"If people lose the skill or tools to effectively express reason, they will eventually become unable to do anything other than what they are told to do."
If? You must be new here. We're just monkeys man.
The commercial internet has existed now for over a decade, and the tools to allow carriers to shape traffic at will have existed that entire time. And yet, no one has attempted the kind of favoritism that "net neutrality" is concerned could happen."
I was going to say you're wrong, but this is actually right BECAUSE of net neutrality. Net neutrality principles were in regulations (common carrier) up until 2005, when the industry's bitch, the FCC, did away with them. The push for net neutrality laws is a matter of replacing gutted market regulations with legislation.
To say this won't happen is ridiculous. In Canada, an ISP eliminated access for its millions of customers to the website of a telecom union, a union they were having a dispute with(http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/01 0/). If it's possible to silence competition and critics it will happen.
I find it humorous that anyone listens to the hardware manufacturers. No sh!t there against net neutrality. They're the ones that are going to make bank off the filters and traffic shapers.
Right about the brick house not taking the power of a hurricane. I live in DC, where at least once per year someone loses half their rowhouse because their neighbor gutted their house and didn't reinforce the shared wall. Brick buildings don't have too much structural integrity without a frame which is usually just timber.
Also, brick houses aren't really made out of brick anymore. They throw up a cheap timber frame (or in the case of office buildings steel) then slap on thin prefab slabs of brick exterior. Brick no longer has any real structural purpose at all in most new construction. I live in D.C., where architects try to match the old real rowhouses with new faux brick construction. Doesn't really work.
I used to live in New England. Plenty of farmhouses from the 17th and 18th century still around that should embarrass modern builders. I know there are plenty of older buildings in Britain, but most I've seen are in a state of arrested collapse. Not too much brick in New England, but a lot of stone framed with old growth timbers you can't wrap your arms around.
Wait, this story is about the polar ice cap? whoops
To illustrate these effects and their gross values I point people towards the Boxing Day (Dec 26,2004) Quake and tsunami. This event is supposed by the geophyical people to be the product of a subduction event. Had it been such an event, the uplift of the Sumantra area of the southern Asian region would have caused the corresponding drop in sea floor. The uplift is about equal to lifting the entire continental US by about 20 feet. The net world wide sea level drop would have been about 2 feet. It didn't happen.
Investors should care. HP may end up with a few of its directors resigning or in jail. Finding competent directors, and judging by HP's resurgence they have been, is not easy.
To add to this and reply to the OP, requesting political callers take you off the list is not going to do any good. For one, IIRC there's an exception to the DNC law for political and nonprofit purposes. Also, the people that are calling don't control the list. Not just the person on the phone but the organization they represent as well. Campaigns buy lists of registered frequent voters and donors. These lists cost thousands and there are companies that focus on just this.
My mother used to be registered as republican (never voted that way but didn't change it after leaving her father's house). A couple Octobers ago she got a phone call; I overheard her end of it.
"No, I hate education" (she's a teacher)
"I don't need no social security"
"Healthcare's for wimps"
"I think we really should let the terrorists win"
"I'm not going to vote for that raging bitch!"
Turns out it was a push pull for Nancy "Pharma" Johnson. You can be sure she remembered to vote after that call. Good lists matter. Always remember to validate your data.
Swiss banks provide no safe haven for terrorists' finances. Swiss banks don't (can't) reveal the owner of an account for any purpose other than a criminal investigation, as defined by the Swiss. Swiss bank accounts are well suited for tax evasion (civil matter in the wonderfully liberal Switzerland) and alimony avoidance. The IRS and your ex will get nothing but blank stares, but the FBI will get everything.
So Dunn's going to be a convicted felon, serve no time for treason, and then get a cushy job on national tv telling the american people what to think? I think its hilarious every time I see Ollie going off about fascists and tyrants in Iran and the rest of the Middle East. Guess he has a lot of experience with that. Dunn, with her arrogance, has earned a spot on my 30 page hit list, but Ollie is in the top five.
WOT(Way off topic): More felons were shipped to the colonies in America than Australia, but felons were a higher percentage of Australian colonists than American colonists.
At my college job, we had to turn in some forms to get a schedule for the fall semester. I started at the beginning of summer semester. I turned in my forms and never got a schedule. I kept asking about it. I knew there might be some problems because I wasn't work-study and thus not free for the university. About a week before the fall semester started I ran into a coworker at a party. He says, "nice working with you," then walks away. As we were both trashed I couldn't tell if that was past tense or not. Two days later I received an email from a bot informing me that I had been removed from the employee listserve. The manager never even contacted me. A couple weeks later I went in for my last pay check and she acted as though it was perfectly normal to let a script fire someone. So Radio Shack employees should be grateful that a human fired them, even if it was through email.
