I'm not old enough to know, but when gas stations (owned be different oil companies) started being built throughout the land, I wonder if they divided and conquered like the modern cable/ISP's are doing. Did Exxon say "we're gonna service all of the south eastern states", and did Chevron say "we're gonna take all the western states", etc...? How is it that we can have multiple gas stations owned by different oil companies--and all all kinds of pipes/underground oil lines--in almost every US city, but we can't do the same 'infastructurally' speaking with cable/ISP's? Is it logistically impossible, or just greed blocking the works? If governments (fed., state, local) were serious about competition, they'd legislate such that the more competition a monopoly (duopoly, oligopoly, etc.) has--the less that monopoly is taxed. Why not promote competition through lower taxation?
"everyone should be thanking the universe"?? Why not just thank feces...it's just as pointless. Silly Timothy, when will you learn? Jesus Christ loves you the most.
Anywho...we won't have safe air travel until all travelers, on all airlines worldwide, are forced by international law to fly buck naked.
Cops need vocational term limits. Their lives are routinely threatened; they're regularly exposed to gruesome crime scenes, they're increasingly threatened by those whom they've sworn to 'protect & serve'--all of this stress adds up. Not to excuse their actions, but some of these bad cops are just burnt out, and they probably can't financially afford to quit their jobs as police officers.
Let them be employed as police officers for 10 yrs., then they need a mandatory 1 or 2 yr. time out from law enforcement. Let the local police unions deal with their benifits/compensation during their time out.
Yeah, I know; call me a religious nut. I'll be that; I welcome the ridicule. Yet no one can honestly deny that all of the technology (monitoring systems, tracing systems, surveillance systems, erosion of privacy, GPS, RFID, yada, yada, yada...) is consistently heading to a point in time where one political leader can monitor almost everyone...but I'm nut.
So what's the fix? Buy a gun and move to the desert? No. Accept Jesus Christ as your savior and escape Hell and/or the tribulation.
let the anti-ad arms race begin
remember with technology, there's always a loop hole...someone will just build a browser that completly blocks (or scrambles beyond all recogintion) all ads. Then some hired hacker for a marketing firm will come up with a 'fix' for that, and back and forth it will go...
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gas pipes...data pipes...
I'm not old enough to know, but when gas stations (owned be different oil companies) started being built throughout the land, I wonder if they divided and conquered like the modern cable/ISP's are doing. Did Exxon say "we're gonna service all of the south eastern states", and did Chevron say "we're gonna take all the western states", etc...? How is it that we can have multiple gas stations owned by different oil companies--and all all kinds of pipes/underground oil lines--in almost every US city, but we can't do the same 'infastructurally' speaking with cable/ISP's? Is it logistically impossible, or just greed blocking the works?
If governments (fed., state, local) were serious about competition, they'd legislate such that the more competition a monopoly (duopoly, oligopoly, etc.) has--the less that monopoly is taxed. Why not promote competition through lower taxation?
"everyone should be thanking the universe"?? Why not just thank feces...it's just as pointless. Silly Timothy, when will you learn? Jesus Christ loves you the most.
Anywho...we won't have safe air travel until all travelers, on all airlines worldwide, are forced by international law to fly buck naked.
vocational term limits
Cops need vocational term limits. Their lives are routinely threatened; they're regularly exposed to gruesome crime scenes, they're increasingly threatened by those whom they've sworn to 'protect & serve'--all of this stress adds up. Not to excuse their actions, but some of these bad cops are just burnt out, and they probably can't financially afford to quit their jobs as police officers.
Let them be employed as police officers for 10 yrs., then they need a mandatory 1 or 2 yr. time out from law enforcement. Let the local police unions deal with their benifits/compensation during their time out.
in the immortal words of Rocket...
BOO HOO HOO
how many times must I say it
competition is the only fix for the local ISP monopolies
BOYCOTT OR BEND OVER
it's just paving the way for prophesy
Revelation 13:11-18
Yeah, I know; call me a religious nut. I'll be that; I welcome the ridicule. Yet no one can honestly deny that all of the technology (monitoring systems, tracing systems, surveillance systems, erosion of privacy, GPS, RFID, yada, yada, yada...) is consistently heading to a point in time where one political leader can monitor almost everyone...but I'm nut.
So what's the fix? Buy a gun and move to the desert? No. Accept Jesus Christ as your savior and escape Hell and/or the tribulation.
the fix is
all the kid has to do is say that he (himself) is gay, and all is forgiven
captured
monitors with encased webcams and biometric passwords will trap you all...mmmmhhhuuaaaaaa haaa ha
technological loop holes
let the anti-ad arms race begin
remember with technology, there's always a loop hole...someone will just build a browser that completly blocks (or scrambles beyond all recogintion) all ads. Then some hired hacker for a marketing firm will come up with a 'fix' for that, and back and forth it will go...