No, what's shameful is anyone in the public who didn't see these tweets as advertising ...
Very true, so why's the FCC feel the need enforce this? Oh, because the law is the law in "meatspace" and in "cyberspace." Maybe the law's an ass, and the FCC should get a grip and bug out. The net is a different thing from the real world we walk around in, and enforcing laws against jaywalking on the net is silly.
I can assure you troll that I am not distressed in the least. Certainly a lot less than you are about me posting here.
For what it's worth, I haven't determined whether you're here to push some specific agenda, or if you're just hoping to see the "other side's" arguments. It could be that what you've shown us is just due to who or what you are, which is fine by me.
I wonder about some of your stated opinions, but I wouldn't put you down as an obvious troll. We've far more egregious examples of them lurking about waiting to pounce to pontificate their masters' agenda.
... "eMail is not a document storage or management system. It is a document delivery system."
I get what you're saying, but you should understand that email isn't just files of data. Often it's conversations between two or more people, and a good MUA (*not* Lotus Notes!) can be very helpful in keeping all that mass organized so it's still useful, and not just filling diskspace.
You should also realize that users come in all sorts of knowledge and competency levels. I've worked with developers who didn't appear to know what a subdirectory was. I've also worked with bosses who were self-taught highschool dropouts who knew more about computing than I did after being in the trenches for decades.
A good admin, in my opinion, watches (unobtrusively, not nosily) what the users are doing and tries to head off problems and develop simple procedures the users can easily follow. Bad admins pass dictates down from on-high and punish infractions and deviations from established policies.
I would expect an organization the size of NYPD should easily be able to handle stuff like this without being assholes about it. Instead they, like much of officialdom these days, appear to consider oversight a personal insult and intrusion into their turf.
I'd lay down the law and give 'em fair warning of what the public (their employer) expects of them, then fire (or maybe even jail) the bums who refuse to line up.
Does the patents include the uk (if it was sold in the uk could i expect a law suit from one wheel)?
The fact that question even needs to be asked is annoying. Can't anything be done these days without getting lawyers involved? Maybe we should all be hounding our politicians into writing laws in clear language anyone can understand without learning a dead language (Latin) and spending years earning a law degree.
Unfortunately, to answer your question you probably need to talk to a lawyer. There are numerous types of patents. Some are just domestic, some are international, and it could hinge on whether treaties are in place between the two gov'ts to honour each others' laws.
Remember also that whether to expect a lawsuit has nothing to do with being on the right or wrong side of the law. Money, or lack thereof, controls the situation. You may have the law on your side but if you can't afford to prove it in court, you lose.
Put simply, the Chinese company wasn't blind sided - just hoping that they could do the trade show, make a bunch of sales, and go home to produce the product without having to deal with the patent issue.
Pray tell, what's wrong with that? Who wants to deal with patent lawsuits? Nobody but patent lawyers. These guys want to sell consumer electronics, not enrich litigation lawyers.
Look at some other markets, such as automobiles. There's Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Ferrari, yada yada, and there's Volkswagen, Yugo, and Deus Chevau. Not everyone wants to pay every penny they have to drive a Rolls Royce. Lots of people just want basic transportation.
Walk into any Walmart and you'll see very expensive, top of the line stuff from name brand manufacturers sold right along side with cheap crap that does the same thing but isn't sexy and wears out in no time doing the same job poorly. Is Rolls Royce hurt in any way by Yugos being sold to less discriminating, less wealthy patrons who'd never be able to afford Rolls Royce's price tag?
Yet Future Motion has managed to get a patent and is using it as a club against those they perceive to be competition, and they get to use the full weight of law enforcement to implement a ban. Why would I want my tax dollars to go toward putting a system like that in place, to prop up entitled jerks who're afraid of competition?
... patents suck, right?
Any law that can be used as a club to short circuit the free market is going to suck, so yeah. I very much prefer it when market forces control what happens, not blunt edged weapons like lawyers, judges, and regulatory powers. The former is far more democratic and works better in the long run. The latter just makes rich jerks with powerful connections richer and leaves the rest of us with disappointment.
Re: Re: they don't revere the life of individuals like we do
What do you mean “we”, White Man?
