We "gained" a huge nuclear arsenal and a whole new silo (no pun intended but there it is) in which to compete. Pretty sure the psychopathic end of the capitalism spectrum sees that as a win. And things seem to parallel rather well between extreme nationalism / war hawks and extreme corporatism / IP hawks. One cannot accuse them of making evidence-based decisions with respect to the evidence claimed to be in use, or which is theoretically supposed to be in use in their respective arenas.
It is a weird analogy, for various values of "short-sighted". I expect the intent is to be point out the rules by which things are actually played, versus the putative rules which supposedly govern such things. Kind of like the frequent sort of argument that, e.g., calling out the NSA on grounds that it is ineffective to vacuum "intelligence" if the intent is to use it to find terrorists, when in fact they do it to control our own citizens. Sort of how i read it, anyway. But i could be both mistaken and also throwing more bad analogies on the pile.
"The requirement on Charter to overbuild competitors will harm consumers in two ways...First, it will harm Charter's customers by preventing Charter from investing its resources most efficiently, such as by upgrading its networks to higher speeds.
*Magic!*
Second, it will harm customers of local, small providers when these customers are satisfied with their existing service."
LMFAO. No, we don't actually eat small providers or drive them out of the market like it's our after-school hobby or anything. We wouldn't want that.
Re: Given how France seems to think it has global jurisdiction...
I think they learned it from us. But actually it is a time-honored tradition. When you are both Right and you want to maintain the appearance of Power and Empire, it's a heady combination.
Add Philadelphia to the long list of cities that finally admit way too late, when they knew all along (in fact, way before deals were anywhere near done) that Verizon ripped them off on fiber promises and a lot of other stuff.
Sometime we do have surveillance from the same outfit that employs the off-duty problem. And at lest a sensible judge. What is still missing is automatic charges against officers, like there are (and then some) for everyone else. Or rather more particularly, certainly subsets of everyone else. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-beats-young-girl-riding-bike-mall-parking-lot/
I saw similar happen with police ostensibly there to... uh, watch?.. an intersection, after the power had gone. Not sure what the plan was there... Or maybe the whole idea was to scare people and then yell at them.
For one, all those sorts of things, like AV scans, that should delay while the system is in use, need a better definition of "in use" and ways to detect that. What some applications and operating systems consider to be "idle" is beyond the pale.
Guess what it says in the EULA about things like that? It's one part of such documents worth minding, instead of treating these things like the appliances they still are not.
If you've ever had the pleasure of simply asking one medical outfit to transfer your records to another company or organization, you've probably become aware of the sorry state of medical IT.
It's not even that. Some doctors and hospitals simply refuse to do it or work with the other party. But hell, i remember doing this stuff manually.
Getting the other doctor(s) / hospital to actually pay any mind to those records they wanted so badly? Whole other fucking ball game.
The larger problem here is that the Congressional record should be... a record. Publicly accessible. Just like court records should be. And most other things. One should need FOIA only in more extreme circumstances, where there is some actual argument to be made over what might be private or reasonably classified.
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It is a weird analogy, for various values of "short-sighted". I expect the intent is to be point out the rules by which things are actually played, versus the putative rules which supposedly govern such things. Kind of like the frequent sort of argument that, e.g., calling out the NSA on grounds that it is ineffective to vacuum "intelligence" if the intent is to use it to find terrorists, when in fact they do it to control our own citizens. Sort of how i read it, anyway. But i could be both mistaken and also throwing more bad analogies on the pile.
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*Magic!*
LMFAO. No, we don't actually eat small providers or drive them out of the market like it's our after-school hobby or anything. We wouldn't want that.
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http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-beats-young-girl-riding-bike-mall-parking-lot/
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Guess what it says in the EULA about things like that? It's one part of such documents worth minding, instead of treating these things like the appliances they still are not.
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It's not even that. Some doctors and hospitals simply refuse to do it or work with the other party. But hell, i remember doing this stuff manually.
Getting the other doctor(s) / hospital to actually pay any mind to those records they wanted so badly? Whole other fucking ball game.
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