Hopefully in the long run wireless will create meaningful competition, like it does in other parts of the world. North America just plain sucks for Internet competition.
We were on satellite for about eight years, and suffered the same sorts of abuses. At one point we were paying over $120 (Canadian dollars), and really, mostly what I was watching was Turner Classic Movies and a couple of other movie channels. I can't remember the last time I actually watched a network television show as a broadcast, probably the early seasons of House back in the mid-00s. We finally decided we were wasting money and began chopping off packages, and then the exact same thing happened, suddenly the channels we did watch got split into other packages so we were either faced with paying for a package for just one channel or abandoning the channel. On top of that, they would regularly bump the base cost by $5 so that even when we did get some savings, we ended up handing it back to them. In the end, I just decided that a couple of movie channels I really liked and my wife's home improvement/cooking channels weren't worth it, and we just canceled the service.
Honestly, I haven't even gone to Amazon Prime. I don't watch nearly as much TV as I used to, and Netflix has enough interesting content that when I feel like brainless entertainment, it usually serves it up. For news, I prefer to read it anyways, but the local TV stations all do streaming of their broadcasts, so if I do want to watch the 5 o'clock news, it's there for me. I can't imagine ever actually going back to cable or satellite. If I want to watch a series that bad, I either find it on the Internet, or with a few movies and shows I like, I just buy the whole damned thing off of Google Play. I swear, I went to play a DVD last weekend, and it took me a few minutes to even remember how to use the damned DVD player! And that was after I swept the dust off of the damned thing. We have about 150 DVDs, and we don't even watch those anymore, I just tell the kids to get me a Google Play gift card for Christmas and birthdays.
With ESPN dying and more and more sports ending up online, I'd say the reasons for anyone to want cable television are rapidly dying. It's actually amazing to watch an industry collapse. Mind you, most cable carriers are also ISPs, so they get their pound of flesh either way. The really vulnerable sector is the big TV networks, who are going to have to retool fairly quickly, because I think cable TV is likely going to fall off a cliff rather than simply fade away.
To some extent that's true, but generally the US intelligence does its best to keep the secrets that it gains from its allies under wraps. The free exchange of intelligence between Britain and the US has been a cornerstone of the Atlantic Alliance since WWII, and Britain has every right to be furious that classified information it exchanged with partnering agencies in the US ended up on the front page of newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic.
This wasn't strategic leaking of information. This wasn't some scheme to use classified information to gain some advantage. It was just the big mouths that currently run the Administration spouting off because they're a band of irresponsible children. Like Trump blabbing off about Israeli intelligence, this is going to have ramifications, both for information sharing between the US and its allies, and likely between the White House and the three letter agencies. It's becoming crystal clear that the current Administration cannot be trusted with classified information, and Congress and the three letter agencies are probably simply going to start withholding information, both to preserve active operations, and to preserve critical foreign alliances that the Trump Administration is putting at risk.
The whole "red in tooth and claw" crowd never really understood that Spencer himself to some extent misunderstood how nature works. Nature certainly has its share of violence and bloodshed, but it also has a considerable amount of cooperation. Canids, like Hominoids, are social creatures where competition is balanced by an extraordinary amount of cooperation and coordination.
I doubt very much the three letter agencies were behind this leak. I think most of the leaking of late is coming from the White House itself. It's basically an Amateur Hour Administration.
Um, do you even know the history of Britain. Look up "the Troubles". The IRA were way more sophisticated than any would-be Jihadi. They even managed to blow up Prince Charles' uncle. All ISIS's band of maniacs seem able to do is blow up concert goers and little girls.
And what is it you're supposed to do with a warning. Their could be dozens or hundreds or probably more individuals whom authorities are being warned about; terrorists, murderers, rapists, Mafioso and plenty of other people that some foreign and/or domestic intelligence agencies are warning any government about. In a lot of cases until they actually strap on a nail bomb or gun down a competing mobster, any government is stuck with finite resources and trying to find the most efficient way to use them.
The fact is that even when Britain probably new the identity of almost every significant IRA member or sympathizer they still couldn't prevent terrorist attacks. Even truly authoritarian regimes like China and Iran can't prevent all terrorist attacks.
The main problem is people overreact. This isn't a Luftwaffe bombing campaign, there is no existential threat against the British state, so the idea that British authorities should just start torturing people seems like outrageous overreaction.
Regulations definitely made it more expensive, but without regulations, coal is bloody awful; both in the mining and burning. Would you want to live anywhere near an unregulated coal-powered plant? Seriously? You understand that coal is pretty close to the worst polluting way to generate electricity there is, and it's only through regulation that the coal industry ever cleaned up. I don't know how anyone can defend deregulating coal, it would be insane, polluting the air and waterways.
