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  • On the post: House Lawmakers Question Telecom Giants Over Broadband Price Gouging During A Pandemic

    jilocasin ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2021 @ 01:14pm

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    The whole cap thing is a pointless exercise, an excuse to get more money from a captive audience just because they can. In the dial up days, you were charged by the minute because you were tying up a circuit. Your speed was mostly a product of the modem you had purchased and the quality of your phone lines. In the broad band era you are charged by the speed of your connection. The faster your connection, the more you pay. Caps are useless and counterproductive. If it takes you two weeks to hit your cap at your current speed, paying to double your speed just means that you'll hit it in half the time. Which of course is what they want. Pay $ x.xx per month per speed tier and $ y.yy per byte. It's classic double dipping. The fact that their meters aren't entirely accurate isn't a bug, it's a feature.

  • On the post: House Lawmakers Question Telecom Giants Over Broadband Price Gouging During A Pandemic

    jilocasin ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2021 @ 08:53am

    About fraking time

    It's about time, now if we could just (pretty please) get a little more than rhetoric, it might actually help.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit Tosses Child Porn Conviction Predicated On Unconstitutional Searches Of Three Cellphones

    jilocasin ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2021 @ 08:55am

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    Sorry, Not people not relinquishing their rights (for their own safety, of course) will lead to people losing their rights? What kind of logic is that?

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit Tosses Child Porn Conviction Predicated On Unconstitutional Searches Of Three Cellphones

    jilocasin ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2021 @ 08:50am

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    No, what is really freaky is the way a US warrant is limited, and the ways law enforcement must work around it.
    It's really freaky because we have this silly little thing known as the fourth amendment that's supposed (yes, drug and way too many other exceptions not withstanding) to protect us from the government. If the government wants to violate a constitutional right, they need to be severely limited in just how they are allowed to do so, lest it become a right in name only.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit Tosses Child Porn Conviction Predicated On Unconstitutional Searches Of Three Cellphones

    jilocasin ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2021 @ 08:43am

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    Fruit of the poisonous tree
    Often time the exclusionary rule is all that stands between citizens and giving free reign to unscrupulous cops and prosecutors. Without it, they would be free to run roughshod over your rights without consequence. With it, if they break the rules they don't get to benefit from their actions. Will some criminals get away, sure, but it's better for the rest of society that those with the power to ruin/end lives have some constraints on their actions.

  • On the post: Small Idaho ISP 'Punishes' Twitter And Facebook's 'Censorship' … By Blocking Access To Them Entirely

    jilocasin ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2021 @ 06:10am

    Re: Mental health facilities

    Since you mentioned "in the states" I take it you are talking about the US. Here we do have non-penal mental health hospitals for people insane enough to commit crimes. It's where we house those folks who commit crimes and will potentially go on to commit more crimes, but are unable to be charged due to their mental state. In other words, mentally unfit to stand trial. I hope that clears things up a bit.

  • On the post: Small Idaho ISP 'Punishes' Twitter And Facebook's 'Censorship' … By Blocking Access To Them Entirely

    jilocasin ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2021 @ 06:04am

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    Why would you want sites like 8chan taken off line? It would be way more productive to have some FBI agents or others users lurking. It would make figuring out who to arrest so much easier.

  • On the post: Twitter Bans Sci-Hub's Account Because Of 'Counterfeit Goods' Policy, As Indian Copyright Case Heats Up

    jilocasin ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2021 @ 05:54am

    Twitter just wants to stay unblocked in India

    Sounds like Twitter is just concerned about ending up as collateral damage in India. SciHub isn't a hill they appear to want to risk dying on if if means being shut out of the billions of Indian users.

  • On the post: Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection

    jilocasin ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2021 @ 08:10am

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    Schrödinger’s rapist: Not every person will become a rapist, but a rapist can come from anywhere ftfy

  • On the post: Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection

    jilocasin ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2021 @ 08:05am

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    No one is praising riots, or at least they shouldn't be. Riots are wrong, no matter who's doing them. Innocent people always end up hurt, and it's often the ones the rioters claim they are there to help. Peaceful protest is the way to change. Sure it takes longer, and it's often more painful for the people protesting, but there is the only way to lasting change.

    "Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • On the post: Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection

    jilocasin ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2021 @ 07:53am

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    While I agree with a lot of what you've written in your post, I believe your leanings are clouding your judgement in regards to your number 2. Had those people been mostly non-white (not that many of his supporters would fit into that category) the response would have been exactly the same. Trump was trying to stage a coup. He sent his deluded mob to storm the capitol and appoint him President for life. He made sure that there would be minimal federal law enforcement presence. His toady, the acting Secretary of Defense Miller, miraculously wasn't answering his phone while people frantically tried to get not only the DC Guard, but the Maryland Guard deployed. It took the Secretary of the Army McCarthy to authorize deployment into DC. It was only once Maryland and Virginia started sending law enforcement and National Guard troops that Trump's enablers felt the need to finally send federal troops in. So, please leave racism out of this. This was a coup attempt by a deranged man trying to cling to the last scraps of power anyway he can. The difference in law enforcement deployment was in furtherance of his insurrection. If this coup was attempted by Billy Bob of Bob's Bait an Tackle from Billing's Montana, the capitol building would have been surrounded by federal troops and National Guardsmen before the congress even convened.

