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I said the day FS1 started...ESPN's days were instantly numbered, because we've seen this story before == Fox News destroying CNN/CNBC/MSNBC. When Red Eye was good, at 3am, it beat Rachel Maddow's audience at 9pm. It's a fact that nobody wants to explain because: butthurt. The response to my FS1 projection was crap. Mostly predicated on the fact that 1) this was around 2011, and ESPN's numbers were at a record high, and, 2) a whole bunch of bias. All FS1 was doing was capitalizing on a market that ESPN created, and they'd be lucky to be a minor player... Now? Here we are. I ask you all: was Disney responsible for the 24/7 coverage of Colin Kaepernick? Was Disney responsible for firing Curt Schilling, when, 70-90% of self-described "sports fans" agreed with him? Do you really support a grown man, dressed like a girl, using using your daughter/niece/some random little girl you don't know's restroom at a baseball game? If you do, then I can't help you...and neither can ESPN: their future bankruptcy is directly tied to your current moral bankruptcy. Why was it so easy for FS1 to poach the "talent" of Colin Cowherd and Skip Bayless? Christ: those 2 guys WERE the ESPN model for at least the last 10 years. Why is Cowherd(who is hilarious every time he said/says he isn't a "company man", yet, promoted ESPN's NBA coverage, dissed hockey, then, kissed our asses just before WGR cancelled him, and, is now a hockey fan...because of the number of Fox MSG clones out there) now calling ESPN a terrible place to work? In the end, ESPN is getting exactly what it deserves. It's no different than any firm that consistently undermines their customer's trust, by consistently replacing what the customer wants, with what their personal/company agenda says the customer needs. Sure. you can get away with it for a while, sometimes even a decade. However: look where we are now. You can't get away with it forever.

While I'm at it.... I remember a thread about sports media, a few years ago...when I predicted that FS1 would destroy ESPN, specifically because: Fox management has already proven it knows how to penetrate a seemingly impenetrable market(See: Ratings of Fox News, today), because the market, in truth, is rotten. I was told that I was totally wrong, and the business was so big that all FS1 was doing was jumping into an underserved market, at best. I was told all sorts of crap as well. The numbers don't lie. In 1996 Fox got into the cable news business. The business results have been devastating for their competition. Now: I direct your, and those who told me I was totally wrong, to this: ESPN's top "talent" like them or not, have moved to FS1. And, there's this small story, about $100 million in on-air layoffs. I wonder where those clowns who argued with me, back when FS1 started are today. Surely, they aren't going to show up in this thread and admit they were wrong. In any event, as an internet expert I say: You should only worry about clickbait...if you can't comprehend "The Boy Who Called Wolf". Most of us learned that story in Pre-K. Some of us learned it later. In all cases? What happens to the boy?

At some point, regardless of topic, people are going to realize that this is the new business model of MOST of the media. And, at another point, somebody is going to realize that credibility/time + patience...is the ultimate winning business model for the media(there are multiple, recent, glaring examples of the opposite = Tax Returns). In the meantime, we are going to be caught between the Howard Cosell/Newspaper nostalgics, the Jim Rome "hard hitters"(otherwise known as the assistant manager club), ESPN pretending it is 60 Minutes(while 60 minutes itself is fighting to stay relevant), and the Walter Football AdSense click-model clowns. Most of the media, in general, can't find their way out of this morass. Talent always wins in the end. The trouble is obvious: not much actual talent out there. In the last 5 years media people/their culture have been blitzkrieged. The ONLY reason they haven't been killed/captured is..."tradition, mostly". Rick Jeanneret proves this over and over. In my travels, I have heard all sorts of hockey announcers. If Rick is 1...the closest is 3...and the worst is ~25. Wait! He's hardly, "the media" right? Wrong. Ask yourself: If the same exact info was given to Jeanneret, or LaCanafora, about women's softball, and they both wrote a blurb about it, who would you believe? Who would do a better job, objectively, of conferring that info to us? Be honest, with us, and yourself. But what about "Access"? Meaning: what if the GM of the Bills refuses to talk to you? What if the entire NFL refuses to talk to you? Again: talent always wins. Most days I don't get "access". In fact, most of the time, some client staff go out of their way to deny me the facts/lie. I don't ask for "access", and I don't need it. Last time: Talent always wins.

