From an economics viewpoint, I'd agree with the wacko talk show host. I don't think the national government shouldn't be in the Telco business.
If the telcos are national, then you need a national level body that can deal with their shit. A bunch of jumped up states aren't going to able to protect the interests of the th national population.
For a lot of stuff, we just get angry if the government spends money to build/repair a bridge.
Yesterday I was listening to a right wing talk show host on the radio who was letting us all know what he thought government should be for, and how the US government was so crap. The first bullet point on his list was "starting wars", the second was "Protecting us from bad guys".
the economies of scale due to the US population density distribution and having to lay new mediums to connect made it not economical.
This is just total ignorant BS. I have pointed out before that Tokyo has a way smaller population density that NYC, yet Tokyo shits all over NYC for access speed. The market in NYC has a need that is not being fulfilled and lack of population density is not the reason why.
Not requiring an "encryption chip" itself shouldn't be something we're proud of
The funny thing is that last year I my latest Amex card came with a chip, and so far the only place that I have actually used it is at Walmart of all places.
And when I did use it, the attendant came running over and tried to convince me that I needed to swipe the card rather than poke into the chip-reading hole - even though when I first swiped it, the POS terminal recognized that I had a chipped card and told me that I needed to poke the card into the chip-reading hole.
The mythbusters need to test this now!
Jamie Wants a Big Boom.
(Heard off-camera after some tests had been performed to see how noteworthy an ATM segment would be)
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
How come an iPad is a luxury, but a $700 smart phone isn't?
I make perfectly fine phone calls on my old RAZR 3
So it's actually already been fixed. All that's needed here is for some distributions to push the fix out.
But
c'mon guys...we *have* to start coming up with better names for products...
"Vivaldi"
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And any pretense of the 4th amendment no longer being completely shat upon is pretty much gone.
This was already establish by the 100 mile border zone - which conveniently also covers pretty well all of the US population.
You can get "trusted traveler" status in order to reduce the time it takes to cross the border. Less checks, faster throughput - what's not to love? Even the drug smugglers love it as they have been targeting such travelers and attaching packets of drugs via magnets to the bottoms of said travelers cars. And to make it really helpful for the smugglers, the DEA used to issue decals for the windshield - thus making it really easy to target the travelers.
Smugglers using unwitting drivers to carry drugs from Mexico
Also forgot to mention Kent State
(Damn I wish
In fact we are taught to disobey unlawful orders.
This is getting off-topic, but was the internment of the Japanese-Americans a lawful or unlawful order?
I see your M-1 Tank and raise you asymmetrical warfare.
The out-gunned side takes more casualties but always wins in the end...
It all depends if the non-outgunned side cares about pacifying or wiping out the outgunned side. Why did the japs surrender when only a comparatively small number died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? They were outgunned and could have taken on asymmetrical warfare and cause all kinds of hell for the allies.
Anyway, the M-1 was a facetious reference to the fact that the military has an assorted range of larger and more deadly toys than an AR-15
The Martial law result of thousands of jailed people because they speak french.
Internment of American-Japanese in the 2nd world war - just because they looked funny.
I see your M1 and raise you urban warfare. A personal firearm can go where tanks can't.
B-52 anyone?
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