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  1. Re:Different views on a free market on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 2

    And you will be back whining in a few years about consume lockins that comes with what you talk about.

  2. Re:There are 1000's on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    The first 3 links I clicked on took me to websites that did not work....Second what kind of wireless? Hotel rooms, airports? If so they are not the type of ISPs they are talking about here, and are more of just home network maintainers.

  3. Re:Regulate last mile on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 2

    Strawman, the OP does not state that we have to have maniciple broadband in order to fix it, he said we need to treat it like a utility. We have utilities that are not owned by the government, namely phone and electric, which are better regulated to provide universal access. Without treating them like a utility we cannot do what even you suggest.

  4. Re:reversed "with the stroke of a pen" on Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    His programs? wtf are you smoking, they are bushes programs jsut coming to light and with whom obama supports it seems.

  5. Re:Is it not obvious? They have dirt on him! on Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Umm, no, being libertarian is a choice, the others are not.

  6. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    Then you cannot be omnipotent, period, because the definition is "having complete or unlimited power" if you have complete or unlimited power then knowing the future and the ability to change the future would be in that category, In addition you cannot be omniscient because not only would you know the future, but how to change the future meaning you dont know the future.. Of course if there is multiple realities all that goes out the window and you can be both...

  7. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    Except God knew that was not possible, as he knows everything. So God wanted what he knew he could not have a punished adam and eve for doing what he did not want them to do, however he knew they would. Sounds like a sociopath.

  8. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    You cannot be omnipotent without being omniscient. Omnipotent means to be able to do everything, which would include being able to know everything

  9. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    There is no choice. God already knew the outcome, that restricts their choice in the matter.

  10. Re:Congratulations! on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    I have no such belief, the belief is that the people outside of the US have less of an understanding in generally, not that US citizens understand this fully in general either.

  11. Re:Congratulations! on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    No, it makes no such assumption. The only assumption it makes is that non Americans dont know these things.

  12. Re:Bloody hell. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    Because you are requring people to give airtime, and their money in effect, to things they dont believe in, limiting their ability to talk about what they want to be.. It has no bearing on if corps are people or not, the owners of the corps are people, and they can spend their money in any way they want... Giving equal attention to "all sides" is like forcing a science channel to also give equal time to creationists, and hindus, and muslims and all the other groups that have an idea about how the universe and life began. You dont require people to put their effort into things they dont believe in.

  13. Re:well... on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    You dont need many that know how to set them up, just some that know how to make it easy to make the average citizen be capable of connecting to them. Each citizen does not need their own VPN server.

  14. Re:Bloody hell. on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    that is how freedom of speech has always worked here in the US.. Your "requirement" would actually be the first nail in the coffin of the US system, as it would dilute free speech.

  15. Re:Congratulations! on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You are apparently not an American, as evidenced by your lack of understanding of our founding fathers and their writing of the constitution. Private individuals, or corporations, are not bound by the constitution, only the government is. If we were to bound private individuals it would run counter to everything they stood for. In other words, if you force private people/corporations to say what they dont wanna say then you dont have a democracy or a free people.

  16. Re:Customers may benefit... maybe on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    umm, 2 points do not a blip make... There is not enough data there to support either of you.

  17. Re:Bitcoin on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    Discounts for cash, or also charging more for using credit/debt is illegal is many states.

  18. Re:Sweet revenge on Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail · · Score: 1

    It depends, was the Credit card statements laying out where anyone could see them, on the coffee table, that is the only way yoru analogy works. The website he looked at was public, there was NOTHING blocking accessing it.. What if I put up a website, thaylin.net, then you go to it, can I then claim you hacked my system and went to the page without authorization ?

  19. Re:Sweet revenge on Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail · · Score: 1

    He did not get prison for accessing others communication, it got it for accessing a public website.

  20. Re:How Does He Know it's the FBI? on Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail · · Score: 2

    That being said, the fact that they're reading his correspondence with his defense team and then interrogating him about it is a big no-no. It definitely serves as a good basis to appeal the conviction.

    Which was the point of the comment you were claiming no to...

  21. Re:Must not understand how the internet works. on Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail · · Score: 1

    Unless they intercepted it completely, such as by masquerading as the lawyers email.

  22. Re:Sweet revenge on Weev's Attorney Says FBI Is Intercepting His Client's Mail · · Score: 1

    What makes him a hypocrite? What right did he invade of others regarding emails, or any thing else? The law he is accused of breaking is silly, accessing a public website should not be against the law.

  23. Re:It's not arrogant, it's correct. on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    And in the real world I dont pay on my end for them to access roads, if we wanna compare it to the real world, the suppliers pay for all of that.. So is ATT going to give us the internet access for free to measure up with this analogy?

  24. Re: It's not arrogant, it's correct. on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Yes it is bad. It is like us having to pay ATT, Sprint, TWC, Comcast, and every other network just so I can transfer data from my computer. In other words it is counter to everything the internet has been since we did away with pay per minute connections.

  25. Re:It's not arrogant, it's correct. on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    They dont pay both sides, like ATT wants.