Because places have done it and saved the population money and provided better service?
And that
the end-users and provider are both located/headquartered local to the area,
both have a vested interest in its success,
and in many cases have a large intersection of their sets.
But remove 'respectable' (cough) businesses from the equation towards the goal of providing a reliable service targeted at the good of the end-user? Filthy socialist.
Home energy bills doubled within six months.
Weren't there huge complaints as a result of this?
I'm pretty sure referring to Comcast as a "respectable business" is about as fraudulent as it gets. I'm surprised these fliers didn't burst into flames before the shills could hand them out.
On the contrary, I agree with Comcast's proposition here. Why, in theory, build out municipal fiber when internet service is already offered by two respectable private businesses? Such businesses should be able to consider the needs of their end-users and provide the appropriate services.
All they would need to answer that question is to get rid of SBC and Comcast, and let those two purported businesses move in. Heck, I'd settle for just one.
No argument on how much is being held back, but maybe it just seems secretive because of how fluidly the press and people are now using the Internet as an information medium within the past 5-10 years. Classified information and state secrets that would have previously taken decades to come to light, seem to have details globally available within years or months, and basic awareness of their existence even sooner.
As such, I continuously wonder if there were just as many secrets before, but it's just faster to find out about their existence nowadays, leading to the current administration appearing to have more of them. On the other hand, storage has increased alongside communication, so maybe more secrets are being kept (and correspondingly leaked).
Exactly! And since they can make the plans available for download, they can take a step further and print the warheads and detonators directly at the target site. This will save costs on building a delivery system and associated consumables, such as fuel.
It lets them do things like see the last time you bought a pregnancy test and a few months later, start putting specials for baby products in the next email you get sent by them on behalf of your local supermarket.
Some sort of mega-all-in-one SCM, IDE, build tool, project management software nightmare?
That's my text editor, you insensitive clod!
The complexity has to go somewhere
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As things become more powerful, you can't just wish away the complexity. Maybe you can hide it in one of these 'shibboleth' things mentioned in the summary. That sounds big enough to hide things. Or maybe we could just use describe things more clearly -- but that's crazy talk.
Why do they need to dig through all those people? I hear Edward Snowden himself has concluded his most recent assignment at the NSA, and has government experience and a security clearance to boot. My information may be a little out of date, though.
Recently I met a gentleman whose profession was gathering up shopping carts in the supermarket parking lot, and he treated me to an extended discourse about the relative merits of the producers of the different Muppet movies.
Well, don't keep us waiting! No, hold on, you're probably going to write this up and submit it to the firehose, right?
Trying to get government to run networks would work well up front, but in 5 years it would be outdated and there would be no money to upgrade it.
With the progress they're making in increasing the speed of light, they'll be lucky if the cable infrastructure lasts even that long, especially considering that most of the costs in laying fiber is in the initial trenching.
I'm seriously laughing my ass off here. If your wife pulled that shit with the construction workers I know, both you and she wouldn't even exist. You'd be in a concrete foundationg to be found a century or two from now.
You might consider the possibility that these construction workers may be misrepresenting their primary occupation.
SKINNER: Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-two minutes declination... no sighting.
BART: Mm-hm.
SKINNER: Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-three minutes declination... no sighting.
BART: Mm-hm.
...
SKINNER: (excitedly) Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, fifty-eight minutes declination!...no sighting. Did you get that one Bart?
BART: Hell no.
I can't imagine why scientific fieldwork in particular could provide an environment that promotes inappropriate behavior.
Also, that the inks and toners are actually made by only a handful of companies, and are again, not unique to the printer. He was very disappointing with the information.
He then went back to the office, complained to his coworkers, and then one of his brighter coworkers decided to strongarm printer manufacturers into making the output traceable. Nice job, jerk.
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I would say that SETI has produced one of the most useful pieces of software available today for the use of the general public.
Because places have done it and saved the population money and provided better service?
And that
But remove 'respectable' (cough) businesses from the equation towards the goal of providing a reliable service targeted at the good of the end-user? Filthy socialist.
Home energy bills doubled within six months.
Weren't there huge complaints as a result of this?
Dunno. Coast Guard?
I'm pretty sure referring to Comcast as a "respectable business" is about as fraudulent as it gets. I'm surprised these fliers didn't burst into flames before the shills could hand them out.
