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Just for clarification: >In short, we have a much more open market, but with no net nuetrality. Do you have no net neutrality (ISPs do un-neutral stuff) or Do you have no net neutrality regulation (the Government doesn't stop ISPs f
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Do you mean net neutral pay-for-what-you-use? I.e. You can buy 5GB volume. Everything you do counts against it. Or do you mean selective pay-for-what-you-use-and-your-ISP-doesn't-prefer? I.e. You can buy 5GB, the ISP chooses what does
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>My takeaway was he pretended to be a furry nazi for a while and discovered a bunch of idiots believing in idiotic shit then had to write a bunch of idiotic shit about his 'traumatic' experience listening to idiotic shit. She s
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>I'm wondering, if the laws pass, can people use Tor to keep the actual site they visit hidden, and avoid caps? I guess: Keep sites visited hidden? Sure. But: It will be obvious that [i]something[/i] is being kept hidden. It wo
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>The net effect was a lot of poorer EU citizens did go to the UK to essentially go on welfare because it was more than they could reasonably earn (if they could even get jobs) in their home countries. And the UK could have easily told th
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>Which is probably why most German news outlets don't have comments sections. I don't have a good list of what relevant german online news outlets are, but taking a few guessed stabs at mainstream-y outlets: www.tagesschau.de&#
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> In fact I haven't heard any other Catholics I know criticize him. >I feel this article is trying to "Stir up a storm" with sensational language. There is little behind this in my opinion. While i can't speak abou
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>We must show that the accused, not the accuser, will suffer when a case goes public, and do so by building institutions of support for victims who come forward. Shouldn't it be "that the one proven guilty will suffer"? Wi
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>"Growth becomes the overriding motivation". Of course is the overriding motiviation - this is how capitalism works. Maybe in their view the economy/capitalism isn't supposed to be the only factor/overriding ever
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>I don't see a problem with massive corporations so long as they get that way by offering the best good or service at the lowest price (natural monopolies) What about massive corporations that grew naturally to the point of having n
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To make a guess: Could "FM sender + charged phone" vs "cellular network + charged phone" availability be a relevant distinction? I.e. Fm sender + Cell broadcast -> better bet hedging.
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Ok, assessments from 2 independent psychiatrists and a history of passing please. Then no problem.
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Quality headline... European Comission tries to hide study that piracy doesn't harm sales, is foiled by member of European Parliament. * And technically it seems the study found it harms for Blockbuster movies, helps for games, does ne
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Mea culpa, mentally replace with whatever phrasing best describes: the dev changes their mind on "fan streaming is cool" to "fan streaming is cool, besides PDP, who sucks and shouldn't use our products in his streams&quo
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So, according to the article: 1) Developer revokes streaming license of asshole. 2) Developer gets down-vote-brigaded, with most of them (43 out of last 50) having 0 hours played, and called "sjw" by "snowflakes" (to use
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Or it might be the result of said account being an impostor...
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Are you sure that western democracy is build on an interpretation of "free speech" that means having to host nazis? Western democracies like Germany, the Netherlands, or Canada (to name a non-european democracy) might disagree the
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Could. With a better choice you can get a better chance: 1. Take an organization working for your cause, 2. identify a subset of org members you assume to be zealous enough for your taste 3. give all of them some money Now: Your vote can be
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> There's no way that a tool used on the internet would become one. Said tool pissed of the party that is most strongly associated with "never regulate!".
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>Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD). "Normal" right-wing as in conservative would be CDU and CSU. To quote the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) [0] >Die National
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Here is to hopefully seeing "Millennials are killing '$Generation are killing $thing'" soon
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>If your retort is that these platforms are companies, then you have to apply the same reasoning to Comcast, Verizon, and many others that control the last mile. If CEOs of those companies also decide to engage in "community groomin
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>My whole life, liberals were so proud to declare that they defend their opposition's right to speech even though they don't agree with it. When did this change? Most likely at some point the perception went from the danger bei
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> Perhaps it is time that spectrum licenses to mobile-phone companies be conditioned on their recipients providing freedoms for customers to use the apps of their choice. Do google and apple have any spectrum licenses? (ignoring that fac
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To use the wikipedia definitionof net neutrality: Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging different
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For example there is the YaCy project http://www.yacy.net/en/
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/german-coal-mine-may... > According to Bloomberg, North Rhine-Westphalia State Governor Hannelore Kraft recently confirmed that a project to turn the coal mine into
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Not Van Helsting?
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>Since you can't favor certain service you also can't faster connection for only some data. Say you are paying for a 10 Mbit connection and buy a game for download. Even though you only need a fast connection for a certain amou
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Note: You can have guns in Europe (details differ per country) Just without the "Any guncontrol is an attack on freedom!" side of the debate. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/
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