What the publicly owned ISP's don't offer is campaign contributions, which is why there are state laws against them, which is as it should be.
The American people should just continue to pay for the private infrastructure of the monopoly providers and give up on this pointless dream of cheap, fast internet access.
Except it wasn't $50 million for advertising. It was $50 million subsidy to Warner Bros.
The production company also demanded (and received) specific labour law exemptions preventing their staff from taking industrial action, and preventing them from being allowed to collectively bargain.
Care to quantify exactly how much tourism is directly because of Lord of the Rings?
Thought not.
It's no different to the bullshit written about the "benefits" to NZ of the America's Cup which will cost taxpayers $100 million or more, with "returns" calculated by the beneficiaries and reported without any real analysis.
These things are just subsidies by taxpayers to big business.
Unfortunately it's not just Republicans and Democrats doing this.
Hollywood found this trick 25 years ago, and extorted the Gold Coast in Australia, Toronto in Canada, and New Zealand (that I know of) with the "All those nice jobs will have to go overseas unless we get some subsidies" trick.
The Lord of the Rings movies cost my neighbours and I $50 million for instance.
what makes you think they would pass a net neutrality law that would benifit you?
And why should they? The whole US political system is set up to turn money into influence.
When the oil industry wrote George Bush the second's energy policy, those of us who live in a democracy were shocked, but as far as I can understand it was pretty uncontroversial in the US.
I hope that they implode before self-driving cars are ready...
I would imagine they will keep going as long as they can find new "investors" who are happy to suck up $2 billion losses per year.
Then they will implode.
It's the time of year when CEO's (and other PHB's) are expected to give some sort of "inspirational" message to the serfs, so the result is often this sort of unbelievable nonsense.
Intel is probably staffed by a lot of very clever people who won't be taken in by this at all.
I work for a huge multinational too, and our CEO told us how much he values our contribution, which we all thought was hilarious.
It's a thing on Windows 10 boxes that you can use to install less useful versions of programmes you already have installed.
Try the Netflix "app". It's so much worse than using a browser that it illustrates my point well.
I don't remember being told there were limits on care went my wife broke her ankle earlier this year, in fact when she needed a second operation to remove some plates and screws, she waited a total of about 24 hours to get the operation she needed.
Total cost (or out of pocket as you Americans seem to call it) was about $90 for some Physiotherapy.
Don't believe your propaganda, the US has the worst of of both worlds went it comes to health care.
Not to nitpick/derail too much, but how did modern evangelicals lose the spirit of folks like Aquinas?
I would argue that modern evangelical religion in the American sense is not really a religious movement, but a scam to seperate suckers from their money, and it seems to work pretty well on the whole.
He sounds like a Chinese money launderer to me.
Opaque sources of funds, keeping the financial people in the dark, complex corporate structures, etc.
At some point FF will disappear, and so will YT and his friends. They probably have boltholes already someplace else.
Most of those countries are poor because they had governments that pursued economically illiterate 'free stuff for the masses, screw the rich' policies.
Well, to be fair when Chile tried that in 1973 the CIA
murdered the President.
When Hondurans tried, American troops murdered a whole bunch of them so that
bananas would be cheap.
So, maybe you're wrong.
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Why can't I mod this +1 Heavy Drug Use?
And business that is permitted to run at a loss indefinitely can undercut a normal business anytime they want...
Who paid for those nice pipes those businesses sell you access to?
I'll give you a clue: Not Comcast or AT&T.
The American people should just continue to pay for the private infrastructure of the monopoly providers and give up on this pointless dream of cheap, fast internet access.
It sounds positively Socialist shudder.
Not too dense to spell dense correctly.
I'm sure Mr. Trump is confused. He probably had it all explained to him, as if that would help him understand.
Both parties will seek to alter the result to benefit them....
See, there's your problem right there. Proper democracies have more than two parties.
You might as well have one for all the good two does you.
We also don't seem to have access to this Cortana thing, so we also have that going for us.
The production company also demanded (and received) specific labour law exemptions preventing their staff from taking industrial action, and preventing them from being allowed to collectively bargain.
Would that be the thing that says "I'm afraid I'm not available to help in your region"?
Thought not.
It's no different to the bullshit written about the "benefits" to NZ of the America's Cup which will cost taxpayers $100 million or more, with "returns" calculated by the beneficiaries and reported without any real analysis.
These things are just subsidies by taxpayers to big business.
Hollywood found this trick 25 years ago, and extorted the Gold Coast in Australia, Toronto in Canada, and New Zealand (that I know of) with the "All those nice jobs will have to go overseas unless we get some subsidies" trick.
The Lord of the Rings movies cost my neighbours and I $50 million for instance.
They're all arseholes.
Government should not be playing favorites.
Maybe Governments should stop subsidizing the incumbents, even when the alternative is cheaper.
We all hate Google, but the AT&T and Comcast are worse, surely?
what makes you think they would pass a net neutrality law that would benifit you?
And why should they? The whole US political system is set up to turn money into influence.
When the oil industry wrote George Bush the second's energy policy, those of us who live in a democracy were shocked, but as far as I can understand it was pretty uncontroversial in the US.
Really? I'm not sure how you would go about messing up Minesweeper after all these years.
Hilarious.
The Eiffel Tower was a gift to France from the USA.
I have had a look through the Wikipedia article about the Eiffel Tower, and can see no mention of this at all.
I don't think it was.
The French had a crack at that in 1793. People were not generally in favour.
I hope that they implode before self-driving cars are ready...
I would imagine they will keep going as long as they can find new "investors" who are happy to suck up $2 billion losses per year.
Then they will implode.
It's the time of year when CEO's (and other PHB's) are expected to give some sort of "inspirational" message to the serfs, so the result is often this sort of unbelievable nonsense.
Intel is probably staffed by a lot of very clever people who won't be taken in by this at all.
I work for a huge multinational too, and our CEO told us how much he values our contribution, which we all thought was hilarious.
It's a thing on Windows 10 boxes that you can use to install less useful versions of programmes you already have installed.
Try the Netflix "app". It's so much worse than using a browser that it illustrates my point well.
To be fair, Reagan had lost his marbles completely half way through his second term and was just a figurehead by that point.
I don't remember being told there were limits on care went my wife broke her ankle earlier this year, in fact when she needed a second operation to remove some plates and screws, she waited a total of about 24 hours to get the operation she needed.
Total cost (or out of pocket as you Americans seem to call it) was about $90 for some Physiotherapy.
Don't believe your propaganda, the US has the worst of of both worlds went it comes to health care.
Not to nitpick/derail too much, but how did modern evangelicals lose the spirit of folks like Aquinas?
I would argue that modern evangelical religion in the American sense is not really a religious movement, but a scam to seperate suckers from their money, and it seems to work pretty well on the whole.
He sounds like a Chinese money launderer to me.
Opaque sources of funds, keeping the financial people in the dark, complex corporate structures, etc.
At some point FF will disappear, and so will YT and his friends. They probably have boltholes already someplace else.
Pretty bad.
Our main opposition party have a Chinese spy among their ranks, but we're not allowed to talk about it.
Most of those countries are poor because they had governments that pursued economically illiterate 'free stuff for the masses, screw the rich' policies.
Well, to be fair when Chile tried that in 1973 the CIA murdered the President.
When Hondurans tried, American troops murdered a whole bunch of them so that bananas would be cheap.
So, maybe you're wrong.