She's not running for President anymore than Ted Cruz is. the real reason is anonymously pocketing all the anonymous SuperPAC money.

Americans are oblivious (and I am one!), Italy/India you could make the argument it's intentional and bordering on malicious...that would be bad to teach Skynet...lol

If we teach computers how to drive by using US drivers....Skynet isn't going to be much of a threat...

But they did say that Corporations have certain speech rights, no? And who has the money to set up lots and lots of corporations....with undisclosed donations?

or right...

Now if it were clearly labeled that said lobbying company received their money from the Koch Brothers I've got no problem with them speaking their billions. It's the unlimited shadow speech Citizens United unleashed that's the problem.

The end is nigh o planter's of magnetic tracking devices!

Eh, it's a factor but an obvious one that they very likely adjusted for.

For me, I've always felt like my rhythm was actually longer than 24 hours so for me this sounds like a fabulous thing.

Therefore, I should get to go first :)

Craigslist? might want to check your history. The *only* reason it no longer hosts adult ads is the state GOVERNMENT's threatening to sue them into oblivion.

That is most definitely gov't censorship

I'd guess there are already laws (and liability) for using non-certified parts in critical areas.

There was a contractor who was making highway guard rails who decided to go cheap and changed the design without permission linky and another case linky

Knock offs INCREASE the market for collectables. Take the fashion industry as a perfect example - and they don't have any copyright/patent protections. People buy knock offs until they can afford the real thing.

Perhaps they do. They also aren't a good measure of the entire market.

How many people prided themselves on how many albums or CDs or DVDs they had? How many of them now just use Netflix and Pandora/Spotify/etc.?

We craved having lots of media because there wasn't a way to easily get it otherwise. Now, nobody has to buy (or copy) 1000s of sources to be able to consume those sources.

This is what a 'disruptive technology' does. The 'market' changes as it becomes easier and cheaper to produce 'almost as good' stuff. If I'm changing $10 for something, a significant portion of my customers are only paying $10 because they have no other choice. If someone else starts producing what I make for $5...it's simply the market changing and I have to adapt or pretend the market hasn't changed and sue everyone (while spending even more money on not making my product).

First, any argument made by AT&T or Verizon or Comcast is just a wee bit suspect given their clear biased position in these matters.

Title II, deals with the fact that monopoly status exists in certain markets and thus Title II is needed to regulate that monopoly.

How many natural gas pipelines do you want into your house? How many breaker panels for multiple electric companies providing you service?

These are natural monopolies where regulation is necessary to manage the market. More actual utilities are being moved to separate infrastructure companies and supply provider companies.

Wheeler's proposals don't go far enough, but they are a step towards the right solution.

On the contrary, apparently AT&T is fully on board with complete Title II provisions and are providing explicit examples of why we need Title II...and frankly splitting up every ISP into actual ISP companies and what the fuck ever else they want to be companies.

indeed. Will it 'run' without 90% of the 'stuff' in it? Probably if you wrote it that way. "Maintaining" that pile of crap would then quickly become unworkable and then it doesn't 'run' anymore.

I'm not big on scaffolding to extremes but designs call for standard stuff that isn't truly 'functional' but is nonetheless 'required' for reasonably working applications.

Simply require all power sources to clean up their waste products of construction AND operation...and renewable because the cheapest option out there. Not cheap certainly, but Coal and Oil are only cheap because we aren't cleaning up their waste products.

That bill will come due though...