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"Net Neturality" as pushes in Washington is about mandating the ISPs not charge you based on your usage patterns. That'd be like us requiring all restaurants to charge everyone the same flat rate, but allow customers to order all they want.

It's the dream of a bunch of high bandwidth using lefties who want the rubes to continue to subsidize their Bit Torrent-laden Internet use. That's all it is.

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You'll only get them from me over my cold dead cpus and permanently bricked routers. ;-)

The flip side is that most broadband providers are monopolies or at best duopolies and want to be the gatekeeper to content providers. So youtube winds up carrying a charge or not working properly, atttube is just fine. Google no longer comes up but Comsearch does.

Also most internet access is currently sold as unlimited use and always on. So it becomes something of a consumer protection issue.
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Gizmodo and the left want us to dig our way out of the hole, as does Mike Huckabee. No sale.

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Was the coolest gadget. I never heard of the bugbase and now I find myself wanting one.
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Now can you get your friend John McCain to also agree with deregulation when it is about campaign finance reform, oil exploration & development, and R&D in pharmaceuticals?

Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

Deregulation isn't going to help much while the guys who own the wires are also providing the service. That provides a huge conflict of interest that no amount of deregulation is going to fix.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

That sounds like one thing and winds up being something else. Kind of like florida's bilingual amendment which meant that nothing related to state business could be bilingual. Passed btw goes to show you really should read what you vote for.
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Did you hear? Mitt Romney uses hyphens:

tar -x -j -f 2009Budget.tar.bz2

Clearly it's McCain! That's just wrong.

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K or Gnome ?

Tells you a lot about people who like inferior desktops.....I kid....I kid.

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Five year KDE developer veteran here. KDE is for anti-American losers.

And GNOME? It's the Articles of Confederation of desktops. No direction, no integration, no hope.

(It's my diary, I can threadjack if I want to :-)

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Finrod's First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.

Another computer geek thread that I will have to call my brother so he can explain the jokes to me.....AAAAAHHHHH!
Jack Bauer For President 2008

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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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It really is a shame that being conservative means you're fringe or unelectable these days. I guess that's why Thompson wasn't able to gain any traction either.

In regards to my horse in the race, Romney was interviewed by TechCrunch. It was a very good interview, funny thing is TechCrunch didn't ask Romney about the two issues they put down "No Comment", so more accurately, it should be "Not Asked" instead of "No Comment".

Answers he did give:

Q: What would you do as president to advance US technology industry?

A: "we’re going to have to fight to make sure that our products are protected and our technology is protected but also to not close down foreign markets, open them up, we can compete around the world."

Q: Internet Taxes:

A: I do not want to see Internet only taxes as you described them or access fees or email charges and so forth. We do enough taxing in this country and let’s not add more taxes. I’d rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Q: Internet Tax Ban, temp or permanent?

A: I think it makes more sense to make it permanent. I think the Democrats recognized that if they do it every 7 years then they can go out and get contributions from companies that care and then vote for it every 7 years.

Q: What’s your position on H1B in general?

A: I like H1B visas. I like the idea of the best and brightest in the world coming here. I’d rather have them come here permanently rather than come and go, but I believe our visa program is designed to help us solve gaps in our employment pool.

Q: H1B visa increase?

A: As to the exact number in my view that would follow a review of a number of things. Number 1: What’s the overall economy doing? What’s happening to the size of our workforce. Number 2: What’s happening to our own capacity in the jobs that are being requested. Number 3: What are the demands from our employers? How many additional folks do they need? You’d have to do an assessment of that on a regular basis, but my overall view is we need more H1B visas, not less.

Q: What is your position on capital gains rate in general (Venture capital taxes)?

A: I don’t believe that we should increase our capital gains tax rate. My view is in fact that for people earning 200k or less, we should eliminate the cap gains tax, the dividends tax, and the tax on interest altogether.... And with regard to carried interest associated with venture capital, real estate, private equity, I do not believe in raising taxes.

Q: What would you do to encourage U.S. innovation into renewable and sustainable energy sources?

A: The way a nation like ours stays ahead permanently from other nations is having superior technology and innovation and one of those areas that is certainly going to be true in relates to energy and I would like to see the federal government substantially increase its investment in basic science and basic research related to energy efficiency, energy production, energy distribution, and I will substantially increase funding in those areas. (FYI - this was before Michigan).

Q: Based on current science which I know is still forming, do you think carbon emissions should be taxed?

A: I’m not looking at a carbon emissions tax. No, instead I’m not looking at increasing taxes, but instead findings ways to develop new technology and encourage efficiency, but that’s not the course which I’ve laid out at this point. (I wonder if McCain-Lieberman is as conservative as this?)