Also, aren't low gas prices currently mostly a result of Saudi oil being held cheap to attempt to strangle the progress of fracking and keep the West dependant on Middle Eastern oil (and incidentally damage some of their other political enemies in the process who also rely on oil revenue and don't have as deep a strategic cash reserve)?
Even UK fuel prices have come down, which basically never happens (and is unlikely to have anything to do with US drilling)...
The government is taking over the internet and Obama is preparing an executive order to make certain forms of ammo illegal. Quick! Find something to praise him for!
I just had to comment about how much I love LiveJournal. Why? -Because I go on Tumblr and Facebook, which are endless fonts of retardedness, and see forty posts about people debating the color of a dress. Do you know which of my LiveJournal friends were talking about it? FUCKING NOBODY because people here like to talk about important stuff, like what's going on in our country. :-P
I didn't even check FB until late last night and missed DressGate or whatever the hell. Talk about short memories. Do you think this will make the 2015 Year-in-Review special on CNN? (Probably.)
I was on Demand Progress's mailing list for a while. Despite the commie-sounding name, they are (or were) a free-speech activist group mostly dealing with online privacy and the like.
But they have been beating the drum ever so hard for net neutrality. Because of course giving unaccountable federal government bureaucrats total power to regulate the internet couldn't possibly go wrong, or result in censorship.
This is one of the problems: "net neutrality" needs to be precisely defined before a thinking person can decide to support or oppose it.
Do I support all content, all other things being equal, being treated equally by ISPs? Yes, of course. But don't they do that now? I was unaware there was a problem.
Do I support all tiers of ISP service, all speeds or bandwidths, being the same price? No, I do not. Servers, switches, cables, these things cost money. Rent control just guarantees poor service.
Do I support the FCC being able to regulate prices? No -- another non-problem that the free market can solve if and when it arises.
Do I support the FCC being able to censor content? HELL NO.
But we don't even know yet what regulations exactly the FCC adopted. We have to pass the bill before we can know what's in it.
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Also, aren't low gas prices currently mostly a result of Saudi oil being held cheap to attempt to strangle the progress of fracking and keep the West dependant on Middle Eastern oil (and incidentally damage some of their other political enemies in the process who also rely on oil revenue and don't have as deep a strategic cash reserve)?
Even UK fuel prices have come down, which basically never happens (and is unlikely to have anything to do with US drilling)...
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I didn't even check FB until late last night and missed DressGate or whatever the hell. Talk about short memories. Do you think this will make the 2015 Year-in-Review special on CNN? (Probably.)
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But they have been beating the drum ever so hard for net neutrality. Because of course giving unaccountable federal government bureaucrats total power to regulate the internet couldn't possibly go wrong, or result in censorship.
I am not on their mailing list any more.
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Do I support all content, all other things being equal, being treated equally by ISPs? Yes, of course. But don't they do that now? I was unaware there was a problem.
Do I support all tiers of ISP service, all speeds or bandwidths, being the same price? No, I do not. Servers, switches, cables, these things cost money. Rent control just guarantees poor service.
Do I support the FCC being able to regulate prices? No -- another non-problem that the free market can solve if and when it arises.
Do I support the FCC being able to censor content? HELL NO.
But we don't even know yet what regulations exactly the FCC adopted. We have to pass the bill before we can know what's in it.
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