This is refreshing. It was despairing to see all the violations with no push back. It's a glimpse of hope in a world dominated by retrocession and dismantling of hard earned rights and improvements regarding bigotry.
"During the arrest, Sanderson called police “Nazis,” “skinheads” and “Gestapo,” according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by the Crafton Borough police."
So to drive home the 'fact' that the police is NOT 'nazis', 'skinheads' and 'Gestapo' they acted exactly like 'nazis', 'skinheads' and 'Gestapo'.
"A dispute that allegedly included threats and a thrown chair caused the township hall at the center of an investigation into surplus military equipment to close 30 minutes after it opened Monday morning."
For more sensationalism and impact you could have written "HALF of all chairs were thrown..."
Look at the last 10 years and you'll see tons of this kind of ass fuckery. Wheeler put a temporary half-break to it and Pai promptly released it. So yeah, Americans are screwed. Of course there are the mid-terms and the lawsuits so there is hope.
You can't argue with historic, well documented facts. Unless you are Pai or you have the telcos firmly shoved up your arse of course.
Re: Re: 'Innocent until proven guilty' nowhere to be seen
lol at that source..
And even if she was a left-winger, so? As far as I know the US Constitution clearly protects free speech which includes sympathizing and preaching about the left even if there's no left party in the government. If the judge is biased enough to let her activism influence in his evaluation of facts then he shouldn't be a judge.
This probably was the idea from the start. What we do need is Republican voters that agree with NN start calling their representatives (if they aren't already). Then the inaction will send an even stronger signal.
I hope the midterms are a complete Republican bloodbath.
Re: Re: "no way anyone in the recording business" -- NOT GAMES.
It's true for movies and for records as well. You don't buy a physical record because you want to listen to it, you buy for the ownership. And you also buy the experience of seeing your idol live or watching the movie on gigantic screens with immersive sound. And the merchandising. From toys to t-shirts, games based on the movies or even on music (Just Dance, Guitar Hero etc). There's so much money to be made from free everywhere.
But the copymorons will keep yelling otherwise because their industry is a precious little gem valued at beeellions of dollars but people won't give them the money they are owed by heavenly entitlement. I'd play my tiny violin but I don't have an atomic microscope to find it.
What Mike said. And even if Microsoft did funnel some data towards the govt through NSLs and other unconstitutional or even rubberstamp processes (FISA) it did fight back the way they could. Most of this was secret though so we only have a few glimpses of all the fighting. Other companies also fought tooth and nail against such overreach and more than that, fought for the right to inform people of what was happening under the secrecy veil.
"Combine it all with the growing distrust of Google in the public and it can appear that Google is trying to pantomime the caricature it is so often painted to be: faceless corporate greed-hounds without soul or morality. "
There you are Mike, being a distinguished Google shill. Oh wait. *blue screen of death* - Your favorite troll
I'd say our educational system (generally speaking) is in need of an emergency upgrade for years now. Maybe with few exceptions or considering some countries are far ahead in this upgrade thing while others are far behind.
I mean, what do schools prepare kids for? I mean, sure chemistry is important, mathematics and language are critical but do we teach critical thinking at school? Taxes, basic survivability skills (heck, how to fry a goddamn egg), politics, sociology. You don't need to be an expert, you need basic knowledge and more importantly you need to know how to navigate through uncharted waters (ie: stuff you don't understand), you need tools to be a better person.
I'm afraid a lot of bad will have to happen before we finally dedicate attention to this issue in a sane, nuanced way.
You clearly don't understand what a natural monopoly is. It's easier to understand in water supply and electricity. You don't deploy infrastructure for those twice, three times. You don't have one different tube for each water supplier (when it's private, mostly municipal or state utilities). And when you buy energy from some supplier you don't deploy more wires, you get the energy from the network and the supplier feeds the network with that energy. What you receive actually comes from the closest generator because physics.
Now, if you can't deploy redundant infrastructure regardless of the motive then you have a natural monopoly. If you have a monopoly created via regulations it's regulatory capture. It CAN be both regulatory capture and a natural monopoly which is what's happening with the broadband sector in the US. Go read about MaBell and the process that split it up, go read about other models. Inform yourself so you won't look like a fool every time you open your mouth.
"That ownership needs to be removed and made public just like the public highways."
Oh, go the "communist" way then (please read with sarcasm). Seriously, you are funny.
"Tell me, why should it be okay for ATT to own public property like this?"
Because they built the infrastructure, not the govt?
Judge: so I'm not an expert at botanic but the accusation says the plant found at your house is [insert whatever illicit drug] so to jail you go.
Sounds right? I don't think so. While you can't possibly expect a judge to be an expert on every single subject at the very least he/she should research about it or at the very least call their own independent experts on the issue. The court itself should employ a varied range of people from the main areas (say, health, biology, engineering etc) to check the works of external professionals.
We should expect judges to be smart enough to get information and deliver reasonable rulings. They don't need to be experts at everything, they just don't need to be dumbasses.
First: I'm not pro-FCC. I did agree with how the FCC was doing things under Wheeler. I'm pro-consumers. Or rather, pro-people. Monopolies are not good for anybody except a few privileged so it's the govt's duty to regulate monopolies when they can't be avoided (ie: electricity, telecom etc).
"There is no limit to how many wires or poles we can put down."
Yes there is. Having worked with the underground I can assure you that it's an overcrowded mess at some points. Having multiple stances of infrastructure is desired for redundancy but there are limits both physical and financial.
