And fracking produces natural gas along the way. So much so that there is a glut of natural gas. So that does make the cost of natural gas plants attractive so long as fracking keeps the price down. The plant costs are so high that utilities can't change course quickly, as they're stuck with any choices they make for a very long time. Changes mostly happen through replacement cycles.
Other than the focus group and market testing to find out what style ad is technically notice while not actually being noticed by the largest percentage of shoppers. Notice designed and product tested to make sure it's not noticed isn't poor design.
It needs to include some of the junk fax law remedies. Make sure the victim has a civil cause of action and that they have a statutory means to attach assets in merchant accounts used to collect payments if it's a robo-sales call. i.e. provide a method so I can record incoming telemarketing scam calls, make a straw man purchase that's flagged and then turn that over to an FCC team that's funded by splitting the civil penalty.
Imagine a cell phone app for this, like existing 'record my call' android apps that overlay a few menu buttons during the call. Press the 'scammer' button to get a flagged purchase credit card number that'll put a temporary auto-freeze on the assets of the offending merchant account, or 'robocall' (or something similar) to flag that call and require the telco to turn over the ANI or other real, verified call origin info that the telco positively has for billing purposes to the FCC (via the app or otherwise). Click verify or cancel after the call concludes, add any notes into the app and send off to the FCC.
Empower the FCC to adopt rule making to curtail scammers attempts to bypass the penalties. You'll need a way to handle callers who source calls from telcos in regions that won't enforce the fines. Perhaps instituting escalating call volume restrictions on call source telcos where uncollected fines pass a threshold. Calls actually incur small fees for transit and completion. You could add a surcharge to those fees that scales with violating call volume, and put the tax revenue into a fund to pay the civil penalties. Scale the tax both to collect the fines and to discourage foreign telcos from playing the 'not my problem' game. The gist though is that the scammers will alter tactics and that the FCC needs the tools to adapt as that happens.
Individuals own and pay for their own phones. That's their podium/forum. 3rd parties have no first amendment rights to their/our phones only their own.
So, if politicians were interested in fixing it you could require all 'legal' robocalls to have a standard identifier as a robocall, and a further category one for the type. Then mandate a method for choosing whether to get those calls controlled by the recipient. I'd like both a do not call list and a user controlled filter, possibly based on a new secure caller ID. (could be normal caller ID on the user end, so long as the telco verifies accuracy)
So you can filter 'RoboPol' from ringing your phone, but allow 'RoboDR' or 'RoboAppointment' so you can get appointment reminders or pharmacy notices that your prescription is ready. i.e. keep the things useful to you
You can require that political calls of any kind must identify the source in an accurate way without any misleading naming or obfuscation of the source. The groups involved must be identified, and name shell games are probibited. i.e. a new shell group every week so they seem to be from a different source, or calls designed to annoy you by groups naming themselves in a way designed to mislead to smear their opposition should be prohibited.
The robo calls I'm getting forge the caller ID to show a random local exchange number. The telco has info - they wouldn't let anyone make a call without knowing who to bill but you have to pay for an 800 number or the like to get actual, real 'caller ID info' - unless the telcos have made that not be complete to add another layer of 'pay more and this time you'll get caller info Charlie Brown! - Lucy'.
Telcos need to filter call origin info vs data in the call info.
Getting a true identity of the offender is a problem. The group getting the financial benefit is the one we want to find, as they're funding the problem and they have the money to pay the fine. The FCC needs the power to setup tracked payment cards for this purpose. So if as in my case a medical provider sold my medical records to a medical device robocall spammer, I can record the call and make a purchase with the flagged card. The purchase auto-flags the account at the credit card issuing bank level and places a freeze on the vendors account if it's in a cooperating country, or blocks it from the US banking system if not.
They can't use erosion to estimate because it's under a glacier. For the same reason they can't sample the crater basin to use other methods unless they get funding for core samples. It sounds like they're being honest about their inability to date the crater beyond crude 'had to have happened after this distant geological event because the crater alters that geological feature instead of the other way around', which can tell you 'it didn't happen earlier than' but doesn't give satisfying information about when it did happen.
