You are incorrect. A radio tower able to do 3g strength broadcast over 100 acres will almost certainly need an FCC license to be legal. I suppose that if you live far enough into the sticks, were very careful not to cause any sort of interference on on local radio transmissions (including any local HAMs) and simply neglected to tell anyone about it you might be able to fly under the radar, but that doesn't make it legal, just difficult to regulate.
Anyway, provided you DID have the proper FCC licenses to operate a large range broadband broadcast tower, there wouldn't be any FCC regulation with regard to whether you used CDMA, GSM, iDEN, WiMax, or shoe polish to broadcast it... so long as you didn't broadcast outside of your allotted frequency or power range.
Maybe if I move to the UK, I'd consider an iPhone. Here in the US... the service costs closer to $100/month than $50/month.
Interestingly, Boost Mobile (a prepaid division of Sprint Nextel operating mainly on the Nextel iDEN network) has recently started offering a $50/month unlimited everything plan here in the US. This is a shockingly low price point, especially given that pay as you go typically offers far inferior service:dollar. The point is, that if they can actually profit on $50/month for unlimited service, then even charging $75/month for such service makes for a substantial profit margin... more than enough to subsidize the cost of a phone.
As for not getting the talk/text/internet service only paying $800, the idea is that in a non-monopolistic market you could purchase that service separately at a substantially lower rate (since there would be no need to charge for cell phone subsidies). Alas, this is not a perfect world, and as such you pretty much get hosed.
One could also argue that if one is manipulative politic in many aspects of their life, they are also most likely manipulative and politic in the others as well. If somebody were always drunk at home, drunk at work, and drunk while in public... why the hell would you think they're always sober while driving? If a scientist is always manipulative with their family, their co-workers, and while attending social events... why the hell would you expect they're always forthright while doing research?
"How would you feel if you had a legitimate case that was decided against you because you were the wrong race or gender or sexual orientation?"
I'd feel like that's what happens when you fill it with ultra Conservative anti-Constitutionalists like Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts. Kennedy actually takes reality and responsibility into consideration, and I can respect him for it despite his being very conservative, but with him as the "swing" vote God help us all.
Oh, sorry, that completely blew up your spot. Guess you're just another idiotic troll.
In the beginning? Virtually none. Bots were something of a novelty, and spamming hadn't become profitable enough for the spammers to proliferate like they do today. There were a lot of users, well established conventions against that sort of thing, and reasonably effective ways for the legitimate users to police things for themselves. Then it got too big and unwieldy, and the bot authors and spammers got too clever, then the actual number of users started to plummet with the advent of broadband and the whole thing degenerated into what it is today.
Honestly though, I was big on AOL chats well into 1999, and those really weren't major problems until the very end. Of course, I also didn't use the default rooms, which saw those problems arise much earlier for a variety of reasons (the non-defaults may have been filled with lame script-kiddies, but the front page rooms were always filled with complete noobs).
"you're not going to get that kind of radical view from anyone coming out of ANY administration"
Edited for fairness. I include the theoretical Ron Paul/Nader/other way out of the mainstream candidate you like administrations as well, in case you're wondering.
Only? No. But it should and often does (at least in sensible systems) take into consideration the degree to which a person needs defending. If you break a guys jaw in a barfight, you'll likely spend a couple nights in a county jail and get some probation... if you break a little old lady's jaw while she's crossing the street you'll likely spend a couple years in a state prison and a felony record.
The sad truth is that in many places, the law really doesn't protect the poor, miserable and troubled, serving only the rich, mighty and successful. When a wealthy white woman turns up dead it gets international attention... what do you think happens if a poor black or hispanic woman does?
It seemed from his post that this was for a desktop PC, and not a high use DB server or some such. And yes, to a certain extent, 640k WAS enough for anybody. Those statements shouldn't have to come with an explicit expiration date. At this point in time, there are extremely few uses for that kind of bandwidth, and the foreseeable future doesn't hold many more.
This of course begs the question: other than the ability to say your computer is capable of doing this, what the hell use is it? Are you seriously moving around THAT much data that it is even remotely worth spending the kind of money it would take to actually accomplish this? If your reason really is that it's fricking cool, that's great, but I have trouble believing you have a practical use for this.
"There are a lot of folks on Slashdot who try really, really hard to hate Apple and iPhones, but I think this story really is news for nerds, and really does matter. If you disagree, go click on another story."
Which is weird, because it's so easy. Why put in so much effort when all you need to do is dislike paying extra for an interface you find overrated and irritating?
I think that you've oversimplified that idea a bit. Nobody suggested that these devices would operate only when the electric company says it's ok, simply that an option be built in that turns it on to use electricity when it is cheapest (incidentally, this is when demand is lowest, and when a responsible electric company would want you to use it).
