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9 months ago
in Banned or Required, With Nothing In Between on OpenMarket.org
How about something like say Valium or Vicodin? Would you think it ok for an employer to refused hire a person that had a prescription for these drugs on the chance that they may come to work with one of them in their system? It seems to me that the legislature is only extending the same protections that other prescription drug users have. You can't refuse to hire someone using prescription drugs unless the drugs might have a marked effect on that person's ability to do the job. This pretty much looks like the same thing the way I read it.
3 years ago
in Marijuana Muffins, Reefer Madness and Drugging Kids | The Cosmic Tap on The Cosmic Tap
Why? Are the damn children Bogarting the muffins again? Damned kids.....:-)
3 years ago
in Network Neutrality in Practice on The Technology Liberation Front
Net Neutrality should be passed by CONGRESS not the FCC. It should be an act to outlaw any owner of any lines blocking traffic that that person's customer wants. As it stands now the Telco's want to block VOIP services on DSL and fiber lines that their customers pay for. They also want to adjust bandwidth for competing services and websites thereby giving preference to their own or to the highest bidder. If congress doesn't stop this it will be the end of the net as we know it.
This pretty much the understanding that I got from reading material sent to me by one of the ISP trade groups.
This pretty much the understanding that I got from reading material sent to me by one of the ISP trade groups.
3 years ago
in Network Neutrality in Practice on The Technology Liberation Front
This may sound good in theory. In practice however it's a different ball of wax. The FCC has sided again and again with the big telco's. Independent CLECs that are not facilities based will be gone next year, thank you FCC. The FCC has also ruled that the telco's don't have to share fiber with ISPs or CLECs. The telco's feed fiber to an area's phone switch then don't have to wholesale out the copper lines beyond the fiber because they don't have to share the fiber! The list goes on and on since the republican's have been in office and had control of the FCC. It's the same old story: it's about money. Quite frankly the telco's are using the regulating powers of the FCC to basically declare the 1996 Telecom Act null and void without bad publicity. Notice all the mergers in the Telco industry the last few years? They are slowly and quietly putting Ma Bell back together again.
Net Neutrality? Give me a break. If the Congress does not protect it the Internet will be lifeless enity in a couple of years. Remember the phone system before the break up of Ma Bell? In many parts of the country you used the phone that the phone company provided. (and charged you for)Phones were hard wired to the wall, cordless phones didn't exist and the only answering machines you could use were what you bought from the phone company and paid out the wazoo for. Long distance was so expensive if you wanted to call your cousin 4 states away everyone gathered together to make the call on Sunday when rates were cheaper.
You say that's ancient history and those day's are over? I work with these companies everyday and the only thing they have learned is that they screwed up when they had a chance to make the internet an unregulated monopoly because they were short sited monopolists. Now they are trying to fix that mistake by getting rid of the real innovators (ISPs)and putting their monopoly back together. The consumer will suffer but so will tons of other people if net neutrality isn't protected by congress. Neutrality and innovation are what has made the net what it is today. If it's not protected look for lot's of layoffs in the technology fields.
Net Neutrality? Give me a break. If the Congress does not protect it the Internet will be lifeless enity in a couple of years. Remember the phone system before the break up of Ma Bell? In many parts of the country you used the phone that the phone company provided. (and charged you for)Phones were hard wired to the wall, cordless phones didn't exist and the only answering machines you could use were what you bought from the phone company and paid out the wazoo for. Long distance was so expensive if you wanted to call your cousin 4 states away everyone gathered together to make the call on Sunday when rates were cheaper.
You say that's ancient history and those day's are over? I work with these companies everyday and the only thing they have learned is that they screwed up when they had a chance to make the internet an unregulated monopoly because they were short sited monopolists. Now they are trying to fix that mistake by getting rid of the real innovators (ISPs)and putting their monopoly back together. The consumer will suffer but so will tons of other people if net neutrality isn't protected by congress. Neutrality and innovation are what has made the net what it is today. If it's not protected look for lot's of layoffs in the technology fields.
