Money is not speech. Corporations (And I include Unions in there) are not people. This is not a 1st amendment issue. Why are you OK with letting large organizations bribe our elected officials with campaign donations?
Power did a lot of work to get rid of Unions, because Unions were effective at raising wages. Sure, the choice between D and R is a stupid one... but there ARE other choices.
They take work though.... Why not go volunteer at the city or county level, try to make a difference. I do some political volunteering and it's possible to make a difference at the state level. Things filter up, but only if you get off your ass and help us....
Choice may be an illusion, but the lack of choice due to Apathy is clearly a choice for Power.
I'll still pay you. I paid for seasons 1-4. I'll pay for 5 on google play. I just couldn't wait, and I don't want your stupid service, since the ONLY thing you have that I want is GoT.
I'm Liberal. I want clean government, an end to shitty subsidies, no corruption, representatives that actually represent me, equality and justice for all... All the usual.
I can't stand Hillary. I actually turned myself into a Democrat (You can easily switch parties in Oregon. There's a website. it takes just a few moments.) so I could vote AGAINST Hillary in the primary. I think she's a giant tool, and a bit of a war monger. I think she'll be the same bank and war friendly President that we got out of Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, and Obama. She's not a progressive. She doesn't care about the little guy. She's a career politician.
If Warren won't run, I'll vote for Bernie Sanders, the only Independant in Congress.
To end this, I would say to you all that our country is having some problems and it's OUR fault. Large swaths of the US citizenry are political morons who vote for hot button issues (And really, when did the R's ever get rid of abortion? When did the D's ever really help the poor? They just SAY that shit, they don't mean it.) or for the "character" of a candidate. Voter turnout is really low, making it possible for candidates to play to the base instead of playing to the swing voter.... Don't blame Washington. Blame yourself. And don't give me that "I don't vote so it's not my fault" B.S. You give them your taxes and then don't hold them responsible for what they do with them. Those people make me sick....
This is supposed to be News for Nerds. This is F!@#$ing NASA for crying out loud. Half the posts here are "Climate change isn't real!" and the other half are a call for some libertarian BS about small government and how NASA shouldn't do basic reasearch into our planet.
What happened?
I'm !@#$ing disgusted by the anti science rhetoric here. Here! On a News for Nerds site!?
This is !@#$ing NASA. Should they launch satellites? Yes! Should they point them inwards AND outwards? Yes! Should Congress stop F!@#$ing with their funding?
That so many supposed Nerds can just ignore basic science is a testiment to the power of the rhetoric used against us, not to mention the sheer lack of critical thinking that is clearly displayed here. I am disgusted by how low we've sunk. No. YOU'VE sunk.
Turn in your !@#$ing Nerd badges. You don't deserve them.
What feasible solutions would YOU suggest? I'm really curious..... Let's take the politics out of it... What !@#$ing feasible solutions would be good enough for you? Climate Change is real, and we need to do something about it, so what would you do that would actually fix the problem? Please, do enlighten us....
Actually, the thing I love most about English is the ability to noun verbs, and to verb nouns. I LOVE that. It makes it so easy to convey ideas. When someone heads a ball, it's just obvious what has happened.:D I can google with Google, I can hammer with my hammer. I can boot someone out of my home! Ha! I love that!
Everyone is forgetting that these new rules are the ORIGINAL rules. The FCC reclassified back in the late 90s... This current reclassification is FIXING that !@#$up.
There is no expansion. There is no government takeover. It's an agency that was tasked by Congress with regulation, regulating, because the carriers have started to pull some hinky double dipping extortion racket that will take down the single greatest engine for innovation, education, and prosperity that this world has ever seen.
These new rules are a Good Thing, Today. If you think the government is bad, well damnit, they did something good TODAY. If you think it's all just money talking, you're right, but at least they got it right TODAY. I don't care if a leprechaun shitted out Net Neutrality, we need it, and here it is.
So stop complaining that the evil government did something RIGHT for once...
