Yeah, it was still about $200 for 29 minutes of phone calls from England back to California last November. The secret is text messages to set up a Skype/Facetime session. Much less expensive.
Or you keep acting as a shill for monopolies that steal our public bandwidth (through taxes and exclusivity agreements) and bribe politicians for exclusive access. A made up claim that monopolies deserve anything isn't a claim either.
Also, looked at your link -- where's the cap? Cox has this magic 250GB cap they don't mention until you hit it. Then they want you to move to business class. Then they lie to you about the speed you are guaranteed in writing. Then they tell you to frack off if you don't like it. I can't find anything there about a cap on the AT&T Internet. Their top speed listed as Power is "up to 45 Mbps". Why the ambiguity? In England, I get the guaranteed 162 Mbps for $5 more because of competition. Even Cox gives me 50 mbps as the low end on business boradband, even though I pay for 80, and get 32. sigh
Also, AT&T has subjectively worse customer service than even Cox. When we tried the TV service I was on the phone for 2.5 hours waiting to ask why I had no TV signal.
Yes, they screwed up the Internet so bad when they first installed there they were sued by the city to correct the situation. In the meantime, most of the city didn't have broadband for a couple of month. Also, AT&T's latency is almost unwatchable to this day. I particularly liked when they rolled out wirelss TV and received a 20% drop in subscriptions according to the senior field engineer in Chula Vista. They also destroyed my power lines in my neighborhood causing a two-day power outage. I sure liked that. No thank you. But if they would let us have access to the fiber that supports every municipal building the area this wouldn't be an issue because someone like Virgin Media would move in an put the monopolies out of business.
So, in order for my comment to be valid I must somehow produce the exact mordida monopolies extract from customers in the entire Southern California region? Could you be more obtuse?
First of all, the idea that the government can run anything well is ridiculous.
Which should make you wonder what the frack is wrong when people would rather have the government step in than keep the same bullshit politician-bribe generated monopolies in place across America.
Seriously, the President hires Tom Wheeler for the FCC? Can we please retro Mitt Romney into office? How could it possibly be any worse?
I pay more than that for 80 Mbps in San Diego with Cox while receiving maybe 32 Mbps when I check every week for my speed log I'll be presenting to the next city council meeting for San Diego and Chula Vista.
What I'm fine with is having competition instead of the current situation where some local official gets $20K in his reelection fund and we pay $100,000,000 in "fair compensation" to the monopolies.
I really wanted to moderate but this bullshit changed my mind.
When the companies are openly bribing politicians to create monopolies and regulating the possible competition out of business it has become the responsiblity of government to step in. The situation we have with Cox, Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner as ISPs easily constitutes a larger set of monopolies than ever existed when AT&T telco was broken up. There is no competition in San Diego, where I live. The choices you have are screw you and bend over. Cox acknowledges they can't even provide the contracted business services I paid for but their answer isn't to meet the contract, it's OFW. Cox is the only high-speed choice I have in my area, period, in my Chula Vista suburb, population 252,422. You sir, are full of crap and these ISPs should all be broken into competitive zones. If this happens I only hope Virgin Media moves into my suburb as they are outstanding at the flat in England I'm staying in at the moment.
The difference between our viewpoints is that while either of us might be correct in some aspects, at least I'm willing to see as much spent on this research as finding out how Chinese hookers get drunk. Just saying.
Just wait until an 80,000lb truck going 60mph starts flipping up those tiles like flapjacks.
I'd have to agree that I think THIS will be the real test involved. But considering we give millions away on bullshit at the federal level, at least this has a goal that people can recognize.
Trying to figure out where the cheap inexpensive roads are that you're demanding? Current technology in road systems doesn't appear to have made any quantum leaps lately. Still hundreds of millions a year in America to fix existing roads. Seems like a worthwhile research project to even costs out for the infrastructure.
We're not looking for crystals, we're looking for metals, IMO. Not a single process you mentioned makes metals; need stars for that. If an asteroid simply had concentrations of the most base metals it would be worth mining for nothing more than processed metals being already in space vice conventional rocket fuel lifting them up from Earth. Either way, mining asteroids is an easy way to get materials processed in space without a single environmental concern for our planet.