Well, that was quite a while ago, and tribalism is pretty heavily embedded into pretty much all living creatures' cultures (including Natives, of course). Considering Natives little better than vermin has largely disappeared in recent decades.
I tend not to want to hang around with people who blame others just for being different. There are much better things to use to judge others' value than whatever DNA their parents gifted them with. I think all the more civilized among us are trying to get away from that sort of thinking, but it's a pretty virulent attitude. Most living things, including humans, don't even want to give it up. It's pretty low-level brainstem programming stuff and I doubt we'll ever see it end.
GoogleNews the biggest Newswebsite in the world, yet it employs no journalists or writers.
Of course they don't. What they do do is tell anyone who's looking for *your stuff* where to find *your stuff* (assuming you're a journalist or writer), *for free*! If you don't want them promoting your stuff for anyone who's looking for it, it's very easy to get them to stop. The people running your web server know how easily that's done.
Yet you want Google to *pay you* to *promote your stuff*?!? Why would they want to do that? Note, Google's not doing anything very much different from all the other search engines out there. They just do it better and have become the standard for many people searching the web. There's no magic involved and they're not bribing politicians to pass laws to undercut their competition.
So, what's to complain about? That Google's good at what they do? Aw, too bad.
Because the current US intellectual property system is protectionist.
The USA has always put on a big show about how free enterprise capitalistic the USA is, but it's never been true. They've a bad, bad, case of multiple personality disorder. Republicans, Democrats, Northerners, Southerners, Conservatives, Progressives, secular, nonsecular, ... It's just marketing BS. Think softwood lumber, or how many miles is their off-shore fishing boundary? I'm Canadian. One of our prime ministers likened it to sleeping with an elephant.
It took them a while to get around the Constitution (they were busy living and raising families, I guess), but they finally invented the IRS and the CIA, and from that point on they were on a roll, just yet another entitled rich guy's empire on its inevitable path to implosion.
At least we got some seriously cool tech out of the process, and some way entertaining mass media. Too bad their attempt at that democracy thing was so poorly executed. Damn, they suck at that stuff.
If that was you apologizing to me, don't bother; not necessary. If this stuff was too stressing for me, the solution would be easy; ignore the problem. :-)
I'm just trying to help add to the understanding of this mess, which we all need to attain, in order to move onward to solving the problem we share. I do wish it didn't look quite so much like imperial Romans stirring the entrails of sacrificial animals (which it does).
The problem is lack of transparency and a dick of a ceo taking the piss out of his customers
I didn't think it was suspicious. I read it as just another data point. It's odd that "the experience" isn't consistent across all users.
I do think it's ridiculous that the head of an organization selling connectivity has such entitlement issues and thinks so poorly of those who're buying his organization's services, but that's to be expected from psychopathic corporate heads (are there any other kind?) nowadays.
Aside, what does "taking the piss out of his customers" even mean? Is that British slang or something, and where's it come from? I can't imagine anyone wanting to do that nor imagine what their motivation to do so could be.
A blank page, which turns into a readable article if I do a Web Developer > CSS > Styles > Disable All Styles.
FWIW, I haven't seen that, nor do I know what you mean by "Web Developer > CSS > Styles > Disable All Styles." In what? Your web browser, or something else? What OS and browser?
I have seen wonkiness of another sort recently (Debian Linux "testing" here). The first two articles about T-Mobile's Legere was spiking my Gkrellm "proc" window. I couldn't read them as they were threatening to crash my box. That's new. I've seen pages that spiked CPU cores, but rabbits? Never. I saw the same thing happening on other sites at the time, and now haven't seen it again (so far). Weird. Sounds to me like a bug in a library common to multiple web servers.
I think the web was a great idea, but I've not been happy about how that idea was executed for a long time, and every day it seems to get worse. I suspect it's in dire need of a re-think and re-boot, just like everything else on the net; IPv6, secure DNS, kill Microsoft & Java & flash & ...
It's insanely sad to think that court officers, doing their job as prescribed by the law, should have to worry about angry plaintiffs coming to get them.
