Internet STARTED OUT as a "common carrier" service, which is how we were able to buy DSL service from a CLEC instead of the ILEC. Common carrier status was done away with about the time Verizon took a billion dollars from the taxpayer and started rolling out Fios.

I used to buy DSL from a CLEC in Philadelphia that rode on top of Verizon's copper. When Fios rolled out, I remember discussing with the CLEC that they would not be able to serve me because Fios was not considered a common carrier, and Verizon did not have to sell capacity on its lines at a cut rate to competitive carriers.

That CLEC exited consumer broadband shortly thereafter.

Reclassifying modern broadband as a common carrier is absolutely going to create more competition and more choice for consumers. Yes, it will mean a tiny bit less profit for the majors, because they will have to sell capacity to CLECs again at a discount, but whatever.

Honestly, and I'm hardly ever one to talk about nationalization, but the taxpayer has paid for almost all of the Internet infrastructure that has been laid out since about 2004. It should belong to them and be used for their benefit. If Verizon et al want to be considered media providers and not common carriers, then let them pay the taxpayer for access to the network that the taxpayers paid for. Yes, I know, socialism. So what? A lot of what we do is socialized, because it's better for everyone that way.

Stop making so much sense.

In reality, this idea would never fly because it empowers students with their own destiny and heaps piles of accountability upon the education system. Accountability is something teachers and administrators (and people in general these days) do not like.

Wow, that's a lot of current - 20A at 5V. So, unless they change the voltage spec for this version, they'll have to use 14AWG wire under 6ft, and 12AWG up to 10 feet. That's going to be a big cable.

The US education system is defective by design. It is designed to do anything but produce smart Americans. In fact, I would say it is designed to produce dumb, dependent Americans who will be loyal voters for the party most established throughout that system. It is no secret that the Democrat party controls the public education system top to bottom, and is interested only in producing Democrat voters.

It is not surprising in the least that Zuck's $100M did absolutely nothing to increase the quality of students leaving New Jersey's schools.

Update: 05/13 16:37 GMT by T : Oops -- I missed this earlier, substantially similar story.

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There are many, MANY hotspots available with external antenna ports, and running one off of a 5V in-car supply is trivial.

My Armada has a Netgear Unite Pro hotspot in it with a roof-mounted antenna. I just drilled the 3/8" hole in the roof for the antenna mount right above one of the overhead console boxes, and ran a 12V line to a 5V power supply. It took less than two hours to install, and works fantastically. Any time I need to take it with me I just grab it out of the console box.

The price hasn't plummeted because, while the supply is large, the cost of extraction is much higher, owing to its much higher difficulty. It's not as simple as drilling into a big cavern and sucking it out, you know.

Actually, they started calling him a hypocrite, not a socialist. He is a hypocrite because, while he insists he should pay more in tax, he actually does not. Nothing is stopping him making a gift to the treasury in the amount he thinks he ought to be paying, but they have yet to receive any payments.

"Every species that's alive today, including polar bears, managed to survive that massive 400-ft increase in sea level."

Polar Bears did not have palatial mansions along the shoreline.

And yes, you are right that there are not supposed to be any ice caps. But, you'll never convince alarmists of that. To them it's just propaganda.

Bans will not only not prevent them being developed, probably even by a technologically advanced State that is a signatory to the treaty, but it will also not prevent them being used by rogue or puppet states who don't care about bans, or who use them at the behest of a signatory state that is just using them to do their dirty work.

It's called a "local email client." Get one, like Thunderbird or Outlook, and teach him how to use it. It will never change unless you change it.

In fact, in Spanish, the word for a TV set is "televisor."

But, but, that would require government getting involved, and the libertarian narrative won't allow that. The free market will dictate that these safeguards exist if they are supposed to exist. Right?