This is largely about Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
The FCC in 2015 said broadband providers are common carriers under Title 2. This made 400 pages of onerous regulations applicable to all broadband providers, some of the regulations are ridiculous and very subjective.
Sigh. This again? How many times do we have to tell you? The FCC rules regarding Net Neutrality did indeed classify ISP's as Title II common carriers. Along with a whole slew of exemptions to that law, as to not apply silly telcom rules to ISPs. Everything was fine as it was.
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA) announced plans to introduce a bill to adopt net neutrality as a requirement in his state. He wrote in a Medium post, "If the FCC won't stand up for a free and open internet, California will."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't part of the new FCC rules to say that states can no longer implement their own NN rules? FCC covered their ass to ensure this atrocity can't be overturned by states?
So I see your "I don't care about you" because I sit here where you cannot reach or see me so I'm free to be abusive that Facebook is rife with as but another manifestation of the sickness, one that's deeper and predates Facebook by decades. I remember watching folks abuse others on the forums of my BBS two decades ago, before the internet was a even a thing.
Facebook may make it easier, may make it more common, but it was happening back on FIDONET a long time before Facebook or it's founder was even a dream. It's not new.
Fantastic points. Add usenet into that mix too. But see the difference was, Fidonet, BBSes, and usenet, all of them fairly technical and geeky. Very very tiny percentage of the population assaulting each other verbally. This small percentage was kind of used to it, it was the only networked communications available at the time.
Fast-forward to Facebook, Twitter, etcetc.. now EVERYONE can be dicks to each other and hide behind their screens. You've exposed that uncivil bashing trolling behavior to the masses. They were not ready. They still aren't. I think exposing the masses to internet trolling, bashing and uncivil behavior was a bad bad idea. Now they all think it's perfectly ok to treat others like garbage and write very hurtful messages. I think Facebook and it's ilk definitely made social tensions much worse, and accelerated it.
Not denying it existed before, but it was quiet, seething, not generally expressed in mass. Now when someone says something nasty, they got millions of people listening and potentially agreeing with your nasty. Not healthy.
The problem here is cultural. What's on Facebook is just one symptom of many issues in the culture today.
I can't agree with this 100%. Yes perhaps the problem is cultural, but we were getting along pretty good prior to Facebook becoming a thing.
Facebook amplifies social issues quite a bit. It makes little shit really big and ugly. It polarizes people deeply. It encourages disrespectful, crude, uncivil and rude behavior. There's no consequence for telling people stuff you'd NEVER say face to face.
Prior to Facebook, if you wanted to say something really horrible about someone, there was a real risk of that person punching you in the nose. I'm not saying violence is a good outcome, what i'm saying is the possibility kept people a bit more civil and polite to each other.
Now adays, we can say anything and hide behind our screens. Not healthy. And heavens forbid someone threaten someone else for being a total dickwad, the terrorist police will swoop down and be all over you like a bad rash.
I hate Facebook, I hate everything it represents. It's outright evil. It needs to go away. Forget censorship, just shut the whole thing off, it's not doing anyone any good, except for the small handful of people making boatloads of money off society's malignancy site.
Proposals to the effect of "We'll protect NN via these other mechanisms." just makes me think, "If you want NN rules, leave it alone?"
Empty. That's all this is. Typical politician speak, hot air, words without meaning, may as well read the ingredients on a cereal box aloud. Would have learned more.
Remember folks, FCC is bought and paid for now. The only hope for restoring NN is pressuring congress to pass a new law. So harass your congresscritters. Don't even bother with the FCC, redirect all that rage to your representatives in congress and senate.
No, networks do NOT need traffic controls. Fixed fucking pipeline without oversubscribing like a lying fuck is what we need.
You are the moron who has obviously never administered a network of any large scale.
