That's an American myth. It was professional slave-owners, militia and war veterans from French-Indian war who rose up to the British.
And at that time, the British did have a huge problem fighting guerrilla wars due to bad tactics (and they surely didn't work well in the Boer-war either, but then the empire was so strong that it could take the losses, which it couldn't in the 18th century).
You can also note that "citizens" "successfully" fights USA in Iraq and did so in Vietnam.
The problem for the Iranian people is that the regime (The guardian-board who acts like a king and dictate what the democracy under it can do and who can be elected) is fanatic, and the people know that in order to get rid of them, they have to be killed, and most prefer the current situation before civil war and mass slaughter.
Your Alexa-rating is bullshit. Elfpack has Alexa's bullshit traffic rating 124,533 while it has over 40 000 page views per day. And while more than 90% of the users are from the English speaking world, Alexa says most of the viewers comes from a few Arabic countries.
People who read anything will get into trouble, and people who don't read too.
There is no proof what so ever that porn is bad for children. It does have some positive effects of letting kids know about the world they live in though. But you don't want children scared for life after surfing porn together with their mother, so please forget about that nanny-idea that's popping up your heads!
It would be so much better if that mother helped that kid with his math, than acting like a fun-hating sadist.
"Not only that, but it's horribly inefficient for us to build multiple networks."
You are kidding us? It's way cheaper and much better to build three parallel fiber networks than letting one fat monopoly build one network.
As written before here: I, who live in Sweden, have cable-Internet, LAN (100 Mbit) and ADSL (from hundreds of companies) to select from at my apartment. But then we have a pretty free market here, and not the feudal system described in the article.
I read "anti-obesity" and thought "Let's see what failing plan the Americans will try this time.".
But no... Just keep on drinking cola and eat tons of fries! You probably have way too much stomach to be able to reach your genitals soon, which will solve this obscenity "problem"...
It should have been "Abnormal teens have less sex".
Of course it's harder to find someone you like if you're special. Like too smart, too stupid, too fat, too skinny, spend all your time in the stable or in another way don't fit in with everyone.
If only the smart people could find each other, they would surely have plenty of sex.
1) The China regime gets a monopoly, not Microsoft.
2) Payment to Microsoft doesn't go the USA. It goes to Microsoft's investments and business in China. China (or any other country) isn't going to to pay another country for bits that can be copied for free, unless they get something back.
To me it's quite obvious that the Chinese regime clearly has seen the problem with free software that would make public control much harder. Now they just have to call MS and say "Hey, people are using bittorrent to download porn!" and it will be fixed in the next update.
I want a $100-laptop! It's perfect to have to let guests check their emails and surf a little.
I was using a bunch of outdated hardware for this before, but it's too noisy and takes up too much space.
It would also be perfect for my parents to have a computer downstairs when they only want to Google something or so when the other is using the computer.
Generally, I think we'll see a wider and wider range of computers. You can easily buy a standard $10000 computer today, but tomorrow you will be able to buy a standard computer for $100000 without, like today, throwing your money into the sea and get very little extra performance.
And as the number of people buying computers increase, you'll also see more computers made for a specific usage. Like sauna-laptops (stand heat and water), beach-laptops (can take sand, readable screen in sunlight, thief-protection), bathroom-laptops (water-proof), kitchen-laptops (made for greasy hands, easy to clean) and so on.
However, I doubt they will start to sell servers that fit my needs, and I will still be forced to put parts together to get the right disks and enough memory to get the performance I need for a reasonable price.
For home users, I think we'll see Windows paid by advertising. Users keep updating their computers if it's free, and advertisers keep paying money every time their ads are shown. And it's much easier to get money from advertisers, and you can probably get about $100 a year per user without annoying the user too much.
If Microsoft doesn't do this, some Linux-distributions will surely do it. All that's needed is a smart way of distributing the ads like AdWords, but for applications.
