So... because bad people bribe the people in power, I shouldn't even try? And that'll fix things how?

Yeah, I'm getting annoyed at this whole "years in court" thing too. Title II is NOT new. It was established in 1933-4? and lasted until the late 90s I believe. Title II is very well tested. Further, we've had several DC circuit court cases in 2014 where the judges said that the FCC had the authority if they reclassified. They have. Done Deal.

They left out one important detail though... we didn't get unbundling back. It used to be that the phone carriers had to lease their lines to whomever asked for a decent price. That let mom and pop ISPs into the field to compete on service, and it was awesome for creating competition.

I'd tell her that her teenage years might be rough. I'd tell her not to worry about them and that life gets better in college, where you're surrounded by people that WANT to be there.

I'd tell her that she's going to feel a lot of pressure from the people around her to be "normal", and that's hogwash. She'll be told to look a certain way, act a certain way, and that there's a LOT of pressure to not be happy so she'll buy makeup or clothes so she can BE happy, but that that is BS and doesn't work.

I'd tell her that most of the people in the world don't know what they're doing with their lives. They're going through the motions and hoping no one else notices that they're lost. The people that make choices about what they want to do with their lives are the ones that are really happy, because their life has meaning. Tell her to do whatever she wants with her life, and you'll be happy if she's happy and lives her life well.

Tell her dating is a skill, and like any skill you learn it by fucking up a few times... Her first love won't be her last. There will be awkwardness and some small amount of stupidity, but you learn from that and you get better at it and eventually you figure out who you are, who you want to be, and then you find someone that you want to share your life with.

Tell her that another person can't complete her, ever. That's her job. She can't complete someone else. That's their job.

Other than that, I'd just spill your guts on random life lessons you've learned. :D Every word will be a treasure to her, so don't skimp on the trivial stuff!

Oh shut the !@#$ up. These rules are OLD, we had them back in the day. They were nixed in the 90s. There's nothing new here, and we know precisely just how awesome they were. Also, the FCC has been quite forthcoming, and these rules were presented MONTHS ago to the public. You're just being a shill, or you're woefully ignorant.

1. Actually, these are old rules. The internet was run under these rules for most of it's life. You have no idea what you're talking about.

2. Uhm.... You don't know much about the old days of radio or broadcast TV do you?

3. That's your belief, but not the history we've seen.

4. That's just FUD.

I don't think you know what your'e talking about at all. Your whole post is just FUD. Really. You're blatantly wrong about the regulations, about the history of radio, broadcast TV, and the rest is just your own anti government beliefs.

This is a GOOD THING.

s'funny, because they kind of already go after child pornograqphy, harassment, piracy, and encryption. It's not like they've been ignoring them all this time...

Actually, it WAS a policy. Title II is NOT new. We had it in the ... God Damnit, I'm tired of typing this shit. You !@#$ers should !@#$ing know that we had title II regulation and that it was knackered back in the !@#$ing 90's by a bush appointed FCC head. This isn't NEW. This is OLD, and it worked AWESOME back in the !@#$ day.

This is PRECISELY how the internet was ran back in the day. I'm old enough to !@#$ing remember it too. Get off my !@#$ lawn.

The policies that the FCC are putting in place are NOT NEW. We HAD them. They were knackered back in the 90's, and then everything went to shit. We know PRECISELY what these policies will do, because we've had them before.

If anything, the FCC hasn't gone far enough. They're not forcing the carriers to unbundle like back in the old days. In the old days the carriers were forced to lease their lines to competitors for decent rates, which allowed mom and pop ISPs to flourish and compete on service.

In the old days of Title II regulation, the companies were forced to lease their lines to competitors for decent rates. That's why we had lots of local mom and pop ISPs... Naturally, the FCC is not going to enforce that part of Title II, it might cause actual competition.

I'm incredibly frustrated by all the morons on here who quite obviously don't know what they're talking about, crying about government regulation and how this is going to hurt broadband, and if only we had more choice at the local level.... Not talking about you Woody. You're fine.

They released the proposed regulations about a month? ago? Just because you're not paying attention doesn't mean there's a conspiracy....

Also, your sig is not funny at all. It just reveals your lack of depth, wit, and empathy.

The new rules are not new. They were in place since the dawn of the internet, and they were awesome. We only deregulated in the 90s, and look what it has gotten us. We've slipped farther and farther back in broadband deployment.

These "new" rules are OLD rules, and they're not even putting them all into place. You've been lied to.

Funny, because we HAD title II regulation, and it was awesome. It was only when we deregulated that companies merged, the large companies were not forced to lease their lines to competitors (remember when we had local dial up ISPs? That was awesome!) and things started to get worse and worse.

Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America because of their service... But I'm sure the Free Market Unicorns will force them to change their ways or die, right?

Regulation ensures a fair playing field for big and small players. It is quite necessary or the first things the large players do is strangle the market to their own benefit. You WANT to believe the government is bad, and they WANT you to believe the government is bad, and you and yours swallow the Kool Aid without thinking through the quite easy to see logical conclusions of your beliefs.

It's not even hard to see. It's our own history for cryin' out loud....

He's proposed lots of shit. It won't get through congress, so... Hey, I'm glad he's framing the debate. I'm glad he's putting this out there. I'm glad he's forcing people to say "No, I'm against lots of common sense stuff that all the people want to do."

I'm a little bitter though. Where has this shit been the last couple of years? The cynic in me thinks there's an election coming soon... Hey, I could be wrong. Maybe he actually just now realized the Rs aren't going to work with him and he's wasted the last couple of years trying to "reach across the isle".

You kind of blatantly show your bias whe you put the quote marks around "Hussein" there.... Also, as we can see from his actions, Obama is not a very good Liberal. Oh, he talks a lot, but he's pretty much a republican. Also, that link that YOU provided says that the tax raises that they called Broke Promise were on "if you're a happily uninsured smoker who likes to tan, you are facing a triple whammy. " and I just don't give two shits about tanning beds, etc.

So... I think you're a political hack. :D