"Perhaps the biggest example of America's stifled telecommunications progress is that the United States, despite being the world's economic powerhouse, is currently ranked 16 th for Internet broadband deployment."
Sure, and why is this? Is it because these 15 other countries have promoted net non-neutrality? Uh, no, it's not. This guy's got a nice-sounding, well-constructed rationale but he is NOT looking out for your and my interests; he is looking out for those who would profit from non-net-neutrality (e.g "directing traffic first" to certain services to "recoup their massive investment")... That is to say, not your choice where to go, but your providers', unless you wanna pay yet more. Ugh.
Ugh ugh ugh.
If he really cared about us being 16th he might look into what those other 15 countries are doing differently, and consider doing that. Why don't you write him back and ask him?
Everybody. You need to call your congressman. Now. Make them fear for their seats. And have your moms and dads and grandmas call too. And vote em out if they don't serve we the people....
By the way - put on tinfoil hat time - also consider that the Internet is the last place in the US where the free press is free on a national scale. (The NY Times pretended Colbert's scathing roast *didn't even happen* until shamed by the 'blogosphere'. Clearly this needs to be brought under control.... marginalize the inconvenient voices, just add a little bit of barrier... it's all good.)
Wow, very nice. Thanks for the link. Interesting that they say wheat straw performs the poorest but they use it because it's so abundant. They say flax is better. Now hemp would probably be really excellent. They should try it in canada, where it's legal to grow (unlike here in the US).
Hemp for oilseeds and then building materials from the straw, fantastic! Add lime and you get hempcrete anyway due to the high silica content of the inner stalk.
Except that all the countries who became prosperous historically went through a long period of *protectionism* for their own developing industries and products.... including the US, including Japan, etc.
But protectionism has been under attack. So the outcome is likely to be quite different, such as, continuing to have a huge desperately poor underclass rather than development (look at Mexico, e.g.)
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"Perhaps the biggest example of America's stifled telecommunications progress is that the United States, despite being the world's economic powerhouse, is currently ranked 16 th for Internet broadband deployment."
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Sure, and why is this? Is it because these 15 other countries have promoted net non-neutrality? Uh, no, it's not. This guy's got a nice-sounding, well-constructed rationale but he is NOT looking out for your and my interests; he is looking out for those who would profit from non-net-neutrality (e.g "directing traffic first" to certain services to "recoup their massive investment")... That is to say, not your choice where to go, but your providers', unless you wanna pay yet more. Ugh.
Ugh ugh ugh.
If he really cared about us being 16th he might look into what those other 15 countries are doing differently, and consider doing that. Why don't you write him back and ask him?
Everybody. You need to call your congressman. Now. Make them fear for their seats. And have your moms and dads and grandmas call too. And vote em out if they don't serve we the people.
By the way - put on tinfoil hat time - also consider that the Internet is the last place in the US where the free press is free on a national scale. (The NY Times pretended Colbert's scathing roast *didn't even happen* until shamed by the 'blogosphere'. Clearly this needs to be brought under control.... marginalize the inconvenient voices, just add a little bit of barrier... it's all good.)
Are you on the hyperwall project at Irvine?
That thing sounds fantastic.
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hiperwall/
But damn that is a truly incredible rate of failure. Apple should be visiting you to find out why this is happening!
Wow. Caught in a glass cube for 45 minutes? They are lucky this didn't happen in the daytime, with the sun shining in....!
Wow, very nice. Thanks for the link.
Interesting that they say wheat straw performs the poorest but they use it because it's so abundant. They say flax is better.
Now hemp would probably be really excellent. They should try it in canada, where it's legal to grow (unlike here in the US).
Hemp for oilseeds and then building materials from the straw, fantastic! Add lime and you get hempcrete anyway due to the high silica content of the inner stalk.
Except that all the countries who became prosperous historically went through a long period of *protectionism* for their own developing industries and products.... including the US, including Japan, etc.
But protectionism has been under attack. So the outcome is likely to be quite different, such as, continuing to have a huge desperately poor underclass rather than development (look at Mexico, e.g.)