In all cases those are restrictions on companies, not private citizens. You're free to stuff your face on home-made junk or go outside the San Francisco city limits and feed your kids junk there.
Besides, isn't it a conservative article of faith that localities should be able to make their own laws, and that if you don't like them, then other states or cities won't have 'em and you can move?
Oh, christ. NN isn't a government takeover; the telcos are throwing fits because the government wants to not allow them to discriminate against their competitors. The same telcos who owe their ability to do business and make tons of money on the legal rights-of-way and monopolies granted to them by that same government.
I once worked at a grocery store for two years. It had nine checkout lines, and in that time all of them were manned once that I saw. Don't remember when it was, but most likely it was before the 4th of July or Thanksgiving.
I'd suppose they have that many for once-a-year events like Black Friday, or the day after Christmas. Not having a Fry's anywhere/near/ me, I could only speculate as to whether they'll ever fill all of them even on those days. If not, then perhaps it's a bit of optimism as to their future needs.
The Bigoted White Men party would never have passed this if this'd had to wait until January or later. I mean, as it is only six GOP senators voted for the thing, out of forty-one, and only about what, twenty? in the House did.
What killed AltaVista was their PHBs deciding to turn it into a portal like Yahoo (this was back when they were still with Digital, or possibly after the Compaq acquisition) instead of as a pure search engine with a fast, minimalist interface very much like Google's.
Before that, they were the fastest and most complete search engine anywhere. After the portalification, their site could take a few/minutes/ to load and it was so full of junk it was hard to find anything.
Ubuntu releases new versions faster than Microsoft releases Service Packs. That's why I choose Debian if I need Linux.
The standard retort is that you should stick with Ubuntu LTS releases, which only come every couple years and are supported for three (five on the server).
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Or, you know, there's actual emulators such as AppleWin for the ][ series and VICE for the C=64 and its brethren. Also RetroForth.
Are you a climate change denialist?
200 years ago French was the language of world diplomacy, and for centuries before that Latin was the common language of Europe.
Don't get complacent.
In all cases those are restrictions on companies, not private citizens. You're free to stuff your face on home-made junk or go outside the San Francisco city limits and feed your kids junk there.
Besides, isn't it a conservative article of faith that localities should be able to make their own laws, and that if you don't like them, then other states or cities won't have 'em and you can move?
Well, then, how about some cites? You must have several examples of people who want NN who also want FD, yet those are curiously absent in your posts.
Right, you'd rather an unaccountable corporation make those decisions instead.
You're arguing with a True Believer; facts aren't needed nor desired.
Nice slippery slope fallacy. The rest of your post was sensible, but that kinda ruined it.
Oh, christ. NN isn't a government takeover; the telcos are throwing fits because the government wants to not allow them to discriminate against their competitors. The same telcos who owe their ability to do business and make tons of money on the legal rights-of-way and monopolies granted to them by that same government.
It's all selfishness.
Right, because saying "you shouldn't eat this" is the same as sticking you in prison if you eat it anyway.
I really hope that this was a satire, because if not you're a moron.
I'm certain I was, but I have successfully blocked that memory out.
However, I was in Wallyworld an hour ago, and nineteen out of twenty cash registers were manned. Cashier said it'd been like that all day.
I would be terrified of what'd be in the Constitution if we re-wrote it today.
Followed by the WAR ON WAR.
I once worked at a grocery store for two years. It had nine checkout lines, and in that time all of them were manned once that I saw. Don't remember when it was, but most likely it was before the 4th of July or Thanksgiving.
I'd suppose they have that many for once-a-year events like Black Friday, or the day after Christmas. Not having a Fry's anywhere /near/ me, I could only speculate as to whether they'll ever fill all of them even on those days. If not, then perhaps it's a bit of optimism as to their future needs.
Because deregulation worked so well for airlines and cable TV.
That was in FF6 (US 3), actually.
It was a political decision; it's the sort of logic that only works inside the Beltway.
MAY I SUCK YOUR PENIS SIR?
What? Opera looks nothing like Final Fantasy 4.
The Bigoted White Men party would never have passed this if this'd had to wait until January or later. I mean, as it is only six GOP senators voted for the thing, out of forty-one, and only about what, twenty? in the House did.
What killed AltaVista was their PHBs deciding to turn it into a portal like Yahoo (this was back when they were still with Digital, or possibly after the Compaq acquisition) instead of as a pure search engine with a fast, minimalist interface very much like Google's.
Before that, they were the fastest and most complete search engine anywhere. After the portalification, their site could take a few /minutes/ to load and it was so full of junk it was hard to find anything.
Ubuntu releases new versions faster than Microsoft releases Service Packs. That's why I choose Debian if I need Linux.
The standard retort is that you should stick with Ubuntu LTS releases, which only come every couple years and are supported for three (five on the server).
No, no. That was Vladimir Putin in drag, and the rifleman was Sarah Palin.
How d'you know it wasn't some Chinese firmware programmer?
Nice strawman.