Happens all the time. Bring me someone aggressively championing something on "moral" grounds and I'll give you one putrid asshole that does as bad or even worse than he/she preaches.
Of course not. You wouldn't be able to spew your false accusations without risk of being taken to the courts if you identified yourself. That and you like making a fool of yourself so there's the shame involved.
You mean to say Comcast is abusing its dominant, near monopolistic hold on most of the US by charging fees that shouldn't be there for services it won't provide? I'm shocked, positively shocked.
(Do I need to add sarcasm marks? I'm feeling I wasn't acidic enough)
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So you mean people are a bunch of lazy dirtbags that would rather go after the money than fix the situation by punishing the source of the problem (the speaker). I'm shocked.
Well, it's a pretty messed up shit show. The bright side is that this is getting mainstream attention and showing the true colors of the telcos. Sure there will be the dumbasses that will always cheer for their abusers but overall I see the US will get out of this mess better than when it started with the latest FCC head.
In any case, history will not remember Ajit Pai fondly.
At the very least the authors are surely living a great and rich afterlife, no? As Gary said, copyright should last much less and end automatically when the holder dies.
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This is thin skin codified into law. I'd be protesting against it if I were a cop much like I already protested laws that create unfair benefits towards my professional activity here.
-it's served by Techdirt site itself -it's something that will help fund a site I like and follow almost daily -you can easily close it you can turn off all other advertising without ad blockers if you so wish -no sounds, no full screen bullshit
This is actually very reasonable. Troy Hunt did it to his own site. There's a strip displayed between the top menu and the content of the site itself and nothing else. Why should it bother me if it helps the owners without being obnoxious?
This actually doesn't annoy me for a few reasons.
it's served by Techdirt site itself
it's something that will help fund a site I like and follow almost daily
you can easily close it
you can turn off all other advertising without ad blockers if you so wish
*no sounds, no full screen bullshit
This is actually very reasonable. Troy Hunt did it to his own site. There's a strip displayed between the top menu and the content of the site itself and nothing else. Why should it bother me if it helps the owners without being obnoxious?
That's what bugs me. We should be speaking more openly to our children and instructing them to behave safely on the net. We should also not let them access some tech without supervision simply because they aren't mature enough to make good, balanced decisions.
As a cautionary tale, my friend lets her kid play around with a phone/tablet but only supervised (the kid is almost 8 years old). These days she was telling me that some internet pedo/weirdo realized he was talking to a kid and started spewing a whole load of filthy crap through the chat of the game. Luckily (and out of a sense or responsible parenting), she caught when the guy started saying weird stuff, took the phone from her daughter and kept the conversation going for a while. In the end she threatened to call the police and blocked the moron.
No amount of filtering is going to protect a kid whose parents couldn't care less about parenting.
New Street added that “broadband pricing could double from current levels.
At the very least the morons who support the dismantling of NN protections and aren't Ajit Pai (ie: have neither money nor power) will be suffering with double the cost as well, no?
Of course NN alone won't save a good chunk of America from hideous prices but it will at the very least make you hit the cap with their products or with the competition. Yay.
Advertisement has become so aggressively annoying and intrusive that I find myself wishing a fiery death to most of them. This doesn't help fix that of course but explains in part why I arrived at this point. And I'm guessing others will agree.
As if I needed more reasons to hate advertisements, yesterday I was attending class and started reading an article about the subject we were studying. I was suddenly interrupted by a full screen ad in my phone with sound. Had to close the browser to stop the goddamn thing. Of course I installed an ad blocker right after the fact (I hadn't used the browser on that phone before so I hadn't taken some needed steps). Go die in hell ads.
I wonder if blocking Disney isn't actually the right thing considering how much harm they have already done to the Public Domain which affects children's present and future. Just a thought.
Re: Looks like we got us a triggered snowflake here.
Yeah. I touched his funny gland or something.
"As if most leftists are not already on record as calling all whites priviledge or members of the KKK or nazi's... "
I had a good laugh with this one since I know people in the left that are racist assholes.
But while he is trying his hand in sarcasm, pretty much every single one of us (including blacks themselves) that has slavery in their past has some degree of racism. You don't grow up in a racist society without taking some along with you. Some of us understand it and make efforts to change it as fast as possible. Others... Foam through the mouth as we can see in his reply.
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Happens all the time. Bring me someone aggressively championing something on "moral" grounds and I'll give you one putrid asshole that does as bad or even worse than he/she preaches.
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(Do I need to add sarcasm marks? I'm feeling I wasn't acidic enough)
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In any case, history will not remember Ajit Pai fondly.
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This actually doesn't annoy me for a few reasons.
-it's served by Techdirt site itself
-it's something that will help fund a site I like and follow almost daily
-you can easily close it you can turn off all other advertising without ad blockers if you so wish
-no sounds, no full screen bullshit
This is actually very reasonable. Troy Hunt did it to his own site. There's a strip displayed between the top menu and the content of the site itself and nothing else. Why should it bother me if it helps the owners without being obnoxious?
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This actually doesn't annoy me for a few reasons. it's served by Techdirt site itself it's something that will help fund a site I like and follow almost daily you can easily close it you can turn off all other advertising without ad blockers if you so wish *no sounds, no full screen bullshit This is actually very reasonable. Troy Hunt did it to his own site. There's a strip displayed between the top menu and the content of the site itself and nothing else. Why should it bother me if it helps the owners without being obnoxious?
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As a cautionary tale, my friend lets her kid play around with a phone/tablet but only supervised (the kid is almost 8 years old). These days she was telling me that some internet pedo/weirdo realized he was talking to a kid and started spewing a whole load of filthy crap through the chat of the game. Luckily (and out of a sense or responsible parenting), she caught when the guy started saying weird stuff, took the phone from her daughter and kept the conversation going for a while. In the end she threatened to call the police and blocked the moron.
No amount of filtering is going to protect a kid whose parents couldn't care less about parenting.
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At the very least the morons who support the dismantling of NN protections and aren't Ajit Pai (ie: have neither money nor power) will be suffering with double the cost as well, no?
Of course NN alone won't save a good chunk of America from hideous prices but it will at the very least make you hit the cap with their products or with the competition. Yay.
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As if I needed more reasons to hate advertisements, yesterday I was attending class and started reading an article about the subject we were studying. I was suddenly interrupted by a full screen ad in my phone with sound. Had to close the browser to stop the goddamn thing. Of course I installed an ad blocker right after the fact (I hadn't used the browser on that phone before so I hadn't taken some needed steps). Go die in hell ads.
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Re: Looks like we got us a triggered snowflake here.
"As if most leftists are not already on record as calling all whites priviledge or members of the KKK or nazi's... "
I had a good laugh with this one since I know people in the left that are racist assholes.
But while he is trying his hand in sarcasm, pretty much every single one of us (including blacks themselves) that has slavery in their past has some degree of racism. You don't grow up in a racist society without taking some along with you. Some of us understand it and make efforts to change it as fast as possible. Others... Foam through the mouth as we can see in his reply.
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