On one hand one wonders about how shareholders feel about all this money spent on lawyers and legislators, when it could have gone to them in the quarterly distributions. On the other hand their demand for more, more, more put them into the quandary of how to get more without going this route.
How are they going to feel when it, in the end, fails?
I have a problem with the concept of zero rating. What is the zero supposed to refer to? The ISP, Telecom providers, content providers when they are also ISP's and/or Telecom providers, all of the above?
How do you know that he wasn't referring to the married pope with several children who decided that priests should be celibate (modeled after, I think, the Benedictines) where is real goal was to prevent priests from having children who might make claims on parish property when their fathers died thus weakening the stranglehold the church had over a lot of land?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 5:30pm
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Tim isn't anti cop. He is concerned with bad cop behavior, and writes about it. Is that a real problem for you?
Go ahead, deny that some cops act badly. Go ahead, deny that the so called good cops don't turn the bad cops in, even when they know about the bad. Go ahead deny that police unions enable all of the above, and more in the exercise of protecting police who should not be protected.
We would all love a sect of police that were actually about protecting and serving. It is in fact harder and harder to tell that they might be.
These days, it is better for the average citizen to infer that they are not, rather than infer that they are. This is hard on those 'good' cops out there. But the bed is made.
It could be unmade, but that is going to take some time, and a lot of behavior. From the cops, from the DA's, and from the courts. Cops testimony should not be believed because they are cops, but because they have corroborating evidence.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 5:17pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Why is Redbox still in business???
Well, the MPAA's revocation of licenses to Netflix...because...hasn't been highlighted. I thought it should be.
It's funny, the MPAA wants money, but they deny Netflix the ability to give it money. They want the ability to get more money from their own sites. Non silo'ed sights that many cannot find, or care to find. They pay for Netflix and expect...
The MPAA turns down money. Not only shocking, but more humorous than anything the MPAA members produce.
Then there are the less impactful, but relevant reasons.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 5:07pm
Re: Re: Re:
Stephen, while I agree with your premise, I would guard against overusing the concept of 'otherwording'. Some, entirely straightforward folk might be accused of such merely because they are unfamiliar with the concept, but have no ulterior intent. I use 'so' as a leading article at times (though I do try to avoid it) and I use rewording a respondents words (as you say for clarification) but there are times when the speaker is not as sophisticated as you or I.
So (intended) when is it appropriate to come down on someone for 'otherwording', and when is it not? The problem becomes it is an esoteric decision. Sometimes it might be, and other times it might not. Therefore, the 'accusation' of 'otherwording' might be purely a personal decision. Implying intent, rather than rationalizing intent are two different things.
In the end, you are correct, but don't make the mistake of imputing 'otherwording' every time a grammatical usage is used. It might just be...inexperience.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 4:44pm
Re: The end of first sale is just the tip of the iceberg!
I wouldn't put it past them. On the other hand, this is only one court, and not an appellate court. What happens down the road is what we need to watch.
The right of first sale impacts a lot of things. The ability to repair, customize, edit, fair use rights. One hopes that the right overcomes the anal right of control for the seller, after sale.
The right to, for example, customize ones car is very long standing. Changing it now would subvert a lot of history. Not that the companies that want the change care, but courts are a different story.
The real question then becomes, will the attorneys who file the suit ask the right questions, or in another way make the right arguments.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 4:35pm
Re: Re: Why is Redbox still in business???
It is possible that:
1, the videos he wants to watch are not available on Netflix. Ask the MAFFIA why.
2. Handing your credit card information to some sketchy website might not be a good idea. Then there are the quality and bandwidth restriction considerations, that should not exist.
3. The cause of Netflix reduction in video availability is solely due to the various gatekeepers fearing direct competition. They receive income from Netflix, but they get more from direct streaming. I don't do this, so I don't know how well it works...but I have heard many stories.
