The people running stores choose what gets sold in them. It has nothing to do with public or private owners.

i wasn't aware it was the responsibility of the federal government to deal in internet access

could we at least get an international standard outlet? same prongs? same voltage?

slashdot is owned and opreated by SourceForge Inc., a business. if you really think the net would be better off without any businesses, stop posting here or any other websites that aren't run by non-profits or government departments.

government regulations have a long history of unintended consequences. it's good to see that these lawmakers recognize that.

furthermore, the internet has done exceptionally well so far without such rules. i think we're better off without them, in spite of the few incidences of filtering and blocking some providers have tried.

prove it

alternatively, there could be keyboard shortcuts for many of these actions.

how would his second form work with subdomains? the name of a server is a distinct piece of information from the path to some piece of data on that server. if everything's a slash, there's no obvious way to distinguish between the two. "com/example/foo/bar" could mean either "foo.example.com/bar" or "example.com/foo/bar", both of which are perfectly valid.

voting hasn't changed a single thing in the US in the last 200 years

it's twenty feet long and fully enclosed. calling it a motorcycle because it has two wheels it really stretching the definition of the term.

State resources like ...?

Most university research groups do not have funds to buy bits of computing time here and there. For a project like this, the research group more likely has a dedicated computing cluster bought with grant money or sponsor money.

Symbolic speech is all well and good, but the trigger-happy cop who mistakes you for a rifle-toting terrorist is going to shoot first and ask questions later. There's no reason to put yourself at risk by openly carrying around something that resembles a weapon unless you intend to use it.

i bring my road bike to my office

so does one of my other employees

they don't really take up that much space

Mars has dust. Some iron, too, but mostly dust. We know what's over there already, and it's not much of a product if we don't have a way to get it home.