Actually, having automatically-enforced speed limits would be a tough call.
Federally, they would like to have this automatically enforced (as there is a huge cost related to speeding, accidents, road wear, etc).
Automatically enforced speed limits sound like a surefire way to off someone you don't like if you're high up in the government, enough to control a car's speed limiter. Just have a single car immediately FREEZE on a certain section of road where stopping is tantamount to death, and you've got a free pass, because who's gonna blame you for a "speed limiter malfunction"?
This will almost certainly be used for this if someone high up gets corrupt enough. That's what scares me.
Saying that if the caps remain steady for four years will result in normal users seeing it is somewhat deceptive as places with caps have a history of raising them periodically.
I have a bad feeling they will lower the caps in response to "piracy" or what have you. I don't expect this to do anything but get worse and worse.
I have serious doubts as to their projected costs. This will have changed so radically in 4 years that these predictions are about as stable as gas predictions that far out.
So essentially, we'll have to bend over for as little as possible?
On the other hand, they are somewhat correct about bandwidth usage becoming more common. My sister and mother both have Skype now and use it regularly, and many people are looking to set-top boxes for NetFlix's on-demand and other services like that. It won't be long now before heavy bandwidth usage forces the ISPs here to seriously consider bandwidth issues.
I'd prefer they forget to consider bandwidth issues at all, because they seem to add restrictions to the service instead of improving it a lot of the time...
I'm not sure how long it will take for people to realize just how bad DRM is.
How about in the vicinity of "never"? The people hurt by this will bitch about it for a while, then go to another provider that will do the same thing for them. We've been conditioned to do so, and thus, will continue to do so till the end of time.
...but it seems the internet is about to lose it's future. It's sad how they want to tear down one of the better tools humanity has come up with in the recent years.
Major media producers cannot change the progression of technology with policy and lawsuits.
No, but they CAN get revenge by ruining people's lives through them. Which is probably what it's really about, seeing as how it doesn't seem to have any other effect.
It's part of the cycle of history. Eventually, masters remove the reasons for slaves no to kill them, and the cycle starts anew.
Hate to break it to you, but that cycle is dead. It's all downhill for the middle and lower classes, and all uphill for the upper clsses until the end of time now. Who owns the bigger guns? Military. Who owns the military? The upper class. Armed resistance, or for that matter, any form of resistance against the upper class will inevitably fail, because they can wipe you off the map or have you "disappeared" with just the push of a button.
It is ridiculous to think that the company owns so much of your life that work should take the highest priority in one's life.
How so? They pay you for work, and that pay is required to continue living. It's probably good business sense to use those that rely on you for survival as much as you can (despite that it's morally questionable, at best).
If you're not lucky enough to be in the upper class, it is never, and I repeat, never, worth jack shit.
It's sad, but that's the world we live in, and it's the world we've been living in since the dawn of time, and it will continue until the end of it. Having an attitude of "I choose what I get to do" will probably end with you out of work and enough companies deciding they don't want to put up with you anymore, and never being able to get a job again due to having a "bad past history with other employers". I'd recommend at least trying to change that attitude a bit. I mean, yes, it's a bad system, but nothing can be done about it...
Suspicion, like so many things, is in the eye of the beholder. And what we term as "suspicious behavior" increasingly is being broadened to "anything different or non-conformist." Basically, the post-9/11 world has made it dangerous to be eccentric.
It's kind of amusing in a sick way if you think about it. We fear and imprison those who act suspicious, until we become so fearful WE act suspicious, and are imprisioned.
The U.S.A. has to re-grow our spine. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Unfortunately, the current powers that be like to rule by exploiting and enhancing the terror of terrorists.
And therein lies the endless loop of destruction for "the commoners". Citizens aren't going to grow a spine until they're lead to do so, and those in power have a vested interest in making sure they never grow a spine.
It's sad, really. In order to escape the cycle, we have to already be out of the cycle. I wish I could remember the term for that.
Government everywhere are always extremely corrupt, it's just the US government lately hasn't been covering their tracks. Don't worry, they'll learn soon and start covering their tracks again.
If that's your standard, the guy who thinks in terms of a movement, who sees the country as a grand collaboration, is always going to come out as dishonest. And the guy who talks about rugged individualism is going to look like a straight shooter, even if his statements on policy are self-contradicting nonsense.
