Assholes always preaching the gun. Meanwhile less than half the population bothers to vote. Lets actually USE the ballot box before we switch to the ammo box, huh? I mean, I get the allure, but that sort of things has a really shitty history of actually working.
Hell, if we all organized and stopped buying NIKE products until they told congress to behave, then moved from company to company just NOT buying products, we'd get immediate action. We could NOT do things and if we did it in an organized fashion, shit would change.
Or you could try taking your AR-15 and going up against military hardware and training. Good Luck!
Actually, the breakup of Bell did some amazing things for a while. All of the regulations made the phone companies play nice. Things were pretty sweet for a while. Then we took it for granted, started deregulating, and here we are again.
Common Carrier rules were pretty awesome when we had them. Back in the heady days of Dial Up, you could start an ISP pretty easily. The big telephone companies HAD to lease you connections at a decent price. Competition was there. ISPs competed on service. There were choices. It was awesome.
Now we've lost that and Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America. Because Free Market!
And yet despite his scaremongering, which coincidentally means he needs more money and resources, I'm more likely to die of a heart attack or get hit while riding my bike than to ever even SEE a terrorist.
We should take all their money and spend it on automobile safety and heart disease prevention....
When making statements like this, it is helpful to mark the distinction between the political parties and the people. There are very few actually liberal Democrats, just as there are very few actually conservative Republicans.
I would argue that you've got it backwards of course.:D R's give out tax breaks like candy so they can get campaign donations. Ah well. Potato Potahto.
We'd take you less seriously if you didn't make statements saying Democrats are beholden to Big Coal. Yes. West Virginia is suuuuuch a blue state.:P And unionization amongst coal miners is soooo strong these days.:D
Really. make your point and keep out the ad hominem attacks. You could have skipped that entire second paragragh and made your point just as well. Our politicians are bought. We know. We get it.
Oh, it's public money all right. It's public money going to a for profit company, further weakening our already underfunded schools. They definitely ARE private institutions. When profit motive rubs up against educating kids, what do you think will win? But hey, even if fail, at least the public schools lose more money....
We did not win. These stupid little rules of his are completely unenforceable. They've tried this before and it went to court. The judges said "Hey FCC, YOU'RE the one that gave up the ability to regulate these companies under common carrier rules. All you have to do to get it back is reclassify."
Any rule he proposes is just that. A Proposal, with zero teeth. None. Zilch. The FCC gave up the right to regulate broadband in 2005, and the FCC chairman of the time went on to become a lobbyist for cable companies.
No. He doesn't know what he's talking about.:D He's parroting "government bad" and saying that the government is strangling the last mile. in SOME instances he's right. But his view is not balanced, nor is it nuanced enough to accurately reflect what people are saying about net neutrality and what should be done.
The FCC reclassifying the internet as title 2, putting common carrier rules back in place, would fix this issue. Everyone who knows what the !@#$ they're talking about agrees. Then there's you people....
The invisible hand of the free market is invisible for a reason. It doesn't exist. It's a myth. A simplistic model to explain armchair economics. Look to first world countries that HAVE competition in broadband. Basically, everyone but the U.S. Know what they all have in common beyond kick ass speeds at low prices? Regulation that forces the big companies to play nice with the little companies. They have government that isn't completely bought.
We're far more pissed about Obama than you are. Take your little reality distortion field back to FOX News.
Why are liberals pissed? Drone strikes on innocents. Drone strikes on Americans without trials. Didn't close Gitmo. Didn't push for universal healthcare. Didn't push for marriage equality. Keeps nominating conservatives to important posts. Defends warrantless wiretapping. Defends secret courts. Doesn't kick congresses ass. "enhanced interogation". Keeps trying to make deals with Republcans who so obviously are sabatoging everything they can get their hands on to make him look bad. I could go on. Generally, he lied his ass off to us.
If conservatives would look up from their hate, they'd see that Liberals hate Obama almost as much as they do. But, you know, for REAL reasons.:D He's done more to move the country right, just be being a centrist and being LABELED a lefty (which he's not). Now any actual Lefty can be pointed at and "OMG, she's to the LEFT of OBAMA!"
He's another corporatist shill. Bought and Paid for. We know it. If only y'all hadn't tried Palin... god.... McCain really wasn't THAT bad, and he actually opposed torture outright.
Is "I'm buddies with all the cable lobbyists, I'm in charge of setting regulations on the internet, and when I quit the FCC I'll get a fat job as a lobbyist again as long as I keep them happy" considered a conflict of interest?