Perhaps you should read up on the history of China, and note their population numbers. The USA is ca. 240 years old. China goes back four millennia, and they don't revere the life of individuals like we do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang#Death_and_postmortem_events):
In 211 BC a large meteor is said to have fallen in Dōngjùn (東郡) in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. On it, an unknown person inscribed the words "The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided" (始皇死而地分).[71] When the emperor heard of this, he sent an imperial secretary to investigate this prophecy. No one would confess to the deed, so all the people living nearby were put to death.
We were very naive when we showed up in Korea in the fifties. Then, the Chinese showed up. That war is still going on to this day.
This story's about an arguably slimy move by a lawyer leveraging the US justice system to cut the legs out from under a Chinese competitor. I'd worry about blowback, and I don't underestimate the Chinese (nor any Orientals for that matter).
You go ahead and believe court officers are sacrosanct. I doubt many of the tyrants of history would've cared about your protestations, nor your laws or its functionaries.
Yet I still see commenters getting it wrong over and over and over.
Well geez, I'm sorry. Have I mentioned I'm not a copyright lawyer? I promise never again. In consolation, I offer this:
From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]:
ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, -- _exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.
From this layman's point of view, this very much describes the situation for Joe Sixpack today. We just want to keep on doing what we've always done, enjoying our culture and sharing it with our fellow travelers, but all this *legal shit* has been intruding on that dragging otherwise innocent nobodies into horrible ordeals with brand new laws that claim we're thieves and hijackers all of a sudden. What? If that's true, why aren't I rich?
I'm not even a pirate/infringer (I boycott!). I'm amazed I understand this stuff as much as I do. I'm amazed I even want to understand it. Blecch! Yuck! Icky poo, yuck! I hate it that deep pocketed special interests have made it necessary for us to learn this shit just to protect ourselves. A quarter of a million dollar fine for copying a DVD?!? Are you nuts?
Too bad the judge can't just subpoena the NSA. That haystack in Utah ought to clear this problem up in no time. Just redefine the NYPD as a rogue gov't and deliver what they sadly ("Boohoo, sorry!") failed to retain.
Wouldn't it be lovely (for everyone) if all these monsters could be convinced to squeal on each other? Eventually, we might even get back to that "of the people, by the people, for the people" ideal we once treasured, and they could all go back to doing the jobs we want them to do instead of silly turf wars like this.
Future Motion crippled a competitor for only a few hours of lawyer time.
I think that overstates it a bit, however I agree the incident would seriously pee me off if I were the Chinese competitor. It makes me think there's a blockbuster Chinese domestic market movie begging to be made, the Chinese version of a Steven Segal revenge flick. The final scene would be a mushroom cloud rising from CES. Reap what you sow, running dog capitalist swine!
Good luck to Future Motion trying to partner up with Chinese mfgrs once word of this gets around back home. They'll be out to steal 'em blind in every way possible. The lawyer and judge might want to review their security, including that of their families.
If a site honors a request for downloads, is that not tacit approval to do so?
I've read stories where Big Something pees off Little Guy, whereupon Little Guy exhorts all and sundry to "when you have a moment, click on this page", where "this page" is Big Something's web server. That wins Little Guy an accusation of DDoS attack. He counters with "civil disobedience" and "what, your web server isn't supposed to serve web pages?"
Fold in an asshole prosecutor and "civil disobedience" morphs into decades in prison after millions of dollars in legal fees defending yourself and a pretty much destroyed life, for stating your opinion on something someone else didn't like.
I'd be more inclined to accuse Big Something of not knowing how to run a web server, but I doubt they'd listen to the likes of me.
Someone pays money for stupid tweets that are obviously fake?
Holy crap, what a shitty job that would be. Just imagine having to look at yourself in the mirror every morning when that's what you're going to be doing all day. What a pointless existence. I'm sure Douglas Adams would've put them on the same boat as the telephone sanitizers.
It looks to me like in order to balance/stay on this "scooter" and also propel it, you'd have to have 3 legs.
I don't see why. The wheel contains the driving motor. Depress the front and it goes forward. Depress the back, backward. During both, the board keeps itself mostly horizontal. Fall off, and it stops in its place.
