I just saw the chair of the FCC saying today that none of our comments on the NN debate has swayed him to regulate. (i'm sure some other back room deals have though).

"The national average salary somewhere else goes up, though. It's hard to argue against jobs moving from your country to another without claiming that people in your country are somehow better, more deserving of those jobs; otherwise, why is it wrong?"

Because who is doing it and why... that's why it's wrong.

"I don't think they think the "trifling" transgressions are "just as bad". I've never heard anyone say, or even suggest, that they are "just as bad"."

well you don't know what they think, but you can infer from their actions, and when they lump together rape with an off color joke, then use the combination of two separate and disparate incidents to use as a factor in the proposed statistic, then yes they are statistically equating the two as "just as bad".

maybe you're just not seeing the radical motivations behind what is portrayed as ethical objections?

from the link you provided:

" Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."

"Are you kidding? What you call "this round of violence" started when Hamas started shooting rockets at Israel, _before_ the kidnappings. I know that Western media does not report this. The bombings are never news until Israel shoots back."

Let me interject from a western point of view.. someone who only knows of your conflict originally from news reports/papers/and general "western media".

I was ALWAYS under the impression that Palestinians were terrorists persecuting Jews with rocket attacks and suicide bombings for returning to basically what is the Jewish homeland.

Any Israelis attack on Palestine was a return of aggression.

what i've come to see after looking into the conflict on my own and doing my own investigation is that it seems to me Israel was given Palestinian land, US support, and outguns Palestine 100:1, they fight against israel the only way they can and yet all i hear about is how evil they are and how righteous israel only defends themselves.

i've realized that marketing is always to hide a deficit and now see the conflict reporting in western media as such the same as i see your post (never have i heard western media decry anything isaelis do).

Off-topic Sidenote: I was nearly turned into roadkill yesterday while out for a run in my neighborhood. There's no sidewalk so I run facing oncoming traffic as far to the side as possible. The jackass driver was playing with his cellphone, and drifting toward the side of the road, right at me, and didn't swerve until the last second. I was within a second of making a dive for the side of the road."

as you are breaking a few laws yourself i strain to find the exclusive right to be angry at the driver....

" Maybe what we need are automatic tire spikes that rise when the light turns red.."

and when someone tries to run it and blows tires and is stuck there blocking the lane and intersection? how does changing the punishment alter the behavior?

" The problem is, there were two lanes, and if I had gone in front of "Mr Nice", I would have gotten clobbered by the car in the other lane that didn't stop!"

it's called pulling into the first lane and then merging over into the other lane... NOT crossing 5 lanes of traffic at once (or even two).

"No, have spikes that stick up and prevent cars from moving until the crosswalk is clear."

malfunctioning equipment or people trying to run the system couldn't possibly cause massive traffic jams everyday in cities across the globe.

go for it!

I was born and raised in california and lived here all my life, i have NEVER had any "traffic engineer" come tell me what the walk/don't walk/blinking/countdown etc means... let alone update me when "they" decide to change such things...

i guess ive lived this long by common intuition, is there supposed to be somewhere people "know" to get all this helpful info? Please don't say local traffic engineer.

"As for the summary (and I presume the FA it was quoted from), cars can't use the number to tell when the light is going red."

I know i have X seconds before i can assume it will go yellow or red, so i speed up accordingly if i can make the intersection with time to spare.

I don't see how it causes more accidents for me to do this as if the number is too low i slow down, enuf time i can speed up a couple of mph and make the crossing.. no one is crossing the intersection im going through...

why not give both as an option, let new users use the ribbon by default, switch to "classic" for old users. eventually the old users will die and you can support ribbon only.

dispersants don't cause massive flesh burns either... so the detergent in your bottle isn't the same as the stuff they pumped out for the BP oil spill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

vanishes? hell no it doesn't, ever run your hand under the fender or body of your car? hell even anywhere near the bottom along the sides after driving for any extended period of time?

that black filth is the rubber you speak of.. it gets washed down drains when people wash their cars...

Whales beaching themselves because they are too ill to continue and don't want to be shark food?