NA mega fauna extinction coincided with the arrival of humans. African mega fauna co-evolved with humans, NA mega fauna didn't. The extinction spreads north to south with the human migration.
CSB: That extinction strongly contributed to holding back civilization advances in the Americas as there were no usefully domesticatable beasts of burden and those turn out to be a big deal for food production, which is a requirement for being able to support trade specialists.
Had an iphone 4. apple makes IOS updates mandatory to retain full phone functionality. Updates wipe the phone, so the process is backup, wipe/install, recover. One update, apple changed the recovery step to report a fake error if you had any media on the phone not purchased from apple. Nor could you get the data out of the backup, it's locked like the phone. I lost photos, notes and videos I made. Somewhat later I learned about the 'problem' being intentional and a lawsuit over it.
I'm done with them. They deliberately destroyed my data.
We ask this question because lawyers write the laws that govern the outcome, sit on the bench to adjudicate and are required to seek effective redress. If lawyers created a system where they profit, but the injured party is never made whole that matters. i.e. if lawyers make sure they get theirs when the victim doesn't that matters; when the injustice would make a nice sound-bite for a news story lawyers make the rule looser pays legal fees of winner so they don't come out of the award that should be making the injured party whole. (i.e. Lemon law car refunds - you don't get a $30k lemon car, sue, win - and then have $20k of the lawyer's fees taken out and you now have a $20k auto loan to pay and no car)
As a condition of care you sign a form authorizing sharing of data with 'certain partners' to facilitate care, or you get no treatment. See? It's voluntary now. If you're in the UK or Canada, then it's single payer and the state decided for you. We know you have a herniated disk in your back, so pick up that can - hahahahah!
Here in the US, workers comp is similar. You have no choice, and they sell your data for a nickle. Now I'm getting calls 5-10 times a week from medical device scammers who have been sold my medical history. If I'm on facebook, the adds are about my medical condition. But everyone claims they never sold the data, it was someone else and you can't prove anything hah hah hah. Right.
1 G10 per Al Gore isn't efficient - but then Earth is in the lurch for little people. (or - he wouldn't live in the huge home etc if he thought the crisis was as dire as he made out... - but would if he stood to make money on carbon credits)
Well, they really can't know how much it costs until they run your credit. That's why the hospital admit form asks for everything on a credit app. For major bills, has anyone noticed that the bill is your available cash + available credit + at least 1 year salary? There is a reason they will NOT post pricing up front.
CSB: I paid in full for 3 days of EEG monitoring/reading results etc ($2,600). The company switched the bill from an in network shell, to an out of network shell then changed the charges to $30k/Day and added the day to add and remove the monitoring to make it 5 days for a $150k total. They had language in the original consent for saying 'may be billed under a different name'.:/
Usually they're all broken when that happens. The knob on my seat switch broke on my '01 SLK. Mercedes would only sell the lower seat assembly for $650! (essentially a plastic cover, the seat switch and the tiny plastic knob I needed) On ebay, I found every seat and seat switch assembly had that knob broken. It was a defective design in the first place.
I had a bright idea to check parts for it's sister car, the Chrysler Crossfire. I could get a new lower seat assembly for $150 instead of $650 - cheaper than a used Benz one with a broken knob. They'd changed the plug ends hoping to make it impossible to avoid the $650 price, but I can solder so it was no problem to move the plug.
The radios in 90s lumina's had knobs that shrank, then split on the shafts. It happened to every one I saw. No used repairs with those. In fact, replacements would fail too unless they were made from a higher quality plastic. (aka, I've seen extremely high failure rate knobs due to design in multiple makes)
"requests made to HomePod are given a random identifier that cannot be tied to a person"
Now, they can be tied to an apple account, and that can be tied to a persons file* of course. Our ad revenue depends on it!
*File contains credit report, purchasing history, web browsing history, location history, people associated with, average economic class, political beliefs, employer, sexual orientation, medical conditions, hobbies, social graph, porn habits/strip club visits/any other possibly embarrassing leverage etc = you've got nothing to hide, right?!? It's ok if we have all of your personal info but you have none of ours, right?
