my prediction is that they will build the network get some cash out of subscriptions for a couple of years and then sell it off to one of the big players.
exactly the same happened in my town during the late nineties with cable internet
And despite being AC you can't name the community so that we can check the story for ourselves?
...but in the other direction, and it turns out that you can put nothing into orbit with no effort whatsoever.
Irrelevant. What would be relevant is whether most visitors who will be reading that article are proficient. The Americans in that group may be different than most Americans. Additionally, many in that group may have an education quite different than most Americans.
My preference would be for an education that results in them knowing that it's "different from", and that "than" is for comparing quantities of the same quality.
...the Dixiecrats went over to the GOP.
Many things have changed since 1865.
Frankly, I wish there were some way to dissolve both the Republican and Democratic parties, ban anyone from ever using those as party names again, and ban anyone claiming spiritual descent from either party, and let all those suddenly partyless people hold long converstations to determine who has what in common from a political philosophy standpoint and let them form new parties (if they absolutely can't resist the urge) along those lines.
To accompany this I'd like the idea of governments conducting and paying for party primaries to become absolutely unthinkable, and for voting to be changed to getting to vote for or against every candidate, or abstain, so they get a -1, a 0, or a +1, with the highest total greater than 0 being the winner.
Google isn't going to change anything, just charge legal sites to place their ads on piracy searches.
Seems reasonable. How else is Google supposed to know the difference between honest content providers and those dirty pirates?
The whole DMCA takedown debacle shows us that you clearly can't take someones word that they're a copyright owner; they frequently lie about it. But we've been told time and time again that those dirty pirates expect everything for free, so you'd expect that charging money for listings will obviously let the legit operators bubble to the top.
enough space to transport 864 million bananas
I'm so happy to see we have finally converted to the banana scale. I've been waiting for this since horsepower was invented!
Just think... now we're just a double entendre away from the "shlong scale".
I have a feeling that there are some people who would take a polite "You're wrong and I disagree with you for the following reasons . .
." as trolling.
I was going to say that "you're a coward who is poisoning our national life" is a fine example, but that's good too.
...what do they call the ones from a great distance?
Not at all. His message is, if you think it's real, then start doing science! He doubts it's real because the people who claim it is refuse to even try actual science -- you know, that thing where you document experiments and publish with sufficient levels of detail that allow the results to be independently verified.
Even if you think it's real, you have to admit that what they're doing is not science. Or at least, you have to admit that if you're honest and know what "science" is. It might be invention, but it absolutely isn't science.
A hydrogen bomb yields more energy than was put it, by a large margin.
Sort of, but most of it's waste energy. Show me a process where the amount of power you receive back into the power-grid from setting off an H-bomb is greater than the energy you used constructing it...
A patent will just be violated, and completely ignored. Keeping it secret is the way to go, similar to Heinlein's Shipstones. Place a tamper-resistant box at the client's location, set a meter to charge by the watt-hour, and be done with it. Someone tries breaking into the box, it completely obliterates anything inside showing how it works, or just does a big kaboom, Outer Limits, "Final Exam" style.
Ah, yes. One of Heinlein's most unrealistic, least believable premises ever, and that's saying a lot.
Meanwhile, in the real world, your invention will be reverse-engineered in a matter of months if not sooner.
What if I want a straight text log file that requires no other tools?
Then you write your systemd log in text format. If you can't figure out how to do that, you're not qualified to be reading the log file output.
Why would anyone even have a binary log on a *nix system?
It takes less space, especially if you're archiving them for long periods, causes less I/O in general and less disk fragmentation over time as you compress and delete them every day/week. Note that indeed, you do the same on most classic BSD or SysV init systems by compressing the old logs, requiring you to use a tool to dump them to text if you want to read them later... but that's not as efficient.
If you want binary log files that require tools to dump them to text, use Windows.
Do you turn off the compression of logs on your boxes, or do you admit that having to use a tool to read them isn't so big a deal when you aren't grasping at straws to justify why you hate a particular piece of software?
If your scheme to make money from Bitcoin involves giving real money to someone else who's scheme to make money from Bitcoin involves getting real money from you, then looking at past history of Bitcoin money-making schemes it's highly likely that out of all the people around the table, you are the sucker.
The government already picked a winner years ago, just like they did with electrical service, natural gas service where offered, and telephone service, when it first allowed a cable company use of the right of way to either bury wires or string them on poles (or bury pipes in the case of a gas company).
Once one company is in that position, the economics of another one coming along and also running wires in order to maybe get some of the first company's customers to switch over is usually considered unlikely to provide a sufficient return on investment to make it worthwhile.
Besides, having 37 different companies digging up your yard every other week would likely cease to feel like FREEDOM! in short order.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