This isn't giving the electric company control over your appliances, this is giving YOU control over your appliances without requiring you to constantly supervise them. You're always free to press the button or turn the knob whether it's economical or not.
Rosa Parks was, at the time, a local leader for the NAACP. It wasn't an accident or even a single incident, it was a planned city wide protest involving Ms. Parks and several other activists. You are correct that she was never charged with sitting in the white section of the bus as it wasn't an actual offense, but neither was "disobeying a bus driver"... she was charged with disturbing the peace and public disturbance.
Your account, much like the "little old lady with groceries" version (especially given that she was only in her 20s at the time), is simply not what happened.
"Because the only thing a fan driven sequel could do is kill the market for an official one?"
Which, as you would claim, doesn't exist. If there is a market to kill, then your point falls apart.
"It's either good and thus picked up by the fanbase as 'we really wish it'd be cannon' and then the company has to deal with the fact that if they ever do a sequel they have to avoid anything brought up in it or deal with lawsuits for 'uncompensated work' or the fan driven sequel sucks balls and lowers overall interest in the franchise."
In the case of the former, that's actually quite easy: they just don't mention it. Or, hell, they could just hire some of the fan writers to work on the official sequel, seems like a good idea if they did such a great job the first time. In the case of the latter: then you do precisely what you've been doing... not much. It also seems unlikely that any fallout would hit the actual franchise, it would just make the fan-driven sequel creators look dumb.
"I see rage and whining because people don't like not getting their way. Period. You can make up as many 'just reasons' for this, but the pure and unadulterated fact of the matter is that the right to decide what does and doesn't get made in relation to a franchise is the franchise owner."
Sure they do, and the fans reserve the right to think the franchise owner sucks. All sorts of people make decisions that you or I disagree with but have no direct say in, that doesn't mean there is some directive to STFU about it if we really feel strongly about it, even if we never will get our way. If the sight of people complaining because there is no CT sequel bothers you so badly... why don't you just avoid sites/forums/stories about it? Nobody is actually forcing you to listen, so don't. Problem solved. unless, of course, what you really want is to bitch about other people bitching, which just makes you an idiot.
Sure it's an analogy, or simile, but that doesn't make it a good one. Sorry, but comparing some kid wanting to watch Angels and Demons for free to a Civil Rights leader taking a stand against legalized overt racism is complete BS.
A better analogy (simile) would be something like:comparing Rosa Parks to file sharers is like comparing apples to tentacle rape.
I'd say there's hope she isn't cursed, except that they canceled The Unit too.
But yes, I expect that she and Nathan Fillion are going to show up as Dolls next fall. There are already actors on the show who could be their body doubles, and what the hell else are they going to do?
Not to mention that they cashed in on the first emerging sell-phone markets back in the 90s and early 2000s... middle classers from industrialized western nations. I remember getting my first cell phone back in 2k as part of a Cingular family plan my dad opened up, it was a shiny "little" blue Nokia with a B&W screen smaller than a postage stamp barely large enough to show a 10-digit phone number. All of my friends with cell phones had the exact same phone, and most of their parents did too. It was almost 6 years before I even had a phone that wasn't a Nokia, because they were the ones making 90% of the "free" phones.
What was really funny was seeing that same ancient Nokia in Costa Rica last year. You'd probably get laughed at in San Jose for using one, but out in the sticks they were everywhere.
I hope not, the South Americans all juggle and rainbow kick like pussies. You never see Brazilian fullbacks palming their opponents' faces or sharpening their cleat spikes into tendon shredding razor talons.
Anyway, given how confrontational our sports leagues tend to be, I'd imagine that English style soccer (sorry, but we already have an inappropriately named football, that ship has sailed) has a much better shot of making it here.
Just because there is an apparent contradiction doesn't make it untrue.
Science is flawed when it surmises that there is no relevant biological difference between races, or that human pollution is devastating to the environment and needs to be curbed. Science is absolutely true when it indicates that... um... well you get the idea.
REALITY is the two wolves still being better armed.
Sorry, but the trope that if everybody just armed themselves to the teeth we'd somehow be safer and better able to protect ourselves from bullies and tyrants completely falls apart when you consider that the bullies and tyrants get to be armed to the teeth too, plus there are more of them, and they are usually bigger and more dangerous.
If you really believe that unless you have a gun you are in terrible danger of life and limb, that doesn't make you a heroic champion of the Second Amendment, it makes you a coward.
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You are incorrect. A radio tower able to do 3g strength broadcast over 100 acres will almost certainly need an FCC license to be legal. I suppose that if you live far enough into the sticks, were very careful not to cause any sort of interference on on local radio transmissions (including any local HAMs) and simply neglected to tell anyone about it you might be able to fly under the radar, but that doesn't make it legal, just difficult to regulate.
