-- In an official statement, the Utah Department of Public Safety emphasized that it's still illegal to install structures or art on public lands, "no matter what planet you're from."

Curse you Marvin the Martian.

-- It is almost impossible to legally buy a handgun (not a hunting rifle) in NY or NJ, despite the 2nd amendment.

You really should look into the Mulford Act (California). Who signed it into law...when....and why.

It's an interesting read. I particularly enjoyed the bit of JK Rowling.

But the author and you seem to place the left on a pedestal...every leftist must accept everything...and if they can't, obviously they are "against unwelcome thoughts."

The curious thing is, last I checked, Rowling - although rumored to be richer than the Queen mum herself - and having to "endure being disowned by actors and actress who owe their good fortune to her creations"...is still writing book and making movies.

Movies, that, until recently, starred Johnny Depp.

But I digress. I'm not going to bother to how you how both sides do the same thing. I doubt you care.

If you honestly think you live in an age of Cant now - because people are denouncing views of Hunt, Rowling...because groups are denouncing the Dixie Chicks or because Baptists are once again boycotting Disney World....

...I invite you to remember the life of Alan Turing.

Just as Parler, FreeRepublic, et al. will be sued into oblivion.

It doesn't work that way. If it did, 4chan, 8chan and others would've been gone years ago.

So, remove the protections and...

....and then they HAVE to edit/censor posts. (Exactly what they're currently complaining about)

Nor is it the first time Republicans have told business what they *MUST* do. Look up the history on Nixon's price controls.

-- Conservatives believe that the government should be limited in nature, that people should work for what they have instead of having it given to them at someone else's expense...

Except that conservatives, and Ted Cruz in particular, believe that Government should be allowed to control internet companies and force them to pay to transmit whatever they desire for free. Twitter especially.

until the election was pretty much decided.

But given the choice of keeping Biden as President or getting him thrown out for "mental health"....you want Biden as President.

If Biden is thrown out for "mental health"...Kamala becomes President...and if she's smart....she picks Hillary Clinton as VP.

No offense, but if I was going to do webassembly, I'd (still) use Go. Java is okay....but Go (and Tiny Go in particular) seem to be a far better solution for what you're talking about.

JSPs are just java servlets where they inject code into the HTML (JSP) rather that inject HTML in the code (servlet). JSTL just came out too late and JSPs are (STILL) too damn heavy. I could run 10+ nginx webservers on one Tomcat server. Maven isn't modules. The one thing Java got right early on (and apache did it) was their jar system. The DOWNSIDE of this is that now Java programs (particularly enterprise level) are in jar dependency hell and have to pull hundreds of jars down because of all of the different libraries. (Library A uses log4j.2.4.1....but Library B uses log4j.3.5.1...and Library C uses log4j.5.2.1) Personally I moved to go a while back.

Expand the 4GB of ram to 400 GB? Or the 64 GB to 400GB?

BTW - what's the purpose of a swap drive in Linux again?

I'm voting for Trump because the other guy's coalition consists of people who have no qualms about labeling people who don't agree with their opinions as subhuman, and a number of them have no qualms about taking that rhetoric to its logical, practical, conclusion.

Yeah!

Vote for Trump because of some stupid libtard.

We don't label those subhumans who can't think!

We don't rely on taking rhetoric to it's logical, practical conclusion.

Itâ(TM)s done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services, from streaming video to managing its employee and customer data.

SRC: https://www.datacenterknowledg...

The term "unlimited" was used to distinguish between the old plans that had X GB/month before you got cut off or got overage charges, vs a new type of plan that has no cut off or overage charge. On the newer "unlimited" plans, the customer instead gets their connections marked high priority until they use more than "their fair share", then after that additional traffic is lower priority than customers who haven't used as much.

Well, if you go back far enough (I'm an old fart), even dial-up connections were charged on a per hour basis (think CompuServe).

The idea that you have high-speed and it eventually throttles back is a fairly recent idea that really played into the 4G networks. IMO, it's deceptive advertising but politicians seem to be letting them get away with it because so few people are really affected.

Basically, starting in 2013 Netflix didn't want to pay their web hosting bill. They wanted 10 Gbps internet connections for free. That's what started network neutrality. More on that in a minute.

Last *I* checked, Netflix primarily runs on AWS and they pay their bills (pretty hefty bills, I might add).

And I know of the "settlement free peering"...that argument is misleading to the extreme. Is Netflix the customer or AWS? Who's backbone gets used - other providers (Level III, etc) or AWS Global Accelerator? Neither of which matters to charter unless charter has been putting up transatlantic cables and cross-country backbones.

I referenced Cable content producers for a reason. Charter hopes to change the game -- but they pay ESPN for a reason. If they want to shoot them in the foot, they can.

It sounds good.

Here's the real kicker - you tell FedEx whether you want overnight delivery by 9AM (important legal or medical document, such as related to selling a house) or if you want it sent via the slow boat from China. They provide the service you ask for for each parcel. Your ISP has to figure that out FOR you, 30,000 times per second. The network engineers have to configure that traffic from Netflix is "bulk cargo" - there are going to be a lot of packets, you don't care of they take thousands of milliseconds to arrive, you don't care if some arrive faster, you don't even care if a few packets get lost - you just want the ISP to deliver a crapload of packets, so they send those on an appropriate route, analogous to an ocean-going freighter. Traffic from Fortnite has totally different requirements, and should NOT be in the same queue. It goes into a different queue. The ISP has to figure that out for you and queue each packet in the best way, because you don't even know what jitter *is*, much less how jitter effects different kinds of flows. You don't know whether you want media mail or express mail.

But if you want to get technical, you can ask for a package to be sent several different ways with different legal requirement and different meta-data being kept with the package. (Particularly for internal packages where the same item can be taxed multiple different ways depending on whom is sending it, where it's being sent from and who is receiving it.) Some of that meta data has to arrive WAY before the package does.

None of this is really what was behind the concerns of Net Neutrality. Forget NetFlix and packet ordering - Charter wants to impose data caps for unlimited service. Unlimited service ALREADY HAD A DATA CAP. No day has more than 25 hours in it...no month has more than 32 days in it. There's already an agreed upon max rate per second.

Charter wants to ring out extra cash from video users.

The funny part is that this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of their Cable model. Charter *PAYS* ESPN, Disney, etc. to carry their content. They are literally playing into the hands on the content providers who, once net neutrality is defeated, can argue that they can SLOW bandwidth to Charter customer unless they pony up extra cash.

Suddenly that $39 a month unlimited charter service is worthless to a NetFlix subscriber unless you pay charter an extra $50 a month (or more).

Charter believes that customers won't switch Internet providers...but like winter....5 G (and others) are coming.

can't distinguish between criticism of Trump's response to the virus itself and of criticism of the Travel Ban with China.