The only reason the Clintons were not frog marched in cuffs for numerous felonies over the years was the swamp and the fact that the elites in both parties have been covering for each other for decades.
Nothing absurd about it. We live under monopolistic and thus balkanized (streaming problem, remember?) system. You stepped into a conversion on a different, and very relevant subject that just happened to pop up. If you didn't want to deal with it, you could have just ignored it. Whatever... you fished me in, You won!
The rule of law is very important and is something we should all agree on. That's exactly why the investigation into Russian interference in 2016 needs to be protected.
Hillary won the popular vote which nullifies any sway the superdelegates had.
Without paper ballots (or at least a paper trail), you won't ever get me to believe that.
Do note that party reforms have stripped superdelegates of their power
LOL Totally superficial. They just can't vote in the first round. But really, there's no such thing as superdelegate 'reform'. They have to be abolished completely.
The problem is a closed market through regulation and corruption. but you're still picking nits over this "monopoly" business. There is no competition in the service or content distribution markets, except from the bootleggers.
And since your dismissing out of hand a perfectly suitable solution, I figure you're not interested. Don't know why you're here, other than making mountains out of molehills.
government monopolies for cable TV are prohibited BY FEDERAL LAW
a mere technicality... The law... Look what it did to the railroads. There are many ways to express the same behavior. So, I'm not going to pick nits. Just peruse their contracts... so, yeah, not government monopolies. I don't know what you call it when everybody gives consent, but it produces the same effect as a regular monopoly.
And this is an outright lie:
When we say CenturyLink 1 Gig internet costs $85.00/month, that’s exactly what we mean—and you can count on your price to stay that way for life.
Uh huh...
But wait...!
CenturyLink may change, cancel, or substitute offers and services, or vary them by service area, at its sole discretion without notice.
Conveniently, they don't say whose life. It probably means the life of the modem, which of course will need an upgrade next year, or a 125 dollar "repair"
Again, the streaming issue would be solved with compulsory licensing so that anybody can offer content for a fee to the rights holders, and/or bittorrent, the greatest risk to the latter being the damn ISP.
Neither of these problems, service or content distribution, are nearly as complex as people like to make them out to be. It is a masquerade to maximize profits. That's all fine, but we don't have to play along. We just have to be more active in the rule making process.
Where is the competition to Comcast/Time Warner? They write the regulations for government to enforce that keep competition at bay and prevent locals from running their own service.
For the streaming issue, compulsory licensing of all copyrighted content will fix that part of the distribution problem.
I was responding to a comment about Concast/Time Warner. And besides, the distribution problem is what led to the streaming problem. It's a balkanization thing that wouldn't happen in an open market, with competition.
Sure got beaten to the punch on that one, but it kinda makes this a non-story, no? Once again, content providers aren't the problem. They're a dime a dozen.
The issue with Comcast and Time Warner is that it's a government protected monopoly. We have to pry open the distribution market. This especially goes for internet service provision. Unfortunately, as the last election once again has indicated, we still are not headed in that direction. Any and all anger against Comcast/Time Warner is misplaced and irrational. Every two years the voters give them a bunch of puppet politicians on a silver platter. SNAFU
I'm sorry, where did I mention anything about individuals?
For example, the reason taxes haven't been automated as a pre-filled form a person needs only to sign or correct and sign: because of lobbying by tax preparation companies.
Yes, exactly what I am saying about big business writing the rules. It's time to acknowledge that, and subject them to the same constitutional restraints as the government itself.
They can, they hired the government as private security. They write the rules, like indefinite copyright and prohibition against harmless substances. Make no mistake, the voters give full consent to all this, so it all looks on the level, but you can't separate big business from big government.
Yes, well, some people like to use Poe's Law for maximum effect. I just can't sympathize too much for the easily fooled who don't want to take the initiative to verify the things they see and hear and would rather live by their own personal biases.
GMT is great for navigation, lousy for everything else, unless it's your local time zone. Most of us use a watch to reflect solar time, but you can set yours to GMT if you want...
Really we should move GMT (prime meridian) to the international date line, without all the course deviations for various islands of course. That way the planet's day starts at 0000GMT.
Actually solar noon in California is a bit before noon on the clock. Better to have a bit before 1 so it sets at a reasonable hour. The best setup is to never have solar noon before 12:00
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Nobody is disagreeing, because you didn't actually say anything meaningful.
Eh, okay, obviously you're just part of the problem. It's been a slice
If we would just quit doing business with huge corporations that fuck over their customers, all of our lives would be better.
And if we would just stop reelecting their puppets into congress, all of our lives would be better also.
I will die wondering why people disagree with that.
Don't confuse the US with Russia where Putin runs disinformation campaigns to keep people off the ballot.
*cough* DNC
we need better laws to keep the news truthful
Excuse me? No, we need to keep all channels open, regardless what you think of their content.
You're really on the warpath here, aren't you?
You really believe all that? That's funny...
Yes. It was made. That's a problem.
That's a small problem. The big problem is that people accept, even want it.
How did it come to this?
