Can you provide a link to those 300 pages proving that we're "going to pay and pay"?

No, just like you can't prove that's not the case - because NONE of that is public.

All you can do is react to past experience when hundreds of pages of regulations are about to affect something that was working quite well.

And I doubt those 300 pages are all about net neutrality

Good luck with blind faith in large organizations that do not care about anything but growing themselves. I'm sure it will end well for you.

Net neutrality is a simple concept.

It is, isn't it...

Now you are starting to catch on.

It's real within the metaphor.

Just think of Inception mixed with the Matrix. :-)

(facepalm)

The bait is always something tasty, until you feel the hook... and find the bait that tempted you wasn't even real.

I for one am looking forward to my future, virtual, bikini-clad room mates.

I'm not.

What we got was at least the initial piece of what we wanted,

The fish gets a tasty worm.. along with a hook.

In time we shall see if the worm was even real.

I was going to say people aren't that stupid.

But then I remembered that old episode of The Wire where they stick a kid's hand on a copier machine, ask him questions like it's a lie detector, and after he answers, a detective presses the copy button and "LIE" on a piece of paper comes out. The kid actually fell for it when the detectives structured the questions to show he was lying and he broke down and revealed the truth of the incident and gave them their lead.

Found it, apparently based on real life Baltimore PD interrogation techniques:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So I guess they could make this new CSI Cyber even 10x more stupid, and a few months later you'd probably start hearing from people something like...

the NSA can use coffee cups to playback conversations from half an hour ago because of reverberating echoes still trapped inside the cup.

(I just made that up, CSI writing team: give me attribution please.)

No you can't. They are set and read together in both the primary APIs, and virtually every UI.

Oh it'll certainly change. It's just a matter of when. The precursors are already there. UIs hiding the file extensions from users. Internet protocols using mime types rather than file extensions.

It'd certainly be perfectly possible to have an OS and file system right now that did it and interoperated perfectly well with the rest of the world. It's just a matter of defaulting to file extensions when communicating with something dumb.

If you're not using inheritance then you won't use a virtual function. (Did you read what I wrote?)

Not necessarily. Just because you might do things with objects in C++ doesn't mean the code would be written as pseudo objects in C.

Portable libraries. It makes no fucking difference whether the library was written within the same conglomerate.

Mac OS did too. Not as a mimetype, but at least separate from the name.

And BeOS died for reasons other than this.

The compatibility issue used to be a problem when we all shared physical media. These days as most remote files come from the internet, and generally has metadata when it does so, this is perfectly workable. e.g. Anything that comes over HTTP has a MIME-TYPE provided the server is not broken.

demographics my friend

old angry stupid white people die

who remains and what groups grow long term?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

you want people to learn from history. studying war artifacts does not promote war. in fact, studying war artifacts might prevent war. like studying the wreck of a slaving ship won't make people become slavers, but might educate future generations about the vile slave trade to affirm our revulsion to slavery

they are alienating hispanics and all other new americans with their immigration stances. these people are productive, progressively richer, they care and they vote

G.O.P is on a steady decline unless they unhitch their horse from old dumb angry white people

The G.O.P. is the party of stupid

The G.O.P. even introduced the term

http://thehill.com/video/in-th...

it's a good strategy: identify something rich people need and want, then wrangle the idiots with fearmongering into supporting that agenda, even if it hurts the poor idiots. they're idiots, they can't even understand they're hurting themselves. so you have people without adequate healthcare for example, screaming low iq fears about obamacare

this doesn't mean there are no intelligent conservative people, they do exist. stupid liberals also exist

but it's just that if you meet a stupid person, they are more likely to be a conservative, because their simplistic dimwitted way of thinking about the world matches conservative ideology more closely

http://www.livescience.com/181...

Neil deGrasse Tyson certainly thinks they do.