People connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global Internet back on Earth.
Interesting, although I wonder what the latency will be like. Although I guess if it's meant for off-the-grid places then better that than nothing?
I know, right? That's teeny tiny sky? They'll fill it in no time!
Not to be pedantic, but the "Ayn Rand mentality" is pretty much the opposite of what you think it is.
I don't think I'd want to live in a world where charity is considered a character flaw, but in fairness I've read her books and c0d3g33k is right.
I do, actually. It's free, runs everywhere, has an equalizer, and doesn't try to do a bunch of cataloguing/internal database shit that I don't want.
No problem, I just asked my Jewish friends to knock it off and they said they were sorry and would stop enslaving us all.
Good luck to them if they think that helps. Me, I'm pretty sure I've been on their enemies list for years.
The Mozilla Science Lab is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which definitely has real money. And three dedicated people who know what they're doing can accomplish a lot.
He's spent years researching the problem in his capacity as a constitutional law professor and he proposes a very specific solution which has been demonstrated to work well in other western democracies.
What, public financing of candidates? Sorry, no sale. And he wants to get there by holding a second constitutional convention, which has the potential to be a complete disaster since too many people naively believe government should do more rather than less.
Because that's not even slightly arrogant.
That suggests you think there can be a system where there is a lot of centralized power, but money doesn't buy access to it because those with power only magnanimously serve the interests of others. Good luck with that.
The reason the money is there is that there's so much for power for it to buy. I appreciate Lessig's work in general, but those who think that campaign finance measures will ever be anything more than an endless game of whack-a-mole are kidding themselves. (And even then that's without factoring in SCOTUS hostility toward the idea.)
What third party? Do you really think that would make any difference? Under the current system anyone elected is controlled or made irrelevant. Until the money is removed from the electoral process this won't change.
Money is a symptom, not the disease. There's so much money precisely because there's so much federal power available to buy. Until political power is radically decentralized, this will not change.
It's her stripper name.
If you think that free markets and deregulation are pro-corporate policies, you're not paying enough attention. The whole point of corporatism is to use "consumer protection" as an excuse to prevent new entrants into the marketplace.
Now now, not your users' data, just their metadata. That's just fine, I know because the Surpeme Court says so. ~
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