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Re: I tell ya!
said by Wild Goose  :Man, I didn't know they had time travel to the future way back in the 1960's! Um, if they have time travel anywhen it means they can go to whenever, pick up whomever and drop them whenever they like. I mean, that's the point of time travel, right?
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Thank you for that editorial Joseph McCarthy, now here's your Morphine, it'll kill the insanity. |
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kingdomware
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I guess all people in greenville FL are like this! Find a new home for this crap! Why don't you treat this like a sports forum and act civil! |
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Wild Goose
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Man, I didn't know they had time travel to the future way back in the 1960's! Welcome to the 21st century, where practically nobody really believes in communism anymore, except maybe the North Koreans and the Cubans (the Chinese may still profess it, but they are getting more capitalistic by the day, which is a totally separate issue from their human rights record).
What I think many of us WOULD like to see is large, soul-less corporations no longer allowed to run roughshod over the democratic process, because they can in effect buy laws favorable to their way of doing business. This has been a problem since back in the days of the railroad barons and oil monopolies (did those ever REALLY get broken up?) but after that we had strong antitrust legislation, that unfortunately has been considerably weakened in recent years.
I am sure that 15 or 20 years ago, it would have been unthinkable to even talk about a merger the size of AT&T and BellSouth, yet here we are with the FCC playing the role of lap dog to the very corporations they're supposed to be regulating. Something is very wrong in this nation when the largest corporations have the power to subvert the democratic process, by throwing money around that they know they can recover simply by raising rates to their customers. Business is a wonderful thing (especially smaller, efficiently-run businesses) but the larger a business gets, the less respect it seems to have for both its employees and its customers, particularly when it has the government's aid in warding off competition. |
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I notice that the communist pinko website moveon.org was happy this bill died. I am sure those pro-terrorist commie pinkos would love to see all franchises die and be replaced by government run (communist run) internet system where poor people and illegal aliens get free internet, and everyone else gets bent over having to pay for it.
Trust nothing Moveon.org believe in. They are communists, and the only good communist is a dead one! |
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said by homeshark :It's A Series Of Tubes! I thought it was all just "a bunch of mumbo jumbo"... net neutrality that is..
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Re: Is it over?
said by T1 Rocky :But is the net neutrality fight over? No, far from it. I am sure that "net neutrality" legislation will be introduced either as a standalone bill or as part of some larger telecom bill. And the chances in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to override filibusters make its' passage a crap shoot. It may all depend on how comprehensive it is; the final wording; on which industries like or dislike what is proposed. And don't forget that Bush can veto any law that the admin doesn't like and the chances of override in the Senate would be slim.
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But is the net neutrality fight over? |
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Chances are you won't hear the same people complain the Dems are doing it either.
Most funding usually goes to the winning party, this time it just happened to be GOP...
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said by T1 Rocky :Help me out here. So is the fight over? Is that the end of it? Are the ewoks dancing? I can't believe it hasn't gotten more attention if this is the final decision. I just looked at the yahoo telecom headlines and there is no mention of this. The fight about "national franchising" isn't over. It will return in the new Congress. And if people think that because Dems are now in control, that things will change, think again. The only difference will be that the telcos will now be funneling their campaign cash to the Democratic Committee Chairpersons instead of Republican Committee Chairpersons to introduce a new National Franchise law. Any who think otherwise are EXTREMELY naive.
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Help me out here. So is the fight over? Is that the end of it? Are the ewoks dancing?
I can't believe it hasn't gotten more attention if this is the final decision. I just looked at the yahoo telecom headlines and there is no mention of this. |
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Re: I tell ya!
YES. He was trying to send an internet, and it got delayed. It's not like a truck you know. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
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