I'd like to question the argument for so-called "net neutrality" by comparing it to something I'll call "Postal Neutrality".

Under Net neutrality an ISP is prevented from charging users higher fees for faster service - that is the essential argument as I understand it.

Under "Postal Neutrality" the post office would be prevented from offering customers expedited delivery of letters and packages for a premium price.

You would never argue for "Postal Neutrality" but somehow "Net neutrality" makes sense?

The claim is that by somehow prioritizing certain traffic, you are putting services that don't pay for improved service at a disadvantage, well, yeah - paying for better service is a popular concept. There is the argument also that by the very nature of offering one customer increased speed/bandwidth you are slowing down all other traffic... People make that claim, but I've not seen it proven, just claimed as a possibility.

When ISPs have a financial incentive to increase speed/capacity/bandwidth they will, denying ISPs the ability to charge a premium fee for premium service removes the strongest incentive from ISPs to improve their network...

No, we're not - certain telecom services (think voip phone service) use information services to transport their calls, most telcom services use private data networks to carry their calls, not the public internet.

You don't think Verizon, southwestern bell, etc use the public internet to carry their phone traffic do you?

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

Are you arguing that no ISPs provide information services, or just your particular ISP?

Quite a few ISPs own streaming services, but you knew that, right?

Really?

Source: https://constitutioncenter.org...

What?

You saw this, right?

So the 6th circuit stays the rules, and then an appeals court strikes down the rule, but somehow going ahead and removing the stayed then struck down rule is somehow proof of an out of control administration?

The person blasting the FCC even said there was no change, that removing the regulation was meaningless...

And added...

Which honestly makes no sense - if you want to bury something you release it on Friday, and trust me, the "broadband monopolies and their lobbyists" knew the outcome of the court decisions well before the regulation was finally struck, they weren't waiting for the Friday press dump...

And I'm not sure what the point of a comment period is when the courts have ruled against the regulation in question? Is there some possible comment anyone could make to overturn the appeals court decision?

This is the logical outcome of the court deciding that the internet is an information service, not a telecommunications service, agree or disagree with that decision, this action makes perfect sense - the only real point here is that the FCC made a big deal out of doing what had to be done anyway.

And no, there will not be a third term for Trump, but I seriously doubt the Democrats will win the whitehouse in 2028, or even score any big victories if they keep taking the 20% side of every 80/20 issue (trans in sports, sanctuary cities, etc)... who knows, maybe will change, but I doubt it.

I have noticed a few website saying the Firefox won't work on the site. I change the user agent to Chrome, and the site then works.

Nevertheless, here sits drinkypootin pretending that I have anything to do with Trump when for decades I've been advocating against exactly what Trump is doing. Meanwhile, if this were Bernie in office doing the exact same shit, drinkypootin would be offering to suck his dick. This is exactly the kind of contrarian conspiracy theorist fascist asshole that he is.

You know what's crazy about all of that? I've consistently maintained the position that tariffs are a terrible idea, meanwhile people sitting in the same camp as that moron you're replying to, especially Bernie Sanders, have been demanding tariffs that entire time. I kept saying, for years, that putting up tariffs in the US wouldn't do anything to stop Australia from buying cheaper cars from China. And whatdya know? That's exactly what's happening right now.

What's even crazier about all of this is Bernie Sanders and drinkypoo go around calling other people fascist, yet look where their ideology comes from:

https://www.cato.org/commentar...

Unlike you, I don't deal in conspiracy theories or crack heroine. I only deal in what is observable and measurable. Hard data wins every single time.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans...

Videos like that piss you off because you've got a narrative to sell, and the last thing a flimflammer like you needs is somebody going around proving that your product is nothing more than snake oil. You're not happy until you've convinced at least one other person that we're living in the worst period in all history. And then you want to prove that you're a rebel by pissing into the wind.

People like Trump don't get into power by telling you that everything is ok. He's nothing more than a typical crisis politician. The only difference between you and him is which crisis you're trying to sell, and how successful he has been at it. Other than that, you are identical to him. You both severely overestimate your own ability, both of you are dumber than a rock. But he's in the Whitehouse, and you're spending your entire life underemployed.

Which "lot" would that be?

The push from management to use Copilot and other tools has been a pointless farce. They've become so focused on adopting the new tools and even track our usage metrics. They they forgot that we have actual products and releases to address, and that we have cross functional bugs that aren't receiving the attention they need from management.

I feel like I could replace some of what project managers do with ChatGPT. Just get it some prompts to work out nag emails and track what outstanding bugs and features are at risk as the branch cut off approaches.

Fortunately he only wants to.

San Marino would still exist as the worlds oldest republic with a written constitution dating back to 1600 (an update to the constitution of about 1300) giving people "government of the people, by the people, for the people" and actual limited government. Though to be honest, it was 1974 before something like a bill of rights was added.
For rights, there's the Magna Carta from 1215 and the English Bill of Rights of 1689, which turned the British King into a figurehead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I don't give anyone a "pass" but my options last November were to throw* in with the side that rioted all summer in 2020 over one thing or the side that rioted in the fall of 2020 and a little into 2021 over another thing.

To be clear, I took absolutely no pleasure in voting for a candidate who egged on any of the rioting, but we live in a two party state where you have to vote for the extremists who scare you less.

And by "scare less" I don't mean abstractions or philosophical disagreement, I mean simply who in my assessment is more likely to prevent me from going about my day-to-day life. Who's going to do more to stop me from going to get groceries? Who's going to do make it harder to fill up the gas tank? Keep the power on? Let me walk down the street without fear of being targetted for looking to white or too property-owning to be down with the revolution?

Trump's escapades might jack up the costs of some imports. Harris was egging on the anarchists and wheb in office was pushing Cali-style energy policies that *would* make the grid unreliable, that *would* wreak havoc with transportation of things like food.

Massachusetts chickened out of the California Truck EV mandate before Congress killed it recently:

https://commonwealthbeacon.org...

But not before commercial truck sales ground to a halt earlier this year before the mandate was "paused."

https://www.masslive.com/weste...

A little of that is a nuisance. A sustained end to commercial truck sales means the food doesn't get delivered and the trash piles up.

Just like the good old days of the Soviet Union where central planning in service of ideology took precedence over boring things like keeping the lights on.

If the choice is between that and the capitol rioters....well that's not a choice, it's a hostage negotiation, and I didn't like the lockdowns and the mail ballot shenanigans all that much at the time.

*symbolically, since I live in an uncompetative one-party state and my vote is irrelevant