Even if the Minnesota Supreme Court had ruled against a city-owned and run network there are other ways around it. Be clever, start a non-profit ISP and have them build out the network. Fund it through the ubiquitous government grants that the Obama Administration is giving out towards increasing broadband penetration. Also, fund it through city "Technology" grants. The neat thing about legal loopholes is that they sometimes backfire against those that exploit them.
If the telecom companies are unwilling or unable to fork out the cash to build a high-speed, fibre optic network, than they have lost their chance! The whole point of a municiple one is because the telco companies put up such a fight against doing it. Now that the city is undertaking the project, suddenly there is an uproar. Too late.... a day late and a few dollars short.
Fear is never a good motivating factor! I am all for private CCTV cameras to protect people and property. I am NOT in favor of government surveillance. If you want to hire a private firm to watch your property and relay the information to the authorities, by all means, please do. But if you allow government to do it, you have just given up your right to privacy. Once you give up a right, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. Look at what the Patriot Act did to our freedoms.
So we should all become slaves to our corporation? We should work continuously until we die? That, sir, is slavery......... pure and simple slavery. Thank god the USA has laws against slavery! Work-life balance is extremely important and it is observations like your own that cause thinking to go back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
Calling these postings racist is not fair at all. I actually have merit in my argument when I say that India charges a huge import duty as a form of protectionism. A 26% import duty virtually ensures products made in India will be cheaper for Indians. They accuse us or protectionism? Pfffft!
If the Indians are screaming about US Protectionism, the should promptly clamp their mouths shut. My father's company builds a quality yarn texturizing machine designed to be a 50 year workhorse, much better than just about anything else out there and the Indians charge an import tax of about 26%. So if that isn't calling the kettle black, than what is? Personally, I have yet to see an Indian outsourcing company do its job correctly. I had a nightmare of a time trying to get Wildfire CAD software support from an Indian company. They kept wanting to verify information and parroting back responses. The answer to our job woes is not importing more labor but building up our own labor force!
The best possible way to secure your communications is through the use of pre-paid cell phones because there are virtually no records of your transactions nor communications. Simply get a new sim card periodically and add some air time. You won't be able to be easily tracked and you could list a bogus address with the cell company. It is lower tech and whole lot easier.
This would be an invasion of privacy because it is a government entity. If this were a private entity, things would be slightly different. Hopefully it will get challenged and the City of Bozeman will be slapped down for even entertaining such notions.
Considering that I've always considered Comcast, the "Microsoft" of the ISP world, I likely to agree with you on that one. More IP addresses means more money to charge and more money to pocket. I am not skeptical, I am simply looking at the nickel and dime scheming going on. Much like the recent shake up in the wireless telecom industry, we need one in the ISP one as well. For those of you who don't know, the shake up in wireless telecom was Boost Mobile's 50 dollar unlimited plan which forced many carriers to lower prices to compete. We need a Boost equivalent of an ISP.
I have got to get one of these! Equivalent of 300 miles to the gallon is well worth a 20 year lease. Hells, bring this one to America and show the oil ripoff artists a thing or two.
COBOL is geared towards business and not so much for engineering. Fortran is an engineering language and designed for complex simulations such as predicting the behavior of a fluid.
My brother is both a mechanical and structural engineer and he uses Fortran for creation of simulations of simple to moderate complexity. I built him a FreeBSD box with an open source Fortran compiler and he uses this box for said work. I know nothing of Fortran myself. My brother just needed a UNIX machine and didn't want to spend untold sums of money for an HP-UX workstation. My brother seems to feel there is a lot of value in knowing Fortran. Personally, it looks evil to me. I like C/C++
As the IT guy, you are a mayor and a chief of police in one. You have to strike a political balance and this is easier said than done. You should definitely not be a jerk but nor should you roll over and capitulate into unreasonable demands. You might have to develop some strong policies, implement them, and adhere to them. If you can explain the logic behind the policies, most people will understand and back down and you are being a good mayor. It is the 1% asshole population that you need to take on a police chief role. It is never fun but must be done to insure the integrity and functionality of the network, its servers, and its workstations. I have found also that software engineers have little understanding of the technology side and vice versa. Opening up lines of good communication and dialogue can help build this understanding to allow both to work together more smoothly.