Ad-paid Window is already a reality because often when you get a Windows preinstalled, you have gotten a lot of another programs too that someone paid to include, so that the Windows actually costs less than 0. The problem for Microsoft is of course that these programs are making money Microsoft could have made.
You can easily imagine squids, octopus and cuttlefish similar animals building things. They can easily have a huge brain and they surely can manipulate things. But they do have a huge disadvantage: It's very hard to make fire under water. Which means that they have a hard time getting out of the stone age, and even stone working is very hard under water.
But if you think about beavers (which are very likely to form advanced societies given time) and start to imagine something similar in the opposite way. That is: squids living in ships to avoid predators, and they could have lungs. Their lack of bones make it impossible for them ro roam around on land, but floating around in their ships and building more and more advanced vehicles isn't impossible.
Mollusks are probably the most alien thing we can find of earth, so they are a great start-off for the imagination:)
No one really agrees on what "black holes" are, we don't know why the universe seems to be expanding faster and faster, and we generally have two physical models that don't agree with each other (relativity and the different quantum physics theories and their details).
But never the less, these "scientists" write as if they knew there was a big bang. The only big bang I see is when the calculation go bang because the physic theories are only approximations of the real thing. That doesn't say a thing except that something in the theories are wrong, and we already know that. Writing about that God creating everything in seven days on in a big back doesn't help at all.
I'll believe these big bang stories as much as I would believe someone showing an enormous amount of data about the population growth and tell me that there was only 2 people at a time and before that nothing. When these things happen in your calculations, it's a sign that your theory isn't complete.
You can get better and cheaper food with help of the Internet. And if you want to find a cheap and good place to live, then you need the Internet. And if you get sick, then you definitely need to Google some to know about the thing that struck you. Otherwise you risk believing a doctor that is dead wrong, and if you're having a rare disease, some research can easily make you the best expert on it in your town.
So yes, Internet is important. And it will be even more important when people learn how to use it for their everyday life.
Sweden and mainland Europe have a much more unregulated system when it comes to telecommunications and Internet-access, and we have better and cheaper Internet.
USA's biggest problem is that you have free local calls, so many people don't see the point of broadband. Here you basically can't afford to use the Internet unless you are having broadband access. This creates a big market for broadband, and many small companies stimulate the innovation and keep the price down.
In my apartment, I can select to use the 100 MBit-accesspoint from Bredbandsbolaget, the 8/1 MBit from the cable company ComHem or I can use ADSL and there a huge range of operators there, but all use Telia's copper wires.
There has been some government investments in city-nets and such. Maybe that have had a price lowering effect, but the competition and the will to build well and cheap is the main issue.
1) Don't offend people in Sweden, and especially not people who can refuse to sell me beer. 2) Unless you strike at big US-money, no one will bother to sue me who am in another country.
In worst case, I have to take something down. But no one will go through all the trouble to make me do it.
Keep on doing business in another country! Much better than bothering with your local tyrants!
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>"and choosing between eating ar dying isn't really the freedom the founding fathers had in mind."
No, the freedom they had in mind was that no damn Brits should tell them how to treat their slaves. Because you do know some of the founding fathers were slave owners, or is that removed from the patriotic history books?
Anyone can upload their music video to YouTube, my site MusMakers or any other free service. There is no problem here! None! Go away! You can stream audio and even video without problem. No, there is no possibility that some ISP starts to make things like this impossible just to mess with you, because then you will change ISP.
Well, everything Google buys is a little more expensive due to patents and if they are making something new, they have to check that it's not violating others' patents.
And: Google has to get a lot of patents on their own, so that they have something to trade with if someone make one of these vague accusations about patent violations or face expensive trials.
This is a typical thing that happens in a two-party system. About half of the people will start to think something quite insane just because it feels good to agree.
So to all you can't-think-for-myself democrats: Net neutrality laws are plain stupid! Get a grip, damn it! Why do you think that the government is fit to rule how Internet providers charge for their services? Why do you keep on making up problems that just aren't there?
