more than 2 separate 4K video streams?

As others have noted, not having to wait hours for downloads has benefits to productivity as well as creativity.

I don't claim to be a gun expert. I do claim that no *civilian* needs an assault rifle...or 100 round clip.

Feel free to try and explain why you NEED those...

The problem with the 'market' is last mile delivery is by it's very nature a natural monopoly. Why is Telecom any different than traditional utilities in this instance? I don't want to have 5+ sets of wire run all over town. That makes for a massive barrier to entry for any significant competition.

And what 'lawfully owned' property was this? An M-16? An AK-47? A 100 round clip? There is simply NO reason for military weapons to be in civilian hands. That you *want* it isn't enough to override the safety of society.

My favorite description of Netanyahu's speech is "He entered the leader of Israel. He left as the leading contender for the 2016 GOP nomination."

I'd say your argument is fatally flawed. If McConnell and Feinstein are your 'norms', saying Wyden is comparable to Cruz is downright laughable.

Cruz is a lunatic, a House member who happens to be in the Senate. He has no interest in governing. Wyden is a thoughtful and respected leader, whereas Cruz is 'worshiped'. Wyden is trying to STOP Feinstein, Cruz complains McConnell didn't go far enough in his abject obstructionism.

Both sides have their extremes but the extremes in the Dem caucus are a far far cry from the disaster that is the Tea Party and their ilk.

and bad guy's 14 children now hate you and join ISIS. Now what?

Congrats, you're a hammer and, amazingly, to you the world looks like nails.

How people see it is likewise irrelevant. It's put in place expressly to prevent 'revenge' from being the method of retribution.

Given that we've just found out that the FBI has screwed up 1000s of cases including 30+ who are now dead and perhaps wouldn't be...life is infinitely better.

That tells us plenty about your opinion...I'd wager most people on death row would see it slightly differently. And 100% of those now dead would see it differently. Being 'free' for even an hour is still probably worth, quite seriously, millions of dollars to those people (and the local populace who gets to pay it)

Worked well when fighting the mythical Lernaean Hydra...unless of course you've discovered the modern equivalent of torching the stumps after every each head is cut off; we seem to be missing that part of the story currently.

Drone strikes make MORE terrorists not less.

Nope, remove the subsidies the agriculture industry is getting. You have a problem with paying a fair share for water?

Fresh water is a scarce resource...

I'm all for whatever works. The Ion Bridge method described above requires vast areas of water separated from other areas. So the basic problem is the same as hydro power. It's great but not scaleable to meet the needs of more than the relative local area. From the descriptions & googling it doesn't seem quite ready to supply water for LA.

The thing about solar to electricity to batteries to whatever is not that there is loss along the way. Basically any system has that. It's that efficiency is significantly less of an issue when your fuel is free.

It's why US cars in the 50s got 7 mph and nobody really cared. Gas was plentiful and cheap. Now imagine if it was free and fell on your own land? You can draw the power for the current tech desalination plant from all over the city.

Come up with a better desal process? Great! in the meantime LA needs water right now and solar can easily supply the needs of current tech with very little planning.

Why wouldn't we use the single most abundant energy source on the planet to power something that is energy intensive? Oh and said energy source has no fuel costs?

from the FCCs own press release

"Interconnection: New Authority to Address Concerns
For the first time the Commission can address issues that may arise in the exchange of traffic between mass-market broadband providers and other networks and services. Under the authority provided by the Order, the Commission can hear complaints and take appropriate enforcement action if it determines the interconnection activities of ISPs are not just and reasonable."

This. Much.

Owning both the wires AND content on those wires makes it ever so convenient to throttle competing content to favor your own.