On the contrary, I agree with Comcast's proposition here. Why, in theory, build out municipal fiber when internet service is already offered by two respectable private businesses? Such businesses should be able to consider the needs of their end-users and provide the appropriate services.
All they would need to answer that question is to get rid of SBC and Comcast, and let those two purported businesses move in. Heck, I'd settle for just one.
Sure thing! Here you go.
My hometown has municipal broadband, it's had it since 2000.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your postcards.
Must be too expensive to hire Indians...
I'll show myself out.
No argument on how much is being held back, but maybe it just seems secretive because of how fluidly the press and people are now using the Internet as an information medium within the past 5-10 years. Classified information and state secrets that would have previously taken decades to come to light, seem to have details globally available within years or months, and basic awareness of their existence even sooner.
As such, I continuously wonder if there were just as many secrets before, but it's just faster to find out about their existence nowadays, leading to the current administration appearing to have more of them. On the other hand, storage has increased alongside communication, so maybe more secrets are being kept (and correspondingly leaked).
Exactly! And since they can make the plans available for download, they can take a step further and print the warheads and detonators directly at the target site. This will save costs on building a delivery system and associated consumables, such as fuel.
It's green *and* efficient. What could be better?
You no longer have to guess -- now you can ask these two.
It lets them do things like see the last time you bought a pregnancy test and a few months later, start putting specials for baby products in the next email you get sent by them on behalf of your local supermarket.
Amateurs.
Some sort of mega-all-in-one SCM, IDE, build tool, project management software nightmare?
That's my text editor, you insensitive clod!
As things become more powerful, you can't just wish away the complexity. Maybe you can hide it in one of these 'shibboleth' things mentioned in the summary. That sounds big enough to hide things. Or maybe we could just use describe things more clearly -- but that's crazy talk.
Why do they need to dig through all those people? I hear Edward Snowden himself has concluded his most recent assignment at the NSA, and has government experience and a security clearance to boot. My information may be a little out of date, though.
Getting ads is annoying, getting ads for African American hair styling products when you're a redhead is infuriating.
Well, lots of things infuriate them; after all, you know, redheads. Maybe they should be targeted for anger management advertising instead?
Recently I met a gentleman whose profession was gathering up shopping carts in the supermarket parking lot, and he treated me to an extended discourse about the relative merits of the producers of the different Muppet movies.
Well, don't keep us waiting! No, hold on, you're probably going to write this up and submit it to the firehose, right?
Well, it was blackjack and hookers in my case. Then again, I was a precocious little scamp.
-- Bender
Trying to get government to run networks would work well up front, but in 5 years it would be outdated and there would be no money to upgrade it.
With the progress they're making in increasing the speed of light, they'll be lucky if the cable infrastructure lasts even that long, especially considering that most of the costs in laying fiber is in the initial trenching.
I'm seriously laughing my ass off here. If your wife pulled that shit with the construction workers I know, both you and she wouldn't even exist. You'd be in a concrete foundationg to be found a century or two from now.
You might consider the possibility that these construction workers may be misrepresenting their primary occupation.
SKINNER: Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-two minutes declination... no sighting.
BART: Mm-hm.
SKINNER: Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-three minutes declination... no sighting.
BART: Mm-hm.
SKINNER: (excitedly) Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, fifty-eight minutes declination! ...no sighting. Did you get that one Bart?
BART: Hell no.
I can't imagine why scientific fieldwork in particular could provide an environment that promotes inappropriate behavior.
Also, that the inks and toners are actually made by only a handful of companies, and are again, not unique to the printer. He was very disappointing with the information.
He then went back to the office, complained to his coworkers, and then one of his brighter coworkers decided to strongarm printer manufacturers into making the output traceable. Nice job, jerk.
Sadly, then the company will send your unpaid bills to a collection agency who will hound you for payment and which will ruin your credit score.
Some people made the point that they can't ruin your credit score because they never extended credit -- a loan of money -- to you.
It seems like a profession where your identity, presence, and personal behavior is part of the product being sold. Possibly the only such profession?
Which is one of the reasons the founding fathers started a new country. With the right to due process. And blackjack. And hookers.
In fact, forget the blackjack and hookers. Ahh, screw the whole thing.
Microsoft may be growing weary of its role as judge, jury and executioner of online scams.
I personally thought it meant they were getting tired of pushing Windows 8 as an upgrade path.