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Big Government : Why Don’t Wholesalers CARE About Four Loko?

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:10:09 +0000

why are we even discussing this....that evil 12% is the same as a bottle of wine. so if you do away with this stuff.....you just go get some cheap wine. Who cares how anyone gets it. The under age folks get it the same way we got it 40 years ago....we got the "big kids" to buy it for us. Move on....nothing to see here.

Big Government : Google: We Want Net Neutrality to Redistribute Your Wealth to Us

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:17:26 +0000

This article is complete BS...NN does not make you pay for someone elses bandwidth. NN is solely to stop the ISP from making them pay in addition to their already paying for bandwidth. Users already pay more for more bandwidth. The big ISP. want to then make them pay more to PRIORITIZE their data. The want to go to Google or whomever and say...if you pay more we will PUT YOUR DATA IN FRONT OF ALL OTHERS that have already paid. Is that what we want....would you like it if Ford owned the road to your house and they let Ford cars go first....and you had to wait if you ha a Chevy. This is what NN does...it STOPS them from letting someone elses data go AHEAD OF YOURS. If you use more bandwidth, you pay more...just as always. Its this Prioritization NN is set to stop. All data will move about the net with equal access to all . Has NOTHING to do with how MUCH bandwidth you use..... And this whole bogus idea of it being "regulation" was put in the mind by both ATT and Verizon lobbyist because the knew that the technical illiterates Republicans in congress would jump on that evil word "regulation" and run with it. A letter was leaked to tech sites from the ATT and Verizon lobby stating what was going on with the word "regulation" They needed a word that would be red meat to the Repubs.

CableTechTalk : The First Amendment & the Cable Industry: Net Neutrality and the First Amendment

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:13:47 +0000

You are missing the point....Net Neutrality does not go far enough. We want the cableco and telcos to be forced to completely disgorge ownership of all wires, cables and sell to a single Utility company whose sole purpose will be to manage, maintain, upgrade systems. They will not be allowed to offer content....only access to ANYONE at simple , same rate. We want 15-20 different ISP options in each city. Not ONE cableco or ONE Telco. The wholesale rate will be the same nationwide and anyone can offer us CONTENT. Even the networks could be an ISP....CBS could sell us stuff directy by buying access on the UTILITY and we could purchase ANY content from ANY place in the country. If I want to run an ISP out of my bedroom with a server....so be it. I could buy bandwidth the same as anyone else and offer service to my neighborhood if necessary.

Big Government : The ACLU Is Wrong: Net Neutrality Is About Government Control of Internet Content

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:00:30 +0000

You are right this time...I support NN, but, this is NOT NN. This is just a pissing match between an access provider and content provider.....which is NOTHING to do with NN. NN is about Prioritization of ACCESS only. They may be trying to portray it as NN to get someone to move on the issue, but it is NOT a NN issue as noted. NN is about someones bits being put in front of others bits. Just as if Ford owned the highway and all others had to follow Fords down the road. They would put whoever paid more in front of your bits. I don't mean faster downloads...I can buy any SPEED I want to download...At my home I can now choose 1mb, 3mb, 6mb, 9mb, 15 mb etc. But again NN is not about download speed. Its about ATT or Verizon of Sprint offering whomever wants to pay the most will be put in line if front of everyone else as the bits move down the pipe. Just like if Ford owned the highway...would you be happy if they allowed Fords to move in front of you at every stop light or turn. I don't want my data request to be put in line behind Googles, once on the pipe all have the same priority and obey the rules of the net. You can still buy as much speed as you want at your home...but once out on the big data pipe they should all move in order. Otherwise you are going to end up with an even bigger version of the cable TV. Ask the new Google TV. Last week all 3 networks, ABC, CBS, NBC etc blocked Google TV from accessing their online shows that are available to all....supposedly...heh. So it will be blocked if allowed.

Big Peace : NPR's Sins Go Beyond Firing Juan Williams

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:10:51 +0000

NPR doesnt get very much money from the gov. The CPB gets all the money and then doles it out. They get their big money from SESAME STREET to the tune of over 1 BILLION dollars. They need to force them to spin off Sesame Street to a commercial entity. That would dry up their ongoing monies. Then let Soros fund it if he wants to.

Breitbart.tv : Dem State Senator: My Redneck Constituents Don't Want Free Health Care for Illegals

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:36:03 +0000

Why is that....Birthers ARE dumbasses. Along with Truthers. Same...yada yada.

