NY times doing a lot of ball gargling as usual.
No shit, the US isn't a safe place to live in anymore, nobody should come here period.
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I'll almost guarantee you any "free" or otherwise unlicensed/amateur spectrum is going to be turned into commercial spectrum. Not only do they get to sell and trade it for billions more, but it also conveniently let's them shut down any form of non-corporate, decentralized communications channels that might let the Poors get a little too organized.
Guess I have to start carrying my passport and a photocopy of birth certificate in my EDC bag now.
They already exist. You just have to look for "signage displays" or "commercial TV's", they come with all the smart crap stripped out.
I have more productive things to be doing with my life than arguing with a bad-faith brick wall. Bye!
That's what happens when accountants gain control of publicly traded companies, they see only cost centers that look like a black hole on a spreadsheet, but provide delayed, but massive unaccounted benefits for the rest of the company's operations.
I hope we're not paying more for a player that does less…
You are and will be, as the cost of hardware in "smart" devices (and the reason that non-smart TV's no longer exist) are subsidized with on-device advertising and massive data collection/reselling.
500k standing army in a population of 36.7 million doesn't sound that feasible.
They're welcome to the nukes though. They're going to need them.
It's only unallowed for poor people
If you're a corporation it's "smart business sense"
They've never declared war, yet we've almost constantly been at war. Real weird, that one.