It's a one wheeled, foot controlled Segway. This thing, plus a person looking down at a cell phone while riding it, is going to be hilarious for all spectators looking on.
Is it like Cable TV, where there's a monopoly in most of the country and no other choice for users?
It's much worse than that. They buy politicians to pass laws against municipalities starting up their own competing services even in places they never intend to service. The largest markets tend to be lucky if service is offered by two competitors, much less many. Lesser populated ("fly-over country") are lucky to have decent DSL if anything and the ISPs are falling all over themselves to force those users onto wireless or abandon them if possible. Add to this these ISPs are often cable providers also so they screw their wireless customers in order to prop up their cable TV divisions.
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Very true, so why's the FCC feel the need enforce this? Oh, because the law is the law in "meatspace" and in "cyberspace." Maybe the law's an ass, and the FCC should get a grip and bug out. The net is a different thing from the real world we walk around in, and enforcing laws against jaywalking on the net is silly.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
For what it's worth, I haven't determined whether you're here to push some specific agenda, or if you're just hoping to see the "other side's" arguments. It could be that what you've shown us is just due to who or what you are, which is fine by me.
I wonder about some of your stated opinions, but I wouldn't put you down as an obvious troll. We've far more egregious examples of them lurking about waiting to pounce to pontificate their masters' agenda.
I'm just here to learn, and wish everyone was.
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Re: Just a general comment on email retention
I get what you're saying, but you should understand that email isn't just files of data. Often it's conversations between two or more people, and a good MUA (*not* Lotus Notes!) can be very helpful in keeping all that mass organized so it's still useful, and not just filling diskspace.
You should also realize that users come in all sorts of knowledge and competency levels. I've worked with developers who didn't appear to know what a subdirectory was. I've also worked with bosses who were self-taught highschool dropouts who knew more about computing than I did after being in the trenches for decades.
A good admin, in my opinion, watches (unobtrusively, not nosily) what the users are doing and tries to head off problems and develop simple procedures the users can easily follow. Bad admins pass dictates down from on-high and punish infractions and deviations from established policies.
I would expect an organization the size of NYPD should easily be able to handle stuff like this without being assholes about it. Instead they, like much of officialdom these days, appear to consider oversight a personal insult and intrusion into their turf.
I'd lay down the law and give 'em fair warning of what the public (their employer) expects of them, then fire (or maybe even jail) the bums who refuse to line up.
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Re: does this include the uk england
The fact that question even needs to be asked is annoying. Can't anything be done these days without getting lawyers involved? Maybe we should all be hounding our politicians into writing laws in clear language anyone can understand without learning a dead language (Latin) and spending years earning a law degree.
Unfortunately, to answer your question you probably need to talk to a lawyer. There are numerous types of patents. Some are just domestic, some are international, and it could hinge on whether treaties are in place between the two gov'ts to honour each others' laws.
Remember also that whether to expect a lawsuit has nothing to do with being on the right or wrong side of the law. Money, or lack thereof, controls the situation. You may have the law on your side but if you can't afford to prove it in court, you lose.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Injunction against the world
Pray tell, what's wrong with that? Who wants to deal with patent lawsuits? Nobody but patent lawyers. These guys want to sell consumer electronics, not enrich litigation lawyers.
Look at some other markets, such as automobiles. There's Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Ferrari, yada yada, and there's Volkswagen, Yugo, and Deus Chevau. Not everyone wants to pay every penny they have to drive a Rolls Royce. Lots of people just want basic transportation.
Walk into any Walmart and you'll see very expensive, top of the line stuff from name brand manufacturers sold right along side with cheap crap that does the same thing but isn't sexy and wears out in no time doing the same job poorly. Is Rolls Royce hurt in any way by Yugos being sold to less discriminating, less wealthy patrons who'd never be able to afford Rolls Royce's price tag?
Yet Future Motion has managed to get a patent and is using it as a club against those they perceive to be competition, and they get to use the full weight of law enforcement to implement a ban. Why would I want my tax dollars to go toward putting a system like that in place, to prop up entitled jerks who're afraid of competition?