Man, the stupid is strong with this one. Look, oversubscribing bandwidth is a perfectly acceptable thing to be doing. When one calculates the needs of 1000's of users, 95% of those users are not going to be using anything near what the pipe is capable of. This is where traffic and congestion controls come in. A small number of people using lots of bandwidth can coexist just fine with a lot of low-bandwidth users. This is simple shit, you are the stupid one. Oversubscribing isn't a problem, it's how ISP's make money. I have no problem with it. It's just smart business. Most of the users won't use the capacity.
Now please, go spread your stupid elsewhere. Grow some braincells and get an education before you post about something you obviously know nothing about.
You have to classify traffic to prevent congestion. Congestion will break the interwebz. As soon as you're classifying traffic, which is already happening, you have no neutrality If you want a simple example of how neutrality breaks shared and limited resources, remove quotas from your file system or schedulers from CPU resource management.
Please don't be a moron. Proper network traffic management is perfectly ok under NN. Networks have to have traffic controls, you just can't have a network without it. ISPs already tried to put this forth as a reason for no NN. Where NN comes in is what traffic management ISPs are allowed to do. Doing it for network health and usability is perfectly ok. Giving some customers preferential treatment? No.
Learn the difference, stop spreading misinformation.
Too many men getting their lives ruined by lying cunts making shit up and/or a lack of due process.
Ever stop and think... maybe it's because too many men are fucking dirtbag womanizers whom needed to be knocked down?
Your choice of words kind of makes me think you're one of them. No proof, but people addressing 'women' as 'lying cunts' isn't a respectful way to address genuine concerns of women.
It's also defamation. Prove it or shut the fuck up.
I believe the women. Just like Mitch McConnal said. I think the proof was already presented in the form of a signed yearbook and a letter. I'm convinced.
Too many men getting their lives ruined by lying cunts making shit up and/or a lack of due process. Including elected politicians killing themselves because of how they've been treated.
Politicians killing themselves? Sounds like a win to me.
If he broke the law then he should be prosecuted and we can examine the evidence properly and impartially. Until then quit throwing accusations around.
You and everyone else knows full well, the statue of limitations on prosecuting Roy Moore for his actions 40 years ago is long expired. There will be no prosecutions, other than in the public eye. Roy Moore will never be prosecuted even if there was undisputed evidence (there is.) I'm not the one who accused. The woman he abused did and I believe them.
The left sees people as a metallurgist sees iron ore. To them, people in the way of their vision are impurities to be removed before forging their utopia.
That's not how I see people. I'm definitely mostly liberal and progressive. I don't see the right as enemies or lumps of iron ore. I just see them as uneducated stupidity. There's nothing inherently wrong with being uneducated and stupid. But when the right imposes it's stupid upon me, I get a little annoyed. I don't like being told what I can and cannot do. The right seems to like to do that. Left seems to say, let people do what they want, leave people alone. So it's hard for me to sympathize with the right. All I see is stupid uneducated people who want to force their world view and moral compass upon me.
The other thing that annoys me about the right is their greed and lack of compassion. It's always the right who gets in the way of any social welfare to help people less fortunate. It's them who complain their tax dollars are being wasted on undeserving people who them just see as lazy, instead of maybe, disabled, or in need of a hand up? I have a serious problem relating to people who show a complete lack of compassion and willingness to chip in to help their society be better.
Lastly, is the rights apparent 'fear' of government. A lot of my co-workers are very much right, and I often hear them tell me of fear of government. They seem to think anything the government touches turns to shit. They don't trust government. They seem to just want it to go away entirely. I don't see it like that. Government is necessary, and our government in particular should not be feared. The US government is made up of US citizens, duh? Why would I fear my fellow citizens? And I can point to boatloads of good our government has done. Were mistakes made? Of course they were. Nothing is perfect, but I'm still not crying out for it to be torn down, nor do I fear it.
So there, a view of the right from the left. Enjoy.
Maybe someday America will learn that you don't convince your adversary to stop being paranoid by threatening to attack them.
You are aware we have tried to negotiate with them, right? We gave them aid, asking them to stop developing nukes. They agreed, then immediately went about developing nukes in secret until inspectors were told to take a hike. More than once we've gone down the 'let's play nice' game only to have the North Koreans breaking the agreements.
