But it won't. The DOT doesn't give a damn about Google's union trouble and they're the ones who will ultimately have to sign off on automated vehicles.

Tie your knees down and read it again. I said that the concessions forced by unions PREVENTED a communist revolution and that it's a GOOD thing that they did.

If you WANT a communist revolution, by all means take back all that the unions have gained and ban them. Give a few years for the pressure to build up (plus or minus a few cities being burned) and BAM you'll have your revolution.

I prefer that we keep the relief valve in place maintaining a reasonable balance so we can avoid all that nonsense. Even better would be enlightened management recognizing that tightening the screws causes unions and union problems and adopting a more balanced approach, but given the quality of MBAs these days I'm not holding my breath.

I honestly doubt it will affect the timeline even one iota.

This is old news - the craters have a known, definitive explanation and it's not anything mysterious.

Of course they don't magically disappear. They get scraped away with the topsoil by glaciers or ablated and carried off by wind.

It's learned helplessness. Push lever A, push lever B, don't push any lever. It doesn't matter, the painful shock is coming anyway.

Sure, but only if you do not use government money at all, do not use any exercise of eminent domain. That means if you want to run a cable, you negotiate with each and every property owner it needs to run through or over.

Title II could make that happen, but it will be a few years until there are enough choices to make a market work half decently.

For example, back when dial-up was the best technology generally available there were dozens of ISPs to choose from, all connected to a highly regulated POTS network. Prices dropped like a rock and if there was an issue, you could actually get your call elevated to the actual network admin.

The big flub with DSL was not giving the regulations enough teeth to make access truly equal. Many providers gave up when it took a month or three to get their DSLAM connected to a subscriber line but the local Bell's own service would get connected within 24 hours.

They get the police to do that for them these days. In that sense, it's worse than it was back then.

It has everything to do with what capitalism becomes when the market regulators are asleep at the switch or simply absent. There is no such thing as "free market capitalism". It is either Capitalism and the market regulations that come with or it is not Capitalism at all. You can't call it anarchy and you can't claim that the government isn't involved because that would make corporations non-existent.

Corporatism might fit or Cronyism or perhaps just plain old corruption.

He was pointedly ignoring a number of compensatory services the top 53% get back.

But when PEOPLE peaceably assemble and then break the peace by committing a crime, they go to jail as individuals. Let the same happen to those board members and we're good.

Finally! Someone noticed. Half the state dependent on a single fiber out in the middle of nowhere. What the hell?!?

To make it worse, it sounds like it was all communications. Cell, landline, and internet. Every egg in that one basket.

Surely there should have been at least a second cable somewhere.