The problem with this is, when at&t has to rely on common carrier status for protection, they claim that the entire company (including the wireless and high-speed internet divisions) are all covered under that common carrier status.
But when they are required to fulfill common carrier obligations, they claim that only the wire-line division is common carrier, and that the other divisions (wireless and high-speed internet) are are exempt from those obligations.
at&t has taken the idea of "having your cake, and eating it too" to the extreme
Unless you intend to give up on cell service entirely, all you are doing is trading one devil for another. Even an MVNO like straight talk isn't an option, since part of your monthly fee is going into the pockets of one of the big 4 to cover tower usage.
The same could be said in the other way, as t-mobile expands coverage.
It becomes less and less necessary to do business with the devil twins of Ma Bell just to get a good signal. (After the old AT&T was broken up into 8 parts, 5 of them re-merged to create new at&t, and 2 of them merged to form Verizon, which means that at&t and verizon together represent 7/8 of a company considered so evil and monopolistic that it had to be cut up and scattered to the four winds like some sort of demon)
Both at&t and Verizon have burned me in the past with their "we control the network, we control the phones, we control you" mentality. Everything from refusing to allow CDMA sprint phones onto the CDMA verizon network (to force people to get phones exclusively through 2 year contracts), to automatically extending my lock-in contract because I changed minute plans, to charging me full price for a warranty replacement because they didn't count the old phone as "returned" until the warehouse had processed it, even when the warehouse had a 2-month processing backlog.
It was the "russian" hacks that exposed the DNCs attempts to block Sanders though. Why would the "establishment" block Sanders, and then hack itself to expose the manipulation?
Why would the rich and powerful in the US, who have already "bought" their politicians, need to rig the election any further?
In other words: only an outside entity (who doesn't benefit from Citizens United and unlimited campaign contributions) would need to rig an election using "alternate" methods
The argument against this "strike" is that it would shutdown TOR for a day, and would force journalists and dissidents to use a different (more risky) communication method instead.
Do the strikers in the TOR group actually have the power to turn off TOR itself, or are they just threatening to shut down their personal nodes?
If they really do have the power to completely turn off TOR worldwide, what is to stop that power being co-opted (or hacked) by a government?
When the Mythbusters used the hand-in-icewater method (to test pain tolerance differences in men and women) they had results that varied wildly between individuals, to the point where they had to disqualify some test subjects for having too high of a tolerance.. There was also a difference in pain tolerance between women who had given birth and women who hadn't.
The effectiveness of pain medication also varies with pain tolerance. For someone with low tolerance, a single asprin will take care of whatever minor pain they have. Someone with a much higher tolerance won't "feel" the pain until it is much more severe and beyond the reach of a basic pain reliever (and will feel little to no relief as a result)
I can see this getting banned in Asia for this exact reason.
People starving to death because they spent all their money on a Love-doll AI subscription, or committing suicide because they can't afford the subscription anymore.
Remember, this is the same part of the world where lonely men end up falling in love with (and in some cases, marrying) video game characters and inanimate objects.
This assumes that the CIA hasn't already hacked these Chinese services, for no reason other that being a Chinese communications service, especially when there are certain to be Chinese government-mandated back-doors already in place just waiting to be exploited by the CIA.
This is part of the argument against mandating encryption back-doors in the US, that goes beyond US spying: if you build a back-door for someone, eventually someone else will find it.
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't work when your new 'friend' is already their own worst enemy.
I still have a box for OS/2 3.something, and it came as forty 5 1/4 floppies. It's like 5 pounds worth of install media. OS/2 warp 4 at least came on 3 1/2 floppies.
In 1999 they were using OS/2 to control all the machinery in the hard drive factory in Rochester MN (right before they sold the hard drive division to Hitachi)
This assumes that there is a single person with access to all the source code. It wouldn't surprise me if the various parts of iTunes were written by independent teams with no access to each others code, intended to prevent an employee from stealing the source code and selling it to a competitor.