  • On the post: Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection

    jilocasin ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2021 @ 07:27am

    Re: Re: Can't Take The Heat

    Huh? I guessed I missed the BLM rapist (thought I suppose that's possible) part. Also, what does the political leanings of anyone, let alone an octogenarian, have to do when being assaulted by law enforcement?

  • On the post: Snowflake Josh Hawley Seems To Think The 1st Amendment Means Simon & Schuster Has To Give Him A Book Contract

    jilocasin ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2021 @ 05:35am

    Sounds like a contract dispute to me...

    Unless he had a binding contract that the publisher is trying to wriggle out of, I can't see how that's illegal. Even if it was, that would be a civil matter and nothing to do with the first amendment.

    Of course, with his background, he is well aware of that distinction. He's obviously hoping that the folks he is trying to convince to nominate/vote for him don't.

    I do hope that the whole lot of them are tried for sedition. Starting with Trump, then the congressional rats that encouraged Trump's fever dreams and then fled when their army arrived, and finally the deluded foot soldiers duped into this vain attempt to overthrow the government and appoint Trump president for life.

  • On the post: Wednesday, January 6th: The Day The Game Of Politics Turned Into Insurrection

    jilocasin ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2021 @ 10:53am

    A Sad day in America for sure.

    Yet perhaps the saddest is the thought that many of these people, these Trump supporters, might actually truly believe the lies they have been sold for all these years.

    Lies from people who definitely know better.

  • On the post: AT&T Is Restoring Its Bullshit Broadband Caps Because Apparently The COVID Crisis Is Over

    jilocasin ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2021 @ 09:27am

    Hopefully the new FCC will be of more help than the last.

    With the Dems controlling the senate and Mitch McConnell no longer in charge, a new FCC chief should be confirmed in short order, going back to a more reasonable 3/2 democrat majority.

    He (or she) will have a lot of harmful changes to undo ahead of them.

  • On the post: Surprise! Singapore Backtracks On Privacy Pledge And Opens Contact Tracing Data To Police

    jilocasin ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2021 @ 06:37am

    Disneyland with the Death Penalty

    As William Gibson once famously wrote, Singapore is Disneyland with the Death Penalty

  • On the post: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Law Banning Sale Of Confederate Flags That Will Absolutely Get Nullified

    jilocasin ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2021 @ 07:37am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: just goes to show you th

    Thanks. I think that the far right is a lot louder and more prevalent offline and the far left is a lot louder and more prevalent online. My original comment wasn't about the related merits of either side, but instead about how their tactics are becoming more similar. Personally I don't think that's a good thing.

  • On the post: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Law Banning Sale Of Confederate Flags That Will Absolutely Get Nullified

    jilocasin ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2021 @ 07:28am

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    Thanks (I think), but I've been here for quite a while. There's no need to insult people personally. You can disagree with the argument, but I believe you should leave the person out of it. While some of the more voracious commentators may be of the extreme left (as I have defined it) and some of the anonymous ones of the opposite inclination, I believe that most are somewhere in the middle. If we can't appreciate each other's views and at least agree to argue civilly, there is no real reason to post.

  • On the post: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Law Banning Sale Of Confederate Flags That Will Absolutely Get Nullified

    jilocasin ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2020 @ 10:20am

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    Thanks, I did, and they weren't. Other than some folks arguing US left / right vs European left / right (and this is a discussion about a US governor) I haven't heard of anyone complaining that I am using improper or redefining anything. Go back and review my comment on racists and racism. How, pray tell, an I using a definition any different than what most people (and the dictionary) would consider racism.

    "... a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race..."
    I made the observation that I believe members of the far left don't believe that non-whites can be racists. That is my opinion. I backed it up with a link to an African-american racist hate group. Instead of arguing that;
    • I was mistaken in my belief that all/many members of the left believe this
    • that they were wrong, and yes any race can be racist
    • apologists (like Stephen T. Stone) writing that yes, they might be but they've got reasons, so that makes it O.K.
    It's like that for most of the points I have made. As for the accusation that I am an alt-right troll, I haven't posted any off topic, or extraneous messages. I made a reasonable comment on the story, answered questions presented politely, and backed up my points with examples and links. What I appear to have done is to point out things that some people would rather not have pointed out. As the last of my definition noted, folks that I consider to be on the far left often resort to name calling when their orthodoxy is challenged. And in this I have been proven more than right.

  • On the post: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Signs Law Banning Sale Of Confederate Flags That Will Absolutely Get Nullified

    jilocasin ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2020 @ 09:55am

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    you have yet to point out when I have ever done that in this thread, though I have pointed out numerous cases where the same has been done to me.

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