I agree with you to a point. Making MS look bad is fine. Personally, the company's arrogance is outstanding. When the Linux community criticizes MS, they aren't spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt but simply telling the truth as it is. FUD is a unqiuely Microsoft way of doing things. If you distrust Microsoft so much, why do you run Windows when you can do almost everything you have to do in open source? Personally, I use PCBSD and it does everything I need it to do and then some.
Comcast has always been a dog that likes to test the fences and then gets slapped down. Remember their infamous "filter" that was forcibly shut down? They want to see what they can get away with. They'll fight and growl but if enough people notice and threaten to complain to the FCC or some other government agency, they'll stop.
This proof now that there is a need for a new internet and to go back to the mom and pop providers that don't pull all of this bull crap. I miss the days of my small ISP where I could call them and get helpful, friendly tech support instead of having to navigate the myriad of voice prompts and CSRs that barely speak English. I am all for the creation of new internet to go back to the ways of no regulation, no service tiering, and a completely neutral internet.
Yes, that has happened with other communications companies which is why you'd need a group of folks to start a non-profit company that is separate from government to pull this off. This was some creative maneuvering on the part of Wilson, NC. Basically, TW is competing with Greenlight (a non-profit.) Since all Greenlight needs to do is cover its expenses and can accept donations, TW cannot possibly compete. Government can get involved through the offering of grants to greenlight and you've just done an end run around TW.
I've got a GoPhone too and I like it because AT&T doesn't own me! I am in the driver's seat and I control my costs. This is the way it should be. The telecom industry has enough lobbyists that it purchases its protections. No senator/congressman dare press King Telecom.
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I thought it was the copious amounts of marijuana that made Amsterdam a compelling destination. LOL!
LOL! That was funny. I think you've just stated succinctly, the point I was trying to make earlier.
Even if the Minnesota Supreme Court had ruled against a city-owned and run network there are other ways around it. Be clever, start a non-profit ISP and have them build out the network. Fund it through the ubiquitous government grants that the Obama Administration is giving out towards increasing broadband penetration. Also, fund it through city "Technology" grants. The neat thing about legal loopholes is that they sometimes backfire against those that exploit them.
If the telecom companies are unwilling or unable to fork out the cash to build a high-speed, fibre optic network, than they have lost their chance! The whole point of a municiple one is because the telco companies put up such a fight against doing it. Now that the city is undertaking the project, suddenly there is an uproar. Too late .... a day late and a few dollars short.
Fear is never a good motivating factor! I am all for private CCTV cameras to protect people and property. I am NOT in favor of government surveillance. If you want to hire a private firm to watch your property and relay the information to the authorities, by all means, please do. But if you allow government to do it, you have just given up your right to privacy. Once you give up a right, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. Look at what the Patriot Act did to our freedoms.
This may also explain why the call centers are reluctant to escalate the issue when it is painfully obvious that it needs to be
I think he was being sarcastic. The sarcasm was self-evident.
So we should all become slaves to our corporation? We should work continuously until we die? That, sir, is slavery ......... pure and simple slavery. Thank god the USA has laws against slavery! Work-life balance is extremely important and it is observations like your own that cause thinking to go back to the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
Calling these postings racist is not fair at all. I actually have merit in my argument when I say that India charges a huge import duty as a form of protectionism. A 26% import duty virtually ensures products made in India will be cheaper for Indians. They accuse us or protectionism? Pfffft!
If the Indians are screaming about US Protectionism, the should promptly clamp their mouths shut. My father's company builds a quality yarn texturizing machine designed to be a 50 year workhorse, much better than just about anything else out there and the Indians charge an import tax of about 26%. So if that isn't calling the kettle black, than what is? Personally, I have yet to see an Indian outsourcing company do its job correctly. I had a nightmare of a time trying to get Wildfire CAD software support from an Indian company. They kept wanting to verify information and parroting back responses. The answer to our job woes is not importing more labor but building up our own labor force!
