Congressmen Send Letters, Hope For Net Neutrality Fades 427
The odds of the FCC implementing net-neutrality rules just got much longer. "A bipartisan group of politicians on Monday told FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, in no uncertain terms, to abandon his plans to impose controversial new rules on broadband providers until the US Congress changes the law. Seventy-four House Democrats sent Genachowski ... a letter saying his ideas will 'jeopardize jobs' and 'should not be done without additional direction from Congress.' A separate letter from 37 Senate Republicans, also sent Monday, was more pointed. It accused Genachowski of pushing 'heavy-handed 19th century regulations' that are 'inconceivable' as well as illegal. ... [U]nless something unexpected happens, the fight over Net neutrality will shift a few blocks down Independence Avenue from the FCC to Capitol Hill. (In an editorial Monday, The Washington Post called for just that.)"
Re:I care more about this than net neutrality (Score:4, Funny)
It left, you just missed it.
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
It accused Genachowski of pushing 'heavy-handed 19th century regulations' that are 'inconceivable'
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Re:Jobs? I'll tell you what jobs... (Score:5, Funny)
corpocleptocractic
Government by body-snatchers?
If it's not broken... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what jobs? (Score:5, Funny)
You're a monster Shakrai, but you already knew that didn't you?
Re:I care more about this than net neutrality (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Jobs? I'll tell you what jobs... (Score:2, Funny)
Give him the +5.
He meant government by corporate thieves and probably didn't give a moment's thought to the Latin deconstruction, which was an even better description.
C'mon, that's a double pun, that's clever shit! You didn't think of it, goddammit!
Re:Jobs? I'll tell you what jobs... (Score:5, Funny)
Personally, I think it should be coproclepticratic... Government via the uncontrolled theft of people's shit.
Re:Obvious. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:what jobs? (Score:2, Funny)
Don't choke on that cherry pit and hope that someone will save you.
Re:This November.. (Score:3, Funny)
They vote for the lesser of two evils, because if they didn't, they're afraid the wrong lizard will get in.
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Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"