Run Microsoft's new design software on all the graphics in MS Office and Windows XP...hopefully it'll get rid of Clippie and that annoying dog that mocks you as you search. Then again, given that it's a Microsoft design program, you'd probably end up with ten million Clippies and dogs.
In the early days of firefighting services, it was all completely privatized and to receive such services, you would have to buy a subscription. This bought you a medallion to place on the outside of you house, so that in the case of fire, the firefighters could see that you had paid for their services. If you had no subscription and no medallion, should you call the fire department for help, they would pass over your house--even if instead of a lousy medallion, there were only a burning house and lives at risk.
The claim that Wi-fi is incomparable in necessity to services like the fire department or policemen is valid enough on a superficial level. Those services provide physical security to a community sure, but what I argue is that while we could live without wi-fi for everybody, our lives would be better off otherwise. Privitization of Internet access has led to this service as a commodity for the elite that can afford it and a great cash cow for the elite that runs it. To deny anyone access to this quell of knowledge and communication, in a democratic society that preaches the spectacular virtues of self-motivated education, would be outdone only by the attempt to privatize water resources.
Then again, most in Los Angeles still pay for bottled water.
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Not the series of tubes, noooo!
Anyone else notice it's Disney again creating all the damn trash?
Well, they do have those trashcans a Disneyland that say "WASTE PLEASE" so...not that surprising.
My new plan:
Run Microsoft's new design software on all the graphics in MS Office and Windows XP...hopefully it'll get rid of Clippie and that annoying dog that mocks you as you search. Then again, given that it's a Microsoft design program, you'd probably end up with ten million Clippies and dogs.
In the early days of firefighting services, it was all completely privatized and to receive such services, you would have to buy a subscription. This bought you a medallion to place on the outside of you house, so that in the case of fire, the firefighters could see that you had paid for their services. If you had no subscription and no medallion, should you call the fire department for help, they would pass over your house--even if instead of a lousy medallion, there were only a burning house and lives at risk.
The claim that Wi-fi is incomparable in necessity to services like the fire department or policemen is valid enough on a superficial level. Those services provide physical security to a community sure, but what I argue is that while we could live without wi-fi for everybody, our lives would be better off otherwise. Privitization of Internet access has led to this service as a commodity for the elite that can afford it and a great cash cow for the elite that runs it. To deny anyone access to this quell of knowledge and communication, in a democratic society that preaches the spectacular virtues of self-motivated education, would be outdone only by the attempt to privatize water resources.
Then again, most in Los Angeles still pay for bottled water.