One Citizen, One Vote? How amateur. Chicago used "Vote Early, Vote Often" and election vote counts easily exceeded the population. Just because someone's address was their parish cemetery was no reason to not count their vote...
The Strategy of raising rates to meet wall street revenue growth targets will rapidly reach a tipping point (read that: sheer cliff) - using the formula of
(target revenue / # subscribers) = monthly bill
will reach a point where no remaining subscribers can afford it. That will be fun to watch.
TheResidentSkeptic (profile), 25 Aug 2016 @ 6:24am
This will get interesting.
Let's say a vendor decides to side with the public - and creates a lock screen with 2 keys - an "Unlock" and "Brick NOW" code. The brick code does more than just brick the device - it sets it to "stolen"; wipes the cloud backup copies, secure wipes the SIM and local memory... effectively rendering it useless - even to "sell" after the evidence expiration date.
Now what do they do? Does the government make such a lock screen illegal? Does Bricking your device become a new illegal activity? How far are they going to push?
TheResidentSkeptic (profile), 24 Aug 2016 @ 7:14am
Other than politicians..
... what is it they are investing in? USA has now fallen out of the top 20 countries in internet speed. They aren't investing in actual technological prowess or advancement here. They are dropping copper, dropping fiber (while bitching about google fiber), and only seem to be interested in investment in high-profit high-cost-to-the-consumer capped wireless.
Competition breeds advancement. Advancement enables innovation. Innovation creates new opportunities for growth and competition. Too many legacy industries are fighting against that vicious cycle.
Apparently, all that really matters is keeping wall street happy with fat profit margins.
TheResidentSkeptic (profile), 19 Aug 2016 @ 9:00am
Let's play with the math...
50 years ago was 1966. Let's say musicians lived to 60, and were at their peak at 1/2 that age. So take another 30 off, and we're talking the music of 1936.
What is the expected market for that? They really think they have to go back another 20? To the greatest hits of 1916?
I can't wait for the re-masters of those albums to hit the market...Those Flappers of the 1920's and their music were the cats meow...or the bees knees... or something nearly as stupid as life+70.
TheResidentSkeptic (profile), 16 Aug 2016 @ 9:39am
The Really Sad Part
..is that they never asked technologists for suggestions to move into the Digital World.
Here's a quick example:
Given that subscriptions NEVER fully covered the cost of producing and distribution, then we have to ask what they did.
They provided a metric used to set advertising rates - the number of unique addresses (street) that subscribed. Not the number of readers. The digital world provides the same (and more) information for free - the number of unique addresses (IP) that 1) return daily; 2) return multiple times per day; 3) are new; 4) read Sunday only. These numbers could also be used the same way to set advertising rates. Of course, there would have to be more than 2 ads shown every 30 seconds.
Analysis of the on-line activity would provide instant feedback on what articles/news/items were actually of interest. You really had no clue when you threw 40 pages out there of what was actually read. The web gives you that insight - and could certainly be an indicator of where to expend resources to garner more hits, higher metrics, higher rates.
Customer inclusion would foster even more growth. Social sharing increases number of new IP hits.
But no - we're gonna block feedback, add costs, add malware, and demand the Good Old Days back.
TheResidentSkeptic (profile), 12 Aug 2016 @ 11:35am
Turnabout?
And if this stands, then how many other governments can just declare wealthy people in the US as guilty under their laws and seize their assets? That's one way to go after facebook, google, whatsapp, and all the others they don't like.
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The Chicago Gang beat this system.
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I wonder...
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Just when we thought..
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It has to be illegal
We can't be held accountable by the public!
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Rewording an old Adage..
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And the Death Spiral Begins...
(target revenue / # subscribers) = monthly bill
will reach a point where no remaining subscribers can afford it. That will be fun to watch.
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Look closer - it is worse
*that* in and of itself should be grounds for immediate rejection of the bill and removal from office.
Is she going to let them vote on it for her?
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I'm heading to the basement...
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Re: Food for Thought
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Unfortunately
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This will get interesting.
Now what do they do? Does the government make such a lock screen illegal? Does Bricking your device become a new illegal activity? How far are they going to push?
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Election Results Just In
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Other than politicians..
Competition breeds advancement. Advancement enables innovation. Innovation creates new opportunities for growth and competition. Too many legacy industries are fighting against that vicious cycle.
Apparently, all that really matters is keeping wall street happy with fat profit margins.
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And Sony gives us
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Let's play with the math...
What is the expected market for that? They really think they have to go back another 20? To the greatest hits of 1916?
I can't wait for the re-masters of those albums to hit the market...Those Flappers of the 1920's and their music were the cats meow...or the bees knees... or something nearly as stupid as life+70.
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Seems appropriate
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A Premium Product?
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The Really Sad Part
Here's a quick example:
Given that subscriptions NEVER fully covered the cost of producing and distribution, then we have to ask what they did.
They provided a metric used to set advertising rates - the number of unique addresses (street) that subscribed. Not the number of readers. The digital world provides the same (and more) information for free - the number of unique addresses (IP) that 1) return daily; 2) return multiple times per day; 3) are new; 4) read Sunday only. These numbers could also be used the same way to set advertising rates. Of course, there would have to be more than 2 ads shown every 30 seconds.
Analysis of the on-line activity would provide instant feedback on what articles/news/items were actually of interest. You really had no clue when you threw 40 pages out there of what was actually read. The web gives you that insight - and could certainly be an indicator of where to expend resources to garner more hits, higher metrics, higher rates.
Customer inclusion would foster even more growth. Social sharing increases number of new IP hits.
But no - we're gonna block feedback, add costs, add malware, and demand the Good Old Days back.
oh well.
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Turnabout?
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Wipe 'em all out
Yeah... we've fallen off the cliff - and there is no hope for a soft landing.
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