From medallions to unions and their bosses and the elected officials who begat this system which is inexorably strangling Chicago and many other cities that do not allow competition at the worker level. I would like to see all city jobs open for bid, with the current union holder allowed to match the lowest bid and the workplace must allow any new workers to be non union.
In Buffalo NY, another city ruined by unions, they have rat shaped balloon as a symbol of their unions after all, they "Ratify" agreement = infest with union rats.
Same with Greece. Socialist civil serpents (as in snakes) need to be routed, "Right to Work", needed.
I agree it must go, along with the monthly radio system fee - which is often linked to a large group of medallion holders. So the cab rent and the radio rent are well over $1000 per month
Here in Toromto, Canada, they created a class of cab called "Ambassador", which was only allowed a single driver/owner = no rentals = parked half the time. This was a sop to the medallion holders. medallion are not legal in Toronto, but have become de-facto 'legal' by long useage. This ambassador costs $6,000 as they say, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a dusk = DUCK. The Ambassador cab is a large body of invizible medallions rented out by the city for $500 a month per 12 hour shift.
The system was crooked at the start and remains that way.
That might have legs, with tracking, license plate recognition is easy for modern smart phones it could detect and upload to a site that would show us where the closest donut shop was...
All you need is a girl's plate number, search the data base for a month, find where she works, studies, parties etc. If this girl is your ex-wife and there is a non-contact court order out, you can use this search to "accidentally go by her" with a defense that it was just a coincidence. Can also be used from crime stalking, as when the private security car is far away from the sjop you want to smash and grab.
I hereby grant Emergency Essentials, LLC, the moniker of "Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC", I want them to trademark it and then go to a law firm and get them to write a letter
"Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC with respect to certain intellectual property matters. Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC and its predecessor, Intergalactic Idiots LLC has been operating for more than 25 years selling food storage and other emergency supplies. Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC has spent .......and so on"
Yes, Musk is a visionary. One has only to look at two example, one very recently and the other 100 years ago. First, I refer to the additive printer patents, whose holders held up, litigated, lawyers lettered and otherwise enganged in barratry for the last 15 years. They tried to keep all of additive printing to themselves - then the patents expired and look at all the additive printers.
The same with the Wright Brothers who blocked aviation innovation for many years on the same basis. Then the TV patents, the Radio Patents and then the cell patents, all need to be relegated to their own individual dark ages....
Why no internet patents blocked us all? Tim Berners Lee was another visionary, apart in time, but brethren of ideas.
Musk needs to lockup Quebec Lithium supplies because the Quebec Government can give him cheap electricty to build an integrated mega battery factory next to a large lithium deposit = Earth to batteries = to cars even
So if the FCC really wants to know, they will perform the traceroutes? If they do not = complicity. Do the ISPs have enough capabilities to make the blockage hop around to mimic real traffic?
On the other hand, it might be real traffic, and they are not well served by their ISPs
Who wants to throttle the volume of incoming comments?
Who controls the pipes?
I have a suspicion that Comcast and their ilk have 'encumbered' traffic to the comment site(Technically easy) in the mistaken belief that this will cause many people to give up and go away = fweer comments.
I watch TV via torrents, Movies by torrents, read books by torrents, and listen to audio podcasts, like www.swiv.tv I am retired, 75, I never listen to music or buy music = not worth the waste of time.
So if McCartney says, "The Beatles have a new album, and I have started a crowd-fund and it will be released when $5 million is pledged. Max pledge allowed is $2 , minimum pledge is 25 cents, and all will be held in trust until the $5 million is pledged. Once reached it will be e-mailed to all pledgers and their funds taken and tracks will be for sale at music sites for 99 cents", and full DVD's at $9.95... by all modes.
I think he would easily reach the $5 million. Others might try the same for a lesser amount. I think it is a viable method.
Would send their boys over every week for "Protection", now the USA thinks this is a good idea. BTW, why does protection have to end? Why not a permanent copyright = permanent protection $$.
