“It has become evident that the FCC made a mistake,” Pai said at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to a copy of his prepared remarks provided to CNNTech. “Our new approach injected tremendous uncertainty into the broadband market. And uncertainty is the enemy of growth.”
Reality!
Thank God we have someone that understands market realities and how consumer choice is better facilitated when agencies get out of the way and let firms compete.
According to CNN:
The net neutrality rules, approved by the FCC in 2015 amid an outpouring of online support, let the agency regulate the Internet as a public utility, placing greater restrictions on broadband providers.
The rules prevent Internet providers like Comcast (CCV) and AT&T (T, Tech30) from deliberately speeding up or slowing down traffic from specific websites and apps. In short, the rules are intended to prevent providers from playing favorites.
Bullshit!
Except there was no “outpouring of online support when people understood the issue and the uncertainties it placed on ISPs. It existed based solely on how the question was asked and what pony the respondent thought he/she’d get by supporting it. What it did, however, do was to stifle innovation, expansion, competition and relationship-building within the industry’s varying sectors that would reduce costs. It was going to retard progress that had been made, it would have imposed content restrictions and requirements and it would have increased costs for everybody downstream of the regulators.
Mark another one down in “garbage that the current admin has started the process of fixing in a way libertarians should be satisfied with”. I know it pains some people, but its the truth.
Come on, man. You’re the president, not a child. Anything past medium is an affront to God
The week is off to a rousing start. Well, it’s off to a start anyway. Our very own Brett L’s kids kept him up most of the night, puking their guts up. One of my kids dumped a kid’s potty full of piss on our bedroom floor. And Trump ordered a steak like a dick. Also, some other things happened:
John Lewis is playing coy on whether or not he will attend President Trump’s first Capitol Hill speech. Or he’s just keeping his name in the limelight. You decide.
Police find time to participate in an elaborate wedding proposal. Because nothing says “I love you” quite like using taxpayer money to have your girlfriend thrown in the back of a police cruiser with handcuffs on and terrify her.
These men will not be participating in the next women’s march. Because the planner helped to kill them in a terrorist attack.
“It’s the perfect love story for us,” Schrupp said. “Our whole family is in law enforcement. I wouldn’t expect anything less.” – paging Barfman.
The next women’s march is in the planning stage. This one is gonna be more along the lines of a general strike though. Oh, and don’t make the planner angry. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry
Bucknell University goes full retard. I don’t know what else to say that would be clever enough to capture the stupidity. Click the link. You’ll see.
That’s it. That’s all you get. Half of you are gonna ignore them anyway and I could have linked to nearly two and a half hours of the best Porky Pig cartoons of all time without anybody caring. But we love you anyway and hope you enjoy yourselves in the comments.
What a day. And its just the first day of the work week for most of us. But rather than bore you with the details of my day, let’s get right down to it, shall we?
Libertarian squirrel? Or the most libertarian squirrel?
Squirrels get hunted during squirrel season and sometimes to raise funds for charity. Some people don’t like that and want it stopped. (Since when aren’t squirrels considered nuisance animals that can be shot at will?)
Agatha Christie meet Mr Roboto. Or something. I didn’t read the piece but was told it was really interesting. Hell, for all I know its cold fusion all over again.
Off to another beautiful week here in America. And also in America, Jr, which according to Alexa, is where 2/3 of our viewership is coming from. Thanks, all you poutine-munchers and VPN users.
Anyway, without further ado, here we go…
Oops. Um, I hate to say it, but can you leave?
Some awards show happened last night. And it didn’t go well for Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. An envelope mixup led to them announcing the wrong winner for Best Picture. A mixup that wasn’t realized until the wrong cast had assembled onstage. Also, before that, there was a loooooooooot of social signaling. Fortunately for me, I missed the circus.
Dionne, after leaving his Washington Post office for the day.
E.J. Dionne has gone completely off the rails. And I don’t mean a little bit, I mean Casey Jones-style. Without the cocaine. Probably. Maybe. Who knows, its hard to tell anymore how much of his insanity is a drug-fueled fever dream and how much is innate paranoia. Only time will tell.
Beggs, who reached the state tournament after two opponents forfeited, was dogged throughout the tournament by questions about whether his testosterone treatments made him too strong to wrestle fairly against girls.
The University Interscholastic League, which oversees athletics in Texas public schools, enacted the birth certificate policy Aug. 1, 2016. And while Beggs’ family has said he wanted to compete against boys, UIL deputy director Jamey Harrison, who refused to address Beggs directly, said the UIL had not received a request to change divisions from any athlete at this competition.
