I'm pretty sure that a condition where the companies serving the market are local monopolies separated by geography, "competing" only in the sense that residents may move to another service provider's area if they are dissatisfied with their service (and how bad would it need to be, really, for people to consider moving halfway across a continent....) does not constitute a properly competitive market.
"Comcast and TWC do not compete against each other in any area"
We suffer from a cartel among service providers who keep their prices high and their service lousy by foregoing competition, and regulation is necessary to prevent this.
They can melt snow, as long as they're not covered in snow and can receive solar power..
Seriously though, roads of rock and tar are already expensive as it is, how much is it going to cost to produce an entire road of these tiles? Is it really worth all that to read markings off the road directly instead of looking at signs?
"Hack" is a pretty ambiguous term. If I discovered that I could log into any account on your service with the password 12345, would it be amoral to report this? Would it be amoral to have even discovered this? Personally, I would say it was only amoral if exploited for one's own gain or to others' detriment.
US intelligence agencies operate with a policy of misinformation, they work from the top-down to indoctrinate their members that what they do is right, and for the good of the nation, and mustn't be revealed. Policy makers that are brought into this discussion are treated to the same indoctrination; taught that their cooperation is necessary to prevent "terrorism," a conveniently nebulous force that we all know can never truly be defeated. Read about how the NSA avoided or defeated policies that would rein in surveillance for the past 13 years.
I came to post something along the same lines as well, it's a shame to have to scroll so far down for a decent answer to the actual question. I'm not sure if this is the same technology, but I've seen something like this demonstrated: http://www.gizmag.com/ibrain-stephen-hawking-communicate-brainwaves/23182/
What I saw (a few years back) looked like a Sharper Image gadget that wrapped around the base of the neck that intercepted speech on the way from the brain, and without the person having to say a thing, could play the words aloud over a speaker. I can't find that exact thing for the life of me, but this technology may be related: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750369
In the case that she is unable to stimulate whatever nerves allow these systems to work, I would look into any sort of interaction she can do which is not tiring, as any movement that could suffice simply to correlate 0 or 1 could allow her to interact with an electronic interface, similar to Stephen Hawking's screen but possibly simplified further, even if it's simply "next letter" or "this letter" she would be able to start words from an alphabetical listing, and like auto-complete on a smartphone it may not take too long to narrow down the word she wants to use.
This must be devastating for your whole family, but her retention of higher brain function is a tremendous boon and with time she may be able to interact with you somewhat normally once again. I hope for the best for you.
When it gets cold, water turns to ice. When it gets warm, ice turns to water. The fact that both of these things occur naturally is not a statement on climate change.
It's an argument of semantics. We use words to associate to underlying concepts, and some people use different words to mean slightly different things. To think of all the hours wasted on arguments about what a "soul" is when it's really just a word that can be associated with various underlying concepts...
"Like a brain" might mean shaped like a brain to one person, able to fit inside the same space.. while to another it might only be "like a brain" if it can process input and output the same way, regardless of its shape or size.. while a third might only consider "like a brain" to mean the way that a liver is like a brain, composed of organic cells that collaborate to carry out a function.
Legal issues aside (I'm not sure they have a leg to stand on, but it worked for them in the Glider case) we're talking about a multiplayer game. Cheating in a match against other players most certainly has a detrimental effect on those others' experience.
FBI procedure was changed after Waco and Ruby Ridge before the Oklahoma City bombing, and even McVeigh himself regrets his actions (he wasn't aware the building included a daycare center)
These are bad distribution platforms because it doesn't make any sense in 2014 to buy a few gigabytes on a plastic disc at a brick-and-mortar store when you can download that much in a matter of minutes without ever leaving your home.
It's a joke when Comcast uses the claim that TWC covers separate parts of the country as justification for their merger when this should just make it obvious that they were never competing in the first place.
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I'm pretty sure that a condition where the companies serving the market are local monopolies separated by geography, "competing" only in the sense that residents may move to another service provider's area if they are dissatisfied with their service (and how bad would it need to be, really, for people to consider moving halfway across a continent....) does not constitute a properly competitive market.
Exactly. Comcast themselves say "Comcast and TWC do not compete against each other in any area" (direct quote).
