that's YOU. that's not why we as a country don't have it this way.

btw: we already have government standards on what can be legally called broadband. they're quite clear, and completely apolitical (beyond being unreasonably low.. pretty much everthing DSL or cable qualifies)

"Even since cable/dsl was introduced it was made clear you didn't buy 24/7 full throughput, you bought burst speeds that were subject to the traffic of others on your aggregation point."

bullshit

They advertise it as

"X down/Y Up"

not

"X down/Y up for part of the time, X1/Y1 the rest of the time".

Throttling is a violation of your customer agreement and false advertising.

The "1%" (it's more than that) that expect 24/7 full throughput ARE THE CUSTOMERS WHO WANT TO USE WHAT THEY PAID FOR.

You sir, are what is wrong with american commerce. you'll take it up the arse from the corporate overloads all day long.

some of them are still honest. and by some i mean 10%. some are semi-honest. they're not ALL outright crooks, but the majority of them are.

so while some congresscritters are crooks, not all congressscritters are crooks, neither are all crooks congresscritters.

equivalence fail.

which is the inevitable result of "private funding of campaigns"

a more accurate term for "private funding of campaigns" is "buying votes of congresscritters".

"f you look at the statements of the Libertarians during the Bush administration I think you will find that we criticized Bush for many of the same reasons that we now criticize Obama."

Bullshit

This is obviously me being an optimist.. but let's hope they're putting up that argument just so it can be officially destroyed.

the realist in my recognizes now (as i did before i voted for him) that the president isn't perfect, and that sometimes information you learn after you say something changes your opinion - even if that change is for (what everyone else sees) the worse.

people listen, and take seriously, his invalid points every single day. apparently you've never met a Dittohead

hint: they gave THEMSELVES that name.

it's called system upgrades. there are B-52's flying around with modern GPS units replacing their old radio-based positioning system. the rest of the aircraft's hardware knows nothing about the change, just sees more accurate data

Simple solution to the land line problem. they have a GPS device.. use it's time! IT requires accurate time to get a location fix.. accurate time with even more sensativity than the missile system

and seriously... 32 bit signed floating point? have they never heard of a "double" in C++..every compiler i've ever seen does 64bit doubles.

that statement is neither necessarily true nor necessarily false - corporations and the government are bureaucracies. Sometimes one is better, sometimes the other is.

For example the National Weather Service kicks the living crap out of every private company trying to do the same thing. They pay well, the recruit the best and brightest, they are managed by professionals with experience doing what their underlings do [something you often only can DREAM of in the corporate world or the government world].

Medicare is another example - it's operating overhead is 4%. The operating overhead of private "insurance" (sorry, it's fraud, not insurance anymore) is a whopping 30% MINIMUM.

On the other hand there are some things private industry IS better at doing, and the government quite often contracts out to these people - construction comes to mind, software development, etc.

The government, when run by skilled people, tends to be much better at private industry than doing things that are "natural monopolies" (police, fire, roads, water, etc) or things the profit-motive would harm [like insurance].

you don't have theories, you have cognitive feces

You remind me of a 14 year old boy trying to sound all deep and wizard talking while standing in the kiddie pool of a subject shouting at the guys surfacing after a deep sea dive.

just a pet peeve here.

it's spelled GOD

English letter G, followed by English Letter O, followed by English Letter D

Short vowel.

"G-d" is not valid English.

(yes i know why people type it like that THAT'S RETARDED)

evolution is just the change in allele frequency in a population over time.

or more detailed:
mutations happen

some mutations help, some harm, some don't have any immediate effect

logically those with mutations that help them survive/reproduce better will - over time - have more offspring causing a statistical shift in allele frequency in that population.

over (vast) time isolated (physically, socially, whaterver - non-interbreading) populations of what was once the same species may become difference species.

that's evolution. full stop.

you are indicating more that you have a problem with the data being dug up [ha ha] from the fossil recording detailing the meandering course of that process over million to billion year timescales.

What exactly is your problem with the evidence available? can you cite a specific logical problem you have with it?