:lol; yeah, right. YOU are the financial world's equivalent of OC....need I drag out and repost your epochs with TPS? What a joke.

Are they saying that all items increased by 23%, then, subtracting ~58%, to arrive at ~35% decrease in cell phone service, or I am reading this wrong? The use of the word "relative" is the problem here. I mean "all times" implies all items, cell phone service included.

Nice excuse. Yeah, 3 sentences, the first of which requires you to explain something, is too long to read? Nah, you're just incapable of defending the one simple fact, that completely undermines your supposed moral superiority on this issue, and, this time, this post is 2 sentences.

What the F are you doing? And, why? Please tell us why.

Explain #2. Do it, of GTFO. And, do you disagree that Islam needs a reformation? That is DC_Tom's thunder, that I agree with, so answer, or GTFO.

1. First of all let's do it right: its cuk, not cuck. 2. I'm still waiting for somebody, from like 4 threads on this ago, to show me Jesus's or Budda's or anybody of their religious significance's.... ....PERSONAL sword, or battle flag. Muhammed had both, and both are said to "have power". I am still waiting for an explanation as to why he's the only one that has tools of war, but, we are supposed to ignore this fact. Yeah, there is no significance there at all, especially when we have far too many Muslims running around taking the Koran literally in every single way. 3. We've been over this: Islam needs a reformation(DC_Tom summed this up nicely, about 5-6 threads ago?, but, he/everyone has yet to explain #2 above). One good thing I saw the other night, some dude, I think is a UAE ambassador, is trying to begin a reformation of sorts. 4. And, like everybody else that's been here for longer than a day, I ask: again with this?

Really, Have you, as a Democrat, asked any Coal Miners, Steel Workers, Welders, Plumbers or Pipe Fitters what was wrong...in the last 30 days, in the last 6 months, ALL of last year, or...ever? EDIT: Do you even know what these people do, or, for extra credit: can you tell us the difference between a Plumber and a Pipe Fitter? Do you know anything, anything at all about these people, how their day goes. What they think, about...anything. I do. They are my clients. Along with nurses, waitresses(sorry, severs and flight attendants)...who call themselves waitresses, and a bevy of other people...that you know, based on your posts, practically nothing about. Newsflash: They voted Trump 8/10 times. i didn't ask. They told me. Some demanded to tell me. Why? Cause I listen. Because I make a living asking the man on the ground...before I lift a finger. Did Hillary Clinton ask the coal miners anything...before she promised to put them out of work(and, in fairness, re-train them to do something else)? Nope. Does Chuck Schumer know/care why more than a few of my clients are holding their businesses back at 49 employees/starting new companies that do the same thing...so they don't get smashed by Obamacare? Nope. Thus, have you learned a damn thing since the electoral whipping you took 90 days ago? Nope.

While I'm at it:

