In the NYC metro area, there are "schools" that will take your money, and you'll show up at some guy's house and sit in a basement with 50 other people, trying to memorize thirty sheets of paper for about three hours. You aren't allowed to take pictures or keep a copy -- ironic -- but if you can memorize even half of the material, your test scores will go up by five or ten points. That's usually enough to get you into the 90th percentile and get you an invite to a police academy, or high up on a promotion list. The higher ranks have specific books you need to read, but study groups emerged to take your money and cut out a lot of critical thinking there, too.
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I believe the laws are in place to change this, but we have the wrong people at the controls. I'm pretty sure unless and until we have the right people at the FCC and at the state level looking at punishing bad behavior, this continues.
No solutions are going to bear fruit without penalties, because they only thing they understand is fucking with their money.
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I believe the laws are in place to change this, but we have the wrong people at the controls. I'm pretty sure unless and until we have the right people at the FCC and at the state level looking at punishing bad behavior, this continues.
No solutions are going to bear fruit without penalties, because they only thing they understand is fucking with their money.
--#
My children have phones because I bought them and maintain them. Therefore, those are my phones, and even though my children might be using them, I'm the owner. Where are my consent rights in this?
"...and the argument that harassment, by itself, would constitute a reason for blocking seems iffy, at best."
Harassment is, from what I recall, criminal activity. I'm finding this "iffy" BS in direct conflict with that, and confused about how the 1st Amendment protects harassing behavior.
-C
"...and the argument that harassment, by itself, would constitute a reason for blocking seems iffy, at best."
Harassment is, from what I recall, criminal activity. I'm finding this "iffy" BS in direct conflict with that, and confused about how the 1st Amendment protects harassing behavior.
-C
"2. Harassment is not a viewpoint. Some accounts, like the Daily Caller, posted fake nude photos of me & abused my comments to spread it. No one is entitled to abuse. https://t.co/0QWKqJFzRe"
Figure it out. Harassment is a real problem, and shouldn't be tolerated. Throwing the "slippery slope" flag on it is a punt, a weak counter to the real point here.
Weak.
-C
NJ is the corporate home to Verizon, and has the population and density to make them an excellent testbed for pressuring the FCC, in addition to California.
Moreover, the state is not your usual coastal liberal state, with some particularly dense (dense) Republican strongholds and a history of conservative positions held by Democrats in state. Pass a California-like bill here, and Verizon would lose their minds and snap that leash on Pai.
"To ensure someone gets tossed in jail for breaking the chain of planned obsolescence, Microsoft (and prosecutors) want the court to believe the existence of recovery disks that do nothing unless a person already has a licensed copy of Windows has somehow made the company $700,000 poorer."
Was the planned obsolescence proved? No. You can't state it as fact.
Big business, this.
In the NYC metro area, there are "schools" that will take your money, and you'll show up at some guy's house and sit in a basement with 50 other people, trying to memorize thirty sheets of paper for about three hours. You aren't allowed to take pictures or keep a copy -- ironic -- but if you can memorize even half of the material, your test scores will go up by five or ten points. That's usually enough to get you into the 90th percentile and get you an invite to a police academy, or high up on a promotion list. The higher ranks have specific books you need to read, but study groups emerged to take your money and cut out a lot of critical thinking there, too. --#
Mona Lisa Overdrive, 1988
Finn.
Congratulations on your unregulated private infrastructure.
I believe the laws are in place to change this, but we have the wrong people at the controls. I'm pretty sure unless and until we have the right people at the FCC and at the state level looking at punishing bad behavior, this continues. No solutions are going to bear fruit without penalties, because they only thing they understand is fucking with their money. --#
Congratulations on your unregulated private infrastructure.
I believe the laws are in place to change this, but we have the wrong people at the controls. I'm pretty sure unless and until we have the right people at the FCC and at the state level looking at punishing bad behavior, this continues. No solutions are going to bear fruit without penalties, because they only thing they understand is fucking with their money. --#
Punch in the face?
Metaphoric, I hope.
Whose phone is it, really?
My children have phones because I bought them and maintain them. Therefore, those are my phones, and even though my children might be using them, I'm the owner. Where are my consent rights in this?
Okay, so fire some of the GOP commissioners
I mean, let's do this. Let's fire them all. And let's start putting GOP people in prison.
Expand the FCC bench
Make it seven instead of five, install actual people, then get to work.
And stop trying to legislate the GOP away. Start imprisoning them.
Lawyers stink.
"...and the argument that harassment, by itself, would constitute a reason for blocking seems iffy, at best." Harassment is, from what I recall, criminal activity. I'm finding this "iffy" BS in direct conflict with that, and confused about how the 1st Amendment protects harassing behavior. -C
Lawyers stink.
"...and the argument that harassment, by itself, would constitute a reason for blocking seems iffy, at best." Harassment is, from what I recall, criminal activity. I'm finding this "iffy" BS in direct conflict with that, and confused about how the 1st Amendment protects harassing behavior. -C
So what if it's a slippery slope..?
"2. Harassment is not a viewpoint. Some accounts, like the Daily Caller, posted fake nude photos of me & abused my comments to spread it. No one is entitled to abuse. https://t.co/0QWKqJFzRe" Figure it out. Harassment is a real problem, and shouldn't be tolerated. Throwing the "slippery slope" flag on it is a punt, a weak counter to the real point here. Weak. -C
It's a one-off
They still elect Blackburn, and she still makes sure you can't run muni fiber or compete with her biggest donors.
How is this not bribery?
I just don't understand it.
Lost me at undocumented.
I was 100% sympathetic to his plight until you used "undocumented" instead of illegal. Speak plainly.
-C
Onething
assault != battery
Re: Re: Was a good cop, now a silent cop.
"...and a bad cop."
It's not that simple, but I know it must feel really good to think so.
-C
He needs to go.
He's just so bad at executing the basic mission of the FCC, and in typical lawyer fashion, routinely tortures the law to suit himself.
Yes, I am damning all lawyers without prejudice.
-C
And now I'm reading about blood plants
thinking it was going to be about biology and horticulture.
A state where it would really matter: NJ
NJ is the corporate home to Verizon, and has the population and density to make them an excellent testbed for pressuring the FCC, in addition to California.
Moreover, the state is not your usual coastal liberal state, with some particularly dense (dense) Republican strongholds and a history of conservative positions held by Democrats in state. Pass a California-like bill here, and Verizon would lose their minds and snap that leash on Pai.
-C
Right up until you assert,,,
"To ensure someone gets tossed in jail for breaking the chain of planned obsolescence, Microsoft (and prosecutors) want the court to believe the existence of recovery disks that do nothing unless a person already has a licensed copy of Windows has somehow made the company $700,000 poorer."
Was the planned obsolescence proved? No. You can't state it as fact.
-C