Real World Event Discussions
If you like your Internet you can keep your Internet. Period.
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Monday, March 9, 2015 00:16
VIEWED: 6741
PAGE 4 of 4
Thursday, March 5, 2015 5:14 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by OLDGUY:
come a day..won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about..
ya know.. I've started, more than once, to open a new thread asking if us Whedon fans think that Joss would create Firefly today...I am speaking about how so many hollywood were so ready to make shows like Boston Legal and even Firefly where the big federal govt is bad and should be mocked..when it was Bush in office...but they go quiet, and even defensive now that Obama has been in place.
Don't get me wrong.. some of my favorite shows were Boston Legals and of course my beloved Firefly...not saying i support Bush or Obama..but saying that the episodes, the very underpinning thoughts of the stories are even more appropriate today than they were a decade ago...
Govt's hand in the Web will not end well... no matter who is in the Oval..bank on it baby!
Considering that maybe if Nixon wasn't in office then maybe MASH wouldn't have devolved so quickly and irreversibly does not sway me to downgrade Nixon's tenure. I certainly hope Joss has more sense. Let's see.
Under Bush, Firefly was anti-government. Alliance was the villain.
Under Obama, Dollhouse was anti-corporation. Corporation was the villain.
Avengers seems to be pro-government, anti-capitalist. That Stark guy needs to be controlled better.
Don't know enough about Buffy, Angel.
On the other hand, using examples of Japan (smaller than the state of Montana) with all of it's government-owned utilities and communications providers are devoid of the concept of free enterprise, or free-market, or the needs and requirements of a nation of far greater size, and far less density of population.
And saying that laying wire to many thousands of customers from a tower instead of just upgrading the box in the tower is the same or similar cost is preposterous.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Friday, March 6, 2015 5:27 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by OLDGUY:
come a day..won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about..
ya know.. I've started, more than once, to open a new thread asking if us Whedon fans think that Joss would create Firefly today...I am speaking about how so many hollywood were so ready to make shows like Boston Legal and even Firefly where the big federal govt is bad and should be mocked..when it was Bush in office...but they go quiet, and even defensive now that Obama has been in place.
Don't get me wrong.. some of my favorite shows were Boston Legals and of course my beloved Firefly...not saying i support Bush or Obama..but saying that the episodes, the very underpinning thoughts of the stories are even more appropriate today than they were a decade ago...
Govt's hand in the Web will not end well... no matter who is in the Oval..bank on it baby!
I think neither of us knows what's in the FCC proposals, since none of us has read it.
As a reviewer of many things technical, the devil is often in the details. However, in the face of a clear danger to a cost-neutral internet (which is what the multi-tier pricing structure would mean) any action to thwart that action is a good one until demonstrated otherwise.
Yes, I know- the government has slipped a lot of "actions" into the queue on the basis of responding to a "threat" ... The Clone of the Revenge (Iraq War II), the Patriot Act, the GWOT, Obamacare, the bank bailout .... but once in a while, by accident, the gubmint actually manages to do something useful. This may be one of those times.
--------------
You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Monday, March 9, 2015 12:16 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by OLDGUY:
come a day..won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about..
ya know.. I've started, more than once, to open a new thread asking if us Whedon fans think that Joss would create Firefly today...I am speaking about how so many hollywood were so ready to make shows like Boston Legal and even Firefly where the big federal govt is bad and should be mocked..when it was Bush in office...but they go quiet, and even defensive now that Obama has been in place.
Don't get me wrong.. some of my favorite shows were Boston Legals and of course my beloved Firefly...not saying i support Bush or Obama..but saying that the episodes, the very underpinning thoughts of the stories are even more appropriate today than they were a decade ago...
Govt's hand in the Web will not end well... no matter who is in the Oval..bank on it baby!
I think neither of us knows what's in the FCC proposals, since none of us has read it.
As a reviewer of many things technical, the devil is often in the details. However, in the face of a clear danger to a cost-neutral internet (which is what the multi-tier pricing structure would mean) any action to thwart that action is a good one until demonstrated otherwise.
Yes, I know- the government has slipped a lot of "actions" into the queue on the basis of responding to a "threat" ... The Clone of the Revenge (Iraq War II), the Patriot Act, the GWOT, Obamacare, the bank bailout .... but once in a while, by accident, the gubmint actually manages to do something useful. This may be one of those times.
This is not one of those times. You seem to be adhering to the Talking Points of whatever Lefty Libtard Leader you're listening to lately.
The key part of the ruling is not exactly what was in the "proposals" that Obama has been trying to cram down everybody's throat - it is the fact that they have re-classified the entirety of the Internet, the Web, to be a communications system like Radio (all forms, not merely your music) and Television, and a company like the Railroads which needs to be forever under government control. Government censorship, restriction, taxation, authorization.
Remember when there was no "rock" on radio prior to Van Halen? No metal, punk, heavy metal - just bluesy pop rock.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME