You are right, but you are also comparing apples and oranges. You can't compare Luxembourg where you can cover the entire country with 5 cell towers, thus you get "better coverage" with United States, where a wireless startup would need hundreds of billions of dollars to deploy a nation-wide network that is feasible and marketable. Everything is different: size of investment, final product, pricing structure, etc.
It must be nice for the Europeans to reap the benefits and investment that Americans put into emerging technologies...or the Russians, going straight to G4 without any intermediate business costs and investments.
So hang on, you are saying that giving monopoly status to a handful of companies is a good thing, but when they abuse that status and mistreat consumers, that's bad, and there needs to be MORE regulation so fix that? Where does it end? Full government owned and operated, is that the perfect ISP?
Why not allow municipalities to create their own infrastructure and let anyone to pull fiber throughout town for real competition? See how that will change the market? Or allow an investor to use private property (home to home) to create city-wide networks? Creative people could come up with all kinds of solutions, if allowed.
Well the solution is certainly not to let a fraud-laden government put in place regulations to control the very people that pay for their political campaigns. How is that going so far?:)
Look, the problem is very easy to identify: money! If the government has no money, it has no power. Identify and implement a system of taxation that is fair to all, and the problems will go away on their own. Politicians play favors because they have money to throw around. No money = no favors = no power.
You also repeated the same strawman attack i mentioned above against Free Markets. Don't you get it? Free markets have nothing to do with "private sector." If there is fraud, there is a legal system to deal with it; but don't bring the "good taste and morality" bullshit in the conversation because that makes me roll my eyes too.
When a politician assigns economic benefits to corporations through his or her political standing, that's crony capitalism and it has little or nothing in common with free markets where only fraud and violence is regulated, while property is being freely exchanged by individuals and organizations.
Currently the U.S. is not a free-market economy; it is a crony-capitalist and mixed-market economy where a new class of wealthy elites control the masses through the political class and/or political donations. When people blame "free markets" for the recent economic collapse, they usually talk through their asses. Example: Michael Moore's anti capitalism film - perfect strawman attack.
Your examples are fallacious. Internet and telephone are heavily regulated in the U.S. worse yet, they are also monopolies (that's the exact opposite of a free market, where competition -- my original point -- exists). I lived in Europe too...for most of my life. Stuff is cheap there because landlines/telecom are often heavily subsidized by governments through high taxation.
I am not willing to pay $5 a month for a 100 meg line to the Internet and have 50% of my paycheck taken away. I will happily pay $100 a month for my fast connection...you pay for your own internet, wireless, etc.
Oh, and as far as "markets fail" - every market that failed in the US in the past 2 years or so was heavily subsidized and had marked government involvement. Throw in some examples if you have any, I am curious so see what un-regulated, un-subsidized private market failed?
Imagine that! Competition works! If regulators would only get that through their heads...with enough time, consumers will win in the end as a result of competition.
Maybe Apple will finally get it through their heads and open up the iPhone for real development; doubt it though...
Having lived for most of my life in the "east" under Communism, I am sure that this announcement is hot air...along the lines of nationalistic-pride type of goals that both the U.S. and USSR used to pump out on a regular basis during the cold war. Russia can barely keep up with paying their military bills; their nuclear subs are barely staying afloat and space program is not doing well; it's unthinkable that in this economic climate they will spend the kind of money required to accomplish this.
That's the problem with crowds listening to someone like that on TV. They will say "we only eat natural stuff." My response is: mercury occurs naturally, so why don't eat it? Or why are you opposed to smoking "natural" tobacco? There are many things that occur naturally that will kill you or harm you.
It's madness out there. People go insane over the Bovine Growth Hormone (BVH) but they don't understand that it's produced naturally in the cow's pituitary gland. We could go on forever with ridiculous examples like this. They don't listen. In fact, they call people like you and I uninformed!
Yes but was it ORGANIC Kinkgo?? That is the question! This test was obviously conducted by real doctors who don't want us to know the truth about the power of eating weeds that grow in exotic jungles.
Why isn't Amazon getting into the publishing business to avoid all these greedy publisher problems? They have enough weight to put out ebooks without the involvement of people who seek out to drain every dollar from the author of the book, so I am not getting it. Perhaps contractual obligations prevent them from doing so, but we are no longer living in the time when only the guy with the printing press dictated how things are done. Or am I wrong?
