It used to be so simple. Democrats wanted heavy regulation of business and light regulation of what I do in my bedroom. The Republicans wanted light regulation of business and heavy regulation of what I do in my bedroom. There are exceptions to both generalizations, of course.

These days the Republications want to privatize profits and socialize risk. The Democrats are a bunch of spineless wankers. Both are entirely useless for anything but looking foolish.

People who are suckered into believing anything Cox says are called "Cox Suckers".

I mostly agree with what you say, but want to point out your estimate of a security guards salary is grossly inflated.

"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, security guards earned an average of $23,970 in 2012. The bottom 10% of security guards earned less than $17,390, while the top 10% earned at least $42,490."

That is good advice, but almost nobody will listen. I've been slowly weaning myself off personal internet use. Down to only using 5 web sites (this one being one of them). I've also been slowly weaning myself of using my debit card and using cash when possible.

You cannot be part of modern society and not use technology which could track you. I try to strike a balance. I consider most monthly bills a lost cause, there is no privacy for them, might as well have them automatically paid. What I want to do is leave only the minimum of electronic footprints. I cannot prevent the government knowing everything about my bank account, but I can prevent them from knowing what I'm buying by using cash. If they think I'm a threat, nothing will stop them. I do not plan on ever being a threat.

"the next big thing" has been moving between putting the compute power centrally (mainframe, mini, terminal server, etc) and putting compute power on the desk (PCs in various incarnations) since the mid 1980s. What people don't realize is IT is difficult and expensive to do well. At least if you keep your servers inhouse you can fire the asshole who screws up too badly. With sourced IT that doesn't happen. If you piss off your cloud provider they have your data so you do what they say. In a few years I expect compute power to move back to the desk top and someone will come up with some cool buzzword to extract money from stupid people by convincing them this new thing is so much better than the old thing you'd be a fool not to make the switch. No product ever lives up the the fantasies sales people have about it. I dream of the day when sales people will be legally accountable for what they tell the customer, much like a lawyer or doctor is.

Wrap your personal information inside some form of DRM and require acceptance of your EULA before opening it. Sort of a "technical jujitsu", take your opponents strengths and use it against them.

I wish I could do that to the DMV. Within a week of registering my car in FL I started receiving postal junk mail at my new address. I'd love to get involved in a class action lawsuit against them.

"SENDER of the content has had to always be the one to pay for their delivery costs to deliver data to the user. that's the way its' been for the last 20 some years."

This is blatantly untrue. For the past 20 years ISPs have used the "Bill and Keep" model. The ISP or provider on each end bills their own customers and keep the money. Netflix pays their ISP, the end user pays their ISP, everyone is happy. That is until the end user's ISP decides they want to hide the cost of updating their infrastructure to meet changing customer usage patterns and tries to extort money from other providers instead of raising their prices like every other company does when their costs change..

I don't recall ISPs trying to charge web sites extra money to deliver images when customer usage patterns changed from textual "browsing" to "graphic intensive browsing". ISPs simply upgraded their infrastructure.

They can either raise prices to cover the needed infrastructure or block Netflix with a message telling users they must upgrade to a higher tier in to be able to watch streaming video.

Where in the Intel video you posted a link to does it mention "3G" or "wireless". It infers "wireless" but I don't see anymore than that. Which standards do these "3G" chips support? EVDO? UMTS? Also, what frequency bands?

IPMI can do many of the management things Intel is crowing about in the video. Including powering on the server when it is powered off and getting KVM sessions.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Do you have any evidence other than the web site of a known conspiracy theorist or a marketing video from Intel?

Voicing your dissent by throttling FCC's access to networks you control is unlikely to get you in trouble. Trying to interfere with an election is an entirely different matter.

Verizon has a public peering policy. https://business.verizon.com/MyBusinessAccount/one.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=gb_policy&page_id=peering_policy

I've not read through it carefully.

No, I don't know how much you pay in federal income tax. Why don't you tell us what percentage you pay in federal income taxes?

Would you prefer we go back to the federal income tax rates we had in the 1950's - 1970's?

Telecommunications Act of 1996 forced local phone companies to sell access to their copper. In many parts of the country the wholesale price for a copper loop to the customer was MORE than the retail price for similar service from the ISP part of the telco. When those requirements were removed ISPs promptly stopped renewing the copper access contracts.

This is why you have a choice between the local phone company or the local cable company for internet service.

Not bad cheese, bad (rye) bread.

The USA has some of the highest statutory corporate tax rates. However, according to the GAO, their average effective tax rate after all the tax breaks is 12%, which is the lowest since 1972.

The anti-government nutjobs love to tell everyone the USA has some of the highest corporate taxes in the world. These people should start telling the whole truth, not just the parts they like.

Quorn is available in the USA in some supermarkets, but doesn't seem to get much press coverage. Soy based meat substitutes all have that "soy" taste, Quorn is made from mycoprotein and does not have that taste.