uh... now, I'm certainly no economist, but I fail to see how there can be any profit out of a company running a whole new set of cables to my house because they want to compete with Comcast.
Certain things are "retail", and can therefore be put into the competition bracket -- cars, handbags, computers, beer (as in beer), clothes... that sort of thing. But it seems to me that certain other things are "necessities" (sp?) -- electricity, for example. Water. And, it would appear (at least to me), internet. Let me get my email address from whomever I want -- let companies compete based on timliness of delivery, featureset, etc. But the actual _connection_, I believe, should be treated as a utility.
Jesus Ghandi MLK Budda Mother Theresa etc etc etc (a subjective list, no doubt, but still...)
It's _easy_ to try to change the world when you're rich. It's hard to do it when you're not.
I'm glad Gates is doing this with his money. I don't think, however, that good deeds negate bad ones, and I think that history will hopefully be all-inclusive.
FWIW, my dad's been a high-school teacher for over 40 years, and he makes a helluva lot more htan $40k.
I wish we paid our teachers better. I wish it was a growth industry -- it certainly would be more productive than paying Boeing to build more missiles.
I know we're not the cause. We're also not the cause of the common cold, but that doesn't mean we don't try to treat it. I know that recycling one can won't defeat global warming forever. It's a single step. Many other steps need to be taken. But we gotta take this one too.
To ward off disaster, we have to change the way people think. That starts with these kinds of programs, and moves up.
What, build a time machine, go back in time and give hybrid technology to all the people back in the 1920s so that global warming never happens in the first place?
No. Try to reduce pollution now. Try to move towards more environmentally friendly policies now. The past is the past, nothing can be done about it, but we can move forward _now_.
Do what? While the fact that it doesn't really matter was sort of the point of my previous post so I'll agree with you there, its not as if there is a big red button we can press which will instantly stop any climate change. In reality the only thing we can do is prepare and make our society resistent to the changes that will occur in the future.
There's no one thing to do -- there's literally thousands. Bike to work, if you can. Carpool. Recycle. No, we can't instantly stop climate change, but we can begin to slow it down.
No, if it's caused by human beings, then human beings can do something about it. Heck, if it's caused by volcanos, there has to be _something_ we can do.
I don't really give a damn what the cause is. We -- the human race -- can have a net positive effect on this issue. That, alone, is reason to do it. The potential to save our children and our planet only adds to that reason.
and AT&T is doing exactly the same thing with other content -- asking other ISPs to route their traffic for them for "free" -- ie, peering, most likely. No one provider is carrying more of the weight than any other, because the intarweb is, like, diffuse.:D
Canadian baseball teams are in the US Major League. Canadian hockey teams are in the US NHL. You sell us your oil, and it costs us less because of the exchange rates.
Why waste the money to invade? Niagra might get dinged up, and there's a lot of money in neon...
That's their state congress, not US congress. Federally elected officials -- President, VP, US Senator, Congressperson -- all have federally set salaries, and it ain't $100.
NH, known for being tight with a dollar, pays it's state senators and state representatives very little money. But they're also not in session year round, either. You can be a very middle-class farmer type in NH and be a state senator or representative.
What do the people of China really gain if Google shuts down?
I believe much the same things were said about Coca-Cola and South Africa before divestment -- a series of actions which helped to bring down the apartheid government there.
all I know is that I pay nearly $60 a month for what is supposed to be 1.5 mbps broadband service (but is more normally 300-600 kbps service) in an area where there is no wired competition -- IE, I could do a dish, if my apartment faced south, but since it doesn't, my _only_ choice is Comcast. I can't get DSL, period even if I get SBC/AT&T phone service. That's not a free market. That's collusion between providers to keep prices artificially high.
The internet is a utility, and should be regulated to keep it cheap, reliable, and available.
And your money that goes to the local company for DSL -- most of that is probably going to SBC, since they run over SBC's lines.
have you looked at congress lately? Sure, there's some women, and some minorities, and even some minority women, but for the most part, it's a sea of pale, shriveled up old honkeys.
After 9/11, do you still sit around seeing if anything happens before acting on it?
Damn straight we do. It's called due process, and it's one of those things that seperates us from terrorists.
How about if I rape your wife/daughter/mother? It's my penis. I don't see how it's any of your business what I do with it. If I choose to lie about it, why do you care?
