Here's the thing about copyright law: historically, as new technologies come along, copyright has a lot of trouble dealing with them. And, typically, the pattern is that the industry freaks out and tries to stop the new technology, but eventually someone duct tapes on a new bit of copyright law to coverit.
Trying to decide if "coverit" was intentional or just an ironic typo...
What is sad is that Comcast was a better option for me after the telco refused to upgrade their alleged 1.5 Mbps connection. I won't identify the telco, but let's just say their connection was good only for streaming wind.
When the NSA intercepts the communications of the American public, they are fighting terrorists. When they intercept the communications of Congress, they are spying. Fighting terrorists is good. Spying is bad. Got it?
2016 will be the year they finally realize the cord cutting battle station is not only fully armed and operational, but headed directly for the ESPN mothership.
In space, cutting an umbilical connected to a "mothership" usually has adverse effects, like, say, drifting into the void and dying. Maybe a different metaphor is in order...
I deliberately avoided any mention of the merits and merely used the numbers from Karl's article (800 premises with 81% adoption rate (conversely, 19% non-adoption rate), $24.95 connection fee, $49.95 maintenance fee, $219 annual taxes):
In 2012 Leverett voters approved borrowing $3.6 million -- or roughly $1,900 per resident -- to deliver fiber to 800 premises... . "LeverettNet currently charges $24.95 per month for an internet-only, 1 gigabit per second connection. There’s also a $49.95 monthly cost to cover the maintenance for the Leverett Municipal Light Plant...The median residence will also see a lower-than-anticipated impact on property taxes, with $219 per year for the financing bond to build the network, much lower than the original estimate of close to $300 per year."
While I appreciate accurate math, you are definitely focusing on the trees and missing the forest entirely. I'm not sure if you are just an industry shill, but I'll respond as if you are actually a real person.
Actually, no. Imagine the same discrepancy on the bandwidth side. If you were promised 1 Gbps but never received more than 750 Mbps, that certainly would be relevant to discussing the merits. $100 versus $75 per month is proportionally the same discrepancy. Granted, it might not be decisive (as evidenced by many commenters responding that $100 is not too much), but you can't deny that it is relevant.
P.S. Out of curiosity, which industry is it that sends out "shills" to point out the true cost of services? Last I checked, it wasn't telecom or government.
This headline (and the town's statement) 's misleading:
After A Decade Of Waiting For Verizon, Town Builds Itself Gigabit Fiber For $75 Per Month
The monthly cost is much more:
(1) $24.95 per month connection fee (2) $49.95 per month maintenance fee (3) $18.25 per month in increased taxes ($219 annually)
Total Cost: $93.15, and that is before you acknowledge the $4.28 per month subsidy from non-subscribers (152 premises (19%) paying $219 in annual taxes for a service they do not use). Actual Total Cost: $97.43
It is hard to evaluate the merits of an idea when the math is bad.
But what Google's updates usually don't discuss is the fact that quite often, self-driving cars are being rear ended because they're being too cautious and not human enough.
Google deliberately limits them to 25 mph, which has resulted in at least one instance of getting pulled over for impeding traffic. In other words, Google's cars are rolling school zones.
“Oral communication” means any oral communication uttered by a person exhibiting an expectation that such communication is not subject to interception under circumstances justifying such expectation and does not mean any public oral communication uttered at a public meeting or any electronic communication.
Fla. Stat. Ann. § 934.02. If their boss told them to expect to be recorded, telling the judge they didn't expect to be recorded is not a good strategy.
If the idea was to subtly influence viewpoints, that may have backfired.
That doesn't seem plausible. The journalists were uncomfortable just having a mystery boss, to say nothing of altering news coverage to please that new boss. Adelson had to know that.
It seems more plausible that Adelson saw an investment opportunity and didn't want to upset the status quo, knowing that a large number of employees might find his political views disagreeable.
However, we under estimated the impact this would have on a small number of customers who use lights from other brands which could not be controlled by the Philips Hue software.
No, no they didn't. They knew the impact: after the update, the third-party bulbs wouldn't work. At all. And the number of customers couldn't have been small. If it were, Phillips wouldn't have cared or needed to break the system in the first place and then fix it in the second place. And the third-party bulbs "could be controlled" until the firmware update. An accurate sentence would read:
However, we under estimated the ... number of customers who use lights from other brands which could ... be controlled by the Philips Hue software.
Such a law would be directed at people like Amin: naïve people, rather than sophisticated terrorists, who are initially driven by curiosity to research ISIS on the Web.
So much for fighting the "sophisticated terrorists". Now we are being asked to give up our rights to stop "naïve people".
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Re: Re: The Power of Taxes
P.S. Out of curiosity, which industry is it that sends out "shills" to point out the true cost of services? Last I checked, it wasn't telecom or government.
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The Power of Taxes
It is hard to evaluate the merits of an idea when the math is bad.
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Re: Re: Not Plausible
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P.S. They keep using that ©. I do not think it means what they think it means.
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Not Plausible
It seems more plausible that Adelson saw an investment opportunity and didn't want to upset the status quo, knowing that a large number of employees might find his political views disagreeable.
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Translation
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The Naïve-tives Are Coming
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You Keep Using That Word
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