4. Mike travels. Why should he not expect the same quality of service from wherever he is?
Now I know you know the answers to these questions Christenson, but they are, and probably more, part of the equation.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 2:24pm
Re:
?"The fact that Disney can't just directly sell the same thing online..."
Well they can, maybe even do, but I haven't heard about it. Redbox is in the malls, directly in consumers eyes. No need to get them to search the net for anything. However, I don't disagree with your disbelief that Redbox is still in business.
But, you're expecting innovation from Disney? The folks that made so much money from taking from the public domain. You expect them to innovate? To what do you attribute such a reversal in entrenched behavior?
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 11:48am
Re: Re: Re: Net neutrality hypocracy
If you own a company, and rely on Google or Facebook or any other social media for customer contact, I would think you wouldn't do something so egregious as to get kicked off their service. Something like expressing your personal likes or dislikes or arguing politics for one side or the other. To some degree, any of those would probably be fine, so far as the platforms go. For them it's probably a matter of degree. How intense are you expressing those ideas, and whom are you denigrating in your expressions. You customers, however, are a different matter.
Like TOG, I don't use any social media sites. I have run into a few businesses where the only way to contact them is through their Facebook page. They never hear from me. Not as a purchaser, not as a client, not as a customer. I don't, and won't do business with anyone that would require me to use Facebook. I consider Facebook dangerous, and not just to those who sign up for their service.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 9:09am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is ridiculous.
You keep blaming individuals. Fact is, elections are not won or lost with the input of single individuals. They are won or lost by input from many individuals.
Some of those individuals have been co-opted by political parties. Some of those elections have been co-opted by copious amounts of soft money. I think it would be more effective to complain about the system, than go about accusing individuals for their incompetence at selecting elected officials.
No one of us can be blamed, but collectively all of us need to work on the system. There are those, however, who think the system as it is, is just fine. Those are the people who benefit from the system as it is, and those who use the system as it is to achieve their goals, and those who have been co-opted by the political parties. Likely a minority, rather than a majority.
Remember, that when you point your finger at something, there are three other fingers pointing back at you. Your adamant rhetoric at blaming others fails to point out your own complicity.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Aug 2018 @ 8:26am
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But there is that pesky word 'expansion' in their 'Strategic Goal'. Seems a conflict to promote expansion but limit expansion to only one. Not that I expect anything but Pai talking out of both sides of his mouth AND his ass all at the same time. Quite the convoluted trick. I wonder if he took lessons or is giving them?
Government regulators consider the HHI’s scale of 0 to 10,000 basis points (0.00 to 1.00%). Every nation has its own threshold, the United States uses 0.25 (2,500 points) while the European Union uses 0.142 (1,420 points). Any firm with a market share above this threshold would be considered to be anti-competitive or monopolistic.
When firms submit merger or acquisition proposals to the United States or European Union government regulators, this index can be used to determine if the resulting combination would have too high of a concentration of market share power. These regulatory authorities can objectively reject anti-competitive combinations by referring to the HHI.
Nations have permitted state-sponsored monopolies, such as the Dutch East India Company or Ma Bell to develop unproven technologies. When that market becomes mature, increased competition permits diversification, innovation and lower prices. The HHI can be used to assist with this economic transition.
It does not say that this index is required. The fact, however, that such an index is used, and is ignored by both the FCC and this court says a lot.
The FCC ignores an objective standard that has been well established, even though it has been ignored at times, it runs afoul of ]the FCC's mandate](https://www.fcc.gov/about/overview):
Strategic Goal #1
Promoting Economic Growth and National Leadership.
Promote the expansion of competitive telecommunications networks, which are a vital component of technological innovation and economic growth and help to ensure that the U.S. remains a leader in providing its citizens opportunities for economic and educational development.
How does the FCC intend to fulfill it's self claimed purpose when competition is defined as one?
And the court saying that the FCC can pick and choose its own criteria when defining competition totally ignores the history of both the definitions normally used in defining competition, but the disasters that were created when that definitions was ignored.