It really seems like it to me. And you got so MAD....
Further, it seems that the only experience being a cable lobbyist gives you is deregulating your industry.
Face it, you're wrong on this one. Wheeler has conflict of interest coming out of his ass. And I'm not afraid to say it as myself either, AC.:/
They FCC used to classify the internet as a common carrier. They changed that in 2005 to an "information service", which they don't have rules to regulate. They already tried making up net neutrality rules, and a judge already smacked them down and told them they GAVE UP the ability to regulate broadband and that they'd need to reclassify to get it back. They can do this at any time.
Given that a court has already told them that their little rules don't apply, all these new proposals mean shit all. Any company can get around them by going to court, precident has been set. They should know this. They do.
The only reason they don't reclassify is because then they wouldn't get cushy lobbyist jobs when their time is up at the FCC.
This is why we get shitty leaders. It shouldn't matter if his daughter is naked in a photoshoot (and I hardly think that qualifies as whoredom, AND who gives a shit). Who cares if Chelsea is pregnant. Who cares where Obama's Uncle lives(or whatever that one was). Who cares if Anthony Weiner's weiner is on the internet. Etc etc etc...
It should matter what their voting record is. It should matter how they'll do the job.
P.S. This strange fascination with sexual "purity" is really annoying and only seems to come out in the dirtiest of folk. Go read The Ethical Slut and stop worrying about it so much.
The FCC has no authority to enforce rules on an information service. This has already come before the courts. They can make all the stupid little rules they want. They're completely shit unenforceable, and they must know this. Reclassify!
Instead of insulting people who ask a legitimate question, we can answer..... sheesh. This is already done. Look up QOS practices. No one has a problem with this. It is a neutral practice.
Is this because we all called and complained, or is it because some tech companies called and complained? Who are they listening to? I don't mean to be a curmudgeon. I called all my reps several times. In my mind, those that don't even try shouldn't be allowed to complain.... but I am skeptical about who's voice got heard.
The warming from 1910-1940 looks about the same as the warming 1975-200? In that they both go up and never do go down? And from that you just magically assume that it's all natural warming? WHY? What reasoning do you have to support that? This is not cyclical. There's the data. It all goes UP. In YOUR example, it goes up, flat, up flat. That's not natural variation....
And if we look at the long trend instead of a few decades, it really doesn't look like we're experience natural fluctuations at all...
I wholeheartedly agree that looking at alternative hypothesises is good science. The globe IS warming. Is it the sun? No. The sun is actually in a lull right now and it's kind of weird. Is it part of a normal cycle? We are supposed to be warming as part of our natural cycle, but not this fast. Is it because the temperature sensors are in populated areas? No, we take that into account and the data is checked against tree ring cycles and other datasets.
It's not that we didn't look at your Other Causes. We just quickly showed them all the be wrong.
Also, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that the scientific method tells us that the null hypothesis is assumed to be true until it's proven false? So... we assume the Theory of Gravity is wrong until that one apple floats up instead of falling down? You know nothing.
Eh. I have to say, yes, the Ds are just as bought as the Rs. But lets get back on track here... There's a perception that the media is biased towards liberals. Ok, and I stretch to call the Ds liberals. But really. Benghazi. Over and Over and Over. Four people lost their lives, it was a tragedy, and it was a mistake... but it's NOT the story it's made out to be. The media is all in when we're talking about Benghazi though, and where's the real reporting instead of just parroting talking points?
Where were the congressional hearings when we started a war in Iraq on faulty intelligence? Four people lost their lives? Try thousands of our troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians. Where's the outcry in the media?
Our media is NOT liberal. They are corporate conglomerates, who parrot what they are told.
Snowden? Benghazi? Troops coming home in caskets? Oil spills? mines collapsing? Our media are tools, and they say what they're told to say. Liberal bias my ass. They have a corporate bias.
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Assholes always preaching the gun. Meanwhile less than half the population bothers to vote. Lets actually USE the ballot box before we switch to the ammo box, huh? I mean, I get the allure, but that sort of things has a really shitty history of actually working.
Hell, if we all organized and stopped buying NIKE products until they told congress to behave, then moved from company to company just NOT buying products, we'd get immediate action. We could NOT do things and if we did it in an organized fashion, shit would change.
Or you could try taking your AR-15 and going up against military hardware and training. Good Luck!
Actually, the breakup of Bell did some amazing things for a while. All of the regulations made the phone companies play nice. Things were pretty sweet for a while. Then we took it for granted, started deregulating, and here we are again.