Anyway, provided you DID have the proper FCC licenses to operate a large range broadband broadcast tower, there wouldn't be any FCC regulation with regard to whether you used CDMA, GSM, iDEN, WiMax, or shoe polish to broadcast it... so long as you didn't broadcast outside of your allotted frequency or power range.
Maybe if I move to the UK, I'd consider an iPhone. Here in the US... the service costs closer to $100/month than $50/month.
Interestingly, Boost Mobile (a prepaid division of Sprint Nextel operating mainly on the Nextel iDEN network) has recently started offering a $50/month unlimited everything plan here in the US. This is a shockingly low price point, especially given that pay as you go typically offers far inferior service:dollar. The point is, that if they can actually profit on $50/month for unlimited service, then even charging $75/month for such service makes for a substantial profit margin... more than enough to subsidize the cost of a phone.
As for not getting the talk/text/internet service only paying $800, the idea is that in a non-monopolistic market you could purchase that service separately at a substantially lower rate (since there would be no need to charge for cell phone subsidies). Alas, this is not a perfect world, and as such you pretty much get hosed.
Anywhere that's selling it without a 2-year service contract costing almost $100/month.
In case you weren't aware, cell phones are often sold at an extremely subsidized price.
One could also argue that if one is manipulative politic in many aspects of their life, they are also most likely manipulative and politic in the others as well. If somebody were always drunk at home, drunk at work, and drunk while in public... why the hell would you think they're always sober while driving? If a scientist is always manipulative with their family, their co-workers, and while attending social events... why the hell would you expect they're always forthright while doing research?
"How would you feel if you had a legitimate case that was decided against you because you were the wrong race or gender or sexual orientation?"
I'd feel like that's what happens when you fill it with ultra Conservative anti-Constitutionalists like Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts. Kennedy actually takes reality and responsibility into consideration, and I can respect him for it despite his being very conservative, but with him as the "swing" vote God help us all.
Oh, sorry, that completely blew up your spot. Guess you're just another idiotic troll.
In the beginning? Virtually none. Bots were something of a novelty, and spamming hadn't become profitable enough for the spammers to proliferate like they do today. There were a lot of users, well established conventions against that sort of thing, and reasonably effective ways for the legitimate users to police things for themselves. Then it got too big and unwieldy, and the bot authors and spammers got too clever, then the actual number of users started to plummet with the advent of broadband and the whole thing degenerated into what it is today.
Honestly though, I was big on AOL chats well into 1999, and those really weren't major problems until the very end. Of course, I also didn't use the default rooms, which saw those problems arise much earlier for a variety of reasons (the non-defaults may have been filled with lame script-kiddies, but the front page rooms were always filled with complete noobs).
"you're not going to get that kind of radical view from anyone coming out of ANY administration"
Edited for fairness. I include the theoretical Ron Paul/Nader/other way out of the mainstream candidate you like administrations as well, in case you're wondering.
Only? No. But it should and often does (at least in sensible systems) take into consideration the degree to which a person needs defending. If you break a guys jaw in a barfight, you'll likely spend a couple nights in a county jail and get some probation... if you break a little old lady's jaw while she's crossing the street you'll likely spend a couple years in a state prison and a felony record.
The sad truth is that in many places, the law really doesn't protect the poor, miserable and troubled, serving only the rich, mighty and successful. When a wealthy white woman turns up dead it gets international attention... what do you think happens if a poor black or hispanic woman does?
So, what? See you in a couple of days then, gramps?
It seemed from his post that this was for a desktop PC, and not a high use DB server or some such. And yes, to a certain extent, 640k WAS enough for anybody. Those statements shouldn't have to come with an explicit expiration date. At this point in time, there are extremely few uses for that kind of bandwidth, and the foreseeable future doesn't hold many more.
Also a shitty (though somewhat underrated, IMO) Schwarzenegger flick.
This of course begs the question: other than the ability to say your computer is capable of doing this, what the hell use is it? Are you seriously moving around THAT much data that it is even remotely worth spending the kind of money it would take to actually accomplish this? If your reason really is that it's fricking cool, that's great, but I have trouble believing you have a practical use for this.
"There are a lot of folks on Slashdot who try really, really hard to hate Apple and iPhones, but I think this story really is news for nerds, and really does matter. If you disagree, go click on another story."
Which is weird, because it's so easy. Why put in so much effort when all you need to do is dislike paying extra for an interface you find overrated and irritating?
