Politics
Yes, what is going on in Italy is about as frightening as that headline reads. Authorities in Italy have been attacking the internet on multiple fronts as of late with many moves that are eerily intrusive and controlling. First you may be wondering why such a drastic headline. I want everyone to know that I [...]
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Something rather horrible was just brought to my attention. It is the story about a 16 year old boy named Ashton Lundeby who was arrested in the middle of the night by a team of FBI and local law enforcement officers. Now an arrest of someone so young isn’t really news-worthy these days (shameful as [...]
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After the last few articles that I have written I thought that things couldn’t get much worse. I thought they would at least give it a couple weeks before taking another shot a stomping on consumer rights. Boy was I wrong. Today we received news about a small town in North Carolina called Wilson. This [...]
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For those of you that have been following tech news for the last year or so it is not news that Time Warner is experimenting with and pushing metered billing. What they want to do is set data usage caps and offer customers different tiers of capping and pricing so that they can choose a [...]
This has been a busy week for broadband providers. First Time Warner announces that they will be rolling out tiered internet access to markets in Texas and New York. Tiers which give extremely low consumption caps (5, 10, 20, and 40GB plans). Then AT&T has decided to completely ignore any concept of Net Neutrality on [...]
Mobile phones have become a cornerstone in how our society communicates, in how the world communicates. When once there were dark spots of communication across our country in areas where phone lines couldn’t reach we can now connect to one another. Lives have been saved by them and have been made easier by them. Mobile [...]
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The other day I was emailed about a situation brewing in Washington, several members of Congress are trying to push through a bill that will make the administration end of farming so difficult that only the largest of distributors could afford to run such operations. This is, of course, all being done in the name [...]
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Today the New York Times reported that AIG, a company that has received two bailouts in less than six months, is planning on rewarding it’s incompitent executives over $168 million in bonuses. How can we continue to let them take advantage of the American people? The lawyers for AIG say that they are contractually obligated [...]
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Since the formation of the United States of America we have cherished our rights that we granted to ourselves as a government by the people for the people. However, as time has gone by, those that are in power have managed to stay in power and they bring their friends and family in with them. [...]
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