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Performing work is much different than implementing binding restrictions and regulations.

The Alien and Sedition Act weren't regulations passed by the FCC (the Fairness Doctrine was).

A win for freedom - even if you support Net Neutrality.

I do support Net Neutrality. I think the very companies that it would apply to are government-sanctioned monopolies or duopolies, giving few a choice if they implement anti-neutral policies.

HOWEVER... Let's let our elected lawmakers decide the issue. This is the problem with America today, the UNELECTED 4th branch of government: the bureaucracy. Policies that get set in stone with nary a vote on the issue, let alone on the official that enacted it!

If you agreed with Net Neutrality, get it passed as a law. Today, the FCC (or EPA or any other bureaucrat) can be issuing a policy you agree with, and in later administrations, the opposite - but regardless, you have no say.

Apple thinks everything it touches will become gold. So it's assuming -- like all the gushy tech reviewers -- that this is a device that will "make its own niche" or for which people will "discover needs and uses they didn't realize they had."

A lot of people forget that Apple (under Jobs) can fail. See also: Apple TV.

The fines are around $700, if I read that correctly.

That sounds like more than health insurance would normally cost.

I think you need to research health care costs. A family could easily pay that per month for health insurance.

And for a good reason - a childbirth, for example, costs upwards of $20,000. And this bill does nothing to address those costs.

I guess it's a matter of increasing the fines down the road then. In Virginia, I can get auto insurance or pay 500 a year for not having it. It's cheaper to have auto insurance.

The difference is this - you can't get in a 2 car crash and then buy auto insurance to cover your injuries and damage. This health care bill effectively allows this (if you buy it after a prognosis and before a procedure).

How long until Americans figure out that it is much cheaper to pay the fines and pick up health insurance when you need it (now that insurers are required to sign people with preexisting conditions) than to pay premiums year-round?

Or was this the Democrats' intention? Bankrupt the insurance industry and come in as Mr. Government, Savior of All.

Now, now, GM never went bankrupt, and never declared that they were insolvent

what?

I've got a Canadian co-worker here in the States that has the same Verizon Canada plan you have for when he travels to Toronto for his medical work, and he loves it. He compared them all and there really isn't a better solution from any US or Canadian carrier. He has a Blackberry Tour which also has a SIM card slot for roaming.

Really, I know you want "cheap," good coverage, and good phones, but pick any 2. Best of luck.

My kids were runover by an out-of-control Mustang about four years ago. There was nothing mechanically wrong with the car. Maybe it was driver error. I don't know, but apparently the accelerator was still stuck to the floor when the police got there. I remember how the cruise control on the cars I've owned will lower the accelerator when the CC is accelerating.

I had a Mustang with an out of control acceleration problem. I was driving down a country road when all of a sudden it kept accelerating. I stomped on the brakes and managed to bring it to about 10 mph, pulled off the road, then turned off the ignition.

The culprit? I had stored it all winter long (this was the spring) and squirrels had used my engine compartment as their own winter storage. An acorn had lodged itself in the throttle cable and held it wide open.

Sometimes what sounds like it might be something more complicated is simple.

No regrets? That's like asking Bill Gates if he regrets dropping out of Harvard and becoming a billionaire. Yeah, I'm sure he regrets it daily.

It took me three minutes playing around in the Windows Seven control panel just to figure out how to change the TCP/IP settings.

Microsoft emphasizes search. Click Start (screen or keyboard). Type "tcp/ip." There it is.

Fairness would be selling the phones at standard unlocked prices and letting people buy their contracts ala carte.

You mean like Verizon Wireless already offers, by selecting the "Month-to-Month" contract type option? Notice the phones are at full price. Notice you have no ETF. Why are people complaining? They have choices.

Not really; note that I said "citizens", not "majority of citizens".

In any case, show me a democratic government in which, if N% of people say that other 100-N% should be enslaved, they can't make it happen by legal means, for any value of N (keeping in mind such things as referendums, constitutional amendments, etc). U.S. is definitely not in that list, as its Constitution can be arbitrarily amended, given a supermajority - you could get slavery back tomorrow, or install absolute monarchy, if there was sufficient public support for it.

The only western country I can think of in which the ballot does not ultimately rule supreme is Germany with its "immutable" Constitutional provisions (that guarantee the "fundamental democratic character" of the system of government and certain basic human rights). It's fairly obvious, however, that with sufficient support, Constitution is just a piece of paper - it won't help you against a revolution by an armed mob, and then whatever laws they establish will become the law of the land. So in the end, pragmatically, it's always tyranny of the majority - it may be just more or less veiled.

Who determines what rights are inalienable? What if 51% and 49% disagree?