Negotiation kinda requires that both sides be faithful to the agreements. North Korea has repeatedly shown it will not adhere to any agreements and will break them whenever it feels like it can.
I'm not saying aggression and the standoff we have now is productive or useful, however, negotiation is no more useful or productive. In fact the latter seems to just make everyone look like fools when NK breaks agreements. At least the major presence of our military in the area makes North Korea think twice about foolishness. I'm pretty certain if we were not there on the border, NK would have invaded SK a long time ago. That is their stated goal: Reunification under the communist rule. And destroy the USA.
If. A very big if. Roy Moore is a really big deal. If republicans can stomach a pedophile in their midst, they've obviously tossed the moral compass out the window. This could be a problem. It shows how desperate republicans and their supporters are. Dunno if you watch the news, but actual voters are saying to news folks, they literally would rather have Roy Moore despite his shortcomings over -any- democrat. This casting aside of morals is pretty alarming, and they're taking very effective tactics from Trump's campaign: Wage war against the media. Make it "US vs. THEM!" It's extremely unhealthy for our republic. And unfortunately, it's plucking just the right strings for the right. They could very well use these plays effectively in 2018 to crush the democrats again. We'll see, but after 2016, nothing is inevitable anymore. Nothing is for sure, not even outrage of this level.
Roy Moore is a very important character to watch. If he picks up the seat in Alabama, we're in for a bumpy 2018. And nothing will be for sure until the fat lady sings at the end of the elections in Nov 2018. If Roy loses to Doug, it's a good sign that the left is organized and getting out the vote. They'll need to keep that organization and zest alive for a whole year. Meanwhile, Trump is making all of us very very tired.
Cuba was under the protection of the USSR for quite some time. I imagine they could have been testing and developing some kind of new technology and now the Cubans have it? A lot of experimental stuff was tried all throughout the Cold War by both sides.
Be interesting if we ever learn what caused this. Normally I'd discount such bizzare reports as silly, but a lot of people were affected by this. So I think something was definitely done to them.
It turns out that every single one of those things was false, that millions of Americans were outraged at the effort to have government take over healthcare and that outrage fell on deaf ears. Remember the legislative chicanery to get the ACA rammed through the Senate before Senator Ted Kennedy's replacement, Republican Scott Brown, could be seated?
Sheesh. And liberals are upset when the Republicans do things along party lines without Democratic support.
All I gotta say is the old proverb: Two wrong do not make a right.
We're not each others enemies, but goddamn it sure feels like the 'right' is at war with the 'left.' This is the kind of tit-for-tat thinking you expect of two sovereign powers that don't like each other.
So how does The People fight this? No one reads/. No one. Numbers-wise, I mean./. is not read by enough people to truly spark Fake (or Genuine) Internet Outrage. How come this isn't running front page on the major Muggle press? Yeah. What they don' know won't hurt them. But sure as fuck it'll hurt us.
There has been a ton of press coverage of this. The people who aren't listening is the FCC. Everyone else is! And there's a lot of loud bitching from every corner (except the ISPs of course.) There's a ton of noise that doing this is Bad. But as I said, FCC isn't listening. They just don't give a flying f about The People.
Some of the African countries are turning to the renewables first, skipping fossil fuels for electricity entirely.
I don't know where you read that, but it's wrong. No country skipped fossil fuels entirely and went straight to renewables. Few countries in Africa even made it to "a significant percentage of renewables for energy".
I seen it on a PBS Newshour segment, covering the fact some african families are installing solar panels in their hovels to recharge their phones and have some lighting (other than dangerous kerosene lamps.) Seemed pretty impressive, which is why I made that claim. These folks are definitely skipping fossil fuel generated electricity entirely.
Some of the African countries are turning to the renewables first, skipping fossil fuels for electricity entirely. So that's gotta be at least one positive.
Unfortunately, that's not really addressing transportation fuel consumption, which is the daddy of fossil fuel use.
