Not such a bad idea... just look at what Lee Kwan Yew did for Singapore -- turned it from a backwards island state into one of the world's most sophisticated, modern countries with low tax rates and enviable prosperity.
Benevolent dictators are sometimes a whole lot better than corrupt (faux) democracies controlled by the movie and defense industries behind the scenes... don't you think?
Who gives a damn if you get caned for chewing gum anyway
On the other hand, if I only had 6 months to live, the first thing I'd do is to get back together with my ex-wife.
That would be the longest 6 months ever.
Did they try turning North Korea off and then back on again?
Or give him a football scholarship.
Is this the USA's response to the claims that N.Korea hacked Sony?
Why am I reminded of petulant children squabbling over who gets to pat the new puppy?
Imagine how much closer we (as a race) would be if we could eliminate all the stupid waste that politics and warmongering produces. Hell, I'd have my jetpack, my flying car and my holiday on the moon all lined up for Christmas!
Instead, unbelievable amounts of money, time and effort are wasted on silly games and squabbles -- while huge swathes of our population suffer at the hands of disease, war, religious zealots and political gaming.
Hard to believe it's Christmas eh?
most pay TV channels can't pay the bills to produce original programming.
And yet, my local OTA TV station seems to make a go of it. With a much smaller market available to spread the costs of their news anchors or local personality talking heads.
I think what you are hearing is the lobbying PR of the pay TV channels trying to protect one source of income that they had Congress write into law years ago.
satellite television is broadcast with conditional access and satellite Internet is unicast
Merely a technical detail of the implementation by Dish. And not really of concern to, or the business of, any outside party.
Tomorrow, Dish could lease bandwidth from some ultra cheap, high bandwidth satellite provider that would enable them to switch to video delivery via IP or whatever. That's not my business, or Fox's. The encrypted satellite up/downlinks are private communications channels for the exclusive use of Dish between their head end and set top boxes. What Fox, or Netflix, should pay for, is the service of delivering a video/audio stream to the HDMI port on the back of the STB.
The fact that Congress has a couple of morons who write laws based not upon a product or service, but one particular implementation of that is what hampers innovation.
"The beauty of a chainsaw is that you don't have to start it. Just
show up with it."
-- Joe Walsh, on checking in to hotels
Give them a rifle and send them to the front lines.
Personally, I find either brand to be unpalatable.
"In other news, an undercover officer still doesn't need to tell you that he or she is a member of law enforcement if you ask. "
"Are you a cop? Or are you just some dangerous nutjob, lurking around my property armed? Think carefully about your answer. Very carefully."
But I recently got a Barrett M82A1 and love to see just how far I can shoot the
Does this version sound any better?
It was probably sarcastic
Probably.
We'll see when Netflix starts charging Verizon and AT&T for distributing their content.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
