Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

http://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-care-that-the-fcc-is-trying-to-redefine-1681592330/ Fahey

"Why you should care that the FCC is trying to redefine broadband."

If they make it work, it's 25 Mb down and 3 up minimum.

 

yeah the trick is ISPs simply wont offer "broadband" anymore. and "broadband" will be reserved for people who can pay 500 a month for it.

 

I'm sure there's something in the telecommunications act that can cause the FCC to come down hard on them for trying that, or at least I would hope so.

In other news Jeezus Christ, these birds.




edit: I just realised something looking at this. The whole Chocobos eating Gyshal seeds thing must be bullshit. Birds that eat seeds would have to be small with strong beaks to crack them or big with dextrous enough beaks to gather them. Chocobos are stupid like horses with big strong beaks. Those fuckers eat meat and crack bones for marrow and I don't care what anyone says about it. Chocobo tamers have brass balls.

 

It would make sense if Gyshal seeds were the size basketballs.

 

Probably, but the point's actually so that when the FCC does their annual report they can show how dreadful our broadband infrastructure really is. Where I live the only option is 3Mb DSL. You can stream video over that, but it'll be DVD quality, and nobody else can really use it for anything at the same time. Get a couple people watching different 1080p streams and somebody playing a game or surfing or whatever and I could imagine a typical household using 25Mb pretty easily.

 

6mb DSL here, but I am 16000 feet to the box so best I have ever seen is 5.2

 

I pay $85 for 1.5/0.28 mbs

 

Where I live only one corporation has full monopoly over landlines so instead of spending money to improving infra they just pay all profit as revenue and invest nothing. The rest are 4G connections and fuck that. Regardless of ISP they just go through their connections and randomly drop people for 10 minutes to "prioritize bandwidth". I think in reality they're all servants of Cthulhu and have gone insane.

 

Miyake-jima.


Japanese island with varying sulfuric gas levels requires people to carry gas masks with them at all times and use them when the gas levels exceed certain level. Island was used as a penal colony during Edo period. Now it's a home for 2400 people. Who carry and wear gas masks all the time.



Why can't we have gas masks all the time?

 

My favorite is Comcast and Time Warner using this as the reason it's okay for them to merge. "Yeah it's cool. We don't compete anywhere for... reasons... that are so totally not collusion so I don't know why you would you even think that."

 

Internet in the U.S. just needs to be defined and regulated as a utility.

 

I pay 69.95 for 30Gb/s-7Gb/s and it is the slowest cheapest internet I can buy. So hif they do change it I figure it will be if you want internet you have to pay $100+ to get internet or you don't get to have internet. That or they will make you buy a TV and phone package to get internet.

What ever happens it will punish anyone but COMCAST as their CEO is the head chairman of the FCC.

 

Waffle House did that one morning when my dad din't show up.

 

My friend could just call the local pizza place and they'd recognize his voice and know what to bring. They also knew his doorcode by heart.

It gives me a fuzzy and warm feeling that companies can have such a healthy relationship with their customers.

 

Acohol vs. Pot

 

So George Lucas released a new movie the other day called "Strange Magic".

io9 did a good job of describing the pitch.

"The movie begins inside a fantastic forest world. The creatures who live in this elaborately constructed magical land include waif-ish, lollipop-headed fairies with expressionless faces, elves, goblins, imps, insect people, lizards, frog-headed creatures with human-like female torsos, and a Bog King. All the creatures have staggeringly different accents. It should be endlessly confounding where these woodland creatures derived Scottish, Russian and fake Southern American accents from. A power hungry fairy (Roland) is engaged to the fairy princess (Marianne), but on their wedding day Marianne catches her betrothed making out with another fairy (no, really, they will be full on, CG making out). The two split, Marianne becomes bitter. Meanwhile the sister to the fairy princess (Dawn) looks for love, while neglecting her best friend, an elf named Sunny. How do Sunny and Roland deal with their unrequited love? They conspire to make a love potion that will force the two female fairies to fall in love with them. It's terrible, yes ,we know, but that's why they're bad guys. Well, only one of them is a bad guy, but that's neither here nor...

Oh! I totally forgot the best part — every character will sporadically and needlessly burst into song every 10 seconds. It will make no sense at all and the transitions will be completely abrupt and astonishingly tone deaf. The only warning will be the occasional musical cue from a nonexistent electric guitar, like in the Rent movie (not the play). And despite not having access to human culture, these woodland creatures will only sing Top 40 pop songs and classic rock jams from the human world. There will be no signs of humanity in this universe, but all the characters will know all the lyrics to the entire ELO musical library.

And most importantly, we must completely neglect to market the fact that 99.9% of this film is spent in song."


I asked a friend who saw it. That last bit is absolutely true.