Just really frickin hard to argue with the utility and bang for your buck when it comes to hydrocarbon based liquid and gas fuels. They're just freakin awesome.
Electric cars are nice and all, but they do require a supporting grid to recharge from. They're going to help in developed countries for sure. But will that offset the growth in poorer countries that just don't have the infrastructure?
When you figure the balance sheet at the end of the year, if we're still putting a lot of CO2 into the atmo, we got serious problems inbound. I mean, humans will adapt, but it's not going to be pretty.
I hate to be the one to admit this, but the start menu just really isn't much of a thing anymore. At least not for me. I tend to put icons for my most frequently used programs on the desktop or pinned to the task bar. I really just don't use the start menu much anymore, much easier to just hit Windows-D to get my desktop and double click the program I want to launch. Or in the case of really frequent stuff, it's already pinned to the task bar.
I think Microsoft was on to something when they ditched the Start Menu in 8, but they did it wrong. Those tiles are awful. Just having icons is good enough. Microsoft's idea was just poorly executed.
As a side note, I think Microsoft's idea of tabs in all programs sounds pretty clever and useful, making the start menu even more obsolete.
We need to redirect our efforts elsewhere. The internet's protectors need to be pressuring congress and senate to pass new regulations that overrule the FCC and re-implement Net Neutrality outside of Title II, it's own beast, it needs its own laws. FCC is a lost cause, wasting our time with them. Bother your congress-critters.
And they cannot wait for the money to be theirs....
They were paid a long time ago. This deal to repeal NN was done a long time ago, Ajit Pai is just pushing the papers around for show. Nothing we say or do will have any impact. As another poster chimed in: Home of the voiceless. We have no say. If you want a say, better bring a blank check.
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This is largely about Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
The FCC in 2015 said broadband providers are common carriers under Title 2. This made 400 pages of onerous regulations applicable to all broadband providers, some of the regulations are ridiculous and very subjective.
Sigh. This again? How many times do we have to tell you? The FCC rules regarding Net Neutrality did indeed classify ISP's as Title II common carriers. Along with a whole slew of exemptions to that law, as to not apply silly telcom rules to ISPs. Everything was fine as it was.
Quit with the stupid already.
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA) announced plans to introduce a bill to adopt net neutrality as a requirement in his state. He wrote in a Medium post, "If the FCC won't stand up for a free and open internet, California will."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't part of the new FCC rules to say that states can no longer implement their own NN rules? FCC covered their ass to ensure this atrocity can't be overturned by states?
So I see your "I don't care about you" because I sit here where you cannot reach or see me so I'm free to be abusive that Facebook is rife with as but another manifestation of the sickness, one that's deeper and predates Facebook by decades. I remember watching folks abuse others on the forums of my BBS two decades ago, before the internet was a even a thing.
Facebook may make it easier, may make it more common, but it was happening back on FIDONET a long time before Facebook or it's founder was even a dream. It's not new.
Fantastic points. Add usenet into that mix too. But see the difference was, Fidonet, BBSes, and usenet, all of them fairly technical and geeky. Very very tiny percentage of the population assaulting each other verbally. This small percentage was kind of used to it, it was the only networked communications available at the time.
Fast-forward to Facebook, Twitter, etcetc.. now EVERYONE can be dicks to each other and hide behind their screens. You've exposed that uncivil bashing trolling behavior to the masses. They were not ready. They still aren't. I think exposing the masses to internet trolling, bashing and uncivil behavior was a bad bad idea. Now they all think it's perfectly ok to treat others like garbage and write very hurtful messages. I think Facebook and it's ilk definitely made social tensions much worse, and accelerated it.
Not denying it existed before, but it was quiet, seething, not generally expressed in mass. Now when someone says something nasty, they got millions of people listening and potentially agreeing with your nasty. Not healthy.
The problem here is cultural. What's on Facebook is just one symptom of many issues in the culture today.
I can't agree with this 100%. Yes perhaps the problem is cultural, but we were getting along pretty good prior to Facebook becoming a thing.