I feel the rest of the world should replace their legislation with a 20 year copyright law. Much like patent law, short terms encourage innovation and copying and deriving new works from the old. Forget this life plus 70 years, who need to place his kids in my back pocket for ever
The lawmakers have allowed the unions to steal the shop. Did you know a cost of living allowance is not a raise? So the unions have COLA clauses, and they agitate and strike for 2-3% above that. Do that for 30-40 years and this is where we are now. These lardlords we call civil serpents have now convinced themselves they are well worth the money. In fact they produce nothing, and are simple form fillers and issuers at the office level and haulers of freight at the trash level. Make no mistake, the USA MUST reduce wages across the board among the unions. The lower wage people need to be upped to a $10 minimum wage so they have a chance of buying what the union men and women make an administer. Look at those silly Greeks, well, we have copies of them here, taking the $$ out of your pockets.
Civil serpents should not have the vote to elect those that pay them, that is a conflict of interest and decades of crooked unions and politicians have put us where we are now
They are already the largest in their field and growing. You have seen how they dictate prices and rates? Much like Apple who is a similar beast.
Not that this is bad, but it needs moderation. We are both too young to know about the standard oil monopoly that gave rise to counter measures.
Here is an interesting read.
Re: To: Bill Jackson, Nov 5th, 2011 @ 12:02pm, Re: Common Cartridges.
I agree with you. A memorized formula provides no true understanding and fails without it. Being a retired teacher I have seen the value modes and failure modes of various types of computer teaching. Success comes more easily in the rule based hard sciences. The ones that work teach one small component of a subject, be it Chemistry, Geography Physics or Math and then pose a short test to see how the student has comprehended the session. Based on the answers, he can progress to the next module or be retaught the module with another approach, and again be tested and then proceed, or to a final third session, failure at which should elevate the student to a human teacher or to a more basic module which the failures have indicated may have caused the lack of comprehension in the student. They call this multiple re-entrant and it has been maturing for 10-15 years now, and it is quite good. It does the same thing that a real teacher does, with infinite patience and has the ability to handle the entire class at varying rates, and leave the slower ones to the staff.
The method is not as good in drama, or music, or the many softer subjects.
We are far beyond the original teaching applications that emerged in the middle 80's which were not re-entrant and were hobbled both by processor power and lack of proper programming.
Back in the middle80's (I retired in 1998) the teaching union, of which I was a member, was very much against any degree of computers used to seemingly replace teachers in classes. Teachers were mixed on this, some thought it had potential. The union brass saw job losses and lower wages and have opposed on this basis alone ever since, as far as I can see.
We are now at the point where computers can help enormously and try to bring all the students forward as well as their ability - which varies widely, some can open a book and progress in grade 10 as well as a College student - others not.
There is massive conflict of interest between the textbook publishers, the schools(bookstores) and some profs who write the books and get huge royalties for books that cost well below $10 to print, and even less to e-book.
There is no incentive for this to change, except for the open text idea, which is being fought hammer and tongs by the publishers, the SChools(most of them) and the profs(who like the gravy)
So change must be imposed
It's a set of open standards, freely available and without royalty, developed by a global industry consortium with over 80 voting members. These standards, if followed by content developers and learning platforms, enable strict interoperability between content and systems. They also support great flexibility in the type of digital content supported (content can actually be applications) and where such content is located (content and applications in a Common Cartridge can be distributed). (See a diagram of Common Cartridge )
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Re: Re:
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old men in cabs yell at clouds! *fist shake
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Unions care? They get paid, pensions more than you and wages more than you
Look at Detroit - Next Chicago
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Corruption is systemic in the Chicago
In Buffalo NY, another city ruined by unions, they have rat shaped balloon as a symbol of their unions after all, they "Ratify" agreement = infest with union rats.
Same with Greece. Socialist civil serpents (as in snakes) need to be routed, "Right to Work", needed.
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Medallion System
Here in Toromto, Canada, they created a class of cab called "Ambassador", which was only allowed a single driver/owner = no rentals = parked half the time.
This was a sop to the medallion holders. medallion are not legal in Toronto, but have become de-facto 'legal' by long useage. This ambassador costs $6,000 as they say, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a dusk = DUCK.
