Or, more accurately, ala carte. I really only watch a few channels. Unfortunately, they're (e.g. Smithsonian) all on the highest tier with my provider. So I pay for huge numbers of sports and other channels that I've never even tuned to. If I try to drop TV, my internet cost doubles.
The cable industry complains access fees are killing them. Why not let US reduce those fees?
Actually, BAD wired usually beats wireless hands down. So seductive, so convenient... but (having set up wireless networks in scores of schools) I can tell you it doesn't scale well.
"...laws and policies can be changed for the better..."
I'm sorry, you've used correct english words in a nonsense arrangement. Norman, co-ordinate! If you want that to happen, you WILL need time travel - at least 3.7 years worth.
How much profit is "enough"? Null value. If they spend 10 million lobbying for changes that get them 10.01 million, that's good value for the stock holders.
Re: Would you please pro-actively suspend and/or bring to termination utilitizing Pointy-Haired Boss Verbage? Just "can proceed to jury trial" is CLEAR.
So... You're saying the big words in the article are too much for you? Which ones?
All the states have to do is craft a set of privacy rules that all of them can agree to, and adopt it. Perhaps some sort of central organization to co-ordinate all of this... oh, wait.
Scratch that. OK, what if we all just ignore the antics in Washington, and set up our OWN government - of the people, for the people...
Now theoretically, increasing penalties for some specific crime is all about deterring that crime. Unfortunately, I think this subtlety will be wasted on most perpetrators. "When you have to, you have to!" So I guess it's more about revenge...
"The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Administration will end it."
Huh. Not work to change it, not correct problems that cause it - just jackboots. That's how I read that sentence. At some point, the police - and the government - will be reminded there are more of us than of them.
I have this Twilight Zone fantasy where a person in power - perhaps this one, or his boss - discovers no one is listening to them. "Here's my latest executive order!" Ha,ha, no. If everyone holds firm, what's he gonna do?
It's more profitable to do so. For every unfair billing exposed and corrected, there are probably thousands unheard of. They make more money keeping that. And, what do they care if their reputation is sullied? For so many people, there are only inadequate alternatives, if any.
$10M seems a little light. More like, every penny he might have earned for the rest of his life, plus lifetime medicals care, PLUS $10M. You know, for the trouble.
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Re: "the industry makes $21 million annually in rental fees" -- From 100 or so million subscribers, you're hot on 20 CENTS a year?
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Skinny bundles
The cable industry complains access fees are killing them. Why not let US reduce those fees?
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Re: Re: Re: Political Pull
I'm sorry, you've used correct english words in a nonsense arrangement. Norman, co-ordinate! If you want that to happen, you WILL need time travel - at least 3.7 years worth.
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Not enough
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Re: Would you please pro-actively suspend and/or bring to termination utilitizing Pointy-Haired Boss Verbage? Just "can proceed to jury trial" is CLEAR.
On the post: FCC Commissioner Wants To Ban States From Protecting Consumer Broadband Privacy
Re:
On the post: FCC Commissioner Wants To Ban States From Protecting Consumer Broadband Privacy
Uniform rules
Scratch that. OK, what if we all just ignore the antics in Washington, and set up our OWN government - of the people, for the people...
I see your point. Never mind.
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Re:
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Really?
Huh. Not work to change it, not correct problems that cause it - just jackboots. That's how I read that sentence. At some point, the police - and the government - will be reminded there are more of us than of them.
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Re: new rulings
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Missed opportunity
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"and stacked against the former owners"
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Very Simple
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Sauce for the goose
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I have fantasies where eccentric billionaires set up funds to defend people from abuse of the legal system by others.
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Re: Don't piss off judges.
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Re: Re: Re: Dangerous
$10M seems a little light. More like, every penny he might have earned for the rest of his life, plus lifetime medicals care, PLUS $10M. You know, for the trouble.
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This shall not stand!
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