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Comment Re:Maybe I'm Old (Score 1) 47

I agree. It may only take a few seconds to google, but that's a few seconds unnecessarily wasted because the summary poster was too lazy to provide a definition (though to be fair, with as inaccurate as some summaries have been lately, this isn't the worst offense by far).

MOOC
moÍzok/
noun
a course of study made available over the Internet without charge to a very large number of people.
"anyone who decides to take a MOOC simply logs on to the website and signs up"

Comment Re:Numbers (Score 1) 837

And in exchange for higher taxes on driving, they get the privilege of providing Oregon information on how much they travel and WHERE THEY TRAVEL.

It doesn't have to be that way. There could simply be an annual check of your odometer when you get your annual emissions check, with a bill due for the miles driven in the last year * rate per mile, payable in 60 days, with a slightly higher rate if you'd like to pay in installments. No need for GPS tracking at all.

Of course, they'll no doubt push in the direction of GPS tracking because big brother likes his data, but really, we could have per mile taxation without big brother intrusions if we as a society would stand up and demand it.

Comment Re:I know that happened to me. (Score 1) 361

Get Live at Leeds on one of the remastered CDs. You can get the whole concert now, or the whole concert sans Tommy, which still includes lots of stuff the LP didn't.

And they were phenomenal: Roger on lead vocals, John on lead bass, Keith on lead drums, and Pete on precussion guitar.

By the time I was old enough to hear them live they had keyboards, a horn section, and doo-wop girls. Not the same thing at all.

Apropos the top post, I've put on The Who in the last 24 hours, but I've also put on some Medieval and Renaissance music. I still listen to my teenage faves, but my tastes have expanded a lot too.

Comment Re:Is this a USA government institution? (Score 3, Insightful) 133

Is this FCC a USA government institution?

I thought the US government was since Ronnie wholly owned by the corporations...

Let us (normal internet users) hope the FCC can get away with this pro net-neutrality policy, level playing field and all that!

There's something in the air. Lately even Joe Scarborough and some of the FOX News regulars have occasionally balked at the bullshit.

Probably the solar system is passing through a cloud of hippie gas or something.

Comment Re:how long until the internet dies? (Score 1) 133

It's like that on everything. The hysteria of confused old people is a commodity bought and sold by corporations.

I especially like it when someone wants their representatives to eliminate entitlements, but don't dare touch their medicare and social security.

Full disclosure: I probably qualify as "old", and perhaps "confused" too. (Though if both, the later may not be caused by the former.)

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