Facebook amplifies social issues quite a bit. It makes little shit really big and ugly. It polarizes people deeply. It encourages disrespectful, crude, uncivil and rude behavior. There's no consequence for telling people stuff you'd NEVER say face to face.
Prior to Facebook, if you wanted to say something really horrible about someone, there was a real risk of that person punching you in the nose. I'm not saying violence is a good outcome, what i'm saying is the possibility kept people a bit more civil and polite to each other.
Now adays, we can say anything and hide behind our screens. Not healthy. And heavens forbid someone threaten someone else for being a total dickwad, the terrorist police will swoop down and be all over you like a bad rash.
I hate Facebook, I hate everything it represents. It's outright evil. It needs to go away. Forget censorship, just shut the whole thing off, it's not doing anyone any good, except for the small handful of people making boatloads of money off society's malignancy site.
Proposals to the effect of "We'll protect NN via these other mechanisms." just makes me think, "If you want NN rules, leave it alone?"
Empty. That's all this is. Typical politician speak, hot air, words without meaning, may as well read the ingredients on a cereal box aloud. Would have learned more.
Remember folks, FCC is bought and paid for now. The only hope for restoring NN is pressuring congress to pass a new law. So harass your congresscritters. Don't even bother with the FCC, redirect all that rage to your representatives in congress and senate.
There are some 269 billion emails sent and received daily. That's roughly 35 emails for every person on the planet, every day.
I'm getting way more than my fair share, then. Because I receive upwards of 500-1000 spam emails every single day.
No, networks do NOT need traffic controls. Fixed fucking pipeline without oversubscribing like a lying fuck is what we need.
You are the moron who has obviously never administered a network of any large scale.
Man, the stupid is strong with this one. Look, oversubscribing bandwidth is a perfectly acceptable thing to be doing. When one calculates the needs of 1000's of users, 95% of those users are not going to be using anything near what the pipe is capable of. This is where traffic and congestion controls come in. A small number of people using lots of bandwidth can coexist just fine with a lot of low-bandwidth users. This is simple shit, you are the stupid one. Oversubscribing isn't a problem, it's how ISP's make money. I have no problem with it. It's just smart business. Most of the users won't use the capacity.
Now please, go spread your stupid elsewhere. Grow some braincells and get an education before you post about something you obviously know nothing about.
You have to classify traffic to prevent congestion. Congestion will break the interwebz. As soon as you're classifying traffic, which is already happening, you have no neutrality If you want a simple example of how neutrality breaks shared and limited resources, remove quotas from your file system or schedulers from CPU resource management.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...
Please don't be a moron. Proper network traffic management is perfectly ok under NN. Networks have to have traffic controls, you just can't have a network without it. ISPs already tried to put this forth as a reason for no NN. Where NN comes in is what traffic management ISPs are allowed to do. Doing it for network health and usability is perfectly ok. Giving some customers preferential treatment? No.
Learn the difference, stop spreading misinformation.
Too many men getting their lives ruined by lying cunts making shit up and/or a lack of due process.
Ever stop and think... maybe it's because too many men are fucking dirtbag womanizers whom needed to be knocked down?
Your choice of words kind of makes me think you're one of them. No proof, but people addressing 'women' as 'lying cunts' isn't a respectful way to address genuine concerns of women.
It's also defamation. Prove it or shut the fuck up.
I believe the women. Just like Mitch McConnal said. I think the proof was already presented in the form of a signed yearbook and a letter. I'm convinced.
Too many men getting their lives ruined by lying cunts making shit up and/or a lack of due process. Including elected politicians killing themselves because of how they've been treated.
Politicians killing themselves? Sounds like a win to me.
If he broke the law then he should be prosecuted and we can examine the evidence properly and impartially. Until then quit throwing accusations around.
You and everyone else knows full well, the statue of limitations on prosecuting Roy Moore for his actions 40 years ago is long expired. There will be no prosecutions, other than in the public eye. Roy Moore will never be prosecuted even if there was undisputed evidence (there is.) I'm not the one who accused. The woman he abused did and I believe them.
