in the basement, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

-I'm just sayin'

and once again, like with User Privacy and 'Safe Harbors' for Personal Data it may be up to the EU to save us from the 'Land of the Free' (tm)

-I'm just sayin'

one of the few govt agencies that is actually trying to do consumers some good and they are overreaching?

WTF

I'm just glad that guy isn't in government any more -he represents the worst aspects of regulatory capture and the revolving door between government and industry.

cable is dying anyway thanks to millenials, cord cutting and the unavailability of a la carte pricing -Good Riddance

-I'm just sayin'

It's time for a new direction, It's time for jazz to die, Fourth day of November, We need a purple high

Don't give up, I'll still love you

What ya lookin' at, punk?
Look out all you hippies, you ain't as sharp as me
It ain't about the trippin', but the sexuality, turn it up

You can dance if you want to

All the critics love you in New York
All the critics love you in New York
(Yes, we're certain of it, he's definitely masturbating)

All the critics love you in New York
Take a bath, hippies

Read more: Prince - All The Critics Love U In New York Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Given that they all have incumbency in common and may have 2 relatively unpopular presidential candidates reducing party participation in the upcoming fall election I think they decided that 3 1/2 years of absolute gridlock needed to be offset late in the game to give the illusion that they are capable of doing something/anything....

Banking on the short attention span of the US public...in order to keep from being voted out. Although honestly, it seems that for the past 20 years incumbency has alternated between the 2 parties as each one screws up royally when they have the majority -to the catcalls and obstructionism of the minority.

I'm just sayin'

Speaking of Musicals -'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' an off broadway rock musical is a really interesting modern look at a very unique historical figure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Bloody_Andrew_Jackson

Although he had a hand in Native American genocide and displacement one of his best friends was a Native American and he adopted a Native American son -despite having his parents killed by Native Americans (although in truth it was because they encroached upon their lands)

It also had more f-bombs than any musical I had seen since Spring Awakening....Well worth watching if you get the chance regardless of the historical accuracy.

-I'm just sayin'

 

they could start by not forcing (or allowing) backdoors or weak or broken encryption on Software or Hardware....

and beefing up the reporting requirements and penalties for security breaches that expose private and personal data would be another thing to aspire to.

-I'm just sayin'

Uuh -I would guess that single digit numbers are not considered emirps since it is impossible (or pointless) to reverse a single digit # (except typographically, of course) since you end up with the same value, wheras, except for 11 (which may also not be an emirps) any 2 digit or greater number can be reversed to come up with a different value. ...The whole point of emirps being the properties of a number that has actually been reversed

-I'm just sayin'

I think that when/if TPP is ever implemented (hoping not) there will be pretty severe punishments for ISPs who do not implement anti-piracy enforcement (even if it's non-infringing, non piracy unfortunately)

-I'm just sayin'

After being screwed over by AT&T for several years via U-verse (over that time they were never able to synch up the billing cycles so that we received on single, unified bill) when we moved we determined to get 3rd party DSL over AT&T copper.

AT&T seemed to do everything in their power to screw over the ISP (Sonic). I called AT&T multiple times and it eventually turned out that they had told us the wrong wiring closet for our circuit, so Sonic came back and rewired, but I think AT&T later came back and put a filter on the circuit or something as if it was a voice circuit only. We had it working but it kept dropping and when AT&T came over the guy refused to talk on the phone to the Sonic support guys....Sonic seemed like really nice guys and I wanted it to work. They apparently do a pretty good job up in the Santa Rosa area.

I know that AT&T pulled this kind of shit on Covad, et al back during the .com boom when legislation mandated unbundling of local exchange loops, but I was appalled at this level of dickishness. I really should have filed an FCC complaint, but I at least vowed never to use AT&T again and switched cell to Virgin.

Finally ended up going to Clear wireless internet for a while and it was fair, but they eventually got bought by Sprint or Verizon someone (they used cell towers for their service) and access got a lot more spotty.

Then tried Hughes or some satellite link, but found out that bouncing off a a satellite 20k miles away made VPN unusable due to lag (Duh!)

So now we (reluctantly) use comcast -albeit internet only.

-I'm just sayin'

when you outsource everything

-I'm just sayin'

this seems ripe for abuse given our shadow government's propensity for false flag operations and manufacturing smoking guns (ie, OMG, WMDs!) to implicate our enemy of the moment.

I'm just sayin'

Surprisingly, or not, BB seems to have made one of the best Android phones to come out so far:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/blackberry_priv_review/

Admittedly, there is a lot of junk at the Android low end, but I spent a fair amount on an LG Volt a few years ago and it has it's share of crappy design and performance.

If the BB is available in the states I will probably make it my next phone based on this review.

-I'm just sayin'

he wanted to build exclusive golfcourse/housing in an environmentally sensitive wetlands

so he greased some local Palms and now he's upset that the rich potential homeowners will be less likely to splurge if their pristine picturebook views are 'destroyed' by an offshore wind farm -probably the first time he's sided with environmentalists given that he has ruined a national heritage site with the golf resort

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1943873/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

If enough people watched this it would be the end of his farcical 'campaign'

there's a follow up documentary called 'A Dangerous game' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3714626/?ref_=tt_rec_tti
This sequel to You've Been Trumped (2011) investigates how big land developers like Donald Trump use golf as an excuse to build massive luxurious resorts on the expense of the locals and their ecosystem, and abuse natural resources.

I'm just sayin'

actually, a buddy of mine who lives in Walnut Creek and just got a job with a Redwood City Pharma did something like this to avoid the 90 minute + commute (60 miles on ~3 major hiways/bridges):

Even though he doesn't know how to sail He bought a small sailboat with a berth at Pete's Harbor in Redwood City, so he rides his motorcycle down to the sailboat Sun night or Mon morning, works the week living on the boat and then heads back home to Walnut Creek Fri afternoon.

the boat has a cabin, a head and a small kitchen and is probably a lot quieter/remote than some apartment along 101 or the El Camino....

But at some point he will probably have to give it up to spend more nights with his family.

-I'm just sayin'