I honestly didn't think they had more than one. Considering how few people there are allowed to leave the country - physically or digitally - I really expected there would be only one router. They have only one neighbor who they share a land border with who will talk with them, so they likely don't really have a way to set up a redundant second route.

Every year that number goes down or at best stays the same. Either way every year the unions give up a little more of what little power they have. Bargaining is supposed to be a give-and-take procedure where labor gets some of what they want and management gets some of what they want. Yet every time labor comes to the table management further diminishes their clout. With union enrollment this low it is very easy for management to say "we'll just hire non-union replacements for you" and labor knows that they can do it.

Coincidentally, when was the last time you got more than a token raise or a meaningful increase in your benefits? This is what happens when all the power shifts back away from the worker.

Samzenpus forgot to blame this on the freedom-oppressing and america-hating labor unions. Clearly they are some how at fault here if fox news has been disconnected. I would have expected him to at least have read the article far enough to find a way to make that connection happen.

That statement speaks volumes on your insistence on believing that everyone else has all the same luxuries that you have.

Believe it or not I do have other matters in my life more critical than trying to remedy your voluntary illiteracy.

No, I am pointing out that it has nothing to do with this discussion.

I don't recall seeing it before this week.

It obviously wasn't you as most of the comments that were moderated down were in discussions where you were participating.

Your reading comprehension is almost as bad as smitty's. I never sought free stuff or lower taxes. Fuck I'll happily pay a higher tax to prevent this country from becoming the third-world hellhole that the party currently wielding power is trying to force it into.

However they signed off on them. They had the ability to use the veto pen instead but did not do so. Your statement sounds more like an endorsement of voter apathy than anything - why vote for anyone at all?

The last election had one candidate who was indifferent towards my job and one who was openly hostile towards it. I had to vote for the one who was indifferent in the hopes of preventing the hostile one from rising to power and putting me on the streets. It was that simple.

Indeed there was no candidate who cared about it or wanted to preserve it. But there was a candidate who plainly wanted to exterminate it.

Are you off your ritalin or something? You are changing topics more quickly than a kid with ADHD.

Guys fron San Quentin once attempted an escape with a makeshift canoe painted with the legend "Rub a Dub Dub, Marin Yacht Club!". It sunk and they were re-imprisoned.

There is an important orthogonality between a politician giving a job and a politician taking away one. These operations are not just opposite actions. I don't seek a politician who wants to give me a job, I just seek a politician who does not want me on permanent unemployment (sans benefits, of course!).