The issue is that ISPs are greedy on many, many levels.

The main issue is that ISPs are allowed to oversell their capacity by many, many times, and they hope that nobody notices what they have done. Now that customers are using that capacity, instead of doing the ethical thing and fulfilling the promise they made to consumers, they are trying to find someone else to foot the bill for their sleezy business practices.

I think the best analogy is like fractional reserve banking. Imagine a culture shit where suddenly people stop leaving their money in savings, and instead store lots of money in savings, but then withdraw almost all of it periodically to spend.

Instead of changing their banking policy to remain solvent, the banks begin demanding that the most popular retailers pay them massive fees to accept the money that their customers are paying them, and if they don't, the banks will notify people that it is the stores not accepting their money. And for some reason, people believe them.

Not making a whole lot of fucking sense? Well, neither does the tiered internet thing.

No, definitely it does not. If you can work a Dremel, you can fabricate an AR-15 lower from a $50 unregistered blank and a parts kit.

Takes about an hour, no skill or expertise involved.

For the cost of a good 3D printer, you can get a used CNC, and just like with 3D printers, you can download the milling programs for free, and mill an aluminum lower in less than 10 mins.

The 3D printing thing was just a moral panic to begin with. It didn't actually add any capability. The fact that this can be done anywhere in the world with existing technology demonstrates pretty well that the danger of it is really a non-issue.

If the trademark has a period, and the clothing designs etc do not, how does Dazzle justify that being a trademark infringement?

  Because if that is legal, I am going to trademark ng on red signs with STOP on them and sue the gov't for using something too similar.

Salt? I've cut bacon strips off a hog I killed, and it tasted like... bacon does.

Not sure what you are referring to.

Whining about "Google shills" on Slashdot and portraying M$hill as the underdog on an article about M$hill doing scummy things to gain users (which is basically the entire story of how they gained market share anywhere, FUD and bribes).

Stay classy Anon.

Pretty sure most believers in the 2nd Amendment don't give a rat's ass about helping the Chinese.

This clearly shows why this author is a waste of space and making claims for hit counts.

He received a device for a developer/platform development program, and instead of treating it like a platform and developing things for it, he treats it like a product and whines about it.

FFS, please do send it back, or give it to someone who WILL DO SOMETHING USEFUL WITH IT.

As someone funding those jails, I also support his decision to remove himself from existence rather than place an even greater burden on taxpayers.

We are making fun of vaccine denialists/anti-vaxxers and you are trying to bring in rationality.

You might want to check your vaccine history.

Uh... are you trolling or just have no idea what you are talking about? Wilbur Wright died from Typhoid fever almost 10 years after the first flights, and after he had made many, many flights.

Orville died from a heart attack 35 years+ after Wilbur died.

CS degrees aren't the only game in town. Lots of programmers come from C.E., E.E., or Math degrees. I would say the number of programmers, in total, are going up, just that CS degrees are less prestigious or desirable.

Code. Lots and lots of code. Code from diverse sources, understanding the problems, understanding the solutions. Programming books/articles offer nice ideas, philosophies, anecdotes, whatever, but nothing will improve programming skill more than experience. Reading code, IMO, and at least for me, increases that experience much more than writing it or reading the meta about programming.

...but the battery isn't what makes Beats headphones crappy and overrated...

The reason why no ISPs have already stepped in despite huge demand for one is the incredibly high startup cost to enter the market and the end of subsidies that other companies used to get around those costs.

  I expect that if a couple of the major ISPs were to fail, nothing would take there place for a very long time.

We lost the ability to mod a lot of games because of stupid DRM controls and lock-down.

We had power when we could come up with something like Desert Combat mod, or there were tens of thousands of downloadable mods to turn the base game into really incredible things. There are some games like that still, like Minecraft, but for the most part, that is no longer true.