You fail. I actually moved to Canada. BC's pretty nice in summer. While California has a lot of attraction, I'd probably choose to move to Washington or Oregon if I had the choice.
NYC is well known to be the nurturing ground of democrat progressive you-cant-drink-a-32oz-pop-say-I billionaire politicians. We got Bloomberg and Cuomo (who is lurking to be the running democrat for the 2016 Presidential election).
Your sentiment has a history. It was called the Civil War by some, and the War Between the States by others. It really did happen. A lot of people died. It decided some issues, and changed the relationship between all the states and the federal government.
And if your wish to regulate >300 millions people under the exact same set of laws was to get its way, it's exactly what you'd get, a civil war. The Bundy Ranch's events are just a small outlook of what's gonna happen in the future.
You forgot the part where Verizon, AT&T, Comcast were (and always are) legally threatened by the NSA/FBI/Government if they do not comply to their every whim. Consent under duress is not voluntary consent.
Do you realize that excessive Government regulations (if not regulatory capture since the beginning), de-facto barring the way to cottage industries, are the main responsible for the actual rich pricks accumulating all the resources ?
No, you pay for the access to those bits, and a non-binding theoretical maximum bandwidth. You will not find *any* ISP giving you a 25Mbps link guaranteed for $30/month.
I am born and raised French. Though, I despise everything about my culture. Each time I go back to France, I remind why I exiled myself and rejected it. Every single part of it stink hipocrisy, irresponsibility, submissiveness, weakness, uptightness, whining, and undue privileges. France used to be a great nation, but is now resting on its laurels, living on a past (and long gone) glory. The greatest monument are all from the era of the Napoleonic Empire (arc de triomphe, obelisque de la concorde, Opéra Garnier) and the Kingdom (Notre Dame, Palais du Louvre, Panthéon, Les Invalides, Palais de Versailles, Palais des Tuileries, Palais de l'Élysée, Palais du Luxembourg, Hôtel Matignon), the only exception might be the Eiffel Tower. All French exalt to these "symbol", yet despise the values of the great leaders who built them.
Most European country are following this tendency, as is the US (to a lesser extend, but it's getting worse).
This is one view. The other view is that those who are the main consumer of bandwidth have all their interest in net-neutrality, whereas those who oppose NN are actually the ones involved in moving more bandwidth and have to bear the actual cost of net-neutrality. This is an obvious free-rider problem.
That's the good thing in the US. If I don't like Massachusetts's policies, I move to Texas. If I prefer California [sic], I should be free to do so and not have a federal Government applying wall-to-wall policies to the entire "country", which is merely an association of independant states/culture to begin with, but that's another story...
I'm an educated techie, master level CS/EE engineer; I do not work for any ISP; and at-foremost, I am a libertarian. I strongly disagree with net-neutrality. To some extend, the whole FCC should be disbanded. It is nothing more than an organisation corrupted by regulatory capture.
The will of Congress, a GROUP of representative, has much more legitimacy than the will of a single man. If what you were saying was true, a republican Congress would not have been re-elected, and given control of the senate a few days ago. Obama's policy, which are more those of a monarch than a democratically elected leader, are NOT popular.
No matter what, the US were never meant to have a strong federal Government.
I guess you meant "nothing to do". We sure all know that all the Tbits used by Netflix streams are carried by Unicorn to their destination, and fairies are laying down fiber to every household. I fucking love the world of progressist ! I'll take 10PB of storage and a cloud infrastructure, that too should be a free utility.
Come on, this is a political move. King Obama has lost all its power, and is merely trying to show he has some balls left, while there is *no* chance at all to materialize at all. Btw, you'd be surprised the amount of people actually considering Internet as "entertainment".
Slashdot Mirror
You fail. I actually moved to Canada. BC's pretty nice in summer. While California has a lot of attraction, I'd probably choose to move to Washington or Oregon if I had the choice.
"hey look at me! I'm a libertarian! all government is wrong!"
I'm still waiting to be shown a government regulation which hasn't backfire a way or the other...
NYC is well known to be the nurturing ground of democrat progressive you-cant-drink-a-32oz-pop-say-I billionaire politicians. We got Bloomberg and Cuomo (who is lurking to be the running democrat for the 2016 Presidential election).
