I've lately seen an incomming barrage of Verizon ads extolling the virtues of its 5G build out nationwide. I seem to have been bracketed by these ads, for some reason, having never ever used Verizon.
Claim: it's 25 times faster.
Fact check: 25 times zero is still zero.
Due to recent changes by your state legislature, we are unable to provide streaming video service in your state. You can expect a refund for any service already paid for beyond the date of this letter.
Thank You for having used our service.
Oh, BTW, the value of PI is not exactly equal to 3.
While it may be true that Broadband Caps are very popular, they are still less popular than Death.
When looking at the numbers alone, Death is the all time most popular single thing in human history! (it is appointed unto man once to die. Heb 9:27)
While Taxes are also extremely popular, they are second to Death, but somewhat higher in popularity than Poverty or Slavery.
While vast numbers of people have chosen ISPs that have broadband caps, thus proving the popularity of broadband caps, some of them then discover they have the problem that they cannot wear both their Broadband Cap and their MAGA cap at the same time.
GEDmatch would like to apologize to anyone who has learned of our hurtful, spiteful and malicious actions. GEDmatch takes full responsibility for not having stronger measures in place to prevent this public disclosure that GEDmatch gave DNA records to law enforcement. To all employees, managers, directors and investors at GEDmatch who may have suffered personal embarrassment from this disclosure, GEDmatch would like to extend our sincerest apology. To all other members of the public, and especially persons who have given us their DNA record for safekeeping, we would like to extend our sincerest indifference.
This kind of confusion is understandable. 'Fix' has multiple possible meanings.
One meaning is to repair something or make it right. The WiFi has been fixed!
Another meaning is to attach something rigidly. As in to 'fascinate' a large screen TV to the wall. In the original IBM PC XT, the original IBM documentation stubbornly used the term 'fixed disk' to refer to what everyone else knew as a hard disk.
Another meaning of 'Fix' is to corrupt something as in: the race is 'fixed'. The 'fix' is in. This regulator or official has been 'fixed'. It is this third meaning of 'Fix' that may be meant here. After all, we are talking about Trump's DOJ. And we are talking about a merger that would concentrate power, reduce competition, raise prices, and harm consumers. What more would one want?
I need to take my dog to the vet to be fixed, er . . . I mean repaired
Being in cahoots with Hollywood. Destroy big tech, because! Get rid of CDA 230 because who needs social media? Google should have to pay to drive traffic to others' web sites!
With those policies in place, there won't be any big tech around to need any tech policy advisors.
I don't want them only stripped of their powers, I want them also stripped of any qualified immunity.
Cops that complain about cameras are the ones we DON'T want. Those cameras work both ways. They not only make obvious who the bad cops are, but they also are valuable defense for false claims against good cops.
And there are good cops out there. The simple fact is that 99% of cops give the rest a bad name.
Why does law enforcement not realize that if they have reasonable suspicion, they can show that to a judge, and obtain a warrant for the Hotel Guest information?
Each Hotel Guessed has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
When a CEO calls me a moron, it really makes me want to do business with them and their company. Nothing encourages me more to do business with a company than when their CEO calls me a moron. Calling customers or potential customers is a time honored business tragedy.
Like all politicians, Chris Wray can be simultaneously for and against encryption technology, depending upon who is using it, and who is trying to crack it.
He only wants it to be illegal when the government wants to crack someone's intention.
When he wants to keep government secrets, I'm sure he is all in favor of encryption.
This is not contradictory. Not any more than the idea that encryption can be designed to be magically secure, yet breakable once a court order is presented.
On the post: Yet Another Study Shows U.S. 5G Is Far Slower Than Many Other Nations
Verizon ads for 5G
I've lately seen an incomming barrage of Verizon ads extolling the virtues of its 5G build out nationwide. I seem to have been bracketed by these ads, for some reason, having never ever used Verizon.
Claim: it's 25 times faster.
Fact check: 25 times zero is still zero.
On the post: Indiana Cities File Doomed Lawsuit Against Disney, Netflix, Demand 5% of Gross Revenues
Dear Indiana residents
Due to recent changes by your state legislature, we are unable to provide streaming video service in your state. You can expect a refund for any service already paid for beyond the date of this letter.
Thank You for having used our service.
Oh, BTW, the value of PI is not exactly equal to 3.
Sincerely,
On the post: Charter Spectrum Tells FCC Broadband Caps Are 'Popular' As It Tries To Kill Merger Conditions Preventing Them
Popularity
While it may be true that Broadband Caps are very popular, they are still less popular than Death.
When looking at the numbers alone, Death is the all time most popular single thing in human history! (it is appointed unto man once to die. Heb 9:27)
While Taxes are also extremely popular, they are second to Death, but somewhat higher in popularity than Poverty or Slavery.
While vast numbers of people have chosen ISPs that have broadband caps, thus proving the popularity of broadband caps, some of them then discover they have the problem that they cannot wear both their Broadband Cap and their MAGA cap at the same time.
On the post: Stone Brewing Is Very Upset That People Don't Like Its Trademark Bullying
Stoned Brewing
Can't Stoned Brewing get a patent on being upset about trademark bullying?
On the post: DNA Company Accidentally Exposes Opted Out Users' Data To Law Enforcement
Apology
GEDmatch would like to apologize to anyone who has learned of our hurtful, spiteful and malicious actions. GEDmatch takes full responsibility for not having stronger measures in place to prevent this public disclosure that GEDmatch gave DNA records to law enforcement. To all employees, managers, directors and investors at GEDmatch who may have suffered personal embarrassment from this disclosure, GEDmatch would like to extend our sincerest apology. To all other members of the public, and especially persons who have given us their DNA record for safekeeping, we would like to extend our sincerest indifference.
