Re: Re: Re: someone needs to argue the tax base revunue
Higher sales, or not. Higher taxes, or not. The major consideration should be that the internet is an important engine of economic growth in the 21st century.
More and redundant internet access is a good thing. Competition is a good thing.
Surely AT&T knows best that not having an alternative to AT&T is in our best interest. After all, with an alternative, people might vote with their wallet.
It would seem that having even more broadband providers would mean even more businesses providing that service and which can be taxed.
Increased competition results is lower prices and better service (than Comcast provides). Lower prices result in sales of higher end broadband packages.
In addition to the Tax consideration, one should consider that the internet is the infrastructure of the new economy. Just as the interstate highway is an important infrastructure. It has social benefits that go way beyond being able to easily move military equipment around the 48 states.
Do you know about Intel's Management Engine, and similar technology in AMD processors?
Your computer is already pre-compromised at the hardware level, before even the motherboard firmware is executed to begin the bloat loader process. And has been compromised for several years now.
You can bet he does! If he has the power to use the military to shut down both houses of Congress by force, then he most certainly has the power to gag federal agencies.
When something is elevated to the status of being an actual theory in science, that means it has been pretty thoroughly scrutinized. It cannot be contradicted by any existing facts, and it must have predictive power.
For example the Theory of Relativity explained facts that could not be reconciled at the time. It also made predictions that could be and were tested at the time, and predictions that could not be tested until later. Despite how unintuitive relativity is, it is the best model of large scale reality that we have. Without relativity GPS would not work to make your in car navigation possible.
The theory of Quantum Mechanics explains existing observations and makes predictions. It is also weird. Without it we would never have had the transistor which is based on a quantum understanding of P-N junctions.
The Big Bang is a theory. But it explains all observable facts. The Big Bang would be the most brilliantly bright event in the universe. So why don't we see the brilliant bright light all over the universe today? We do! But it's the cosmic microwave background radiation. As per the big bang, space is still stretching, and as space stretches, all those 13.7 billion year old waves of bright light have been stretches as the space stretches. That names all those waves longer, and therefore lower frequency. Therefore no longer visible light but microwaves. And all of the math works out perfectly. And there is way more than this to back up the big bang.
If you want to have an alternate creation belief, fine. But it probably should include the big bang. If Adam and Eve cut down a tree, would the tree trunk have rings indicating years of growth? I believe it would, because the entire universe would have a back story full of things that happened just yesterday, last week, and 13.7 billion years ago. But that's not science. Not any more than my claim that the entire universe was created by my cat last Thursday, and it has a back story that includes all of our memories prior to last Thursday. (And all TechDirt posting history.)
Private parties should not have to sue polluters in court. Why should the public have to expend their personal resources to enforce the laws? Isn't that was taxes are for? Aren't conservatives for letting people keep their own resources?
I suppose we could just get rid of all local police. If you get robbed, you could find out for yourself who did it, and sue them. If if a member of your family is murdered, you could figure out for yourself who did it, and sue.
One thing I have actually heard people say about protests is "that's rude".
Similarly not standing during the national anthem is also rude, but a form of protest that gets attention.
It seems that some people want to only allow meaningless forms of protest.
Would they rather that the flag burner or guy sitting during national anthem engage in a violent protest? Maybe arson, car tipping, etc? All they're doing is burning a flag or sitting during the national anthem. Nobody else nor their property is harmed.
The following is not my work. (to the tune of "I'm just a bill")
I'm an amendment to be. Yes, an amendment to be. And I hope that they'll ratify me. It seems, we've got some flag burners who have got too much freedom. And I want to make it legal for policemen to beat 'em. 'cause there's limits to our liberty Oh I hope an pray that there are 'cause these liberal freaks go to far
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Re: Re: Re: someone needs to argue the tax base revunue
More and redundant internet access is a good thing. Competition is a good thing.
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Re: someone needs to argue the tax base revunue
Increased competition results is lower prices and better service (than Comcast provides). Lower prices result in sales of higher end broadband packages.
In addition to the Tax consideration, one should consider that the internet is the infrastructure of the new economy. Just as the interstate highway is an important infrastructure. It has social benefits that go way beyond being able to easily move military equipment around the 48 states.
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It's about time
The corruption between ISPs and lawmakers is at least as big a threat as SOPA ever was.
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Your computer is already pre-compromised at the hardware level, before even the motherboard firmware is executed to begin the bloat loader process. And has been compromised for several years now.
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Re: Foia request?
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Re: Presidential Authority
Oh, wait. You said 'authority' not power.
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For example the Theory of Relativity explained facts that could not be reconciled at the time. It also made predictions that could be and were tested at the time, and predictions that could not be tested until later. Despite how unintuitive relativity is, it is the best model of large scale reality that we have. Without relativity GPS would not work to make your in car navigation possible.
The theory of Quantum Mechanics explains existing observations and makes predictions. It is also weird. Without it we would never have had the transistor which is based on a quantum understanding of P-N junctions.
The Big Bang is a theory. But it explains all observable facts. The Big Bang would be the most brilliantly bright event in the universe. So why don't we see the brilliant bright light all over the universe today? We do! But it's the cosmic microwave background radiation. As per the big bang, space is still stretching, and as space stretches, all those 13.7 billion year old waves of bright light have been stretches as the space stretches. That names all those waves longer, and therefore lower frequency. Therefore no longer visible light but microwaves. And all of the math works out perfectly. And there is way more than this to back up the big bang.
If you want to have an alternate creation belief, fine. But it probably should include the big bang. If Adam and Eve cut down a tree, would the tree trunk have rings indicating years of growth? I believe it would, because the entire universe would have a back story full of things that happened just yesterday, last week, and 13.7 billion years ago. But that's not science. Not any more than my claim that the entire universe was created by my cat last Thursday, and it has a back story that includes all of our memories prior to last Thursday. (And all TechDirt posting history.)
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I suppose we could just get rid of all local police. If you get robbed, you could find out for yourself who did it, and sue them. If if a member of your family is murdered, you could figure out for yourself who did it, and sue.
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Personally, I don't want my family injured by unregulated corporate greed that knows absolutely no bounds.
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Re: White Gloves
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Re: Re: Re: Time to stop using fingerprints for authentication, then
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You're not understanding the CIA's problem
But when a FOIA requester wants it, then suddenly there are all of the additional costs incurred to delay, obfuscate, redact or deny the request.
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Re: Burning Flags - So Asinine
Similarly not standing during the national anthem is also rude, but a form of protest that gets attention.
It seems that some people want to only allow meaningless forms of protest.
Would they rather that the flag burner or guy sitting during national anthem engage in a violent protest? Maybe arson, car tipping, etc? All they're doing is burning a flag or sitting during the national anthem. Nobody else nor their property is harmed.
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Perfect 10 is perfect
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Too much liberty
(to the tune of "I'm just a bill")
I'm an amendment to be.
Yes, an amendment to be.
And I hope that they'll ratify me.
It seems, we've got some flag burners
who have got too much freedom.
And I want to make it legal
for policemen to beat 'em.
'cause there's limits to our liberty
Oh I hope an pray that there are
'cause these liberal freaks go to far
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For instance, unflattering tweets about the dear leader.
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