As opposed to what? - Anarchy, tribalism, feudal warlords? An economic market is not a thing or a place, it's a set of rules that govern trade. The Fox News definition of "free market" = "free from regulation" is an oxymoron at best.

Microsoft is not likely to bother with another Windows 7 service pack. They are getting ready to bring out a whole other operating system, and give it away for free to the customers who would have downloaded such a thing.

I've seen WL222, but I haven't heard of IR5.

LOL - I got that!! Actually, I'm using VT100 over on Soylent. But, you've nailed it!

Sorry but the parent post is not insightful, if anything it's OT because it's not even talking about net neutrality.

Here's a simple explanation from a qualified comedian.

And yet he was brainwashed by the communist Federation despite that... that's the real "inspiration" here, whatever you're inspired to do with it.

The only characters with consistent ethics or integrity were the Ferengi, who expressed their logic rationally and improved utility on average through free trade rather than elitist self-indulgence.

He's dead and gone. Really. What he helped create for us isn't, though, and that is certainly grounds for considerable cheer.

You'd like to think so, but it seems to me like most video games are pretty bad on every platform.

When *YOU* take an action *YOU* better be ready for the reaction. Anything less makes you a victim only to yourself.

It is very well documented that the reaction people were told they would have, which was a good one, by those who should have (and did) know otherwise, is not the reaction they actually got, which was deadly.

So while I agree absolutely that we are responsible for the outcomes of choices we make for which we understand the eventual and potential outcome(s), I deny just as absolutely that we are responsible for the outcomes of choices we make when we have been deceived.

I would have no problem whatsoever voting to convict a tobacco company executive of the previous century of premeditated manslaughter by poisoning. However, at this point, we know, or we should know, how utterly stupid smoking tobacco is in the context of our health, and yes, any individual capable of informed consent who is still (or begins) smoking today can't reasonably blame that on anyone other than themselves. And as long as they don't, and don't make non-consenting persons and animals inhale the carcinogenic pollution that results, I'm all for them smoking all they want.

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but whips and chains excite me.

(I suppose fiber would be a pretty kinky whip, at least to AT&T, Time-Warner and the rest of those perverts.)

Bullshit. Greek finances have been in the crapper sense before the American real estate and banking blowup. The only dirty US player involved was GS helping the Greeks lie to the rest of the Euro group. Their own fault for believing anything GS says.

They all fucked themselves. The volume of bad real estate bonds issued by America pales in comparison to the volume of bad government paper that has crufted up the system for decades. In any case national banks are big boys and are responsible for managing their own risk.

Like the German banks are currently doing with the Greek deadbeats.

You are using an insane definition of 'wage slave'.

Someone who cannot quit their job is a 'wage slave'. They have no choices. You have tons of choices.

You are like the people that keep defining down 'rape'. Stop it.

Slavery is not any state short of the life of Riley. It is a terrible thing and you are not even in the neighborhood. Now quit slacking off on /.

Why didn't you just write "You're wrong, fuckface"? - It's much clearer yet equally vacuous.

The FCC made the right call in the US, they upheld the long established status-quo of the international market, but it's a hollow victory if you only have one ISP to choose from. The decision is kind of a surprise to me given the head of the FCC was an influential telco lobbyist prior to his appointment. In this case it seems to me the FCC are doing their job by telling telco's what to do, rather than the other way around (as one would expect with such blatantly insestious oversight).

A corporation is not a person, however that is not what is meant by 'corporations are people', the people in question are the people who start/run/own the corporations. Corporations are 1 or more people that own the corporation and the speech of the person that owns a corporation is limited by government, when government denies that person the right to use his corporation to express his view.