Yes, you CAN find this report. That report is what they used to reclassify. THAT WENT THROUGH. The after effects of that decision that you are lauding is the present cluster fuck. The decision to reclassify is FIXING the MISTAKE that you're talking about.
Companies always go toward Monopoly. Something needs to reign them in. Free Market doesn't work in the case of monopolies. Comcast is the most hated company in America, but still exists....
Greedy bastards ALWAYS push it.
If you have criminals, and corrupt cops, the solution is not to get rid of cops. It's to get rid of the corruption!
I kid. I kid. I see your point. Regulatory capture is a bad thing. The solution is NOT to get rid of regulation. That leads to monopolies. The solution is to get rid of the corruption.
Frankly, America barely votes and a large swath of the voters are fucking lemming morons. We have the corrupt government we deserve. Congress has a 14% approval rating. Most of them get reelected over and over. This isn't the government's fault. This is OUR god damned fault.
If Verizon doesn't want to be a common carrier, I saw we let them reclassify themselves. They can be an information service. They can lose Common Carrier status. What they seem to forget is that there are two parts to being a Common Carrier. They're not held liable for what's ON their pipes, as long as they don't TOUCH what's on their pipes.
Let them lose Common Carrier, and then let's all sue them into the !@#$ing ground for all the emotionally crippling Internet sent over their pipes. Oh? What's that? Suddenly they want to be common carriers again?
Fuck you Verizon, and fuck your petty little tirades. This is why I use T-Mobile. No contracts, decent prices, and their CEO loves Net Neutrality. Oh, and GSM service so I can take my phone overseas and have it work.
Yeah, I'm getting annoyed at this whole "years in court" thing too. Title II is NOT new. It was established in 1933-4? and lasted until the late 90s I believe. Title II is very well tested. Further, we've had several DC circuit court cases in 2014 where the judges said that the FCC had the authority if they reclassified. They have. Done Deal.
They left out one important detail though... we didn't get unbundling back. It used to be that the phone carriers had to lease their lines to whomever asked for a decent price. That let mom and pop ISPs into the field to compete on service, and it was awesome for creating competition.
I'd tell her that her teenage years might be rough. I'd tell her not to worry about them and that life gets better in college, where you're surrounded by people that WANT to be there.
I'd tell her that she's going to feel a lot of pressure from the people around her to be "normal", and that's hogwash. She'll be told to look a certain way, act a certain way, and that there's a LOT of pressure to not be happy so she'll buy makeup or clothes so she can BE happy, but that that is BS and doesn't work.
I'd tell her that most of the people in the world don't know what they're doing with their lives. They're going through the motions and hoping no one else notices that they're lost. The people that make choices about what they want to do with their lives are the ones that are really happy, because their life has meaning. Tell her to do whatever she wants with her life, and you'll be happy if she's happy and lives her life well.
Tell her dating is a skill, and like any skill you learn it by fucking up a few times... Her first love won't be her last. There will be awkwardness and some small amount of stupidity, but you learn from that and you get better at it and eventually you figure out who you are, who you want to be, and then you find someone that you want to share your life with.
Tell her that another person can't complete her, ever. That's her job. She can't complete someone else. That's their job.
Other than that, I'd just spill your guts on random life lessons you've learned.:D Every word will be a treasure to her, so don't skimp on the trivial stuff!
Oh shut the !@#$ up. These rules are OLD, we had them back in the day. They were nixed in the 90s. There's nothing new here, and we know precisely just how awesome they were. Also, the FCC has been quite forthcoming, and these rules were presented MONTHS ago to the public. You're just being a shill, or you're woefully ignorant.
1. Actually, these are old rules. The internet was run under these rules for most of it's life. You have no idea what you're talking about.
2. Uhm.... You don't know much about the old days of radio or broadcast TV do you?
3. That's your belief, but not the history we've seen.
4. That's just FUD.
I don't think you know what your'e talking about at all. Your whole post is just FUD. Really. You're blatantly wrong about the regulations, about the history of radio, broadcast TV, and the rest is just your own anti government beliefs.
s'funny, because they kind of already go after child pornograqphy, harassment, piracy, and encryption. It's not like they've been ignoring them all this time...
