It's not a straw man. We whine and fret about people from other countries, while we do absolutely nothing about the mass shootings that actually happen here from our own home-grown terries because... of freedom? Or something? Can't get rid of bump stocks or automatic weapons, that somehow infringes on mah freedoms.
Netflix attempted a non-government, business-friendly solution by offering a hardware solution to offset their disproportionate bandwidth use because so many people loved Netflix.
They did not have "disproportionate bandwidth use." They PAID for their bandwidth. Comcast's users pay for their bandwidth. This is how it's worked since the dawn of the Internet, and it's worked well. Comcast was rent seeking because they've ensured their users don't have elsewhere to go, so they can stop carriages traveling on the road and demand "tolls" that have nothing to do with the roads.
If you don't want your users streaming 4k from Netflix, then don't promise them "unlimited bandwidth" while working behind the scenes to slow down their access to competitors to your own services.
maybe that is another reason they sucked, nobody fell down a long shaft)
End of episode one, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fighting Darth Maul inside that... I guess it was a power plant? With shields that opened and closed if you waited 15 seconds or something. But yeah, they sliced Maul in half and he fell down the reactor shaft.
See? Like I said. Don't like all that nasty dirty politics stuff.
Dirty politics is fine when it's treated with intelligence. The Star Wars prequels didn't treat anything with real intelligence. Complexity does not equal smarter does not equal better.
But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."
Of course, we're getting all this from a master of manipulation and true evil. He will absolutely twist the truth to convince you of a version of reality that may not be accurate.
A truly benevolent king -can- be the most beneficial type of government, and a truly evil dictator can be the worst. Which would you rather have -- the current Congress, or an evil dictatorship? For God's sake, you'd better not say the latter, even in jest.
In The Empire Strikes Back Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor falls down on the job.
Now I'm thinking that you or the grandparent are credibly promoting a parody without getting the joke.
The top poster wasn't informed. He was trolling from far FAR right wing fantasy land, starting with his "Obama and the FCC cooked up the idea of getting government control over the Internet in order to apply censorship." What bullshit site did he pick this from?
Lul. I don't get how people still think this way. The big ISPs don't want competition, so you think they want to get rid of a bill that stifles competition? It makes no sense. The people against NN keep trotting out these strawmans that have no basis in reality.
The thing is that NN is just one of many things that came with Title II. This wasn't just a rollback of NN, this was a roll-back of a ton of other stuff. So you're both right. Yes, the big ISPs wanted to do away with all of that stuff. Yes, people wanted NN, but they probably didn't realize what else comes with Title II.
Finally, the grandparent is completely wrong with "this prevents innovation and creates quasi government monopolies which smaller companies have a very hard time competing with." That was the norm before NN. Title II didn't really change anything one way or another with that regard.
When will you suckers realize that a solid, well engineered foundation is the key to every successful construction project???
That's great, except plenty of these programs/apps/what-have-you are made by startups. Startups have to show immediate RESULTS when it comes time for the second round of funding or else there won't be a second round. They have to build the application first, then fill in features and fix bugs.
"Great." The economy was also going "great" before the election, and none of the problems that existed then have really been solved now.
stock market is soaring
It was soaring well before the election. It's why Donald Trump mentioned as a candidate that the stock market was a bubble, that you couldn't trust its then-18,000 number. It was hitting record highs under Obama's watch, but Trump poh-pohed that, saying the economy was a disaster. He said this in Dec 2015, he said it in Apr 2016. In Sep 2016, he said "The only thing that is strong is the artificial stock market." Strange how once he got into office and the stock market continued its upwards trajectory that he's crowing about the numbers and incorrectly claiming that the mainstream media never mentions it.
