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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I'm familiar enough with his posting to know he's loving with you all right now. I'm still going to call Mrs. Shbobdb.
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You people seriously think the guy comparing childbirth to a hangover was serious?
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May 12, 2015 22:49
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Fulchrum posted:You people seriously think the guy comparing childbirth to a hangover was serious? In my defense I'm not familiar with everybody on these forums as I mostly just lurk, and I implied wasn't able to take anything he was saying seriously.
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May 12, 2015 22:53
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Empire State posted:Someone posted this. I don't think I'm gonna click those links.
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May 12, 2015 22:58
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Fulchrum posted:You people seriously think the guy comparing childbirth to a hangover was serious? Only because I'm familiar with Shbobdb's posting. I think you know better than anyone that there are real people how there who believe that and worse, guy-who-reads-LL101-on-purpose-and-argues-with-it 
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May 12, 2015 23:00
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I am very fond of the memes with a picture of Obama and the words: HOW CAN LIBERALS SAY RACISM ISN'T OVER WHEN A BLACK IS PRESIDENT. A black. Some of the better ones just write the N word out entirely.
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May 12, 2015 23:30
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Fulchrum posted:You people seriously think the guy comparing childbirth to a hangover was serious? A lot of people genuinely have no clue what childbirth and pregnancy does to a woman's body. edit: A lot of anti-abortion people, too. PUGGERNAUT fucked around with this message at 23:38 on May 12, 2015 |
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May 12, 2015 23:35
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It's not from a family member, but rather my congressman, Tom McClintock. I apologize it's not my batshit aunt.quote:Dear Steven,
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May 12, 2015 23:36
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loving  that bandwidth is a scarce commodity
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May 12, 2015 23:38
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Spatial posted:The guy lives a tough life so let's try not to judge him, even when he compares an essential foundational function of society and the existence of our species to getting a hangover.
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May 12, 2015 23:39
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Oh no, the 1934 communications act is antiquated. Let's go back to the even more antiquated system of: nothing.
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May 13, 2015 00:12
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Vargatron posted:Basic healthcare and childbirth are a solemn human right, unless of course you're inconveniencing a business. Oh wait, that's right, women are a non-factor because their only "job" is to crank out babies. In America your life only has value if you are currently rich or engaged in an activity that makes somebody else richer. If you are doing neither then you can go starve to death in the gutter.
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May 13, 2015 00:22
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Magres posted:loving It's been hard times in the bandwidth mines now that child labor is outlawed and unions are taking over.
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May 13, 2015 00:28
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Magres posted:loving Look, you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
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May 13, 2015 00:37
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Tell me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the REGULATED THE INTERNET TO DEATH law that was passed focused primarily on making sure that ISPs and tech companies couldn't run any money schemes to milk the poo poo out of consumers?
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May 13, 2015 01:14
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Tell me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the REGULATED THE INTERNET TO DEATH law that was passed focused primarily on making sure that ISPs and tech companies couldn't run any money schemes to milk the poo poo out of consumers? It basically kept the status quo so things couldn't go in a hilariously awful direction but the right claimed communism because they dont get the internet.
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May 13, 2015 01:29
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VitalSigns posted:Only because I'm familiar with Shbobdb's posting. Yeah, but they tend to not come to the thread that keeps pointing out how they're morons. Plus, there's usually a small level of awareness to those types not to try and out and out say that childbirth is meant to be a punishment because you did something bad (i.e. have a vagina). Dr. Killjoy posted:Tell me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the REGULATED THE INTERNET TO DEATH law that was passed focused primarily on making sure that ISPs and tech companies couldn't run any money schemes to milk the poo poo out of consumers? Yeah, like he said, the most effieicent use (of draining consumers of their money). He just decided to be concise. RagnarokAngel posted:It basically kept the status quo so things couldn't go in a hilariously awful direction but the right claimed communism because
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May 13, 2015 01:33
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I genuinely think that politicians don't "Get" the internet though.
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May 13, 2015 01:40
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RagnarokAngel posted:I genuinely think that politicians don't "Get" the internet though. I think its coincidental that the way they don't "get" it just happens to coincide perfectly with the exact spin that Comcast and Time Warner need.
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May 13, 2015 01:50
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VitalSigns posted:Oh no, the 1934 communications act is antiquated. I say the same thing about the constitution and the bible. How can we run our society on such antiquated documents? Throw them out and let the invisible hand of the free market handle everything.
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May 13, 2015 01:53
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Magres posted:loving How are download futures looking?
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May 13, 2015 03:57
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We've hit peak bittorent.
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May 13, 2015 04:07
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Phone posted:How are download futures looking? Well the bituminous bandwidth funds all tanked when the market crashed. Dark fiber will replenish the bits through abiogenesis anyway. Dunno why motherfuckers are scared. ErIog fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 13, 2015 |
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May 13, 2015 04:52
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Phone posted:How are download futures looking? I'd hedge if I were you, all it's going to take is one more hurricane nearly causing a Youtube Reactor Meltdown and the value will plummet. Not to mention the news that Iran is threatening to close the Strait of Pornuz if the U.S. won't lift sanctions. 
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May 13, 2015 05:00
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The post: The comments, all from the same dude:   I have no clue what he is getting at here.
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May 13, 2015 05:00
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PUGGERNAUT posted:The post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYnC-ONdXQ  Blessings of the heavens!