Big Government : With the Internet on the Brink of an FCC Takeover, Waxman Proposal Deserves Consideration

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:56:14 +0000

It has nothing to do with the speed you can buy at your home. Its what the ATT and Verizon and Quest want ot charge the Google and Yahoo and Hulu etc to put their bits in line FIRST. They want to PRIORITIZE different bits. Right now all bits travel with the same priority. The ATT etc want to go to the Googles and or Bing etc and say...if you pay me more Ill put YOUR bits in FRONT of and hold up the other guys service. The stuff they are talking about is on the big heavy duty back-end pipes. You can buy whatever speed you want at your home. Just as you can buy any car you can afford. But then, what if all the Lexus drivers get to go to the head of the line at all stop lights while your Chevy has to wait till the Lexus all move on. You bought the car you can afford and they bought the car they could afford. But the rules of the road should all be the same....not two sets of traffic laws - one for Lexus and a set of laws for Chevy.

Big Government : With the Internet on the Brink of an FCC Takeover, Waxman Proposal Deserves Consideration

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:49:14 +0000

How is keeping the net open and at the same speed for all.....messing with your free speech. You can say anything you want at any speed. Without neutrality you can say anything...but it may be slow unless YOU PAY UP.

Big Government : With the Internet on the Brink of an FCC Takeover, Waxman Proposal Deserves Consideration

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:21:24 +0000

Sorry guys, a bit of disagreement here. How is keeping the net open to all at the same equal footing being "regulated"? If we do not have neutral access and data management this is what we will end up with. See what they are doing already in the UK. ISP in UK are already being paid to put one group AHEAD of others....so your data will WAIT until the other guys stuff goes in front of your data - says: "The UK's two biggest ISPs have openly admitted they'd give priority to certain internet apps or services if companies paid them to do so. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on net neutrality, senior executives from BT and TalkTalk said they would be happy to put selected apps into the fast lane, at the expense of their rivals." Asked specifically if TalkTalk would afford more bandwidth to YouTube than the BBC's iPlayer if Google was prepared to pay, the company's executive director of strategy and regulation, Andrew Heaney, argued it would be "perfectly normal business practice to discriminate between them". "We would do a deal and look at YouTube and look at the BBC, and decide," he added. When asked the same question, BT's director of group industry policy, Simon Milner, replied: "We absolutely could see a situation when content or app providers may want to pay BT for quality of service above best efforts," Read more: TalkTalk, BT: we'd put iPlayer in the slow lane | Broadband | News | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361501/talk... If net neutral is put in place...your stuff will travel as it is put in...not held up until those who pay go head of you. Would you like for the guy with the Lexus be allowed to go through the stop lights and you in your Chevy has to wait because your car is cheap. See article here: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361501/talk...

Big Government : Has Free Press Lost Its Mind?

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:58:49 +0000

I hazard a guess that most do not even understand what NET NEUTRALITY is about.....it has not one whit to do with SPEED...or ACCESS. It has to do with PRIORITY of packets passing through the net. At my home I can buy whatever speed I want to pay for. 3mb, 5 mb, 9mb, 12 mb or 20 mb. NEUTRALITY has NOTHING to do with such. And is has nada to do with CONTENT. I can watch all the pron I want. It has to do with the ATT and Verizons of the world wanting to charge the Googles, Bings, Yahoos et al MORE to give their bits a higher PRIORITY when traveling the pipes. Sort of like the city letting you pay to go through Red Lights ahead of everyone else while they are red for other folks. Or for the city to stop other traffic so you can move in front of other cars if you pay up. You get a HIGHER PRIORITY for your bits. The ATT etc wants to ask Google or Bing which one will pay more to put the highest PRIORITY on their bits. Then when YOU search your results may lag because your favorite search engine DID NOT PAY UP to ATT to put their bits in front. Currently they all pass through the net in a NEUTRAL position all go or stop according to traffic...not according to who pays up to move to the front ahead of others. It has NEVER been about speed etc. or volume such as so many gigs per month etc. If they do NOT have a neutral position the biggies are looking to move to special channels of traffic etc. You will end up with essentially a glorified cable network again. There will be a HULU channel, Pandora channel, Search channel and you will start paying for everyone of them just as you do with the cableco. You better hope for the neutrality and understand what it is about. They should turn the cables into a utility and allow anyone to buy space to become an ISP. Perhaps the new white space channels where the old analog TV station used to be will finally break up this mess. They are going to turn those frequencies loose to become 60 mile WiFi or WiMax towers. We should eventually have WiFi everywhere.