Free market capitalism implies competition. From Comcast's own announcement regarding their merger with TWC (http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-and-time-warner-cable-file-applications-and-public-interest-statement-with-fcc):
"Comcast and TWC do not compete against each other in any area"
We suffer from a cartel among service providers who keep their prices high and their service lousy by foregoing competition, and regulation is necessary to prevent this.
They can melt snow, as long as they're not covered in snow and can receive solar power..
Seriously though, roads of rock and tar are already expensive as it is, how much is it going to cost to produce an entire road of these tiles? Is it really worth all that to read markings off the road directly instead of looking at signs?
Plus you don't have to pay bills as often.
"Hack" is a pretty ambiguous term. If I discovered that I could log into any account on your service with the password 12345, would it be amoral to report this? Would it be amoral to have even discovered this? Personally, I would say it was only amoral if exploited for one's own gain or to others' detriment.
Lucas123 wrote the summary. Also http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/further
Not Louie CK.
Replace all the Marios used in popular culture with Mickey Mouses and then see who's controlling of property.
Really then why hasn't President Obama pardoned him and given him a metal?
I say give him tungsten.
US intelligence agencies operate with a policy of misinformation, they work from the top-down to indoctrinate their members that what they do is right, and for the good of the nation, and mustn't be revealed. Policy makers that are brought into this discussion are treated to the same indoctrination; taught that their cooperation is necessary to prevent "terrorism," a conveniently nebulous force that we all know can never truly be defeated. Read about how the NSA avoided or defeated policies that would rein in surveillance for the past 13 years.
Just take another Blue Pill, you'll feel all right.
Did you mean "schizoid?"
Bearing arms is a last resort, we prefer to exercise the 1st amendment to resolve disputes.
Don't mistake Google users for Google customers, their customers are generally advertisers and the users are simply there to feed the beast.
I came to post something along the same lines as well, it's a shame to have to scroll so far down for a decent answer to the actual question. I'm not sure if this is the same technology, but I've seen something like this demonstrated: http://www.gizmag.com/ibrain-stephen-hawking-communicate-brainwaves/23182/
What I saw (a few years back) looked like a Sharper Image gadget that wrapped around the base of the neck that intercepted speech on the way from the brain, and without the person having to say a thing, could play the words aloud over a speaker. I can't find that exact thing for the life of me, but this technology may be related: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750369
In the case that she is unable to stimulate whatever nerves allow these systems to work, I would look into any sort of interaction she can do which is not tiring, as any movement that could suffice simply to correlate 0 or 1 could allow her to interact with an electronic interface, similar to Stephen Hawking's screen but possibly simplified further, even if it's simply "next letter" or "this letter" she would be able to start words from an alphabetical listing, and like auto-complete on a smartphone it may not take too long to narrow down the word she wants to use.
This must be devastating for your whole family, but her retention of higher brain function is a tremendous boon and with time she may be able to interact with you somewhat normally once again. I hope for the best for you.
When it gets cold, water turns to ice. When it gets warm, ice turns to water. The fact that both of these things occur naturally is not a statement on climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-3FSUafZqk
Yeah, they're all about pimping the US Common Core standards in Northern Ireland.
It's an argument of semantics. We use words to associate to underlying concepts, and some people use different words to mean slightly different things. To think of all the hours wasted on arguments about what a "soul" is when it's really just a word that can be associated with various underlying concepts...
"Like a brain" might mean shaped like a brain to one person, able to fit inside the same space.. while to another it might only be "like a brain" if it can process input and output the same way, regardless of its shape or size.. while a third might only consider "like a brain" to mean the way that a liver is like a brain, composed of organic cells that collaborate to carry out a function.
Mexico is technically part of North America, in an area that is sometimes referred to as "Central America."
Until we observed this article.
Legal issues aside (I'm not sure they have a leg to stand on, but it worked for them in the Glider case) we're talking about a multiplayer game. Cheating in a match against other players most certainly has a detrimental effect on those others' experience.
FBI procedure was changed after Waco and Ruby Ridge before the Oklahoma City bombing, and even McVeigh himself regrets his actions (he wasn't aware the building included a daycare center)
These are bad distribution platforms because it doesn't make any sense in 2014 to buy a few gigabytes on a plastic disc at a brick-and-mortar store when you can download that much in a matter of minutes without ever leaving your home.
It's a joke when Comcast uses the claim that TWC covers separate parts of the country as justification for their merger when this should just make it obvious that they were never competing in the first place.