It's easy, it's in the freakin' name: the right to make a copy.
This isn't about making a copy, it's more like downloading the Blu-Ray version of a movie that you have on DVD. They may seem similar, but the one is not a copy of the other.
Everyone benefits from better roads, whether they drive on them or not. They bring goods to your store, food to your market, customers to your business.
That's true. Streets (roads with driveways) benefit the property owner like you said, and so streets should be financed with a street frontage fee. Then the property owner can decide how much street he/she wants to pay for.
Non-street roads benefit the traveler and therefore should be billed to the traveler.
Pay per use is horribly inefficient. You burden the poor...
False. In fact,
the poor love pay per use, because it gets them out of paying taxes. Nobody likes paying taxes. Except maybe you.
You burden...those with the greatest distances to travel.
Despite an increase in car ownership and usage, cars aren't even the number one contributor to particulates anymore in many places.
That's only half true. To summarize, the major cause of air pollution in many cities is when ammonia from farms combines with pollution from vehicles to form PM 2.5.
Unless, of course, the grocery store gets its deliveries by electric truck!
Or if it's located along a rail siding, then all it needs is a forklift, no road travel necessary. Wonderful things happen when you don't insulate people from the financial consequences of their decisions!
If I don't give the government my money, they will send men with guns to put me in a cage.
This is why we need to switch from taxes to user fees. For example, instead of mostly paying for roads with sales and other general fund taxes, pay for them 100% from gas taxes and other user fees. So if you don't want to give the government your money, don't drive, or at least don't drive a gasoline powered vehicle. Legally avoiding the gas tax is much simpler than avoiding the sales tax!
Unfortunately, some well-intentioned citizens in California are collecting signatures to repeal the recent gas tax hike. It's so sad.
If you want a free and open internet, the very, very LAST thing anyone should desire is government regulation.
Because regulation is the opposite of freedom, right? The freedom to form a monopoly, the freedom to pollute without repercussions, the freedom of banks to set their own leverage ratios, etc. Is that really the world you want?
The power requirements of society must be monitored continuously, and generators must not only be put online as demand increases, but must also be taken offline as demand decreases.
Or instead of managing supply, manage demand, in the same way eBay prevents too many people from winning the same auction. So instead of putting a generator online as demand increases (or the wind stops blowing), reduce demand until that generator isn't needed.
I predict that people who need those online services will use their cell phones or pay for VPNs to bypass the blocks until they have setup their community broadband ISPs. It will be wonderful, at least where such competition is legal.
I call it "don't feed the trolls," and it works like this. The moment an ISP starts throttling someone, this coalition of content providers blacklist that ISP. Anyone on that ISP gets a black screen telling them what's going on and contact their ISP to stop the throttling. No paid fast lanes, just the black screen.
This will work because which ISP wants to be the first one to lose Netflix, Facebook, Google, and so on?
We already have electric vehicles that can travel thousands of miles without charging. Let's use those pantograph-equipped vehicles for long hauls and these battery-electric semis for short hauls. The right tool for the right job!
The whole of Trump's campaign and his accomplishments as a President have been about reducing the amount of regulation and the power of the Federal apparatus, in favor of more local control.
You're describing a level of financial life planning that would be remarkable if found among the intellectually challenged. There are people who won't pay off their payday loans because it would cost them more in the short term.
Considering the hypothetical person described above:
An idiot is going to pump out as many little idiots as possible because, hell, bigger welfare checks and more of a tax writeoff, amirite?
Kids are a lot of work. If the purpose of children for that person is simply a means to welfare checks, why wouldn't they save themselves a massive amount of effort and get sterilized for those same welfare checks?
So let's fix the incentives by paying people not to have kids. The government would pay for the sterilization procedure, plus a monthly allowance if you stay sterile. Annual checkups would confirm it.
Oh, and you left out the part where the general population owns McDonald's and voted for the people in charge who decided to give free burgers out to the people who were already paying for them.
Yes, like a timeshare!
And how eating hamburgers is somehow required for most people's jobs...
If you don't eat, your job performance will suffer, so yes,
eating is pretty much required for most people's jobs.
And you may need to eat a hamburger before you can go shopping in a physical store?
I see, the only way to get to a store is to drive there.
