random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  Your problem, Sacchetti, is intellectual pride. You like to make a fucking song and dance out of every spiritual itch and tremble you get. Now, what I'd suggest, if you're going to lose your faith is that you goddam well go to a dentist and have it pulled. It hurts only if you keep playing with it.

tagged: religion
  —Thomas M. Disch, Camp Concentration, "June 16", p.67.

net neutrality provision fails in the House

Friday, June 9th, 2006 9:19 am

we knew this, right? that legislative attempts to do something positive for consumers were likely doomed? [nyt 6/9]

consumers, if you get Internet service from a phone or cable company, do you think you pay enough to have service already? do you think your broadband provider ought to be able to charge you more for getting email from a non-corporate-licensed listserve, or using Google? you might want to consider calling & explaining that you already pay them to deliver a particular service–not to spend millions of dollars in lobbying to ensure their “right” to double-bill you for Internet access.

Save the Internet and Public Knowledge are the places to go on this one. Go now, while you’re not being charged double for the privilege.

algorithmically similar posts:

» agh – LA Times on “piracy”, 2007-08-22 (score:21)
» Calling Doctor Google, 2005-12-23 (score:21)
» bush & kerry on technology, 2004-10-23 (score:21)
» copyright office gone completely insane, 2005-08-11 (score:20)

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