The Ambassador cab is a large body of invizible medallions rented out by the city for $500 a month per 12 hour shift.
The system was crooked at the start and remains that way.
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Trak-a-cop Android/IOS APP
I wonder if an APP maker will make it?
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Desktop stalking
If this girl is your ex-wife and there is a non-contact court order out, you can use this search to "accidentally go by her" with a defense that it was just a coincidence. Can also be used from crime stalking, as when the private security car is far away from the sjop you want to smash and grab.
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"Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC with respect to certain intellectual property matters. Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC and its predecessor, Intergalactic Idiots LLC has been operating for more than 25 years selling food storage and other emergency supplies. Super Dumbassees of the Century LLC has spent .......and so on"
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Digital Rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_publishing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_ publishing
The Nobel Committee should state that no papers will be considered for a Nobel Prize until they are in the public domain.
That one step will shake the market free
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Patent access.
First, I refer to the additive printer patents, whose holders held up, litigated, lawyers lettered and otherwise enganged in barratry for the last 15 years. They tried to keep all of additive printing to themselves - then the patents expired and look at all the additive printers.
The same with the Wright Brothers who blocked aviation innovation for many years on the same basis. Then the TV patents, the Radio Patents and then the cell patents, all need to be relegated to their own individual dark ages....
Why no internet patents blocked us all? Tim Berners Lee was another visionary, apart in time, but brethren of ideas.
Musk needs to lockup Quebec Lithium supplies because the Quebec Government can give him cheap electricty to build an integrated mega battery factory next to a large lithium deposit = Earth to batteries = to cars even
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Re: Traceroute.
Do the ISPs have enough capabilities to make the blockage hop around to mimic real traffic?
On the other hand, it might be real traffic, and they are not well served by their ISPs
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Who wants to throttle the volume of incoming comments?
I have a suspicion that Comcast and their ilk have 'encumbered' traffic to the comment site(Technically easy) in the mistaken belief that this will cause many people to give up and go away = fweer comments.
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music and movies and audio
I am retired, 75, I never listen to music or buy music = not worth the waste of time.
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Crowdsourced songs
by all modes.
I think he would easily reach the $5 million. Others might try the same for a lesser amount.
I think it is a viable method.
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Mafia protection Racket - Lansky and the gang
I feel the rest of the world should replace their legislation with a 20 year copyright law. Much like patent law, short terms encourage innovation and copying and deriving new works from the old.
Forget this life plus 70 years, who need to place his kids in my back pocket for ever
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Why States want taxes
Civil serpents should not have the vote to elect those that pay them, that is a conflict of interest and decades of crooked unions and politicians have put us where we are now
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: internet taxation
Not that this is bad, but it needs moderation. We are both too young to know about the standard oil monopoly that gave rise to counter measures.
Here is an interesting read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
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Re: To: Bill Jackson, Nov 5th, 2011 @ 12:02pm, Re: Common Cartridges.
The method is not as good in drama, or music, or the many softer subjects.
We are far beyond the original teaching applications that emerged in the middle 80's which were not re-entrant and were hobbled both by processor power and lack of proper programming.
Back in the middle80's (I retired in 1998) the teaching union, of which I was a member, was very much against any degree of computers used to seemingly replace teachers in classes. Teachers were mixed on this, some thought it had potential. The union brass saw job losses and lower wages and have opposed on this basis alone ever since, as far as I can see.
We are now at the point where computers can help enormously and try to bring all the students forward as well as their ability - which varies widely, some can open a book and progress in grade 10 as well as a College student - others not.
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Why are text books so costly.
There is no incentive for this to change, except for the open text idea, which is being fought hammer and tongs by the publishers, the SChools(most of them) and the profs(who like the gravy)
So change must be imposed
On the post: Washington State Guarantees Cheap And Open Courses & Courseware For Students
It's a set of open standards, freely available and without royalty, developed by a global industry consortium with over 80 voting members. These standards, if followed by content developers and learning platforms, enable strict interoperability between content and systems. They also support great flexibility in the type of digital content supported (content can actually be applications) and where such content is located (content and applications in a Common Cartridge can be distributed). (See a diagram of Common Cartridge )
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