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FCC Reclassifies DSL, Drops Common Carrier Rules
Neil Wehneman writes "Via Media Law Prof Blog, it is reported that the FCC has reclassified broadband service as an "information service" instead of "telecommunications". This, among other things, gives the Baby Bells the same gift the cable companies got with Brand X : the right to stop opening their lines to competitors."
GNAA outreach program hailed as an overwhelming success.
Impi - GNAA PR Department, South Africa.
In a bold move to bridge cultural divides and to promote racial and sexual tolerance, GNAA president timecop, NAACP president Kweisi Mfumeq and the distributors and broadcasters of popular Naruto anime series embarked on an ambitious project to achieve these noble objectives.
The vehicle selected was the anime series Naruto. In collusion with the distributors on this series, it was agreed to not broadcast episode 146 for the week of August 1st to August 7th, 2005.
timecop proposed and executed the plan to provide an alternative viewing experience, which was aimed at reaching out to the targeted population, and bringing about the achievement of the goals of this project.
Spokesman for Nielsen Media Research Company, Armands Leimanis, estimated that 77439 people downloaded the torrent, which actually was the movie Gay Niggers from Outer Space masterfully disguised as Naruto 146. "Never in the history of mass media marketing has something been so successfully marketed on such a large scale in such a short period of time. timecop has succeeded in accomplishing what marketing gurus around the globe have been trying to do for decades. This is truly genius in motion."
timecop was unavailable for comment as he was on an expedition to photograph spiders.
Dattebayo, in a fit of rage at being excluded from this glorious endeavor, flipped out and made the channel #db on rizon.net +i (invite only) and +k (key). This led to the mass suicide of an estimated 16% of the Naruto viewing population. This is believed to be the single most damaging factor in limiting the distribution of GNFOS to the magical 100,000 leeches. NCAAP president Kweisi Mfumeq condemned Dattebayo's actions and compared them to the KKK and gay bashing organizations.
About Dattebayo and #db on Rizon:
#db is a neo-fascist translating group who foists its misguided translations of Naruto on the unsuspecting and naïve fans of this anime series, in an attempt to promote their own nefarious agendas.
About Gayniggers from Outer Space:
Overview
Sponsored by Carlsberg Pilsner
Produced by GayJack Movies
Distributed by WorldWide GayMovies
Dino De Laurentus & Raymond Hansen Present
A Lindberg & Kristensen Production
"The Universe. Its mighty power. Its evolutionary force, not to be stopped by anyone. In its beauty, this, this is a happy place to stay, filled with harmony and cosmic joy. A free place, where men can express themselves, and be as when they were born. All of this is, because someone cares. Because someone looks after us. When we sleep, when we play. When we act natural. This is a movie about those who risk life, and partners, to guarantee living in a wonderful and free universe. This is a movie about the Gayniggers From Outer Space. The Gayniggers come from the planet Anus, in the 8th Sun System, far far away from here. They are much, much more intelligent than any other creature in the Universe. The most fascinating thing about them is that they, with the help of their super intelligence, and their highly developed telepathic system, Braintapping, will be able to create a world, a society, a perfect world to live in without the presence of women. A MALE ONLY WORLD."
Starring
Coco P. Dalbert as ArmInAss
Sammy Saloman as Capt. B. Dick
Gerald F. Hail as D. Ildo
Gbartokai Dakinah as Sgt. Shaved Balls
Konrad Fields as Mr. Schwul
Johnny Conny & Tony Thomas as The Gay Ambassador
About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being G
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Free speech was silenced overnight,
got something bad to say about [$MEDIA_CORPORATION] ? shame you cant access any websites that criticises it
still the upside is if you download something illegal its not your responsibility anymore, get scammed by a internet website ? then sue the [INFORMATIONSERVICE] for providing access to it
got spyware or a virus ? then sue [INFORMATIONSERVICE] for aiding and abetting the virus writer, if terrorists use [INFORMATIONSERVICE] and people are killed as a result of this then you know what to do
Libertarian capitalism, like communism, looks good on paper but fails utterly in reality.