If the right political elite have been paid off though, then the astroturfing helps support their bought and paid for political position. aka the fake support makes their position look like listening to the voters.
The question I've got though - why did they allow themselves to be caught?
Telcos control how many email domains and IP addresses? Why exactly were there any duplicates at all? Every single one could have appeared to come from a customer IP, from a generic @telco.com email domain that you'd be unable to easily distinguish from a real one. They could use IP spoofing to mass sign up for Gmail accounts too...
Color is how we distinguish light frequency. That's what color is!
I think they're ready for a kickstarter! Who could you trust more!?! Maybe they could add something about solar roadway glasses so we know they're 100% legit and know what they're talking about.
That's because the surveillance state isn't a mistake, but... it's benefit is reserved for the connected/powerful. Private use by the little people threatens it's use and value for the connected and so it's got to be punished. Why, the connected's misdeeds might be exposed!
Always has been based on qualifications. Just because you can't figure out what those are doesn't mean it's not so.
Back room political influence - why is Al Gore on the board of Apple?
Rain Maker - be in a position to steer business
Graft - be the relative of a politician being paid off
Buddies - you're on my board if I'm on yours and we'll watch each others back. (from, say, board vote to devalue only your stock options, spin off all your equity in a new corp that has all the debt, etc)
Lots of ways for that to happen that aren't 'business skill'. Protection from politicians who basically do a 'board seat or your company dies - it'd be a shame for something to happen' type thing... Or do you think senators have that money for no reason? This law sounds like a power grab to give law makers the power to destroy more generally vs just the ones on the right committees.
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And fracking produces natural gas along the way. So much so that there is a glut of natural gas. So that does make the cost of natural gas plants attractive so long as fracking keeps the price down. The plant costs are so high that utilities can't change course quickly, as they're stuck with any choices they make for a very long time. Changes mostly happen through replacement cycles.
Other than the focus group and market testing to find out what style ad is technically notice while not actually being noticed by the largest percentage of shoppers. Notice designed and product tested to make sure it's not noticed isn't poor design.
You misspelled 'wealthy gov't contractors who don't want their feeding trough upset'.
It needs to include some of the junk fax law remedies. Make sure the victim has a civil cause of action and that they have a statutory means to attach assets in merchant accounts used to collect payments if it's a robo-sales call. i.e. provide a method so I can record incoming telemarketing scam calls, make a straw man purchase that's flagged and then turn that over to an FCC team that's funded by splitting the civil penalty.
Imagine a cell phone app for this, like existing 'record my call' android apps that overlay a few menu buttons during the call. Press the 'scammer' button to get a flagged purchase credit card number that'll put a temporary auto-freeze on the assets of the offending merchant account, or 'robocall' (or something similar) to flag that call and require the telco to turn over the ANI or other real, verified call origin info that the telco positively has for billing purposes to the FCC (via the app or otherwise). Click verify or cancel after the call concludes, add any notes into the app and send off to the FCC.
Empower the FCC to adopt rule making to curtail scammers attempts to bypass the penalties. You'll need a way to handle callers who source calls from telcos in regions that won't enforce the fines. Perhaps instituting escalating call volume restrictions on call source telcos where uncollected fines pass a threshold. Calls actually incur small fees for transit and completion. You could add a surcharge to those fees that scales with violating call volume, and put the tax revenue into a fund to pay the civil penalties. Scale the tax both to collect the fines and to discourage foreign telcos from playing the 'not my problem' game. The gist though is that the scammers will alter tactics and that the FCC needs the tools to adapt as that happens.
Individuals own and pay for their own phones. That's their podium/forum. 3rd parties have no first amendment rights to their/our phones only their own.
