I think in order to keep everybody safe we should prohibit gun sales, so only the people who currently have guns can have guns. then we make a DB of the people who currently have the guns and we'll be all set.

If it's so dangerous for people to have guns why stop at just those who already have them. I would support total disarmament as long as NO ONE in gov't is allowed to have armed guards.

I wonder how soon until ISPs' tiered pricing packages will become indistinguishable from those for cable TV, with grouped together services that vary not just in throughput or quality guarantees, but in what sites you can reach at each service level, or which sports teams are subject to a local blackout order

At which point I will be cancelling my service and be giving a big double middle finger to which ever douche bag company that thinks they can pull that nonsense with internet service.

I am not over worked if I am getting paid hourly, plus overtime, plus whatever else.

Give me a 2x,3x,4x,5x multiplier on an hourly wage above $25 an hour and I'll gladly work 60-80 hours a week for 6-12 months straight.

You want me to work that on a salary that is less than $80-100K? How about no. Happily I am in a good place in life right now. After working my ass off for 20 years, work now is an option not a requirement.

'The steady price increases in broadband rates cast a pall over any cord cutter's dreams. It's possible that you might still save money now by cutting off your cable. But if you plan to watch a lot of TV over the Internet, don't expect to save money forever.'"

The only way I've been willing to deal with a price increase is when they offer me a stupid amount of extra bandwidth. Oh you want to give me 25/10 service for $5 more? Sure. Oh you want to give me 25/25 service for $1 more a month. Heck yeh! You are offering 100/65 for $35 more a month......FUCK YEH!!!!

Comcast's idea: we are raising your rates by $5 this year and we are throttling your connect to 7/1. Me: Go fuck yourself and cancel my account. Comcast: wait?! what?!

Just the past amount of bad blood I've had with cable companies would keep me from doing business with one again. When I bought my house, my real-estate lady thought I was nuts, I checked out all the houses she was going to show me to see if they had cable or FIOS for service (the area around Tampa is broken up into little monopoly zones with either one or the other) and refused to go look at houses that only had access to cable.

As far as having to "pay" things are moving so fast that in 10 years most of the new shows are going to come from any of the old broadcasters. Comcast doesn't represent so much as a horse buggy whip factory, but a store that specialized in selling and delivery horse buggy whips.

Nearly all the new developments have the lines underground, but refitting the older places is money wasted. There is the other nasty side of making that not feasible is getting the easements to put the lines underground. Just because the power company has an easement to string power lines across a property does not mean they have an easement to burry it. The eminent domain fights alone would bankrupt any city/county or electric company that tried to do so and would give property rights proponents untold amounts of court cases that would dropping at the same time to completely undo decades worth of eminent domain abuse that had previously gone on one at a time below the radar.

There's two kinds of science: experimental science where you tinker with things in a repeatable way and see the results, and observational science where you're dealing with things that can't be duplicated and have to be inferred from lots and lots of independent corroborating results.

So what you are saying is a bunch of data points and an opinion. In other words pretty much nothing.

I'm torn - I think this would be a good idea in principle, but can already see it has been phrased specifically to shut down any attempt to mitigate climate change. Transparent is good, but the world is unique and ever-changing. By it's nature any research into weather or climatology will be impossible to reproduce -

So what the fuck then is all this "climate change" hoopla based on then? If you can't even tell me how it is changing or why it's changing why should I give the gov't any kind of say, not to mention and endless line of dump trucks full of money, to "fix it"

You "know" it's changing and you "know" it's bad......................and hence we can now clearly see the the problem.

"The Washington Post reports, 'The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics start tonight. But if you're among the 9 percent of U.S. households who have broadband but don't subscribe to paid television, it will be nearly impossible to (legally) watch the games online this year. ...

And I should care why? I haven't given a rat fart about live sporting events in 15 years. The Olympics even more so.

My idea of entertainment and inspiration does not involve a week solid of constant displays of national, political, corporate, and marketing douche-baggery.

The only religious belief at stake here is the usual one of allegedly free market capitalism, which in the US translates into "let corporations do whatever they want no matter what people think about it.".

The other half of that seemingly always conveniently left out intentionally or due to ignorance is that not only do corporations get to do what they want, but so does the customer as well as new entrants to the market.

Want to start a car company that builds better cars or delivers them in a better way?....oops sorry you can't do that unless you jump through a million hoops and have billions in sponsor ship and enough politicians in your pocket to keep the majors from having your nascent company smothered in it's crib.

Want to start an internet firm without being sued from existence? oops sorry you can't do that unless you get approval from half a dozen agencies just in the US as well as avoid the giant gov't sponsored patent troll system that allows single click idiotic patents.

Carbon monoxide......when evil toxic, fire promoting Oxygen and evil environmental hating Carbon have babies.

CO is not a pollutant either, it just displaces O2 in the blood stream very easily making you dead. It also makes a very clean burning fuel.

I see no issues here that have not already been discussed when it comes to organ transplantation. What I'd like to see is someone try to figure out the liability issue of some person losing their house because someone else flew a 3D printed helicopter into it. Is the pilot solely at fault? Does the designer of the helicopter share in the blame? What part does the manufacturer of the 3D printer play? There is already a slew of tort law and civil aviation regs out there coving the that.

Just hurry up and get those replacement livers lined up. I don't care what they are made of as long as they work.

What is a catastrophe is that they haven't just foreclosed on the whole thing and sell it off. How much longer do we have to watch it linger. Pull the life support and let the damn thing die.

If you can't get the people already there to be productive import them!

Personally I say let it die, scrape the ruins into a big ditch and make it the dump for the rest of the US. That would be an improvement.

If musicians are dumb enough to sell the rights to a music company, then they are no longer independents, they are employees and will be paid like it.