I am constantly amazed by the human spirit! <3

Thank you for this history lesson! I had no idea. I am a lapsed Catholic Slovak, but I approve of this message!

Best stigmata EVER!

Love your name! Ah, the memories of poorly encoded Nazi shouts.

I was a high school Apple ][ “hacker”. Called myself “Whizzz Kiddd”. Real original handle, LOL. Cracked Moon Patrol Buggy, which wasn’t able to be copied with Copy ][ Plus and Locksmith, and became the hero of the nerd club. When Strip Poker came to our nerd club, I just found the binary images on there and loaded…

My friend thinks we’re getting close to the “rioting in the street, every person for themselves” phase. I see some bad writing on the wall myself. As a former social work student, I try to look for solutions, but we are becoming absorbed more and more into machines that are dulling our brains. It feels kind of bleak!…

Thanks for the compassion for the heat! It’s headed for 79 right now, so it could be worse. I am extremely frustrated by this country’s “liberals” at the moment. And I agree with the lazy thinking part. I have studied philosophy, analysis, social work, public policy, etc. So many people just have opinions.

Thank you for making your position so clear. It does sound like we could have a reasonable discussion and reasonable disagreements. I don’t generally believe that more government is the answer to human problems. I do believe that there needs to be proper oversight of people, corporations AND government. Bureaucracy…

For starters, in regards to the car / internet analogy, a few things: cars are objects, the internet is a service. Also, Silicon Valley has not subsumed the transportation market.

I will admit that at least you brought some better language to this cat fight this time. I appreciate it. My argument is not wrong on it’s face. When you collect social security, you’ll understand, or are you already independently wealthy through your superior skills?

Fuck Bernie. He’s a chump. Your language sounds like, “la la la.” C’mon, man. Proper analysis is not socialism. And by the way, rich people love to take “the spoils” of socialism. It’s how they work out their tax avoidance schemes. I ain’t never been a socialist. Y’all can suck on your labels.

Here, dude. I’ll help you out. Get off your high horse and learn a little. Yeah, I studied Social Work. It didn’t make me a Marxist. His theory of alienation is pretty spot on, but I’m more like a mixed theory practical kind of person who doesn’t like to see people fucked by arrogance and greed.

Also, when the US gets overtaken by countries that actually do pay attention to universal internet access, I hope your job gets sent overseas. Obviously, you can’t accept unemployment, because that’s Marxist.

You are a stupid fucking troll. I already made my point, asshole. You saying “nah nah nah” with some pre-high school troll language ain’t going to make you right. I’m not saying people have the “rights” to all things. That’s actually more the right wing argument. “The right to not be taxed,” “The right to not have to…

The internet is no longer a toy or a luxury. The organization of our economic life around the access to on-line resources creates a disruptive crisis to people who are unable to reach these critical resources. Silicon Valley has made it so, and the $30+ billion dollars that are sitting overseas in tech bank accounts…

These problems are not trival or a joke, but get on with your bad self, bro. Enjoy your economic freedom at the expense of real human rights problems.

Well, since Silicon Valley has decided that all of our services need to be mediated through their system of tubes, anyone that abstains from it loses access to jobs, participation in the NEW economy, and a thousand other cuts that create a deprived condition in the actual real world of the new society. Like, duh!

Bing! We have a winner!

Exactly. The economic exclusion of the internet to people in the US who are unable to pay (what now, like $70 a month?!) will continue. And no-one will give a shit, just like before this ruling.

No No! I was actually agreeing with you! The victims’ stories are an important part of humanizing these crises! Thank you for saying that. Sorry it didn’t come across as expressing enthusiastic agreement. Tone gets lost on the internet unfortunately!