But natural gas, particularly with all the fracking, is so cheap right now that there's no point in refurbishing existing coal plants, and certainly no point in building new ones. Where there is demand for coal, the mining is increasingly automated, so even where it makes sense to mine it, you won't get the jobs back.
Coal is dying, and any skill set that is limited to coal extraction is dying just like buggy whip manufacturing. I enjoy how you've become some sort of champion of coal miners, but I think we both know you're full of shit.
Coal wasn't killed by environmentalists, it was killed by natural gas. Coal mining regions around the Western world have seen labor declines for years, and while I'm sure environmental regulations play a part (as they should, coal is just plain fucking to mine and burn, it's a dirty fuel from beginning to end). Even where coal is still being mined, it's increasingly automated, so any kind of recovery in coal isn't going to deliver the jobs from that region which you seem to care so very much about.
Sometimes, you just have to sit the buggy whip factory employees down and explain to them "It's over". Coal is never coming back. Natural gas is killing it, and renewables will be the death blow, if it doesn't die long before they dominate. It would be better to encourage all those miners sitting around waiting for the jobs to come back to seek job retraining, and yes, maybe they will have to move. This is like bitching because the Klondike can't support thousands of prospectors anymore.
And really, do you give even the tiniest shit about coal miners?
The best you can do outside a lab where you can monitor blood sugar levels and the like, is compare activity to various tables of average calories burned. I have no faith in any wearable device getting very close to calories burned.
No nuclear plant can just run without maintenance, and it would be insane to want to. The economics have never been favorable to nuclear fusion, and has always required a pretty significant subsidy.
And once again, renewables had little to do with coal's decline. That was natural gas. The only "assault" on the Appalachians is the march of time. Coal is dying, and no amount of grand promises from the guy currently sitting in the White House will reverse that.
You can, however, price fossil fuels for the long-term costs they will produce. You know, how you assure that future generations don't subsidize today's energy usage. Natural gas is better than coal, but is in no way a non-greenhouse gas producing energy source.
Oh fuck off. Natural gas killed the coal industry. It had nothing to do with the New York Times or the DNC. Jesus Christ, the Alt-right really are some of the dumbest fucking idiots the world has ever known. "Da Libewals did it!" is just a mindless mantra.
Jesus fucking christ, you halfwit, coal country is hardly the first time a major industrial region has faded, and it almost inevitably is simply a factor of some new competing technology or jurisdiction doing it better. The last thing any government should do is artificially support a fading industry. Britain spent untold amounts of money propping up industries in the 1960s and 1970s, until finally the pricetag became so high that Thatcher had to finally kill the subsidies and let those industries either fade or stand on their own.
Well, he said he was going to embrace them, but the fact is those jobs are gone, and gone forever. Coal mining is a fading industry, largely killed by natural gas, but in the end renewables will deal the death blow. What needs to be done is job retraining and economic diversification, not selling people fantasies of coal's return. A leader should seek to better peoples' lots, not simply tell them what they want to hear, and then pursue policies that will in fact do them great harm.
I don't think anyone is making fists full of money these days in the oil industry. The glut of oil is keeping the price down, so that even jurisdictions that are collecting royalties are seeing overall revenues fall. The efficiencies being gained in shale oil and other non-traditional extraction techniques aren't exactly labor intensive, and it seems likely going forward that the economics of the glut means finding ways to continue to reduce labor costs will be a primary pressure. In other words, the notion that fossil fuels are going to be major job creators and revenue producers for governments is fading quickly.
Indeed. China is one of the oldest contiguous civilizations on the planet, and yet it acts like some sort of second-rate banana republic that just gained independence a few years ago. Does it really matter if a computer can beat a strategy game champion? We all know it's coming, that eventually computers are going to be able to beat the masters of any game.
I disagree. I think Trump is a complete idiot. He can't make a statement over two sentences long that doesn't become a rambling filler-filled pile of nothing that is also impossible to parse. My belief is that he's suffering from dementia, but whatever the cause, the man is a moron. Now Reagan was a moron too, but at least he surrounded himself with some fairly rational individuals, and that's fine, no one expects a President to actually personally run every branch of the Government. But now you have someone probably mid-way through a serious cognitive decline who still believes he's some sort of super-genius.
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Hopefully in the long run wireless will create meaningful competition, like it does in other parts of the world. North America just plain sucks for Internet competition.