The left sees people as a metallurgist sees iron ore. To them, people in the way of their vision are impurities to be removed before forging their utopia.
That's not how I see people. I'm definitely mostly liberal and progressive. I don't see the right as enemies or lumps of iron ore. I just see them as uneducated stupidity. There's nothing inherently wrong with being uneducated and stupid. But when the right imposes it's stupid upon me, I get a little annoyed. I don't like being told what I can and cannot do. The right seems to like to do that. Left seems to say, let people do what they want, leave people alone. So it's hard for me to sympathize with the right. All I see is stupid uneducated people who want to force their world view and moral compass upon me.
The other thing that annoys me about the right is their greed and lack of compassion. It's always the right who gets in the way of any social welfare to help people less fortunate. It's them who complain their tax dollars are being wasted on undeserving people who them just see as lazy, instead of maybe, disabled, or in need of a hand up? I have a serious problem relating to people who show a complete lack of compassion and willingness to chip in to help their society be better.
Lastly, is the rights apparent 'fear' of government. A lot of my co-workers are very much right, and I often hear them tell me of fear of government. They seem to think anything the government touches turns to shit. They don't trust government. They seem to just want it to go away entirely. I don't see it like that. Government is necessary, and our government in particular should not be feared. The US government is made up of US citizens, duh? Why would I fear my fellow citizens? And I can point to boatloads of good our government has done. Were mistakes made? Of course they were. Nothing is perfect, but I'm still not crying out for it to be torn down, nor do I fear it.
So there, a view of the right from the left. Enjoy.
Maybe someday America will learn that you don't convince your adversary to stop being paranoid by threatening to attack them.
You are aware we have tried to negotiate with them, right? We gave them aid, asking them to stop developing nukes. They agreed, then immediately went about developing nukes in secret until inspectors were told to take a hike. More than once we've gone down the 'let's play nice' game only to have the North Koreans breaking the agreements.
Negotiation kinda requires that both sides be faithful to the agreements. North Korea has repeatedly shown it will not adhere to any agreements and will break them whenever it feels like it can.
I'm not saying aggression and the standoff we have now is productive or useful, however, negotiation is no more useful or productive. In fact the latter seems to just make everyone look like fools when NK breaks agreements. At least the major presence of our military in the area makes North Korea think twice about foolishness. I'm pretty certain if we were not there on the border, NK would have invaded SK a long time ago. That is their stated goal: Reunification under the communist rule. And destroy the USA.
Here's an idea: when the Democrats inevitably win
If. A very big if. Roy Moore is a really big deal. If republicans can stomach a pedophile in their midst, they've obviously tossed the moral compass out the window. This could be a problem. It shows how desperate republicans and their supporters are. Dunno if you watch the news, but actual voters are saying to news folks, they literally would rather have Roy Moore despite his shortcomings over -any- democrat. This casting aside of morals is pretty alarming, and they're taking very effective tactics from Trump's campaign: Wage war against the media. Make it "US vs. THEM!" It's extremely unhealthy for our republic. And unfortunately, it's plucking just the right strings for the right. They could very well use these plays effectively in 2018 to crush the democrats again. We'll see, but after 2016, nothing is inevitable anymore. Nothing is for sure, not even outrage of this level.
Roy Moore is a very important character to watch. If he picks up the seat in Alabama, we're in for a bumpy 2018. And nothing will be for sure until the fat lady sings at the end of the elections in Nov 2018. If Roy loses to Doug, it's a good sign that the left is organized and getting out the vote. They'll need to keep that organization and zest alive for a whole year. Meanwhile, Trump is making all of us very very tired.
Cuba was under the protection of the USSR for quite some time. I imagine they could have been testing and developing some kind of new technology and now the Cubans have it? A lot of experimental stuff was tried all throughout the Cold War by both sides.
Be interesting if we ever learn what caused this. Normally I'd discount such bizzare reports as silly, but a lot of people were affected by this. So I think something was definitely done to them.
