You actually believe the FCC won't cater to any particular group's requests?
Ironic, coming from a devout follower of Libertarian Magic Dust. This isn't hard: when the government is caving to corporate interests on matters of regulation, it's frequently a bad thing (bank bailouts + no prosecution of bankers) it's a bad thing and if it's done in opposition to those interests, it's generally a good thing (S&L prosecutions, mandating seat belts be installed on new cars).
On this, the feds are acting in opposition to telecom monopolies, which is a good thing.
Congress, who is actually in charge of passing laws, says, "Hey, wait a minute. Shouldn't we have looked at this first?"
You mean the same Congress that delegated power to the agency in question to make just these sort of rules??? If Congress wants to pass new legislation to revoke that authority (or the budget of the agency under the Executive), it is free to do so - but that does nothing to change the fact that Congress approved it in the first place. You can find similar examples on everything from pot to DADT.
However, I believe that once Government gets involved, no matter how noble in purpose at the start, it won't end up that way.
Yes, there's a term for that - Confirmation Bias. These Randian notions are just as reasonable - or as asinine - as saying starting a business will lead to fraud, bribes, sexual harassment, and toxic waste siphoned into the river. Because what other businesses have done, all businesses will do.
the FCC rules will effectively kill off smaller shops
Baseless tautology is baseless.
And they are solving the wrong problem. The real problem is back at the last mile, where there is NO CHOICE.
Which can only be addressed by heavy regulation, or by (gasp!) socialized infrastructure. Both of which are anathema to Randians, so this brings us to the second term of the day: Cognitive Dissonance.
The first four of those are tired right wing BS - which is ironic, given how Hill is a hard core right winger. There's plenty of legit criticism of her, but it all comes from the left:
Her support for nasty dictatorships a la Mubarak in Egypt Supporting the coup in Honduras Supporting the coup in Ukraine Supporting coup attempts in Venezuela Writing the TPP Pushing the Keystone pipeline Draconian sanctions on Iran for the nuclear weapons program both the CIA and Mossad say Iran doesn't have
They're shutting it down instead of refitting/repairing it because
Because nuclear power is a bad, bad joke. There isn't a plant on this planet that rolls the full cost of construction, security, insurance, maintainance, or decommission into the rates it charges, much less storing the radioactive waste for thousands of years.
US automobile production was 11 million in 2013, while Germany produced 5.7 million.
Too bad I was talking about cars, then. Why is it that every time this factoid is mentioned, people try to move the subject to automobiles, total?
It's like someone saying GM produces more cars and trucks than Honda, and then someone saying Honda is the largest engine maker in the world because in addition to cars, they make ATV's, riding lawnmowers, and personal watercraft. The later is a true statement....but a non sequitur in response to the first.
Even the German cars may not be made in Germany, BMW or example only makes half its cars there and Spartanburg SC is poised to overtake Dingolfing as the highest volume plant.
But that hair splits at both ends, as many "Detroit" cars are made in Mexico or Canada.
Actually, Germany produces about half as many cars as the US.
Only if the goalpost is moved from cars to "all automobiles" a la the AC below. But I didn't say automobiles, I said cars.
We still need to "work" 40 hours a week or more, while in the 19th century they were able to go from 100 hour workweeks to 40 with unionized workers
Wal-Mart and Massey Energy would be quite happy to pay their workers in company scrip and force them to live in company towns, if they could, in today's world. They don't because they can't - and they can't because unions forced reforms like weekends, a 40 hour work week, and a minimum wage.
I'm about as Liberal as it comes when it comes to social support networks being the backbone of an effective country and economy. But government can't bear the entire burden of your unemployment, you bear some costs in that including having to draw down personal assets including possessions because you are an adult who bears responsibility for your employment.
The latter half of your statement makes a bald-faced liar out of the first. It's as much of a farce as watching Obamabots continuing they oppose war yet support Obama's drone strikes at the same time.