Common Carrier rules were pretty awesome when we had them. Back in the heady days of Dial Up, you could start an ISP pretty easily. The big telephone companies HAD to lease you connections at a decent price. Competition was there. ISPs competed on service. There were choices. It was awesome.
Now we've lost that and Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America. Because Free Market!
And yet despite his scaremongering, which coincidentally means he needs more money and resources, I'm more likely to die of a heart attack or get hit while riding my bike than to ever even SEE a terrorist.
We should take all their money and spend it on automobile safety and heart disease prevention....
When making statements like this, it is helpful to mark the distinction between the political parties and the people. There are very few actually liberal Democrats, just as there are very few actually conservative Republicans.
I would argue that you've got it backwards of course. :D R's give out tax breaks like candy so they can get campaign donations. Ah well. Potato Potahto.
We'd take you less seriously if you didn't make statements saying Democrats are beholden to Big Coal. Yes. West Virginia is suuuuuch a blue state. :P And unionization amongst coal miners is soooo strong these days. :D
Really. make your point and keep out the ad hominem attacks. You could have skipped that entire second paragragh and made your point just as well. Our politicians are bought. We know. We get it.
I'm ashamed to share a country with people like you... Racism is horrible.
wow dude... this is why you don't get invited to parties. Racist. Wow. And so blantant about it.
I just.... wow. I didn't think your kind still existed. Eye opener. Wow..... And you didn't even post as an AC. You just said it. To everyone. Wow....
You need to hole up and examine yourself deeply. Something is wrong with you.
Oh, it's public money all right. It's public money going to a for profit company, further weakening our already underfunded schools. They definitely ARE private institutions. When profit motive rubs up against educating kids, what do you think will win? But hey, even if fail, at least the public schools lose more money....
uh... yes they did. I got the year wrong. Apparently it was 2002. Here's a nice article to explain it all.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/15/5311948/net-neutrality-and-the-death-of-the-internet
We did not win. These stupid little rules of his are completely unenforceable. They've tried this before and it went to court. The judges said "Hey FCC, YOU'RE the one that gave up the ability to regulate these companies under common carrier rules. All you have to do to get it back is reclassify."
Any rule he proposes is just that. A Proposal, with zero teeth. None. Zilch. The FCC gave up the right to regulate broadband in 2005, and the FCC chairman of the time went on to become a lobbyist for cable companies.
No. He doesn't know what he's talking about. :D He's parroting "government bad" and saying that the government is strangling the last mile. in SOME instances he's right. But his view is not balanced, nor is it nuanced enough to accurately reflect what people are saying about net neutrality and what should be done.
The FCC reclassifying the internet as title 2, putting common carrier rules back in place, would fix this issue. Everyone who knows what the !@#$ they're talking about agrees. Then there's you people....
The invisible hand of the free market is invisible for a reason. It doesn't exist. It's a myth. A simplistic model to explain armchair economics. Look to first world countries that HAVE competition in broadband. Basically, everyone but the U.S. Know what they all have in common beyond kick ass speeds at low prices? Regulation that forces the big companies to play nice with the little companies. They have government that isn't completely bought.
We're far more pissed about Obama than you are. Take your little reality distortion field back to FOX News.
Why are liberals pissed? Drone strikes on innocents. Drone strikes on Americans without trials. Didn't close Gitmo. Didn't push for universal healthcare. Didn't push for marriage equality. Keeps nominating conservatives to important posts. Defends warrantless wiretapping. Defends secret courts. Doesn't kick congresses ass. "enhanced interogation". Keeps trying to make deals with Republcans who so obviously are sabatoging everything they can get their hands on to make him look bad. I could go on. Generally, he lied his ass off to us.
If conservatives would look up from their hate, they'd see that Liberals hate Obama almost as much as they do. But, you know, for REAL reasons. :D He's done more to move the country right, just be being a centrist and being LABELED a lefty (which he's not). Now any actual Lefty can be pointed at and "OMG, she's to the LEFT of OBAMA!"
He's another corporatist shill. Bought and Paid for. We know it. If only y'all hadn't tried Palin... god.... McCain really wasn't THAT bad, and he actually opposed torture outright.
Is "I'm buddies with all the cable lobbyists, I'm in charge of setting regulations on the internet, and when I quit the FCC I'll get a fat job as a lobbyist again as long as I keep them happy" considered a conflict of interest?
It really seems like it to me. And you got so MAD ....
Further, it seems that the only experience being a cable lobbyist gives you is deregulating your industry.