Not being a lawyer, I have not investigated related case law. I wouldn't know how.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Aug 2018 @ 6:57pm
Getting started cost are up up up!
It is sad that any start-up now has to consider in their pro forma budgeting a significant amount for attorneys fees because they might get sued for inanity. Many kinds of potential inanity. Trademark/trade-dress is just one of them.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Aug 2018 @ 6:46pm
Re: Georgia Death Investigations Act
"Over at the hospital, an examination did not turn up any signs of abuse or foul play. Investigators believed the infant's death to be accidental."
There was an investigation. There was no need, from the results of the investigation, to search the house. The death was found to be accidental, at the hospital.
Anonymous Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Aug 2018 @ 4:03pm
The police are not the only culprits
"Arielle Turner was indicted by a grand jury for the death of her infant."
"Over at the hospital, an examination did not turn up any signs of abuse or foul play. Investigators believed the infant's death to be accidental."
We all know that, if they want to, any DA could indict a ham sandwich (so to speak). But those two quotes above seem directly contradictory. If the investigators found the death accidental, they where the hell the the indictment come from.
It is not just the police officer who performed the search that committed misdeeds. The DA who got the indictment from the grand jury must have told some super duper whoppers.
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How are they going to feel when it, in the end, fails?
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Re: Re: Re:
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Zero Rating
/s for those who don't know better
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Strong Language
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Re:
Go ahead, deny that some cops act badly. Go ahead, deny that the so called good cops don't turn the bad cops in, even when they know about the bad. Go ahead deny that police unions enable all of the above, and more in the exercise of protecting police who should not be protected.
We would all love a sect of police that were actually about protecting and serving. It is in fact harder and harder to tell that they might be.
These days, it is better for the average citizen to infer that they are not, rather than infer that they are. This is hard on those 'good' cops out there. But the bed is made.
It could be unmade, but that is going to take some time, and a lot of behavior. From the cops, from the DA's, and from the courts. Cops testimony should not be believed because they are cops, but because they have corroborating evidence.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Why is Redbox still in business???
It's funny, the MPAA wants money, but they deny Netflix the ability to give it money. They want the ability to get more money from their own sites. Non silo'ed sights that many cannot find, or care to find. They pay for Netflix and expect...
The MPAA turns down money. Not only shocking, but more humorous than anything the MPAA members produce.
Then there are the less impactful, but relevant reasons.
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Re: Re: Re:
So (intended) when is it appropriate to come down on someone for 'otherwording', and when is it not? The problem becomes it is an esoteric decision. Sometimes it might be, and other times it might not. Therefore, the 'accusation' of 'otherwording' might be purely a personal decision. Implying intent, rather than rationalizing intent are two different things.
In the end, you are correct, but don't make the mistake of imputing 'otherwording' every time a grammatical usage is used. It might just be...inexperience.
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Re: The end of first sale is just the tip of the iceberg!
The right of first sale impacts a lot of things. The ability to repair, customize, edit, fair use rights. One hopes that the right overcomes the anal right of control for the seller, after sale.
The right to, for example, customize ones car is very long standing. Changing it now would subvert a lot of history. Not that the companies that want the change care, but courts are a different story.
The real question then becomes, will the attorneys who file the suit ask the right questions, or in another way make the right arguments.
On the post: Disney Fixes Its Sketchy DVD Rental License, Wins Injunction Against Redbox Over Digital Downloads
Re: Re: Why is Redbox still in business???
1, the videos he wants to watch are not available on Netflix. Ask the MAFFIA why.
2. Handing your credit card information to some sketchy website might not be a good idea. Then there are the quality and bandwidth restriction considerations, that should not exist.
3. The cause of Netflix reduction in video availability is solely due to the various gatekeepers fearing direct competition. They receive income from Netflix, but they get more from direct streaming. I don't do this, so I don't know how well it works...but I have heard many stories.
