Something tells me this is some kind of an attempt to impose DRM through the cable box, going after people who are accustomed to shelling out for Sports packages through Comcast to get all the games for their sport.
I like soccer, for example, but I don't pay for the Soccer sports packages, just the expanded basic.
But they figure I'll shell out to play the EA FIFA2013 game.
How wrong they are.
I'd rather play inFamous: Second Son on my PS4 without online and shell out the money for seasons tickets for me and my son and my friends to see Sounders FC in the actual stadium instead. Cheaper too.
Here at a small software company in the PNW, we've literally hired hundreds of ex-NSA and similar defense intel people. The vast majority cannot think their way out of a paper bag.... By and large, the NSA people are useless and only here to steal our soda.
You use paper bags? Everyone I know in the PNW uses reusable shopping bags.
The market does not derive price. Price is affected by the jumpers ahead of the queue that shaved milliseconds so they could arbitrage your trade and change your buy price from $10 to $12 and profit their hedge fund.
You must be thinking of the old stock exchanges.
(note: I've been investing since before I bought Apple stock at fire sale prices on Black Monday)
Meanwhile Google hasn't paid more than $1 billion in taxes to France, and almost all tech firms have done the same thing, not paying taxes to the US, based on legal fictions and tax havens (a fancy term for a way they can make the middle class pay for their infrastructure and legal protections without paying even 1/3 the tax rate you do).
Solar is already cheaper than oil, and is competitive with both coal and gas if you remove the cheap land and sea leases and tax exemptions for coal and gas.
Why are we subsidizing industries that create pollution if used as intended and which have not upgraded their base technology for almost 100 years?
Whereas we both agree on what we don't want, it seems, we are at odds on how to achieve that. You'd rather outlaw the things you don't like, whereas I'd like healthy competition to sort things out.
Obviously one of us got his first degree in Business Management and knows that regulation is the only thing that works in the real world
Back when we founded the Solar Energy Society of Canada in the 70s, it was really really expensive.
Now it's cheaper than oil and competitive (if you removed the artificial cheap land leases and tax subsidies for coal) with coal.
So, getting a solar array up into space takes a lot of energy and resources per solar panel (even if film). Transmission also has a cost, and you have to build ground-based receivers - if they miss (drift) it becomes a nightmare.
The same total cost of materials and energy would be better used turning radioactive lands in Japan that nobody will live in, farm on, or work in, into solar panel grids placed over grazing land for experimental animal hybrids, quite frankly.
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I for one welcome our Keyless Hacker Thief Overlords and their sound rule of "No car for you, wireless n00b!"
Um, dude, I live in the West, in Seattle, and we have lots of water.
And lots of flooding.
Perhaps you meant to say "Southern California"?
Will be nice to see Santa Barbara, where my brother and sister and neices and nephews live get some water.
Good point by the Desal power sink post above.
Is this some kind of primitive version of Netscape or Lynx?
Something tells me this is some kind of an attempt to impose DRM through the cable box, going after people who are accustomed to shelling out for Sports packages through Comcast to get all the games for their sport.
I like soccer, for example, but I don't pay for the Soccer sports packages, just the expanded basic.
But they figure I'll shell out to play the EA FIFA2013 game.
How wrong they are.
I'd rather play inFamous: Second Son on my PS4 without online and shell out the money for seasons tickets for me and my son and my friends to see Sounders FC in the actual stadium instead. Cheaper too.
Here at a small software company in the PNW, we've literally hired hundreds of ex-NSA and similar defense intel people. The vast majority cannot think their way out of a paper bag. ... By and large, the NSA people are useless and only here to steal our soda.
You use paper bags? Everyone I know in the PNW uses reusable shopping bags.
Doesn't mean you're not paranoid.
The front corporations are fairly easy to find, just look who buys certain equipment.
After all, since nobody respects the US Constitution, or the Canadian Constitution, or the EU Constitution and their rights, why should we Serfs care?
