The kerfuffle over the Google/Verizon "deal" has moved me to leave my weekly lair to make one point. It follows.
But, the 600 lb. gorilla still sits in the room: how to apportion the highly disparate costs of 1) surfing pages to look at and buy stuff and 2) streaming audio/video content in real time. The argument has been going on for years. With iPhone and now iPad, the argument has to be joined. Should the vast majority who just surf subsidize those who stream? If so, then the network (physical stuff) has to be socialized, however that is done.
Isn't it odd that "net neutrality" amounts to demanding that all users must contribute a small per user fee, in order that a few wastrels can slurp up gobs of resources, yet we aren't allowed to make the equivalent demand of health care? People are funny.
What happens to capital when there's no more labor to replace?
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
The Kleptocracy of Trumpistan, 49% Dictatorship, Welcomes You
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
Well, I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them.
-- The Orange Shitgibbon©anon./2024 [y'all get burkhas]
There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report, and this]
-- Rick Bright/2024 [read the report, and this]
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This Week's thought
There are many people living in fear right now. The economy is going to be
horrible in Arizona if they start massively deporting people. -- Irayda Flores/ 2024 [y'all voted for The Utterly Unhinged©; it's your bed, sleep in it]
See you next week in a brand new show©Heckle and Jeckle
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Left wing economist since before it was fashionable
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