We are having quite fine Internet outside of USA. It's cheaper and faster. But then we don't have morons elected for their good looks who are trying to poke around and disturb the Internet.
Please note that I'm not saying that net neutrality is a bad thing. That we'll see. It's the stupid useless laws and all the discussions about them that is madness. The big old companies are ripping you off with IP and patent laws, and you're debating details in the Internet-bills?!? If your ISP is not offering good access to all the sites you want, then get a better one! It's not like the congress can solve routing problems.
>'Google and YouTube wouldn't be here if not for investment in software and technologies spurred by patent and copyright laws.'
Companies doesn't invest in software because of patents. They invest in paying for lawyers and juridic weapons to destroy for their competitors. You can just as well say that bribing politicians protects investments and benefit development.
But the truth is that companies like Google don't need patents and are generally hurt by them, but SCO lives on them. So... Does this world need more good-for-nothing legal terrorists or companies that actually do something?
In Europe many states took a lot of money from the tele-companies by selling them worthless G3-licenses. I guess that's why they can afford to offer better and cheaper solutions for their customers...
It's almost always like that: If the government gives an industry money, they will start to offer bad services or goods for high prices. Maybe because those industries attract people who have learnt management from Dilbert?
>Here in Australia, all broadband is limited by a quota. The same is true of much of the rest of the world, outside the US.
Eh, what? I've only heard about it from Australia. Never seen it here in Sweden or other parts of Europe except in co-location hotels. But never for Internet home.
USA would never admit that it spies on its citizens and sometimes send them to some more or less secret distant military base where no one is allowed to talk to the prisoners - Especially not people from terrorist-states like the EU ("terrorist state" is of course defined as a place where the respect for the human rights and democracy is better than in USA. That is: Everywhere except a few of USA's allies.).
The biggest problem with spying on the citizens is actually that the citizens have to be able to spy back. You might think it's horrible that everyone can find out everything about you, but it's only open for massive misuse if you can't spy back.
>Under the bill, networking sites that failed to verify ages and failed to obtain parental permission before posting profiles of users under age 18 would face civil penalties of up to $5,000 a day for every day of noncompliance.
Hahahaha! Stuff that fine where the sun never shines! It will never reach my sexy Swedish butt, I can assure you.
Rule #1: If you want to work with media: Do it from another country than the one you're targeting!
in the US, folks like their elbow room and their freedom. overseas, where population densities are higher and the government decides through centrally-owned telcos what to push and basically what it should cost, it can be expected that high-speed like DSL is going to be more availiable and less costly.
The reason why USA is behind is that you have a regulated communist system. First of all it's the free local calls that have destroyed the reason to have anything else than dailup. For example: On Elfpack 15.92% of the US-users have dailup. 0.97% of the Swedes 1.92% of the Dutch have dialup. Secondly it seems it's not that easy to build the needed infrastructure for reasons I don't know about. Here the Internet-companies ask the real estate companies if they build Internet in their houses, and they get a yes. Private homes often have to stay with ADSL, but it's changing.
I pay 320 SEK (45 USD) per month for 100 Mbit (minus about 20% used for other services) and 5 IP-numbers. Most people can't get that, but you can always get 8Mbit up/1 Mbit down ADSL from a great number of companies and most people have access to some cable company too.
Do I have to explain that net neutrality is a non-issue here? That's something for people who think the politicians can run Internet better than the Internet companies and their customers. So it's something for USA and Venezuela (As I think North Korea will be smarter than that)...
You can't blame the Jews, because the Enemy did that. But it's always OK to blame former allies like Russia and China. Not to mention Mexico! Many of the problems in the USA are due to Mexico. Of course, that is as obvious as the fact that you need a WALL to make people stay put to defend the empire of "freedom" ("freedom" is American English for "French", I've heard. France is often against free trade, so maybe it's something about that).
