Hmm.. guess I gotta differ there. I vote based on what I think is best for the country, you vote to win a 5th-grade level argument. I'm guessing life treats me nicer than it does you.
It would perhaps depend on the state barred interference and how many of them did so. California, for example, is about a $2.7 trillion GDP state with about $120 billion in revenue that the government spends on stuff each year. Part of that is their cable bill, so to speak, and it's a big number. California, and any other state, can say "we'll spend our money with the companies that interfere less according to our laws, and not use the ones who interfere more." Again, it can be a big chunk of change, and it's revenue an ISP gives up at its peril.
And in California, again as an example, the carriers can't really can't scoff at such a law or rule for long, and certainly, all the lobbying they did wouldn't influence the current California Governor or really the legislature of the state much at all. Probably not successive ones either. In other states, YMMV, but any 2-3 other reasonably large states acting in concert could exert similar pressures if they so chose, and likewise, any 8-10 other moderately sized ones could as well. And if it worked in California, they'd be likely to.
Also, remember, the ISPs would be in violation of the law, for whatever that's still worth these days.
Odd thing is, Ice IX has already been discovered IRL. But it doesn't have the ability to freeze the ocean. (I think it's up to about 17 ice crystalline forms so far..)
You do know that "since he took office" doesn't necessarily imply that he's "making things better", right? My income has increased also, quite a bit in nominal terms for this and near-term years. But I still think the guy's a disgrace. I can still live quite comfortably netting somewhat less, and I'd prefer to do so if it meant not living in a ruthless shithole of a society that had the respect of very few, and respected back in similar amounts.
You can always fucking turn fucking SAILOR-MODE off if you just press the little fucking Angel key on your keyboard, the one with the Angel with the shit-eating grin as its symbol. Christ.
And thanks for the perceptive observations as well. (Yes, I just pressed the key.)
The problem is, many of don't have that level of choice with their ISP, or anywhere near that. If we all did, we'd all be bitchin' about how much we had to pay for our paltry 500Mbps download speeds. So we should give them a choice. We give them a reasonable timeframe to surrender their de facto monopolies (both ISPs and the relevant government officials) or they get to spend 5-10 in prison. We present it as a win-win for them. "Hey look, we're being agreeable here. We've decided not to just kill you, yet." Markets that are so inherently anti-competitive simply don't work well, except for the very few who profit from them. A certain portion of getting the internet to us might best be treated like a public utility, because they simply need to be. Not sure quite how to finely structure it. But, political careers should hang on the balance of whether it works well enough. The rest should be left open to actual competition. Where you can just say, "Sorry, not as good as Brand B. I'll try them." That ever-present threat is what makes enterprises do a decent job.
Of course, it would also be instructive for a Google or somebody or the populace to just start killing 'em. That's how civilization has historically solved such problems.
I have terrible handwriting too, and terrible typing skills for someone who does it every day, a lot. But I take written notes. The reason is that I can scrawl faster than I can type, although I'm the only one who could ever read it and make sense of it. The formulation of ideas that you're on the receiving end of has been pretty well shown to enhance the recall of them later. It cements the memories in your brain and allows your mind to process them further. For me, the only way to get this effect is to scrawl shit down. Even if I never read it again, I remember it better and can use it better. If I could type it fast enough to do this, maybe I would. But I can't, so I scrawl it. If I write down a grocery list and then lose it, I usually remember it just right.
If typing does this for you, then great. Handwriting does it for me.
It's politics as tribalism, and both the "Right" and "Left" sides of the political spectrum (and not just the politicians but the whole voting populace) are descending into it more and more. It's applying evolutionarily hardwired behaviors that may have been applicable to groups of 30 or 300 to a group of 350 million. And it does not work. You could call it caveman behavior, except that I suspect that prehistoric man may have been more rational, not being so subject to constant streams of manipulation and faced with simpler issues. The kind of issues wherein rational thought was more obviously important, because subscribing to bullshit was so obviously fatal. We like to flatter ourselves that us civilized folk are so much better than those of 12,000 years ago, then we engage in types of group-think that would have made them cringe once they understood them.
