Ya know, the FCC is tasked with encouraging the use of radio and TV. It's part of their assigned duties.

There is no valid reason to take AM radios out of vehicles, some of the most powerful stations that are the ones that are signed up with EBS (Emergency Broadcast System) are AM stations, like the ultra powerful KFI in Los Angeles. In a huge earthquake or nuclear attack you would tune in KFI for information. It was all set up that way years ago. You can pick it up pretty far away. At high altitudes I heard from Tennessee.

I'm not usually one to demand government mandates, but the FCC is completely within it's stated area of management to demand all vehicles sold in America that have any kind of radio that radio should pick up AM AND FM. And that's what they should do.

Older folks will remember when TV sets had an click tuner for VHF and an analog tuner for UHF. You had to get up and tune in the UHF station desired, like channel 28, PBS in Los Angeles back then. The FCC mandated a click tuner (equal ease) for UHF like VHF had. And the world didn't end. Without that UHF stations would have struggled. But the FCC rightly mandated change to encourage the use of UHF. UHF would have died without that.

And AM will die without a mandate.

If you click "get support" someone calls you and talks to you in a calm, sympathetic voice.

That was a tongue in cheek comment, since at some level *all* data is metered.
But the economics are quite different now than they were a few years ago.
Hosting that used to cost $10,000 a month because of transfers can now be had for less than $100 or $200.

We're talking about residential broadband here, and the incumbent Cable TV firms that are providing that badly want to protect their
expensive traditional Cable TV service which many people don't see as necessary anymore.
We want to stream what we want when we want.
We don't care that something is aired at 8PM on Tuesday, and we want to FF the commercials.
The data caps are to hamstring that. They will not be successful, in a little while.

We don't want any data caps, just because we don't. Heh.

Yeah, I think it was mostly TAPR in Tucson, Tucson Amateur Packet Radio that blazed those trails.
I'd be interested in hearing insights.

I found out that my prescription records were stored in Milliman Intelliscript
milliman.com
I was entitled to a report of their data.
I got it, with a FCRA Summary.pdf document, since this falls under the fair credit reporting act.

They got it from my previous health insurance company. You know, they have that 17 page fine print clickthrough agreement that no one can read.

I applied for health insurance, and a nurse from the company I applied to called me and discussed everything ad nauseum, until I finally hung up and refused to buy the insurance.
It was like they were afraid if they signed me up they might have to pay for a prescription or something. That should be just illegal.

I heard where pharmacies are sharing prescription data with each other and with doctors to stop people from going from doctor to doctor to get more meds. More prescriptions than any one doctor would let one patient have. It might be required by law in my state.

It's all pretty ridiculous, anyway. Doctors ask like they give you 30 pills instead of 100 (which might cost the same under a particular pharmacy generic program) they are protecting you, like they don't trust you, the patient. But they do trust you, not to take the whole bottle at once.

So what's the point?

You completely misunderstood, the parent was saying that Directv and ATT were competing, not TWC and Comcast. For consumers, TWC and Comcast do not compete. Whereas today, if AT&T Uverse TV rips you off you can dump them for DirecTV, who will then rip you off instead.
If the merger goes through you won't be able to switch providers, or the ripoff will be computer coordinated to continue. They have rules and filters set up to do that.

OpenWrt is not without it's issues.
It's not a panacea. Unless you need a package that has been implemented on that platform.
If you do, OpenWrt is appropriate.
DDWrt might be slightly easier to configure, but certainly not without it's own problems.
But other platforms are better for average home users. Easier to use.
Man, so many people get glazed looks when asked to make a change to even a simple home router. They are so simple!
When the guy from the cable company did my install and I made the few little changes that needed to be made, his eyes opened wide that I knew how to do that!
He seemed shocked.

Asus is a motherboard company.
They just have a marketing deal to sell routers.
That said, it's probably fine.
But let me just say, Engenius has the features and the WIFI performance. Very strong.
And they are indeed a networking company.

Uh, right. Now that makes no sense at all for most people.
Zynos is not bad, just turn off remote administration if you don't need it.
If you *do* need remote admin, make sure to establish a good username and pw.

The funny thing is, hundreds of thousands of Cisco routers are open to the WAN with only a pw, no username at all. Somehow we get by. Heh.