Luckily for USA, all the problems comes from outside, so just close the borders and everything will be OK. I mean: suicide bombers are so un-American and scary. Postal suicide shooters are on the other hand protectors of liberty...
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>citizens to rise up like they did in 1776.
That's an American myth. It was professional slave-owners, militia and war veterans from French-Indian war who rose up to the British.
And at that time, the British did have a huge problem fighting guerrilla wars due to bad tactics (and they surely didn't work well in the Boer-war either, but then the empire was so strong that it could take the losses, which it couldn't in the 18th century).
You can also note that "citizens" "successfully" fights USA in Iraq and did so in Vietnam.
The problem for the Iranian people is that the regime (The guardian-board who acts like a king and dictate what the democracy under it can do and who can be elected) is fanatic, and the people know that in order to get rid of them, they have to be killed, and most prefer the current situation before civil war and mass slaughter.
Your Alexa-rating is bullshit. Elfpack has Alexa's bullshit traffic rating 124,533 while it has over 40 000 page views per day. And while more than 90% of the users are from the English speaking world, Alexa says most of the viewers comes from a few Arabic countries.
People who read anything will get into trouble, and people who don't read too.
There is no proof what so ever that porn is bad for children. It does have some positive effects of letting kids know about the world they live in though. But you don't want children scared for life after surfing porn together with their mother, so please forget about that nanny-idea that's popping up your heads!
It would be so much better if that mother helped that kid with his math, than acting like a fun-hating sadist.
"Not only that, but it's horribly inefficient for us to build multiple networks."
You are kidding us? It's way cheaper and much better to build three parallel fiber networks than letting one fat monopoly build one network.
As written before here: I, who live in Sweden, have cable-Internet, LAN (100 Mbit) and ADSL (from hundreds of companies) to select from at my apartment. But then we have a pretty free market here, and not the feudal system described in the article.
I read "anti-obesity" and thought "Let's see what failing plan the Americans will try this time.".
But no... Just keep on drinking cola and eat tons of fries! You probably have way too much stomach to be able to reach your genitals soon, which will solve this obscenity "problem"...
It should have been "Abnormal teens have less sex".
Of course it's harder to find someone you like if you're special. Like too smart, too stupid, too fat, too skinny, spend all your time in the stable or in another way don't fit in with everyone.
If only the smart people could find each other, they would surely have plenty of sex.
You're missing two important things:
1) The China regime gets a monopoly, not Microsoft.
2) Payment to Microsoft doesn't go the USA. It goes to Microsoft's investments and business in China. China (or any other country) isn't going to to pay another country for bits that can be copied for free, unless they get something back.
To me it's quite obvious that the Chinese regime clearly has seen the problem with free software that would make public control much harder. Now they just have to call MS and say "Hey, people are using bittorrent to download porn!" and it will be fixed in the next update.
I want a $100-laptop! It's perfect to have to let guests check their emails and surf a little.
I was using a bunch of outdated hardware for this before, but it's too noisy and takes up too much space.
It would also be perfect for my parents to have a computer downstairs when they only want to Google something or so when the other is using the computer.
Generally, I think we'll see a wider and wider range of computers. You can easily buy a standard $10000 computer today, but tomorrow you will be able to buy a standard computer for $100000 without, like today, throwing your money into the sea and get very little extra performance.
And as the number of people buying computers increase, you'll also see more computers made for a specific usage. Like sauna-laptops (stand heat and water), beach-laptops (can take sand, readable screen in sunlight, thief-protection), bathroom-laptops (water-proof), kitchen-laptops (made for greasy hands, easy to clean) and so on.
However, I doubt they will start to sell servers that fit my needs, and I will still be forced to put parts together to get the right disks and enough memory to get the performance I need for a reasonable price.
For home users, I think we'll see Windows paid by advertising. Users keep updating their computers if it's free, and advertisers keep paying money every time their ads are shown. And it's much easier to get money from advertisers, and you can probably get about $100 a year per user without annoying the user too much.
