LastPommerFan

Corporate Solution: Leave as is. Market Solution: Break Up the Telecom's monopolies in certain delivery areas and let the market sort it out. Moderate Solution: No Blocks, limits on content throttling. Government Solution: Return to Net Neutrality through new legislation. Super-Liberal Solution: Nationalize the fiber network and hand it over to the USPS. Run Fiber to everyone's mailbox. 1 gig connections for all like Sweden and S. Korea. My Solution: Provide infrastructure investment to alleviate congested lines, bring up the overall speed of the network, pass net neutrality law, but now the telecoms have no excuse to throttle down anyone. And BTW, imagine if your phone provider decided who could call your number based on how much they were willing to pay. So "You've Won a Free Cruise!!" guy pays AT&T and now gets unlimited access to your number, but your kids school has to wait on hold because they're no coughing up the money to cut in line. That is what this is.

My other complaint is the death of Net Neutrality. This is the most important thing that has happened to small business in the last 50 years, and it is completely unmitigated terrible-ness. Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner are essentially being given the keys to the entire 21st Century Economy. Amazon can now buy exclusive rights to sell certain products of the internet. Say you sell home made soap, Proctor and Gamble could theoretically pay Verizon to prevent your site from loading for people who have Verizon Internet. Say you make independent movies, Comcast could prevent your internet stream because they don't want it to compete with their NBC-Universal content. Say you're a media watch-dog who reports on journalistic transgressions committed by CNN. You think TIme Warner is going to give your site much bandwidth?

The Prince of Lies is a crafty one.

Awesome, I'll choose natural when I get a chance. Just curious: is the other option 'sacrifice your first born to the Demon Lord Ba'al as we attempt to resurrect the departed soul of Steve Jobs"?

People who assume everyone who complains about Mac is using a PC despite people's clear statement that they were using a Chromebook. :P

My understanding is that the most recent agreement was written after the CBA, so there is no way it could be included. Also, a player in NC or FL couldn't be required to be a member of the union because of right to work, right?

I wonder how long until the CHL-NHL agreement winds up in a US Court under Anti-trust review?

Well aren't you special: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/09/apples_mousetrap.html

Kotalik had not fallen victim to the CHL Mafia Racket. Seriously, if I were a star euro player, I would think twice before entering juniors.

This actually sounds like it would have been preferred by the sabres. At least he would have been playing against grown men.

I shouldn't have to check a setting to get my laptop to abide by the laws of nature.

Nope, wiped and reinstalled the OS. Bull ###### is the default setting. Apple poses a bigger existential threat to the human race than global warming and virus mutation combined.

My laptop has to go in for service. I have been transitioning to the cloud for a while, and I decided to go whole hog and switch to a chromebook, which essentially forces you onto the cloud. So with the book down for a few weeks, I've transitioned to my Wife's old MacBook for a while: EVERYTHING SCROLLS ###### BACKWARDS!!!! what is this? some "we are not going to be held to anybody elses standards" gimmick? Mouse wheel down moves you down the page, right? Not on Mac! it's like learning how to drive all over again in a car that turns left when you rotate the wheel clockwise and has the gas and brake switched. It's complete bull ######.

Title? I like to liquor books.

http://youtu.be/3xa0WZO8kcU RJ is rolling over in his grave.

Trade a 61-65th pick for a rental in a lost season? Wtf?

This thread didn't even have heat all the time growing up.

Then the thread has a terrible agent.

woah, we're not talking about trading Jarkko Ruutu.

It's going to take us all a little while to get used to the idea of not being smarter than the entire FO.

I have no fear trading an expiring UFA in the division.

Fortunately, They're not going to fire all the Master Distillers and move everything to Osaka. But yes, the Japanese have a distinct flavor to their whiskey, and I don't like it either. Which is probably why Four Roses is the best selling Whiskey in Japan.

If the market reacts anything like beer or wine has, the result will be a flood of small stills getting into the game, each with it's own take, some terrible beyond comprehension, some better than you ever imagined. Give it time, there are great whiskeys still left to be made.

whiskey is, globally, the fastest growing spirit. 'bout damn time the world figured it out.

Beam now Japanese. Suntory is now one helluva huge whiskey company.