ISIS is defeated
You present this as if this was a 180 from what was happening under the previous administration. The timeline of ISIS: They made rapid gains since their 2013 founding, peaking with the Caliphate establishment in mid-2014. At Baghdad's request, US planes start striking ISIS, and Obama announced a coalition to strike back against ISIS. Jan 2015: ISIS loses several Syrian border towns as the coalition pushes inward. Apr 2015: ISIS loses Tikrit, Iraq. Nov 2015: ISIS loses Sinjar province in Iraq. Feb 2016: ISIS loses Ramadi, capital of Anbar. Jun 2016: ISIS loses Fallujah after holding it for 2.5 years. Aug 2016: ISIS loses Mambij. Oct 2016: ISIS loses Dabiq, the town that they wanted to keep most of all. This is place they fervently believed would be the location of an apocalyptic battle, heralding end times. Nov 2016: The SDF starts chipping away at the ISIS capital in Syria, Raqqa. Oct 2016 - Feb 2017: ISIS loses Mosul, bit by bit. The last remnants are driven out by July. Oct 2016 - April 2017: After losses of territory, ISIS conducts series of suicide attacks. Jun 2017: Encirclement of Raqqa complete. Oct 2017: SDF declares victory in Raqqa.
How much of the above was Trump? How much of that happened before he ever took office?
One point you missed. It is invariable that there will be a war with North Korea, or technically a resuming of hostilities.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on whether North Korean leadership decides to rattle the sabers again. They're not that dumb, they know it's a good time to settle down for awhile.
2) the Democrats won a senate seat in deep red Alabama
The Democrats barely... BARELY managed to beat a guy who had gotten twice ejected as a judge due to professional misconduct and was accused of pedophilia. And he still made it close. That's not exactly running away with it.
It's 2017, I wouldn't blame any application-maker, certainly not a GUI web browser, for assuming that everyone who uses sound on Linux is using Pulseaudio. It might not even have been a conscious decision to put in a dependency, any more than it's a conscious decision to use an NSS library. That's how standard it is. Yeah, there were a few die-hard holdouts who ended up getting shafted, but they made a loud enough fuss that it got reverted. Given all the BS that Mozilla has pulled over the last five years, pulseaudio hardly comes close to a jump the shark moment.
How do you know what *he* opposes, you fat fairy-tale believing cunt? Mind reader, are you?
Because he says he's anti-GMO. Anti-GMO. That doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room. He didn't say he's against GMOs put out by certain corporations with a history of bad ethics. Just anti-GMO, as if any one is just as bad as any other. Big name organizations and critics of GMO are usually dismissive of Golden Rice as well, including usual environmental frauds Greenpeace and Michael Pollan.
I guess that's one way to defeat those sorts of guys. When a pervert masturbates at you, acting offended is what they want. Instead, masturbate back! It will freak them out and ruin their fun.
Oh good lord, get over the net neutrality bullshit already. You lost. It's done. Nothing bad will happen. Stop drinking the kool aid already.
"Nothing bad will happen?" Were you asleep for the decade before Title II's implementation? Forgot about about Comcast's war with Netflix, resulting in higher prices for Netflix when they had to pay extortion money?
I guess everything is ok when it's only "opportunity cost" that is lost due to high prices? In which case Conservatives can shut the hell up whining about "job killing regulations," since they're totally fine with a legal monopoly like Comcast skimming off everyone else's revenue streams.
What an odd thing to write. We used to compensate people who provided new things we liked to have by paying them.
Yup, the Internet definitely changed that. The default assumption is that things are "free" and you have to put up with advertising. Advertising gets more invasive the more money that needs to be involved. It's because we decided that we don't need to pay for the newspaper anymore, we just get it for free.
no it won't. no one is going to remember this in a month,
Nerds can have a long memory. With every article that mentions Sony, there will invariably be a few 5-modded comments saying "remember when Sony included that root-kit on audio CDs? Never again, Sony!"
Of course, non-nerds never heard about that, nor will they hear about the Mr. Robot thing.
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The terrible thing occuring? In 2014 you had to use a VPN to watch Netflix in HD
Was that because Netflix was throttling their own users and blaming ISPs?
No, you're quite wrong about that, but thanks for playing.
how do you feel about Google and Facebook selectively censoring content
Stop that bullshit right now. They have no bearing on the Net Neutrality conversation.
It's not a straw man. We whine and fret about people from other countries, while we do absolutely nothing about the mass shootings that actually happen here from our own home-grown terries because... of freedom? Or something? Can't get rid of bump stocks or automatic weapons, that somehow infringes on mah freedoms.
Netflix attempted a non-government, business-friendly solution by offering a hardware solution to offset their disproportionate bandwidth use because so many people loved Netflix.