Why would you give your meeting a "headline grabbing" (but supposedly inaccurate) title, and then ban the press from attending? Why manipulate the title for the sake of sensationalism, and then keep it all secret?
Someone is lying about something, I just can't tell which part is the lie. Are they lying about the title change? Are they lying about the true purpose of the meeting? Did the press lie about not being invited? When you have multiple "facts" that contradict each other, it's a sure sign that something is being covered up.
People have seen this day coming ever since the industrial revolution first starting taking jobs away from farm workers. This is why some countries are now looking at Universal Basic Income, because mechanization of tasks has made us TOO efficient, and there just isn't enough work to go around.
A bunch of Jews are being greedy, about a diary written about persecution of Jews, for being greedy. (it may have been more scapegoat-ism than anything else, but stereotypes don't come out of thin air)
...manufactured on or after January First, Two Thousand Sixteen, and sold or leased in New York, shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer...
Doesn't this part make the bill an illegal retroactive law, since "January First, Two Thousand Sixteen" was almost 2 weeks ago?
I have no idea why the comparison between the Concorde and the 747 was even made in the first place. The 2 jets were made for entirely different purposes. The Airbus A380 would be a better comparison, since it has the same intended purpose as the 747 (massive amount of seating and cargo space for cheap flights)
Also, Boeing was working on it's own version of a luxury supersonic competitor to the Concord (the Boeing 2707 SST), but the project ended up being cancelled before it was ever mass produced (mostly due to to all the sonic-boom issues related to flying over land)
Comparing the 747 to the Concorde is like comparing a double-decker bus to a stretch-ferrari limousine
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The problem with this is, when at&t has to rely on common carrier status for protection, they claim that the entire company (including the wireless and high-speed internet divisions) are all covered under that common carrier status.
But when they are required to fulfill common carrier obligations, they claim that only the wire-line division is common carrier, and that the other divisions (wireless and high-speed internet) are are exempt from those obligations.
at&t has taken the idea of "having your cake, and eating it too" to the extreme
Unless you intend to give up on cell service entirely, all you are doing is trading one devil for another. Even an MVNO like straight talk isn't an option, since part of your monthly fee is going into the pockets of one of the big 4 to cover tower usage.
The same could be said in the other way, as t-mobile expands coverage.
It becomes less and less necessary to do business with the devil twins of Ma Bell just to get a good signal. (After the old AT&T was broken up into 8 parts, 5 of them re-merged to create new at&t, and 2 of them merged to form Verizon, which means that at&t and verizon together represent 7/8 of a company considered so evil and monopolistic that it had to be cut up and scattered to the four winds like some sort of demon)
Both at&t and Verizon have burned me in the past with their "we control the network, we control the phones, we control you" mentality. Everything from refusing to allow CDMA sprint phones onto the CDMA verizon network (to force people to get phones exclusively through 2 year contracts), to automatically extending my lock-in contract because I changed minute plans, to charging me full price for a warranty replacement because they didn't count the old phone as "returned" until the warehouse had processed it, even when the warehouse had a 2-month processing backlog.
It was the "russian" hacks that exposed the DNCs attempts to block Sanders though. Why would the "establishment" block Sanders, and then hack itself to expose the manipulation?
Why would the rich and powerful in the US, who have already "bought" their politicians, need to rig the election any further?
In other words: only an outside entity (who doesn't benefit from Citizens United and unlimited campaign contributions) would need to rig an election using "alternate" methods
The argument against this "strike" is that it would shutdown TOR for a day, and would force journalists and dissidents to use a different (more risky) communication method instead.
Do the strikers in the TOR group actually have the power to turn off TOR itself, or are they just threatening to shut down their personal nodes?
If they really do have the power to completely turn off TOR worldwide, what is to stop that power being co-opted (or hacked) by a government?
We want to test the subjects, not torture them.
