I went to high school with Rob. Dude’s been an attention grabbing skeeze for a while.

I’m not sure rights enter into it. Fact of the matter is nowadays they didn’t sell you a self-contained machine, they sold you a machine for accessing their network. The logical extension of that is they can cut that off. Flail against it all you want, but it’s the reality of the situation.

Depending on the situation, you COULD go to jail.

Awesome. You know what other phase change storage medium exists? ICE.

Just to cut this stupid shitshow of a non point short, you DO recognize it is the private sector company he is taking legal action against for possibly selling weapons to Pakistan, right?

Man, this would keep deer, kids, pets, humans, bigfoot, and an army out of my garden. Where can I get seeds or root pieces?

Yeah man, I guess they really need to pass some sort of regulation that bars anti competitive practices so that competition can be feasible, huh? Maybe even roll back state bans on municipal internet, or something, since they seem to be trying to compete.

"So by limiting the ability to QoS those cable companies are goign to either put more pay per use plans into place or charge more for "Unlimited" It is really their only choice short of making less profit, and we know they won't do that."


Just because a company is going to try to gouge out customers for blocking them…

You have entered into the realm of giving control over what is deemed important on critical infrastructure to a company, however. If they decide that, despite me and the provider paying for access, some other person's gets priority over mine, what recourse is there? Especially if said service is the lifeblood of a…

You don't get to keep throw out the "mostly used" and "probably" as justification for messing with people's paid services.



....and man, are you humping that chicken on all net neutrality proponents being a bunch of digital freeloaders.


Sorry, running a government sanctioned quasimonopoly, using infrastructure paid for…

It's not about "free stuff". It's about the content of the data coming through the connection I pay for being none of the ISP's goddamn business. I pay them to ship the box, they don't get to monkey with it depending on what's inside.

I love this place.

It's like he combined every technology buzzword willy nilly to a cool jet he sketched and then rendered it.

Because they got control of the youth, gaining control of the future?

Yeah, that doesn't really work anymore. By doing that you either destroy your country through economic isolation, or you put the entire world at war with you.


Just like I'm sure you wouldn't approve of a police department SOP where a cop could shoot anyone he wanted for any reason, at any time, as long as he made it…

Then there are tree shredders.

This, to death. You are almost guaranteed to have interacted with several rapists, abusers, and maybe a murderer TODAY. Trying to turn them into aberrations is just trying to comfort your self. Being a shitbag is not a mental illness, nor uncommon. A lot of regular tier shitbags just aren't rapists or murderers or…

That's Graviton, not Sandman.