OK, so you want to build a competing bridge? Where do you put it? You are going to have to buy the land, and there is no guarantee that the landowners on both sides will sell. (and you don't have eminent-domain to force them to sell) Even if you do mange to buy the land, and build the bridge, what is to stop your competitors (assuming all bridges are private) from lowering their toll low enough to drive you bankrupt? And once you are bankrupt, what stops them from buying your bridge (using asset-based bank loans, not with cash-on-hand) and then raising all the tolls back to the original level?
Ever since it became possible for a company to buy it's competitors using nothing more than a bank loan, there has been no such thing as a "free market"
This was thought up LONG ago. Except the idea was to propel hydrogen plasma, not water.
There was too much backlash against the idea of nuclear rockets, due to the possibility of launch failure (turning the launch zone into a radioactive nuclear wasteland)
At one point in distant history, the US government debated issuing a half-penny, and decided it wasn't worthwhile. That half-cent, accounting for inflation, would be worth a dime today.
This means that we are still dragging around a coin that is worth 1/10th the value of a coin that was considered too worthless to bother minting.
The only reason the penny still exists is because we round things to the nearest 1/100th of a dollar, instead of the nearest 1/10th
The rubber dome under the enter key might have been sitting just a hair away from making electrical contact, and only made contact when the keyboard deformed slightly by being touched. This would explain the psuedo-random nature of it, and the fact that it didn't happen during post.
If that was really a hacker, and not a stuck backspace key, they he had a serious flare for the over-dramatic.
A real hacker would have simply hacked in, deleted whatever files he wanted, and left without a trace. He wouldn't have sat there playing mind games with the reporter, manually deleting her stuff one letter at a time.
Ok, you posted some really gross pictures with zero context.
Was this even in the US? If so, was this done in an actual public clinic, or someone's basement?
How about some facts, instead of pure emotional outrage.
I tried to find some info on the Sodahead.com site, but it's a complete mess and couldn't find any actual text to go with those pictures. One thing I did find interesting on the front page was that 69% of the site's viewers voted Republican, while a whopping 57% believe that demonic possession is a real thing.
There must be an easier way to do all this, using a single antenna and a streaming media server, with a roku or chromecast dongle on each TV.
Doing this would also allow you to concentrate your money on a single large antenna (giving you more channels), instead of a bunch of little cheap antennas.
How do they include the people who just downgraded a service (as opposed to dropping TWC entirely)?
For example, if someone downgrades from triple-play to data+voice (dropping TV), does that count as a loss in the triple-play column, and a gain in the data and voice column?
If this is the case, then these numbers are misleading. It makes it look like they somehow gained 106,000 "new" customers, when they might have actually lost 78,000 entirely, with another 106,000 reducing their service.
It doesn't work to give the franchise to a smaller competitor. As soon as the smaller competitor wins the contract, it just gets bought-out by whatever mega-corp you were trying to keep out in the first place.
This happened twice in the small town where I grew up. Every time the city tried to get rid of Charter by picking someone else, Charter would just by that other company out after the contract was awarded.
You really want Eric Holder (who thinks backdoors should be left open for police, and that search warrants shouldn't be neccesary for drone use or cell-tapping) controlling our countries information infrastructure?
We would end up with rules requiring all new TV sets to have always-on cameras built in, in order to spy on the TV viewers (like the viewscreen from 1984)
I'm pretty sure even the most diehard and outspoken anti-vaxxer would change their tune, as soon as their own child ended up stuck in a wheelchair or on a ventilator because the child was never properly vaccinated.
The barrel should have been clearly marked with bio-hazard labels. Who pours a bio-hazard barrel into a regular drain? It doesn't matter what is in the barrel, it shouldn't go into the drain under any circumstance if it has that label on it.
Either the liquid got transferred into an unlabeled barrel, or someone working in an infectious disease lab doesn't know what a bio-hazard label looks like (which is a scary thought).
In Grand Rapids MI (I think it's Grand Rapids anyway) there are several intersections where left turns are not allowed. Instead, they provide dedicated turn-around spots in the middle of the block, with the intention that you drive past your turn, turn around, and then turn right.
It costs an absolute fortune to sent something to another planet (regardless of weight), so why does NASA spend so much time and money designing and building rovers that are only expected to last 3-6 months?
It's like a person complaining about having a food budget that is too small, when they buy nothing but high-price, pre-packaged, ready-to-eat meals.
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Minnesota and Wisconsin (and other states too, I assume) already charge a yearly road tax based on the value, age, and type of vehicle you drive.
In Minnesota, the tax for my 97 Dodge Neon is $45 per year.
He built a shorter detour around construction, as soon as the construction ends, his road will be worthless.
OK, so you want to build a competing bridge?
Where do you put it? You are going to have to buy the land, and there is no guarantee that the landowners on both sides will sell. (and you don't have eminent-domain to force them to sell)
Even if you do mange to buy the land, and build the bridge, what is to stop your competitors (assuming all bridges are private) from lowering their toll low enough to drive you bankrupt?