We were on satellite for about eight years, and suffered the same sorts of abuses. At one point we were paying over $120 (Canadian dollars), and really, mostly what I was watching was Turner Classic Movies and a couple of other movie channels. I can't remember the last time I actually watched a network television show as a broadcast, probably the early seasons of House back in the mid-00s. We finally decided we were wasting money and began chopping off packages, and then the exact same thing happened, suddenly the channels we did watch got split into other packages so we were either faced with paying for a package for just one channel or abandoning the channel. On top of that, they would regularly bump the base cost by $5 so that even when we did get some savings, we ended up handing it back to them. In the end, I just decided that a couple of movie channels I really liked and my wife's home improvement/cooking channels weren't worth it, and we just canceled the service.
Honestly, I haven't even gone to Amazon Prime. I don't watch nearly as much TV as I used to, and Netflix has enough interesting content that when I feel like brainless entertainment, it usually serves it up. For news, I prefer to read it anyways, but the local TV stations all do streaming of their broadcasts, so if I do want to watch the 5 o'clock news, it's there for me. I can't imagine ever actually going back to cable or satellite. If I want to watch a series that bad, I either find it on the Internet, or with a few movies and shows I like, I just buy the whole damned thing off of Google Play. I swear, I went to play a DVD last weekend, and it took me a few minutes to even remember how to use the damned DVD player! And that was after I swept the dust off of the damned thing. We have about 150 DVDs, and we don't even watch those anymore, I just tell the kids to get me a Google Play gift card for Christmas and birthdays.
With ESPN dying and more and more sports ending up online, I'd say the reasons for anyone to want cable television are rapidly dying. It's actually amazing to watch an industry collapse. Mind you, most cable carriers are also ISPs, so they get their pound of flesh either way. The really vulnerable sector is the big TV networks, who are going to have to retool fairly quickly, because I think cable TV is likely going to fall off a cliff rather than simply fade away.
To some extent that's true, but generally the US intelligence does its best to keep the secrets that it gains from its allies under wraps. The free exchange of intelligence between Britain and the US has been a cornerstone of the Atlantic Alliance since WWII, and Britain has every right to be furious that classified information it exchanged with partnering agencies in the US ended up on the front page of newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic.
This wasn't strategic leaking of information. This wasn't some scheme to use classified information to gain some advantage. It was just the big mouths that currently run the Administration spouting off because they're a band of irresponsible children. Like Trump blabbing off about Israeli intelligence, this is going to have ramifications, both for information sharing between the US and its allies, and likely between the White House and the three letter agencies. It's becoming crystal clear that the current Administration cannot be trusted with classified information, and Congress and the three letter agencies are probably simply going to start withholding information, both to preserve active operations, and to preserve critical foreign alliances that the Trump Administration is putting at risk.
The whole "red in tooth and claw" crowd never really understood that Spencer himself to some extent misunderstood how nature works. Nature certainly has its share of violence and bloodshed, but it also has a considerable amount of cooperation. Canids, like Hominoids, are social creatures where competition is balanced by an extraordinary amount of cooperation and coordination.
I doubt very much the three letter agencies were behind this leak. I think most of the leaking of late is coming from the White House itself. It's basically an Amateur Hour Administration.
Um, do you even know the history of Britain. Look up "the Troubles". The IRA were way more sophisticated than any would-be Jihadi. They even managed to blow up Prince Charles' uncle. All ISIS's band of maniacs seem able to do is blow up concert goers and little girls.
And what is it you're supposed to do with a warning. Their could be dozens or hundreds or probably more individuals whom authorities are being warned about; terrorists, murderers, rapists, Mafioso and plenty of other people that some foreign and/or domestic intelligence agencies are warning any government about. In a lot of cases until they actually strap on a nail bomb or gun down a competing mobster, any government is stuck with finite resources and trying to find the most efficient way to use them.
The fact is that even when Britain probably new the identity of almost every significant IRA member or sympathizer they still couldn't prevent terrorist attacks. Even truly authoritarian regimes like China and Iran can't prevent all terrorist attacks.
The main problem is people overreact. This isn't a Luftwaffe bombing campaign, there is no existential threat against the British state, so the idea that British authorities should just start torturing people seems like outrageous overreaction.
Regulations definitely made it more expensive, but without regulations, coal is bloody awful; both in the mining and burning. Would you want to live anywhere near an unregulated coal-powered plant? Seriously? You understand that coal is pretty close to the worst polluting way to generate electricity there is, and it's only through regulation that the coal industry ever cleaned up. I don't know how anyone can defend deregulating coal, it would be insane, polluting the air and waterways.