Telco companies are not to blame in the current cable monopoles, local government is. Educate yourself. http://www.wired.com/2013/07/w...
Your sentiment has a history. It was called the Civil War by some, and the War Between the States by others. It really did happen. A lot of people died. It decided some issues, and changed the relationship between all the states and the federal government.
And if your wish to regulate >300 millions people under the exact same set of laws was to get its way, it's exactly what you'd get, a civil war. The Bundy Ranch's events are just a small outlook of what's gonna happen in the future.
Because that's what you expect.
I guess the same faith in humanity for all the statement about the closure of Guantanamo...
You forgot the part where Verizon, AT&T, Comcast were (and always are) legally threatened by the NSA/FBI/Government if they do not comply to their every whim. Consent under duress is not voluntary consent.
Do you realize that excessive Government regulations (if not regulatory capture since the beginning), de-facto barring the way to cottage industries, are the main responsible for the actual rich pricks accumulating all the resources ?
*hypocrisy*, my bad.
No, you pay for the access to those bits, and a non-binding theoretical maximum bandwidth. You will not find *any* ISP giving you a 25Mbps link guaranteed for $30/month.
I am born and raised French. Though, I despise everything about my culture. Each time I go back to France, I remind why I exiled myself and rejected it. Every single part of it stink hipocrisy, irresponsibility, submissiveness, weakness, uptightness, whining, and undue privileges. France used to be a great nation, but is now resting on its laurels, living on a past (and long gone) glory. The greatest monument are all from the era of the Napoleonic Empire (arc de triomphe, obelisque de la concorde, Opéra Garnier) and the Kingdom (Notre Dame, Palais du Louvre, Panthéon, Les Invalides, Palais de Versailles, Palais des Tuileries, Palais de l'Élysée, Palais du Luxembourg, Hôtel Matignon), the only exception might be the Eiffel Tower. All French exalt to these "symbol", yet despise the values of the great leaders who built them.
Most European country are following this tendency, as is the US (to a lesser extend, but it's getting worse).
This is one view. The other view is that those who are the main consumer of bandwidth have all their interest in net-neutrality, whereas those who oppose NN are actually the ones involved in moving more bandwidth and have to bear the actual cost of net-neutrality. This is an obvious free-rider problem.
The worst is that net-neutrality will probably create even more, and strengthen existing monopolies...
Philosophically, yes. Yet, given the average US IQ, I fear Americans deserve nothing more than being sheeps.
Curiously, they're all content producers who would directly benefit from the regulation, and not content "distributor"... I wonder why...
Obamacare is a liberal (business-wise) approach to healthcare.
That's the good thing in the US. If I don't like Massachusetts's policies, I move to Texas. If I prefer California [sic], I should be free to do so and not have a federal Government applying wall-to-wall policies to the entire "country", which is merely an association of independant states/culture to begin with, but that's another story...
I'm an educated techie, master level CS/EE engineer; I do not work for any ISP; and at-foremost, I am a libertarian. I strongly disagree with net-neutrality. To some extend, the whole FCC should be disbanded. It is nothing more than an organisation corrupted by regulatory capture.
The will of Congress, a GROUP of representative, has much more legitimacy than the will of a single man. If what you were saying was true, a republican Congress would not have been re-elected, and given control of the senate a few days ago. Obama's policy, which are more those of a monarch than a democratically elected leader, are NOT popular.
No matter what, the US were never meant to have a strong federal Government.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Thanks to resort to insult in the discussion. I see there is no point discussing with you any further.
Strangely, it is the last mile which actually cost the most. Upgrading the core infrastructure is pretty trivial compared to wiring up that last mile.
I guess you meant "nothing to do". We sure all know that all the Tbits used by Netflix streams are carried by Unicorn to their destination, and fairies are laying down fiber to every household. I fucking love the world of progressist ! I'll take 10PB of storage and a cloud infrastructure, that too should be a free utility.
Come on, this is a political move. King Obama has lost all its power, and is merely trying to show he has some balls left, while there is *no* chance at all to materialize at all. Btw, you'd be surprised the amount of people actually considering Internet as "entertainment".