That's a good point, however the modern man has been drinking coffee en masse for what...a hundred or two hundred years? What's the worst that can happen? We stop drinking coffee, we sleep better, work less and are less strung out. That sounds all good to me:)
So they are running out of boogie men - now it's "you'll lose your daily caffeine." Coffee trees enjoy warm climates; what if "global warming" will BENEFIT coffee crops? Most of these guys don't know their asses from their coffee cups, how do they know how an entire species of trees will react to climate change?
That tree survived for millions of years on a planet that faced all kinds of cataclysmic events; I am sure it will be just fine, especially under the protection of mankind.
I'm not in favor of regulation, so my answer is "never" - using a cell phone is not a constitutional right or a necessity, so I will not buy one or use their services.
I couldn't say it better; the contract people sign with Verizon is voluntary...nobody is holding a gun to your head, so go to a competitor. The market will sort things out in the end.
I use them for all the domains I manage (maybe about 200+ domains) and forged spam has disappeared since. It doesn't take that much time to set it up, so why not do it?
I can't read TFA since I don't have a NYT account, but what if the suspect had a laptop or netbook on his person; wouldn't the police need a separate search warrant to search that specific machine? A cell phone is not different, is it? It sounds like a good decision to me.
I didn't know someone asked him for the passwords over the phone. If that's true, he will never be convicted..there is no way.
One the other hand, he really should have figured out a way to avoid escalating the situation. If you discover your boss is spying on you, go to the CIO and find out why it's happening.
I am not here to defend or attack the guy by the way. I am saying how I would have handled the situation.
I agree, the problem is that nobody ever gets punished if the fault is clearly resting with the officers. Perhaps the incident was filmed and we'll see/hear for ourselves what actually happened.
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You are right, but you are also comparing apples and oranges. You can't compare Luxembourg where you can cover the entire country with 5 cell towers, thus you get "better coverage" with United States, where a wireless startup would need hundreds of billions of dollars to deploy a nation-wide network that is feasible and marketable. Everything is different: size of investment, final product, pricing structure, etc.
It must be nice for the Europeans to reap the benefits and investment that Americans put into emerging technologies...or the Russians, going straight to G4 without any intermediate business costs and investments.
So hang on, you are saying that giving monopoly status to a handful of companies is a good thing, but when they abuse that status and mistreat consumers, that's bad, and there needs to be MORE regulation so fix that? Where does it end? Full government owned and operated, is that the perfect ISP?
Why not allow municipalities to create their own infrastructure and let anyone to pull fiber throughout town for real competition? See how that will change the market? Or allow an investor to use private property (home to home) to create city-wide networks? Creative people could come up with all kinds of solutions, if allowed.
Well the solution is certainly not to let a fraud-laden government put in place regulations to control the very people that pay for their political campaigns. How is that going so far? :)
Look, the problem is very easy to identify: money! If the government has no money, it has no power. Identify and implement a system of taxation that is fair to all, and the problems will go away on their own. Politicians play favors because they have money to throw around. No money = no favors = no power.
You also repeated the same strawman attack i mentioned above against Free Markets. Don't you get it? Free markets have nothing to do with "private sector." If there is fraud, there is a legal system to deal with it; but don't bring the "good taste and morality" bullshit in the conversation because that makes me roll my eyes too.
When a politician assigns economic benefits to corporations through his or her political standing, that's crony capitalism and it has little or nothing in common with free markets where only fraud and violence is regulated, while property is being freely exchanged by individuals and organizations.
Currently the U.S. is not a free-market economy; it is a crony-capitalist and mixed-market economy where a new class of wealthy elites control the masses through the political class and/or political donations. When people blame "free markets" for the recent economic collapse, they usually talk through their asses. Example: Michael Moore's anti capitalism film - perfect strawman attack.
Your examples are fallacious. Internet and telephone are heavily regulated in the U.S. worse yet, they are also monopolies (that's the exact opposite of a free market, where competition -- my original point -- exists). I lived in Europe too...for most of my life. Stuff is cheap there because landlines/telecom are often heavily subsidized by governments through high taxation.
I am not willing to pay $5 a month for a 100 meg line to the Internet and have 50% of my paycheck taken away. I will happily pay $100 a month for my fast connection...you pay for your own internet, wireless, etc.
