That's the most shocking fact from the article. That it was decided by a handful of astronomers. What would the decision have been if everyone had voted? Or at least a majority of attendees?

And how should the government do that? With the tax income that these companies managed to avoid paying? Cool story bro.

I don't support the corps in this matter at all but I don't support or trust the government either. The Internet doesn't need 300 pages of FCC regulations slapped onto it even if they're meant to "protect" the consumer. There must be a happy medium. The EFF is wary as well. They put it quite bluntly: "The FCC's role must be firmly bounded." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

How can you say the FCC's proposals are in no way bad when even the EFF doesn't like some of them? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

Just like on Star Trek. When you're in deep space you just set a 24 hour clock and go with it. Why do you have to observe the Martian day at all?

Net Neutrality is not a policy despite your attempt to make it one by capitalizing it. And what they're proposing is a set of regulations; not the absence of all regulation. The FCC has already introduced the regs; they comprise 300 pages of new rules. That is certainly not how the Internet was run "from Day 1."

You wear your watch on the arm opposite your handedness so you can manipulate the crown with the correct hand.

This was all covered in The Dark Knight. If someone goes to Russia and grabs this guy and drops him off at the FBI then they can charge him with whatever they like. I think that's what they're counting on.

Bullshit. So you hear your detcom call "GAS GAS GAS" and your response is 'Just hold up a sec'. Drop trou. Pull out rag. Overcome stage fright. Shit there's gas. Gotta piss NOW. It's not happening. Grab canteen. Gas everywhere. Take long swig of water. Ah. Gas filling lungs. Take long piss on handkerchief. Dead due to gas inhalation. Grab handkerchief. Hold over face. You died 30 seconds ago.

Today I decided I finally had enough of Google's spying and changed my default search engine to DuckDuckGo. It took about 5 seconds. Yeah, it will take some getting used to having different results and all but I feel incredibly free after having made the switch. If I change my email from Gmail then I will have completely severed myself from Google. So how solid, really, is Google's position? It's an ad company. An increasingly evil ad company. I've got one leg out of their cage and only need to pull out my other leg.

Who's to say consoles will even be a thing in 10 years? I wouldn't be surprised if computers and TVs converge entirely in the near future making consoles obsolete. Want a game? Stream one to your TV from Steam. No consoles required.

Direct observation. Anything other than evidence based science is just you daydreaming. Besides, even if life was found elsewhere in this solar system that wouldn't be enough to change the general premise that life is pretty rare in the Universe. When all is said and done, as of 2015, life has only been observed on one planet, in one system, in one galaxy in the entirety of the Universe. You can't even point to evidence of past civilizations. But I guess it's only been 14 billion years give or take. Give them some time. They'll show. In all honesty though, if life was as common as you assert then shouldn't we see colonies and ships by now? It'd only take 1 civilization to decide to colonize our galaxy. Mathematically, they could have done it in 50 million years without FTL travel. So where are they?

Direct observation.

Well, putting 'terrorist' in quotes isn't helpful. I think it's pretty well understood that there *are* terrorists and a lot of them and they're walking among us. But I do agree that that's no reason to track every John Q Public and store the information. It's the storing and processing that bothers me. If the government is just watching the crowd and identifying people because they're searching for them then I'm okay with that. If they start building a database that tracks me over a lifetime then I have a problem.

Pro-tip: Everybody is 100% guaranteed to die.