Back to calling our Reps.

Yes, back to the tedious work of democracy. Greed wins once again.

My only comfort is I’m not alone and I know people of both party affiliations who didn’t want this to pass. Now off to get them all organized and making phone calls.

My cold comfort is knowing that BOTH Democrats and Republicans were against this. That's a great thing.

They can now end access to the internet, entirely.

air being necessary.

They would take that next, trump would.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/climate/clean-power-plan.html


WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that Scott Pruitt, the chief of the agency, had signed a measure to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, setting up a bitter fight over the future of America’s efforts to tackle global warming.

Mr. Pruitt, who had signaled the move at an event with coal miners in eastern Kentucky on Monday, said in a news release that his predecessors had departed from regulatory norms in writing the Clean Power Plan, which was finalized in 2015 and would have pushed states to move away from coal in favor of sources of electricity that produce fewer carbon emissions.

Describing the Obama-era regulation as the “so-called Clean Power Plan,” the E.P.A. statement said that repealing the measure “will also facilitate the development of U.S. energy resources and reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens associated with the development of those resources.”

The repeal proposal, which will be filed in the Federal Register on Tuesday, fulfills a promise President Trump made to eradicate his predecessor’s environmental legacy. Eliminating the Clean Power Plan makes it less likely that the United States can fulfill its promise as part of the Paris climate agreement to ratchet down emissions that are warming the planet and contributing to heat waves and sea-level rise. Mr. Trump has vowed to abandon that international accord.

blazing fast compared to how people are going to get F'ed over.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer

It had a 300 baud modem that fit in a ROM cartridge slot.. i used to dial into the college computer to compile my computer programming assignments.

I think the school had a Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I can remember big Cobol programs taking awhile to compile.

Now citizens, do you see who OWNS America and your silly democracy?

I gave up trying to talk to them.

We cut the cord last December only have internet,Sling,Netflix,and Hulu.

HGTV and news local channel.

Can you get the 4 networks on Sling? Live?

I could look it up I guess.

My husband watches WWE Raw,ESPN,and NFL Network. But we also have the antenna for locals and CBC for the Winter Olympics.

Brick wall coming into view now!

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Saving for future reference

they are reaping. US, United Stupidity, land of Idiocracy!

They just pissed off a WHOLE LOT of people.

Tie it up in the courts.

I'm sure the relevant organizations saw this coming and have the suits already ready.

Not sure of the precise legalities of Congress overruling an administrative agency.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9983106

The child might not have reversed this.

No, I dont blame the adult, I blame the child.

In fact I would like to watch that again

a year of the psychopath.

I expect this will be leveraged by our candidates. Could help to boost millennial turnout.

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were the same people who refused to vote for Hillary because of e-mails or whatever...

Elections have consequences.


EDIT: And don't get me started on the reddit/4chan clowns cheerleading this... Talk about lambs enthusiastically going to slaughter... But hey, at least they "piss off libs", amirite?

And this tweet will *NEVER* get old:

Link to tweet

way to stream their broadcasts seamlessly to the masses when everything else will be at dial up speeds.

Just remember, Pai will be a private citizen in a few years. Someone will do the right thing.

... ur bills will increase as now the ISP can charge you ala carte prices for google access, Netflix access, Amazon, Hulu, ESPN 360, etc, etc, etc. Expect internet bills in the $hundreds like our gas, electricity, water bills.

This is just shameful GREED by the rethugs.

They will wait until all the noise dies down, then the proverbial boiling of the frog will begin. Slowly....

nm

$200, $500, or $1000 a month doesn't yield much revenue if only 500 people can afford it vs. tens of millions.

are online. You can still get hard copy text books by special request. But then you have that "peer pressure" stuff where other kids are doing things online and yours are using hard copy books.

Yes, we could go to the public library for internet access, but due to budget cuts, lots of libraries have been closed, and the ones that are open only have limited computers which are nearly always fully occupied.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029983095

My friends that posted endless Stein/Johnson bullshit on social media during the election are livid over this.

I really, really hope they are happy that they helped bring this result.

is there anyway to get a foreign isp from Europe,
Asia, or anywhere?

that's the problem, in a nutshell. You could try satellite but it sucks in general and tends to be expensive.

eta: Satellite is also local in the sense that AFAIK they are all based in the USA. If not, someone will correct me.

eta2: You can also seek out a very small ISP in your area who may actually care about your well-being and not be so greedy. I'm not sure how the big "backbone providers" play into all this. I'm sure someone knows.

smirking and snarking at reporters.

Decided that changing channels was preferable to kicking the TV. H&G is showing reruns of "Flip or Flop."


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...oh, wait...

I mean, who is really pushing this. Who are the ringleaders behind it?

Bastard-filled bastards, dipped in bastard sauce.

We need to hurt them.

made countless phone calls, over a period of years, made it crystal clear that the people want net neutrality.
Over and over again...
yet..
meh..

though ...

The ones that are going to be out en-masse (Russia Trolls, the Faux-Bots, etc) trying to claim 'it's just reversing rules made by the Dirty Black Muslim in 2015!?! We're just going back to what was, and what was wrong with your internet before that? These ISP's weren't doing any of this stuff before 2015, so why would they now'?

Is it something like 'in 2015 all the old rules were superseded/made void by the new regulatory scheme, and now that scheme is gone, so now there's NO regulations whereas prior to 2015, we in fact already had a lot of rules protecting neutrality?'

That accurate at all, or?