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Old Charlie was wrong about one thing, if his diary quote is accurate. Spiders are members of the Arachnida class, while insects belong with the Insecta. Eight legs vs. six legs. http://www.differencebetween.n... Perhaps he hadn't gotten around to inventing these classes yet?

more often than not SSH uses SSL under the hood ... The rest of the time it uses TLS. I hope you decide to educate yourself someday!

Writing blog posts makes you a writer. Publishing your blog posts for public consumption makes you an author. Not all authors are writers either.

http://www.differencebetween.net/business/difference-between-author-and-writer/

according to this: http://www.differencebetween.n... it is far more likely that they are psychopaths.

For better or worse, there are few differences between psychopaths and sociopaths. Some medical dictionaries even consider them to be synonymous

however the differences it does list basically say, a psychopath is an organized, successful sociopath.

It's theft, as he never agreed to have it taken. http://www.differencebetween.n...

Which rules are those? I've never seen "net neutrality" rules that would have the effect you state.

You haven't bothered to read them, then. Go have a gander at the full document. Since it's 107 pages long, and you're too lazy to read and try to understand it yourself, I'll provide a few excerpts. But first, let's check out the difference between "Lawful" and "Legal": There is a pretty good explanation here, but you should research it yourself. Basically, "unlawful" is MUCH broader than "illegal"

All emphasis from the FCC rules excerpts below is mine.

To encourage broadband deployment and preserve and promote the open and interconnected nature of the public Internet, consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice.

The nondiscrimination principle would prohibit broadband Internet access service providers from favoring or disfavoring lawful content, applications, or services accessed by their subscribers, but would allow broadband providers to engage in reasonable network management.

Note in the above, we are now addressing not just whether content is lawful, but even services and applications being used or accessed.

The draft rules would not prohibit broadband Internet access service providers from taking reasonable action to prevent the transfer of unlawful content, such as the unlawful distribution of copyrighted works.

Now a broader definition of copyright infringement is being implemented - not just "illegal" infringement, but any distribution not explicitly allowed is subject to "reasonable action" by ISPs.

The Commission determined that consumers are entitled to: access the lawful Internet content of their choice[;] . . . run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement[;] . . . connect their choice of legal devices that do not harm the network[; and] . . . competition among network providers, application and service providers, and content providers.

Here, again, we see that what the FCC wants to ensure is that "consumers" can "access" content that they consider lawful. How far can we go? What if we need to ensure what content is "lawful" by ensuring that anyone, say, running a server, writing a blog, etc., has a valid license from the FCC to do so. Want a domain name from ICANN? What will you be using it for? Do you have a journalism license? Is your content lawful?

we propose that all the principles be subject to the needs of law enforcement, as well as public safety, and national and homeland security, by proposing separate draft rules on these topics. As explained in more detail below, we intend to leave sufficient flexibility in all our rules to allow broadband Internet access service providers to address law enforcement, public safety, and national and homeland security needs. Furthermore, we have no intention of protecting unlawful activities in these rules. Therefore, for additional precision, we add the word “lawful” to the proposed second rule to make clear that nothing here requires broadband Internet access service providers to allow users to engage in unlawful activities. The addition of the word “lawful” also harmonizes the second proposed rule with the first and third.

The emphasis above is from the original document.

As explained above, rather than extending that common carrier standard to broadband Internet access services, we propose a general nondiscrimination rule subject to reasonable network management and specifically enumerated excep

That word you keep using doesn't mean what you think it means!

Actually, you probably mean emotions, and the text-examples *are* thoughts ;-) However, having those thoughts usually mean heightened awareness. Most people are not aware at all of their emotions most of the time, only of their effects, aftershocks and trying to avoid or force them.

There is a link between thoughts and emotions, which you can learn in a proper yogacourse (and if you don't, it's not a proper course).

C's philosophy doesn't integrate well with Ayn Rand's.

Possibly this is due to incorrect labeling. Objectivism is an ideology, not a philosophy. Although a libertarian might evangelically object to this assessment, a philosopher will always ignore them after pointing out the incompleteness of it's epistemology, the question-begging logical fallacy of the foundation of it's ethical system and the egocentric anarchism underlying it's politics as evidence that Objectivism fails to meet any reasonable standard of a true philosophy– especially if the philosopher has been drinking.

http://www.scienceandthesea.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=10

http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/difference-between-tidal-wave-and-tsunami/

http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-imax-3d-and-digital-3d/