The only idea that could work is the rubber band, the rest of your list would cause physical damage (or at least bruises)
When the Mythbusters used the hand-in-icewater method (to test pain tolerance differences in men and women) they had results that varied wildly between individuals, to the point where they had to disqualify some test subjects for having too high of a tolerance.. There was also a difference in pain tolerance between women who had given birth and women who hadn't.
The effectiveness of pain medication also varies with pain tolerance. For someone with low tolerance, a single asprin will take care of whatever minor pain they have. Someone with a much higher tolerance won't "feel" the pain until it is much more severe and beyond the reach of a basic pain reliever (and will feel little to no relief as a result)
I can see this getting banned in Asia for this exact reason.
People starving to death because they spent all their money on a Love-doll AI subscription, or committing suicide because they can't afford the subscription anymore.
Remember, this is the same part of the world where lonely men end up falling in love with (and in some cases, marrying) video game characters and inanimate objects.
Yes, I used to know someone who bought one. He had to sell his massive collection of female-only action figures to afford it, though.
This assumes that the CIA hasn't already hacked these Chinese services, for no reason other that being a Chinese communications service, especially when there are certain to be Chinese government-mandated back-doors already in place just waiting to be exploited by the CIA.
This is part of the argument against mandating encryption back-doors in the US, that goes beyond US spying: if you build a back-door for someone, eventually someone else will find it.
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't work when your new 'friend' is already their own worst enemy.
The population of the US is actually declining now, as the Baby Boomers start dying off.
It's China and India that are breeding like rabbits
I still have a box for OS/2 3.something, and it came as forty 5 1/4 floppies. It's like 5 pounds worth of install media. OS/2 warp 4 at least came on 3 1/2 floppies.
In 1999 they were using OS/2 to control all the machinery in the hard drive factory in Rochester MN (right before they sold the hard drive division to Hitachi)
If BeOS can live a zombie life as Haiku, why can't we have a zombie version of OS/2 as well?
I think this article was actually written 2 months ago
This assumes that there is a single person with access to all the source code. It wouldn't surprise me if the various parts of iTunes were written by independent teams with no access to each others code, intended to prevent an employee from stealing the source code and selling it to a competitor.
Why would you give your meeting a "headline grabbing" (but supposedly inaccurate) title, and then ban the press from attending? Why manipulate the title for the sake of sensationalism, and then keep it all secret?
Someone is lying about something, I just can't tell which part is the lie. Are they lying about the title change? Are they lying about the true purpose of the meeting? Did the press lie about not being invited? When you have multiple "facts" that contradict each other, it's a sure sign that something is being covered up.
The answer is Socialism
People have seen this day coming ever since the industrial revolution first starting taking jobs away from farm workers. This is why some countries are now looking at Universal Basic Income, because mechanization of tasks has made us TOO efficient, and there just isn't enough work to go around.
There is a certain irony to this.
A bunch of Jews are being greedy, about a diary written about persecution of Jews, for being greedy. (it may have been more scapegoat-ism than anything else, but stereotypes don't come out of thin air)
There wasn't an Adolf Hilter Children's Fund to pay for a lawsuit to keep it out of the public domain, like there is for most famous literary works.
They don't called it the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" for nothing.
It's related to copyright, and everything in tech is controlled by either patents or copyrights.
...manufactured on or after January First, Two Thousand Sixteen, and sold or leased in New York, shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer...
Doesn't this part make the bill an illegal retroactive law, since "January First, Two Thousand Sixteen" was almost 2 weeks ago?
I have no idea why the comparison between the Concorde and the 747 was even made in the first place. The 2 jets were made for entirely different purposes.
The Airbus A380 would be a better comparison, since it has the same intended purpose as the 747 (massive amount of seating and cargo space for cheap flights)
Also, Boeing was working on it's own version of a luxury supersonic competitor to the Concord (the Boeing 2707 SST), but the project ended up being cancelled before it was ever mass produced (mostly due to to all the sonic-boom issues related to flying over land)
Comparing the 747 to the Concorde is like comparing a double-decker bus to a stretch-ferrari limousine