It wasn't that long ago that scientists thought the world was flat, the stars were fixed in the sky, and everything revolved around the Earth....I wonder how stupid scientists will think we are 2000 years from now...
that this is a case of the state having an unfair advantage over a business. This is much like the case of the US Postal Service trying to compete with the likes of UPS and FedEx. The postal service has a "potentially" limitless source of funds while the respective companies are restricted by market forces. This all means that the post office can prcatice predatory pricing, operating at a loss to capture more market share, and FedEx/UPS would not be able to compete. This relates to the current situation in that if a city decides to invest taxpayer money in a fiber network and then give it away for free, or make it part of the tax burden, they would be practicing predatory pricing, unfairly using their position of privledge to take away a market for a company such as Bell South and profiting from that privledge. Much like monopolies do to lesser competitors today.
The way that the fourth amendment was intended to be interpreted was that the government couldn't just come into your house without a reason and ransack your stuff because they didn't like you or because they wanted to do a "fishing expedition" (which probably happened a lot when before the revolution). It is BECAUSE of the fourth amendment that RIAA has to go to court to PROVE that there is a reason to break down your door and take your crap. This is a case of where the legal system *gasp* actually worked, and protected the people it was supposed to. When enough of these "good" decisions are handed down from the courts it will create a precident which will prevent the RIAA from pulling a lot of the crap that it does today.
Yes and assuming that the odds are against us and that this thing is going to hit us on Friday 13th 2029 and knowing what we know about how fast governemnt/NASA works, it will take 23 1/2 years just to move the neccessary paperwork through the bureaucracy and by then you are basically screwed
-OR-
A couple of years in advance of impact the US, Russia, the new European Superstate, and anyone else who has a few nukes to spare, could just launch a whole bunch of them at on particular side of the thing in the hopes that it the explosion would nudge it a few degrees off course. It would kill two birds with one stone: Stave off impending doom and deplete nuclear stockpiles....which is also like staving off impending doom.
And if that doesn't work, me, Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan, and a few others are having a shindig over at my place.
Merry Christma-kwanzaa-chanika-festivus/.
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lost credibility...on a hypothetical article? interesting
It wasn't that long ago that scientists thought the world was flat, the stars were fixed in the sky, and everything revolved around the Earth....I wonder how stupid scientists will think we are 2000 years from now...
that this is a case of the state having an unfair advantage over a business. This is much like the case of the US Postal Service trying to compete with the likes of UPS and FedEx. The postal service has a "potentially" limitless source of funds while the respective companies are restricted by market forces. This all means that the post office can prcatice predatory pricing, operating at a loss to capture more market share, and FedEx/UPS would not be able to compete. This relates to the current situation in that if a city decides to invest taxpayer money in a fiber network and then give it away for free, or make it part of the tax burden, they would be practicing predatory pricing, unfairly using their position of privledge to take away a market for a company such as Bell South and profiting from that privledge. Much like monopolies do to lesser competitors today.
The way that the fourth amendment was intended to be interpreted was that the government couldn't just come into your house without a reason and ransack your stuff because they didn't like you or because they wanted to do a "fishing expedition" (which probably happened a lot when before the revolution). It is BECAUSE of the fourth amendment that RIAA has to go to court to PROVE that there is a reason to break down your door and take your crap. This is a case of where the legal system *gasp* actually worked, and protected the people it was supposed to. When enough of these "good" decisions are handed down from the courts it will create a precident which will prevent the RIAA from pulling a lot of the crap that it does today.
Yes and assuming that the odds are against us and that this thing is going to hit us on Friday 13th 2029 and knowing what we know about how fast governemnt/NASA works, it will take 23 1/2 years just to move the neccessary paperwork through the bureaucracy and by then you are basically screwed -OR- A couple of years in advance of impact the US, Russia, the new European Superstate, and anyone else who has a few nukes to spare, could just launch a whole bunch of them at on particular side of the thing in the hopes that it the explosion would nudge it a few degrees off course. It would kill two birds with one stone: Stave off impending doom and deplete nuclear stockpiles....which is also like staving off impending doom. And if that doesn't work, me, Jack Daniels, Captain Morgan, and a few others are having a shindig over at my place. Merry Christma-kwanzaa-chanika-festivus /.
Bah! Humbug ;)