"First Be Evil" is the motto of Google.
And now Yahoo is doing it.
Wonder where their CEO worked before?
"Lean In" my foot. More like "Steal Muchly".
Way easier.
My fingers get tired in the outer troposphere, though. Need better gloves.
True in Roman times.
True in Victorian times.
True today.
Note to America: That which removes your freedoms out of fear makes you Weaker, not Stronger.
Most of the TEMPEST computers we programmed in the military for SECRET and above back then used 8 inch CP/M floppies.
Our slowest peripherals were the line printers attached.
If it ain't broke don't (*KABOOM!!!*) "fix" it.
The market does not derive price. Price is affected by the jumpers ahead of the queue that shaved milliseconds so they could arbitrage your trade and change your buy price from $10 to $12 and profit their hedge fund.
You must be thinking of the old stock exchanges.
(note: I've been investing since before I bought Apple stock at fire sale prices on Black Monday)
I think you're confused. Texas is one of the largest producers of wind already.
At some point, oil, coal, and gas all go away.
Solar and wind - nope.
Same as the Old Oligarchy
We won't get fooled again
Meanwhile Google hasn't paid more than $1 billion in taxes to France, and almost all tech firms have done the same thing, not paying taxes to the US, based on legal fictions and tax havens (a fancy term for a way they can make the middle class pay for their infrastructure and legal protections without paying even 1/3 the tax rate you do).
Solar is already cheaper than oil, and is competitive with both coal and gas if you remove the cheap land and sea leases and tax exemptions for coal and gas.
Why are we subsidizing industries that create pollution if used as intended and which have not upgraded their base technology for almost 100 years?
Adapt. Or die.
The real innovation left these industries a century ago, which is when the last upgrade to coal plants occurred.
Adapt or die.
Solar is Freedom, not working for Oligarchs, and being able to yell "Freedom!" as you charge the King's Army with battleaxes and claymores drawn!
Is it some kind of poor man's cell phone?
Nobody I know uses watches anymore.
Except really old people.
Some of the stuff that is "copyright" under US law is out of copyright in Canada, the UK, and the EU.
This is why TPP is such a bad idea.
If I want to watch early TV shows, it's none of their business.
After all, Canada isn't in the US, and once he crushes the CBC he can impose mind control.
Awesome! Is that really, what they teach in Business Management? Are you sure, you didn't attend a "School of Government" instead?
You mean Army school? Yes, but a lot of that was how to deal with terrorists.
Unlike you, I worked since my early teens and ran small businesses.
I know it sounds goofy, but has anyone thought of an Aeral Wire Tether? At least there's some support evidence using this.
Yes, I think al-Qaeda proposed that, as an interesting method of doing things.
Whereas we both agree on what we don't want, it seems, we are at odds on how to achieve that. You'd rather outlaw the things you don't like, whereas I'd like healthy competition to sort things out.
Obviously one of us got his first degree in Business Management and knows that regulation is the only thing that works in the real world
Competition, however, would never allow that to happen.
But in the telecom industry it happens all the time.
And in software.
The problem is that solar is really cheap.
Really really cheap.
Back when we founded the Solar Energy Society of Canada in the 70s, it was really really expensive.
Now it's cheaper than oil and competitive (if you removed the artificial cheap land leases and tax subsidies for coal) with coal.
So, getting a solar array up into space takes a lot of energy and resources per solar panel (even if film). Transmission also has a cost, and you have to build ground-based receivers - if they miss (drift) it becomes a nightmare.
The same total cost of materials and energy would be better used turning radioactive lands in Japan that nobody will live in, farm on, or work in, into solar panel grids placed over grazing land for experimental animal hybrids, quite frankly.
I don't mind a DRM logo on a printed part, identifying who made it in an unobstrusive place.
I do mind DRM designed to only allow me to buy a design of something that is already manufactured by many places from just one vendor.
And charge me $20 for a 5 cent part.