Oh, and as far as "markets fail" - every market that failed in the US in the past 2 years or so was heavily subsidized and had marked government involvement. Throw in some examples if you have any, I am curious so see what un-regulated, un-subsidized private market failed?
Imagine that! Competition works! If regulators would only get that through their heads...with enough time, consumers will win in the end as a result of competition.
Maybe Apple will finally get it through their heads and open up the iPhone for real development; doubt it though...
When in fact Skynet becomes self aware, this will be a good thing for the dude :)
Having lived for most of my life in the "east" under Communism, I am sure that this announcement is hot air...along the lines of nationalistic-pride type of goals that both the U.S. and USSR used to pump out on a regular basis during the cold war. Russia can barely keep up with paying their military bills; their nuclear subs are barely staying afloat and space program is not doing well; it's unthinkable that in this economic climate they will spend the kind of money required to accomplish this.
That's the problem with crowds listening to someone like that on TV. They will say "we only eat natural stuff." My response is: mercury occurs naturally, so why don't eat it? Or why are you opposed to smoking "natural" tobacco? There are many things that occur naturally that will kill you or harm you.
It's madness out there. People go insane over the Bovine Growth Hormone (BVH) but they don't understand that it's produced naturally in the cow's pituitary gland. We could go on forever with ridiculous examples like this. They don't listen. In fact, they call people like you and I uninformed!
Yes but was it ORGANIC Kinkgo?? That is the question! This test was obviously conducted by real doctors who don't want us to know the truth about the power of eating weeds that grow in exotic jungles.
Why isn't Amazon getting into the publishing business to avoid all these greedy publisher problems? They have enough weight to put out ebooks without the involvement of people who seek out to drain every dollar from the author of the book, so I am not getting it. Perhaps contractual obligations prevent them from doing so, but we are no longer living in the time when only the guy with the printing press dictated how things are done. Or am I wrong?
Those are great recommendations, thanks!
That's a good point, however the modern man has been drinking coffee en masse for what...a hundred or two hundred years? What's the worst that can happen? We stop drinking coffee, we sleep better, work less and are less strung out. That sounds all good to me :)
So they are running out of boogie men - now it's "you'll lose your daily caffeine." Coffee trees enjoy warm climates; what if "global warming" will BENEFIT coffee crops? Most of these guys don't know their asses from their coffee cups, how do they know how an entire species of trees will react to climate change?
That tree survived for millions of years on a planet that faced all kinds of cataclysmic events; I am sure it will be just fine, especially under the protection of mankind.
I hear vibrating cell phones can also cause constipation if they end up in someone's butt. Where is the warning for that??
It's a million to one shot, Doc. A million to one!
I'm not in favor of regulation, so my answer is "never" - using a cell phone is not a constitutional right or a necessity, so I will not buy one or use their services.
I couldn't say it better; the contract people sign with Verizon is voluntary...nobody is holding a gun to your head, so go to a competitor. The market will sort things out in the end.
I use them for all the domains I manage (maybe about 200+ domains) and forged spam has disappeared since. It doesn't take that much time to set it up, so why not do it?
I can't read TFA since I don't have a NYT account, but what if the suspect had a laptop or netbook on his person; wouldn't the police need a separate search warrant to search that specific machine? A cell phone is not different, is it? It sounds like a good decision to me.
I didn't know someone asked him for the passwords over the phone. If that's true, he will never be convicted..there is no way.
One the other hand, he really should have figured out a way to avoid escalating the situation. If you discover your boss is spying on you, go to the CIO and find out why it's happening.
I am not here to defend or attack the guy by the way. I am saying how I would have handled the situation.
It's called CYA - report it to your direct manager, if you are overridden, have it all in writing for the blame game which is certain to happen later.
Another example of government thinking they know better than you and I. We are stupid, they are smart, thus they need to make decisions on our behalf.
If I was as wise as I am now when I was in college, I would definitely do things differently and more along these lines. I love this.
I agree, the problem is that nobody ever gets punished if the fault is clearly resting with the officers. Perhaps the incident was filmed and we'll see/hear for ourselves what actually happened.
Um, yes.
Stand up for your rights to ignore police orders all you want, but don't be pissed when your ass is locked up in a cold cell for a night.