Assuming this isn't just the stupid idea of a bunch of idealistic stoners that they came up with at 2 a.m. after smoking some particularly strong ganja
And you're just a MS basher who will reach for any convoluted argument to blast them for the same sort of practices that EVERY OTHER SOFTWARE COMPANY engages in.
You forget that it's only evil if Microsoft does it. For example, when MS bundles their browser with their OS, that's illegal/evil/anti-competitive. When Apple does it, it's just providing a useful service to the consumer.
I would say to you "Denial isn't just a river in Egypt," but that really only works when it's spoken. I'll just stick with "The writing is on the wall, regardless of whether you choose to read it or not."
It's really only a matter of time now. And, mark my words, Apple fanatics will still find a way to defend it when Apple moves to lock it down (probably within the next 1-5 years).
The solution is to transfer the power to the people and give each individual the choice
And how exactly do you propose we do that with broadband ISP's? Are you advocating that we nationalize them and turn them over to public ownership, or are you advocating some form of magic which will allow for real competition in a system where only one or two providers have wire running to the houses?
A project that they had so little faith in that they abandoned it in 1975 to pump money into projects with greater potential, like developing telepathic spies (wish I were making that up).
No, the monopolies in this case come from the physical reality that lines have to be run into your home for broadband. The only way to encourage enough alternatives to get away from the need for government-enforced net neutrality would be to let any Tom, Dick, or Harry bury lines or string lines on any pole of their choosing. And even that wouldn't work very well for most neighborhoods (since only a few providers would be able to afford to run lines, even with the right-of-way). Either your choices would still be severely limited or your neighborhood lines would end up looking like a Baghdad power pole.
My grandad used to tell black people who came in his restaurant the same thing. Damned government has no right to force private businesses to observe people's "civil rights." The niggers are always free to go to another restaurant if they don't like it.
We'll all be perfectly free to say whatever we like...on whatever sites our ISP's let us access. And if you don't like what your ISP is doing, you can just switch to one of the hundreds of alternate broadband providers that we all have.
Well, that should pay for the catering for a year.
But seriously, I know DARPA and NASA are just fulfilling their primary missions here (i.e., dazzling the press with PR), but is there anyone out there still gullible enough to think that ANYTHING will ever come of this, that this is anything more than pissing $1.1 million down a hole? With changing administrations, there is no way that DARPA or NASA could ever mount even a 10-year campaign for anything anymore, much less a 100-year.
Yes, but it's a very pretty straightjacket. It's the kind of straightjacket you can wear into a coffeehouse and let everyone know "I'm no poseur." It's not very warm, but you'll be smug as a bug in the warm self-satisfaction that comes with knowing you're better than everyone else.
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And he's got electrolytes!
Obviously you've never been to a Tea Party rally.
FTFY
And you're just a MS basher who will reach for any convoluted argument to blast them for the same sort of practices that EVERY OTHER SOFTWARE COMPANY engages in.
So I'm forced to use Windows, then? There are no other OS's I could choose?
How about: *Proposal* in UK To Track All Browsing, Email, and Phone Calls?
No, not today.
You mean the free market that kept them from locking down the iPhone and iPad?
You forget that it's only evil if Microsoft does it. For example, when MS bundles their browser with their OS, that's illegal/evil/anti-competitive. When Apple does it, it's just providing a useful service to the consumer.
Canonical doesn't already have locked down app stores on two of its biggest products, providing a telling precedent for where this is headed.
I would say to you "Denial isn't just a river in Egypt," but that really only works when it's spoken. I'll just stick with "The writing is on the wall, regardless of whether you choose to read it or not."
It's really only a matter of time now. And, mark my words, Apple fanatics will still find a way to defend it when Apple moves to lock it down (probably within the next 1-5 years).
And how exactly do you propose we do that with broadband ISP's? Are you advocating that we nationalize them and turn them over to public ownership, or are you advocating some form of magic which will allow for real competition in a system where only one or two providers have wire running to the houses?
Because the U.S. and Finland have an extradition agreement?
I thought their threads were pretty rad.
A project that they had so little faith in that they abandoned it in 1975 to pump money into projects with greater potential, like developing telepathic spies (wish I were making that up).
No, the monopolies in this case come from the physical reality that lines have to be run into your home for broadband. The only way to encourage enough alternatives to get away from the need for government-enforced net neutrality would be to let any Tom, Dick, or Harry bury lines or string lines on any pole of their choosing. And even that wouldn't work very well for most neighborhoods (since only a few providers would be able to afford to run lines, even with the right-of-way). Either your choices would still be severely limited or your neighborhood lines would end up looking like a Baghdad power pole.
I think you just asked and answered your own question.
My grandad used to tell black people who came in his restaurant the same thing. Damned government has no right to force private businesses to observe people's "civil rights." The niggers are always free to go to another restaurant if they don't like it.
No has there ever been a case of the government using its authority to protect citizens' rights against the whims of private corporations.
Oop, just sprained the other one too.
We'll all be perfectly free to say whatever we like...on whatever sites our ISP's let us access. And if you don't like what your ISP is doing, you can just switch to one of the hundreds of alternate broadband providers that we all have.
Wow, I think I just sprained my sarcasm tendon.
It's American law too.
Viol8, I'd like you to meet Sony. Obviously you two have never met before, so I'll just let you talk.
Well, that should pay for the catering for a year.
But seriously, I know DARPA and NASA are just fulfilling their primary missions here (i.e., dazzling the press with PR), but is there anyone out there still gullible enough to think that ANYTHING will ever come of this, that this is anything more than pissing $1.1 million down a hole? With changing administrations, there is no way that DARPA or NASA could ever mount even a 10-year campaign for anything anymore, much less a 100-year.
Yes, but it's a very pretty straightjacket. It's the kind of straightjacket you can wear into a coffeehouse and let everyone know "I'm no poseur." It's not very warm, but you'll be smug as a bug in the warm self-satisfaction that comes with knowing you're better than everyone else.