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Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Amen. From Kennard to Martin, those FCC Chairmen who consistently backpedaled from Reed Hunt's "all open" approach to competition must be happy with the paybacks from their duopolist friends.
The rest of us are just disappointed at how easily the incumbent telco and cable players used the FCC to gut competition.
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| I look forward to the followers of Ayn Rand and their usual responses, repleat with oft-repeated phrases about how deregulation will bring our prices down, market forces will come to bear, and invisible hands will stroke us all.
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said by calvoiper:The rest of us are just disappointed at how easily the incumbent telco and cable players used the FCC to gut competition. What does anyone expect from unfettered capitalism? And this is a situation that's not likely to change in a nation of coprophagous consumer-bots with double-digit IQs .
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calvoiper
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Belvedere Tiburon, CA | So others don't have to look it up like I did.... "Coprophagous" means "dung eating."
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Re: oops said by TScheisskopf:...them the deed to a certain bridge in Brooklyn. Sir, I want to buy your bridge... 
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did.... said by calvoiper:"Coprophagous" means "dung eating." calvoiper And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating.
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nevermind nevermind |
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Re: oops Looks like "karlmarx" just got a new ID. |
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calvoiper
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did.... I suffered through a high school "cursory exposure to Latin," but my school was so repressed that the word for "dung" would never have been discussed.
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Re: oops actually, no. But he's right on the money. Techically, about 50% of the population has a double digit IQ (how else could you explain republicans, the religious right, and creationists.
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Bethel, CT | reply to Titus Pullo
Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did.... said by Titus Pullo:And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less!
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Re: oops Actually an IQ number is an abstract concept where 100 was set to be the average. So EXACTLY 50% of the population SHOULD have double digit IQ's, otherwise 100 needs to be adjusted so that is true. |
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did.... said by ctgreybeard:said by Titus Pullo:And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less! Wow, I had no idea the word would generate such, uh, interest -
It's all Greek to me! It stuck in my mind from studying Latin roots.
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Re: oops said by karlmarx:actually, no. But he's right on the money. Techically, about 50% of the population has a double digit IQ (how else could you explain republicans, the religious right, and creationists. Whereas single digit IQs must explain Democrats.
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Actually, no.
•Some people have an IQ of exactly 100. Take this hypothetical group of IQs of 10 people:
two: 110
six: 100
two: 90
This group has a mean IQ of 100, but only 2/10 people have a two-digit IQ.
•Variation may not be consistent in both directions. Take this hypothetical group of IQs of 10 people:
three: 110
six: 100
one: 70
This group has a mean IQ of 100, but three are above, six are exactly 100, and only one is below the mean(and only that one has a two-digit IQ).
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Booya! LOL |
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Birmingham, AL | reply to karlmarx
Or... on the other hand, how else could you explain Political Correctness, Defeatism, Self-Hatred, Group Think, The Elitist Thought Police, The ACLU or Marxist-lite Millionaires who know what's best for all and feel the pain of the oppressed? ... (just as long as they don't have to live next to them). |
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said by dentman42:Whereas single digit IQs must explain Democrats. And dectuple deficits come from Republicans, along with quintuple deaths in Iraq.
The power of numbers.... |
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