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.

As a private, non-commercial pilot, you're allowed to share expenses with your passenger(s). He should argue that they go pound sand.

And the minor detail that it puts the FCC in charge of regulating the Internet like it regulates utilities. (Under title II of the FCC.)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i...

News for nerds...

I think that would be difficult.. they'd have to get approval from the FCC who now regulate the internet.

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.

Its discretionary. It could and should have been made public. Even wikileaks would have been preferable to secrecy.

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.

Your real story is false. The FCC has the discretion to release the 8 pages or the 332 pages. It didn't, which begs the question: Why so secret? Why release a rosy 5 page summary when (against all logic and plausibility) the rules are supposed to be only 8 pages long?

By definition, the FCC has only released simple propaganda.

Is it the camel's nose going under the tent? What are the loopholes, tax footholds, fines, and new restrictions that we have yet to examine? NO ONE HERE KNOWS. I simply wish someone in government had the courage to post it online.

A 5 page summary is not what was voted on. What was voted on was a draft 332 page set of regulations. But nice try.

You can read the official explanation for the very real gag order that prevents the 323 page document from being released. While there is a historical tradition for secrecy, it is not mandatory, and requests to make the preliminary draft public was denied by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and explained here. This is a case where we need wikileaks.

Here is proof the regulations are indeed 332 pages. This photographic proof comes from one of the 5 FCC commissioners who wants to make it public. Crunchy-- what better proof do you want? Where is your proof that its 320 pages of "comments"?

Here is a picture of Ajit Pai holding up the paperwork... Made secret by Tom Wheeler.

mine bill has gone down too. (I used to pay $425/mo for fractional T1.). Yes, I wish there were fiber options in my area...but all things being equal, cable is the best thing to happen to internet prices.

If there is no gag order, how do you explain the fact that the draft hasn't been released? They only have printed copies and the convert to PDF function isn't working?