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Comment Dollars spent for the first bit are the best spent (Score 1) 120

Meh. Twenty Eight dollars a month for 6Mb/s DSL is good enough for me. I'd go faster but for not much more money. Point is a connection is valuable, but very high bit rates will not make the experience that much better.

I literally have fiber in my back yard. Thank you SureWest.
Can choose Comcast. Piss on you Comcast.
ATT uverse or DSL. Thank you for the good $/bit ratio.
GOOG fiber is coming soon. Hype and price, no thanks. Though the 300 dollar for 5mb/s service offer is tempting.

You are parched, how much for a glass of water in the desert? The second, the third. The ninety-ninth? Once satiated the price you are willing to pay decreases to the point more glasses of water have no real value to you. In this case the 1gb/s 'glass' costs a lot more than the 6mb/s one that satisfy the need.

Comment Tresspassing is legal (Score 4, Insightful) 306

What our fine Judge Alito said is it is ok to trespass, just don't get caught. Ok, it is a bit more complicated than that.

Example. A neighbor sneaks in to Judge Alito's unlocked home. Judge cannot prosecute the neighbor's trespass, because Judge Alito cannot prove the neighbor had trespassed because it is legal to trespass secretly. Even though the neighbor has records to each and every trespassing, the records seem to be off limits as well.

That is effed up.

Comment Re:We need to stop this (Score 1) 174

Not true.
Signed in Bill Clinton's tenure? It basically says 'any US citizen violating a US law is guilty of breaking that law, regardless of their location at the time of the event. 'It goes on to say that any 'US citizen breaking a law of a [specific] foreign countries is then a felon in the US.'

http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs6/253F3d234.html
In 1998, Thomas Bean, an FFL, was in Laredo participating in a gun show. One evening he crossed the border into Mexico for dinner. A box of ammo was found in his vehicle by Mexican customs officers. At the time importing ammunition into Mexico was considered a felony. Bean was charged and convicted of the felony of unlawfully importing ammunition. As a convicted felon, Bean lost all rights to possess firearms when he returned to the US.

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  ( If I'm in Mexico and kill an American, I broke Mexican law, not US law, so deciding they are undesirable people, then inviting them to the US to arrest them for breaking US law when they never set foot there before is insane). </quote>

Comment Re:Classic ploy (Score 1) 780



Life is like first grade, over and over again.

It is ok have many things, paper airplanes, or a rubber band in first grade. That is until one kid misuses one of them, then that thing is banned for the rest of the year. Remember those days?

When there are already laws and regulations to protect the well being of the population, then the real criminal is the one who further causes the collective suffer because of the actions of the one.

One person does one thing to well adjusted person and nothing comes of it. Another does something to a unbalanced person and the House of Representatives has to write a bill to further limit the speech of the masses?

The misguided have power.

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