Girls Wrestling Champion
In a twist of irony, The above story was reported on the ESPN W outlet rather than the main site. ESPN W, which ostensibly caters to women, does not have commenting in its articles. ESPN’s main site permits it. To my recollection, it’s the first article about an athlete referred to as male throughout to appear on the “W” site. I’m sure its a coincidence
Meanwhile, the Washington Post article had commenting on and the responses largely derided Beggs being able to compete against athletes who are banned from taking the same performance-enhancing drugs Beggs is mega-dosing on in order to deliberately change body structure.
USAToday had the comments turned off for their story, which said there were “a smattering of boos” amid mostly cheers. Which is a departure from the WaPo pice which hilariously led with the words “booed and bloody”. Now perhaps Kent Babb had some insight into Beggs’s monthlies (if he’s still having them while taking mega-dowses of male hormones, I don’t know) that gives him license to use “bloody” in a description of someone that looks like they barely broke a sweat while competing against a series of opponents that are physically inferior to him in every way. Perhaps his editor added it in for color. And perhaps Babb is just full of it. Either way, no blood was visible and there were more cheers than boos.
But WaPo and other outlets have gotta fight for Team Trans rather than report honestly. After all, if just the fact were reported here: “a person taking doses of steroids that nobody else in a competition designed for females is able to take under the rules, wins the competition without breaking much of a sweat”, I’d imagine the reactions would be quite consistent.
Of course, the self-proclaimed “worldwide leader in sports” doesn’t want your reaction to be heard anyway.
The Chicago Independent Police Review Authority has been around since 2007. In that time, the city has paid out an estimated $500 million in excessive force claims.And in that time not a single police officer has been recommended for termination. Until now.
In an 8-0 vote, the Chicago Police Board voted at its monthly meeting to dismiss Officer Francisco “Frank” Perez for the 2011 shooting outside a Mexican restaurant in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood. One board member, John O’Malley, did not vote because he’s new to the board.
About freaking time!
Yeah, I’m not surprised he’s wearing glasses either
The incident in question occurred in 2011 and involved the officer firing into a vehicle 16 times. The vehicle he fired into, a blue Chrysler 300, was allegedly mistaken by the officer for a red Mitsubishi Galant. His defense was that he could not distinguish between the two vehicles Fortunately video evidence disproved his claims that he thought he was firing at the red Mitsubishi.
Meanwhile, his attorney Daniel Herbert, described his client as a hero and dismissed the allegations against him as preposterous.
He was not terminated for lying to investigators and has the right to appeal his termination. In all likelihood, and based on the length of the investigation, his appeal will take long enough to earn him a taxpayer-funded retirement.
Robstown P.D. officer Michael Morin was arrest on November 6th after he was found slumped over his steering wheel on the road near the Staples and Everhart intersection. On Wednesday, we learned Morin has worked out a deal with the prosecutor’s office and he is taking part in a pre-trial diversion program. If he complies with that program, Morin will have the charge removed from his record.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey will not comply with a congressional subpoena. She is being asked to answer questions about her fraud investigation (read: extortion scheme) into oil companies hiding data on global warming climate change but said the federal government has no jurisdiction over her. No word from New York AG Eric Schneiderman on whether he plans to comply.
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He begins by admitting to his tone-deafness on the issue and how he perhaps needed to have more understanding of a broad audience when speaking in a scholarly manner. He then puts out a claim that he has received many death and rape threats on him as well as his family, although he doesn’t substantiate the claim in any way, shape or form.
He then continues to spin interesting stories about what he means and that the context was completely misrepresented. He continues to explain how Muslims were actually some of the greatest abolitionists in the history of mankind and that a lot of the latter slavery in the Muslim world was misunderstood, especially much of that from the Ottoman Empire.
Read it for yourself, but I personally have a hard time taking someone seriously that says rape can actually be punished under Sharia as assault with only two witnesses as opposed to the four necessary to prove the charge of Hudud (fornication/adultery). It diminishes the rule of law in a civil society and still essentially makes women second-class citizens.
“Our complacency is killing us,” said Deborah A.P. Hersman, president of the National Safety Council and former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board. “Americans believe there is nothing we can do to stop crashes from happening, but that isn’t true. We lag the rest of the developed world in addressing highway fatalities. We just haven’t been willing to do what needs to be done.”
Don’t get offended. It’s not real.
That doesn’t sound good coming from a government bureaucrat (or even a former government bureaucrat). Perhaps the answer is as easy as STOP TEXTING WHEN YOU’RE BEHIND THE WHEEL.
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