If Microsoft doesn't do this, some Linux-distributions will surely do it. All that's needed is a smart way of distributing the ads like AdWords, but for applications.
Ad-paid Window is already a reality because often when you get a Windows preinstalled, you have gotten a lot of another programs too that someone paid to include, so that the Windows actually costs less than 0. The problem for Microsoft is of course that these programs are making money Microsoft could have made.
You can easily imagine squids, octopus and cuttlefish similar animals building things. They can easily have a huge brain and they surely can manipulate things. But they do have a huge disadvantage: It's very hard to make fire under water. Which means that they have a hard time getting out of the stone age, and even stone working is very hard under water.
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But if you think about beavers (which are very likely to form advanced societies given time) and start to imagine something similar in the opposite way. That is: squids living in ships to avoid predators, and they could have lungs. Their lack of bones make it impossible for them ro roam around on land, but floating around in their ships and building more and more advanced vehicles isn't impossible.
Mollusks are probably the most alien thing we can find of earth, so they are a great start-off for the imagination
No one really agrees on what "black holes" are, we don't know why the universe seems to be expanding faster and faster, and we generally have two physical models that don't agree with each other (relativity and the different quantum physics theories and their details).
But never the less, these "scientists" write as if they knew there was a big bang. The only big bang I see is when the calculation go bang because the physic theories are only approximations of the real thing. That doesn't say a thing except that something in the theories are wrong, and we already know that. Writing about that God creating everything in seven days on in a big back doesn't help at all.
I'll believe these big bang stories as much as I would believe someone showing an enormous amount of data about the population growth and tell me that there was only 2 people at a time and before that nothing. When these things happen in your calculations, it's a sign that your theory isn't complete.
You can get better and cheaper food with help of the Internet.
And if you want to find a cheap and good place to live, then you need the Internet.
And if you get sick, then you definitely need to Google some to know about the thing that struck you. Otherwise you risk believing a doctor that is dead wrong, and if you're having a rare disease, some research can easily make you the best expert on it in your town.
So yes, Internet is important. And it will be even more important when people learn how to use it for their everyday life.
Sweden and mainland Europe have a much more unregulated system when it comes to telecommunications and Internet-access, and we have better and cheaper Internet.
USA's biggest problem is that you have free local calls, so many people don't see the point of broadband. Here you basically can't afford to use the Internet unless you are having broadband access. This creates a big market for broadband, and many small companies stimulate the innovation and keep the price down.
In my apartment, I can select to use the 100 MBit-accesspoint from Bredbandsbolaget, the 8/1 MBit from the cable company ComHem or I can use ADSL and there a huge range of operators there, but all use Telia's copper wires.
There has been some government investments in city-nets and such. Maybe that have had a price lowering effect, but the competition and the will to build well and cheap is the main issue.
1) Don't offend people in Sweden, and especially not people who can refuse to sell me beer.
2) Unless you strike at big US-money, no one will bother to sue me who am in another country.
In worst case, I have to take something down. But no one will go through all the trouble to make me do it.
Keep on doing business in another country! Much better than bothering with your local tyrants!
>"and choosing between eating ar dying isn't really the freedom the founding fathers had in mind."
No, the freedom they had in mind was that no damn Brits should tell them how to treat their slaves. Because you do know some of the founding fathers were slave owners, or is that removed from the patriotic history books?
Please let this crap discussion die! Now.
Well, everything Google buys is a little more expensive due to patents and if they are making something new, they have to check that it's not violating others' patents.
And: Google has to get a lot of patents on their own, so that they have something to trade with if someone make one of these vague accusations about patent violations or face expensive trials.
This is a typical thing that happens in a two-party system. About half of the people will start to think something quite insane just because it feels good to agree.
So to all you can't-think-for-myself democrats: Net neutrality laws are plain stupid! Get a grip, damn it! Why do you think that the government is fit to rule how Internet providers charge for their services? Why do you keep on making up problems that just aren't there?
