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Re: Nevada Considers Ban on Synthetic Marijuana

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:45:38 -0000

The result of alcohol prohibition, the mafia, and homemade alcohol (bathtub gin.) Deaths from illegal alcohol laced with lead because it was made in car radiators.

The result of Cannabis prohibition, 24,000 killed by the war on drugs, 100,000 mexican mafia operatives in the United States. Popularity of methamphetamines (dealer: hey i can't get any pot this week, but i have this great new stuff called crystal.) People smoking all kinds of alternatives such as Sage and Haze.

Not to mention millions spent on law enforcement and prisons.

Re: Las Vegas Listed Among World's Best Travel Deals in 2011

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:20:40 -0000

As gambling loses its unique to Vegas status, we need other reasons for people to come here.

The decline of cheap food, as Enemy noted, is one of the declines brought on by the corporate mentality.

Ditto cheap shows.

So for the future...

A - Better promotion of existing attributes.

1. Las Vegas is one of the easiest destinations from almost anywhere in the world. For events such as family reunions and corporate get togethers we beat expensive destinations hands down.

2. Retirement. Cheap housing, legal medical marijuana, and an excellent public transportation system make Vegas a perfect locale. Add in the ease of travel, and relatives are more likely to visit.

B - Changes for the future.

1. Legalise Prostitution. Easier that you might think. Separate out City of Las Vegas as a county, and the state constitution would allow. Illegal prostitutes (there are 35,000 in las vegas by one estimate) spread disease and don't pay taxes.

2. Legalize recreational pot use. Did you know that one third of Amercians are unable to safely consume alcohol due to a Genetic inability to properly metabolize it? The failure of prop 19 in california was mostly due to the drug cartel protecting their markets.

Opposing these on moral grounds would make it logical to oppose alcohol and gambling.

Las Vegas has grown because it offered recreational opportunities unavailable elsewhere. We should update to get ahead of the competition on this.

Re: Analysis: Qwest acquisition will boost CenturyLink�s enterprise business

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:04:44 -0000

Being Last in a very high tek marketplace can be a huge advantage, especially in a space like wireless IP.

Married to the in-ground copper and fiber assets they gain by aquiring Qwest's infrastructure (which was one of the most expensive in the USA due to great distances in the West.), deployment of G4 and G5 wireless will help Century Link leapfrog traditional carriers.

Need proof? look at Clear.com, unshackled by legacy "cellphone" product, kicking AT&T in the bottom line with $30 home internet products.

In a future where a netbook bluetooths to your earpiece/headset, smartest network wins.

Disclaimer: i am a Clear and Qwest partner/agent

Re: The walled garden hasn�t died � just evolved

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:17:32 -0000

There is nothing wrong with a walled garden unless you call it Internet Brand connectivity. Internet _IS_ internet.

Inside your garden you can provide second tier services, with free or tollbooth gates to Real Internet, Internet with Kid Protection|virus scanning, Vpn and backnet gateways, VOIP... if you can think of a service you can offer it.

The quality of your walled garden, in terms of speed, reliability, content, portability, etc. will give you differentiation in the marketplace.

As the Net-Neutrality (sp?) discussion reheats, defining what gates are in your wall, what the bandwidth max and mins are for each price point. It is entirely logical for you to charge separately for bandwidth at each gate, thus local tiered content gets the full pipe for a nice 1920 X image without artifacts, yet the same subscriber only chooses 3Meg of Internet Brand connections. Another will want 20 megs of internet, and no movies at all.

So build that wall, offer it as a feature, iPhone has the right idea in offering tested apps. Your customer wants to trust your wall to protect his computer or her privacy.

Content will always be king.

Re: Bandwidth envy

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:16 -0000

the USA lags so far behind other countrys that its almost embarrising to be a citizen

Re: Is �open� the new black for telecom?

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:52:11 -0000

the Internet brand model has been successful for wired services, we should expect the hardware (pipe) providers to benefit from doing what they do best... providing bandwidth.

those that fail to do this deserve to fall bt the waysaide.

Re: Internet video is seen by some as a threat to paid TV services

Disco_Legend_Zeke — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:36:38 -0000

The Television Broadcasters are crying for advertisers, this weekend i saw PI (per inquiry, the broadcast equivalent of a pay-per-click) running during Network News, normally the most sold advertising position.

That this comes in the wake of billions of dollars expended in upgrading to digital transmission and HD programming just adds more red ink to the bottom line.

Meanwhile, as you stated, the Cable providers are suddenly realizing that broadband competes against cable broadcast. In their typical corporate haste to prevent themselves from being their own competition, shortsighted cable operators are intentionally crippling (usually by bandwidth capping) customer's ability to make use of these innovations.

For the telcos, this represents an opportunity to recapture customers lost due to their slow rollout of Broadband.

Whoever first deploys an intelligent settop box, will have a huge leg-up on owning the customer TV experience.

If network store and replay are added to the feature set of such a box, the backbone bandwidth impact of IPTV broadcasts will be mitigated, even reversed, since content can be streamed form the hard drive of local STBs after the first customer downloads it. If 5000 customers want to see a particular movie, it need be retrieved over the network just a few times.

Picture a caching server in every home!