As opposed to a Title II complete government takeover, where this exact same inndustry you shit brix over now deals with Contgress directly, as their customer (to whom they whine and wine and donate), now cutting you out completely, until it tuens into the water department.

No, I am glad Congress is asserting itself so, sor one brief moment, they consider ancient legislation before it is applied to a massive new arena by certain power-hungry factions, unelected.

No, we will mock them for not keeping their site in the manner they promise and advertise: news for nerds -- stuff that matters.

So, with mockery in mind, I will say I, too, am upset Microsoft is abandoning regular support for Windows 7 before the next major OS release.

Oops, wrong thread.

No, wait. Right thread.

That's what I always point out in these threads -- it is trivial for a political operative, a G. Gordon Liddy type, to listen in on conversations of political opponents of his boss, to say nothing of using metadata to track who they call -- knowing donors or supporters is valuable info and the government can target them.

It has nothing to do with the other 999 agents. You cannot build a panopticon.

We need to carry forward out protections into our virual life, instead of letting the government get away with loopholes that it's electronics where "you have no expectation of privacy", they baldly assert as they slide their hands into our pants.

Well, guess what? You're wrong, and not in the spirit of why these constitutional protections were created.

So Stewie was being superversive at Woodstock!

Stewie: (singing and strumming a guitar) "Establishment. Establishment. You always know what's best!"

Crowd boos.

Stewie: "LEARN THE RULES!"

The article title is wrong. It should be "Sales of computers with Windows 8 are slowly recovering after it has been partially rolled back wih 8.1."

I'm still waiting for 9, or 10, or Decimalawwsome-O, or whatever the hell they're calling it.

Cities used to do this all the time. I suppose it's progress that you laugh at the idea.

Handing out economic favors is the whole reason for political power seeking. "This heah town ain't big enuff for two companies, see?" is old-school meme justification for government(-granted) monopolies.

If the federal government is going to insinuate itself, then forbid localities that do this from restricting competition, including tax surcharges on cable providers to help pay for public ones.

China is less an example of Big Government projects and more of them not self-hobbling with environmental and other laws.

There's a shipping harbor in South Carolina that has been trying to be deepened by 5 feet to accomodate Superpanamax ships (larger cargo carriers designed for the upcoming Panama Canal expansion.)

This fight has been going on for longer than the original Panama Canal took to build.

It's sad most of this in the US comes down to political battles between environmentalists and unionized construction worker jobs.

Smells like Doritos and shame.

Adding noise is good, but It adds to the pollution slowing down that band.

If everyone who ever lived spent their entire lives looking at random images, probably nobody will have found any decent pictures of intelligible size, much less a great work of art (or a spurious image of a shooter on the grassy knoll, or a decent image of a sentence or plans to an h bomb.)

He probably even knows what a comptroller is! >:-(

Sick of apologists arguing for those in power to gain approval from he masses by clobbering small factions over the head.

Art is expression is speech, and government censoring it is wrong for the exact same reasonzas words.

Microsoft learned to placate government officials by donating to them. They sought power so they could gin up memes like "anti-competitive behavior" and sic true believers AKA their meme enforcement cogs, until the politicians git paid to get back out of the way.

Now, having placated the US federal government, most state governments, and most individual EU countries, they must now focus on placating the EU parliament AKA European Federal Government, whose politicians now are wondering why they, too, can't get a piece of the pie.

Well, the Russians bring this on themselves by continuously electing a "strong leader" who can "stand up to the West" because it has relegated them to a has-been world power.

Oh, you meant transgendered people.

And the Chinese will move in from the oceans slowly over 100-300 years, with an ongoing, powerful economy, continuint to drive science and engineering rapidly forward, as Europe, and eventually the US, fall further and further behind, their overbearing, if well-intentioned regulatory burden being scarcely different, burdenwise, from political corruption in 3rd woorld nations.