"The cost is also not high enough to call it a natural monopoly either"
Yes it is. Go try to start an ISP and come back to tell us about the capital costs. Or point us to the infinity of startups deploying new network, we'll wait.
"Google Fiber had more than enough money but they still gave up because of those "regulations" the FCC and locals made that helped keep the incumbents entrenched."
Regulatory capture all over. Bought by the incumbent players (remember, already powerful because of the natural monopoly thing?). It doesn't mean there's no need for regulation.
"Your politics demand that your solutions can only go one way, facts or history be damned!"
Please, go look in the mirror.
"Piss off, you know too little to help and the solutions you have across the pond will not work over here because our government operates differently."
And yet he has unlimited, quality internet access and the US is struggling. Sounds like one of the governments is doing it somewhat right while the other isn't. And in the UK regulations are much stricter. Go figure.
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So to drive home the 'fact' that the police is NOT 'nazis', 'skinheads' and 'Gestapo' they acted exactly like 'nazis', 'skinheads' and 'Gestapo'.
[insert captn Picard facepalm here]
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For more sensationalism and impact you could have written "HALF of all chairs were thrown..."
Oh wait, it wasn't in the PD. One third?
Ahem.
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You can't argue with historic, well documented facts. Unless you are Pai or you have the telcos firmly shoved up your arse of course.
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In any case, good thing we have guys like the EFF to put up resistance against idiocies like this.
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Re: Re: EFF wasted much court time, yet got worse than status quo ante.
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Also, cue the usual trolls screaming while ripping their hairs out: "CUUURSE THIS ANONYMOUS COWARD! IF ONLY I HAD THE IDEA BEFORE!"
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Re: Re: 'Innocent until proven guilty' nowhere to be seen
And even if she was a left-winger, so? As far as I know the US Constitution clearly protects free speech which includes sympathizing and preaching about the left even if there's no left party in the government. If the judge is biased enough to let her activism influence in his evaluation of facts then he shouldn't be a judge.
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Re: When inaction IS action
I hope the midterms are a complete Republican bloodbath.
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Re: Re: "no way anyone in the recording business" -- NOT GAMES.
But the copymorons will keep yelling otherwise because their industry is a precious little gem valued at beeellions of dollars but people won't give them the money they are owed by heavenly entitlement. I'd play my tiny violin but I don't have an atomic microscope to find it.
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I think you are being kind of unfair here.
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There you are Mike, being a distinguished Google shill. Oh wait. *blue screen of death* - Your favorite troll
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I mean, what do schools prepare kids for? I mean, sure chemistry is important, mathematics and language are critical but do we teach critical thinking at school? Taxes, basic survivability skills (heck, how to fry a goddamn egg), politics, sociology. You don't need to be an expert, you need basic knowledge and more importantly you need to know how to navigate through uncharted waters (ie: stuff you don't understand), you need tools to be a better person.
I'm afraid a lot of bad will have to happen before we finally dedicate attention to this issue in a sane, nuanced way.
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And thus Techdirt landed itself on the Chinese censored list. And I'm laughing.
Mike reportedly commented on the issue: "Oh bother." (credits to our commenter discordian_eris!)
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Now, if you can't deploy redundant infrastructure regardless of the motive then you have a natural monopoly. If you have a monopoly created via regulations it's regulatory capture. It CAN be both regulatory capture and a natural monopoly which is what's happening with the broadband sector in the US. Go read about MaBell and the process that split it up, go read about other models. Inform yourself so you won't look like a fool every time you open your mouth.
"That ownership needs to be removed and made public just like the public highways."
Oh, go the "communist" way then (please read with sarcasm). Seriously, you are funny.
"Tell me, why should it be okay for ATT to own public property like this?"
Because they built the infrastructure, not the govt?
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Re:
Sounds right? I don't think so. While you can't possibly expect a judge to be an expert on every single subject at the very least he/she should research about it or at the very least call their own independent experts on the issue. The court itself should employ a varied range of people from the main areas (say, health, biology, engineering etc) to check the works of external professionals.
We should expect judges to be smart enough to get information and deliver reasonable rulings. They don't need to be experts at everything, they just don't need to be dumbasses.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
First: I'm not pro-FCC. I did agree with how the FCC was doing things under Wheeler. I'm pro-consumers. Or rather, pro-people. Monopolies are not good for anybody except a few privileged so it's the govt's duty to regulate monopolies when they can't be avoided (ie: electricity, telecom etc).
"There is no limit to how many wires or poles we can put down."
Yes there is. Having worked with the underground I can assure you that it's an overcrowded mess at some points. Having multiple stances of infrastructure is desired for redundancy but there are limits both physical and financial.
"The cost is also not high enough to call it a natural monopoly either"
Yes it is. Go try to start an ISP and come back to tell us about the capital costs. Or point us to the infinity of startups deploying new network, we'll wait.
"Google Fiber had more than enough money but they still gave up because of those "regulations" the FCC and locals made that helped keep the incumbents entrenched."
Regulatory capture all over. Bought by the incumbent players (remember, already powerful because of the natural monopoly thing?). It doesn't mean there's no need for regulation.
"Your politics demand that your solutions can only go one way, facts or history be damned!"
Please, go look in the mirror.
"Piss off, you know too little to help and the solutions you have across the pond will not work over here because our government operates differently."
And yet he has unlimited, quality internet access and the US is struggling. Sounds like one of the governments is doing it somewhat right while the other isn't. And in the UK regulations are much stricter. Go figure.
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That Aussie parliament has got the Erdogan Seal of Approval!
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