So, if politicians were interested in fixing it you could require all 'legal' robocalls to have a standard identifier as a robocall, and a further category one for the type. Then mandate a method for choosing whether to get those calls controlled by the recipient. I'd like both a do not call list and a user controlled filter, possibly based on a new secure caller ID. (could be normal caller ID on the user end, so long as the telco verifies accuracy)
So you can filter 'RoboPol' from ringing your phone, but allow 'RoboDR' or 'RoboAppointment' so you can get appointment reminders or pharmacy notices that your prescription is ready. i.e. keep the things useful to you
You can require that political calls of any kind must identify the source in an accurate way without any misleading naming or obfuscation of the source. The groups involved must be identified, and name shell games are probibited. i.e. a new shell group every week so they seem to be from a different source, or calls designed to annoy you by groups naming themselves in a way designed to mislead to smear their opposition should be prohibited.
The robo calls I'm getting forge the caller ID to show a random local exchange number. The telco has info - they wouldn't let anyone make a call without knowing who to bill but you have to pay for an 800 number or the like to get actual, real 'caller ID info' - unless the telcos have made that not be complete to add another layer of 'pay more and this time you'll get caller info Charlie Brown! - Lucy'.
Telcos need to filter call origin info vs data in the call info.
Getting a true identity of the offender is a problem. The group getting the financial benefit is the one we want to find, as they're funding the problem and they have the money to pay the fine. The FCC needs the power to setup tracked payment cards for this purpose. So if as in my case a medical provider sold my medical records to a medical device robocall spammer, I can record the call and make a purchase with the flagged card. The purchase auto-flags the account at the credit card issuing bank level and places a freeze on the vendors account if it's in a cooperating country, or blocks it from the US banking system if not.
They can't use erosion to estimate because it's under a glacier. For the same reason they can't sample the crater basin to use other methods unless they get funding for core samples. It sounds like they're being honest about their inability to date the crater beyond crude 'had to have happened after this distant geological event because the crater alters that geological feature instead of the other way around', which can tell you 'it didn't happen earlier than' but doesn't give satisfying information about when it did happen.
NA mega fauna extinction coincided with the arrival of humans. African mega fauna co-evolved with humans, NA mega fauna didn't. The extinction spreads north to south with the human migration.
CSB: That extinction strongly contributed to holding back civilization advances in the Americas as there were no usefully domesticatable beasts of burden and those turn out to be a big deal for food production, which is a requirement for being able to support trade specialists.
Had an iphone 4. apple makes IOS updates mandatory to retain full phone functionality. Updates wipe the phone, so the process is backup, wipe/install, recover. One update, apple changed the recovery step to report a fake error if you had any media on the phone not purchased from apple. Nor could you get the data out of the backup, it's locked like the phone. I lost photos, notes and videos I made. Somewhat later I learned about the 'problem' being intentional and a lawsuit over it.
I'm done with them. They deliberately destroyed my data.
We ask this question because lawyers write the laws that govern the outcome, sit on the bench to adjudicate and are required to seek effective redress. If lawyers created a system where they profit, but the injured party is never made whole that matters. i.e. if lawyers make sure they get theirs when the victim doesn't that matters; when the injustice would make a nice sound-bite for a news story lawyers make the rule looser pays legal fees of winner so they don't come out of the award that should be making the injured party whole. (i.e. Lemon law car refunds - you don't get a $30k lemon car, sue, win - and then have $20k of the lawyer's fees taken out and you now have a $20k auto loan to pay and no car)
As a condition of care you sign a form authorizing sharing of data with 'certain partners' to facilitate care, or you get no treatment. See? It's voluntary now. If you're in the UK or Canada, then it's single payer and the state decided for you. We know you have a herniated disk in your back, so pick up that can - hahahahah!
Here in the US, workers comp is similar. You have no choice, and they sell your data for a nickle. Now I'm getting calls 5-10 times a week from medical device scammers who have been sold my medical history. If I'm on facebook, the adds are about my medical condition. But everyone claims they never sold the data, it was someone else and you can't prove anything hah hah hah. Right.
Are we not waiting until it's off the main page before posting dupes anymore?
