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Baby Bells Victorious Over Sharing Rules

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the death-star dept.

An Anonymous Coward sent in somewhat troubling news for people who like high-speed internet access at reasonable prices: the Baby Bells have won their legal challenge of FCC rules requiring them to accomodate competitors providing high-speed internet access. The FCC has already been moving toward this on its own (the FCC is headed by political appointees appointed by the President), but this court decision will accelerate it: neither the current FCC nor the courts are going to stop the Bells from squeezing out their competition. There's a CNet story and the decision is online.

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  1. Anna Kournakova dead at 22 by CofWheat · · Score: 0, Funny

    Tennis beauty Anna Kournakova 22 was found dead at her villa in Ivanov a suburb of Moscow this morning. Initial indications are she died of acute alcohol poisening from a nightlong vodka drinking binge. Her body was found by her sometime boyfriend NHL star Pavel Bure. A distraught Bure said, "We spent the night screwing and drinking vodka straight. Anna had her normal 3 bottles and vomited on me. I then left the villa and went home." An autopsy is pending and nude photos of Kournakova will be posted on internet sites.

  2. Powell's job by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    BellSouth, Verizon and SBC Communications hailed the decision as conforming with FCC Chairman Michael Powell's plans for the industry.

    Powell's job must be so easy - just let the market decide! Then take a nap. If anything really important comes up ask Dad in the State Dept, he'll know what to do.

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    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  3. Re:I disagree with this post by smyle · · Score: 4, Funny
    I take a great deal of comfort in knowing that there are more choices for Prime Minister than two.

    I wish we had another "real" party in the USA (the reform party of a few years ago was basically a "vote for me - these guys suck" party).

    I feel like I'm stuck in a Douglas Adams novel:

    "[The saying] comes from a very ancient democracy, you see... On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

    "odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

    "I did," said Ford. "It is."

    "So," said Arthur, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

    "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted for in more or less approximates the government they want."

    "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

    "Oh yes," said Ford, "of course."

    "But why?"

    "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."

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    Sleep is just a poor substitute for caffeine, anyway. -Bob Lehmann

  4. Re:so I can pretty much by teamhasnoi · · Score: 2, Funny
    Kiss my Covad DSL goodbye. Great, the choice between Verizon and Comcast; do I pick getting kicked in the nuts or getting kicked in the nuts?

    I pick getting kicked in your nuts.