As to your last comment, how would you possibly know that it is hardly a gateway to the planets or stars in the next century? It's obvious that the process would save effectively trillions of dollars in fuel over dead lifting from Earth. Therefore, you're just wrong in your premise that processing these raw materials in space is not a gateway component to X. All it would take is one good precious metal find to completely disrupt the idiocracy economy we have based upon those products. Metals in asteroids are distributed throughout their body, making them easier to extract. Asteroids contain valuable and useful materials like iron, nickel, water, and rare platinum group metals, often in significantly higher concentration than found in mines on Earth.
A single water-rich 500-meter-wide asteroid contains 80 times more water than the largest supertanker could carry and could provide, if the water were converted to rocket propellant, more than 200 times the rocket fuel required to launch all the rockets ever launched in human history. ref:
A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid may contain the equivalent of all the Platinum Group Metals mined in history. "Many of the scarce metals and minerals on Earth are in near-infinite quantities in space. As access to these materials increases, not only will the cost of everything from microelectronics to energy storage be reduced, but new applications for these abundant elements will result in important and novel applications," said Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc. ref:
So, in conclusion you are simply wrong. The level of effort we have spent mining on Earth is far most costly that asteroid mining appears to be, and the ROI appears extraordinary compared to the issues we deal with now. If rare earths were found in any concentration you would literally remove most of the current mandatory reasons for existing on Earth.
Yet we still spend more on gladiatorial game tax relief in America than space research throughout the entire planet.
Fair point. However, I should point out that red/green color deficiency can make the person immune to camouflage. Personally, I see hunters and other types standing out against almost any canopy.
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Yeah, it was still about $200 for 29 minutes of phone calls from England back to California last November. The secret is text messages to set up a Skype/Facetime session. Much less expensive.
Or you keep acting as a shill for monopolies that steal our public bandwidth (through taxes and exclusivity agreements) and bribe politicians for exclusive access. A made up claim that monopolies deserve anything isn't a claim either.
Also, looked at your link -- where's the cap? Cox has this magic 250GB cap they don't mention until you hit it. Then they want you to move to business class. Then they lie to you about the speed you are guaranteed in writing. Then they tell you to frack off if you don't like it. I can't find anything there about a cap on the AT&T Internet. Their top speed listed as Power is "up to 45 Mbps". Why the ambiguity? In England, I get the guaranteed 162 Mbps for $5 more because of competition. Even Cox gives me 50 mbps as the low end on business boradband, even though I pay for 80, and get 32. sigh
Also, AT&T has subjectively worse customer service than even Cox. When we tried the TV service I was on the phone for 2.5 hours waiting to ask why I had no TV signal.
Yes, they screwed up the Internet so bad when they first installed there they were sued by the city to correct the situation. In the meantime, most of the city didn't have broadband for a couple of month. Also, AT&T's latency is almost unwatchable to this day. I particularly liked when they rolled out wirelss TV and received a 20% drop in subscriptions according to the senior field engineer in Chula Vista. They also destroyed my power lines in my neighborhood causing a two-day power outage. I sure liked that. No thank you. But if they would let us have access to the fiber that supports every municipal building the area this wouldn't be an issue because someone like Virgin Media would move in an put the monopolies out of business.
So, in order for my comment to be valid I must somehow produce the exact mordida monopolies extract from customers in the entire Southern California region? Could you be more obtuse?
Then GTFO and let companies like Virgin Media move in who seem capable of making plenty of profit throughout freaking Europe!
Yes, so many Republicans ruined Detroit! Moron.
First of all, the idea that the government can run anything well is ridiculous.
Which should make you wonder what the frack is wrong when people would rather have the government step in than keep the same bullshit politician-bribe generated monopolies in place across America.
Seriously, the President hires Tom Wheeler for the FCC? Can we please retro Mitt Romney into office? How could it possibly be any worse?
Well played, sir.
Jealous I am.
I pay more than that for 80 Mbps in San Diego with Cox while receiving maybe 32 Mbps when I check every week for my speed log I'll be presenting to the next city council meeting for San Diego and Chula Vista.
