Satellite internet access is so shitty. It goes out constantly, doesn't deliver on promised speeds, and has ridiculous data plans. I had one of the largest data plans at 10 GB a month. I had hunted to find the best satellite provider and got Wild Blue. The customer service, ugh, that was the worst. They knew you literally had no other options besides dialup so I would get charged with random shit and have to spend 5 days on the phone trying to get my money back. Eventually I had my internet cut off because they said I downloaded the Matrix (?) and demanded $200 as a settlement offer and I told them to duck off.
3mbps satellite? I pay $70/month for "10 mbps" which actually gives me about 70 kbps. Only option for me, living at the intersection of buttfuck and nowhere..5 mbps would be a huge relief. Dialup speeds on the modern Internet suck so much. Fuck you very much, exede satellite Internet.
Yeah, selling access to it would be leasing. I see what you mean with the retention of control, but unless these provisions were really terribly drafted selling access to it is going to be leasing activity, since it would be trading use of the asset for the rent, even if the use isn't exclusive and the control remains with the municipality.
I RTFA and got the first two words of the headline backwards, reading "Police State Acknowledge Use Of Cell Phone Tracking Device."
Guess it's really the same either way, though.
I'd be ok with it too if it meant that Granny paid very little, but I think that we'll see Granny paying the same amount she currently is while everyone else gets to pay out the ass without being able to turn to alternate ISPs. It's not like this is really going to lower anyone's monthly fees, even Granny's; it's just an excuse to charge more.
I would love to be proven wrong, but that's just not the business model these creeps run.
I'm not a fan of the iPhone, personally. I have some friends with them, and they love them, but my experience messing with them is rather "eh." What I do like is that ATT, Verizon, Sprint, etc, are all starting to really compete with each other. Service areas are being expanded, and since the coming of the iPhone other carriers are beginning to step up their game with their hardware. I love my Droid X, but I wonder if it would have come to market if not for the iPhone. In my (relatively rural) area, Verizon was the only available carrier until the iPhone hit market, and there was enough demand for the iPhone that ATT expanded into the area, giving us actual choices around here for service.
Even if all carriers are bloodsucking jerkwads, at least with competition we get to choose our method of bloodsucking, and I think that, at least in my rural area, phone choices and coverage have exploded since the iPhone.
Android, iPhone, 10-pound-brick-phone, whatever, at least now the carriers are trying to offer different things, and I think the market competition is great! I hope it continues!
In a society completely driven by efficiency we become nothing more than cogs in a big machine we can't understand. Without engineers and scientists our ability to technologically advance would be brought to a halt, but without philosophers and historians our ability to connect to each other and our common history is similarly halted.
As a university student in America, I agree that intellectual curiosity is a rarity. I take one random class every semester about something I know nothing about - a new language, history of a different region, that sort of thing - and my friends just don't understand taking a class that isn't required for graduation. College seems to be now entirely for job preparation: people get to college, pick what they feel is the highest-paying career field they are interested in, steamroll their way through, and then enter the workforce. The idea of knowledge for knowledge's sake is disappearing.
Or is it just that universities are more accessible now? Maybe there are just as many knowledge-lovers attending and participating in universities, but they're simply drowned out by the people who view universities as trade schools now that more people are able to attend.
Oh thank you! I read "begs the question" used inappropriately so many times a day and it makes me cringe. At this point, however, it almost seems prudent to have two definitions: one philosophical and one common use.
I think the idea is that a lot of kids dread those kinds of activities, so they associate physical exercise with discomfort. They're not just trying to make kids do the exercises but to make them enjoy being active, something that will stay with them for years after gym is done.
Whether the schools should be charged with this responsibility is another matter, but if the goal is to try to get this generation to stay active and not obese, then DDR is a great way to do that.
I've also been pretty impressed with Speakeasy. The connection never goes out, I get speeds that are actually better than what I signed up for... I really hope that the new tiered internet crap doesn't mess them up.
Simply because warcrimes have happened in the past doesn't make it acceptable to commit them now. The Japanese detainment was an embarassment to us, and we as a nation have tried to compensate for what we did to them, and formal apologies have been issued. In the past, men claimed women as property. Does that make it right to have happened then? Does it make it right for it to happen now? We should be trying to learn from our mistakes, not using our mistakes as justification for further errors of judgement.
James Yee, American soldier, Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo.
Was captured at an airport once he left duty as chaplain, detained at Guantanamo for quite some time, no trial, nothing.
And that's just one I know off the top of my head.
