Wheeler changed his stance quite recently.

I expect someone from Google, etc. had a little back room meeting and "explained the world" with the equivalent of a short metal pipe.

You, sir, win the internet today.

Joe sixpack doesn't know about this, nor does he care.

He's going to go to Newegg, or Best Buy, and click on the cheapest laptop he can find.

Lenovo could preload it with *fish out the wazoo, and as long as it's the cheapest thing in the store it will sell.

Considering it's the conservative moral majority nutjobs that want to "clean up" the interwebs, I'm not really sure what your point is. I thought the conservative view was that regulation was bad and that these rules were bad? Now you're saying they're bad because they let the conservatives apply their own narrow morals to them?

Who's side are you on?

Actually the telcom rules protect the providers from having to regulate content. But hey don't let your paranoid fantasies interfere with a good conspiracy.

I don't think you can give her any advice on her future life. Seriously, you have no clue what she might be going through when she's 16, and little you can say now will be relevant to her. You don't want to leave her with a legacy of useless advice.

Instead, do what my father in law did - he was in much the same position as you when his grandkids were being born. He knew he would not live to see them get out of diapers.

So he spent the last 2-3 years of his life documenting his life and family history, with photos and personal stories of failure, loss, success, joys, sorrows, and tributes.

Those 3 albums are an incredible insight into his life, and the life of his family that would otherwise be lost. It's a great document that will let your daughter get to know you when you're gone. It's an unbelievable gift he left us.

Exactly. I've had T-Mobile for years, use them internationally all over the world, and never once have I run into this, except in China when my nexus 4 decided to download a new version of Android, over and over and over.

This whole article translates to WAAAAHHHH!!!! I'm a whiner and I didn't get my way so I'm going to throw my mashed peas at the wall!

Grow up and quit whining. Sometimes you run out of your data allotment and all that happens is that TMobile throttles you down to a slower speed so you can't stream porn anymore.

Much ado about absolutely nothing.

Seriously? Reagan drove the US into a financial crater. He wasted billions and billions on Sgt York, the 600 ship navy, Star Wars, and his recovery fas fueled by reckless deficit spending. The tax cuts were a small part of that.

We needed someone like Reagan at the time; we needed a "feel good" president. He delivered. But like any wild party, the hangover was pretty severe.

No his IT guy just got shitcanned for being a mysoginist and a gay basher.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com...

I'd say good ol' Jeb is not off to a good start.

That's called trickle down, and it has never, ever worked. Not once. If it did, we would be swimming in jobs. Heck, we'd be drowning in jobs.

Canada has much higher taxes than the US, and they also have a wealthier middle class, much more vacation time, better benefits, public health care, a year's parental leave, all those things that are supposed to crush the economy.

Guess what - the Canadian middle class is better off than the American middle class. But keep dreaming that you can cut and starve your way to health.

I think by using phrases like "fuzzy-warm feel-good liberal nitwits" you pretty much sideline yourself. Politics is all about compromise and finding a common solution, something that is obviously missing from your world view. No wonder you feel that your efforts have come to naught. No one wants to be called a nitwit.

Statistically the US is far safer today than when you were growing up. And a kid has about a 20x greater chance of being abused by a cop than by a sex offender. And some 200x greater chance of being abused by mom than by a random stranger.

If you listen to the airlines, they have been losing money each and every year since 1947 or thereabouts. Yet they're still around, and their CEOs are making millions in bonuses and salaries. Something tells me that the airlines aren't quite telling the whole truth.

The bad airlines have died and rightfully so. But many of the others are making money, just whining about how hard it is to make money and provide decent service.

I bought and paid for a journey. In the business world, schedules change a lot. I change my itinerary a lot. I fly with airlines that understand that; Alaska and American are good work with in this regard. United is not. If an airline tried to charge me more for providing me less - I paid for 3 flights and I used 2 - how does that work out? What price would they use for the surchage? The price on the day I bought the ticket? The current price? Some other totally made up price?

The problem is that airline pricing is not based on cost, it's based on time of day, marketing, and apparently pixie dust. The airline can't go back and retroactively charge me some arbitrary cost since they can't explain how they arrive at that cost.

You might have a point with "conditions of carriage" but it would be marketing suicide for an airline to try to attempt this.

Much better that they just provide a sane marketing model.

As a frequent traveler, if an airline attempted to do this they would be sued, not just by me but by the millions of business people out there. I buy the ticket for a price. They can't come back and renegotiate the price after the fact.

Especially since the prices change on a day-to-day basis, and bear little to no relationship to actual cost.