Yeah, the Big F U here? Just like the early 80s with Reagan: the Millenials college days are more over than starting now, and they all have to get a job. It will be hilariously "shocking" when they all follow their baby boomer grandparents pattern: they won't want to pay taxes either. As soon as they see their 3rd or 4th real paycheck, and what the real deductions look like? Schit, we might as well bring back Billy Idol. I hate to say it, but, I'm kinda looking forward to the big hair again. Hell I think most feminists, deep down, are really scared of having to do the 80s big hair and makeup thing again. I can't blame them. But that doesn't mean I will feel sorry for them. Donald Trump IS the 80s big hair and makeup thing. He exudes it. Mark my words: somebody is gonna do the Dynasty/Markie Post hair soon, and the rest will lemming their way into it. EDIT: Matter. Of. Time. The Ds reliance on college-educated Millenial voters is stupidly hilarious. Gen-Xers knew we were screwed right about that 6 months in 6th grade, when all our friend's parents got divorced, and suddenly we became the only adults in the family. All of know better than to expect anything from anybody. Look at the #s: Gen-X is THE most conservative voting bloc, all races, all genders, there is. There aren't as many of us, but that hardly matters since we don't cancel each other out as much. Our voting pattern suggests we might as well be 80 years old, because we've spent most of our lives as adults. The one thing baby boomers and millenials have in common: they spent most of their lives as children. Now, 20 years from now, when it's time for millenials to send their kids to college, just like with the Baby Boomers? Oh sure, we'll see another Clinton. But, not...right...now.

It's actually simple. TLDR: Think "The 10 Commandments" : Principles. Then, think the Bills : Values. If you want depth: Then? Take the religion out of both. Morality, or, principles, is learned behavior. But, it is learned behavior that ALL humans share, apparently from birth. We now know that brain development has a lot to do with it. High-functioning sociopaths brains? Not human. You can find the concept that "Murder is Bad" in every culture, 1000s of miles away from each other, with 1000s of years of separation from each other. Besides murder, all humans know that cheating, stealing, lying, F'ing some guy's wife without his say-so, are simply: wrong. Sociopaths do not. They actually cannot. This is why there's nothing morally wrong with putting sociopaths down/out of our misery. There is research that supports genetic morality. Few species kill their own kind. While plenty are willing to engage in what amounts to a Friday night at a dive bar, everybody knows that killing, over mating, is undesirable. Laying some guy out, and then laying his girlfriend? Well, that's animal behavior. Specifically? Reptile Brain behavior. Morality is thus inherent, because our brains have evolved, mostly, beyond the reptilian. Feral humans have grown up all alone, with no community or societal "values", and they still develop morality. The story of Gilgamesh proves this, never mind the 10 Commandments. Thus, principles are universal. The 10 commandments just gets all the headlines, because it was the first time somebody wrote down 10 things that everybody "knows" causes trouble, every time, in super-definitive terms. Hence: Commandments. Not mantras. Values have nothing to do with principles. My values as a Catholic say that I can't eat meat right now. WTF does that have to do with you? Nothing. My eating meat/not has 0 effect on you, or society. Values