Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark 282
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timothy
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from the back-to-gold-oil-and-moose dept.
zentigger writes "At approximately 06:36 EDT Thursday, October 6, 2011, the Anik F2 satellite experienced an attitude control issue and lost earth lock, affecting C, Ku and Ka services. The satellite went into safety mode and moved from pointing to the earth to pointing to the sun. This has put most of Northern Canada in the dark as all internet and phone services come in over F2."
Get an academic on this pronto (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Get an academic on this pronto (Score:4, Insightful)
A right?
I don't think you know what that word is.
There are only individual rights. The 'civil or labor rights' are actually entitlements given by government decree to some, while imposing obligations on others. Same with anything else that you have to be provided by somebody. It's an entitlement, not a right.
I had this same discussion a number of times, why do people never seem to understand basic concepts?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37575982 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37554214 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37558726 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37558814 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37558814 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37556278 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450838&cid=37553622 [slashdot.org]
'Right' is a concept that is only meaningful to describe a relationship between an individual an government, because gov't is a system, not an individual.
Relationships between private individuals and businesses are covered by criminal and contract law.
Having a 'right' to Internet would require this to be an obligation upon businesses that would have to provide this entitlement, obviously this would make it into an 'essential' service and the prices, by the way, would immediately be much higher than what they are now.
See health care, insurance, education and AT&T monopoly that was given to it by government, which destroyed 4000 competitors for a good example of how that shit works.
Re:Get an academic on this pronto (Score:2, Insightful)
You have no clue about 'freedom from want'. You also don't know what socialism is.
Quite frankly, people like you are why we are in such a bad place politically.