Posted on 02/25/2015 11:30:15 AM PST by yoe
If you are old enough, you know how well regulation worked in the airline industry. Prices were high, planes flew almost empty, and nobody could afford a ticket. This is a bold move back to the 30s. FORWARD to the past!
I was in the Jayhawks LRRP in the 60s, I was the Radio Operator...we used ANGR 47s and were able, with CW, to reach Ft Bragg from the edge of the woods in Germany. we would stretch our antennas along the top wire of a farmers field. We were all about “Shoot and Scoot” In VN I was commo chief in the 2/327 of the 101st. definitly improvised antenna, canteen thrown over a limb to place the antenna worked for me...
When I was at Fort Gordon in ‘94 we still have GRC-106’s! I went back again in ‘99 as an instructor for a few years and we were STILL teaching them! They even had one in the Signal Museum.
They’ve got a nifty device now where you can type a long message and it will be sent out as a quick burst. Much better than the old methods.
All who misread this and didn’t bother to see how you can help....a perfect example of missed information...go back and read my comments before you do yourself and others harm.
The only comment I see is
“(what you can and must do)
“ The most important FCC vote of our lifetime is about to happen.
“On Feb 26 the FCC will vote to save net neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Some members of Congress, on behalf of their Cable donors, are trying to stop the FCC from protecting the Internet we love. There isn’t much time to stop them, contact them now.
Internet users: Spread the word.
“Telling everyone about the vote is a key part of winning real net neutrality. We need your help to do just that. If you use twitter, click “Join with Twitter” below, and you can sign up to tweet once a day from now until the vote, or just once right before the vote. It’s your choice. If you don’t have twitter, then sign up with your email and we’ll send you a list of different ways you can help.”
What am I missing?
Please help us understand how doing what this OP suggested could have helped. Thanks.
Internet users: Spread the word."Telling everyone about the vote is a key part of winning real net neutrality."
We need your help to do just that. If you use twitter, click "Join with Twitter" below, and you can sign up to tweet once a day from now until the vote, or just once right before the vote. It's your choice. If you don't have twitter, then sign up with your email and we'll send you a list of different ways you can help.
THIS STATEMENT SUPPORTS NET NUETRALITY! Read what you wrote closely. Then read it again. Your statement says there are some politicians trying to stop the FCC from regulating the internet. THEN you say, we need to stop THEM (the politicians). Finally, you mention something about "winning" real net nuetrality, which implies you want a yes vote on the afformentioned title of the proposal, "Net Nuetrality." In conjunction with your original thread post, this implication seems clear to me.
If you are suggesting you meant the opposite, your comment was unclear. If necessary, we can get into the specfic semantics of grammar useage as it relates to pronouns, subjects and predicates. But that would be moot at this point, no?
Well done.
It seems that there is a boat load of support for “Net neutrality” coming from people that have no clue.
It's no surprise either. If you have been watching the news or reading the articles, the FCC takeover and regulation of the internet was sold as "keeping the internet" free and "protecting the people" from the internet providers. Then the media would add, there are some republicans that are against this protection for the people. The entire premise of the "RULES" (not even legislation) was not reported. WORSE? This is not even consititutional and that was never reported. The FCC simply made a statement that the internet is public and therefore under the regulatory discretion of the government. 5 people voted on a new law that will raise taxes on every single internet user in the nation!
As to the clown that originally posted the thread accidentally supporting net nuetrality? You can't fix stupid.
It is surprising to me that considering the opposition to these new rules and regs, the 332 pages hasn’t been leaked to the public.
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