Typical Trumpkin I guess. React to facts and reason with spewing venom. I'm almost sorry I can't see what memes he would try and throw at us because words and thoughts are obviously hard.
I wasn't feeling insulting until I'd read enough of his ranting insults to kill any sympathy I might have had for his stance.
If you quit your ad-hom whine-fest and actually read what PaulT you would see that at no point does he say any of that.
There is always a conversation to be had on the balance between service being provided by local municipalities (either sub-contracted or by the pols) versus being proved by private companies. We all agree that some regulation (on both) is good, to stop profiteering, ignoring customers, and other high-jinks. We all know that no regulation is not an option (hopefully), and that too much (wrong) regulation can be stifling, as can having regulation written by special interests. So I don't see why you are getting so wound up and insulting.
It's interesting that you really really hate what us Europeans think, with our actual decent internet and reasonably balanced regulation. Says a lot, really.
Except that you lot don't live in Namibia. You live in the richest, most advanced country in the world. Yet you rank way down in internet access, and apparently running a bit of cable cross-country is a billion times harder than running them undersea, or running leaky oil pipes every which way.
If your argument Is "but it's hard" I raise you Moon landings. "But it's far" - Australia and many other large countries. I bet even Canada and Russia have better internet than you lot. However, a lot of the problems occur in cities, which funnily enough most other countries can actually manage to deal with, whether new or old.
Third-World excuses to go with Third-World infrastructure, to go with Third-World healthcare.
"Sir, cognitive dissonance is a requirement to join a political group, especially a right leaning one, though there is enough on the left to spread some blame there as well.
1st step is to preach hate of 'the other'. 2nd step is to practice bigotry against anyone else that does not suit your narrow worldview. 3rd step is to whine about anyone giving you hassle about your hate and bigotry, and add them to your list in step 1."
The difference is, Y2K was a possibility, based on bitter experience with the way stuff was coded, and some early evidence of possible problems.
This form of non-NN was known, both in experience of how the American ISPs were breaking things already, and in comparison with other countries who had competition and some form of NN. You also have ISPs writing bad self-interested law. So it's a lot more evidenced - it's not like airlines were writing laws indemnifying them for planes falling from the sky!
So, speed limits and seat belts don't stop speeding and car deaths. So they are useless and it's ok to throw away legislation for them, even if they are a stepping stone to legislating safer cars.
Dumb argument which I usually see reserved for use by gun-fondlers.
Not to mention compare with all the countries which have more robust competition and stronger NN. Your internet is worse than a good chunk of Eastern Europe, for goodness sake!
Did you hear about all the people Googling "What is the EU" right after the Brexit referendum? People have opinions on loads of things without necessarily knowing the best way to refer to it.
A lot of non-technical people prefer less specialist descriptions, and how you phrase it matters. If you say to people "what's your opinion on arterial trunk road shutdown" most will say "huh?" or "none". But if you explain it as "shutting down all the main roads into your town" then yes, they will have a (possibly) strong opinion.
No, that's a totally different argument. Although it's one that every civilised country in the West (not the Wild West) has gone for. Surprisingly, it works. But encryption keys don't generally kill people when used...
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I wasn't feeling insulting until I'd read enough of his ranting insults to kill any sympathy I might have had for his stance.
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There is always a conversation to be had on the balance between service being provided by local municipalities (either sub-contracted or by the pols) versus being proved by private companies. We all agree that some regulation (on both) is good, to stop profiteering, ignoring customers, and other high-jinks. We all know that no regulation is not an option (hopefully), and that too much (wrong) regulation can be stifling, as can having regulation written by special interests. So I don't see why you are getting so wound up and insulting.
It's interesting that you really really hate what us Europeans think, with our actual decent internet and reasonably balanced regulation. Says a lot, really.
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If your argument Is "but it's hard" I raise you Moon landings. "But it's far" - Australia and many other large countries. I bet even Canada and Russia have better internet than you lot. However, a lot of the problems occur in cities, which funnily enough most other countries can actually manage to deal with, whether new or old.
Third-World excuses to go with Third-World infrastructure, to go with Third-World healthcare.
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1st step is to preach hate of 'the other'.
2nd step is to practice bigotry against anyone else that does not suit your narrow worldview.
3rd step is to whine about anyone giving you hassle about your hate and bigotry, and add them to your list in step 1."
FIFY. See how easy it is?
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This form of non-NN was known, both in experience of how the American ISPs were breaking things already, and in comparison with other countries who had competition and some form of NN. You also have ISPs writing bad self-interested law. So it's a lot more evidenced - it's not like airlines were writing laws indemnifying them for planes falling from the sky!
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Dumb argument which I usually see reserved for use by gun-fondlers.
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A lot of non-technical people prefer less specialist descriptions, and how you phrase it matters. If you say to people "what's your opinion on arterial trunk road shutdown" most will say "huh?" or "none". But if you explain it as "shutting down all the main roads into your town" then yes, they will have a (possibly) strong opinion.
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