The situation is much more like if you had a bad relationship with another person, and then you were falsely accused of raping his wife/daugher/mother. Saddam Hussein was put in an impossible situation -- you cannot prove that you AREN'T hiding something in a country that big -- and even when he was getting just about as close as he could, Bush told the UN Inspectors, who were getting some pretty good results, "get out before you become collateral damage".
impossible. My apartment complex, for example, has only comcast. I can't get direct TV because I have a northern-facing building. Voting "with my dollars" would requre me to move -- not that I'm necessarily against that, but I'm in a 12-month lease.
they may not have been amused, but I bet they were bemused...
"What the heck is THAT?"
"Oh. Molassas. Huh. Whodathunkit?"
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Yuk. Tap water is nasty.
And plenty of bottled water is... right out of the tap. Why pay extra for it? Also, "nasty" is in the eye of the beholder.
And when your small, efficient car smashes into a tree, it'll be a small, efficient blood pancake.
That's where being a better driver comes in. Lots of speeding tickets, only ever one serious accident, and it was the other guy's fault. Somehow, even though he had a bit ol 4X4 truck, he didn't see me when he decided to turn across traffic without stopping. Sure, my little Geo Sprint was totaled, but so was his nice big F250 -- bent the frame but good. And _he_ got the ticket.
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darn buttons...
no, I'm the guy that bitches and rants about billions being spent on space lasers as our schools crumble. I'm the guy that bitches and rants about the methodical shredding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I'm the guy who bitches and rants about the lies and the deceit and the racism and the hatred and the sheer stupidity that the current administration is foisting on us. I drink my water out of the tap, and I drive a small, efficient car that gets over 30 miles to the gallon, and I wish the government would stop subsidizing the oil industry.
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no, I'm the guy that bitches and rants about billions being spent on space lasers as our schools crumble. I'm the guy that bitches and rants about the methodical shredding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I'm the guy who bitches and rants about the lies and the deceit and the racism and the hatred and the sheer stupidity.
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he grew this whole company, Enron, from nothing.
*singing*
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing... woooo-ooooo
uh... now, I'm certainly no economist, but I fail to see how there can be any profit out of a company running a whole new set of cables to my house because they want to compete with Comcast.
Certain things are "retail", and can therefore be put into the competition bracket -- cars, handbags, computers, beer (as in beer), clothes... that sort of thing. But it seems to me that certain other things are "necessities" (sp?) -- electricity, for example. Water. And, it would appear (at least to me), internet. Let me get my email address from whomever I want -- let companies compete based on timliness of delivery, featureset, etc. But the actual _connection_, I believe, should be treated as a utility.
Facebook is _not_ political speech. It's not protected by the first amendment.
and yet, $100,000,000 for the NEA or NEH seems to get a LOT more negative press... why _is_ that, do you think?
Jesus
Ghandi
MLK
Budda
Mother Theresa
etc
etc
etc
(a subjective list, no doubt, but still...)
It's _easy_ to try to change the world when you're rich. It's hard to do it when you're not.
I'm glad Gates is doing this with his money. I don't think, however, that good deeds negate bad ones, and I think that history will hopefully be all-inclusive.
FWIW, my dad's been a high-school teacher for over 40 years, and he makes a helluva lot more htan $40k.
I wish we paid our teachers better. I wish it was a growth industry -- it certainly would be more productive than paying Boeing to build more missiles.
do it long enough, and it'll work. Otherwise, we're lost, and we might as well stick our heads in the dirt.
I know we're not the cause. We're also not the cause of the common cold, but that doesn't mean we don't try to treat it. I know that recycling one can won't defeat global warming forever. It's a single step. Many other steps need to be taken. But we gotta take this one too.
To ward off disaster, we have to change the way people think. That starts with these kinds of programs, and moves up.
What, build a time machine, go back in time and give hybrid technology to all the people back in the 1920s so that global warming never happens in the first place?
No. Try to reduce pollution now. Try to move towards more environmentally friendly policies now. The past is the past, nothing can be done about it, but we can move forward _now_.
Do what? While the fact that it doesn't really matter was sort of the point of my previous post so I'll agree with you there, its not as if there is a big red button we can press which will instantly stop any climate change. In reality the only thing we can do is prepare and make our society resistent to the changes that will occur in the future.
There's no one thing to do -- there's literally thousands. Bike to work, if you can. Carpool. Recycle. No, we can't instantly stop climate change, but we can begin to slow it down.
No, if it's caused by human beings, then human beings can do something about it. Heck, if it's caused by volcanos, there has to be _something_ we can do.