Shooting at anything in a residential area under any circumstances is only for trained law enforcement. That's their entire purpose, so you don't have to.
There are many things I want to talk about in your post, but this stands out the most. If someone is pointing a gun at me, the last thing I want to do is wait for law enforcement to arrive, because by then, there's a good chance I'd be dead. Dead victims are terrible witnesses.
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Automatically enforced speed limits sound like a surefire way to off someone you don't like if you're high up in the government, enough to control a car's speed limiter. Just have a single car immediately FREEZE on a certain section of road where stopping is tantamount to death, and you've got a free pass, because who's gonna blame you for a "speed limiter malfunction"?
This will almost certainly be used for this if someone high up gets corrupt enough. That's what scares me.
And at least the first report would come in only a few days after it happened!
Oh wait..
I have a bad feeling they will lower the caps in response to "piracy" or what have you. I don't expect this to do anything but get worse and worse.
So essentially, we'll have to bend over for as little as possible?
I'd prefer they forget to consider bandwidth issues at all, because they seem to add restrictions to the service instead of improving it a lot of the time...
How about in the vicinity of "never"? The people hurt by this will bitch about it for a while, then go to another provider that will do the same thing for them. We've been conditioned to do so, and thus, will continue to do so till the end of time.
...but it seems the internet is about to lose it's future. It's sad how they want to tear down one of the better tools humanity has come up with in the recent years.
No, but they CAN get revenge by ruining people's lives through them. Which is probably what it's really about, seeing as how it doesn't seem to have any other effect.
Hate to break it to you, but that cycle is dead. It's all downhill for the middle and lower classes, and all uphill for the upper clsses until the end of time now. Who owns the bigger guns? Military. Who owns the military? The upper class.
Armed resistance, or for that matter, any form of resistance against the upper class will inevitably fail, because they can wipe you off the map or have you "disappeared" with just the push of a button.
It's not so much wrong as it is incredibly unlikely...
How so? They pay you for work, and that pay is required to continue living. It's probably good business sense to use those that rely on you for survival as much as you can (despite that it's morally questionable, at best).
If you're not lucky enough to be in the upper class, it is never, and I repeat, never, worth jack shit.
It's sad, but that's the world we live in, and it's the world we've been living in since the dawn of time, and it will continue until the end of it. Having an attitude of "I choose what I get to do" will probably end with you out of work and enough companies deciding they don't want to put up with you anymore, and never being able to get a job again due to having a "bad past history with other employers". I'd recommend at least trying to change that attitude a bit. I mean, yes, it's a bad system, but nothing can be done about it...
Because they're a large corporation. The laws don't apply to them the same way they apply to the commoners.
It's kind of amusing in a sick way if you think about it. We fear and imprison those who act suspicious, until we become so fearful WE act suspicious, and are imprisioned.
And therein lies the endless loop of destruction for "the commoners". Citizens aren't going to grow a spine until they're lead to do so, and those in power have a vested interest in making sure they never grow a spine.
It's sad, really. In order to escape the cycle, we have to already be out of the cycle. I wish I could remember the term for that.
In that case, they'd probably classify wearing a face covering as "suspicious".
Suspicious? He's already in Gitmo.
Don't forget the added benefit of driving anyone the city doesn't like into poverty.
I'm betting way, way more thought "Same old, what are you gonna do, things will always get worse as usual no matter what."
And the sad thing is, they're right.
No, they just don't want to deal with the complaints from the minority of the people they govern who actually care nitpicking at it.
They could do it publicly easily, but they would get bothered more.
Use the frequency 140.85, they'll listen to whatever comes down that line no matter what.
They should really look into other ways to deploy something like this. Maybe something that could be injected into a person. Perhaps nanotechnology?
Government everywhere are always extremely corrupt, it's just the US government lately hasn't been covering their tracks. Don't worry, they'll learn soon and start covering their tracks again.
That's communist thinking there citizen.
I've always preferred the idea of "If your children do not inherit your sins and guilt, they will recreate them." as opposed to that.
There are many things I want to talk about in your post, but this stands out the most. If someone is pointing a gun at me, the last thing I want to do is wait for law enforcement to arrive, because by then, there's a good chance I'd be dead. Dead victims are terrible witnesses.