What makes you believe OP was "making an argument"? He was responding to a comment that asked for more details, and he has provided them. If you want to argue with him, go ahead, but then you'll be the one making the claim that he's wrong (or whatever it is you want to argue about).
It depends on where you are. T-Mo has been "refarming" their frequencies over the last two years, so now AT&T phones, once unlocked, just work (using LTE) on T-Mo in several large metro areas, like Seattle.
[J]ust before the Federal Communication Commission closed its comment period for its upcoming rule on “network neutrality,” a massive coalition of Asian, Latino and black civil rights groups filed letters arguing that regulators should lay off of Internet Service Providers regarding Title II reclassification and accept FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s original plan. In other words, something close to half of the entire civil rights establishment just sold out the Internet.
The civil rights groups letters argue that Title II reclassification of broadband services as a public utility—the only path forward for real net neutrality after a federal court ruling in January—would somehow “harm communities of color.” The groups wrote to the FCC to tell them that “we do not believe that the door to Title II should be opened.” Simply put, these groups, many of which claim to carry the mantle of Martin Luther King Jr., are saying that Comcast and Verizon should be able to create Internet slow lanes and fast lanes, and such a change would magically improve the lives of non-white Americans.
The filings reveal a who’s who of civil rights groups willing to shill on behalf of the telecom industry. One filing lists prominent civil rights groups NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Urban League, the National Council on Black Civil Participation and the National Action Network. The other features the Council of Korean Americans, the Japanese American Citizens League, the National Black Farmers Association, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, OCA, Asian Pacific American Advocates, the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, the Latino Coalition and many more.
He finally concludes that...
Times have changed. Just as Martin Luther King Jr.’s children have embarrassingly descended into fighting bitterly over what’s left of his estate, the civil rights groups formed to advance Dr. King’s legacy seem willing to sell out their own members for a buck.
Even without subsidies, this model has reasonable pay back period in places like Arizona or Hawaii. Of course storage technology is very bad at residential levels. Solar thermal has better storage using molten salt. But not viable at homes. But home storage does not have the size, weight and crashworthiness requirements of auto batteries. The flywheel storage mechanical batteries might become viable. But almost all the proposed storage have issues.
It's more than three, actually, if you go for the "not war" part. 10k/year is the current rate; it was 30k/year at the peak of Iraq and Afghanistan. And, of course, that is just a single piece of inventory in US arsenal, and not the most expensive one by far.
And it doesn't need to be sold to the US military. It needs to be sold to US taxpayers.
I remember when "intelligent people" didn't have the word "libtard" in their vocabulary.
Where can I find the tens to hundreds of millions in public money needed to fund clinicals for a single drug that will most likely not get approved?
One hundred million dollars is the price of 4,000 JDAM bombs. For comparison, US military buys about 10,000 every year.
IIRC, AOL didn't offer actual internet access until pretty late in the game.
In fact when the Chinese Exclusion Act stripped Indian Americans of their property rights in the early 20th century, they argued the Act did not apply to them because they were Caucasians. It went all the way to the SCOTUS where Chief Justice Sutherland ruled, "yeah yeah Indians are Caucasians, but the law still applied to them because when the Congress said Caucasians they meant White, and the Indians are not White, so off you along with the Chinese."
Free market is a bitch. You skew the laws favoring employers, employees with skills leave, creating a vicious cycle.
The cuts this time round looked much less random than those in 2008-9. I don't actually know anyone (who is still working) who is actually scared of losing their job.
[The car analogy is left to the astute reader].
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