Actually, it WAS a policy. Title II is NOT new. We had it in the... God Damnit, I'm tired of typing this shit. You !@#$ers should !@#$ing know that we had title II regulation and that it was knackered back in the !@#$ing 90's by a bush appointed FCC head. This isn't NEW. This is OLD, and it worked AWESOME back in the !@#$ day.
This is PRECISELY how the internet was ran back in the day. I'm old enough to !@#$ing remember it too. Get off my !@#$ lawn.
The policies that the FCC are putting in place are NOT NEW. We HAD them. They were knackered back in the 90's, and then everything went to shit. We know PRECISELY what these policies will do, because we've had them before.
If anything, the FCC hasn't gone far enough. They're not forcing the carriers to unbundle like back in the old days. In the old days the carriers were forced to lease their lines to competitors for decent rates, which allowed mom and pop ISPs to flourish and compete on service.
In the old days of Title II regulation, the companies were forced to lease their lines to competitors for decent rates. That's why we had lots of local mom and pop ISPs... Naturally, the FCC is not going to enforce that part of Title II, it might cause actual competition.
I'm incredibly frustrated by all the morons on here who quite obviously don't know what they're talking about, crying about government regulation and how this is going to hurt broadband, and if only we had more choice at the local level.... Not talking about you Woody. You're fine.
The new rules are not new. They were in place since the dawn of the internet, and they were awesome. We only deregulated in the 90s, and look what it has gotten us. We've slipped farther and farther back in broadband deployment.
These "new" rules are OLD rules, and they're not even putting them all into place. You've been lied to.
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Money is not speech. Corporations (And I include Unions in there) are not people. This is not a 1st amendment issue. Why are you OK with letting large organizations bribe our elected officials with campaign donations?
Power did a lot of work to get rid of Unions, because Unions were effective at raising wages. Sure, the choice between D and R is a stupid one... but there ARE other choices.
They take work though.... Why not go volunteer at the city or county level, try to make a difference. I do some political volunteering and it's possible to make a difference at the state level. Things filter up, but only if you get off your ass and help us....
Choice may be an illusion, but the lack of choice due to Apathy is clearly a choice for Power.
Dear HBO,
I'll still pay you. I paid for seasons 1-4. I'll pay for 5 on google play. I just couldn't wait, and I don't want your stupid service, since the ONLY thing you have that I want is GoT.
Me, and pretty much everyone.
Nerds care about politics too...
I'm Liberal. I want clean government, an end to shitty subsidies, no corruption, representatives that actually represent me, equality and justice for all... All the usual.
I can't stand Hillary. I actually turned myself into a Democrat (You can easily switch parties in Oregon. There's a website. it takes just a few moments.) so I could vote AGAINST Hillary in the primary. I think she's a giant tool, and a bit of a war monger. I think she'll be the same bank and war friendly President that we got out of Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, and Obama. She's not a progressive. She doesn't care about the little guy. She's a career politician.
If Warren won't run, I'll vote for Bernie Sanders, the only Independant in Congress.
To end this, I would say to you all that our country is having some problems and it's OUR fault. Large swaths of the US citizenry are political morons who vote for hot button issues (And really, when did the R's ever get rid of abortion? When did the D's ever really help the poor? They just SAY that shit, they don't mean it.) or for the "character" of a candidate. Voter turnout is really low, making it possible for candidates to play to the base instead of playing to the swing voter.... Don't blame Washington. Blame yourself. And don't give me that "I don't vote so it's not my fault" B.S. You give them your taxes and then don't hold them responsible for what they do with them. Those people make me sick....
This is supposed to be News for Nerds. This is F!@#$ing NASA for crying out loud. Half the posts here are "Climate change isn't real!" and the other half are a call for some libertarian BS about small government and how NASA shouldn't do basic reasearch into our planet.
What happened?
I'm !@#$ing disgusted by the anti science rhetoric here. Here! On a News for Nerds site!?
