Message from @xorgy
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a vague, qualitative judgement
If he were asked "have you ever been drunk enough that you would not remember key details of when you were intoxicated" then maybe, but then again
how could you prove that Brett Kavanaugh saw, heard, or experienced something in a way which could be expected to be remembered
such that it could be considered forgotten in the morning?
It is ultimately internal, subjective, and qualitative
And as long as he is consistent with his _own_ statements about his _own_ subjective, internal, qualitative opinion of that, it seems to matter very little what others say.
even if they say it also under penalty of felony.
And much less so in a random, professionally-cut interview under no penalty, with a decidedly-hostile news organization.
This is a "She said, they said otherwise."
https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1046559134173130752 CA brings back net neutrality and makes building local broadband networks easier
Reading the report Schedrevka linked. It's refreshing to see that this is a matter of record.
This is seriously the most sane print on paper I've read in a while.
@aukkras No, what they've done is _made local broadband networks a concern of the state_, which will probably go very badly since this is California we are talking about.
When "city planners" determine how many fibers travel to you, and force you to pay into _their_ scheme, you are well and truly had by the balls.
Everything bad that's happened with the internet since the repeal seems to be stuff that has to do with tech giants originally built with government grants now owning all the platforms.
Aside from the Verizon throttling that fire department I guess
If they wanted to make building local broadband networks easier, they would find some way to enhance the permitting process for laying new fiber, and reduce the cost of buying space in cable conduits.
(and include cable conduits with new major road projects)
Well, it's not so much that Verizon throttled the fire department
it's that the fire department bought the wrong package, consistently overran their allotment, and then when the system automatically throttled their connection for misuse, they suddenly cared.
Yeah my mistake
it's great that it didn't just shut off, or some nonsense like that.
then they go crying to the press
"boo hoo we bought too little internet and it ran out"
I forgot the big worry without net neutrality is that like, Comcast will selectively throttle content
It's not like they woke up in the morning and thought "ahh, let's interrupt a city service"
"selectively"
I mean, Comcast has a thousand good reasons for shit to be delivered at different rates anyway.
from the basic technical perspective, their own first-party services, and services directly affiliated with them, are likely to be served from directly inside their own colocation centers.
(or even closer to the edge)
which means that they don't pay peering charges, and don't have to power up nearly as much equipment to make it work
seems to me that that should be allowed to be cheaper, it is in fact more efficient.
(not that that means you'll want Comcast's shitty streaming service, because chances are they will not get the hot licenses Netflix gets, nor those juicy juicy Netflix originals; ditto for HBO)
And sure, they're sleazy, and constantly trying to take advantage of you
but they're not so unscrupulous that they would do things so obvious that you would complain en masse.
Comcast is a monopoly, they're always gonna fuck me one way or another
they are rarely a monopoly
They are in my area
I doubt that
you can probably get directional radio