Sincerely
GEDmatch
On the post: Petnet 'Smart' Feeder Customers Are Stuck In 'Internet Of Broken Things' Purgatory
Right to re-pear
If everyone had a right to repair, there might be open volunteer produced fixes.
Government idea: since you don't have a right to repair, maybe you should also not have a right to peacefully assemble to prevent DIY pet feeders.
On the post: Detroit PD Now Linked To Two Bogus Arrests Stemming From Facial Recognition False Positives
Something is happening
People, especially police, are being trained to do whatever a machine tells them to do.
On the post: New Indictment Tries To Tie Julian Assange To A Hacking He Had Nothing To Do With
Justice is Blind
Haven't you heard? Justice is Blind.
Therefore it is incapable of, or simply doesn't want to see injustice.
On the post: ISPs To Bring Back Usage Caps After Brief Pandemic Hiatus
What it really means
You know how you went over your usage cap during the temporary Brief Pandemic Hiatus?
Well now we're going to charge you for those overages now that the Hiatus is over.
What!? You thought we would forget to bill later for exceeding the caps? Why do you think it was called a Hiatus?
On the post: The DOJ's Plan To 'Fix' The T-Mobile Merger Is Already A Hot Mess
It is a simple misunderstanding
This kind of confusion is understandable. 'Fix' has multiple possible meanings.
One meaning is to repair something or make it right. The WiFi has been fixed!
Another meaning is to attach something rigidly. As in to 'fascinate' a large screen TV to the wall. In the original IBM PC XT, the original IBM documentation stubbornly used the term 'fixed disk' to refer to what everyone else knew as a hard disk.
Another meaning of 'Fix' is to corrupt something as in: the race is 'fixed'. The 'fix' is in. This regulator or official has been 'fixed'. It is this third meaning of 'Fix' that may be meant here. After all, we are talking about Trump's DOJ. And we are talking about a merger that would concentrate power, reduce competition, raise prices, and harm consumers. What more would one want?
I need to take my dog to the vet to be fixed, er . . . I mean repaired
On the post: Why Doesn't Joe Biden Have Any Tech Policy Advisors?
Who needs Tech Policy Advisors?
Being in cahoots with Hollywood. Destroy big tech, because! Get rid of CDA 230 because who needs social media? Google should have to pay to drive traffic to others' web sites!
With those policies in place, there won't be any big tech around to need any tech policy advisors.
On the post: Chicago Mayor Says City's Police Officers Will Be 'Stripped Of Their Powers' If They Turn Off Their Cameras
Stripped of their Immunity
I don't want them only stripped of their powers, I want them also stripped of any qualified immunity.
Cops that complain about cameras are the ones we DON'T want. Those cameras work both ways. They not only make obvious who the bad cops are, but they also are valuable defense for false claims against good cops.
And there are good cops out there. The simple fact is that 99% of cops give the rest a bad name.
On the post: Study Shows Major E-Voting System Open To Numerous Hacking Attacks
Not up to the task?
I think we first must ask what the actual task is? There may be confusion on this point.
It seems these electronic voting systems are splendidly up to the task.
On the post: DC Appeals Court Dumps Lawsuit Claiming Multiple Tech Companies Are Engaged In An Anti-Conservative Conspiracy
Re: Kicking and Screaming
I'm sure there are boomers who are the stereotype you describe.
I can personally tell you that there are plenty of boomers who are liberal, anti Trump, who are not racist, sexist or violent.
On the post: Minnesota's Top Court Says Hotel Guest Records Are Protected By The State's Constitution
Get a Warrant
Why does law enforcement not realize that if they have reasonable suspicion, they can show that to a judge, and obtain a warrant for the Hotel Guest information?
Each Hotel Guessed has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
On the post: FBI Holds Press Conference To Claim Apple Prevented It From [Checks Notes] Verifying Attribution In The Pensacola Air Base Shooting
What Barr wants
Barr wants the following:
Companies design a secure product.
But it magically becomes insecure when a judge signs a piece of paper.
The stroke of a pen somehow changes the technology to be insecure -- on this one device.
On the post: New AT&T CEO Says You're A Moron If You Don't Use AT&T Streaming Services
When a CEO calls me a moron
When a CEO calls me a moron, it really makes me want to do business with them and their company. Nothing encourages me more to do business with a company than when their CEO calls me a moron. Calling customers or potential customers is a time honored business tragedy.
On the post: Filings In Facebook's Lawsuit Against NSO Show FBI Director Chris Wray Was For Encryption Before He Was Against It
Like all politicians
Like all politicians, Chris Wray can be simultaneously for and against encryption technology, depending upon who is using it, and who is trying to crack it.
He only wants it to be illegal when the government wants to crack someone's intention.
When he wants to keep government secrets, I'm sure he is all in favor of encryption.
This is not contradictory. Not any more than the idea that encryption can be designed to be magically secure, yet breakable once a court order is presented.
On the post: Australia Gives Up Any Pretense: Pushes Straight Up Tax On Facebook & Google To Pay News Orgs
New business model
c3p0 says: r2d2 I suggest a new tragedy: start a fake news site, with a pretense of journalism, and get paid by Google.
someone else: ingenious that business model it is.
On the post: Texas Attorney General's Office Says It Can Toss People In Jail For Suggesting Coronavirus Fears Are A Legit Reason To Vote From Home
This is an OUTRAGE
Can't the governor or legislature correct this outrage by removing the last two words?
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