And once you are bankrupt, what stops them from buying your bridge (using asset-based bank loans, not with cash-on-hand) and then raising all the tolls back to the original level?
Ever since it became possible for a company to buy it's competitors using nothing more than a bank loan, there has been no such thing as a "free market"
This was thought up LONG ago. Except the idea was to propel hydrogen plasma, not water.
There was too much backlash against the idea of nuclear rockets, due to the possibility of launch failure (turning the launch zone into a radioactive nuclear wasteland)
Sounds like it's time to get rid of those Win2k servers.
At one point in distant history, the US government debated issuing a half-penny, and decided it wasn't worthwhile. That half-cent, accounting for inflation, would be worth a dime today.
This means that we are still dragging around a coin that is worth 1/10th the value of a coin that was considered too worthless to bother minting.
The only reason the penny still exists is because we round things to the nearest 1/100th of a dollar, instead of the nearest 1/10th
Considering that "Traditional American Values" included treating Women and Blacks as property, I'm not too sure I want to go back to those days.
The rubber dome under the enter key might have been sitting just a hair away from making electrical contact, and only made contact when the keyboard deformed slightly by being touched. This would explain the psuedo-random nature of it, and the fact that it didn't happen during post.
I want a DVR that can record shows from the future
Did you actually watch the video?
If that was really a hacker, and not a stuck backspace key, they he had a serious flare for the over-dramatic.
A real hacker would have simply hacked in, deleted whatever files he wanted, and left without a trace. He wouldn't have sat there playing mind games with the reporter, manually deleting her stuff one letter at a time.
Ok, you posted some really gross pictures with zero context.
Was this even in the US? If so, was this done in an actual public clinic, or someone's basement?
How about some facts, instead of pure emotional outrage.
I tried to find some info on the Sodahead.com site, but it's a complete mess and couldn't find any actual text to go with those pictures.
One thing I did find interesting on the front page was that 69% of the site's viewers voted Republican, while a whopping 57% believe that demonic possession is a real thing.
If you don't like any of the choices, write your own name in there. That way, you at least voted for someone you trust.
Get all your friends to vote for you as well, and you might even get mentioned on the evening news.
There must be an easier way to do all this, using a single antenna and a streaming media server, with a roku or chromecast dongle on each TV.
Doing this would also allow you to concentrate your money on a single large antenna (giving you more channels), instead of a bunch of little cheap antennas.
How do they include the people who just downgraded a service (as opposed to dropping TWC entirely)?
For example, if someone downgrades from triple-play to data+voice (dropping TV), does that count as a loss in the triple-play column, and a gain in the data and voice column?
If this is the case, then these numbers are misleading. It makes it look like they somehow gained 106,000 "new" customers, when they might have actually lost 78,000 entirely, with another 106,000 reducing their service.
It doesn't work to give the franchise to a smaller competitor. As soon as the smaller competitor wins the contract, it just gets bought-out by whatever mega-corp you were trying to keep out in the first place.
This happened twice in the small town where I grew up. Every time the city tried to get rid of Charter by picking someone else, Charter would just by that other company out after the contract was awarded.
The FCC isn't reading FCC comments either.....
That works until at&t buys directtv, and then merges with comcast-time warner
You really want Eric Holder (who thinks backdoors should be left open for police, and that search warrants shouldn't be neccesary for drone use or cell-tapping) controlling our countries information infrastructure?
We would end up with rules requiring all new TV sets to have always-on cameras built in, in order to spy on the TV viewers (like the viewscreen from 1984)
The FTC is waiting to see what the FCC decides.
"However, the companies said that they are in different regions and are not going to suppress the competition."
Technically, they are telling the truth, because they had already suppressed all competition the BEFORE merging, and there isn't any left to suppress.
To get rid of the stupidity once and for all?
I'm pretty sure even the most diehard and outspoken anti-vaxxer would change their tune, as soon as their own child ended up stuck in a wheelchair or on a ventilator because the child was never properly vaccinated.
The barrel should have been clearly marked with bio-hazard labels. Who pours a bio-hazard barrel into a regular drain? It doesn't matter what is in the barrel, it shouldn't go into the drain under any circumstance if it has that label on it.
Either the liquid got transferred into an unlabeled barrel, or someone working in an infectious disease lab doesn't know what a bio-hazard label looks like (which is a scary thought).
The Scottsman Prodigy commercial ice machine has built in functionality to disable the ice machine if the leasing company isn't paid.
In Grand Rapids MI (I think it's Grand Rapids anyway) there are several intersections where left turns are not allowed. Instead, they provide dedicated turn-around spots in the middle of the block, with the intention that you drive past your turn, turn around, and then turn right.
It costs an absolute fortune to sent something to another planet (regardless of weight), so why does NASA spend so much time and money designing and building rovers that are only expected to last 3-6 months?
It's like a person complaining about having a food budget that is too small, when they buy nothing but high-price, pre-packaged, ready-to-eat meals.