Dupes were better back before dicedot. #cowboyneal
1 G10 per Al Gore isn't efficient - but then Earth is in the lurch for little people. (or - he wouldn't live in the huge home etc if he thought the crisis was as dire as he made out... - but would if he stood to make money on carbon credits)
Well, they really can't know how much it costs until they run your credit. That's why the hospital admit form asks for everything on a credit app. For major bills, has anyone noticed that the bill is your available cash + available credit + at least 1 year salary? There is a reason they will NOT post pricing up front.
:/
CSB: I paid in full for 3 days of EEG monitoring/reading results etc ($2,600). The company switched the bill from an in network shell, to an out of network shell then changed the charges to $30k/Day and added the day to add and remove the monitoring to make it 5 days for a $150k total. They had language in the original consent for saying 'may be billed under a different name'.
Yep. It's a profit center. 5,000% markup? Bonuses all around!
Usually they're all broken when that happens. The knob on my seat switch broke on my '01 SLK. Mercedes would only sell the lower seat assembly for $650! (essentially a plastic cover, the seat switch and the tiny plastic knob I needed) On ebay, I found every seat and seat switch assembly had that knob broken. It was a defective design in the first place.
I had a bright idea to check parts for it's sister car, the Chrysler Crossfire. I could get a new lower seat assembly for $150 instead of $650 - cheaper than a used Benz one with a broken knob. They'd changed the plug ends hoping to make it impossible to avoid the $650 price, but I can solder so it was no problem to move the plug.
The radios in 90s lumina's had knobs that shrank, then split on the shafts. It happened to every one I saw. No used repairs with those. In fact, replacements would fail too unless they were made from a higher quality plastic. (aka, I've seen extremely high failure rate knobs due to design in multiple makes)
Exactly! And they've seen Apple make even music playing require a per-device-supported royalty payment and get away with it.
The first multi-national company who decided they don't want anyone else to be able to use it.
"requests made to HomePod are given a random identifier that cannot be tied to a person"
Now, they can be tied to an apple account, and that can be tied to a persons file* of course. Our ad revenue depends on it!
*File contains credit report, purchasing history, web browsing history, location history, people associated with, average economic class, political beliefs, employer, sexual orientation, medical conditions, hobbies, social graph, porn habits/strip club visits/any other possibly embarrassing leverage etc = you've got nothing to hide, right?!? It's ok if we have all of your personal info but you have none of ours, right?
West Texas with all the sun you want, and the huge wind farms if you're looking for clean power.
If the right political elite have been paid off though, then the astroturfing helps support their bought and paid for political position. aka the fake support makes their position look like listening to the voters.
The question I've got though - why did they allow themselves to be caught?
Telcos control how many email domains and IP addresses? Why exactly were there any duplicates at all? Every single one could have appeared to come from a customer IP, from a generic @telco.com email domain that you'd be unable to easily distinguish from a real one. They could use IP spoofing to mass sign up for Gmail accounts too...
When you can sell them all on Ebay? :p
Exactly. They've discovered polarized sunglasses! Genius!
Color is how we distinguish light frequency. That's what color is!
I think they're ready for a kickstarter! Who could you trust more!?! Maybe they could add something about solar roadway glasses so we know they're 100% legit and know what they're talking about.
That's because the surveillance state isn't a mistake, but... it's benefit is reserved for the connected/powerful. Private use by the little people threatens it's use and value for the connected and so it's got to be punished. Why, the connected's misdeeds might be exposed!
Always has been based on qualifications. Just because you can't figure out what those are doesn't mean it's not so.
Back room political influence - why is Al Gore on the board of Apple?
Rain Maker - be in a position to steer business
Graft - be the relative of a politician being paid off
Buddies - you're on my board if I'm on yours and we'll watch each others back. (from, say, board vote to devalue only your stock options, spin off all your equity in a new corp that has all the debt, etc)
Lots of ways for that to happen that aren't 'business skill'. Protection from politicians who basically do a 'board seat or your company dies - it'd be a shame for something to happen' type thing... Or do you think senators have that money for no reason? This law sounds like a power grab to give law makers the power to destroy more generally vs just the ones on the right committees.