Face it, you're wrong on this one. Wheeler has conflict of interest coming out of his ass. And I'm not afraid to say it as myself either, AC. :/
Did you READ the article? It's a rounding error on their profits. So says the Oilman HIMSELF.
This sort of thing should be called out for what it is. Racist. You're a racist. No political correctness here. You're a racist asshole.
They FCC used to classify the internet as a common carrier. They changed that in 2005 to an "information service", which they don't have rules to regulate. They already tried making up net neutrality rules, and a judge already smacked them down and told them they GAVE UP the ability to regulate broadband and that they'd need to reclassify to get it back. They can do this at any time.
Given that a court has already told them that their little rules don't apply, all these new proposals mean shit all. Any company can get around them by going to court, precident has been set. They should know this. They do.
The only reason they don't reclassify is because then they wouldn't get cushy lobbyist jobs when their time is up at the FCC.
By the way, you can email the FCC commisioners directly. Be polite! https://www.fcc.gov/contact-us
Also by the way, you should call your reps and bitch to them too. Keep up the pressure! http://whoismyrepresentative.c...
I found my reps and put them into my phone. It's amazing how much more you call when they're right there.
This is why we get shitty leaders. It shouldn't matter if his daughter is naked in a photoshoot (and I hardly think that qualifies as whoredom, AND who gives a shit). Who cares if Chelsea is pregnant. Who cares where Obama's Uncle lives(or whatever that one was). Who cares if Anthony Weiner's weiner is on the internet. Etc etc etc...
It should matter what their voting record is. It should matter how they'll do the job.
P.S. This strange fascination with sexual "purity" is really annoying and only seems to come out in the dirtiest of folk. Go read The Ethical Slut and stop worrying about it so much.
The FCC has no authority to enforce rules on an information service. This has already come before the courts. They can make all the stupid little rules they want. They're completely shit unenforceable, and they must know this. Reclassify!
Instead of insulting people who ask a legitimate question, we can answer..... sheesh. This is already done. Look up QOS practices. No one has a problem with this. It is a neutral practice.
Is this because we all called and complained, or is it because some tech companies called and complained? Who are they listening to? I don't mean to be a curmudgeon. I called all my reps several times. In my mind, those that don't even try shouldn't be allowed to complain.... but I am skeptical about who's voice got heard.
You know, the data is readily available on Wolfram Alpha....
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+climate+studies+500-2014
Weird, almost looks like a... hockey stick.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+climate+studies+1000-2014
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+climate+studies+1900-2014
The warming from 1910-1940 looks about the same as the warming 1975-200? In that they both go up and never do go down? And from that you just magically assume that it's all natural warming? WHY? What reasoning do you have to support that? This is not cyclical. There's the data. It all goes UP. In YOUR example, it goes up, flat, up flat. That's not natural variation....
And if we look at the long trend instead of a few decades, it really doesn't look like we're experience natural fluctuations at all...
I wholeheartedly agree that looking at alternative hypothesises is good science. The globe IS warming. Is it the sun? No. The sun is actually in a lull right now and it's kind of weird. Is it part of a normal cycle? We are supposed to be warming as part of our natural cycle, but not this fast. Is it because the temperature sensors are in populated areas? No, we take that into account and the data is checked against tree ring cycles and other datasets.
It's not that we didn't look at your Other Causes. We just quickly showed them all the be wrong.
Also, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that the scientific method tells us that the null hypothesis is assumed to be true until it's proven false? So... we assume the Theory of Gravity is wrong until that one apple floats up instead of falling down? You know nothing.
ha! Where do YOU work? Don't be so quick to throw that stone..... It's a rare company these days that can be called anything but parasitic.
Eh. I have to say, yes, the Ds are just as bought as the Rs. But lets get back on track here... There's a perception that the media is biased towards liberals. Ok, and I stretch to call the Ds liberals. But really. Benghazi. Over and Over and Over. Four people lost their lives, it was a tragedy, and it was a mistake... but it's NOT the story it's made out to be. The media is all in when we're talking about Benghazi though, and where's the real reporting instead of just parroting talking points?
Where were the congressional hearings when we started a war in Iraq on faulty intelligence? Four people lost their lives? Try thousands of our troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians. Where's the outcry in the media?
Our media is NOT liberal. They are corporate conglomerates, who parrot what they are told.
Snowden? Benghazi? Troops coming home in caskets? Oil spills? mines collapsing? Our media are tools, and they say what they're told to say. Liberal bias my ass. They have a corporate bias.