Yes, you are correct. I work in high-throughput low-latency software tools where wave propagation times and switching element delays become gating factors. At near-light speed and with fewer switching hops to and from, the potential is for there to be a net gain. If it's well-exploited. If not, it's worth correspondingly less. Hmm... I wonder if they have engineers working on this? Oh, that's right, they do.
I tend to agree. It is a high-risk, high-reward venture of Musk's part. If they structure their pricing effectively to capture market share, they can deliver broadband at an affordable cost, with a profit margin.
High-risk, high-reward stuff seems to be Elon's stock-in-trade. The bet is whether he's right often enough to win overall.
I was waiting for this reply or I was going to post it myself. And for those whom it helps to have it in simile form -- to a business, profits are like nutrition, cash flow is like oxygen.
Good catch, but since this is Slashdot you now are supposed to attack yourself for being such a spelling-Nazi, about yourself. Then you'll need to rebut that, pointing out that words matter.
One of the Australian "lower level govvie drones" quoted in the article was the premier of South Australia, so not exactly lower level. Your theme seems to be that those in government are always stupid, corporations making profit is always evil, and absolute cynicism about everything is always warranted. You could be replaced by one of those little dippy drinking birds placed in the voting booth every election and the world wouldn't even notice your nonexistence.
Hey, it's Alaska Airlines, maybe they can get some old clips of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens explaining how the Internet is a "series of tubes", as the next step in their curriculum toward a highly-valued certificate in "Understanding Computers Via Inappropriate Metaphors".
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across the US. Statistics rarely account for the extra hours spent managing post-office work
Well, why would they? For most people, the extra hours spent managing the post-office is not all that significant.
This post is to notify you that I am appropriating the term Fad Lobe as my own.
Found some tribalist partisan imbecile's lost pet parrot.
All their base are belong to them.
Hmm.. guess I gotta differ there. I vote based on what I think is best for the country, you vote to win a 5th-grade level argument. I'm guessing life treats me nicer than it does you.
Social queues are cocaine?
Cue the appy apps guy.
It would perhaps depend on the state barred interference and how many of them did so. California, for example, is about a $2.7 trillion GDP state with about $120 billion in revenue that the government spends on stuff each year. Part of that is their cable bill, so to speak, and it's a big number. California, and any other state, can say "we'll spend our money with the companies that interfere less according to our laws, and not use the ones who interfere more." Again, it can be a big chunk of change, and it's revenue an ISP gives up at its peril.
And in California, again as an example, the carriers can't really can't scoff at such a law or rule for long, and certainly, all the lobbying they did wouldn't influence the current California Governor or really the legislature of the state much at all. Probably not successive ones either. In other states, YMMV, but any 2-3 other reasonably large states acting in concert could exert similar pressures if they so chose, and likewise, any 8-10 other moderately sized ones could as well. And if it worked in California, they'd be likely to.
Also, remember, the ISPs would be in violation of the law, for whatever that's still worth these days.
Odd thing is, Ice IX has already been discovered IRL. But it doesn't have the ability to freeze the ocean. (I think it's up to about 17 ice crystalline forms so far..)
You do know that "since he took office" doesn't necessarily imply that he's "making things better", right? My income has increased also, quite a bit in nominal terms for this and near-term years. But I still think the guy's a disgrace. I can still live quite comfortably netting somewhat less, and I'd prefer to do so if it meant not living in a ruthless shithole of a society that had the respect of very few, and respected back in similar amounts.
Why? Is he using SpaceX to fill their heads with fuel components?
You can always fucking turn fucking SAILOR-MODE off if you just press the little fucking Angel key on your keyboard, the one with the Angel with the shit-eating grin as its symbol. Christ.
And thanks for the perceptive observations as well. (Yes, I just pressed the key.)