I'll save all the 14-year-old armchair Libertarians, whose parents pay for their internet access, some effort by saying "Shut Up, Hippy".
Freedom: "I won't!"
Hey look! Its one of those schizoid "Libertarians", who think people's rights can go to hell as long as they can retire rich of of their stock portfolio!
I won't vote Libertarian until the party throws all you fuckers out on your ass. Note that NOWHERE in the bill of rights are "corporations" or "fictional entities" or whatever other words you use for your piece of paper that you think gives you the right to dump shit in my water supply and not go straight to jail.
And for the last time, voting with my wallet does jack squat, unless you're going to give the government the power to tell me that your corporation is not doing evil things. Because from Enron and Worldcom, it's fucking obvious that you corporate whores are incapable of monitoring yourselves and telling the truth to the American public.
Nice troll, dude. I can't resist.
...it was because IE came bundled with the OS, wheras netscape did not. Again you defend predatory, anti-competitive, monopolistc practices.
"it would be like the government forcing McDonald's to Serve food from Burger King, or Vice Versa."
Firstly, you're wrong because your analogy is specious. It wouldn't be like forcing McDonalds to SELL BK product, the CLEC's do a good job of selling the product. It would be more like, if burger ovens were incredibly expensive, and McDonalds owned 99% of them, forcing McDonalds to MAKE burgers for BK, which BK would then resell.
Secondly, you're wrong because Micky D's and the King are much more evenly matched as competitors than baby Bells and CLEC's are. Because it's not as prohibitively expensive to buy burger ovens as it is to lay copper wire over an entire city, county, state or nation.
Thirdly, I hope you realize you just used "McDonalds" and "unconstitutional" in the same thought. That alone should give you some pause - but you're obviously a zealot, so it probably won't.
"open up your own telephone company by laying your own cable down to compete, you have every right to do so."
It takes more than a "right" to start a business. It takes investment capital. In the case of telco's, every CLEC out there owning their own infrastructure would be three things. 1) Fiscally impossible. 2) Incredibly wasteful. 3) Incredibly ugly - can you imagine every telephone pole made 100 feet high, carrying cables for every single telco in the country? Is that a street you'd want to drive down or live on? Especially since all these wires are all using only 1% of their capacity?
Do you realize that you're defending predatory, monopolistic, anti-competitive, anti-free market status quo?
Let's continue for a moment down the analogistic path. When American (and foreign) space missions have flown, and have carried into space scientific experiments and equipment, they weren't all from the same person or company. Do you think that every single scientist who needed experimental results from space should have built and flown their own shuttle? Would you have the scientific community be kept from the knowledge that helps you and me lead better lives rather than have all the experiments piggyback up on the same shuttle? Would you have every astronomer build their own Hubble telescopes rather than use the one that exists, and share it?
At one end of the scale, you have fast food franchises. When you open one, investment costs are relatively low. Accordingly, there's millions of these places, and they all compete. At the other end of the scale, you have going into outer space, or laying copper to every house in the nation.
"when Netscape was losing their market share to Microsoft over Internet Explorer"
"taking market share away from Microsoft"
What planet do you live on? Here on Earth, IE has 86.56% of browser market share, as opposed to Firefox's MIGHTY EIGHT PERCENT!! This in spite of the fact that IE is the WORST BROWSER EVER WRITTEN! This in spite of the fact that Netscape had over 50% market share until 1997! Gee, how on Earth did that happen? Woo hoo, let's hear it for predatory monopolies!
"Revscat, that is what happens when the Free Market decides"
Only an utter zealot (or a troll posting anonymously) would treat the phrase "free market" as a proper noun to be capitalized.
Look, Einstein, this is how it works. Regulation, like everything else in life, operates within a spectrum. On the far end, you have over-regulation. I honestly can't think of any recent examples of this, but I'm sure it exists somewhere, probably in Europe. In the middle, you have regulation at it's most appropriate level, where business and consumers are equally represented. These are called CHECKS AND BALANCES, maybe you've heard of them. At the other end, you have UNDER-regulation. Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as under-regulation. It
They will never stop until somebody makes the