So, I guess, give up? Don't think about it? I'll drink to that! It's just that, all your complaints are misdirected. We make the world we live in, even if by just playing along.
We have the power to change the system as we see fit. It is not the system's fault when we fail. It merely reflects our failure. The system is in our image. Like the alcoholic, we are still in denial, looking for somebody/thing else to blame.
Why do you feel that is not what pricing is based on today?
The fact that you have data caps. It's a bullshit quota. The price should be on bit rates, keep it simple. Regardless, we need to make the service into the common carrier. Nobody should even know what content is going through your pipe, only how fast you want it to go.
Voting for the major party is throwing your vote away. And that is what gives you what you have today. To me it's totally bizarre that the two worst candidates got 94.3% of the vote. All these little theories are nothing more than blame passing and rationalization.
Internet provision, like most mass communication services, is a closed market, for obvious reasons. We could pry it open just a little by electing politicians that will regulate them as common carriers, since "voting with your wallet" is a lost cause. All pricing should be based on bandwidth, nothing else. Content is nobody's business.
There are more than two on the ballot. Nobody is being forced to vote for the GOP/DNC. And the procedure for nominating the candidate of your choice is all well documented. It seems that most of you aren't aware that democracy is high maintenance. The voters are responsible for its condition. Don't blame anybody else for the choices they make.
The issues arise when government abdicates its duty to the whole
The issue is that people allow/encourage it to happen, because they too see a potential personal benefit for themselves. The government is a reflection. The power to change it is ours alone. There is no one else to blame for the chronic problems we create and sustain.
"Taking money" has many forms. People vote for politicians that take money. That's not the politicians' fault. If we want effective legislation, we have to vote for effective legislators. I mean, let's cut to the chase here, deal with the fundamentals. We are it, as Homer says, both the cause and the solution to all our problems.
Kind of. They expect tax cuts and other types of handouts. They even take promises, and again after they are broken when they reelect their favorite crook.
And all the elections show the same more or less 95% vote for the incumbency of the GOP/DNC, in congress and the presidency.
Until the voters take the initiative to vote them out, the ant mill will run indefinitely. Time to stop passing the blame
it's not exactly rocket science to retool a factory in 2018. Or put another way, why don't they have to retool the factories to keep up with demand? They're cutting 15,000 jobs. If they were just shifting product lines there'd be no job losses.
You gotta do the numbers. Look at the write offs for just shutting down. And they hardly care about 'job losses'. Employees and their pensions are a liability, an expense, not an investment.
Our economy is screwed because congress passed tax rules that make it cheaper to offshore everything except the office.
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What would they prefer? *Fuck you*?
But somehow this is an excuse to do nothing?
About what? And what are they supposed to do?
So, I guess, give up? Don't think about it? I'll drink to that! It's just that, all your complaints are misdirected. We make the world we live in, even if by just playing along.
Then NYC can be a free city that doesn't have to worry about the diktats of the dirt in DC.
Funny that most of those diktats come from a single Street in Manhattan.... I mean, they are entitled. They pay big money for the service.
We still get ripped off for fees.. Really a tax by any other name. All of a sudden that $5 Quarter Pounder is $5.50
You will be pan handling for cash.
A job's a job...
We have the power to change the system as we see fit. It is not the system's fault when we fail. It merely reflects our failure. The system is in our image. Like the alcoholic, we are still in denial, looking for somebody/thing else to blame.
Why do you feel that is not what pricing is based on today?
The fact that you have data caps. It's a bullshit quota. The price should be on bit rates, keep it simple. Regardless, we need to make the service into the common carrier. Nobody should even know what content is going through your pipe, only how fast you want it to go.
Voting for the major party is throwing your vote away. And that is what gives you what you have today. To me it's totally bizarre that the two worst candidates got 94.3% of the vote. All these little theories are nothing more than blame passing and rationalization.
Most people are turning against free speech now.
Yeah, I'll say! Another damn temperance movement is on the march. Anybody remember the history of that?
Well, I am interested to see how tough this new firewall is, because if they can block, it can only mean it's too easy for others to block.
Internet provision, like most mass communication services, is a closed market, for obvious reasons. We could pry it open just a little by electing politicians that will regulate them as common carriers, since "voting with your wallet" is a lost cause. All pricing should be based on bandwidth, nothing else. Content is nobody's business.
I'm sorry, but what requires you to vote for a 'major party'? I mean, are you voting for something, or are you just playing the odds?
There are more than two on the ballot. Nobody is being forced to vote for the GOP/DNC. And the procedure for nominating the candidate of your choice is all well documented. It seems that most of you aren't aware that democracy is high maintenance. The voters are responsible for its condition. Don't blame anybody else for the choices they make.
The issues arise when government abdicates its duty to the whole
The issue is that people allow/encourage it to happen, because they too see a potential personal benefit for themselves. The government is a reflection. The power to change it is ours alone. There is no one else to blame for the chronic problems we create and sustain.
Tire old cliche, repeated ad nauseum... Has no effect on election day.
It is that way for lack of opposition, in fact most people want it. The government is only as abusive as the voters permit.
The Start Menu has a new hat!
"Taking money" has many forms. People vote for politicians that take money. That's not the politicians' fault. If we want effective legislation, we have to vote for effective legislators. I mean, let's cut to the chase here, deal with the fundamentals. We are it, as Homer says, both the cause and the solution to all our problems.
First, let's clear the skies. We got a helluva smog problem right now.
The Russians didn't use slave labor? I don't know, up to the 1980s more or less? And now we have have Slavery 2.0, the penal system.
But seriously, the weather... skies seem kinda hazy all the time now. wonder if it's all that air traffic
Citizens don't accept money for votes, do they?
Kind of. They expect tax cuts and other types of handouts. They even take promises, and again after they are broken when they reelect their favorite crook.
And all the elections show the same more or less 95% vote for the incumbency of the GOP/DNC, in congress and the presidency.
Until the voters take the initiative to vote them out, the ant mill will run indefinitely. Time to stop passing the blame
What about Equifax, and Wells Fargo, etc etc etc, and the damn NSA???
Crying about Facebook is a bullshit distraction.
it's not exactly rocket science to retool a factory in 2018. Or put another way, why don't they have to retool the factories to keep up with demand? They're cutting 15,000 jobs. If they were just shifting product lines there'd be no job losses.
You gotta do the numbers. Look at the write offs for just shutting down. And they hardly care about 'job losses'. Employees and their pensions are a liability, an expense, not an investment.
Our economy is screwed because congress passed tax rules that make it cheaper to offshore everything except the office.
and things are now worse than the status quo.
No, it's just the status quo without the lipstick, raw and uncut