I saw documentary on Trek, and Shatner basically said they just made stuff up, not a whole lot of thought went into it. Like the teleporters were developed because they didn't have space in their budget(the studio's not the federation's) for a shuttle craft.
I'm one of those people as well. I pay 30/month for cable internet but no tv. A buck or two a tv show sounds like a lot, but really it just keeps me from watching crap. My time is worth more than a couple dollars an hour, so I'm probably coming out ahead. I used to get home from work and turn the tv on, but now I might download one show every other day. Cheaper than cable tv, and better use of my free time.
I once failed a test for a temp agency. Apparently, filing becomes dangerous and difficult work if you smoked saturday night. I got a call from the agency, "I'm sorry, but we're going to have to terminate you." Yes, really, that's what she said. Although I was just out of high school, I was by far their most competent temp. 3 weeks later they called again, "We have a new opening, would you be interested?"
"Wait, I thought I was 'terminated'."
"...It pays $10 an hour?"($10 for me, probably $10 for them)
Money talks.
"If you're on an open wireless AP, you can accuse as many people you want of as many crimes as you want, and nobody can prove it was you."
hmmm, note to self...
I don't know what's funnier your post or your sig. I'll pick the lowest hanging fruit. Any sufficiently well organized society has no government. Talk amongst yourselves.
Actually, it wouldn't be such a large monoculture. Current policy is good politics but lousy science and economics. Algae produces far higher yields than traditional crops, can be grown in salt water and waste water, and doesn't need fertile fields (displace food crops). In order to replace all of the US oil consumption 15000 square miles or 9.5 million acres of algae farms would be needed. Sounds like a lot, but in the U.S. 450 million acres are currently used for crop farming and another 500 million for grazing land. There's still a lot of research to be done into sustaining algal blooms and oil recovery, but its been proven to be practical. There is also consideration of using algae farms as carbon sinks for traditional power plants, boosting algae production while scrubbing exhaust.
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
Kind of missing the point. Disposing of tires in a clay-lined dig doesn't happen and never will on a large scale. There's just too many of them. Instead you end up with ecological disasters. Just google tire fire. In comparison, we have thinly distributed sidewalks leeching into the ground in minuscule amounts everywhere over the course of decades. Rubber sidewalks aren't perfect for everywhere, but in areas with abundant trees and harsh winters, e.g. the northwest and northeast, they make perfect sense. The lifetime of concrete sidewalks in those areas is measured in single digits. The cost, both in dollars and hydrocarbons, of replacing concrete sidewalks and trimming trees can be enormous. Brick sidewalks are making a comeback for similar reasons, not just aesthetics. Bigger capital investment, but lower maintenance costs.
"Man, why don't we teach more history in the schools? Honestly..."
Because then history wouldn't be repeated. The powerful find these methods useful, why do away with them?
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Give me a sec man, it takes time to fill the molotov cocktails.
"If people lose the skill or tools to effectively express reason, they will eventually become unable to do anything other than what they are told to do." If? You must be new here. We're just monkeys man.
Again, it has not been a problem in the past, because there were regulations to stop it. Net neutrality is not new.
Right about the brick house not taking the power of a hurricane. I live in DC, where at least once per year someone loses half their rowhouse because their neighbor gutted their house and didn't reinforce the shared wall. Brick buildings don't have too much structural integrity without a frame which is usually just timber.
Also, brick houses aren't really made out of brick anymore. They throw up a cheap timber frame (or in the case of office buildings steel) then slap on thin prefab slabs of brick exterior. Brick no longer has any real structural purpose at all in most new construction. I live in D.C., where architects try to match the old real rowhouses with new faux brick construction. Doesn't really work.
I used to live in New England. Plenty of farmhouses from the 17th and 18th century still around that should embarrass modern builders. I know there are plenty of older buildings in Britain, but most I've seen are in a state of arrested collapse. Not too much brick in New England, but a lot of stone framed with old growth timbers you can't wrap your arms around.
Wait, this story is about the polar ice cap? whoops
Are you a D'Souza? (http://www.kcra.com/news/4512146/detail.html)
Investors should care. HP may end up with a few of its directors resigning or in jail. Finding competent directors, and judging by HP's resurgence they have been, is not easy.
To add to this and reply to the OP, requesting political callers take you off the list is not going to do any good. For one, IIRC there's an exception to the DNC law for political and nonprofit purposes. Also, the people that are calling don't control the list. Not just the person on the phone but the organization they represent as well. Campaigns buy lists of registered frequent voters and donors. These lists cost thousands and there are companies that focus on just this. My mother used to be registered as republican (never voted that way but didn't change it after leaving her father's house). A couple Octobers ago she got a phone call; I overheard her end of it. "No, I hate education" (she's a teacher) "I don't need no social security" "Healthcare's for wimps" "I think we really should let the terrorists win" "I'm not going to vote for that raging bitch!" Turns out it was a push pull for Nancy "Pharma" Johnson. You can be sure she remembered to vote after that call. Good lists matter. Always remember to validate your data.