When the world offers you endless numbers of reasonably well-trained workers who can fill your job openings at 1/2 the cost of US workers, what is a country to do? How long can a country resist that pressure?
Uh, don't you have this backwards? How long can a country deliberately eviscerate it's working class and expect to remain stable? On the one hand, a working stiff is supposed to amass 5-6 figures in student loans for a top degree, but then have to compete with third world labor?
We may politically shout for better wages and training for US citizens to fill these jobs, but the deeper issue is that borders/barriers are less and less effective lately against a flood of competition from people who are cheaper and better (or hungrier).
Which is why Germany produces twice as many cars as the United States while it's workers are getting paid twice as much. You seem to think that this race-to-the-bottom is the natural order of things, rather than deliberate policy purchased by monied interests.
H1-B is about expanding the labor pool, not because of a shortage of labor, but to force down prevailing wages for the benefit of corporate employers.
That it is their opinion makes it a good enough reason, because national security is not the business of the Court.
What, it's not enough to believe scenarios too crazy for a season of 24, you have to be a complete fascist at the same time? My, what a nice blackshirt you have, my dear.
It's a big neon sign for the people who don't like Apple to come in and talk about how they are SO OVER Apple, and Jobs was a deushbag anyway. Samsung has their own marketing fluff - hell they just came out with new Galaxies - but that's not linked here, because people don't make a point of saying they are SO OVER Samsung.
Ok let's assume that both watches have zero features. Because they do. I can ask anyone what the time is, and if I'm in range of my phone from my watch I could pick up the phone.
Is "anyone" going to also tell you what time you had your alarm set for? How about relay that text from your wife when you're in the middle of a meeting?
Or would you spend $500 on something that last 3 years and then needs to be replaced?
Traditional watches can have their batteries replaced. iPods/Pads/Phones can have their batteries replaced, and their software updated. If only there was something that could be done here.....nah, nevermind.
No way that's getting replaced with something that will be obsolete in a few months.
This canard. It is not as clever as you guys think it is. People who have been happy with the feature set on phones, which haven't changed much in the last 30, 40 , 50 years, will suddenly stop their feet and go home because the 2015 iWatch only has 100 features but the 2017 model will surely have 135?
Umm... mine is backed by large amounts of research
You misspelled "crackpot talking point that doesn't withstand two seconds of scrutiny":
Adams' interpretation of the data rests on the notion of risk compensation, the idea that individuals tend to adjust their behavior in response to what they perceive as changes in the level of risk.
Adam's interpretation utterly ignored the fact that cars are not free, nor is fixing them. The time a crash is severe enough for a seat belt to save your life strongly correlates to the time the car is totaled and not worth the cost of repairs. His canard is dependent on people freely getting in wrecks because the seat belt will prevent injury - nevermind having the expense and hassle of getting another car to replace it with. So his canard is another crap talking point, starting with a conclusion and then working it's way back to an argument based on lying with statistics, wishful thinking, and confirmation bias.
Just like the fool who posited that a Hummer is more efficient and environmentally friendly than a Prius.
If the cops aren't required to arrest everyone who commits any arrestable defense, then by definition you have selective enforcement.
Cops and prosecutors don't have unlimited resources, so by definition they have to pick and chose which laws to enforce. Ideally, this means they threaten the 19 year old who gets it on with her 16 year old boyfriend with probation rather than having to register as a sex offender for the next 30 years, and instead focus on the deputy mayor who got caught slapping his wife around. It doesn't mean sending Kirkarou to prison for three years for revealing some of the CIA's torture, and then giving Petreaus a slap on the wrist for using beyond-top-secret information to impress his mistress.
Our entire system of law is actually designed for it.
That's sounding a little Randian. The solution to corrupt actors within the state isn't to get rid of the state, but the corrupt actors.
Most people who are in college, shouldn't be attending.
Because their parents were middle class, not upper class. That might not be your intent, but it's the result.
