Azalin

I'm a union worker in a right to work state. In other words, I have the freedom to choose. Making the entire nation "right to work" gives everyone that same freedom of choice. Are the lefties actually going to forget one of their most strident slogans just because we're not talking about abortion?

No. The medley was 80's music, not a Zappa medley. His point is that had you listened before commenting, you'd have known that.

So far since election day my 401K has grown by 19.8%.

I wonder what the ratio of females to males is among their engineers?

It's getting to the point where we could seriously use one of these for all the Godwining that goes on around here:

We're only two weeks into Trump's administration. There's still two hundred and six weeks to go. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to invest in both Orville Redenbacher and fire extinguishers.

Saw Frank three times. Incredible. Dweezil's no slouch to be sure, but Frank was the real deal. Mr Clemens, your use of the "N" word in your writings is understandable, if unfortunate, given the historical context of your works. You can let go the guilt, and take pride in your significant contributions to American literature.

The rule obviously had no teeth. If it had, then Gator would have been rounded up months ago.

By manning up and calling for a boilermaker.

Good to see I can agree with you on something. I would correct you on one point though - that's not hyper liberalism. Liberalism embraces freedom of speech and expression. There people seek to suppress both. That's fascism, pretty much by definition.

Great call, but I'd even settle for Billy The mountain or Theme From the Third Movement of Sinister Footwear. (Zappa, Vai, and Ed Mann carry the melody in unison)

No, he's just a jerk.

It's only a hate crime if perpetrated by the right. Since it was leftists, it's called social justice.

I prefer to be practical. All of my dinner plates are made of rubber, and coated with a tritium-phosphor compound so I can find them quickly if the power ever goes off.

I was unaware of that, but it doesn't surprise me. My apartment complex tried doing that back then, but they were never able to keep Southwestern Bell from offering service. The rep for the independent telco stopped by my place to get me to switch to their service, and I asked him if I could get the 50% employee discount that SWBT was giving me. He politely thanked me for my time and went away.

Now that I think about it, I completely missed the fact that you specifically said that Comcast was your ISP. The rules are probably different for them, because they're probably there as a cable television provider and not as a telecom company. My apologies. But I have to ask - who is your local telephone company? Do they not provide internet service?

During the divestiture in '82 a line of demarcation between the customer and the phone company was established. This is the point where the telecom company hands off to the customer, usually a small box or another type of connection right outside the house/building. The phone company is responsible for everything outward, and the customer is responsible for everything inward. If you live in an apartment building, the responsibility falls to your landlord to fix internal wiring issues. You're probably experiencing lag due to having to share X amount of bandwidth with other tenants. If this is what's happening, it's up to your landlord to fix the problem. Good luck with that.

I agree, but I also believe you'll see a lot of that taken care of by LTE & the soon to appear 5G. I know for a fact that telecoms are salivating at the prospect of wireless delivery. No first/last mile copper or fiber - just towers.

You know who else welcomed people to the Weimar? Of course you do.

Not the brass knuckles-type of beating. I was thinking more like the bend-them-over-your-knee-and give-them-the paddling-that-their-parents-never-did type of beating. Then send them to their rooms without their twitter for the night.

No. They pretty much wish the same for you.

My point is that private industry striving to meet the demands of the public has been the driving force in building the internet into what is has become. There is nothing about Net Neutrality that will enhance that. No mater how the idea is presented, there is absolutely no benefit to consumers or the public at large in getting the feds involved in regulating internet traffic. The best thing for everyone - tech companies, ISPs, content providors, and end users - is to keep the feds out of it altogether. In my previous example I marked the occasion where telecommunications began to deregulate. In 1982 payphones were ubiquitous, many home phones were still rotary, and long-distance calls were often quite expensive. The deregulation of the industry and subsequent entry of competitive carriers (specifically MCI and Sprint) had an immediate effect on network capability and reduced costs. That same deregulation is what's led to the massive advancement in telecommunications that we enjoy today. In turn, that advancement in the network has led to a drastic increase in the technological capability of the devices we use. The smart phone in your pocket has computing power that dwarfs anything your pentium computer from the early 90's had. There is nothing the feds can do to improve anything about the internet that won't be accomplished more cost-effectively and with better performance than what the telecoms are doing. The best thing they can possibly do is keep away from it, and let it continue to develop that way it has been doing.

Definitely going to miss him - I enjoyed everything I saw him in. RIP

But they'll forget all about it next time they're in control.