Comment Re:If you cannot make it, fake it (Score 1) 260
"I am not prepared to debate that subject."
Which is exactly what I'd say if I was asked to debate "phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny"
"I am not prepared to debate that subject."
Which is exactly what I'd say if I was asked to debate "phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny"
And the Glorious MEEPT!
Oh yeah?
My point was P(pickup), not P(found). But you knew that.
If you really want to challenge my argument, instead of a strawman you should challenge me to provide citations of this (and similar) douchey behavior happening prior to the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order. If you did that, I would list:
* Major ISPs throttling Netflix, et al.
* Verizon stating on-record that they would like to charge services for better access to their subscribers
* Madison River (ISP) blocking vonage
* Comcast (ISP) blocking P2P applications
* Telus (ISP) blocking access to a website critical of them
* Shaw (ISP) charging a 'QoS fee' to subscribers using competing VoIP solutions
* AT&T blocking VoIP apps on the iPhone
* AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon blocking Google Wallet
* Verizon blocking tethering apps
* AT&T charging extra if iPhone users want to use facetime, instead of AT&T's competing product
No one would put up with a power company that charged more for electricity to power appliances that weren't also bought from them. And yet, when a company that is a combination of ISP and content provider decides to trollishly increase the cost of competitive content streaming, somehow that's OK? SMH.
You ended with a point about opening up more spectrum & increasing service (which I take to mean that the former would cause the latter.) I can't personally speak to the matter of opening up more spectrum, because I don't know how much spectrum sits fallow. I would be surprised if much did.
That is a moot point. The racial demographics of the nation are rapidly shifting to majority minority. The Democrats will have an overwhelming majority by 2020 or 2024, at the latest, after which there will never be another Republican U.S. President.
Sounds great, except that the Quiverfull movement is explicitly attempting to outbreed secularists / liberals. They might meet stiff competition among predominantly-Catholic Hispanics, but I can't imagine secularists deciding to engage in reproductive warfare, even if they do realize that's what the Fundies are up to. Overbreeding is kind of anathema to secularism.
The Net Neutrality regulations were a bad solution to a non-problem.
Cable internet companies throttling people's Netflix streams because they want those people to get frustrated w/ Netflix and switch to their cable TV packages, is a non-problem?
Where there's a will, there's a relative.