Sure they are big. What prevents the Comcasts of the world charging money big enough to seriously hurt their margins forcing them to increase their prices and become less attractive against services owned by Comcast itself? What if Comcast simply decides Netflix and all the rest just *won't* be able to buy into the fast lane making the services sluggish compared to their own offerings? Replace Comcast by any ISP and you can see how fast Netflix won't be big enough to absorb the damage.
"But the public backlash will handle it!" you say. Yeah, just like public backlash has made Comcast improve their customer service greatly. Just like public backlash prevents ISPs from being generally assholes and overcharging and doing very questionable things. I would be worried if I were Netflix.
Sadly it wouldn't be used against these politicians children of course. The High Court is very forgiving. The Low Court on the other hand... Well, we have very recent history to show how this is going to play.
Whenever some moron, in power or not, shouts "for the children" our kids die a little bit more metaphorically speaking.
I do believe there should be a minimum amount of voters overall or the candidates have to be replaced. If they couldn't get the electorate to care then they aren't up to the job. Still, 51,2% of Tennessee apparently don't care about their future as well given such rule isn't valid. If I had no candidate on this specific case I'd vote blank or in some other candidate (dunno, maybe Homer Simpson).
Who would have told, the guy invented time travel! Why he is still busy in the copyright trolling business and not winning some lottery retroactively is a mystery to be explored.
Well, considering some idiots keep getting elected despite showing repeatedly they don't give a damn about their voters (she was already reelected after the SOPA thing, no?) I think she's putting too much effort into pretending she cares.
Dude, look at statistics. There were as many issues with planes before the security theater as now. How many freaking notebooks were used to blow up planes lately? ZERO. People used a goddamn pressure cooker to blow up stuff, do you suggest we ban pressure cookers? Are you that stupid or are you being paid?
“I was telling [Fox host] Steve [Doocy] on the way in here, if he knew what I knew about terrorism, he’d never leave the house in the morning,” Kelly said on “Fox & Friends.”
So let's make a deal, shall we? YOU scared cowards stay home and let the rest of us enjoy our freedoms without useless security theater. Deal? We promise to build a deep, fortified, self-sustaining bunker resistant to everything so you can remain very safe inside.
Sounds like a failure of a comedian is just butthurt because another one is successful because he has the talent to get any joke and make it funny with corporal language and good timing. Sadly the moron is being helped by the legal system.
I wonder if this could be fixed with encryption or any other countermeasure from the service providers. It seems to me that any moron with resources to burn could get one. Don't come with the "but it's Govt controlled" bullshit. Much like tons of weapons, including nuclear, are Govt controlled and end up in the least likely places. Shouldn't this be something we as a society should be working on solving?
Maybe signal jammers around airports and sensitive areas? Plain old sniping? If the moron is flying his drone near such places then he/she deserves to be separated from the toy. Of course there's the activism portion but they can get creative to hide the activities and still carry on activism.
I don't think their right hands have ever met their left hands so expect them to keep pushing the narrative. When asked they'll simply reply "but the Government is more important" in all 'honesty'.
I don't buy it. It takes a whole lot of wilful blindness not to see 1- the overwhelming support towards the rules and 2- that the justice system AND the legislative let the FCC move ahead with Title II back when Wheeler decided to move.
I hope the dismantling fails hard wherever it needs to go through. And I hope Pai and his misguided ideology (yeah right) go away as soon as possible. If there's any Deity out there Trump will leave sooner as well.
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"But the public backlash will handle it!" you say. Yeah, just like public backlash has made Comcast improve their customer service greatly. Just like public backlash prevents ISPs from being generally assholes and overcharging and doing very questionable things. I would be worried if I were Netflix.
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Whenever some moron, in power or not, shouts "for the children" our kids die a little bit more metaphorically speaking.
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And lawyers. So this will generate jobs! Keep up the good work Swiss!
/sarcasm (in case someone actually agrees)
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Ahem.
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So let's make a deal, shall we? YOU scared cowards stay home and let the rest of us enjoy our freedoms without useless security theater. Deal? We promise to build a deep, fortified, self-sustaining bunker resistant to everything so you can remain very safe inside.
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Re: Obvious jokes
Who is there?
Right.
Who?
Copyright."
This would extract tears of laughter if told in a MAFIAA event.
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Still, one could point to a few thousand years of free culture before copyright came to answer your question, satire or not.
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Christ is it that hard to blame the true criminals and not the tools?
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I hope the dismantling fails hard wherever it needs to go through. And I hope Pai and his misguided ideology (yeah right) go away as soon as possible. If there's any Deity out there Trump will leave sooner as well.
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