Recent content by BrndNtrl

I understand where this guy is going, but let's be honest here. Value itself is incredibly subjective. The channel sellers and consultant networks that Cisco and IBM have? They have a pretty hefty education and federal sales/partners division, not to mention their 30 year lockdown on the...

It sounds like the phone was registered to the person in question, but it seems like they paperwork shortcut-ed the process and didn't check a driver's license before giving the person the new or replacement phone. The fact that she received an email indicates that she registered it. It'd be...

It's funny how we get ourselves lost on the entire subject matter when targeting an individual company. This is taken from a BBC documentary called "Secrets of the Superbrands" which looks at how all companies use brands to influence us. The religious fanaticism of the average Apple user is no...

TBH I've always appreciated the fact that the HardOCP ads are at least far more relevant to my interests than the average (insert website type here). I'm not surprised about the photo by the way, or the attempt to block it. There are good techs inside Best Buy- they just haven't found a way...

A loss in the short 3-5 year term, even a large one, isn't necessarily to be interpreted as a bad sign. Everyone remember Net 1.0? A lot of unprofitable companies fell through, but even companies which incurred large initial losses managed to become household brands today. The ability to...

She's one of a very, very small group of people to get into NYU's Tisch School of the Arts at her age. The woman turned down Juilliard. I might not like her music, but I'm not willing to reject notions of "talent" based on my personal taste.

Reading the thread is good ;) As far as for why the Commerce Clause is getting a "workout", a bit of history on the Articles of Confederation is a pretty easy explanation. "Lately" is also relative, because it's been exercised pretty consistently over the past two centuries, increasing...

And again, not to scare the anti-government crowd too much here, but: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/fcc-next/

It's pretty hilarious that no one has read the opinion or cares about the commerce clause, it seems. :D The only thing the FCC needs to do is turn the internet into a Title 2 entity and they have far more liberty to regulate it, and yes, that power is granted to the Legislative Branch under...

Also, not that it matters, but yes, I intend to enter law school shortly. My bachelor's candidacy is in Communications with a focus on rhetoric and public policy.

To be fair, the internet is an interstate body and a growing vehicle for commerce. The commerce clause of the Constitution (article 1, section 8, clause 3) gives the US Government the following: I'd advise you read the article and give yourself a pretty thorough rereading of the Constitution...

To clarify (because this board doesn't allow editing)- the [H] community isn't necessarily able to create a new broadband startup provider to compete with Comcast. Ignoring local policies, the challenges in establishing an infrastructure from a cost perspective is simply too great to allow for...

With all due respect, I think you need to broaden your own viewing/reading habits as well. Capitalism has been pretty much the single greatest enabler of social mobility over the past three centuries. Read "Commanding Heights" (or watch the PBS special of the same title for a bit more balanced...

The best place for this power is obviously in the hands of those who stand to profit most from the exercise thereof, obviously ;) I agree that government regulation of many things is less-than-ideal, but I really am not sure that this is the case here.

I've been having a problem that I recently was concerned about (and posted about on the Intel boards with no responses). My computer would turn on, monitor would initialize, then I'd get a non-blinking _ on screen for a period of 1-2 minutes before the bios post screen would pop up, and...