This is !@#$ing NASA. Should they launch satellites? Yes! Should they point them inwards AND outwards? Yes! Should Congress stop F!@#$ing with their funding?
That so many supposed Nerds can just ignore basic science is a testiment to the power of the rhetoric used against us, not to mention the sheer lack of critical thinking that is clearly displayed here. I am disgusted by how low we've sunk. No. YOU'VE sunk.
Turn in your !@#$ing Nerd badges. You don't deserve them.
What feasible solutions would YOU suggest? I'm really curious..... Let's take the politics out of it... What !@#$ing feasible solutions would be good enough for you? Climate Change is real, and we need to do something about it, so what would you do that would actually fix the problem? Please, do enlighten us....
Yeah. Nothing is verboten in English!
Actually, the thing I love most about English is the ability to noun verbs, and to verb nouns. I LOVE that. It makes it so easy to convey ideas. When someone heads a ball, it's just obvious what has happened. :D I can google with Google, I can hammer with my hammer. I can boot someone out of my home! Ha! I love that!
Everyone is forgetting that these new rules are the ORIGINAL rules. The FCC reclassified back in the late 90s... This current reclassification is FIXING that !@#$up.
There is no expansion. There is no government takeover. It's an agency that was tasked by Congress with regulation, regulating, because the carriers have started to pull some hinky double dipping extortion racket that will take down the single greatest engine for innovation, education, and prosperity that this world has ever seen.
These new rules are a Good Thing, Today. If you think the government is bad, well damnit, they did something good TODAY. If you think it's all just money talking, you're right, but at least they got it right TODAY. I don't care if a leprechaun shitted out Net Neutrality, we need it, and here it is.
So stop complaining that the evil government did something RIGHT for once...
Yes, you CAN find this report. That report is what they used to reclassify. THAT WENT THROUGH. The after effects of that decision that you are lauding is the present cluster fuck. The decision to reclassify is FIXING the MISTAKE that you're talking about.
Now.... just extend that a LITTLE further...
Companies always go toward Monopoly. Something needs to reign them in. Free Market doesn't work in the case of monopolies. Comcast is the most hated company in America, but still exists....
Greedy bastards ALWAYS push it.
If you have criminals, and corrupt cops, the solution is not to get rid of cops. It's to get rid of the corruption!
The FCC? :D
I kid. I kid. I see your point. Regulatory capture is a bad thing. The solution is NOT to get rid of regulation. That leads to monopolies. The solution is to get rid of the corruption.
Frankly, America barely votes and a large swath of the voters are fucking lemming morons. We have the corrupt government we deserve. Congress has a 14% approval rating. Most of them get reelected over and over. This isn't the government's fault. This is OUR god damned fault.
You don't pay attention do you? You think the government gave them those subsidies without expectations? Ha!
Verizon has no 1st or 5th amendment rights. I have them. You have them. Verizon is not a person. They can go fuck themselves.
Ya know?
If Verizon doesn't want to be a common carrier, I saw we let them reclassify themselves. They can be an information service. They can lose Common Carrier status. What they seem to forget is that there are two parts to being a Common Carrier. They're not held liable for what's ON their pipes, as long as they don't TOUCH what's on their pipes.
Let them lose Common Carrier, and then let's all sue them into the !@#$ing ground for all the emotionally crippling Internet sent over their pipes. Oh? What's that? Suddenly they want to be common carriers again?
Fuck you Verizon, and fuck your petty little tirades. This is why I use T-Mobile. No contracts, decent prices, and their CEO loves Net Neutrality. Oh, and GSM service so I can take my phone overseas and have it work.
So... because bad people bribe the people in power, I shouldn't even try? And that'll fix things how?
Yeah, I'm getting annoyed at this whole "years in court" thing too. Title II is NOT new. It was established in 1933-4? and lasted until the late 90s I believe. Title II is very well tested. Further, we've had several DC circuit court cases in 2014 where the judges said that the FCC had the authority if they reclassified. They have. Done Deal.
