Probably not gonna happen. Doesn’t change the competitive landscape one bit. Competition is still ATT/DirecTv and Dish and to a lesser extent, FIOS. TWC and Charter never competed against each other so the market remains static for intents and purposes.

Hate to be pedantic but there is no such thing as a “high jump pole”. As an ex pole vaulter, that appears to me to be a high jump crossbar which of course is the fiberglass bar that is placed on standards set at a certain height in the track and field event of the high jump. Athletes attempt to clear the crossbar…

What is he going to assemble some special AK that can be broken down for concealed carried? Seriously, one guy with a handgun against several guys with semi or fully automatic AK’s such as the Paris attacks? I will give you one guess who is getting taken out in that scenario. Unless your sidearm toting SuperBro is…

I bet you’re a blast at parties!

Woah! Don’t go off the deep end there! I am sure that they are all treading water to see how this flushes out but there is no reason to jump the gun! And something about Mark Spitz...cuz that’s all I got!

Agreed and I would add, with a reasonable amount of objectivity as a (former and always) student of sociology, that the landscape has changed towards the positive as a whole. Of course, this is arguable, however stories like yours and others help to open people’s eyes as to what is going on behind the scenes so to…

Isn’t that free all you can drink beer night if you are wearing a state attached GPS monitoring device? If so, I am in!

I am not a lawyer but I think you nailed it. I am very familiar with the doctrine of assumed risk here in California. It was a huge relief to the cities, counties and the state overall when it finally became the standard that made it virtually impossible to prevail for individuals that are engaged in known high risk…

Um, no.

Ha! What is interesting to me is that my reply was to TamTams who is a WOC (woman of color). Did I get that identifier right, Jezzies? Well, at any rate she is a black woman, her words just so I don’t get kicked in the nuts for saying that too, and she gets called out for using the word “bitch.”

That spins my head a…

The larger point also being she still has the kid. That’s the most fucked up thing about this whole story imo.

And you shouldn’t. Bitch these days is gender neutral, in my opinion. Means the same thing as asshole to many including me, and other things to others depending on how it is used. In the context you used it, my interpretation is that she is whiny petulant asshole. Or a female dog in heat...

How fucking tight do we have…

First of all, you're a fucking tool. But, you did get some things right.

You're exactly right! See my rambling reply to Adam where I quoted you near the end. Good stuff man!

Hi Adam, great article however as a budding cable and broadband industry analyst, I have to disagree with you on the following statements:

Being that you and I are in the same biz, albeit I am in the CATV end of things, I agree with most of your points. However, I would say that you are off-base on this statement:

It is purely economics. Municipal fiber is fought and tooth and nail for that very reason. Overbuilding existing cable infrastructure with anything, FIOS, Fiber to the premise etc is enormously expensive with a negative ROI because you are totally gambling on how many customers you can grab from the incumbent and the…

Exactly. CATV was built with private money. They have a natural monopoly with barriers to entry so high they would make any investor have a nervous breakdown if he tossed any amount of money into a one to one start-up competitor.

Great tip and one I had thought on just a couple of days ago. We have a nursing mother room at our work too, but mother's, nursing or not, don't ever bring their babies to work. I guess they could use the room to pump their milk via breast pump but that is pretty doubtful someone would be doing that at work. I'm gonna…

Bingo! Fact, ISP's make money hand over fist on the crappy service they provide. And by crappy I mean compared to the rest of the modern world in all the three primary metrics: price, speed and availability. We suck at the internet last mile, period.