are a choice. WTF do I care if you wear a hijab? I don't. I do care if you demand that my girlfriend wears one...because now you are enforcing your values on me, and pretending they are universal principles, when we both know they aren't. (Incidentally,if you make your girlfriend wear a hijab, there's an 80% chance her and her hillbilly-hairy downstairs is gonna end up in my hotel room. This is a world-wide, racially agnostic phenomenon. Hijab-girl, in Ithaca of all places, was 2 weeks ago. I step in that schit all the time. I just want a drink or 3, then I decide I want Indian food. The rest: batschit crazy. For reasons passing understanding, I attract girls who want to be "broken", or want to rebel against their men/society/some schit I don't know/care about, in public. When the TEA party started, coincidentally, some hipster told me she wanted to tea-bag me. I ran away, because I didn't want to engage in what I thought was some kind of punishment sex for my political views. As smart as think I am, girls have been incomprehensible since I can remember. I don't have time for all that, and I can't commit to what I simply do no understand...so, that's why I'm not married, or in prison.) HOWEVER! If I find out that your girlfriend is your girlfriend, I'm gone, instantly. I don't knowingly break the adultery principle, ever. Breaking a value means nothing. Breaking a principle gets you state time, or shot, or worse: having to explain that you actually, really, really didn't know that the woman you banged was your rival high school lacrosse team head coach's wife. I schit you not, on all counts. She knew damn well who I was though, once again enforcing the "I attract crazy" postulate. Here's where trouble lies: when any human puts their values above our shared principles. A guy doesn't want to share his fortune with his albeit loser wife, so he knocks her off. Even if he doesn't get caught, he is going to feel guilty. Why? Because he put his own value of his pride, his cash, etc., ahead of the universal principle that murder == bad. People that can't separate Principles from Values == people that are going to start trouble (EDIT: Lacrosse. Coach's. Wife. ) The only question is how much trouble and hence, do we taze them, or do we execute them? Right now, we have people who are stealing, cheating and lying in order to do harm to Trump. They think they are doing right. They are not. They are merely putting their own values ahead of what we all know is moral behavior. Never forget: Deep Throat(Watergate) was convicted of corruption. (EDIT: CIA is literally the place where one goes to put their values ahead of principles, in the hope that it will prevent others from mass principle breaking...but...it's still immoral. CiA are professional, organized criminals. They have no honor, because they aren't soldiers. I'm fine with it, because I understand the big picture, but, I don't deny that they are principle-breakers. This is why I refuse to pee myself when I find out that CIA is doing CIA.) So, yeah, even the guy who is following his inherent principles by telling on Nixon...can also be capable of ignoring them, for personal gain...at the same time. Values are largely specific to culture. IF I cat-call a girl at a Bills game, I'm gonna get a WTF from basically everybody around me. However, IF I DON"T catcall a girl at a Tejano bar in Texas? She's gonna demand to know why. Worse? She's gonna accuse me of being a cop/thinking i'm white so I'm too good for her/and all sorts of batschit crazy that makes this long post even longer. Yet another lesson I got to learn the hard way.