Any law that can be used as a club to short circuit the free market is going to suck, so yeah. I very much prefer it when market forces control what happens, not blunt edged weapons like lawyers, judges, and regulatory powers. The former is far more democratic and works better in the long run. The latter just makes rich jerks with powerful connections richer and leaves the rest of us with disappointment.
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Re: Re: they don't revere the life of individuals like we do
Well, that was quite a while ago, and tribalism is pretty heavily embedded into pretty much all living creatures' cultures (including Natives, of course). Considering Natives little better than vermin has largely disappeared in recent decades.
I tend not to want to hang around with people who blame others just for being different. There are much better things to use to judge others' value than whatever DNA their parents gifted them with. I think all the more civilized among us are trying to get away from that sort of thinking, but it's a pretty virulent attitude. Most living things, including humans, don't even want to give it up. It's pretty low-level brainstem programming stuff and I doubt we'll ever see it end.
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Re: Re: Re: u guys dont get it
Of course they don't. What they do do is tell anyone who's looking for *your stuff* where to find *your stuff* (assuming you're a journalist or writer), *for free*! If you don't want them promoting your stuff for anyone who's looking for it, it's very easy to get them to stop. The people running your web server know how easily that's done.
Yet you want Google to *pay you* to *promote your stuff*?!? Why would they want to do that? Note, Google's not doing anything very much different from all the other search engines out there. They just do it better and have become the standard for many people searching the web. There's no magic involved and they're not bribing politicians to pass laws to undercut their competition.
So, what's to complain about? That Google's good at what they do? Aw, too bad.
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Re: To protect US companies
The USA has always put on a big show about how free enterprise capitalistic the USA is, but it's never been true. They've a bad, bad, case of multiple personality disorder. Republicans, Democrats, Northerners, Southerners, Conservatives, Progressives, secular, nonsecular, ... It's just marketing BS. Think softwood lumber, or how many miles is their off-shore fishing boundary? I'm Canadian. One of our prime ministers likened it to sleeping with an elephant.
It took them a while to get around the Constitution (they were busy living and raising families, I guess), but they finally invented the IRS and the CIA, and from that point on they were on a roll, just yet another entitled rich guy's empire on its inevitable path to implosion.
At least we got some seriously cool tech out of the process, and some way entertaining mass media. Too bad their attempt at that democracy thing was so poorly executed. Damn, they suck at that stuff.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No automation
If that was you apologizing to me, don't bother; not necessary. If this stuff was too stressing for me, the solution would be easy; ignore the problem. :-)
I'm just trying to help add to the understanding of this mess, which we all need to attain, in order to move onward to solving the problem we share. I do wish it didn't look quite so much like imperial Romans stirring the entrails of sacrificial animals (which it does).
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Re: Re:
I didn't think it was suspicious. I read it as just another data point. It's odd that "the experience" isn't consistent across all users.
I do think it's ridiculous that the head of an organization selling connectivity has such entitlement issues and thinks so poorly of those who're buying his organization's services, but that's to be expected from psychopathic corporate heads (are there any other kind?) nowadays.
Aside, what does "taking the piss out of his customers" even mean? Is that British slang or something, and where's it come from? I can't imagine anyone wanting to do that nor imagine what their motivation to do so could be.
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Wonkiness.
FWIW, I haven't seen that, nor do I know what you mean by "Web Developer > CSS > Styles > Disable All Styles." In what? Your web browser, or something else? What OS and browser?
I have seen wonkiness of another sort recently (Debian Linux "testing" here). The first two articles about T-Mobile's Legere was spiking my Gkrellm "proc" window. I couldn't read them as they were threatening to crash my box. That's new. I've seen pages that spiked CPU cores, but rabbits? Never. I saw the same thing happening on other sites at the time, and now haven't seen it again (so far). Weird. Sounds to me like a bug in a library common to multiple web servers.
I think the web was a great idea, but I've not been happy about how that idea was executed for a long time, and every day it seems to get worse. I suspect it's in dire need of a re-think and re-boot, just like everything else on the net; IPv6, secure DNS, kill Microsoft & Java & flash & ...
