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Comment Context. (Score -1) 408

The court ALWAYS had the power to rule in cases where existing legislation was ambiguous. They gave deference to the executive branch when interpreting that ambiguity a few decades back. The executive branch went overboard abusing that latitude the court provided. So now that extra power has been removed.

Comment Re:Similar to shingles vaccine (Score 0) 243

your lucky two folks in my family got shingles shortly after the "vaccine". It almost killed my immo compromised family member, unfortunately the clerk as rite-aid didn't have his medical history to advise him it was a very bad idea. They only had his insurance info so they bill for the shot.

Comment Re:On the Nurburgring, the driver is most importan (Score 1) 145

derp derp I know the track the best. Do you think Porsche or Tesla hire people that don't know the track? Have you see the 919 EVO lap. These people know the lap and the car. It's gonna be a pissing match, Porsche sent their P70 Model S to the track it put up a good number. They are gonna stomp a mud hole in their actual performance model, I am sure the Model S plaid edition will be out in 3 years ( who can actually believe any timeline Elon puts out) and it will be competing against the next version of the Porsche Taycan GT5 RS. It's nice to see Telsa put together a race car to out perform a production car, but anyone who follows the ring times knows it doesn't count.

Comment Justification (Score 0) 1251

1/2 the comments in the thread just unscore the need for such a law on the books.

Watch Ben Stien's Expelled documentary if you want to get a better perspective on it, or read "calculating god".

There is also a difference between how life came about and how it evolved and they really shouldn't even be compared together they way they constantly are.

Comment Re:Do the research, Please!!!! (Score 1) 304

Here is my speculation.
ISP pay each other if/when they enter private peering agreements. And the terms involving how much traffic you are sending out of your network to other networks. So in the past Comcast was making out like a bandit, they charge the user for Internet, the user downloads a lot and didn't send a lot, hence the asynchrous rates (huge download/small upload). And they get money from the ISP's to get their traffic to the comcast eyeballs (users on the end of a cable modem).

Now enter bit torrent, suddenly users are sending out data, at a slower rate mind you, but we all know these bits add up when your bitorrent client is an icon in the taskbar steadily uploading 384kbits second.

Suddenly Comcasts ratio of traffic with peers is changing and it's not making money hand over fist anymore. And it has to increase it's bandwidth rates in competition with other services like FIOS, which is getting pretty popular in the DC metro area (my home).

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