They did not have "disproportionate bandwidth use." They PAID for their bandwidth. Comcast's users pay for their bandwidth. This is how it's worked since the dawn of the Internet, and it's worked well. Comcast was rent seeking because they've ensured their users don't have elsewhere to go, so they can stop carriages traveling on the road and demand "tolls" that have nothing to do with the roads.
If you don't want your users streaming 4k from Netflix, then don't promise them "unlimited bandwidth" while working behind the scenes to slow down their access to competitors to your own services.
maybe that is another reason they sucked, nobody fell down a long shaft)
End of episode one, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan fighting Darth Maul inside that... I guess it was a power plant? With shields that opened and closed if you waited 15 seconds or something. But yeah, they sliced Maul in half and he fell down the reactor shaft.
See? Like I said. Don't like all that nasty dirty politics stuff.
Dirty politics is fine when it's treated with intelligence. The Star Wars prequels didn't treat anything with real intelligence.
Complexity does not equal smarter does not equal better.
By the way Skywalker pulls an Obi Wan and becomes a force ghost, Kylo Ren cuts Snoke in half and puppet Yoda shows up.
What do you get from being a dickweed? Seriously, I've always wondered why people do this.
But look closer. When Palpatine is still a senator, he says, "The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good." At one point he laments that "the bureaucrats are in charge now."
Of course, we're getting all this from a master of manipulation and true evil. He will absolutely twist the truth to convince you of a version of reality that may not be accurate.
A truly benevolent king -can- be the most beneficial type of government, and a truly evil dictator can be the worst. Which would you rather have -- the current Congress, or an evil dictatorship? For God's sake, you'd better not say the latter, even in jest.
In The Empire Strikes Back Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor falls down on the job.
Now I'm thinking that you or the grandparent are credibly promoting a parody without getting the joke.
It's quite enjoyable watching Progressives expend their emotional capital like this.
Trump would be dead and buried by now if temper tantrums really had any effect on life expectancy.
The top poster wasn't informed. He was trolling from far FAR right wing fantasy land, starting with his "Obama and the FCC cooked up the idea of getting government control over the Internet in order to apply censorship." What bullshit site did he pick this from?
Lul. I don't get how people still think this way. The big ISPs don't want competition, so you think they want to get rid of a bill that stifles competition? It makes no sense. The people against NN keep trotting out these strawmans that have no basis in reality.
The thing is that NN is just one of many things that came with Title II. This wasn't just a rollback of NN, this was a roll-back of a ton of other stuff. So you're both right. Yes, the big ISPs wanted to do away with all of that stuff. Yes, people wanted NN, but they probably didn't realize what else comes with Title II.
Finally, the grandparent is completely wrong with "this prevents innovation and creates quasi government monopolies which smaller companies have a very hard time competing with." That was the norm before NN. Title II didn't really change anything one way or another with that regard.
When will you suckers realize that a solid, well engineered foundation is the key to every successful construction project???
That's great, except plenty of these programs/apps/what-have-you are made by startups. Startups have to show immediate RESULTS when it comes time for the second round of funding or else there won't be a second round. They have to build the application first, then fill in features and fix bugs.
Economy is going great
"Great." The economy was also going "great" before the election, and none of the problems that existed then have really been solved now.
stock market is soaring
It was soaring well before the election. It's why Donald Trump mentioned as a candidate that the stock market was a bubble, that you couldn't trust its then-18,000 number. It was hitting record highs under Obama's watch, but Trump poh-pohed that, saying the economy was a disaster. He said this in Dec 2015, he said it in Apr 2016. In Sep 2016, he said "The only thing that is strong is the artificial stock market." Strange how once he got into office and the stock market continued its upwards trajectory that he's crowing about the numbers and incorrectly claiming that the mainstream media never mentions it.
ISIS is defeated
You present this as if this was a 180 from what was happening under the previous administration.
The timeline of ISIS: They made rapid gains since their 2013 founding, peaking with the Caliphate establishment in mid-2014. At Baghdad's request, US planes start striking ISIS, and Obama announced a coalition to strike back against ISIS.
