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FCC Considering Free Internet For USA
jbolden writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC is considering a plan to provide free wireless internet. The plan would involve some level of filtering, but might allow adults to opt out. CTIA has argued that this business model has traditionally failed (see Slate magazine's analysis as to why)."
If you are going to be a grammar nazi, do it properly. Passed is a verb (and was used properly), where past can be a noun, adjective or adverb.
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
Ok, so my grammar is not perfect, but I did get my point across, and you understood what I said. Mistakes in math crash systems and cause bridges to fall, where grammar mistakes make English nerds cry. (Not trying to flame either, just wanted to try and make my point with some humor) We just have a general disagreement on what parts of an education that are currently being offered (and forced upon us) are important, and that is perfectly ok, but we both should have been able to exercise choice earlier in life to avoid things that do not interest us, and are not going to benefit us. Chemistry and Biology classes were a decent exercise in short term memory, but that was it for me. The periodic table of elements, balancing chemistry equations, and learning the Latin names of animals and insects was something learned, tested on, and forgotten about never to be thought of again (until I need to remember it to write about all the time I wasted.)
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
How insightful of you to point this out. Someone's gotta pay for it! No way! Get out!
Do you seriously believe that nobody realizes that?
That's not the damn point. The point of something being free of charge is that you don't pay to use it. Take WikiPedia. Even if you didn't pay to use it, it's free for everyone else to use. Yet dozens of thousands of people donated something to keep it going. Is that not free?
So what if the gov't is paying for it. It pays for the roads, doesn't it? Even the most retarded Ayn Rand fetishist libertarians have to admit that having tolls on every road wouldn't be very practical. Yes you pay for it through taxes, and it's certainly more efficient than the alternative.
I'm not saying this is a great idea, but yes, it's free. As in beer.
You are a complete fucking idiot. The Democrats didn't have any power from 2001-2006, so they weren't even in a position to do what THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FCC IS DOING. Policy announcements by the controlling official are not the same as campaign promises. But after 8-14 years of the Republican Era, culminating in the Bush "Permanent Republican Majority", I suppose you've forgotten what actual government policy and rulemaking looks like, as distinct from a campaign promise. But forgetting that is for complete fucking idiots.
I don't even see Obama "changing his mind on stuff that helped get him elected". Unless you can show me where Obama promised FREE NATIONWIDE WIRELESS INTERNET, or something actually comparable to it, which he's now changing, you're just a complete fucking idiot.
I had said nothing about the Democrats, because this story is about the Republican FCC chief doing something that has no facts about Democrats attached to it. But since you brought it up, I'll cut you down. Nor did I say that Obama is "son of god", though you seem more obsessed with him being the first Black president in a way that is totally irrelevant, and therefore racist. Congratulations: you're a complete fucking idiot racist. Even if that's just a bonus, a more precise idiocy than the actual point of this story - but you brought it up.
What you need to do now is start whining "But Clinton...", which is the standard formula for you "they're all the same" idiots. Especially since a Clinton is now about to be Secretary of State. See how easy life can be for a complete fucking idiot?
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