Here in Denmark the mobile connectivity is 5G with speeds that make anything I had in Austin Texas laughable. I also pay about half of what Verizon charged. The connectivity in Europe in general is much higher than I experienced in Texas. Go to Driftwood Texas and you'll be lucky to get a signal much less enough bandwidth to be useful.

The perl calendar entry for December 17th is probably just a page from book of Rorschach Test images.

I think a lot of us have that tendency. Humans are natural polyphasic sleepers. https://www.bbc.com/future/art...

Yeah! Also, why the hell should renters pay taxes so that middle class f-tards can get a write off for mortgage interest? Another thing, why should those gas guzzlers pay for road maintenance on behalf of those hippy electric car drivers? While we're at it, screw those kids who want to eat during the day if their parents can't afford it. Clearly the parents should be punished by starving the kid. It only makes sense. Now to be serious; do not be so short sighted and defensive. The libertarian fantasy is the most perversely unworkable fantasy in economics.

Yeah, about that.... https://www.thebalance.com/wha...

Pleading insanity leads to false pleadings. Rolling stops lead to a lack credibility with Stop signs. Taking a generous deduction invalidates tax law. Your post is a classic example of making the perfect be the enemy of the good. I don't have the time it would take to help you understand just how incorrect your logic is.

Such a naive argument. There are no gun laws at the border and guns can flow freely. Criminals don't always follow the legal laws but the ALWAYS follow laws regarding supply. According to your argument societies that heavily regulate firearms should have a greater number of civilian deaths. If you were even a little bit intellectually curious you'd Google the stats and see that your argument is fallacious. The United States is an embarrassment internationally. https://worldpopulationreview....

Please remember that the plural of anecdote is NOT data.

to block ISPs that attempt to extort them. Others have rightfully said that the customers are already paying for the bandwidth they're using, and afaict this is just a play for the deep pockets.

Any evidence? Any information backed reasoning behind that? Anything verifiable that we, as a community, can digest and act upon? If so then please share it, otherwise there are words that describe people that peddle in foolishness.

That's a pretty significant amount of hyperbole there dood. There are companies we're talking about; amoral beasts at their best, Enrons at their worst. To suggest that dual-employment (what better words?) is active sabotage implies something malicious that you're unable to prove. Dial it back a little, and make a good reasoned and provable argument.

Salaries stopped growing in pace with productivity sometime between 70 and 73; trailing ever since. There is little regard for people in the libertarian hellscape that has become modern employment. An employment world where non-competes, NDAs, and countless other mechanisms are deployed against the people that contribute to the success of the organization. If a few people manage to take advantage of "at will" employment this way, to further whatever goals they have then I raise a glass and say 'Good for you!' I hope that it works out for them, and that they don't have negative outcomes. For myself I hate context switching in one job, never mind two simultaneously.

This is not quite right. The information is still there, and it's trivial to access it. A right to speak does not imply a right to be heard. In my home, I have complete authority over anyones speech and I can arbitrarily say to someone, "You can't say that here." and whether they like it or not they have to stop saying it or leave.

This is uncanny valley territory. We've been putting voices to words since we've been able to reproduce recordings. Go to the Disney Hall of Presidents and you'll hear voices uttering lines that may have only existed in writing (so far as we know.) so this isn't new at all. Would it be different if it were just a sound-a-like voice actor? Probably not. This is perfectly okay as long as there is no deception, and that everyone is transparent about how the sounds were produced.

From your lips to Cthulhu's ears. I couldn't agree more.