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Ajit Pai Cancels Trip To CES Amid Government Shutdown (theverge.com)
For the second year in a row, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will not be attending the annual Consumer Electronics Show. According to Politico Pro, Pai and Commissioner Brendan Carr are canceling their appearances at CES as a consequence of the ongoing partial government shutdown. Last year, Pai canceled due to death threats he received in the aftermath of the net neutrality rollback, which occurred just weeks prior to the conference. The Verge reports: Carr was expected to attend a roundtable session with Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to discuss regulatory and policy issues involving 5G, privacy and accessibly, along with other topics. Both events have been removed from the CES schedule, but organizers have yet to respond to requests for comment.
As of Thursday afternoon, non-essential FCC employees were furloughed and âoemostâ operations were suspended as Congress battles it out over a funding package for the upcoming fiscal year. While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved. CES 2018 begins on January 8th and runs through the 11th. Pai was scheduled to speak on opening day at 1:30PM PST.
As of Thursday afternoon, non-essential FCC employees were furloughed and âoemostâ operations were suspended as Congress battles it out over a funding package for the upcoming fiscal year. While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved. CES 2018 begins on January 8th and runs through the 11th. Pai was scheduled to speak on opening day at 1:30PM PST.
I realize most are a joke like the ima gonna riot variety on twitter but still. I guess the brown shirts on the left exist but they seem sad and pathetic with shrunken balls and wispy beards.
The "shutdown" shows what we knew all along - that most of the government is graft and waste.
lucky for him, his orange butt-buddy shut down the government, giving him a convenient and timely excuse to stay home and count the bribe money he's collected instead
Yes, they are busy voting down a Democrat introduced law called PAYGO that requires funding to be identified and in place for any new spending.
They are literally voting to spend with no money identified. This shit is too fucked up to make up.
Putting aside the issue of Trump famously not paying his suppliers, the idea that public service workers should go unpaid just because the President is having a hissy fit is frankly laughable to us outside the USA.
Seriously, grow the fuck up.
Can we _please_ remove the political slant from this site?
"ÃoemostÃ"
Editor fail.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Whine, whine, whine. Do right-wing authoritarians ever do anything but whine? REEEE! Christ, turn it down a few notches so the grownups can get something done. And it's about damn time for some socialist-democratic legislation. You're going to have to wait a bit longer for your camps, little Eichmann.
he just did not want to get booed off stage.
Literally idiots think money begets money. No my friends labor begets money. Whether money begets labor is not as clear to otherwise self-aggrandizing folks who forget that effort creates value and therefore money. Lesson for executives: pay for effort, not stuff that might make money someday. Good night and good luck
Haha
Hey guys I write an IDE! You can write another IDE in it! You k ow what that means?! You could write another IDE in that IDE!
Whoa man are you serious? Iâ(TM)ll give you a million dollars for that!
Hi, I write a flashlight app
Get out of here! Boo!
Yes, they are busy voting down a Democrat introduced law called PAYGO that requires funding to be identified and in place for any new spending.
They are literally voting to spend with no money identified. This shit is too fucked up to make up.
They why are you making it up? Pelosi easily put down the objections to PAYGO. On the other hand, the former Republican House voted to lower corporate taxes without a plan to keep the deficit from growing to a trillion dollars.
Any sources for your claims that Mexicans are all starving and dying of curable diseases?
Have you ever been to Mexico? If you had, you might find most parts not all too dissimilar from the US.
Mexico does produce some food like Limes, Tomatoes, and Avocados. The rest comes from California, Florida, the Northeast, and Midwest.
The don't come here because they can't make money in Mexico. The come here because they get a 22:1 exchange rate when the send their money back to Mexico.
Who gives a flying fsck?
Pai canceled due to death threats
Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter
The fucking coward is simply to scared to show up there because he knows that just about every American, and likely a large segment of the rest of the developed world, hate his fucking guts! The little shit is a shill for the Cellular and cable providers here in the states. Hope his plane crashes next time though!
He probably found out, the C is for Consumer and not Corporate... brib^H^H^H^Hlobbying to be expected
....21 TRILLION
They started with Pai, didn't they? Few people could be less essential right now.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
You found the one example regarding the baseball game, but please tell us which liberals have been murdering people in the streets? Oh, you mean the nazi at Charlottesville? No, wait, that was a conservatard. Do you mean those 3 or 4 church shootings we had? Oh wait, again, conservatives. The concert dude in vegas? Ah damn, another republitard. ANY OF THE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE PAST 5 YEARS? Not one Liberal.
FUCK
OFF
Don't blow the plane up, the package ain't on board!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If a trade show like CES was having him as a speaker wouldn't the show itself pay for his travel, and accommodation? If it isn't why are the tax payers footing the bill for him to show up as a speaker at a private corporation's trade show? What does the govt shutdown have to do with him not being able to show? The guy just doesn't want to get booed and heckled off the stage.
As an Australian, I still can't believe the US managed to shut down the Mexican government for not paying for the wall.
That's next level Trump stuff right there!
I'm still not sure exactly what the Mexican shutdown has to do with the FCC though.
Blah blah blah dems are great blah blah blah, repubs suck. Blah blah blah go green, I hate orange. My TEAM is great. My kids attend the same private schools as the DEM, wait no they don't, got to the same Ivy leagues as the REPUBS, no could't get a scholarship, I attend the same damn country club, wait...my trailer doesn't come with a country club....
Get serious already.
Even in Orwellian dystopia the hate was only two minutes ...
While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved.
So, now that enforcement, licensing, and spectrum management are shutdown.. until the FCC resumes operation... You or I could just start taking over some local cellular and FM radio broadcast frequencies that traditionally require licensing to use to transmit whatever I want, setup a 100-Watt wideband signal on the VHF broadcast range for personal high-speed internet, etc?
Maybe play with some jamming devices in a public place to see how people glued to their cell phones react.
How spectacular.
Management of radio spectrum and the creation of new opportunities for competitive technologies and services for the American public must be suspended
Both Hulu and Netflix started having connection issues on my Verizon Fiber. Does anyone else have similar problems? Will switching to Comcast help or make it worse?
While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard,
So, business as usual?
This is one of my all time favorite pieces of media in all it's formats
But it was a work of fiction and the 2 minutes of hate amounted to a paid break by the workers. A place with a full hour of paid hate is better than what a lot of workers in the free world were getting in 1949, 1984, or today.
It's meant to convey a moral and I like it but obsessing over the tiny details is just going to have you screaming at your mechanic that his coveralls represent the destruction of the individual before they're digested and assimilated into the system.