Big Journalism : Open Thread: Is the Dems' New Logo Right on Target?

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:33:34 +0000

We have come up with a new name for them and their LOGO..... They are now to be termed "D-Baggers" of as a D-Bag.

Big Journalism : Righthaven Lawsuits: A Chilling Effect on the Blogosphere?

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:57:07 +0000

Start contacting their advertisers and tell them you are going to block access to their adverts and alert the entire web not to purchase their products.

Big Journalism : Re: 'Net Neutrality' -- Let the Free Market Reign

Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:38:37 +0000

NO, NO , NO it has nothing to do with speed or the volume you use....It is about them being able to set a higher priority on some bits over other bits. They want to charge the Googles billions to put their info ahead of others if Google pays. The speed is the same through the big back end haul pipes. Whoever pays will have a certain level of priority to get through the gateways first or last.

Big Journalism : Re: 'Net Neutrality' -- Let the Free Market Reign

Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:31:50 +0000

Its not for us lowly homebody types. I just used email as an example of something we are familiar with. The Verizons of the world want to be able to charge the Googles of the world BILLIONS extra to send their searches AHEAD of BING or Yahoo etc. They say if you pay us Billions we will prioritize your data to move to the head of the line. Everyone else will wait until you are done...then they will toss us a few crumbs to use.

Big Journalism : Re: 'Net Neutrality' -- Let the Free Market Reign

Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:27:45 +0000

You are right. They give yours a PRIORITY. It does NOT move FASTER. It move to the head of the line. My package is not put on a slower airplane, or a slower truck. Mine travels at the same speed as yours....but, your package is put up front and leaves on an earlier truck or plane. It does not travel faster through its pipes. It is handled differently at the junctions etc. That is what the priority bits are that would be assigned to net traffic that pays up. They would be handled differently. This is what they want to be able to charge CBS, or NBC or Hulu MORE to send their movies with higher priority than our lowly pictures of the kids etc. They essentially are in the process of turning the net into a nationwide cable tv company if they dont get NN to stop it. If its not OPEN then it will be controlled by the Mediaco's. Then you will pay big time.

Big Journalism : Re: 'Net Neutrality' -- Let the Free Market Reign

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:45:14 +0000

Nonsense, I can pay more for faster speed right now. Net neutrality was never about paying for FASTER speeds. I can pay for 1 mb service, 3 mb service 6 mb service, or 9 mb service which I have. Net Neutrality was about PRIORITIZATION of the bits as they travel around the net. This means they want ANOTHER payment and they will then put a Priority on some bits over other bits. Say I send an email...and you send an email. Say I PAY more to send my email AHEAD of yours as it goes through the net pipes. Verizon would put special bit notes on my email to allow it to get in line AHEAD of yours. Has nothing to do with the speed of the signal through the pipes. So UNLESS YOU PAY UP...you will always be a 2nd class clown. Your email will be in the lower caste and if there is a bottleneck you will be held up until all the other payola email has gone through.

Big Government : Labor Unions Don't Know How Good They Have It

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:32:13 +0000

Read the Snopes article it is NOT TRUE . They were celebrating an event from the 600's that just happened to be on 9/11 that year. Their calendar changes every year and it will be different next year. Read the whole thing. They have had the sign up for many years and has nada to do with 9/11 WTC. Stop reading Alex Jones nutcases. Move on

Big Government : Labor Unions Don't Know How Good They Have It

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:29:28 +0000

It is not true,,,,,read the Snopes. They were celebrating something that happened in the 600's that just happened to be on 9/11 that year...their calendar changes every year and the date moves. It had NOTHING to do with 9/11 WTC.

Digital Trends : 2011 Ford Edge pictures

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:03:40 +0000

To bad the Sport is SLOWER than the model under it. The SPORT is a porker and weighs 500 lbs MORE. Even the Mustang V6 wont help it. Its almost a second slower to 60.....its a 40,000 dollar pigger.

Big Government : Shirley Sherrod: 'They Made Me Quit Because I was Going to Be On Glenn Beck'

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:27:09 +0000

Sorry, we arent going to follow Andrew down this sh*t hole. He has edited the video much to his own detriment. He needs to own up and stop this crapgame. He has been called out on every channel so far today. Even Fox is backing off and asking some hard questions. If he wants to keep any kind of credibility....its looking like its to late now.