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My thought exactly. It seems kind of pointless to increase speed while increasingly limiting data per month.
Satellite internet access is so shitty. It goes out constantly, doesn't deliver on promised speeds, and has ridiculous data plans. I had one of the largest data plans at 10 GB a month. I had hunted to find the best satellite provider and got Wild Blue. The customer service, ugh, that was the worst. They knew you literally had no other options besides dialup so I would get charged with random shit and have to spend 5 days on the phone trying to get my money back. Eventually I had my internet cut off because they said I downloaded the Matrix (?) and demanded $200 as a settlement offer and I told them to duck off.
3mbps satellite? I pay $70/month for "10 mbps" which actually gives me about 70 kbps. Only option for me, living at the intersection of buttfuck and nowhere. .5 mbps would be a huge relief. Dialup speeds on the modern Internet suck so much. Fuck you very much, exede satellite Internet.
Yeah, selling access to it would be leasing. I see what you mean with the retention of control, but unless these provisions were really terribly drafted selling access to it is going to be leasing activity, since it would be trading use of the asset for the rent, even if the use isn't exclusive and the control remains with the municipality.
I RTFA and got the first two words of the headline backwards, reading "Police State Acknowledge Use Of Cell Phone Tracking Device." Guess it's really the same either way, though.
I'd be ok with it too if it meant that Granny paid very little, but I think that we'll see Granny paying the same amount she currently is while everyone else gets to pay out the ass without being able to turn to alternate ISPs. It's not like this is really going to lower anyone's monthly fees, even Granny's; it's just an excuse to charge more. I would love to be proven wrong, but that's just not the business model these creeps run.
I'm not a fan of the iPhone, personally. I have some friends with them, and they love them, but my experience messing with them is rather "eh." What I do like is that ATT, Verizon, Sprint, etc, are all starting to really compete with each other. Service areas are being expanded, and since the coming of the iPhone other carriers are beginning to step up their game with their hardware. I love my Droid X, but I wonder if it would have come to market if not for the iPhone. In my (relatively rural) area, Verizon was the only available carrier until the iPhone hit market, and there was enough demand for the iPhone that ATT expanded into the area, giving us actual choices around here for service. Even if all carriers are bloodsucking jerkwads, at least with competition we get to choose our method of bloodsucking, and I think that, at least in my rural area, phone choices and coverage have exploded since the iPhone. Android, iPhone, 10-pound-brick-phone, whatever, at least now the carriers are trying to offer different things, and I think the market competition is great! I hope it continues!
In a society completely driven by efficiency we become nothing more than cogs in a big machine we can't understand. Without engineers and scientists our ability to technologically advance would be brought to a halt, but without philosophers and historians our ability to connect to each other and our common history is similarly halted.
As a university student in America, I agree that intellectual curiosity is a rarity. I take one random class every semester about something I know nothing about - a new language, history of a different region, that sort of thing - and my friends just don't understand taking a class that isn't required for graduation. College seems to be now entirely for job preparation: people get to college, pick what they feel is the highest-paying career field they are interested in, steamroll their way through, and then enter the workforce. The idea of knowledge for knowledge's sake is disappearing. Or is it just that universities are more accessible now? Maybe there are just as many knowledge-lovers attending and participating in universities, but they're simply drowned out by the people who view universities as trade schools now that more people are able to attend.
Oh thank you! I read "begs the question" used inappropriately so many times a day and it makes me cringe. At this point, however, it almost seems prudent to have two definitions: one philosophical and one common use.
I think the idea is that a lot of kids dread those kinds of activities, so they associate physical exercise with discomfort. They're not just trying to make kids do the exercises but to make them enjoy being active, something that will stay with them for years after gym is done. Whether the schools should be charged with this responsibility is another matter, but if the goal is to try to get this generation to stay active and not obese, then DDR is a great way to do that.
I've also been pretty impressed with Speakeasy. The connection never goes out, I get speeds that are actually better than what I signed up for... I really hope that the new tiered internet crap doesn't mess them up.
Simply because warcrimes have happened in the past doesn't make it acceptable to commit them now. The Japanese detainment was an embarassment to us, and we as a nation have tried to compensate for what we did to them, and formal apologies have been issued. In the past, men claimed women as property. Does that make it right to have happened then? Does it make it right for it to happen now? We should be trying to learn from our mistakes, not using our mistakes as justification for further errors of judgement.
James Yee, American soldier, Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo. Was captured at an airport once he left duty as chaplain, detained at Guantanamo for quite some time, no trial, nothing. And that's just one I know off the top of my head.
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