Apparently the FCC is anti-consumer if they deny a vendor the right to offer me a lower cost for a competitive product.
One more demonstration of how legislators use commissions to avoid responsibility to voters.
The next best thing is to boycott cable. Their service sucks anyway, regardless of their price.
June 22, 2008
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Time to educate the judges
A single line of code in the header will keep the publishers garbage, (I'm assuming they are ashamed of their content or they would want it indexed,) out of the search engines:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE, NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Wake up, Your Honor! It's time to understand the technology before pounding it on the head with your gavel!
May 5, 2008
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whoopee.
Let's all run out and buy another piece of proprietary junk from Apple for three or four times it's actual worth.
repeat: whoopee.
April 24, 2008
Oh Boy!
Headphones, surgically implanted... high quality stereo right in your ears! Next they just need to figure out an interface to control which signal is received.
Is video in your eye possible?
The ultimate "cordless" gizmos are on their way.
Maybe.
January 30, 2008
What about WiMax or LTE? Way to go Jensen, you're only one step away. In reply to: "Jensen packs it all in to the VM9022HDN car system"
January 18, 2008
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No, no a thousand times no!
We need hydrogen fueling stations, not ethanol. By the time it's refined, ethanol is more polluting than gasoline, more expensive than gasoline, it raises food prices, could even lead to starvation!
No, we need fuel from renewable energy sources, refined using sun and wind! (See Honda for ideas.)
Wake up or bankruptcy looms as a very real future for all the so-called American car manfacturers.
In reply to: "GM CEO: U.S. needs 10 times more ethanol stations"
January 18, 2008
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$2,700?!? Are they nuts? It doesn't matter what kind of computer it's got in it.
Reminds me of the little girl with the lemonade stand with a sign saying, "Lemonade - $500 a glass!"
A gent stops and asks her, ":Do you sell many at that price?" to which she replied, "Don't have to."
They must plan on recouping their R&D in the first 100 sales.
In reply to: "Azentek builds a PC for your car"
January 18, 2008
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It's already underway.
According to a recent NY Times article, the music industry has experienced a 20% decline in overall sales, which is one of the reasons they're putting the spurs to their lackeys in Congress.
If folks will just keep refusing to buy the garbage Sony, BMG and EMI are trying to shove down their throats, these goons might get tired of the whole business and quit.
"Payola" is a dirty word nowadays but think about this: it was during the "payola" era that music became so popular it grew into an "industry".
If we could just get back to having "hits" chosen by DJ's and fans, instead of the half dozen hairy geeks in a back rooms at the big three who don't even like the music they "bullet", a three month boycott might actually be too painful for music fans.
As it stands, you're right, we could easily go three months without buying... there's nothing worth a nickel out there.
June 6, 2007
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We can't blame the politicians...
they're just acting in their normal corrupt manner. Graft comes naturally to them. Perhaps we should consider just boycotting the recording industry that has corrupted them.
What if no one bought any music, no CDs, no downloads, no nothing for three months. (Just listen to the good stuff you already own.)
Take the summer off from being an unappreciated consumer. We've made them billionaires and now they want to treat us like cattle. Maybe it's time to push down the fences.
June 6, 2007
How stupid can they get?
Every link to a story via Google, brings visitors to the newspaper's Web site and eyeballs to their advertising. Are they serious about wanting "less traffic" to their site?
They ARE getting paid... by their advertisers. If I were paying a newspaper to have my ads on their pages and they blocked Google, I would pull my advertising.
May 23, 2007