We are having quite fine Internet outside of USA. It's cheaper and faster. But then we don't have morons elected for their good looks who are trying to poke around and disturb the Internet.
Please note that I'm not saying that net neutrality is a bad thing. That we'll see. It's the stupid useless laws and all the discussions about them that is madness. The big old companies are ripping you off with IP and patent laws, and you're debating details in the Internet-bills?!? If your ISP is not offering good access to all the sites you want, then get a better one! It's not like the congress can solve routing problems.
I can't see how spreading lies will help them:
>'Google and YouTube wouldn't be here if not for investment in software and technologies spurred by patent and copyright laws.'
Companies doesn't invest in software because of patents. They invest in paying for lawyers and juridic weapons to destroy for their competitors. You can just as well say that bribing politicians protects investments and benefit development.
But the truth is that companies like Google don't need patents and are generally hurt by them, but SCO lives on them. So... Does this world need more good-for-nothing legal terrorists or companies that actually do something?
In Europe many states took a lot of money from the tele-companies by selling them worthless G3-licenses. I guess that's why they can afford to offer better and cheaper solutions for their customers...
It's almost always like that: If the government gives an industry money, they will start to offer bad services or goods for high prices. Maybe because those industries attract people who have learnt management from Dilbert?
>Here in Australia, all broadband is limited by a quota. The same is true of much of the rest of the world, outside the US.
Eh, what? I've only heard about it from Australia. Never seen it here in Sweden or other parts of Europe except in co-location hotels. But never for Internet home.
USA would never admit that it spies on its citizens and sometimes send them to some more or less secret distant military base where no one is allowed to talk to the prisoners - Especially not people from terrorist-states like the EU ("terrorist state" is of course defined as a place where the respect for the human rights and democracy is better than in USA. That is: Everywhere except a few of USA's allies.).
The biggest problem with spying on the citizens is actually that the citizens have to be able to spy back. You might think it's horrible that everyone can find out everything about you, but it's only open for massive misuse if you can't spy back.
>Under the bill, networking sites that failed to verify ages and failed to obtain parental permission before posting profiles of users under age 18 would face civil penalties of up to $5,000 a day for every day of noncompliance.
Hahahaha! Stuff that fine where the sun never shines! It will never reach my sexy Swedish butt, I can assure you.
Rule #1: If you want to work with media: Do it from another country than the one you're targeting!
The reason why USA is behind is that you have a regulated communist system. First of all it's the free local calls that have destroyed the reason to have anything else than dailup. For example: On Elfpack 15.92% of the US-users have dailup. 0.97% of the Swedes 1.92% of the Dutch have dialup. Secondly it seems it's not that easy to build the needed infrastructure for reasons I don't know about. Here the Internet-companies ask the real estate companies if they build Internet in their houses, and they get a yes. Private homes often have to stay with ADSL, but it's changing.
I pay 320 SEK (45 USD) per month for 100 Mbit (minus about 20% used for other services) and 5 IP-numbers. Most people can't get that, but you can always get 8Mbit up/1 Mbit down ADSL from a great number of companies and most people have access to some cable company too.
Do I have to explain that net neutrality is a non-issue here? That's something for people who think the politicians can run Internet better than the Internet companies and their customers. So it's something for USA and Venezuela (As I think North Korea will be smarter than that)...
You can't blame the Jews, because the Enemy did that. But it's always OK to blame former allies like Russia and China. Not to mention Mexico! Many of the problems in the USA are due to Mexico. Of course, that is as obvious as the fact that you need a WALL to make people stay put to defend the empire of "freedom" ("freedom" is American English for "French", I've heard. France is often against free trade, so maybe it's something about that).
Luckily for USA, all the problems comes from outside, so just close the borders and everything will be OK. I mean: suicide bombers are so un-American and scary. Postal suicide shooters are on the other hand protectors of liberty...