Irony. I never do this, but who's in favor of submitting this discourse to Urban Dictionary as a definition of irony? I mean, the Urban Dictionary is largely a symptom of the idiocy that I have to deal with(see: me talking networking with a F'ing Cable Guy), so it's generally depressing. I deal with idiots all day. That's my job. My entire career: I literally get paid because the phonies that are in charge pay me extra not only to do the job they are incapable of doing, but to do it without exposing their staggering incompetence. (And, they expect me to clean up the mess == fire anybody who figures out what is going on/gets in the way. I haven't gone along with that since 1999.) Yesterday, a CEO of a supposed "analytics" firm told me that they use a "snowflake" design. I **** you not. Data Warehouses use a star schema. Snowflakes are what we do when we can't get a dimension right, or, because there are integration issues. Nobody sets out to make a "snowflake". We only do it as a last resort. Yet, this guy is touting it as a feature? (Hint: that's like Boyst, the cow farmer, telling you he's in the fencing business) The man doesn't have any idea what his own company does, or how it does it, and they've been in business, proudly, for 30 F'ing years. So, it's between the post above, and this idiot CEO, for my first Urban dictionary post. Submit your votes!

Yeah, I'm totally believing that you are on the same level with grinreaper, because your evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, is exactly like his life experience as a 9 year old. Anybody who's even somewhat familiar with the actual detective work that is required from a real historian knows immediately that grinreaper's story has details that are salient, and therefore, it's likely that there is primary source gold to be found. You tie that in with Truther Horsesh!t....casually? I mean, at what point should we ask "have you no shame, sir?" I fear that the point...is irrelevant...because you don't even understand the concept of shame. Oh sure, you can yell the word "shame" at somebody else, at a college campus, but you really don't know what it means. Honestly? If you lost a bet to me, and I made you do 100 pushups, naked, on Youtube., would you be ashamed, or....would you be looking at the view count?