There was a time long ago before cities started deciding that you can't live next door to a corner store, when you could easily buy a gallon of milk without carrying any form of government ID. But if you tried that today, you could be cited for driving without a license.
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This isn't about making a copy, it's more like downloading the Blu-Ray version of a movie that you have on DVD. They may seem similar, but the one is not a copy of the other.
The truck doesn't have to carry them all the way. It only has to travel between the railyard and the store.
They used to be, until we started subsidizing the roads!
A congested road isn't a public good.
That's true. Streets (roads with driveways) benefit the property owner like you said, and so streets should be financed with a street frontage fee. Then the property owner can decide how much street he/she wants to pay for.
Non-street roads benefit the traveler and therefore should be billed to the traveler.
False. In fact, the poor love pay per use, because it gets them out of paying taxes. Nobody likes paying taxes. Except maybe you.
Yes, but what's the downside?
That's only half true. To summarize, the major cause of air pollution in many cities is when ammonia from farms combines with pollution from vehicles to form PM 2.5.
Unless, of course, the grocery store gets its deliveries by electric truck!
Or if it's located along a rail siding, then all it needs is a forklift, no road travel necessary. Wonderful things happen when you don't insulate people from the financial consequences of their decisions!
This is why we need to switch from taxes to user fees. For example, instead of mostly paying for roads with sales and other general fund taxes, pay for them 100% from gas taxes and other user fees. So if you don't want to give the government your money, don't drive, or at least don't drive a gasoline powered vehicle. Legally avoiding the gas tax is much simpler than avoiding the sales tax!
Unfortunately, some well-intentioned citizens in California are collecting signatures to repeal the recent gas tax hike. It's so sad.
You'd have to pass a regulation to do that!
It's in the first link on that page.
Because regulation is the opposite of freedom, right? The freedom to form a monopoly, the freedom to pollute without repercussions, the freedom of banks to set their own leverage ratios, etc. Is that really the world you want?
Yet those taxes don't come close to paying for that infrastructure. And that is only one way that gasoline cars are subsidized.
I see, eBay controls people with an iron fist.
Or instead of managing supply, manage demand, in the same way eBay prevents too many people from winning the same auction. So instead of putting a generator online as demand increases (or the wind stops blowing), reduce demand until that generator isn't needed.
Well that's a horse of a different color!
Talk is cheap. Let's see what the audit finds. And why did previous audits fail to find the flaw?
Because sometimes the justice system makes mistakes, and when an innocent person is put to death, there is no way to make them whole again.
I predict that people who need those online services will use their cell phones or pay for VPNs to bypass the blocks until they have setup their community broadband ISPs. It will be wonderful, at least where such competition is legal.
I call it "don't feed the trolls," and it works like this. The moment an ISP starts throttling someone, this coalition of content providers blacklist that ISP. Anyone on that ISP gets a black screen telling them what's going on and contact their ISP to stop the throttling. No paid fast lanes, just the black screen.
This will work because which ISP wants to be the first one to lose Netflix, Facebook, Google, and so on?
We already have electric vehicles that can travel thousands of miles without charging. Let's use those pantograph-equipped vehicles for long hauls and these battery-electric semis for short hauls. The right tool for the right job!
If you're right then he will block Pai's plan to prohibit states from enacting their own net neutrality.
"Pray I don't alter it any further."
You're describing a level of financial life planning that would be remarkable if found among the intellectually challenged. There are people who won't pay off their payday loans because it would cost them more in the short term.
Considering the hypothetical person described above:
Kids are a lot of work. If the purpose of children for that person is simply a means to welfare checks, why wouldn't they save themselves a massive amount of effort and get sterilized for those same welfare checks?
So let's fix the incentives by paying people not to have kids. The government would pay for the sterilization procedure, plus a monthly allowance if you stay sterile. Annual checkups would confirm it.
Even after the flaw is fixed, what's to stop someone from jamming the wifi signal while they take everything you own?
Yes, like a timeshare!
If you don't eat, your job performance will suffer, so yes, eating is pretty much required for most people's jobs.
I see, the only way to get to a store is to drive there.
There was a time long ago before cities started deciding that you can't live next door to a corner store, when you could easily buy a gallon of milk without carrying any form of government ID. But if you tried that today, you could be cited for driving without a license.