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Fur It Up
join:2007-06-22
Portland, OR | Study calls for Big government spending Now come on all this is "study" is just a call for another taxpayer funded bureaucracy. To me there only one "study" that counts and that is a private business cost benefit and profitability analysis. | |
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kba4
join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
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| Re: Study calls for Big government spending every government project runs over budget, and that's done on purpose: to sell it to congress to get it started in the first place. since the money's already there (our government spends on credit), would you rather the money be spent elsewhere then? Personally I'd like to see my money go to worthwhile causes that some FUD spreaders call socialist. I'd much rather have healthcare and widespread urban Internet access, at least available to community buildings than buy more bullets to kill 'terrorists' that some in the US don't agree with. What's wrong with a country that scores high in education, has a lower and lower mortality rate, the fast exchange of ideas and information (The Internet's stated purpose) and just for the heck of it, cheap energy solutions (though that issue is a whole nother can of worms that a lot are either ignorant of or refuse to believe the truth).
Maybe we should wire up the urban areas since whoever buys us out once the dollar is worthless will need a fast network to use.
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by Richard B  :To me there only one "study" that counts and that is a private business cost benefit and profitability analysis. Those are never filled with pie in the sky projections and wild-ass guesses... Sales drones and marketing droids NEVER, EVER over estimate sales and management never underestimates costs... No, never. 
I've seen some of them "cost benefit" and "profitability anaylsis" over the course of my career and I can tell you that most aren't worth the paper they are written on. All too often the people who write them forget to consult with the people in the know (engineers, planners, designers, etc.) and the numbers come out whacked.
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Camelot One
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Sarasota, FL
clubs:
| Chrysler announces the rolling WiFi hotspot automobil Great, so in addition to seeing the guy weaving in and out of traffic talk on his cell phone, and the woman who just cut me off applying makeup in rush hour traffic, we now get to see instant messengers and myspace updates rolling down the freeway.
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james
join:2001-02-26
antarctica
| 149; Internet gets naming overhaul [TheInquirer.net] I dont like the idea that they relax the naming regulations.
The benefit to having so few TLDs is that you can spot phishing sites and so on much easier.
Now phishing sites can have even more ways to trick idiots. IE: www.IBM.com.serv\virushere.js (.serv being a new TLD for example)
And as if it even opens up any "real estate" to anyone. All it does is give more opportunity to cyber-squatters or other parasites. Notice how almost every .com website that hasn't purchased it's .org, .tk, .biz or .anything else equivalent, or common typos of its name, has some ad ridden "search" website put in those places by leeches who contribute nothing to the internet. | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| Re: 149; Internet gets naming overhaul [TheInquirer.net] It won't be that easy to get a new tld
Dr Twomey said Icann was still working through how much the application fee to register a domain name will be, but it is expected to be at least several thousand dollars.
Icann says any string of letters can be registered as a domain, but there will be an independent arbitration process for people with grounds for objection.
Individuals will be able to register a domain based on their own name, or any other string of letters, as long as they can show a "business plan and technical capacity". | |
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