I and us older folks messed up. I am very sorry you may never know what freedom really is. ld

If Intellectual Property is real property then why are there no property taxes on it? How does Comcast get away with selling TV thats already paid for with commercials? When did the bill of rights become a technicality? Why is it legal to waterboard someone but using bit torrent to download a Linux distro is a danger to us all? What good are those electronic strip search machines when the drug dealers get their stuff through airports everyday with no problem? Why is it illegal in most states to drive with headphones on but a deaf person has no problem getting a drivers license? I don't really expect a reasonable answer to any of my questions. Because their are not any besides the fact we are all SUCKERS. The rich and powerful know we won't riot we won't vote in mass and we will keep on paying our taxes. So theres no need to ask why is my broadband bill 70 bucks a month while the rest of the world gets much faster service at a fraction of the price ... We are SUCKERS. Thank goodness I'm an old man and won't have to put up with all this for much longer because the future is nothing to look forward too ... High School Class of 2010 less than 25% passed the SAT (search /. the story was posted here about the class of 2010 so don't accuse me of making it up please) so the next generation is dumb as wood. I do hope I live long enough to see all our technology break down and no one is left that is smart enough to fix it. Its not global warming that should scare us but rather the mass breeding of morons.

How close a server is don't mean diddly. Fine let google put intel atom servers next door to special customers. While they feel good about it the rest of us will just giggle at them :)

1984 was a warning but sadly its turned into a how-to manual.

Its all content cartel propaganda designed to keep us fighting with each other while not noticing how badly we are being screwed in a rigged system. How many of these talking empty heads on The Hippy News Network (MSNBC) or The Clinton News Network (CNN) or The White Trash News Network (Fox) has the guts to talk about net neutrality? None! For the most part we don't vote we don't riot and we pay our taxes and the rich asswipes know this and use us as suckers. When they have us paying for TV thats already PAID FOR with commercials yep we are suckers. When they force us to pay 60+ bucks a month for broadband thats less than 10 bucks a month in most other places in the world yep we are suckers. When we have to pay well over 200 bucks for 30 nexium capsules when the rest of the world pay less than 50 yep we are suckers ... I could fill a small library with examples yet we fight tooth and nail with each other over stupid shit all the while the rich are robbing us blind. Why? Cause you got it we are suckers.

If intellectual property is 'real' property then why are there no property taxes on it? Or is it that specific classes of people are too special to pay taxes like the rest of us?

Looks like stupid and pissed off is the new cool. Science and facts just get you cussed at ... its sad.

THANK YOU CISCO!!!

Open speech? Did we finally repeal the DMCA and the (un)Patroit Act?

Cameras on street corners - ISP's spying on customers for the MPAA/RIAA - Law enforcement backdoors - Games that won't play in single player mode without 'calling home' - Warrant less wire taps - Torture - Cell phone co. law enforcement websites that give instant access to GPS data - Government tracking cookies and malware - Forced to 'show your papers' to travel - Almost daily videos of police beatings - Sick people jailed for medical cannabis - Full body scanners - For profit jails (and judges) - DMCA - EULA's - DCI byte (broadcast flag) - Private for profit armies - IP enforcement disguised as cyber security - Drug tests - Rigged media ... I can go on lol Pot meet kettle

more 420 would mean less 140 :)

Maybe if we rehired back American coders at a fair wage and enough of them to do the job right instead of paying HB-1 visa imports at poverty wages and work them to near death would help with these issues and our economy.

So its bad for the government to help support clean energy. I notice you don't bring up all the tax breaks and corporate welfare the oil gas and coal co's get and how huge it is compared to what green energy gets.

In the south you can/do lose your job house and friends if you come out of the closet as a non-believer. In Tennessee and some other states you can't run for elected office unless you pass the religious test. Article IX, Sec. 2, of the Tennessee constitution (engagingly titled "No Atheist shall hold a civil office"): "No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments shall hold any office in the civil department of this state."

You can't really blame mickeymousesoft for doing what our overlords the content cartels them. Seeing all those RIAA lawyers in the 'just-us' dept and the VP telling the MPAA "we are your best friends" ALL of us should see whats coming. Very soon you will see the elected wind up drones start saying 'Linux = stealing'. And with the courts stacked with pro rich people right wing activist judges. Banks and insurance co's are small change the real power is the content cartels. When you control everything the people see and hear you rule. Name one other business that can sell the same thing twice without going to jail? ... the answer is none. Yet we are charged for TV thats already PAID for with commercials. They keep us divided with left/right el toro poo poo and FORCE us to pay for it with The Hippy News Network (MSNBC) The Clinton News Network (CNN) and White Trash News (Fox). To watch one you gotta pay for all 3. This dog and pony show is designed to keep the public distracted from how bad we are getting screwed by rich people. If the media took 10 min's to teach everyone the history of bucket shops in 1907 and apply that to wall street today (credit default swap) things would change in a hurry and it wouldn't be pretty.