Consider: You're walking down the sidewalk. Yes, suburb unmitigated morons, I am already subtracting you from the equation, because 9/10 you don't add value to the discourse here, just ask the Crayonz wannabe. Everything that guy writes stinks of Red Lobster, out of F'ing season. But, today is "Lobsterfest"....which makes me wonder....since lobster season normally involves Maine, in the fall, and that's exactly 6 months off? F'ing Suburbs == Pretend Crayonz. This is one rare instance where the charge requires them to defend it, not the other way around. How are you suburb people capable of having a lobster fest at exactly the wrong time? Answer! You have no F'ing idea, do you? Anyway, imagine 2 CITY people walking down opposite ends of the same sidewalk. They both see a man lying on the ground. The first person says "I have to help him immediately, because it's wrong if I don't"(Democrat), the other person says "I have to find out what's wrong with him, so I can help him, and to find out if he's lying/about to sucker punch me, because it's wrong if I don't"(Republican), and of course, the libertarian viewpoint, which neither R or D considers: "perhaps before anybody does anything, we should ASK the man lying on the ground what he thinks." See? You thought there was going to be an unmitigated moron in this story, didn't you? (Well, GG can PM you all and swear he knew the whole time that there wasn't, but...are you buying that?) No. The truth here is that tolerance/inference is not a constant. Tolerance/inference is a variable. Far too often we confuse morality(principles) with approach(values). Some people are the "help right away even though I don't know WTF is happening" people. Some people are "wait, WTF" people. Neither gets to claim moral superiority....anymore. Not since Trump won. The only unmitigated morons in this thread? The people that don't yet recognize that the Democrat political playbook since 1993...is literally the Houston Oilers playbook of 1993. They just don't know it yet.,

And again: The unintentional irony abounds: tying the right to vote...to the "LBJ N!gger Entitlement(hey assclown, LBJ said the N word, not me, so why are you defending his "Great Society, again?")" == to be totally irresponsible, and teach that, and get rewarded for that, for 3 generations...all provided you vote Democrat? Coupled with: More black men have ALMOST! died in Chicago than have died in the War on Terror. I say ALMOST! because: for all I know, 1 of 3 things are true. 1. I, once again, have to do this F'ing job myself, because nobody else is capable of analytical/abstract thought. 2. We've crossed that threshold, and the media is doing all it can to hide that datum 3. We are like 2 dead black Chicago sh!heels away from surpassing the record, of honor, that the 2 dead black heroes set, and the Rs don't want to spoil the surprise...stats...on the Ds.

Explain why there is no Ed Koch Airbase in Manhattan, or, no David Dinkins Nuclear Power Plant in Queens. You can't. The reason you can't: it makes about as much sense to locate multi-billion $ government installations there as it does to treat all government spending as one huge line-item, per state. Accounting 101 would tell anybody this, but, what are the chances that you, or any Democrat took, and passed, Accounting 101? Thus, this guy's entire premise has huge design flaws. Educate yourself on the simple concept of having to spend more money on the Hoover Dam...because it's the F'ing Hoover Dam, than on the Statue of Liberty. Educate yourself on the simple concept that if you take farm subsidies out of your dopey, single line-item approach, this entire argument's ass falls out immediately. Yes, farm subsidies...which Blue states demand, because if they didn't, the price of food would go through the roof for them some years, and other years, there would be shortages. The Red States want farm subsidies too, because the food business is too volatile, since it is so heavily dependent on volume, and Blue state demand is subject to wild swings(Milk is good/bad/good/bad/good/bad, etc. ). This isn't 1925. We don't all live on the farm. So, the government has actually been useful here in keeping things necessarily steady. So steady, that we can send food all over the world cheaper than people can make it themselves. That's called good business, and it comes back 3x to blue states in terms of Blue state people getting jobs moving the food/selling it/cooking it, etc. But yeah, the "educated" view is that a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. Morons. As I said: this is is a child's understanding of how/where/why the government spends $. You think rural nursing homes get the same medicaid funding as urban ones? Are you an idiot, or just uneducated? -> https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Health-Plans/MedicareAdvtgSpecRateStats/Downloads/RegionalRatesBenchmarks2016.pdf Look at page 2. See how a nursing home who serves the poor/Medicaid people in MO gets 26.13, while NY gets 39.73? So, no, this guy is completely talking out his ass. He's not sending extra magical Medicaid $ anywhere but his own state. And, if he knew anything, he'd know that Medicaid is generally broken down as follows: 50% Fed, 25% State, 25% county. NY State in its infinite wisdom is one of the largest Medicaid Reimbursers in the country. Only beaten by NJ. NYS doesn't just pay its 25% as required by law, oh no, it pays way more....because we are so compassionate, right? Wrong: because we are idiots. By doing this, NYS's #1 import is Poor People. Hooray! People come FROM Red States to get on Medicaid here...ALL THE F'ING TIME! So, if this guy had any understanding of the material at all, he should be pissed at our "compassionate" NYS legislature, which, has been in the poor people import business for the last 40 years, while steadily raising taxes! Which does what? Forces not poor people, or people who don't want to be poor, out of the state, and out of the F'ing tax base!. Now, you've been educated. The reason Blue states keep paying more and more and more and more for "nursing homes" is their own damn Blue State Legislatures, who keep insisting on overpaying for ALL entitlements, and thereby attracting Red State poor people. Then, they raise taxes to keep paying even more. It's a vicious cycle, and most states have said "enough!"...which why Blue Legislators, nationwide, have been dropping like flies. There's some "education" for you. Show me your command of how CMS works, I've already shown you mine. EDIT: And then, there is supposed to be a mystery to how Democrats lose elections because of over-concentrations of their voters in their safe hidey-hole districts in NY, CA, IL, and NJ? They IMPORTED that over-concentration of takers with their own bad policies. That ain't the Red State's fault. There aren't any takers left in Red States, they've all moved to Blue States where they get to take more. Yeah astounding, isn't it.