"Give me convenience, or give me death"
A parable (stop me if you heard this already):
A cop stops a bicyclist after he ran a stop sign
Cop: Sir, I stopped you because you failed to stop at the sign.
bicyclist: But officer, I slowed down...
On that the cop hauls him off the bike and starts beating the shit out of the guy. Between punches, he's asking the him,
"Do. You. Want. Me. To. Slow. Down? Or. Do. You. Want. Me. To. STOP??"
The only reason the Clintons were not frog marched in cuffs for numerous felonies over the years was the swamp and the fact that the elites in both parties have been covering for each other for decades.
Blackmail in their world is MAD
Everybody has insurance
I'm starting to wondering if we did elect Putin.
No, you elected the CIA.
Oh, damn! What do I put in here?
First post?
Nothing absurd about it. We live under monopolistic and thus balkanized (streaming problem, remember?) system. You stepped into a conversion on a different, and very relevant subject that just happened to pop up. If you didn't want to deal with it, you could have just ignored it. Whatever... you fished me in, You won!
Gonna put that money in to pay down the debt, right? *cough*
The rule of law is very important and is something we should all agree on. That's exactly why the investigation into Russian interference in 2016 needs to be protected.
Uh huh... Please, pull the other one..
Hillary won the popular vote which nullifies any sway the superdelegates had.
Without paper ballots (or at least a paper trail), you won't ever get me to believe that.
Do note that party reforms have stripped superdelegates of their power
LOL Totally superficial. They just can't vote in the first round. But really, there's no such thing as superdelegate 'reform'. They have to be abolished completely.
The problem is a closed market through regulation and corruption. but you're still picking nits over this "monopoly" business. There is no competition in the service or content distribution markets, except from the bootleggers.
And since your dismissing out of hand a perfectly suitable solution, I figure you're not interested. Don't know why you're here, other than making mountains out of molehills.
government monopolies for cable TV are prohibited BY FEDERAL LAW
a mere technicality... The law... Look what it did to the railroads. There are many ways to express the same behavior. So, I'm not going to pick nits. Just peruse their contracts... so, yeah, not government monopolies. I don't know what you call it when everybody gives consent, but it produces the same effect as a regular monopoly.
And this is an outright lie:
When we say CenturyLink 1 Gig internet costs $85.00/month, that’s exactly what we mean—and you can count on your price to stay that way for life.
Uh huh...
But wait...!
CenturyLink may change, cancel, or substitute offers and services, or vary them by service area, at its sole discretion without notice.
Conveniently, they don't say whose life. It probably means the life of the modem, which of course will need an upgrade next year, or a 125 dollar "repair"
Again, the streaming issue would be solved with compulsory licensing so that anybody can offer content for a fee to the rights holders, and/or bittorrent, the greatest risk to the latter being the damn ISP.
Neither of these problems, service or content distribution, are nearly as complex as people like to make them out to be. It is a masquerade to maximize profits. That's all fine, but we don't have to play along. We just have to be more active in the rule making process.
Where is the competition to Comcast/Time Warner? They write the regulations for government to enforce that keep competition at bay and prevent locals from running their own service.
For the streaming issue, compulsory licensing of all copyrighted content will fix that part of the distribution problem.
I was responding to a comment about Concast/Time Warner. And besides, the distribution problem is what led to the streaming problem. It's a balkanization thing that wouldn't happen in an open market, with competition.
Sure got beaten to the punch on that one, but it kinda makes this a non-story, no? Once again, content providers aren't the problem. They're a dime a dozen.
The issue with Comcast and Time Warner is that it's a government protected monopoly. We have to pry open the distribution market. This especially goes for internet service provision. Unfortunately, as the last election once again has indicated, we still are not headed in that direction. Any and all anger against Comcast/Time Warner is misplaced and irrational. Every two years the voters give them a bunch of puppet politicians on a silver platter. SNAFU
I'm sorry, where did I mention anything about individuals?
For example, the reason taxes haven't been automated as a pre-filled form a person needs only to sign or correct and sign: because of lobbying by tax preparation companies.
Yes, exactly what I am saying about big business writing the rules. It's time to acknowledge that, and subject them to the same constitutional restraints as the government itself.
Big business owns the Chinese government also. Government needs money to operate, where else are they going to get it?
Oh, and do you remember who actually has more people in jail?
Big Business cannot put you in jail.
They can, they hired the government as private security. They write the rules, like indefinite copyright and prohibition against harmless substances. Make no mistake, the voters give full consent to all this, so it all looks on the level, but you can't separate big business from big government.
Yes, well, some people like to use Poe's Law for maximum effect. I just can't sympathize too much for the easily fooled who don't want to take the initiative to verify the things they see and hear and would rather live by their own personal biases.
GMT is great for navigation, lousy for everything else, unless it's your local time zone. Most of us use a watch to reflect solar time, but you can set yours to GMT if you want...
Really we should move GMT (prime meridian) to the international date line, without all the course deviations for various islands of course. That way the planet's day starts at 0000GMT.
Actually solar noon in California is a bit before noon on the clock. Better to have a bit before 1 so it sets at a reasonable hour. The best setup is to never have solar noon before 12:00