And finally, the quality of those liberal arts degrees has declined in a lot of colleges. Humanities degrees are nothing more than Marxist indoctrination diploma mills.
What a finely pressed brown shirt you have, my dear.
Maybe promote American industry instead of allowing Wall Street to gut it?
That would require putting away the shirt and taxing the rich at socialistiky levels and undoing the damage of capitalism with socialistiky programs.
Nobody is lining up to give poor people professional baseball teams, or choice executive positions at energycompanies. Nor does a poor working stiff who just finished a hard day of running pipes or installing drywall open his motel door in the middle of the night to see women looking to have sex with him.
So is opportunity just getting what you want?? Or is it having a specific income level??
It's not being willfully obtuse as to how this country, and capitalism in general, actually works.
Must be the magic fairy dust foxconn spreads on the exact same parts and the competing PC.
Foxconnn will build what you pay for. You want a cheap POS? They'll build you one. You want decent components that wont die two years after the warranty? They'll build that too.
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Ironic, coming from a devout follower of Libertarian Magic Dust. This isn't hard: when the government is caving to corporate interests on matters of regulation, it's frequently a bad thing (bank bailouts + no prosecution of bankers) it's a bad thing and if it's done in opposition to those interests, it's generally a good thing (S&L prosecutions, mandating seat belts be installed on new cars).
On this, the feds are acting in opposition to telecom monopolies, which is a good thing.
You mean the same Congress that delegated power to the agency in question to make just these sort of rules??? If Congress wants to pass new legislation to revoke that authority (or the budget of the agency under the Executive), it is free to do so - but that does nothing to change the fact that Congress approved it in the first place. You can find similar examples on everything from pot to DADT.
Yes, there's a term for that - Confirmation Bias. These Randian notions are just as reasonable - or as asinine - as saying starting a business will lead to fraud, bribes, sexual harassment, and toxic waste siphoned into the river. Because what other businesses have done, all businesses will do.
Baseless tautology is baseless.
Which can only be addressed by heavy regulation, or by (gasp!) socialized infrastructure. Both of which are anathema to Randians, so this brings us to the second term of the day: Cognitive Dissonance.
The first four of those are tired right wing BS - which is ironic, given how Hill is a hard core right winger. There's plenty of legit criticism of her, but it all comes from the left:
Her support for nasty dictatorships a la Mubarak in Egypt
Supporting the coup in Honduras
Supporting the coup in Ukraine
Supporting coup attempts in Venezuela
Writing the TPP
Pushing the Keystone pipeline
Draconian sanctions on Iran for the nuclear weapons program both the CIA and Mossad say Iran doesn't have
And the ship had sailed a few decades before that even, with Thatcher.
Because nuclear power is a bad, bad joke. There isn't a plant on this planet that rolls the full cost of construction, security, insurance, maintainance, or decommission into the rates it charges, much less storing the radioactive waste for thousands of years.
Just because its cleaner than coal doesnt mean its not putting more co2 into the atmosphere.
Discretion. Google it.
You'll do more than that if you got picked up for one of the three-felonies-a-day the average person "commits" just going about their day.
Authoritarian tools....
Too bad I was talking about cars, then. Why is it that every time this factoid is mentioned, people try to move the subject to automobiles, total?
It's like someone saying GM produces more cars and trucks than Honda, and then someone saying Honda is the largest engine maker in the world because in addition to cars, they make ATV's, riding lawnmowers, and personal watercraft. The later is a true statement....but a non sequitur in response to the first.
But that hair splits at both ends, as many "Detroit" cars are made in Mexico or Canada.
Only if the goalpost is moved from cars to "all automobiles" a la the AC below. But I didn't say automobiles, I said cars.
Wal-Mart and Massey Energy would be quite happy to pay their workers in company scrip and force them to live in company towns, if they could, in today's world. They don't because they can't - and they can't because unions forced reforms like weekends, a 40 hour work week, and a minimum wage.
