What’s the problem? There are hundreds of models of unlocked phones available for purchase, and many service providers who will support them. Who is forced to use Verizon?
My first thought when this broke was about Apple having batteries that are not user replaceable. The company specializes in devices that have increasingly become unmodifiable by users in almost every respect.
That said, if Apple’s managers were not so arrogant they would have offered throttling as a software option and transparently explained why.
Apple’s 1984 ad is a fading memory. It is a company that is more authoritarian by nature than Microsoft ever approached.
Yes, the geniuses in Washington decided to spend tens of millions because they thought it was too hard for people to download other browsers for Windows. Typical of the incredibly stupid business of D.C.
It's more apt to call it a regulatory mess created in the 1960s by local government franchising regulations. If govt. gets out of the way innovation will solve this problem.
I fail to see a rational objection to the idea that people who consume more should pay more. AEI's posting only seems bizarre to someone who doesn't grasp basic economics. I can't think of a single supporter of free markets who isn't opposed to net neutrality, but it appeals greatly to people who expect lunch to be free.
Doesn't it strike you as odd that humans may have never adapted to limited sunshine over many millennia? How could it be that for much of the year where most people live it would be impossible to get enough vitamin D without pills? That would be a might peculiar adaptation.
For many decades we're heard of the exciting new cancer treatments in the pipeline. There is scant evidence that the new prospects will be better than the old failures. It's damned ridiculous to use the single example of Jimmy Carter as a relevant example. There have always been atypical spontaneous remissions; and for all we know Carter's cancer will reappear next month. Some skepticism is in order.
What "environmental impact of millions of plastic k-cups"? They are thrown in the trash and taken to landfills where they consume a trivial amount of space. Coffee grounds from convention brewing, often poured down drains, have more impact than the cups do, yet their impact is also trivial.
The government schools are not agents for the public good in their history, principles, or fact.
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.” -- H. L. Mencken
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There is no right to earn a profit, there is a right to work. The First Amendment doesn’t collide with the right to work.
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I have no religion. Try to reduce me to another stereotype.
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Unlocked
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Apple arrogance
That said, if Apple’s managers were not so arrogant they would have offered throttling as a software option and transparently explained why.
Apple’s 1984 ad is a fading memory. It is a company that is more authoritarian by nature than Microsoft ever approached.
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Haddock
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Re: Regulation
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Re: MSFT
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Govt meddling
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Government
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Usage
Am I The Only Techie Against Net Neutrality?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshsteimle/2014/05/14/am-i-the-only-techie-against-net-neutr ality/#2715e4857a0b538371c4352e
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Cancer Statistics Report: Deaths Down 20% in 2 Decades
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/cancer-statistics-report-deaths-down-20-percent-in-2-decade s
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Same old, same old
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60 Minutes whopper
"Six Cleveland cops have been killed in the last 20 years. Danger and stress take their toll --- a police officer's life expectancy here and around the country is 10 years shorter than the average American."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cleveland-police-60-minutes-bill-whitaker/
It is false that cops live 10 years shorter than the average American. In fact they may live slightly longer.
Politifact investigated the "10 years shorter" claim and debunked it in 2011.
http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2011/aug/14/robert-barber/retired-police-capt ain-says-law-enforcement-office/
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Environmental impact
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Public schools
“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.” -- H. L. Mencken
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