No capitalism involved in this example because the telcos are government granted monopolies.

Not capitalism because the team is granted a monopoly in their area by the city. This is good and bad. Good because it keeps teams from sprouting up stadiums all over the place. Bad because they can then charge whatever they want and sports morons will pay it.

There is zero capitalism in medicine today because the FDA controls everything from drugs to medical devices and states grant monopolies to insurance providers. I can't by out of state insurance to compete with the fuckers that are ripping me off.

No, YOU need to take your head out of your ass and stop blaming Fox News for all of your very real liberal inadequacy.

I'll give you a simple example of what the Telcos want this to be like:

My wife and I went to a new wine tasting place here in town. They touted the fact they have more wine tasting machines than anywhere else in the world. You walk up to it, insert your payment and choose the oz you want and the type and you get it in a little tasting cup. Sounds simple right? It should be except that you can't use your debit or credit card and the machines don't take cash. You have to purchase a card from them to use the machines. Just the card, you have to then put money on the card after you've purchased it.

AT&T want you to think of the connection they give you as that card. They then want to charge you per site or service beyond that. You pay for the priviledge of being their customer. It's the same racket gym's have been doing for decades with their "initiation" fees they claim they need to process your paperwork and somehow cost 100$+.

Want to be their customer? You have to pay for it. Then you get to pay for it some more.

I always found it drained the hell out of my battery. On a laptop or desktop I doubt it would be that bad but on a cell phone or tablet it was very difficult to get through the day with it on.

No it doesn't. No one but Canonical will be supporting Mir and Xorg will go away. Leaving Wayland for the adults. No one besides Canonical gives two shits about Mir and once Wayland is stable enough for primary use people will switch to it faster than they did to systemd.

I'm a user and I care.

The executives essentially formed their own union. The gentlemen's agreement (which is anything but. A crony capitalists agreement is a better name for it) is simply their by-laws.

To counter this, every tech worker in the entire valley should form their own union and stick it to the fucking executives for a change. I moved from the valley 15 years ago because of shit like this. I'll never return but would love to see these mother fuckers get what is coming to them.

Twitter is social media for retards......

Someone is getting their pockets lined. This is politics Al Gore style. Its pathetic, "food shortages" yeah right, because we all know food doesn't grow when the climate is warmer........ Scare tactics by intellectually challenged pseudo scientists.

More likely they had smaller class sizes and teachers competent enough to explain it thoroughly before sending them home with it. Seriously, how does a kid even get to ask a question when classes sizes are 40+ students per room these days?

My biggest problem with math as a kid was I never had a math teacher that spoke fluent English. I couldn't understand them. And when I had questions, and was lucky enough to actually get called on to ask it, I rarely understood wtf they were saying.

Enlightenment was all the rage when I register MY slashdot account. It's positively ancient and has never had any real install base. In fact its pretty much the buggiest pile of shit on earth and even trumps Google in terms of length of time in beta.

States playing favorites with healthcare providers and giving them the same type of monopolies in their states that they do telcos is the problem. There is zero reason why every insurance provider can't compete in every single market, yet states consistently block providers for participating. There is no free market presently.

You're still an asshole socialist prick though.

And yet you bought and use Windows 8 rather than abstaining and hitting MS in the pocket book where it counts. They really learned a lesson there.

Yep. Dumped all my tech stocks today. This is going to be real ugly. It'll be 10 years before the dust settles.

It's both. Distro's refuse to install the binary blobs from the providers, instead using the open source and usually crippled versions while the graphics card providers refuse to open up their source (though intel is better at this than the others).

I'm hoping a move to Wayland will smooth things out. I'm not a gamer anymore so intel graphics are good enough for me so I just deal with it.