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PUGGERNAUT posted:The post: I think I can translate: quote:I must register with you my disapproval of this Joint Photographic Experts Group encoded image. Why, good sir, I have nothing particular against gay people. I abhor the depictions of straight sexual behavior in media just as much. I would be quite taken with a film that were completely without references to those sorts of prurient and base desires that afflict the race of man. So you see, esteemed gentleman, it is not that I have a particular aversion to homosexuals themselves. I simply can not abide, morally, any reference nor innuendo to those activities. quote:I am quite flummoxed how one of God's most beautiful creations, that arcing colorful miracle in the heavens known as the "rainbow," came to be associated with homosexual culture. I can not ascertain the reason it was necessary for the homosexual community to appropriate one of God's blessings in that way. I would quite like to be able to muse publicly about my enjoyment for one of God's gifts, but feel as though I can not lest I be labelled a sympathizer to the homosexual agenda. ErIog fucked around with this message at 05:25 on May 13, 2015 |
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May 13, 2015 05:20
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I too wish movies weren't full of sexual innuendos like showing people with their spouses, using terms like "husband" or "wife" that imply a sexy sexual relationship exists, or showing parents and children together, don't think I don't notice all that innuendo. Where did those children come from, that's right: SEX
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May 13, 2015 05:29
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RagnarokAngel posted:I genuinely think that politicians don't "Get" the internet though. It's definitely equal parts that and "Comcast donated how much to my super PAC?  "
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May 13, 2015 06:16
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Magres posted:loving Except it actually is, by any meaningful definition of the term. It costs money - unbelievable amounts of money - and incredible amounts of ingenuity to keep the whole thing from collapsing in on itself. The rise of VoD services in particular has meant that demand has been spectacularly outstripping demand for a decade, and without CDNs your monthly bill would be 5 or 10 times what it is now. Of course internet companies hate having to pour money into capex (whether it's new fibre, new access technologies, or data centres for CDN) to keep up and would much rather transfer that cost to the customer, particularly in a way that more accurately reflects their costs (so if you want realtime VoD from the other side of the world you have to pay more than for text served from your ISPs own network), hence the need for net neutrality because that's not a line anyone wants to see crossed.
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May 13, 2015 08:26
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Thanks, Obama! This one is making the rounds. "race relations are FAR worse today than they have been in decades. What has changed? Do you really think that in 2008 white America (which embraced and elected Obama) turned suddenly more racist?? Or, could it just be that this rear end-hat and his activist government has fanned the flame of resentments? Which seems more likely?" Racism was over in 2008, didn't Obama understand that when he got elected? Why do we have to talk about something that clearly isn't an issue anymore? 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Except it actually is, by any meaningful definition of the term. It costs money - unbelievable amounts of money - and incredible amounts of ingenuity to keep the whole thing from collapsing in on itself. The rise of VoD services in particular has meant that demand has been spectacularly outstripping demand for a decade, and without CDNs your monthly bill would be 5 or 10 times what it is now. The cost doesn't justify the actions internet companies take. They spend millions lobbying in congress, when those millions could be invested in infrastructure, hence alleviating *some* bandwidth. Demand is only going to increase, so why would you waste money instead of investing in your future?
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pliable posted:The cost doesn't justify the actions internet companies take. They spend millions lobbying in congress, when those millions could be invested in infrastructure, hence alleviating *some* bandwidth. Demand is only going to increase, so why would you waste money instead of investing in your future?  When you only have the next few quarters to consider, money works in strange ways.
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Fulchrum posted:I think its coincidental that the way they don't "get" it just happens to coincide perfectly with the exact spin that Comcast and Time Warner need. "Listen, here is everything you need to know about the internet and net neutrality written up by our team of 'independent' researchers. Also here, get yourself something nice."
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pliable posted:The cost doesn't justify the actions internet companies take. They spend millions lobbying in congress, when those millions could be invested in infrastructure, hence alleviating *some* bandwidth. Demand is only going to increase, so why would you waste money instead of investing in your future? What Guavanaut said, also spending 10 million on lobbying versus 100 million on a new fibre backbone is a pretty easy call. The particular problem in the UK (and I assume the US is having it even worse because of the less-concentrated population) is that ISPs have been chasing ever-larger headline last-mile speeds in particular areas while ignoring both underserved rural areas and their backbones. Most ISPs still budget the same amount of bandwidth per-user across their backbone in the era of 40M-and-up home connections as they were in the days of max 2M DSL (anywhere from 64 to 256kbps per user depending on the ISP, if you're interested). Oh, you're getting buffering on Youtube or IPlayer at peak times? Better upgrade to 80M! Some ISPs have upgraded their backbones over the last decade but at most by an order of magnitude, which sounds impressive, but last-mile speeds have gone up by twice that in the same time period (and in the most part ten years ago backbone networks were already massively over-subscribed, so they've just kept the problem in the same place rather than fixing it. Like I said too, the rise of the CDN model (where streaming and other bandwidth-hungry applications are served from local sites) has only masked the problem, not solved it - access networks are still dangerously congested in a lot of places.
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VorpalBunny posted:"Do you really think that in 2008 white America (which embraced and elected Obama) turned suddenly more racist??"  EDIT: 
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May 13, 2015 14:30
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Stuff like that is why when white people say "we can't be racist anymore we elected a black president!" it's really funny.
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May 13, 2015 14:33
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Simplest response is "okay, so anyone who voted for Obama twice isn't a racist. So therefore anyone who voted against him must be a racist. So how did you vote?" I have never once seen that argument given by an actual Obama voter.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I genuinely think that politicians don't "Get" the internet though. Remember when the Hillary email thing was big there were congressmen who actually said they've never sent an email like it was a good thing.
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This was posted this moring on Facebook. My favorite part is where it ends up that the kid was under 21, but THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE ISN'T A CONSPIRACY BY WAL-MART!
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