4. Mike travels. Why should he not expect the same quality of service from wherever he is?
Now I know you know the answers to these questions Christenson, but they are, and probably more, part of the equation.
On the post: Police Union Offers Citizens $500 To Get Hurt, Killed, Or Sued As Amateur Cops
Dialog, what we expect from them
Citizens: Respect is earned. What have you done for use lately?
Cops: We need help sometimes, why don't you help us?
Citizens: When did you last respect us?
Cops: We are here to protect you!
Citizens: You made the Supreme Court state that 'protect and serve' isn't part of your duties.
Cops: But we're just enforcing the law.
Citizens: You got the Supreme Court to state that you don't need to know the law you are supposed to enforce. What law are you enforcing now?
Cops: erm
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Re:
Well they can, maybe even do, but I haven't heard about it. Redbox is in the malls, directly in consumers eyes. No need to get them to search the net for anything. However, I don't disagree with your disbelief that Redbox is still in business.
But, you're expecting innovation from Disney? The folks that made so much money from taking from the public domain. You expect them to innovate? To what do you attribute such a reversal in entrenched behavior?
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Re: Re: Re: Net neutrality hypocracy
Like TOG, I don't use any social media sites. I have run into a few businesses where the only way to contact them is through their Facebook page. They never hear from me. Not as a purchaser, not as a client, not as a customer. I don't, and won't do business with anyone that would require me to use Facebook. I consider Facebook dangerous, and not just to those who sign up for their service.
On the post: Court Says Cop Gets No Immunity For Pulling A Man Over For Flipping Him Off
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is ridiculous.
Some of those individuals have been co-opted by political parties. Some of those elections have been co-opted by copious amounts of soft money. I think it would be more effective to complain about the system, than go about accusing individuals for their incompetence at selecting elected officials.
No one of us can be blamed, but collectively all of us need to work on the system. There are those, however, who think the system as it is, is just fine. Those are the people who benefit from the system as it is, and those who use the system as it is to achieve their goals, and those who have been co-opted by the political parties. Likely a minority, rather than a majority.
Remember, that when you point your finger at something, there are three other fingers pointing back at you. Your adamant rhetoric at blaming others fails to point out your own complicity.
On the post: Court Rules It's Fine If FCC Wants To Deem Just One Available ISP As 'Competition'
Re: Re:
On the post: Court Says Cop Gets No Immunity For Pulling A Man Over For Flipping Him Off
Re: Re: This is ridiculous.
On the post: Court Rules It's Fine If FCC Wants To Deem Just One Available ISP As 'Competition'
Out of curiosity I tried looking up 'competition' in a legal dictionary where I found multiple entries. Included in those entries was a reference to How To Calculate The Herfindahl Hirschman Index which in part states:
It does not say that this index is required. The fact, however, that such an index is used, and is ignored by both the FCC and this court says a lot.
The FCC ignores an objective standard that has been well established, even though it has been ignored at times, it runs afoul of ]the FCC's mandate](https://www.fcc.gov/about/overview):
How does the FCC intend to fulfill it's self claimed purpose when competition is defined as one?
And the court saying that the FCC can pick and choose its own criteria when defining competition totally ignores the history of both the definitions normally used in defining competition, but the disasters that were created when that definitions was ignored.
Not being a lawyer, I have not investigated related case law. I wouldn't know how.
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Getting started cost are up up up!
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Re: Georgia Death Investigations Act
There was an investigation. There was no need, from the results of the investigation, to search the house. The death was found to be accidental, at the hospital.
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The police are not the only culprits
We all know that, if they want to, any DA could indict a ham sandwich (so to speak). But those two quotes above seem directly contradictory. If the investigators found the death accidental, they where the hell the the indictment come from.
It is not just the police officer who performed the search that committed misdeeds. The DA who got the indictment from the grand jury must have told some super duper whoppers.
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Re: Re:
Do we know if any of those paid the Doyle estate?
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