It turns out that every single one of those things was false, that millions of Americans were outraged at the effort to have government take over healthcare and that outrage fell on deaf ears. Remember the legislative chicanery to get the ACA rammed through the Senate before Senator Ted Kennedy's replacement, Republican Scott Brown, could be seated?
Sheesh. And liberals are upset when the Republicans do things along party lines without Democratic support.
All I gotta say is the old proverb: Two wrong do not make a right.
We're not each others enemies, but goddamn it sure feels like the 'right' is at war with the 'left.' This is the kind of tit-for-tat thinking you expect of two sovereign powers that don't like each other.
So how does The People fight this? No one reads /. /. is not read by enough people to truly spark Fake (or Genuine) Internet Outrage.
No one. Numbers-wise, I mean.
How come this isn't running front page on the major Muggle press?
Yeah. What they don' know won't hurt them.
But sure as fuck it'll hurt us.
There has been a ton of press coverage of this. The people who aren't listening is the FCC. Everyone else is! And there's a lot of loud bitching from every corner (except the ISPs of course.) There's a ton of noise that doing this is Bad. But as I said, FCC isn't listening. They just don't give a flying f about The People.
Germany does this, it will destroy their economy. No one will want German backdoored garbage. I wouldn't. This would be a huge mistake.
Some of the African countries are turning to the renewables first, skipping fossil fuels for electricity entirely.
I don't know where you read that, but it's wrong. No country skipped fossil fuels entirely and went straight to renewables. Few countries in Africa even made it to "a significant percentage of renewables for energy".
I seen it on a PBS Newshour segment, covering the fact some african families are installing solar panels in their hovels to recharge their phones and have some lighting (other than dangerous kerosene lamps.) Seemed pretty impressive, which is why I made that claim. These folks are definitely skipping fossil fuel generated electricity entirely.
...Google made an "AI" that created an "AI" that's better than itself. Seems like the direction to go?
The more toys you have as an adult, the less amusing they all collectively become. Duh. I gotta brand this entire post as totally obvious.
Some of the African countries are turning to the renewables first, skipping fossil fuels for electricity entirely. So that's gotta be at least one positive.
Unfortunately, that's not really addressing transportation fuel consumption, which is the daddy of fossil fuel use.
Just really frickin hard to argue with the utility and bang for your buck when it comes to hydrocarbon based liquid and gas fuels. They're just freakin awesome.
Electric cars are nice and all, but they do require a supporting grid to recharge from. They're going to help in developed countries for sure. But will that offset the growth in poorer countries that just don't have the infrastructure?
When you figure the balance sheet at the end of the year, if we're still putting a lot of CO2 into the atmo, we got serious problems inbound. I mean, humans will adapt, but it's not going to be pretty.
I hate to be the one to admit this, but the start menu just really isn't much of a thing anymore. At least not for me. I tend to put icons for my most frequently used programs on the desktop or pinned to the task bar. I really just don't use the start menu much anymore, much easier to just hit Windows-D to get my desktop and double click the program I want to launch. Or in the case of really frequent stuff, it's already pinned to the task bar.
I think Microsoft was on to something when they ditched the Start Menu in 8, but they did it wrong. Those tiles are awful. Just having icons is good enough. Microsoft's idea was just poorly executed.
As a side note, I think Microsoft's idea of tabs in all programs sounds pretty clever and useful, making the start menu even more obsolete.
We need to redirect our efforts elsewhere. The internet's protectors need to be pressuring congress and senate to pass new regulations that overrule the FCC and re-implement Net Neutrality outside of Title II, it's own beast, it needs its own laws. FCC is a lost cause, wasting our time with them. Bother your congress-critters.
Bots or not, all those comments are going to /dev/null. No one is reading those. They never had any bearing on this deal.
And they cannot wait for the money to be theirs....
They were paid a long time ago. This deal to repeal NN was done a long time ago, Ajit Pai is just pushing the papers around for show. Nothing we say or do will have any impact. As another poster chimed in: Home of the voiceless. We have no say. If you want a say, better bring a blank check.