They left out one important detail though... we didn't get unbundling back. It used to be that the phone carriers had to lease their lines to whomever asked for a decent price. That let mom and pop ISPs into the field to compete on service, and it was awesome for creating competition.
I'd tell her that her teenage years might be rough. I'd tell her not to worry about them and that life gets better in college, where you're surrounded by people that WANT to be there.
I'd tell her that she's going to feel a lot of pressure from the people around her to be "normal", and that's hogwash. She'll be told to look a certain way, act a certain way, and that there's a LOT of pressure to not be happy so she'll buy makeup or clothes so she can BE happy, but that that is BS and doesn't work.
I'd tell her that most of the people in the world don't know what they're doing with their lives. They're going through the motions and hoping no one else notices that they're lost. The people that make choices about what they want to do with their lives are the ones that are really happy, because their life has meaning. Tell her to do whatever she wants with her life, and you'll be happy if she's happy and lives her life well.
Tell her dating is a skill, and like any skill you learn it by fucking up a few times... Her first love won't be her last. There will be awkwardness and some small amount of stupidity, but you learn from that and you get better at it and eventually you figure out who you are, who you want to be, and then you find someone that you want to share your life with.
Tell her that another person can't complete her, ever. That's her job. She can't complete someone else. That's their job.
Other than that, I'd just spill your guts on random life lessons you've learned. :D Every word will be a treasure to her, so don't skimp on the trivial stuff!
Oh shut the !@#$ up. These rules are OLD, we had them back in the day. They were nixed in the 90s. There's nothing new here, and we know precisely just how awesome they were. Also, the FCC has been quite forthcoming, and these rules were presented MONTHS ago to the public. You're just being a shill, or you're woefully ignorant.
1. Actually, these are old rules. The internet was run under these rules for most of it's life. You have no idea what you're talking about.
2. Uhm.... You don't know much about the old days of radio or broadcast TV do you?
3. That's your belief, but not the history we've seen.
4. That's just FUD.
I don't think you know what your'e talking about at all. Your whole post is just FUD. Really. You're blatantly wrong about the regulations, about the history of radio, broadcast TV, and the rest is just your own anti government beliefs.
This is a GOOD THING.
s'funny, because they kind of already go after child pornograqphy, harassment, piracy, and encryption. It's not like they've been ignoring them all this time...
Actually, it WAS a policy. Title II is NOT new. We had it in the ... God Damnit, I'm tired of typing this shit. You !@#$ers should !@#$ing know that we had title II regulation and that it was knackered back in the !@#$ing 90's by a bush appointed FCC head. This isn't NEW. This is OLD, and it worked AWESOME back in the !@#$ day.
This is PRECISELY how the internet was ran back in the day. I'm old enough to !@#$ing remember it too. Get off my !@#$ lawn.
The policies that the FCC are putting in place are NOT NEW. We HAD them. They were knackered back in the 90's, and then everything went to shit. We know PRECISELY what these policies will do, because we've had them before.
If anything, the FCC hasn't gone far enough. They're not forcing the carriers to unbundle like back in the old days. In the old days the carriers were forced to lease their lines to competitors for decent rates, which allowed mom and pop ISPs to flourish and compete on service.
In the old days of Title II regulation, the companies were forced to lease their lines to competitors for decent rates. That's why we had lots of local mom and pop ISPs... Naturally, the FCC is not going to enforce that part of Title II, it might cause actual competition.
I'm incredibly frustrated by all the morons on here who quite obviously don't know what they're talking about, crying about government regulation and how this is going to hurt broadband, and if only we had more choice at the local level.... Not talking about you Woody. You're fine.
They released the proposed regulations about a month? ago? Just because you're not paying attention doesn't mean there's a conspiracy....
Also, your sig is not funny at all. It just reveals your lack of depth, wit, and empathy.
The new rules are not new. They were in place since the dawn of the internet, and they were awesome. We only deregulated in the 90s, and look what it has gotten us. We've slipped farther and farther back in broadband deployment.
These "new" rules are OLD rules, and they're not even putting them all into place. You've been lied to.