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On the 33c3 (last year‘s Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg), some folks brought their self made directional loudspeaker, mounted on a camera tripod. They set it up so it hit the ceiling right above an escalator, so everybody on the escalator was rickrolled, but only for like 2-3 seconds. Short enough to get confused, but not long enough to be sure it was actually meant for them.

At the top of the escalator was a growing crowd of confused people looking around for what the hell did just happen ;-)

You're right on that.

One could draw a comparison between what these packages mean - they only bundle the big services, making it even harder for small alternatives to compete. Same would be possible if ISPs would start to play the big money game the other way round - serving faster access on cable lines, which I would view essentially as the "landline" version of free traffic on mobile connections.

If you're wondering, how the wonderful invisible hand of the market would use "net freedom" - say hello to Portugal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rokhanna/status/92370187109244108...

I don't see how this benefits anybody besides the ISP. It just makes them find a multitude of reasons why $everybody should pay double and triple to get a proper connection.

Portugal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rokhanna/status/92370187109244108...

I've been overweight for almost all of my adult life, and the level has been either steady or rising over the years (31 now).

The only thing making me loose weight was 5 month studying abroad in Ghana (I'm from Germany).

The ridiculous thing about it was: I didn't intend on loosing weight there. I ate as much as I liked whenever I liked it. Still, I lost about 15 kg in 5 months, and I didn't even notice it until the end of the trip when another student told me that I looked like it.

What I noticed as a big difference in my habits: * no Drive-In, no McDonald's, no Burger King, no other franchise. So, no junk eating while driving (e.g. from work) * no fridge at the hostel (at least none you would want to use). So, no "I'm bored and will just get something from the fridge" * I'm not a cooking person, so almost all food required walking the 5 minutes to the small market. Not a long way, but it keeps somebody like me from boredom eating * the fucking heat =D no movement and a lot of sweating ;-)

It's really easy. Like to eat. Or eat because of boredom, frustration, etc etc. Not everybody is a self optimization fanatic ;-)

"If I behave like an asshole, and nobody calls me an asshole, I'm actually not an asshole."

Yeah, makes perfect sense.

How does this news fit with this piece? "Waymo: Google’s Self-Driving Car Company Is Finally Here"

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/google-self-driving-car-waymo/...

Sounds to me like two fundamentally different ways?

Google the headline, click link from Google results, see paywall disappear. At least worked for me ;)