AC doesn't know what a natural monopoly is. AC probably thinks they are an expert on economics. AC only reads a certain kind of website.

This is true; however, it seems the net neutrality is going to become a partisan issue, because Comcast et al can use GOP economic rhetoric (baseless or not), and the GOP leadership think the money is worth the political risk.

Once anything becomes a partisan issue, then tribalism replaces sanity. Expect some GOP faithful computer geeks to slowly edge towards the party line.

Here's how Optimus Prime got his superpowers!

What's the benefit of making it a bracelet rather than a phone app? The phone already has the NFC chip you want.

Phones can get hacked. And most people are already storing passwords on their phones. What use is two-factor authentication if a malicious app can steal both factors at the same time?

If you have questions, then you should find credible sources with information. You can follow the references to actual peer reviewed original research on the subject. If you really want to understand, then you'll need to do a graduate degree on it.

You can do something called "accounting", where you sum up the amounts of CO2 coming from different sources.

Behold the contrarian school of science, where assertions require no studies, and are just known to be correct because they have a pleasant ring to the political faithful.

Projection is not a river in Egypt.

Well, that's one way of looking at it. If you add acid to something, are you making it more acidic? That's another way of looking at it. Meanwhile, you're successfully shelved the real issue by splitting hairs over a pointless distinction, which is precisely how deep contrarian arguments go.

I love how you moved straight past the content of the comment to reveal your political stripes on the issue. Suppose you think you know a lot about it.

That's why you have to follow the science, and not the cranks. Otherwise you might be a crank yourself. (Cranks never know that they are cranks.)

Sharks are part of a food chain.

Sounds like you were busy proving the grand-parents point, and without any trace of irony.

Those lazy people with their army of lawyers and capital hill lobbyists, writing laws to enrich themselves...

The way to do that is to nationalise natural monopolies (say the internet pipes), and privatize the rest (say, selling bandwidth to customers). The people who bankroll much of the libertarian movement have a conflict of interest when it comes to monopolies, which is why we never have this important conversation. Interesting how libertarians are so credulous to crony capitalist talking points.