I don't really give a damn what the cause is. We -- the human race -- can have a net positive effect on this issue. That, alone, is reason to do it. The potential to save our children and our planet only adds to that reason.
and AT&T is doing exactly the same thing with other content -- asking other ISPs to route their traffic for them for "free" -- ie, peering, most likely. No one provider is carrying more of the weight than any other, because the intarweb is, like, diffuse. :D
Canadian baseball teams are in the US Major League. Canadian hockey teams are in the US NHL. You sell us your oil, and it costs us less because of the exchange rates.
Why waste the money to invade? Niagra might get dinged up, and there's a lot of money in neon...
uh... when you crash that much material that fast into the moon, you get vaporization. Energy, baby. Energy. Manifested as light.
That's their state congress, not US congress. Federally elected officials -- President, VP, US Senator, Congressperson -- all have federally set salaries, and it ain't $100.
NH, known for being tight with a dollar, pays it's state senators and state representatives very little money. But they're also not in session year round, either. You can be a very middle-class farmer type in NH and be a state senator or representative.
What do the people of China really gain if Google shuts down?
I believe much the same things were said about Coca-Cola and South Africa before divestment -- a series of actions which helped to bring down the apartheid government there.
Just a thought.
I (probably) won't get run over by a tank if I try to enter a store without shoes or a shirt.
Unjust laws must be resisted, or they will not be overthrown.
all I know is that I pay nearly $60 a month for what is supposed to be 1.5 mbps broadband service (but is more normally 300-600 kbps service) in an area where there is no wired competition -- IE, I could do a dish, if my apartment faced south, but since it doesn't, my _only_ choice is Comcast. I can't get DSL, period even if I get SBC/AT&T phone service. That's not a free market. That's collusion between providers to keep prices artificially high.
The internet is a utility, and should be regulated to keep it cheap, reliable, and available.
And your money that goes to the local company for DSL -- most of that is probably going to SBC, since they run over SBC's lines.
have you looked at congress lately? Sure, there's some women, and some minorities, and even some minority women, but for the most part, it's a sea of pale, shriveled up old honkeys.
After 9/11, do you still sit around seeing if anything happens before acting on it?
Damn straight we do. It's called due process, and it's one of those things that seperates us from terrorists.
How about if I rape your wife/daughter/mother? It's my penis. I don't see how it's any of your business what I do with it. If I choose to lie about it, why do you care?
The situation is much more like if you had a bad relationship with another person, and then you were falsely accused of raping his wife/daugher/mother. Saddam Hussein was put in an impossible situation -- you cannot prove that you AREN'T hiding something in a country that big -- and even when he was getting just about as close as he could, Bush told the UN Inspectors, who were getting some pretty good results, "get out before you become collateral damage".
impossible. My apartment complex, for example, has only comcast. I can't get direct TV because I have a northern-facing building. Voting "with my dollars" would requre me to move -- not that I'm necessarily against that, but I'm in a 12-month lease.
they may not have been amused, but I bet they were bemused...
"What the heck is THAT?"
"Oh. Molassas. Huh. Whodathunkit?"
Yuk. Tap water is nasty.
And plenty of bottled water is... right out of the tap. Why pay extra for it? Also, "nasty" is in the eye of the beholder.
And when your small, efficient car smashes into a tree, it'll be a small, efficient blood pancake.
That's where being a better driver comes in. Lots of speeding tickets, only ever one serious accident, and it was the other guy's fault. Somehow, even though he had a bit ol 4X4 truck, he didn't see me when he decided to turn across traffic without stopping. Sure, my little Geo Sprint was totaled, but so was his nice big F250 -- bent the frame but good. And _he_ got the ticket.
darn buttons...
no, I'm the guy that bitches and rants about billions being spent on space lasers as our schools crumble. I'm the guy that bitches and rants about the methodical shredding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I'm the guy who bitches and rants about the lies and the deceit and the racism and the hatred and the sheer stupidity that the current administration is foisting on us. I drink my water out of the tap, and I drive a small, efficient car that gets over 30 miles to the gallon, and I wish the government would stop subsidizing the oil industry.
no, I'm the guy that bitches and rants about billions being spent on space lasers as our schools crumble. I'm the guy that bitches and rants about the methodical shredding of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I'm the guy who bitches and rants about the lies and the deceit and the racism and the hatred and the sheer stupidity.
Want proof? look at our president! WE voted TWICE for the moron.
For a suitably restrictive definition of "we". I didn't vote for the moron even once.