Jan 2015: ISIS loses several Syrian border towns as the coalition pushes inward.
Apr 2015: ISIS loses Tikrit, Iraq.
Nov 2015: ISIS loses Sinjar province in Iraq.
Feb 2016: ISIS loses Ramadi, capital of Anbar.
Jun 2016: ISIS loses Fallujah after holding it for 2.5 years.
Aug 2016: ISIS loses Mambij.
Oct 2016: ISIS loses Dabiq, the town that they wanted to keep most of all. This is place they fervently believed would be the location of an apocalyptic battle, heralding end times.
Nov 2016: The SDF starts chipping away at the ISIS capital in Syria, Raqqa.
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017: ISIS loses Mosul, bit by bit. The last remnants are driven out by July.
Oct 2016 - April 2017: After losses of territory, ISIS conducts series of suicide attacks.
Jun 2017: Encirclement of Raqqa complete.
Oct 2017: SDF declares victory in Raqqa.
How much of the above was Trump? How much of that happened before he ever took office?
congress should be the ones making these decisions, not an unelected bureaucrat
Congress explicitly gave the FCC these regulatory powers. They are legally capable of delegating.
One point you missed. It is invariable that there will be a war with North Korea, or technically a resuming of hostilities.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on whether North Korean leadership decides to rattle the sabers again. They're not that dumb, they know it's a good time to settle down for awhile.
2) the Democrats won a senate seat in deep red Alabama
The Democrats barely... BARELY managed to beat a guy who had gotten twice ejected as a judge due to professional misconduct and was accused of pedophilia. And he still made it close. That's not exactly running away with it.
The American ISP version of sticking your head in the sand.
You really believe that the quality will improve? Have I got a bridge to sell you...
It's sold. You already bought the bridge to "the government is going to help you".
How's life in Fantasyland?
Oh, and the big corporations are here to help you? They have your bottom line in mind?
It's 2017, I wouldn't blame any application-maker, certainly not a GUI web browser, for assuming that everyone who uses sound on Linux is using Pulseaudio. It might not even have been a conscious decision to put in a dependency, any more than it's a conscious decision to use an NSS library. That's how standard it is. Yeah, there were a few die-hard holdouts who ended up getting shafted, but they made a loud enough fuss that it got reverted. Given all the BS that Mozilla has pulled over the last five years, pulseaudio hardly comes close to a jump the shark moment.
How do you know what *he* opposes, you fat fairy-tale believing cunt? Mind reader, are you?
Because he says he's anti-GMO. Anti-GMO. That doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room.
He didn't say he's against GMOs put out by certain corporations with a history of bad ethics.
Just anti-GMO, as if any one is just as bad as any other.
Big name organizations and critics of GMO are usually dismissive of Golden Rice as well, including usual environmental frauds Greenpeace and Michael Pollan.
I'll take Rick Astley over Bono any day.
And the males there would be too excited.
I guess that's one way to defeat those sorts of guys.
When a pervert masturbates at you, acting offended is what they want. Instead, masturbate back! It will freak them out and ruin their fun.
Oh good lord, get over the net neutrality bullshit already. You lost. It's done. Nothing bad will happen. Stop drinking the kool aid already.
"Nothing bad will happen?" Were you asleep for the decade before Title II's implementation? Forgot about about Comcast's war with Netflix, resulting in higher prices for Netflix when they had to pay extortion money?
I guess everything is ok when it's only "opportunity cost" that is lost due to high prices? In which case Conservatives can shut the hell up whining about "job killing regulations," since they're totally fine with a legal monopoly like Comcast skimming off everyone else's revenue streams.
What an odd thing to write. We used to compensate people who provided new things we liked to have by paying them.
Yup, the Internet definitely changed that.
The default assumption is that things are "free" and you have to put up with advertising. Advertising gets more invasive the more money that needs to be involved. It's because we decided that we don't need to pay for the newspaper anymore, we just get it for free.
no it won't. no one is going to remember this in a month,
Nerds can have a long memory. With every article that mentions Sony, there will invariably be a few 5-modded comments saying "remember when Sony included that root-kit on audio CDs? Never again, Sony!"
Of course, non-nerds never heard about that, nor will they hear about the Mr. Robot thing.