Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 200
It is insane to think we are owned by corporations
We are talking about Netflix/ISP charges for streaming entertainment programming, right? If you can't think of a single alternative, then you are owned.
It is insane to think we are owned by corporations
We are talking about Netflix/ISP charges for streaming entertainment programming, right? If you can't think of a single alternative, then you are owned.
so many competing ISPs in the US.... errr...
There actually are many competing ISPs in almost every market if you include mobile access.
won't let people in unless their ad-network thinks they money can be made from them
Politicians make lots money from the "poor" demographic, so they will get inundated by the worst, most dishonest advertising of them all.
Oh, and also advertising for the lottery.
You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?
Just a slow news day.
climate change we are experiencing now is happening MUCH faster than any in the past
citation?
Climate in not weather. Weather is not climate.
You want to talk about climate? Long term climate and survival of life on Earth?
How about 60 million years worth of climate?
For a great majority of the past 60 million years (since mammals emerged on earth),
THERE HAVE BEEN NO POLAR ICE CAPS
The earth is in a cooler than average phase now. There has even been rapid warming in the past (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum for example). The geologic processes that shape the earth today are the same processes that shaped it in the past, varying only in intensity and duration.
The climate will change regardless of human activity and life will go on.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.