I’d like to add human reproduction to that list.
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Some sort of Cyberpunk Neo-Feudalism, I think.
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It’s hard to grasp facts! It’s even harder when someone is paying you not to.
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Maybe I’m the ignorant one, but that title is misleading as all hell. He didn’t blame net neutrality for porn and bad healthcare, he said that someone might be clogging up the tubes with their illegal porn download when there are legitimate, even life-saving uses that might take higher priority. It’s still a crap argument, but Corey is blowing things out of proportion again.
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I’m sorry, many of us tried.
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This bullshit is interoperable. This guy has to go.
I think the bit you may be missing is that governments tend not be interested in technology that does not control or kill people, right up to the point when it becomes apparent that the new technology does have such applications. That’s when they start to misunderstand it, often for political reasons.
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The Republicans are very “loud and proud” about their ignorance on the relevant subjects, and seem the most willing to join - and head - committees dealing with science/tech issues that they clearly know less than nothing about. That seems new, at least.
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Is that the collective noun for Penthouses? I thought it was a “pile” or a “stack”, owing to the incendiary effect on the adolescents who come across them.
I have a feeling that what really upsets right wing politicians is that the Internet is enabling people to find out what we really are like as a species - rather than what we are told to think - and it turns out that what we are interested in is pretty much sex, food, drink and light entertainment. Aldous Huxley thought his Brave New World was a dystopia, when all the evidence is that for most people it would be paradise. Even for the awkward squad, who get to live on islands away from the masses with other interesting people.
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Cyberpunk always looked more fun to me in the 80s. Distopian, sure, but after Ronnie that looked appealing.
Always the wage slave, never the hacker.
On behalf of the people of Wisconsin, I must apologize for our idiot senator’s behavior and ignorance. While we do have many fine and intelligent people here in the cheese and sausage state, someone must represent the rest … for some reason that remains unclear to me. Many of us are really sorry, but hopefully we’ll get someone better next time.
At least we still have Senator Tammy Baldwin!
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While reading the book “Exploding the Phone” by Phil Lapsley, I stumbled upon a metaphor for Net Neutrality that folks even older than I am can grasp. Even a congresscritter might comprehend it. It’s the story of Almon Brown Strowger.
Here’s the salient bit, straight out of Wikipedia:
“Strowger, an undertaker, was motivated to invent an automatic telephone exchange after having difficulties with the local telephone operators, one of whom was the wife of a competitor. He was said to be convinced that she, as one of the manual telephone exchange operators, was sending calls ‘to the undertaker’ to her husband.”
I encourage people to use this story as it demonstrates a telecommunications system that is not neutral: It favors the undertaker husband and his telephone operator wife. By replacing the self-interested telephone operator with a machine, this network moved a step closer to neutrality. Now both undertakers may compete with each other on the merits of the service they offer, rather than on the basis of one of them having seized control of telecommunications.
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No, it’s democracy that’s destroyed our health. We must get rid of it.
I refer to them as a “seraglio” of Penthouses.
I think that’s the path of least resistance. The responsible and interesting path is to decide what we are like as a species. Or, perhaps more likely, as several divergent species.
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Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for helping to heap high the mountain of evidence showing that you can be a complete moron and still become a senator.
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They’ve been doing that for awhile with their pubic areas. The ‘badge’ of their cabal. All on the hush, hush, you know.
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Slowing you down for the benefit of corporations—that’s the GOP in a nutshell.
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“…for example a company that is going to invest billions of dollars in the pipeline…”
You mean a company who is going to pass on the cost of every single one of those billions of dollars (and more) to their customers while reducing their service level?
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