getting their offices burned down, anthrax sprinkled into their lawns, fake SWAT calls to their house, putting their address and phone numbers on Craigslist and Backpage...

It IS obvious to most people, just like Tom Wheeler used to (and still basically does) work for Verizon.

If your wanting to run servers, get a "business connection". It's a bit more $, but static IPs, not much RIAA monitoring, nothing blocked...

LOL, he must be jealous of Paul Allen owning the Blazers. Ballmer will never be as awesome as Allen of course, and Allen being on a recent Portlandia skit was side-splittingly funny...“I brought this idea to my financial advisors and they said no,” Allen said. “But I’m hoping you say yes.” Funny for one he doesn't need anyone's money as he's super loaded, two the actual uniform has their airport code (PDX) and a horrid line drawing with a small campfire on it...sometimes Portlandia's skits aren't the best but when they hit the nail they really drive it in! Now if only IFC would do another season of The Increasingly Poor Choices of Todd Margret! And MASSIVE PROPS to Allen for funding Scaled Composites for the X-Prize, if only more wealthy people like him invested in space aerotech...

All plastics are cellulose...and the acetone is pretty flammable too, even in the "vapor flash cloud" type of mini-fireball explosion LOL. Amazingly, even though I smoke at my workbench while doing this, I have yet to catch anything on fire by accident...

yeah, I was surprised how expensive they where. And the remover is only under $1 for 10-12oz...the clear ones don't smell nearly as horrid as the "colored" remover, I often have to leave the room if my gf breaks that out. I use that remover for all sorts of "cleaning", I have to clean off scissor blades after cutting duct tape, works pretty well...but once I spilled some on a keyboard and it melted the plastic "springs" underneath the keys!

As a fellow Tulsan, have you noticed an increase in the amount of people going under the speed limit in the "fast lane" on 169? We really need those signs like in Texas, "Slower traffic stay to the right". I've even been told by others that they do such things ON PURPOSE because they feel it's their responsibility to "enforce the speed limit" and try to keep everyone from speeding. Getting brake-checked is the worse, especially when there is no one in front or in the middle lane...they just don't want to move, and are butthurt since I don't want to have to speed up even more to get around them AND pass on the wrong side...I really hate to admit it, but now I've started passing people on the left anyway, then cutting back over to the fast lane right in front of them...sometimes I can see them looking totally surprised as they've been sitting on their phone and never even realized anyone was behind or passing them. And I drive a Jeep, it's not like some tiny car, and I always come up behind them and wait at least 30-60 seconds for them to react.

The most "fun" I've had is when driving my gf's turbo-charged Jetta...lost track of how many people try to "race" me. Mostly young males, who soon realize that I didn't even have it on "S"...and most of them can't really maneuver well at speed since their rice-burner might go fast going forward but lacks the steering control system, proper center of gravity, properly inflated tires, etc since their car wasn't designed to maneuver lanes at 80-100mph. Once a kid nearly wiped out from his backend loosing traction and started fishtailing in the middle lane in front of a semi...luckily he got it under control, would have been at least a 5-6+ car accident; I was already out in front of him and watched it, stomach flip-flopping.

what really gets me is how this would work in relationship to security clearances. One of the major points is to make sure that you can't be compromised by "bad things" in your past. Seems like the FBI doing this destroys that entire idea...

He has worked deep in telecom, and with Verizon. He already knows all of this, and is just playing a game with us. This is all a show, smoke and mirrors. Wheeler and gang decided this long ago, probably before he was ever appointed. I've watched the way the FCC treated anyone at their "public comments meeting" that stood up and spoke out - they where all escorted out of the room without even finishing what they were saying.

This is all lip service. Every single American could march in the street, and threaten to burn down every FCC office, TV station and radio broadcast system, and net neutrality will still loose. However, the blow back from this could be intense. "fast lanes" for corps sounds like a very juicy target, thanks for separating all those packets for Anonymous.

yeah, VASTLY different. Streaming is max 30% of the whole library.

unfortunately, they shoot us in the stomach first before shooting themselves in the foot..

for me, it's more like "oh, Netflix only has that as an actual DVD rental...well, let's see what's on katproxy.com...now, drop in my peer listing...now I only have to wait at max an hour (for a BR rip), maybe under 10 minutes for a 720DPI rip...I don't want DVDs, and Netflix's selection in their Instant View is pretty craptastic. I've watched (or tried to watch) almost every scifri movie they have, and they haven't really added much this year at all. It did allow me to delete a bunch of TV shows my gf watches repeatedly that I never do, cleared up several gigs after those deletions.

I totally feel you, in Oklahoma we now have 2-3+ fracking earthquakes a month; they started about a year or two ago. Instead of a dustbowl, this time we're going to make the whole state a giant sinkhole.

And here in Oklahoma, our electric utilities have decreed that "“When customers have the opportunity to reduce their use of a product or find another provider of such service, utility earnings growth is threatened," so now we have extra taxes on anyone who tries to generate their own electric and send their excess back to the grid.

Personally, if I had a "non utility" power source, at this point I'd just say "well, screw you then" and not even bother trying to distribute back to the grid. Use the extra power to run a huge neon sign saying something like "THIS ELECTRICITY COULD BE YOUR IF NOT FOR PSO"...wouldn't be the first time a consumer has actively advertised against Oklahoma utility companies!

And a NEW pipeline would leak far less than the current 30-50 year-old pipes we have right now...