Totally agree. At first I didn't like Stargate SG-1's cancellation. The problem wasn't with the cast but with the amount of "filler episodes". Then Dr McKay made StarGate Atlantis actually be a nice series and it got cancelled too... I mean c'mon. I like stargate's universe. Why cancel all of them?

Atlantis wasn't bad thanks to Dr McKay!

Your quoting makes it look like he is threatening his own self. Which could be true unless he is not a senator or congressman.

If I am allowed to sell structures I built out of legos, why wouldn't I be allowed to re-sell phones I have modified? This is absurd. If the profit I try to make on the original phone is too high, then I won't sell any. Besides, for each phone I sell, apple still gets their sale too.

I agree with you. Was about to read the article, but this is so stupid I stopped at page 1.

Anyone has been able to make a program which translates the speech back to text in order to compile this kernel?

Let's say you draw a circle inside a square. I look at your drawing, and then I draw a circle inside a square as well. You pretend I've taken your idea and it wasn't mine in the first place. I reply that you've taken my freedom to come up with this idea in the first place and this freedom wasn't yours. You called me a pirate, I call you a pirate too. You say that act was theft? I am saying you've thieved first.

... that if their proposed legislation attacks free speech as a consequence of trying to fight piracy, then they haven't engineered said legislation properly. He is right that the first amendment isn't a shield for those who steal and any sane legislation wouldn't change that fact.

I disagree with your statement. As I've answered to "arose" just before you, your payment to your ISP covers your ISP's part of the network and indirectly the backbone that your ISP uses. But it doesn't cover the whole network (meaning every other part of the network owned by other ISPs). So we pay more than one time per byte, but less than two actually.

Not exactly. As of now my ISP only bills me and I'd be surprised google shares the same ISP. This proposal would allow every ISP to try (cause providers could choose to be low priority and not pay) to charge twice for every byte going through.

As of now, I'm paying my ISP for their network (my ISP pays a backbone for their network) while the service provider pays another ISP for that other part of the network (and that ISP pays a backbone for their network). So the only double payment occurs if I share the same ISP as the content provider or if both ISPs share the same backbone. In every other case, part of my payment goes for a section of the network which has received payment only once. And the section of the network from which the data was served never sees any part of my payment.

Hang on to that as long as you can!

Just like a conversation of one minute between two cell phones gets billed for 2 minutes, they'd like every byte going through their network to be billed as 2 bytes.

Like adblock?

Why would it be opened so long after it occured? In that much time stuff probably will have changed a lot and the incentive to make those verifications will probably be long dead. I'd say 2 to 5 years would seem reasonable if there has to be a delay. But then again I don't really understand why there should be one anyway.

Even if there was no specific fee, you'd end up paying for it through your taxes.
Bills are always payed by individuals indirectly. A government cannot have any money without individuals paying taxes. A company cannot have any money without customers buying products.

Let's assume the bill is going to be OVER 9000! The government says: Hey, don't worry folks, you won't have to give in a penny, we'll assume the whole bill. In the end, they'll be paying with money that could have been spent on services you actually wanted. So yeah, your taxes didn't change, it's what they're being used for that has been slightly changed against your own interest.