Like, what, some guy with an axe simply has not thought of this or acted yet?
Who, pray tell, would break up ISP's or prevent mergers in the first place?
By the way, it isn't government control of the internet, not by a long shot. It's government rules for carriers. Those are the pesky corporations to which you refer. The free market didn't work out in the first place, which is why one has regulations. Sure, they are subject to capture. But without them... well, ISPs, telcos, and all the others simply skip a step of having to lobby and all.
Acted in category "not even wrong". They were fine with everything except an infringement claim. What a great way to shoot oneself in the foot. Then making shit up as if putative worse violations of their terms (or speech that others who have not seen the video might find more problematic; nice sympathy card there) constitute infringement. Good job.
The president has a role in the legislative process through his veto power.
The Vice President is the President of the Senate. This role is exercised not infrequently, and recently, a bit more than in just tie-breaking capacity.
But you may be right, and only guys are ever creepy. Women can only be bitches, whores, sluts... So unfair. Our culture is so very biased against doods.
It also doesn't want to look too far into the "Racist Left" comments in case a good chunk of those are botspam also. They are enjoying their narrative.
(Not that there are not racist (sexist, otherwise bigoted) people with left-leaning politics. In no way do i imply that whatsoever.)
Re: I've had a increase in robo callers since wheeler left.
Yeah it was ramping up before then but got way worse after the guard changed.
I get it on mobile and landline. Sure you can block them, but as you note below, they constantly change. And the scam callers don't ever seem to take a hit with the telcos somehow... Whether they are robospam, roboscam, or normal marketing ignoring Do Not Call, or "charities" that don't have to obey any rules and won't take a hint, or calls from Bill Myers in India who sees something wrong with your network.
Yeah you can mitigate it, and gee somehow AT&T this month magically added 80 more block slots to their VOIP offering (up from 20) but that is a PITA anyway.
You don't have to imagine how this builds a path to long term paywall success. You only have to imagine a petulant and impotent "fk you" from someone who wants control.
"Looking Glass Cyber Solutions" How quaint, how 1991.
Valuable intellectual property rights... really, one might thing Comcast would just rebrand, like someone else did, and let everyone play with their thoroughly muddy name until they forgot where the word originally came from. In ten or fifteen years people could write short articles explaining to the younger crowd that the root word "comcast" was actually the trademark of a real corporation.
Of course their new name would be equally recognized as attached to a horrorshow of bad service in short order, but rebranding apparently works to confuse enough people enough of the time.
Rarely will one have the other side change their behavior because they have suddenly found enlightenment about how so much of their culture is horrible. The cave because you get more people not on their side to see how awful it is, and they make it too expensive for them to keep waging war in the manner in which they have been.
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No one is asking to be paid for using these websites, and the money rarely makes it to the copyright owner.
Where does it go?
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It is also hilariously not flagged.
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Who, pray tell, would break up ISP's or prevent mergers in the first place?
By the way, it isn't government control of the internet, not by a long shot. It's government rules for carriers. Those are the pesky corporations to which you refer. The free market didn't work out in the first place, which is why one has regulations. Sure, they are subject to capture. But without them... well, ISPs, telcos, and all the others simply skip a step of having to lobby and all.
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"Acted too quickly"
Acted in category "not even wrong". They were fine with everything except an infringement claim. What a great way to shoot oneself in the foot. Then making shit up as if putative worse violations of their terms (or speech that others who have not seen the video might find more problematic; nice sympathy card there) constitute infringement. Good job.
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The president has a role in the legislative process through his veto power.
The Vice President is the President of the Senate. This role is exercised not infrequently, and recently, a bit more than in just tie-breaking capacity.
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Xtreme ridiculous trademark filing. I guess it makes sense now.
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But you may be right, and only guys are ever creepy. Women can only be bitches, whores, sluts... So unfair. Our culture is so very biased against doods.
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(Not that there are not racist (sexist, otherwise bigoted) people with left-leaning politics. In no way do i imply that whatsoever.)
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*head explodes*
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Re: I've had a increase in robo callers since wheeler left.
I get it on mobile and landline. Sure you can block them, but as you note below, they constantly change. And the scam callers don't ever seem to take a hit with the telcos somehow... Whether they are robospam, roboscam, or normal marketing ignoring Do Not Call, or "charities" that don't have to obey any rules and won't take a hint, or calls from Bill Myers in India who sees something wrong with your network.
Yeah you can mitigate it, and gee somehow AT&T this month magically added 80 more block slots to their VOIP offering (up from 20) but that is a PITA anyway.
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Valuable intellectual property rights... really, one might thing Comcast would just rebrand, like someone else did, and let everyone play with their thoroughly muddy name until they forgot where the word originally came from. In ten or fifteen years people could write short articles explaining to the younger crowd that the root word "comcast" was actually the trademark of a real corporation.
Of course their new name would be equally recognized as attached to a horrorshow of bad service in short order, but rebranding apparently works to confuse enough people enough of the time.
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