Swiss banks provide no safe haven for terrorists' finances. Swiss banks don't (can't) reveal the owner of an account for any purpose other than a criminal investigation, as defined by the Swiss. Swiss bank accounts are well suited for tax evasion (civil matter in the wonderfully liberal Switzerland) and alimony avoidance. The IRS and your ex will get nothing but blank stares, but the FBI will get everything.
So Dunn's going to be a convicted felon, serve no time for treason, and then get a cushy job on national tv telling the american people what to think? I think its hilarious every time I see Ollie going off about fascists and tyrants in Iran and the rest of the Middle East. Guess he has a lot of experience with that. Dunn, with her arrogance, has earned a spot on my 30 page hit list, but Ollie is in the top five.
WOT(Way off topic): More felons were shipped to the colonies in America than Australia, but felons were a higher percentage of Australian colonists than American colonists.
At my college job, we had to turn in some forms to get a schedule for the fall semester. I started at the beginning of summer semester. I turned in my forms and never got a schedule. I kept asking about it. I knew there might be some problems because I wasn't work-study and thus not free for the university. About a week before the fall semester started I ran into a coworker at a party. He says, "nice working with you," then walks away. As we were both trashed I couldn't tell if that was past tense or not. Two days later I received an email from a bot informing me that I had been removed from the employee listserve. The manager never even contacted me. A couple weeks later I went in for my last pay check and she acted as though it was perfectly normal to let a script fire someone. So Radio Shack employees should be grateful that a human fired them, even if it was through email.
I saw documentary on Trek, and Shatner basically said they just made stuff up, not a whole lot of thought went into it. Like the teleporters were developed because they didn't have space in their budget(the studio's not the federation's) for a shuttle craft.
my apologies, just read the submitters comment. makes much more sense.
I'm one of those people as well. I pay 30/month for cable internet but no tv. A buck or two a tv show sounds like a lot, but really it just keeps me from watching crap. My time is worth more than a couple dollars an hour, so I'm probably coming out ahead. I used to get home from work and turn the tv on, but now I might download one show every other day. Cheaper than cable tv, and better use of my free time.
I thought you had to be literate to play D&D.
I once failed a test for a temp agency. Apparently, filing becomes dangerous and difficult work if you smoked saturday night. I got a call from the agency, "I'm sorry, but we're going to have to terminate you." Yes, really, that's what she said. Although I was just out of high school, I was by far their most competent temp. 3 weeks later they called again, "We have a new opening, would you be interested?" "Wait, I thought I was 'terminated'." "...It pays $10 an hour?"($10 for me, probably $10 for them) Money talks.
"If you're on an open wireless AP, you can accuse as many people you want of as many crimes as you want, and nobody can prove it was you." hmmm, note to self...
"if Vista is written modularly and has a clean, well documented API..." Am I the only one that finds this comment +1 funny?
oh goddamnit, found the perfect spot and now i got to pee
I don't know what's funnier your post or your sig. I'll pick the lowest hanging fruit. Any sufficiently well organized society has no government. Talk amongst yourselves.
Actually, it wouldn't be such a large monoculture. Current policy is good politics but lousy science and economics. Algae produces far higher yields than traditional crops, can be grown in salt water and waste water, and doesn't need fertile fields (displace food crops). In order to replace all of the US oil consumption 15000 square miles or 9.5 million acres of algae farms would be needed. Sounds like a lot, but in the U.S. 450 million acres are currently used for crop farming and another 500 million for grazing land. There's still a lot of research to be done into sustaining algal blooms and oil recovery, but its been proven to be practical. There is also consideration of using algae farms as carbon sinks for traditional power plants, boosting algae production while scrubbing exhaust. http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
I don't necessarily disagree, but if it's so safe why cant they pay for their own farkin insurance?
Kind of missing the point. Disposing of tires in a clay-lined dig doesn't happen and never will on a large scale. There's just too many of them. Instead you end up with ecological disasters. Just google tire fire. In comparison, we have thinly distributed sidewalks leeching into the ground in minuscule amounts everywhere over the course of decades. Rubber sidewalks aren't perfect for everywhere, but in areas with abundant trees and harsh winters, e.g. the northwest and northeast, they make perfect sense. The lifetime of concrete sidewalks in those areas is measured in single digits. The cost, both in dollars and hydrocarbons, of replacing concrete sidewalks and trimming trees can be enormous. Brick sidewalks are making a comeback for similar reasons, not just aesthetics. Bigger capital investment, but lower maintenance costs.
"Man, why don't we teach more history in the schools? Honestly..." Because then history wouldn't be repeated. The powerful find these methods useful, why do away with them?