Just checked. High speed internet is cheaper in Moscow, Russia than in San Diego, CA.
Already paying higher taxes because of the tax breaks for ISPs and the higher fees they simply kill us with because there is no competition.
What I'm fine with is having competition instead of the current situation where some local official gets $20K in his reelection fund and we pay $100,000,000 in "fair compensation" to the monopolies.
Too funny! $15 minimum wage from DINOs. LOL Morons
I really wanted to moderate but this bullshit changed my mind.
When the companies are openly bribing politicians to create monopolies and regulating the possible competition out of business it has become the responsiblity of government to step in. The situation we have with Cox, Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner as ISPs easily constitutes a larger set of monopolies than ever existed when AT&T telco was broken up. There is no competition in San Diego, where I live. The choices you have are screw you and bend over. Cox acknowledges they can't even provide the contracted business services I paid for but their answer isn't to meet the contract, it's OFW. Cox is the only high-speed choice I have in my area, period, in my Chula Vista suburb, population 252,422. You sir, are full of crap and these ISPs should all be broken into competitive zones. If this happens I only hope Virgin Media moves into my suburb as they are outstanding at the flat in England I'm staying in at the moment.
The difference between our viewpoints is that while either of us might be correct in some aspects, at least I'm willing to see as much spent on this research as finding out how Chinese hookers get drunk. Just saying.
Or you can spend the money to see how Chinese hookers get drunk, or such.
Just wait until an 80,000lb truck going 60mph starts flipping up those tiles like flapjacks.
I'd have to agree that I think THIS will be the real test involved. But considering we give millions away on bullshit at the federal level, at least this has a goal that people can recognize.
Trying to figure out where the cheap inexpensive roads are that you're demanding? Current technology in road systems doesn't appear to have made any quantum leaps lately. Still hundreds of millions a year in America to fix existing roads. Seems like a worthwhile research project to even costs out for the infrastructure.
We're not looking for crystals, we're looking for metals, IMO. Not a single process you mentioned makes metals; need stars for that. If an asteroid simply had concentrations of the most base metals it would be worth mining for nothing more than processed metals being already in space vice conventional rocket fuel lifting them up from Earth. Either way, mining asteroids is an easy way to get materials processed in space without a single environmental concern for our planet.
As to your last comment, how would you possibly know that it is hardly a gateway to the planets or stars in the next century? It's obvious that the process would save effectively trillions of dollars in fuel over dead lifting from Earth. Therefore, you're just wrong in your premise that processing these raw materials in space is not a gateway component to X. All it would take is one good precious metal find to completely disrupt the idiocracy economy we have based upon those products. Metals in asteroids are distributed throughout their body, making them easier to extract. Asteroids contain valuable and useful materials like iron, nickel, water, and rare platinum group metals, often in significantly higher concentration than found in mines on Earth.
A single water-rich 500-meter-wide asteroid contains 80 times more water than the largest supertanker could carry and could provide, if the water were converted to rocket propellant, more than 200 times the rocket fuel required to launch all the rockets ever launched in human history. ref:
A single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid may contain the equivalent of all the Platinum Group Metals mined in history. "Many of the scarce metals and minerals on Earth are in near-infinite quantities in space. As access to these materials increases, not only will the cost of everything from microelectronics to energy storage be reduced, but new applications for these abundant elements will result in important and novel applications," said Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Planetary Resources, Inc. ref:
So, in conclusion you are simply wrong. The level of effort we have spent mining on Earth is far most costly that asteroid mining appears to be, and the ROI appears extraordinary compared to the issues we deal with now. If rare earths were found in any concentration you would literally remove most of the current mandatory reasons for existing on Earth.
Yet we still spend more on gladiatorial game tax relief in America than space research throughout the entire planet.
So is the Earth. Whoopie!
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Fair point. However, I should point out that red/green color deficiency can make the person immune to camouflage. Personally, I see hunters and other types standing out against almost any canopy.
Yes, but if we can mine osmium, iridium, and platinum by just melting an asteroid it would seem the better way to go.