Comments on: Our Topsy-Turvy Tech World

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:37:40 +0000

Well, recently I had to learn the hard way why the current regulations, especially franchise laws, screw customers royally. The subcontractors for Verizon who laid the FiOS infrastructure in our neighborhood committed fraud against Verizon with my yard; they dug and lined the hole for the lines to be brought across the street from the hub, but did not actually do any of THAT work.

So now, thanks to our wonderfully free, competitive market (thank you, public interest groups who can't seem to call for things like a federal law to liquidate all local and state telecom restrictions on who can deploy services!) I have to either choose Comcast or wait God only knows how long for FiOS.

Also... DSL is not available anymore either because Verizon dropped it so it wouldn't compete with FiOS...

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:37:40 +0000

By: caroljns8

caroljns8 — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:36:10 +0000

Apple is developing high end products which
includes its Mac air book which is very slim
and iphone which is ruling in the smart-phone
sector.
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By: Steve R.

Steve R. — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:13:56 +0000

@ eee_eff, Quite true. Concerning Congresswoman, CALM Thyself! LA Times Eschews Eshoo Nanny State Bill to Regulate Ad Volume. I wrote: "Why do there seem to be only posts raising the specter of the Nanny State when the government seeks to "protect" its citizens but there are no posts exposing corporate appeals to the Nanny State (big government) for "protection"?"

By: adultsocialnet

adultsocialnet — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:09:47 +0000

It is hard to imagin something like facebook having to 'catch up' , I guess we'll just have to wait and see..

By: adultsocialnet

adultsocialnet — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:59 +0000

By: adultsocialnet

adultsocialnet — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:06:45 +0000

I suprised GMO, genetically modified crops, were not mentioned here. There are a lot of people in government big pharma, and big agriculture that don't want the public to know the truth about GMO and potential horizontal gene transfer within other living kingdoms. Only time will tell.

By: eee_eff

eee_eff — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:23:29 +0000

This is a very telling post. Here, there is much criticism of government regulation[ e.g.: (FCC, FTC, DOJ, NTIA, etc.) with antitrust interventions, common carriage mandates,"] that impact large corporations, but no criticism at all of government regulation which impinges on personal liberty, for example the DMCA. There is also no mention at all of the threatened ACTA, probably one of the greatest threats to personal liberty since the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Why is that? My work theory is that tlf-libertarianism is a mask for corporate power advocates, who consistently only voice concerns about laws or regulations which would limit the power of Microsoft or big telco's, while remaining silent about the destruction of personal liberty which those same corporations are presently effecting.

By: smithjame

smithjame — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:59:06 +0000

But since the Big just keep getting bigger and make it impossible for new
competitors to get in the game, it’s a good thing we have so many Federal
agencies looking out for us poor consumers.
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