Agree with them or not, the NRA knows what is needed to protect their favorite amendment.
We need to adopt similar structures and systems. To me, the EFF is a good rallying point, so I urge you to give all the support you can. I say, without irony, "Think of your children."
Comparing the internet to roads is a false analogy. A road takes up significant physical space, and has a significant impact on its surroundings. On the other hand, fiber and other internet infrastructure takes up negligible space, can be out of the way underground, on poles or wireless.
But most importantly, multiple internet "roads" can occupy the same space and terminate at the same places. If you must have an analogy, then imagine having five alternative roads from your driveway, though your neighborhood, on the highway, to your parking spot at work. This means that the internet is not a natural monopoly. The only reason it may become a monopoly is because of government intervention in the form of onerous regulations, permits and sundry protection of incumbents.
The task of government should be to do everything possible to facilitate competition, disruptive technologies and laugh when companies that are too big to fail, fail.
I live in a state where the gas tax, and therefore sales price, is much lower than the neighboring state. Even the most rabid tax-and-spend liberals I know over the border take advantage of buying cheaper gas when they can, thereby denying their more liberal state tax revenue, and filling the coffers of my redneck treasury.
I have never heard of someone declaring the gasoline they imported in their car's tank.
Thank you. Please note that I am making a very subversive argument. Because my logic can be extrapolated to alcohol/weed/manual labor/baby food/contraceptives/sexual services/guns - take your pick. If you are anything other than a libertarian, then you will find something that offends you. So 99% of the population will be ok with denying Tesla, as collateral damage for denying alcohol/weed/.../guns per their narrow worldview.
No state prevents you from buying a Tesla from out of state, because that is the prerogative of the federal government, as you say.
However, a state CAN regulate commerce within its borders, as they do with car dealerships.
However, it is my contention that laws and regulations should be enacted and enforced from the bottom up - neighborhood, city, county, state, federal level. BUT, rights and freedoms, which are inherent, should be protected by everyone, top-down if needed. This means that the federal government is entitled to step in if a local school board decides to exclude black student.
So I assert the human right to conduct business/speech with whoever I want, wherever I want, wherever I want - and that includes directly with Tesla in a different state.
This item, and the subsequent discussion posts, do not state the obvious implication that this kind of tracking is expected to creep into the US.
The really interesting part to me, is that nobody found it necessary to say so. It is automatically assumed that anyone reading will immediately come to the same conclusion, and therefore it need not be stated.
That we have come to this, is scary (notwithstanding my tag).
It has been determined that the required levels of population scaredyness are not being attained by Global Warming (TM). To make up the deficit, the possibility of imminent random annihilation must (literally) hang over the heads of the public.
While this may be true, it does add to you litigation cost. If you ever need to sue them, you will first have to go to court to have the arbitration requirement overturned. So, another hurdle to jump, deep pockets needed to prevail, just to get to the starting point.
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I'm sure the Iranians have observed America's approach to Kim Dotcom with interest.
You left out the Supreme Court, which has completely sold out to the Tories.
Indeed, all the employees "just following orders."
This will only have its intended effect if adopted by all porn sites.
So now you know what porn is good for.
I think it's called the Constitution.
Except SCOTUS is MIA. When the justices are seen bloviating on the news networks, you know it's game over for us.
Yes, we can feel good about ourselves in comparison to just about the the most depraved people ever to live on this planet. Yay us!
"Three Felonies a Day" is sickening to read.
You forgot to mention the latest trick is to lean on the banks to close the accounts of people whose views are not in compliance.
Is weapons-bearing the same a child-bearing?
What the hell are you doing there? What is your purpose, soldier?
My guess you are just making more people hate us.
True dat. By my definition "arms" includes everything from bare knuckles to thermonuclear devices. Also, "bear" means you have to carry it yourself.
Agree with them or not, the NRA knows what is needed to protect their favorite amendment.
We need to adopt similar structures and systems. To me, the EFF is a good rallying point, so I urge you to give all the support you can. I say, without irony, "Think of your children."
er...the Pursuit of Happiness?
Comparing the internet to roads is a false analogy. A road takes up significant physical space, and has a significant impact on its surroundings. On the other hand, fiber and other internet infrastructure takes up negligible space, can be out of the way underground, on poles or wireless.
But most importantly, multiple internet "roads" can occupy the same space and terminate at the same places. If you must have an analogy, then imagine having five alternative roads from your driveway, though your neighborhood, on the highway, to your parking spot at work. This means that the internet is not a natural monopoly. The only reason it may become a monopoly is because of government intervention in the form of onerous regulations, permits and sundry protection of incumbents.
The task of government should be to do everything possible to facilitate competition, disruptive technologies and laugh when companies that are too big to fail, fail.
"no country in the world has come up with a political solution to nuclear waste" FTFY
The technology is relatively simple. But then so are the opponents.
I live in a state where the gas tax, and therefore sales price, is much lower than the neighboring state. Even the most rabid tax-and-spend liberals I know over the border take advantage of buying cheaper gas when they can, thereby denying their more liberal state tax revenue, and filling the coffers of my redneck treasury.
I have never heard of someone declaring the gasoline they imported in their car's tank.
Thank you. Please note that I am making a very subversive argument. Because my logic can be extrapolated to alcohol/weed/manual labor/baby food/contraceptives/sexual services/guns - take your pick. If you are anything other than a libertarian, then you will find something that offends you. So 99% of the population will be ok with denying Tesla, as collateral damage for denying alcohol/weed/.../guns per their narrow worldview.
No state prevents you from buying a Tesla from out of state, because that is the prerogative of the federal government, as you say.
However, a state CAN regulate commerce within its borders, as they do with car dealerships.
However, it is my contention that laws and regulations should be enacted and enforced from the bottom up - neighborhood, city, county, state, federal level. BUT, rights and freedoms, which are inherent, should be protected by everyone, top-down if needed. This means that the federal government is entitled to step in if a local school board decides to exclude black student.
So I assert the human right to conduct business/speech with whoever I want, wherever I want, wherever I want - and that includes directly with Tesla in a different state.
Remember that wifi/wireless is explicitly except from the proposed network neutrality regulations.
This item, and the subsequent discussion posts, do not state the obvious implication that this kind of tracking is expected to creep into the US.
The really interesting part to me, is that nobody found it necessary to say so. It is automatically assumed that anyone reading will immediately come to the same conclusion, and therefore it need not be stated.
That we have come to this, is scary (notwithstanding my tag).
It has been determined that the required levels of population scaredyness are not being attained by Global Warming (TM). To make up the deficit, the possibility of imminent random annihilation must (literally) hang over the heads of the public.
Are there any government agencies that use these routers? Just curious...
Unless the router firmware is open source, you have no way of knowing what it is doing, DOCSIS or not.
Alan Shepard had a go!
Google employment interview: "Do you think increasing the hole size is good for golf?"
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
John F. Kennedy
While this may be true, it does add to you litigation cost. If you ever need to sue them, you will first have to go to court to have the arbitration requirement overturned. So, another hurdle to jump, deep pockets needed to prevail, just to get to the starting point.