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You need to do more to defend this claim. You trot it out every time there's a story about network neutrality, but I haven't seen you make a thorough defense (maybe you have, and I've just missed it) and one is really called for here because this claim is not at all intuitive.

What you seem to be implying is that regulatory capture is the only barrier to competition, and that without this barrier a significant number of competitors will spring up out of nowhere with the hundreds of billions of dollars that it takes to create new last-mile networks. This, despite the fact that a third of Americans still have no broadband, thus no regulatory capture, and thus, according to you, no barrier to entry.

And that ignores the other problem that removing such regulation would create.

So... if you're going to just state this as though it were a given, I would like to see a little more backing it up.

The parent didn't say "agreements." The only agreements that you could be talking about here deal with infrastructure, and eliminating them would just lead to redundant infrastructure. Woohoo.

There is a solution to promoting competition which doesn't involve this problem, it was implemented in 1999, but it's only ever applied to DSL because in 2002 the FCC decided to classify other ISPs as "information services" rather than as "telecommunication services."

In other words, this is one more way in which the current FCC's decision has screwed us.

Oh for gods' sake... communism is left, fascism is right. Here. You can't just take everything that you don't like and declare that the outgroup represents all of it.

Well... you can. I guess you did.

I can read Roman, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts, if not the underlying languages. Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, Hangul, any Chinese or Japanese script? Nope, sorry. How many of these would you recognize without the red+white+swoop pattern?

Very odd. The picture of you from 2006 shows someone much smaller. And I REALLY doubt you went from 2XL to 4XL from "weight training", given that your idea of "weight training" is sitting cable pulls.

https://ouaa.cdreimer.com/wp-c...

Here's what someone who DOES weight training and is LIGHTER than you looks like:

https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/s...

That is "solid muscle", not someone who went on anti-psychotic medications and gained tons of fat.

"it being too tight across my chest.."

Chest? I think you mean those straps of fat that go from your chins, under your armpits, and back up behind your neck rolls?

Poverty rates have been rising in the US since the 2008 financial crisis. So how do you figure it has reduced? From this point on, with the effects of automation, poverty will keep climbing.

The US will be getting the terrafoam system, slowly but surely. :)

Germany is stopping modernization? Excuse me? Wat? Wat?

I thought they just banned images of the previously admin approved AR-15 with the reddit logo on them?

Hopefully Trump won't stop the Chicoms from buying Hollywood.

I'd rather see her on the big screen than this