Quote from: My Name Was Taken on November 17, 2014, 02:05:31 AM

Quote from: jaysabi on November 15, 2014, 03:31:04 PM

(Also, on the very slim chance he posted anything worth reading, let me know. It's possible I was too fast with my ignore button, but based on the quality of the first post of his I read, I kinda doubt it.)

Haha, don't worry. You didn't miss anything. More socialist this, socialist that. Never mind that net neutrality has been how the internet has worked ever since it came into being. No, now that the FCC might change the classification to keep net neutrality in the wake of the court case that invalidated the original rule, all of a sudden NOW it's 'fucking socialism.' Hilarious how far up your ass you have to have your head to ignore the facts. Probably Ted Cruz posting under his internet screen name.

The following applies to you as well.

Quote from: UnunoctiumTesticles on November 18, 2014, 02:11:10 AM

Quote from: RodeoX on November 17, 2014, 04:01:30 PM

Hi guys, fucking communist dumbass here.

It is going to be hilarious to watch you and your fellow comrades here become skeletons of your former selves in the coming Gulags.

You are actually wishing and fighting for that outcome for yourself.

I suppose you missed the relevant logic upthread, so I will quote it again for readers that are interested in the truth.

Quote from: UnunoctiumTesticles on November 15, 2014, 04:53:04 AM

Quote from: jaysabi on November 15, 2014, 03:35:48 AM

You can do whatever you please. I'm backing the side that's the most right.

No little retarded grasshopper, you are fostering the takeover by corporations in cahoots with government corruption.

Quote from: UnunoctiumTesticles on November 14, 2014, 11:50:29 PM

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You are apparently too retarded to understand that "net neutrality" existed as a natural result of the free market and Obama is preaching that we need government to sustain or implement (regulate) the concept, which is a fucking lie and how they will actually destroy the concept.

Those who are bitching about not having net access in their communities are either wanting some subsidy from the government to drive service to their uneconomic rural location or their community is already suffering from lack of competition due to over regulation and regulatory capture by the vested interests. The free market did not fail to provide "net neutrality". Adding more government regulation only makes it worse!

You pontificate about shit which you don't know about, because ... well let the progenitor of the term "open source" explain it to you:

Those who cant build, talk

Quote from: Eric S Raymond author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"

Those who cant build, talk
Posted on 2011-07-28 by Eric Raymond

One of the side-effects of using Google+ is that Im getting exposed to a kind of writing I usually avoid ponderous divagations on how the Internet should be and the meaning of it all written by people whove never gotten their hands dirty actually making it work. No, Im not talking about users I dont mind listening to those. Im talking about punditry about the Internet, especially the kind full of grand prescriptive visions. The more I see of this, the more it irritates the crap out of me. But Im not in the habit of writing in public about merely personal complaints; theres a broader cultural problem here that needs to be aired.

Eric like myself was actually active in building the internet:

Eminent Domains: The First Time I Changed History
World Without Web
A world without ESR
Eric's GIF code in nearly every open source software in the world. He reminisced about it.
He also did work on libpng that nearly every open source software uses
Android development pulls hot chicks. Who knew?
Emacs git conversion is done at one month from his 57th birthday.
An Open Letter to Chris Dodd

Quote from: Eric Raymond
Im talking about the actual engineers who built the Internet and keep it running, who write the software you rely on every day of your life in the 21st century.

Im one of those engineers you rely on my code every time you use a browser or a smartphone or a game console. Im not exactly a leader among them as you would understand the term, because we dont have those and dont want them. But I am a well-known philosopher/elder of the tribe (Ill name two others later in this letter), and also one of our few public spokespersons. In the late 1990s I helped found the open-source software movement.