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Comment Re: nice, now for the real fight (Score 1) 631

No, you can not say it no longer applies. You can say the laws need changed, you can say the internet is different. But you cannot say it no longer applies without an act of congress making it so. The EPA cannot just say the times are different so now we are going to rehulate chewing gum while incard. The prosecutor cannot just say times are different so the laws against murdering people no longer apply. The prosecutor cannot just say times are different so the speeding fines no longer apply and its 6 months in jail instead.

Comment Re: nice, now for the real fight (Score 4, Interesting) 631

Cpmcast will win their lawsuite too.

The FCC back in 1998 already determined with well thought out reasoning that congress never intended the internet to be regulated under title 2 and stated so clearly with lots of supporting evidence that its intent was as an information service. They even mention their computers II working paper that the 1998 law was modeled after. No law concerning this has changed since either.

You can find this report in ghe federal register as the bi anual report to congress on accessability or something like that. It is the only FCC report to congress in march or may of 1988. The internet stuff is around page 28 or so. I am posting from a phone so your google finger will have to look it up.

Comment Re:Is that really a lot? (Score 4, Insightful) 280

Correction. Americans have no interest in those jobs at the wages being offered. Of course the wages will never rise when the employer can exploit illegal aliens at lower and sometimes even illegal wages.

But wait you think, those are minimum wage jobs. Well, nothing forces them fo pay only minimum wage. Should a real and legal market exist, they would likely be paying above minimim wage and would not be minim wage jobs.

Comment Re:Did i read that right? (Score 1) 72

I'm wondering. If the nerve transplant alllows use of the bionic hand, why wouldn't it allow use of the nerve damaged hand?

It probably would be safer with a fake hand as feeling probably would remain gone so burns and other damaging injutirs could go undetected wherd its not so mucb a health concern with tbe bionic hand. I dunno, maybe there is something moe technical or maybe it a "because i can" thing.

Comment Re: Umm... Lulz.... (Score 1) 253

lol.. Not really. It would be no different then them buying US dollars, exiting the Eurozone, creating a crap currency, then converting back into their crap currency. It needs nothing hard at all. Any paper or fiat currency will work.

Greece will not have to export anything, all they will have to do is find someone willing to sell. That's where a bit coin operation would work. They purchase bitcoins from whoever sells, when they exchange them back out, it's the current exchange rates. Whoever sells them can purchase hard assets or take the loss or do whatever their scheme allows.

Greece could purchase gold and do the same. Using a crypto currency only allows that to happen without having to purchase the asset themselves.

Comment Re: About right (Score 1) 246

I appreciate the attemp to bring light to something you see as a wrong in society but no one seems to be disputing the fact that we are talking about the commision of a violent crime ( robery even if violence wasn't involved) and legal penalties where Ms. Richards' situation came about (if your version is accurate) from social expectation/normalities, panties getting bunched up and the reactions to it. I do think there is a distinct difference here. In theory at least, with the criminal version there is an appearance of fairness.

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