Who's standing in the way? The issue is that in several states, cable companies, after invited state legislatures out for squab and cigars, have had laws passed with expressly forbid exactly the kind of competition you cite. They love being the only game in town.

So long as localities get to vote on this sort of situation, I see a much smaller problem than if the cable companies are able to lobby a state legislature into getting government to give them a lock on the entire state. That is the situation the FCC just ruled against.

And just accept payments in something like Bitcoin. Oh come on, you can spare a little out of your Mt. Pedo account for the pirated content you crave.

And I speak as a Republican. Unless there's some outrageous hidden agenda yet to emerge, net neutrality just means that Internet service over cable, because it is in many places a natural monopoly, is henceforth to be treated as a utility, like your electrical service. How you use the watt-hours you buy for your home is your own business, and we are all more free if the same applies to your Internet feed. Regulation of business is something we by instinct would rather not have, but if you live in an area where Comcast is the only game in town, treating it as a utility is more palatable than giving a single company full control of your access to the Internet.

Whether to build municipal broadband is a decision that any locality should be allowed to make for itself. Because wired Internet service so often is a natural monopoly, there are all kinds of situations in which towns or villages or even small neighborhoods find themselves cut off from any service by a company that simply does not feel it worthwhile to extend service to that market. Value decisions like this should be the company's right, but has no business standing in the way of any group of users who wish to band together to organize service of their own.

I've seen their VHF transmissions about their god "Hank Hill"! If those fiery demons ever come to our Titan, they would drill wells for water, contaminating other methane and ethane we breathe.

In fact I did try to Save As the jpg given in the Tumblr reference, but it was in some weird-ass DRMed format that made it unviewable even in Photoshop.

Have we decided whether it will be blue or gold?

Looks absolutely, positively white/pale gold to me. And that was on three screens with a photographer's eye.

You have your grimy, bridge-girder-mangled finger on the reason why climate activists are doomed, I say, doomed.

When scientists render their final verdict on the carbon warming hypothesis, it will be one of these alternatives:

1. Manmade warming is somewhere in the range of nonexistent to exaggerated. Activists' heads explode.
2. Manmade warning is some value of significant to apocalyptic. If we need to immediately stop emitting carbon, we will have to nuclear. If there is already too much carbon in the atmosphere, we will have to geoengineer. The activists' heads explode.

Critically needs the ability to detect threats to itself and call authorities while the perps are at least still in the area. And yes, this would include strapping a bomb to a cable.

"It's supposed to be decades into the future"

It was set in 2019, which will probably be the year of the sequel's release. I wonder how they will handle that.

Has there been even one instance of a spinal cord severed by trauma being reconnected?

"How can a 3D printer make dough? "

I think Makerbot has already answered that one.

And as a bonus, Florida would disappear completely.

It's the AGW side that keeps claiming that every opponent is a shill for Big Something, while their own funding comes from pennies dropped in their charity boxes by pandas and polar bears.