Don't be completely naive.

There is an old joke about a bum on a street asking for 5 bucks so he can buy a sandwich. A good natured idiot comes along and gives him the money and the bum immediately buys a pint of ripple. When the rube complains about how the bum is spending his money, the bum points out it stopped being the rube's money when it was given to the bum and who the hell is the rube to tell him how to spend his money.

That is congress. They will tell you they want taxes to pay down debt but that is nothing but complete BS. It's the same B.S. that sells voters lotteries and gambling to pay for education, that had phone taxes and income taxes as temporary measures to pay for World War One. The minute congress gets revenue it finds something to spend it on. They will wake up and find 50% of American children are below the mean on test scores, a bridge that was overseen and inspected by the government will fall down prompting the need for even more government help for our infrastructure. It will be all what about the children, we are neglecting our future, if we don't do this now there won't be a world tomorrow and all the while the money will take very short routes into their pockets, their contributors pockets, and their immediate families pockets.

No thank you.

But at least they are representing the people that put them there. Its taken 30 years for the republican party to get ticked off enough with the republican office holders to make it happen, but make it happen they did.

And why do you think it needs to be a bigger part of your life ?

This is what you are asking for when you demand taxes be raised. Sure you may just want to soak the rich guy, I mean its hardly fair he has more than you do. What you really get is that money going to more bureaucracy that much more overhead in your daily life, and that much more of a boost to politicians patronage powers. That means that much less "Democracy" and that much more oligarchy in a country that has far too much of the later.

This is nice but unless its seamless and user friendly to the point of invisibility Microsoft gets what it wants, a computing environment that is that much more unfriendly to anything not windows. In this case they are going so far as making it unfriendly to old versions of windows as well as other operating systems. I guess they don't want to see future failures to adopt like they had with Vista and ME.

That guy and that girl are generally called project/team leaders. Don't fret, You raised an important issue. The guy you don't want on the team is the one that comes up with ridiculous edge cases and is needlessly obtuse. Like someone who invents coders that are doing the work of managers and senior managers then complains a measurement tool doesn't capture their contribution, or goes into a recursive loop trying to figure out what the objective should be.

Personally I am always happy with the guy who can get things done with one line of code instead of a hundred, but what I really care about is that objective is met and we don't have a host of bugs that require 10 times the cost of the development just to maintain. Its not hard stuff but it does require common sense and a hard nosed attitude both of which can be scarce commodities these days.

Well good question lets look at why we got past the old Lynx D-cat.

300 baud accoustic modems were there because you couldn't hook up your own equipment to ATT's lines without their permission. If you're an old timer you will remember that it used to be you had only one choice of telephone, western electric. Using an accoustic couple let you sidestep ATT and use their phone lines in ways they would have and often tried to charge people extra for.

ATT in general was a very good example of how a large company with monopoly power could and did operate. It used to be you had to pay extra for touch tone service on a phone line. This was despite the fact that touch tone service was cheaper for att to install, and resulted in lower operating costs for them. They looked at it and said we can make people pay for dialing faster. This is analogous to the internet monopoly/duopoly providers. In order to throttle services they have to install additional infrastructure and then go to the trouble of maintaining it to make certain that their customers get less service than they are paying for. Then they want to get paid for not causing problems for you ?

Fundamentally there is a built in mechanism for throttling how much bandwidth a content provider it's the user wanting to use the service. The same user that paid for the bandwidth in the first place.

You didn't bother to read anything you linked to did you ?

But lets sort out your farrago of misinformation.

The U.S. invades 2-3 countries/year since the bay of pigs ? well lets call that 2.5 countries/year * 60 years = 150 countries since 1960. Seeing as the U.S. recognizes 195 I am sure we will get the last 45 done in good speed.

"The U.S. creates no fly zones over your country". You are upset about the U.S. trying to depose Saddam Hussein ? BTW your link was about Iran which doesn't have a U.S. enforced no fly zone.

U.S. terrorism, you link to an article authorizing private arms sales to sovereign governments. I don't know what your point is maybe you feel the guy who mined the lead to make the bullet is a terrorist as well ?

Now when you say countries have active campaigned to get U.S. bases out just what constitutes the country ? Because whenever the U.S. even thinks about closing a base the areas around it have their town fathers turn white at the thought of their local economies going in the crapper. If you would like examples look at Clark Air Base and Subik Bay in the Philipines.

If you upgrade your base quality of service, you are going to eat into your revenue from selling quality for particular services A la carte. If a carrier is charging you and or netflix to provide a quality connection why would they invest in making the network "better".

Did you just post that as flamebait or have you had your head in the sand for 20 years ?

Just to refresh your memory

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/2/newsid_2526000/2526937.stm

Iraq invades kuwait.

https://www.google.com/search?q=north+korea+missile+test&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

North Korea's missile tests.

and just in case

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/05/what_kind_of_terrorism_does_north_korea_sponsor.html

Just some examples of No Ko's terrorist activities.

Now in case you missed it there was also this large country called China, that is forcibly occupying Tibet ? Continuously making moves to threaten Taiwan and backs the nucking futs regime in North Korea.

Also in case you missed it, there is this other large county called Russia. That views the former Soviet Socialist Republics as pieces that belong back in the puzzle that is mother Russia. They aren't above poisoning leaders of these countries, reporters that point out that they are up to no good, and anyone else that happens to be nearby.

As things stand most people have a duopoly or triopoly on how they get their television. 1 or 2 terrestrial providers and possibly satellite. As things stand most of the channels that aren't local boadcast or in the impossible not to carry (sports packages) have to pay to be carried on a provider. Until they are willing to stream wholesale on the net there isn't going to a whole lot that can be done to improve content.

" Strawman ? Sorry the greens have a long long history of being wrong and ignoring it. The funny thing is they can't see their laughable resemblance to doomsday cults that just get the dates off by a little bit. Take your pick Malthus, the club of rome, earth first, climatologists claiming we were going to enter another period of glaciation in the 70s, to the current crop doom criers.

But keep going maybe you will come up with something that resembles a reasoned case for the green cause

LOL

Nahh, I think they will be laughing like maniacs at the green movement. I mean you people make Jim Jones's people's temple look like a skeptics convention.

Personal attacks ? I am sorry that the green cultists don't get this simple concept but there is a tremendous credibility gap on the part of your high priests. I wasn't attacking al gores character, I was demonstrating that he personally doesn't believe in the things he expects you to believe in. If I wanted to attack Al Gore personally, I could just point out he has always been a complete fraud, going back to his presidential campaign where he claimed his mother sang him to sleep as a child with the "Look for the union label song", a song that hadn't been written till after he was an adult. Either way, the post isn't about Al gore, its about the way the green movement is uncritical of its own beliefs. Gloabal warming doesn't matter for them, except that they can use it to bring about a green holocaust.

What does that have to do with your initial wrong and irrelevant comment ?