But natural gas, particularly with all the fracking, is so cheap right now that there's no point in refurbishing existing coal plants, and certainly no point in building new ones. Where there is demand for coal, the mining is increasingly automated, so even where it makes sense to mine it, you won't get the jobs back.
Coal is dying, and any skill set that is limited to coal extraction is dying just like buggy whip manufacturing. I enjoy how you've become some sort of champion of coal miners, but I think we both know you're full of shit.
Coal wasn't killed by environmentalists, it was killed by natural gas. Coal mining regions around the Western world have seen labor declines for years, and while I'm sure environmental regulations play a part (as they should, coal is just plain fucking to mine and burn, it's a dirty fuel from beginning to end). Even where coal is still being mined, it's increasingly automated, so any kind of recovery in coal isn't going to deliver the jobs from that region which you seem to care so very much about.
Sometimes, you just have to sit the buggy whip factory employees down and explain to them "It's over". Coal is never coming back. Natural gas is killing it, and renewables will be the death blow, if it doesn't die long before they dominate. It would be better to encourage all those miners sitting around waiting for the jobs to come back to seek job retraining, and yes, maybe they will have to move. This is like bitching because the Klondike can't support thousands of prospectors anymore.
And really, do you give even the tiniest shit about coal miners?
The best you can do outside a lab where you can monitor blood sugar levels and the like, is compare activity to various tables of average calories burned. I have no faith in any wearable device getting very close to calories burned.
No nuclear plant can just run without maintenance, and it would be insane to want to. The economics have never been favorable to nuclear fusion, and has always required a pretty significant subsidy.
And once again, renewables had little to do with coal's decline. That was natural gas. The only "assault" on the Appalachians is the march of time. Coal is dying, and no amount of grand promises from the guy currently sitting in the White House will reverse that.
You can, however, price fossil fuels for the long-term costs they will produce. You know, how you assure that future generations don't subsidize today's energy usage. Natural gas is better than coal, but is in no way a non-greenhouse gas producing energy source.
The cost of running and maintaining a nuclear plant are a lot higher than a windfarm. Nuclear is not the answer.
Oh fuck off. Natural gas killed the coal industry. It had nothing to do with the New York Times or the DNC. Jesus Christ, the Alt-right really are some of the dumbest fucking idiots the world has ever known. "Da Libewals did it!" is just a mindless mantra.
Jesus fucking christ, you halfwit, coal country is hardly the first time a major industrial region has faded, and it almost inevitably is simply a factor of some new competing technology or jurisdiction doing it better. The last thing any government should do is artificially support a fading industry. Britain spent untold amounts of money propping up industries in the 1960s and 1970s, until finally the pricetag became so high that Thatcher had to finally kill the subsidies and let those industries either fade or stand on their own.
Well, he said he was going to embrace them, but the fact is those jobs are gone, and gone forever. Coal mining is a fading industry, largely killed by natural gas, but in the end renewables will deal the death blow. What needs to be done is job retraining and economic diversification, not selling people fantasies of coal's return. A leader should seek to better peoples' lots, not simply tell them what they want to hear, and then pursue policies that will in fact do them great harm.
I don't think anyone is making fists full of money these days in the oil industry. The glut of oil is keeping the price down, so that even jurisdictions that are collecting royalties are seeing overall revenues fall. The efficiencies being gained in shale oil and other non-traditional extraction techniques aren't exactly labor intensive, and it seems likely going forward that the economics of the glut means finding ways to continue to reduce labor costs will be a primary pressure. In other words, the notion that fossil fuels are going to be major job creators and revenue producers for governments is fading quickly.
Indeed. China is one of the oldest contiguous civilizations on the planet, and yet it acts like some sort of second-rate banana republic that just gained independence a few years ago. Does it really matter if a computer can beat a strategy game champion? We all know it's coming, that eventually computers are going to be able to beat the masters of any game.
Stupid alt right liar. You are the very definition of a fragile little snowflake, you worthless coward
Which is why Flynn is pleading the 5th
I didn't say he was illiterate. He does reasonably well with prepared statements.
I disagree. I think Trump is a complete idiot. He can't make a statement over two sentences long that doesn't become a rambling filler-filled pile of nothing that is also impossible to parse. My belief is that he's suffering from dementia, but whatever the cause, the man is a moron. Now Reagan was a moron too, but at least he surrounded himself with some fairly rational individuals, and that's fine, no one expects a President to actually personally run every branch of the Government. But now you have someone probably mid-way through a serious cognitive decline who still believes he's some sort of super-genius.
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