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Re: Re: Re:
Perhaps you should read up on the history of China, and note their population numbers. The USA is ca. 240 years old. China goes back four millennia, and they don't revere the life of individuals like we do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang#Death_and_postmortem_events):
We were very naive when we showed up in Korea in the fifties. Then, the Chinese showed up. That war is still going on to this day.
This story's about an arguably slimy move by a lawyer leveraging the US justice system to cut the legs out from under a Chinese competitor. I'd worry about blowback, and I don't underestimate the Chinese (nor any Orientals for that matter).
You go ahead and believe court officers are sacrosanct. I doubt many of the tyrants of history would've cared about your protestations, nor your laws or its functionaries.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: No automation
Well geez, I'm sorry. Have I mentioned I'm not a copyright lawyer? I promise never again. In consolation, I offer this:
From this layman's point of view, this very much describes the situation for Joe Sixpack today. We just want to keep on doing what we've always done, enjoying our culture and sharing it with our fellow travelers, but all this *legal shit* has been intruding on that dragging otherwise innocent nobodies into horrible ordeals with brand new laws that claim we're thieves and hijackers all of a sudden. What? If that's true, why aren't I rich?
I'm not even a pirate/infringer (I boycott!). I'm amazed I understand this stuff as much as I do. I'm amazed I even want to understand it. Blecch! Yuck! Icky poo, yuck! I hate it that deep pocketed special interests have made it necessary for us to learn this shit just to protect ourselves. A quarter of a million dollar fine for copying a DVD?!? Are you nuts?
Welcome to my nightmare.
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Yoohoo, NSA?
Wouldn't it be lovely (for everyone) if all these monsters could be convinced to squeal on each other? Eventually, we might even get back to that "of the people, by the people, for the people" ideal we once treasured, and they could all go back to doing the jobs we want them to do instead of silly turf wars like this.
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Re:
I think that overstates it a bit, however I agree the incident would seriously pee me off if I were the Chinese competitor. It makes me think there's a blockbuster Chinese domestic market movie begging to be made, the Chinese version of a Steven Segal revenge flick. The final scene would be a mushroom cloud rising from CES. Reap what you sow, running dog capitalist swine!
Good luck to Future Motion trying to partner up with Chinese mfgrs once word of this gets around back home. They'll be out to steal 'em blind in every way possible. The lawyer and judge might want to review their security, including that of their families.
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Re: Re:
I've read stories where Big Something pees off Little Guy, whereupon Little Guy exhorts all and sundry to "when you have a moment, click on this page", where "this page" is Big Something's web server. That wins Little Guy an accusation of DDoS attack. He counters with "civil disobedience" and "what, your web server isn't supposed to serve web pages?"
Fold in an asshole prosecutor and "civil disobedience" morphs into decades in prison after millions of dollars in legal fees defending yourself and a pretty much destroyed life, for stating your opinion on something someone else didn't like.
I'd be more inclined to accuse Big Something of not knowing how to run a web server, but I doubt they'd listen to the likes of me.
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Re:
Holy crap, what a shitty job that would be. Just imagine having to look at yourself in the mirror every morning when that's what you're going to be doing all day. What a pointless existence. I'm sure Douglas Adams would've put them on the same boat as the telephone sanitizers.
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Re: How can this thing work?
I don't see why. The wheel contains the driving motor. Depress the front and it goes forward. Depress the back, backward. During both, the board keeps itself mostly horizontal. Fall off, and it stops in its place.
It's a one wheeled, foot controlled Segway. This thing, plus a person looking down at a cell phone while riding it, is going to be hilarious for all spectators looking on.
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Re: Full Throttle
Now, should we blame this on the English language for being mallable or on marketroids for learning English from George Orwell?
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Re: Not surprising
It's much worse than that. They buy politicians to pass laws against municipalities starting up their own competing services even in places they never intend to service. The largest markets tend to be lucky if service is offered by two competitors, much less many. Lesser populated ("fly-over country") are lucky to have decent DSL if anything and the ISPs are falling all over themselves to force those users onto wireless or abandon them if possible. Add to this these ISPs are often cable providers also so they screw their wireless customers in order to prop up their cable TV divisions.
Where've you been hiding? :-O
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