"...at odds with the opinion..."? Wait. What? We go from "settled science" to using the word: "opinion"? I haven't heard the media refer to this as an "opinion"...ever. Are there going to be consequences for this writer's use of "opinion"? Hey by all environtology precedent: this writer is now a "denier" because he said "opinion". But, given the last 20 years of environtologist "evidence"? The math, logic, and commons sense says: all they have is an opinion, or better, a hypothesis. They do not even have enough to support the creation of a scientific theory. They aren't close to definitive proof of anything, not when you/they/nobody can tell me if their margin of error is .1, .01. or 001, because you/they/nobody can't tell me if the projected global avg temp increase/100 yrs is gonna be .1, .01, or .001. Even the term "Greenhouse Effect" or "Greenhouse Gas" is...flat out wrong, because how an actual greenhouse works has nothing to do with CO2 or methane interacting with the Sun. It's an poor analogy at best: flat out distortion, so that dumb people will be scared, is more likely. The good news: we should have been referring to Global Warming as a "hypothesis" or "opinion" for the science illiterate, this entire time. Now it seems we are, finally.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america What a maroon. He's "threatening" us with this: For starters, we now endorse cutting the federal income tax to the bone—maybe even doing the full Wesley Snipes and abolishing it altogether. We will raise our state and local taxes accordingly to pay for anything we might need or want. We ask nothing more from you and your federal government. Nothing for infrastructure, or housing, or the care of the poor and sick—not that you gave us much, anyway. All we want is our money, and you can keep yours, dollar for dollar. Which, is basically WTF we want. If we are serious about keeping money where it is? Great! Now I don't have to send $1 for Education to DC, have them take a cut, have them send it to the state...to take a cut, and have my own district and its teachers have to apply/beg the state to send my money back to them, so they can get MAYBE $.15 of my $1. New Plan: I just give them my $1. This unmitigated moron...is threatening me with that? Newsflash: the ONLY "higher purpose" The Great Society has been serving, since 1965...is the campaigns of Ds, and in turn, the wallets of those who pay to play with them. How are the Wars on: Poverty, Drugs, Single Motherhood, Child Hunger, Child Abuse, Child Support, Illiteracy et al going? Well, it's been at least 40+ F'ing years, and what exactly has changed? Meanwhile, how has the Federal Grants for Social Science/Federal Overpay for Incompetents Jobs Program industry been doing for the last 40 years? EDIT: GSA scandal anyone? Most of this amounts to the rantings of an 8th grade girl. For example: this guy doesn't want to pay for rail lines or highways in red states...yet never solves the "where is the food, fuel, water, electricity coming from and how does it get there" problem. Perhaps he thinks we should build airbases and forts in Manhattan, and not in Kansas(oh, is that part of the money that Kansas is "stealing" from the Blue states? #8thGradeGirl) Also, he seems to think that in his perfect world of high speed rail, and wind/solar farms, places like...the Southern Tier of New York, Western MD, etc. are going to go along his "plan". They'll be fine with being "where the windfarms are" and having to walk/ride their bikes everywhere. I mean its not like these economies are F'ING DYING already...and this clown: 1. wants to nail the coffin shut 2. bitches because the people who live there can now see that, and this guy, for exactly who he is, what he is, and most importantly, what he thinks about them 3. wonders why these people voted against him, and the rest of the 8th grade girls that sit at his lunch table. The man is literally laying out the case on why both his brain and the ideas it creates suck donkey dick, yet is completely oblivious that he is doing it. He bitches about Amtrack running at a loss in Red states. Why does he think it will run a profit in ANYWHERE in VA that isn't within 40 miles of DC? And what about states like NJ/DE/RI? Does he think that they have the $ to build their own rail lines? Especially NJ? Simpsons. Monorail! Batman Trilogy? When are these clowns going to learn that the Monorail is such a known quantity as a failure, that it's repeatedly used as a key plot element? He thinks, that basing our transportation on fossil fuels and personal vehicles...is LESS risky than basing them on surly government employees who are liable to strike instantly. Just wait until something important is coming to town. In Philly it's the: SEPTA Workers Threaten Strike headline, every time. Yeah. Let's build rail lines with no competition whatsoever, and then? Staff them up with people who KNOW they are the only option. Way less risky. The final kicker is this: Look at F'ing Chicago and Illinois in general. That entire sh!thole is going down, hard. Decades of mismanagement means they are going to default. Illinois is the new Greece. And, when Illinois inevitably fails? Guess who is going to have to bail them out? (There are many Blue States that aren't far behind.) Yep, the Red States. Just like the Red States had to pay their tax dollars to bail out what the "smart people" in NYC and DC did to the rest of us in 2008. Seems this clown forgot about that. I suppose the next time his "enlightened" laws require giving mortgages to people who can't afford them, based on race, it will be nice if it is only his "Blue" money that has to pick up the tab. These are just the easy ones.There is plenty wrong with this guys argument. But, I hope he keeps trying. He's doing a fine job, as every far-leftist does, of ensuring the opposite of what he wants happens.