The best possible way to secure your communications is through the use of pre-paid cell phones because there are virtually no records of your transactions nor communications. Simply get a new sim card periodically and add some air time. You won't be able to be easily tracked and you could list a bogus address with the cell company. It is lower tech and whole lot easier.
No, you are correct to a point but it does prevent companies from marketing service as unlimited when it is not really the case.
Overall it is a good idea to get rid of the urban blight. I truley hope that parts of Philadelphia are on the list for a massive cleanup effort.
This would be an invasion of privacy because it is a government entity. If this were a private entity, things would be slightly different. Hopefully it will get challenged and the City of Bozeman will be slapped down for even entertaining such notions.
Considering that I've always considered Comcast, the "Microsoft" of the ISP world, I likely to agree with you on that one. More IP addresses means more money to charge and more money to pocket. I am not skeptical, I am simply looking at the nickel and dime scheming going on. Much like the recent shake up in the wireless telecom industry, we need one in the ISP one as well. For those of you who don't know, the shake up in wireless telecom was Boost Mobile's 50 dollar unlimited plan which forced many carriers to lower prices to compete. We need a Boost equivalent of an ISP.
I have got to get one of these! Equivalent of 300 miles to the gallon is well worth a 20 year lease. Hells, bring this one to America and show the oil ripoff artists a thing or two.
COBOL is geared towards business and not so much for engineering. Fortran is an engineering language and designed for complex simulations such as predicting the behavior of a fluid.
My brother is both a mechanical and structural engineer and he uses Fortran for creation of simulations of simple to moderate complexity. I built him a FreeBSD box with an open source Fortran compiler and he uses this box for said work. I know nothing of Fortran myself. My brother just needed a UNIX machine and didn't want to spend untold sums of money for an HP-UX workstation. My brother seems to feel there is a lot of value in knowing Fortran. Personally, it looks evil to me. I like C/C++
Unbelievable! I am a paramedic and I hope that fuck tard gets fired and brought up on criminal negligence charges.
As the IT guy, you are a mayor and a chief of police in one. You have to strike a political balance and this is easier said than done. You should definitely not be a jerk but nor should you roll over and capitulate into unreasonable demands. You might have to develop some strong policies, implement them, and adhere to them. If you can explain the logic behind the policies, most people will understand and back down and you are being a good mayor. It is the 1% asshole population that you need to take on a police chief role. It is never fun but must be done to insure the integrity and functionality of the network, its servers, and its workstations. I have found also that software engineers have little understanding of the technology side and vice versa. Opening up lines of good communication and dialogue can help build this understanding to allow both to work together more smoothly.
I agree with you to a point. Making MS look bad is fine. Personally, the company's arrogance is outstanding. When the Linux community criticizes MS, they aren't spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt but simply telling the truth as it is. FUD is a unqiuely Microsoft way of doing things. If you distrust Microsoft so much, why do you run Windows when you can do almost everything you have to do in open source? Personally, I use PCBSD and it does everything I need it to do and then some.
Comcast has always been a dog that likes to test the fences and then gets slapped down. Remember their infamous "filter" that was forcibly shut down? They want to see what they can get away with. They'll fight and growl but if enough people notice and threaten to complain to the FCC or some other government agency, they'll stop.
This proof now that there is a need for a new internet and to go back to the mom and pop providers that don't pull all of this bull crap. I miss the days of my small ISP where I could call them and get helpful, friendly tech support instead of having to navigate the myriad of voice prompts and CSRs that barely speak English. I am all for the creation of new internet to go back to the ways of no regulation, no service tiering, and a completely neutral internet.
Yes, that has happened with other communications companies which is why you'd need a group of folks to start a non-profit company that is separate from government to pull this off. This was some creative maneuvering on the part of Wilson, NC. Basically, TW is competing with Greenlight (a non-profit.) Since all Greenlight needs to do is cover its expenses and can accept donations, TW cannot possibly compete. Government can get involved through the offering of grants to greenlight and you've just done an end run around TW.
I've got a GoPhone too and I like it because AT&T doesn't own me! I am in the driver's seat and I control my costs. This is the way it should be. The telecom industry has enough lobbyists that it purchases its protections. No senator/congressman dare press King Telecom.