I think that you've oversimplified that idea a bit. Nobody suggested that these devices would operate only when the electric company says it's ok, simply that an option be built in that turns it on to use electricity when it is cheapest (incidentally, this is when demand is lowest, and when a responsible electric company would want you to use it).
This isn't giving the electric company control over your appliances, this is giving YOU control over your appliances without requiring you to constantly supervise them. You're always free to press the button or turn the knob whether it's economical or not.
Solution: move to Somalia. Government free since '92.
Best of luck.
Rosa Parks was, at the time, a local leader for the NAACP. It wasn't an accident or even a single incident, it was a planned city wide protest involving Ms. Parks and several other activists. You are correct that she was never charged with sitting in the white section of the bus as it wasn't an actual offense, but neither was "disobeying a bus driver"... she was charged with disturbing the peace and public disturbance.
Your account, much like the "little old lady with groceries" version (especially given that she was only in her 20s at the time), is simply not what happened.
"Because the only thing a fan driven sequel could do is kill the market for an official one?"
Which, as you would claim, doesn't exist. If there is a market to kill, then your point falls apart.
"It's either good and thus picked up by the fanbase as 'we really wish it'd be cannon' and then the company has to deal with the fact that if they ever do a sequel they have to avoid anything brought up in it or deal with lawsuits for 'uncompensated work' or the fan driven sequel sucks balls and lowers overall interest in the franchise."
In the case of the former, that's actually quite easy: they just don't mention it. Or, hell, they could just hire some of the fan writers to work on the official sequel, seems like a good idea if they did such a great job the first time. In the case of the latter: then you do precisely what you've been doing... not much. It also seems unlikely that any fallout would hit the actual franchise, it would just make the fan-driven sequel creators look dumb.
"I see rage and whining because people don't like not getting their way. Period. You can make up as many 'just reasons' for this, but the pure and unadulterated fact of the matter is that the right to decide what does and doesn't get made in relation to a franchise is the franchise owner."
Sure they do, and the fans reserve the right to think the franchise owner sucks. All sorts of people make decisions that you or I disagree with but have no direct say in, that doesn't mean there is some directive to STFU about it if we really feel strongly about it, even if we never will get our way. If the sight of people complaining because there is no CT sequel bothers you so badly... why don't you just avoid sites/forums/stories about it? Nobody is actually forcing you to listen, so don't. Problem solved. unless, of course, what you really want is to bitch about other people bitching, which just makes you an idiot.
Sure it's an analogy, or simile, but that doesn't make it a good one. Sorry, but comparing some kid wanting to watch Angels and Demons for free to a Civil Rights leader taking a stand against legalized overt racism is complete BS.
A better analogy (simile) would be something like :comparing Rosa Parks to file sharers is like comparing apples to tentacle rape.
Definitely too much booze and drugs for any age. And don't forget about the hookers.
I'd say there's hope she isn't cursed, except that they canceled The Unit too.
But yes, I expect that she and Nathan Fillion are going to show up as Dolls next fall. There are already actors on the show who could be their body doubles, and what the hell else are they going to do?
Not to mention that they cashed in on the first emerging sell-phone markets back in the 90s and early 2000s... middle classers from industrialized western nations. I remember getting my first cell phone back in 2k as part of a Cingular family plan my dad opened up, it was a shiny "little" blue Nokia with a B&W screen smaller than a postage stamp barely large enough to show a 10-digit phone number. All of my friends with cell phones had the exact same phone, and most of their parents did too. It was almost 6 years before I even had a phone that wasn't a Nokia, because they were the ones making 90% of the "free" phones.
What was really funny was seeing that same ancient Nokia in Costa Rica last year. You'd probably get laughed at in San Jose for using one, but out in the sticks they were everywhere.
I hope not, the South Americans all juggle and rainbow kick like pussies. You never see Brazilian fullbacks palming their opponents' faces or sharpening their cleat spikes into tendon shredding razor talons.
Anyway, given how confrontational our sports leagues tend to be, I'd imagine that English style soccer (sorry, but we already have an inappropriately named football, that ship has sailed) has a much better shot of making it here.
Just because there is an apparent contradiction doesn't make it untrue.
Science is flawed when it surmises that there is no relevant biological difference between races, or that human pollution is devastating to the environment and needs to be curbed. Science is absolutely true when it indicates that... um... well you get the idea.
REALITY is the two wolves still being better armed.
Sorry, but the trope that if everybody just armed themselves to the teeth we'd somehow be safer and better able to protect ourselves from bullies and tyrants completely falls apart when you consider that the bullies and tyrants get to be armed to the teeth too, plus there are more of them, and they are usually bigger and more dangerous.
If you really believe that unless you have a gun you are in terrible danger of life and limb, that doesn't make you a heroic champion of the Second Amendment, it makes you a coward.