My brother and I used to start our mornings watching that scene. Just to set the right tone about how awesome we were going to be today working at one of the very first ISPs in texas.

because people didn’t know what ‘internet’ was, every interaction was a sales job. and the survival of our company meant EVERYONE was in…

Ok. Just so we are clear here... Facebook didn’t make the ads. Facebook is just the distributor. If someone makes a generic ad “Buy a House through me”, and only wants to spend their ad dollars to target a certain area (say, 10 miles from their home), are we saying that constitutes a violation of the fair housing act?

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I agree with that. it’s well reasoned, and highlights the reality that Title II is the wrong framework for internet. 

Dell, thanks for digging this up.

I’ll point out that this is the proper way to build a national policy on how to protect Internet users. Someone has to start the process, and that someone needs to be congress. One of the several hundred problems with the recently repealed FCC regs is that they tried to use a loophole…

Please read the actual regulation... there are several hundred pages. Once you are about halfway through them, you will notice the pattern of large print stating ‘it’s bad for this practice to be allowed’, followed by a page or 2 of small print expressly allowing said practice, you will understand what I mean about it…

Does anyone know what the FCC is supposed to do? They aren’t supposed to create new regulations out of thin air based on polls, for one. Nor are they supposed to create regulations favoring only half of the industries that make money off online infrastructure. They are SUPPOSED to ensure that the properly created…

I’ll point out this: the mazdaspeed in 2004/2005 was a big jump in power over the ‘regular’ car. and it didn’t sell.

Too much power for such a small car was a common complaint, and it was advertised to put out ~178HP...

Granted, less rev range (a lot less) and turbo goodness meant it was easy to wring another ~20HP out…

found a lot of ‘Paul Flores’ with the same ‘form letter’ comment (the kind of thing websites will say ‘click here to write to the FCC to express your support/dissent).

Oddly enough, I didn’t find the actual comment I submitted.

1) the 2015 regulations don’t prevent them from doing it. I know, I know, that’s what you _believe_ it says. read the whole thing. In the fine print, there are plenty of nice loopholes that essentially say ‘file a rate plan for your tiered service’, which expressly allows your ISP to create fast and slow lanes,…

That’s because you don’t understand how networking infrastructure is built nor how peering works. Allow me to esplain...

There are fundamentally two types of business relationships when it comes to connecting different entities together online:
1) Transit - pay a fee for best effort attempt to deliver packets anywhere…

or we are looking at folks who run funeral homes trying to cash in... either way... this doesn’t feel written properly, regardless of your personal stance on the issue at hand.

it’s also possible to replace the antenni with directional ones, mounted somewhere else (say, you put it outside the house, at the end of a small cable), instead of buying an additional repeater to extend your range.

it just confirms what I believe these releases are actually trying to ‘out’ about the entire industry. It’s mainly a confidence game designed to scam people out of money.

drawing a pistol and having your hand jerked when the car your leaning on takes off could be construed as an accidental discharge. It will be interesting to see how the case proceeds.

I’m amazed how quickly he got his gun up. I’m more surprised he went for his gun at all. If someone is going to run from you like that, you have a much better chance of not getting hurt by stepping back from the vehicle, and calling it in.

On the other hand, watching him pat himself all over, stick his hands in the…

Reminds me of this...

“If your in a mob you don’t resolve the situation by antagonizing authority”...

Cop reacts badly to dozens of teenagers refusing to obey him for 20 minutes while he tries to get the situation sorted out and back under control. Can you give an example of ‘restraint’ please? Apparently asking, telling, then threatening…

interesting nit pick. So if someone says “I Believe God commanded me not to lie”, thats ok, but if they say “I Believe in a God who commanded me not to lie”, that’s completely not ok?

Why not just observe that any BELIEF has to be grounded in faith, regardless of how factual, accurate or realistic that belief happens…

Whats stopping you? I feel I can complain. I did my part. I helped start an ISP. ran it for many years, then moved up to the carrier world for a few years. I competed. I did, in fact, try to run a good, fair and profitable business based on good performance, and good customer service. What happened? Reality happened.…

I have 4TB of photos... (looks at fine print...)