The latter half of your statement makes a bald-faced liar out of the first. It's as much of a farce as watching Obamabots continuing they oppose war yet support Obama's drone strikes at the same time.
Uh, don't you have this backwards? How long can a country deliberately eviscerate it's working class and expect to remain stable? On the one hand, a working stiff is supposed to amass 5-6 figures in student loans for a top degree, but then have to compete with third world labor?
Which is why Germany produces twice as many cars as the United States while it's workers are getting paid twice as much. You seem to think that this race-to-the-bottom is the natural order of things, rather than deliberate policy purchased by monied interests.
H1-B is about expanding the labor pool, not because of a shortage of labor, but to force down prevailing wages for the benefit of corporate employers.
What, it's not enough to believe scenarios too crazy for a season of 24, you have to be a complete fascist at the same time? My, what a nice blackshirt you have, my dear.
It's a big neon sign for the people who don't like Apple to come in and talk about how they are SO OVER Apple, and Jobs was a deushbag anyway. Samsung has their own marketing fluff - hell they just came out with new Galaxies - but that's not linked here, because people don't make a point of saying they are SO OVER Samsung.
Over and over and over again.
Is "anyone" going to also tell you what time you had your alarm set for? How about relay that text from your wife when you're in the middle of a meeting?
Traditional watches can have their batteries replaced. iPods/Pads/Phones can have their batteries replaced, and their software updated. If only there was something that could be done here.....nah, nevermind.
This canard. It is not as clever as you guys think it is. People who have been happy with the feature set on phones, which haven't changed much in the last 30, 40 , 50 years, will suddenly stop their feet and go home because the 2015 iWatch only has 100 features but the 2017 model will surely have 135?
Umm... mine is backed by large amounts of research
You misspelled "crackpot talking point that doesn't withstand two seconds of scrutiny":
Adam's interpretation utterly ignored the fact that cars are not free, nor is fixing them. The time a crash is severe enough for a seat belt to save your life strongly correlates to the time the car is totaled and not worth the cost of repairs. His canard is dependent on people freely getting in wrecks because the seat belt will prevent injury - nevermind having the expense and hassle of getting another car to replace it with. So his canard is another crap talking point, starting with a conclusion and then working it's way back to an argument based on lying with statistics, wishful thinking, and confirmation bias.
Just like the fool who posited that a Hummer is more efficient and environmentally friendly than a Prius.
Cops and prosecutors don't have unlimited resources, so by definition they have to pick and chose which laws to enforce. Ideally, this means they threaten the 19 year old who gets it on with her 16 year old boyfriend with probation rather than having to register as a sex offender for the next 30 years, and instead focus on the deputy mayor who got caught slapping his wife around. It doesn't mean sending Kirkarou to prison for three years for revealing some of the CIA's torture, and then giving Petreaus a slap on the wrist for using beyond-top-secret information to impress his mistress.
That's sounding a little Randian. The solution to corrupt actors within the state isn't to get rid of the state, but the corrupt actors.
Because their parents were middle class, not upper class. That might not be your intent, but it's the result.
What a finely pressed brown shirt you have, my dear.
That would require putting away the shirt and taxing the rich at socialistiky levels and undoing the damage of capitalism with socialistiky programs.
Pulling straw men out of your ass doesn't make you less of a bigot, fool.
Nobody is lining up to give poor people professional baseball teams, or choice executive positions at energy companies. Nor does a poor working stiff who just finished a hard day of running pipes or installing drywall open his motel door in the middle of the night to see women looking to have sex with him.
It's not being willfully obtuse as to how this country, and capitalism in general, actually works.
Your butthurt at having your justifications for intolerance crumble in the face of logic is noted, bigot.
Really. Everyone has their anecdotes, but Apple has long been at or near the top of hardware reliability.
Foxconnn will build what you pay for. You want a cheap POS? They'll build you one. You want decent components that wont die two years after the warranty? They'll build that too.