage at half the prices.
Which must mean that Arizona users are paying more to subsidize less populous states... like New York.
Idea one has already been implemented in the USA, and fails. Sure, the apple I had at lunch was untaxed, but so was that fruit cornucopia on Mr Rich's banquette table. Not all fruit is a necessity.
I like idea 2. Set sales tax at 10%. Then say living on less than $1000 per month per person is unreasonable, so everyone gets 10% of that back, or $1200 per year. No audits, no exceptions.
If you want, you can keep income tax, but make it 20% of all income above $120/person in household. Way up above typical people, and very simple to calculate.
Only downside is you'd put most of the IRS out of work.
who said anything about the roof of your car?
I realize that some people always sit down to use the toilet, but I realized immediately that he wasn't referring to poop.
If I own my phones, then there can be no legal basis for them to charge me $20 a month more for identical service on one then over the other.
I own an iphone outright, yet I cannot use it as a phone without paying $20 more than a regular phone, even though I've disabled data usage. This is AT&T policy, because they consider my ipod-touch+phone to be their device.
When I switch to my Razr and use my ipod-touch-phone sans sim, I pay $20 a month less.
So saying that I "own" an iphone is disengenious, when they can legally (?) charge $20 extra for identical service.
by filling out TPS cover sheets.
You do know that twitter provides both a website and an RSS feeed, right?
In order to run an RSS feed, you either need bandwidth and a server, pay for a hosted server, or a twitter account. The bonus with twitter is that it automatically receives updates view twitterfox or SMS.
I like twitter is a handy way to disseminate information so that people can add and remove it from their newsreader themselves.
It's very simple: We have two elections, a primary and a run-off. If you run as Dem or Rep, the Feds pay for your primary ballots. If you run as third party, they don't.
Ta-da! Two-party lock in forever.
...raising taxes on individuals.
All taxes are paid by individuals. You think the money Amazon pays comes from the atmosphere?
What kind of dice? Anything less than d20, and I've already hacked your account. Yesterday.
I'm posting to resist modding you troll, since I think you're serious.
Microsoft:
(a) bundled software
(b) pressured resellers to not unbundle
(c) pressured resellers to not include alternatives
(d) deliberately broke interoperability during "updates" so that working 3rd party alternatives would then break in undocumented ways.
Saying that they got in trouble only for (a) is misleading at best.
By NOT reading a source, copying it verbatim, and then saying "oops!" when you get caught?
You say this because you're not colorblind. Green LEDs that turn amber when something breaks are absolutely the worst part of any project for me. Blue LEDs are simply wonderful.
Ah, because government granted monopolies are the only kind of monopolies. Good to know.
Why, no. And in a similar vein, nothing more than convenience prevents me from not having a cellular telephone at all. I'm really not sure how this relates to the AT&T monopoly, however