I'm not replying to any of this until you convince me of 1 thing: That you actually understand what a domain is. I don't want to hear another word until you show at least decent proficiency. I gave you a URL. Take that, or any URL, and explain domain. Until you do, the rest of what you have written is pointless, because, quite simply, if you don't understand what a domain is: I can't even begin to explain your errors to you. Also, you might want to check the link I provided: from Cisco. I assure you there are no $50 routers there. This is hilarious: the total value of the equipment I've bought from Cisco for projects over the years is I'd guess around 10-15x your lifetime net worth. I've gotten to know many Cisco, and F5, and Dell people over the years, but yeah, you're probably right: I can't see past my home router. So, that's why I say: explain domain. Do it now, or stop wasting bits.

Just remember one thing and you'll be fine: At it's most embryonic stage, the internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. Thus, decentralization is in its genes. Government, by definition, or at least by Democratic definition, seeks to centralize all . And, by the way, so do a lot of corporations. This is why, as I've said at least 100 times on this board regarding ALL the attempts to control/tax;/regulate the internet: "It will never work". Why? Because design...is design. Big Business can't succeed for the same reason Government will never succeed: you can't override a fundamental design tenet. The code is the code. Period.

NOAA violated its own rules by publishing the report without subjecting it to required verification procedures–procedures that were designed by Dr. Bates himself. Of all the “fake news” stories that emerged in the last two years, this is probably the most important. I had a giggle-fit when I saw this. 11 years of this crap, and here we are, just as many of us said we'd be. I was too busy to come here when it broke, but I was thinking about it plenty. Then: "I wonder if we can measure the propensity of B-Man to post a killer article like this in the Global Warming thread / time". I suppose we'd have to come up with a brand new graduation for it. 1 B-Man == lethality to global warming scam / (time of B-Man's post at PPP Thread) - (time from original article post) with lethality to global warming scam == (importance of article's publication (1-10 scale)) * (veracity of source(s) (1-10 scale))) * ((# of undeniable facts provided) + (# of "standardized" myths busted)) This works because importance is in the numerator with true reaction time in the denominator. A less important story should take longer to post, and the inverse is true as well. It also works as a fine performance indicator...although I imagine we'll have to get down to the seconds in order to maintain appropriate precision, as (time of post - article post) is pretty granular for B-Man. Think of it! Then we can say things like: "The average Global Warming article moves at 30.5 B-mans, but hey, this whistleblower article, man, that's gotta be moving at 150." Really, it's applicable in all threads. But, we just try it here for testing/calibration first.

Oh, no whimsy? Strike a nerve did we? How quaint. Run along back to OTW. Here we don't tolerate idiocy, just ask Tom. Ah, so your answer is: too abstract. Fine. In a few years this will become clear as water to you. I can't speed it up for you. All I can do is try putting into terms you might understand, like I said: perhaps farm subsidies?

I'm sorry, is there something obtuse about Obama handing Google et al a government-provided Get Out of Jail Always card when it comes to writing crappy software, that slows down the entire internet, and me calling BS? Is there something obtuse about removing a giant cost incentive, bandwidth consumption, from Google's business model, and in so doing, allowing them to get away with adding tons of unnecessary browser callbacks(literally means Http requests coming from your browser, not them, so you "use" the bandwidth, not them)? You want a definition of obtuse: giving huge companies whose "gas" was regulated by market price...unlimited use of "gas", so they can slow things down as much as they want(for GregF: using software, not hardware), and turn around and charge you to speed them up again...because "premium membership". I'll try this a different way: Is Netflix one day soon offering said premium membership for 2x the $, for the "new"(old) service, because they "break" the old service on purpose...too obtuse for you to consider? Or is it merely too abstract for you to consider?They can chew up the bandwidth to do that, and there's nothing anybody can do to stop them under Net Neutrality. Since we all love talking about packets so much, lets use them: what's to stop netflix from sending you ads in the middle of your movie(extra packets), or, only one real packet followed by 2 null ones(extra packets) to slow you down just enough to not quit them, but enough to make you shell out for the "fast" version? They don't have to pay for the extra packets. Oh nooooes! That would be evil. No, you and everybody else has to pay, because all these useless packets are being generated by Netflix without cost considerations, and not even GregF's infallible switches can exceed their design parameters. More **** down the tube slows down the tube. It's f'ing physics for god's sake. Look: either you don't understand, or, you don't want to understand. Short-sighted? What I am talking about is perhaps more forward-looking that you can probably handle right now, because, as you said, you don't know much. That's fine. But, don't confuse something that is necessarily abstract, with something that is obtuse. And, as I'm writing I'm thinking hell "I could put this into terms of farm subsidies"...if that will help. Finally, after all of the Big Government Massive F Ups in the last 10 years, why in the sam hell would you think they got this one right? That's obtuse. We have no (EDIT: current) way of measuring "forced" bandwidth consumption via software douchebaggery, and there are very few places where you will find this massive unintended consequence addressed by anyone. It sure as hell isn't addressed in the current regulations. It's not even considered. That's because most of the people, in this thread and everywhere else, either have a selfish agenda going in and don't care, or, they don't have the capacity, or, they don't the "bandwidth" to consider this.