Comcast previously promised the city they would provide service for their entire monopoly area if this went through...
Telecom companies are famous for *making* promises.
Making good on them, not so much.
They'd have probably gotten around to your area about the same time as your first Social Security check.
Wheeler, 69, does not need to seek another job when he departs the FCC, and that freedom enables him to make the decisions he thinks is right, according to people close to the chairman.
Judging simply from his age, it's very implausible that his actions were part of a ploy to seek secure employment after the FCC.
He won't be too old to sit on some corporate Boards of Directors.
What are these multiple providers of which you speak?
Where I live we have the choice of Time-Warner cable or no cable, and there's no sign of that changing in my lifetime.
Did you just describe IF Strips without using the term?
Actually they pay whoever owns the publishing rights, whether they wrote any music or not.
But radio isn't paying royalties or licensing fees or whatever you want to call it on their performance, they're paying it for the having composed it part, so whether the composer is a recording artist is irrelevant to that.
...short story "I Always Do What Teddy Says".
Hardly seems worth the bother of going to all the trouble that would be necessary to put the media server in one of the worst possible and least accessible locations one could choose.
I'd almost rather put it in the attic. It would need more cooling, but at least you could get to it.
Is your crawl space accessible from inside the house?
...that certainly bites.
It's like there's an entire industry convinced that listener fatigue is a good thing.
...to include TiVos and their power supplies, then "capacitor plague" is an even bigger factor, although, again, hard drive problems are prominent as well.
...I suspect my results would have been quite different, especially with regard to Pentium II era motherboards.
I tend to re-lube fans with a mixture of light grease and light oil, and that seems to extend their life considerably.
But the biggie is hard drives.
The club or dance hall or whatever paid to license the music for people to listen to while dancing, but they didn't pay to license the music to be used in recordings of that activity, so the person recording the activity gets to pay (one way or the other).
Post the videos without a soundtrack if it's just the dancing that's important.
They have to find a way to remove all the Obama cooties from it, in a way that lets them brag on themselves and vilify him, without actually getting anyone angry enough at them to get out and vote for someone else, and they have to keep their corporate masters happy at the same time.
...that the last thing the insurance companies want is to be deprived of all of those new customers they recently acquired.
Look at it from their point of view. People have to buy their product, and if necessary the government will help them to pay for it before it lets them not buy it.
Atlas and Fountainhead a decade or two ago, and was struck by how someone had managed to get comic books published without any pictures.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
