Each state is going to have differently worded laws in this area. The Mass one sounds like the first case where it was worded to prohibit company owned outlets of specific manufacturers to protect only dealers of the same brand.
Whether you like or dislike net neutrality, you should NOT like government regulatory agencies setting public policy unilaterally without legislators involved. Name one person at the FCC you can vote out of office at the next election based on your feelings over how they rule on this issue.
OK, solar storm I can understand protecting against. But nuclear weapons EMP? Better to use the data center as a bunker in that case and never mind the data.
Celsius is arbitrary too. There is nothing inherently connecting temperature and water.
Kelvin is the only scale based on something fundamental.
Fahrenheit is based on the coldest you can get brine before it freezes and the approximate human body temperature. Both of these make great sense for telling the weather as 0 is dangerously cold and 100 is dangerously hot.
One might argue that a lot of people don't live in the temperate zone where 0 and 100 occur regularly but C's water boiling and freezing points are only good for people at sea level and no one's weather on Earth ever involves boiling water.
1. Vote Libertarian on November 4th
2. Vote Green on November 4th
When will the Libertarians and Greens learn the lesson from the Teas? If you want to get elected, work from WITHIN the establishment. There are multiple Tea candidates in office via running under the Republican umbrella. The Libertarians could do the same except all they seem to want to do is siphon votes away from a potentially winning Republican. The Greens need to work from within the Democrats the same way instead of siphoning off. Then we COULD get real change but it's doubtful either the Libs or Greens can get off their ideological high horses.
I bet Apple does though. The last thing they want is "iPad" becoming so generic they lose the trademark, like hoover or cellophane or escalator or sellotape.
The becoming generic is a longer term problem than the immediate one of the commentators mocking the guy who seemed to be having trouble scrolling around.
How any automated system will know if the phone is used by driver vs passenger is a challenge, I imagine.
By the inward pointing dash camera, of course.
"....the average baby will work their way through 8,000 of them before they end up in landfill where they'll take centuries to break down."
This is an episode of "Hoarders" I don't want to see; where they kept all 8,000 diapers before sending them to the landfill.
WOW, what a shock, they helped you enforce their laws?
No, laws are made by statute which are passed by the governing assembly bodies when those are in session, Statutes are almost always available to the public with only modest effort or even published freely. These censorship standards are regulatory in nature which means not only do they change at the whim of the administering beaurocrats but also (especially in less democratic countries like China) unpublished to the public and either require significant effort to obtain or aren't available at all.
Of course, when poor folks need a hand...
You lost perspective in this last sentence; income redistribution account for the lion's share of the entire federal budget next to which the price of these rockets isn't even a rounding error.
I'll be people who get cancer will be perfectly happy to settle for "easily curable/reversible" if it can't be prevented in the first place. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
With those specs it will barely run anything.
Yes, it is the point. Money is a generic medium of exchange. Calling for money to be abolished in favor of barter is just crazy talk.
How many chickens (or pigs or dogs) does Intel HQ need to barter (and then transport) to the fabrication facilities in SE Asia to get the CPUs for all the computers? Yeah, there's a super efficient financial system.
It sounds like the governments bent on censorship have managed to pack the ICANN board enough to get this proposal seriously considered but not enough that the ICANN board can't still usually override them:
ICANN is now proposing that the threshold be increased so that 2/3 of eligible ICANN board members would be required to vote against GAC advice in order to reject it
Why else would ICANN's own board even be considering giving this power away?
How many chickens did you trade for your computer?
UNIX is hot. It's more than hot. It's steaming. It's quicksilver lightning with a laserbeam kicker. -- Michael Jay Tucker