The problem is, many of don't have that level of choice with their ISP, or anywhere near that. If we all did, we'd all be bitchin' about how much we had to pay for our paltry 500Mbps download speeds. So we should give them a choice. We give them a reasonable timeframe to surrender their de facto monopolies (both ISPs and the relevant government officials) or they get to spend 5-10 in prison. We present it as a win-win for them. "Hey look, we're being agreeable here. We've decided not to just kill you, yet." Markets that are so inherently anti-competitive simply don't work well, except for the very few who profit from them. A certain portion of getting the internet to us might best be treated like a public utility, because they simply need to be. Not sure quite how to finely structure it. But, political careers should hang on the balance of whether it works well enough. The rest should be left open to actual competition. Where you can just say, "Sorry, not as good as Brand B. I'll try them." That ever-present threat is what makes enterprises do a decent job.
Of course, it would also be instructive for a Google or somebody or the populace to just start killing 'em. That's how civilization has historically solved such problems.
I have terrible handwriting too, and terrible typing skills for someone who does it every day, a lot. But I take written notes. The reason is that I can scrawl faster than I can type, although I'm the only one who could ever read it and make sense of it. The formulation of ideas that you're on the receiving end of has been pretty well shown to enhance the recall of them later. It cements the memories in your brain and allows your mind to process them further. For me, the only way to get this effect is to scrawl shit down. Even if I never read it again, I remember it better and can use it better. If I could type it fast enough to do this, maybe I would. But I can't, so I scrawl it. If I write down a grocery list and then lose it, I usually remember it just right.
If typing does this for you, then great. Handwriting does it for me.
It's politics as tribalism, and both the "Right" and "Left" sides of the political spectrum (and not just the politicians but the whole voting populace) are descending into it more and more. It's applying evolutionarily hardwired behaviors that may have been applicable to groups of 30 or 300 to a group of 350 million. And it does not work. You could call it caveman behavior, except that I suspect that prehistoric man may have been more rational, not being so subject to constant streams of manipulation and faced with simpler issues. The kind of issues wherein rational thought was more obviously important, because subscribing to bullshit was so obviously fatal. We like to flatter ourselves that us civilized folk are so much better than those of 12,000 years ago, then we engage in types of group-think that would have made them cringe once they understood them.
Yes, you are correct. I work in high-throughput low-latency software tools where wave propagation times and switching element delays become gating factors. At near-light speed and with fewer switching hops to and from, the potential is for there to be a net gain. If it's well-exploited. If not, it's worth correspondingly less. Hmm... I wonder if they have engineers working on this? Oh, that's right, they do.
I tend to agree. It is a high-risk, high-reward venture of Musk's part. If they structure their pricing effectively to capture market share, they can deliver broadband at an affordable cost, with a profit margin.
High-risk, high-reward stuff seems to be Elon's stock-in-trade. The bet is whether he's right often enough to win overall.
I think you might be replying to the wrong comment. You might mean the GP to you.
I was waiting for this reply or I was going to post it myself. And for those whom it helps to have it in simile form -- to a business, profits are like nutrition, cash flow is like oxygen.
I read the words of Ph.D.'s and even professors who forget that distinction, even in the hard sciences, time and again.
Good catch, but since this is Slashdot you now are supposed to attack yourself for being such a spelling-Nazi, about yourself. Then you'll need to rebut that, pointing out that words matter.
One of the Australian "lower level govvie drones" quoted in the article was the premier of South Australia, so not exactly lower level. Your theme seems to be that those in government are always stupid, corporations making profit is always evil, and absolute cynicism about everything is always warranted. You could be replaced by one of those little dippy drinking birds placed in the voting booth every election and the world wouldn't even notice your nonexistence.
And batteries for the millisecond-scale response times to bridge the gap until those backups spin up.
I know what you meant, but when the government owns the homes, they themselves are the homeowner that owns the roofs.
Hey, it's Alaska Airlines, maybe they can get some old clips of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens explaining how the Internet is a "series of tubes", as the next step in their curriculum toward a highly-valued certificate in "Understanding Computers Via Inappropriate Metaphors".