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Comment Re:Containment (Score 1) 216

We can cross that bridge when the Jews (or Amish, or Presbyterians) start murdering people over cartoons. A much bigger concern is the religious minorities already living in Muslim-majority countries. If on the other hand, you're referring to the huge rise in antisemitism in France, 95% of that comes from the Muslim immigrants, which will now have an opportunity to separate themselves from their dreaded boogieman.

Comment Containment (Score 5, Interesting) 216

I think if you want to support ISIS and fundamentalist Islam in a Western country, you should be given a one-way ticket to the Islamic country of your choice. Islam and Western civilization do not mix well. Trying to fight ISIS (or the 20% or so of Muslims who tacitly support it by wanting Sharia Law applied to all) is a terribly bloody idea. Better to let the people of a country run it the way they see fit-- and if that means a 7th century lifestyle, so be it. I am opposed to a "war on ISIS", but not opposed to expelling ISIS sympathizers from any country that doesn't want them. So.. Recruit away... and off ye go to an Islamic Utopia.

Comment Re:Price of politicizing science (Score 2, Insightful) 416

NASA was established to get America into space and to keep us there. If you want to go to space, don't have the chief of NASA say the President said to focus on making Muslims feel good. If you want to go to space, you have to put a LOT of carbon into the atmosphere. If Obama cared about carbon, he wouldn't have flown to California on TWO 747's on the same day. Its all politics.

Comment Re:Lift the gag order first... (Score 1) 550

The regs were voted on before comments from the public or commissioners were collected. Here is Commissioner Ajit Pai's dissenting statement.

In it, Pai clearly says why he opposed the plan to regulate the Internet under title II of the telecommunications. Quoting:

"But if this Order manages to survive judicial review, these will be the consequences: higher broadband prices, slower speeds, less broadband deployment, less innovation, and fewer options for American consumers. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, President Obama’s plan to regulate the Internet isn’t the solution to a problem. His plan is the problem.

In short, because this Order imposes intrusive government regulations that won’t work to solve a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority the FCC doesn’t have, I dissent."

The cheerleaders of "net neutrality" have become the cheerleaders of regulation of the Internet-- the most incredible invention and display of the power of free-market capitalism. I say this from someone who started at 300baud modems and now have 50Mbps. Compare that to the "speed and efficiency" of the post office, or the DMV, which is managed by the idiots in Washington.

Comment Re:Lift the gag order first... (Score 1) 550

Your FUD stinks worse than my FUD. I agree with most of the sentiments proposed by net neutrality. Its the details that were inserted at the request of who knows who that worry me. And yeah, I don't want to see the internet run like the post office, the DMV, the VA, and social security.

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