tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post3003010141320973813..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Net Neutrality - A Solution In Search of a ProblemSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-70346598963046158802010-12-28T08:33:44.997-05:002010-12-28T08:33:44.997-05:00Will N
Sure email is SiGraybeard at gmail dot co...Will N <br /><br />Sure email is SiGraybeard at gmail dot com with the usual symbols in place of the substitutes. <br /><br />Thanks for pointing that out. I thought I had that on the right column - must have accidentally deleted it. I'll go fix that.SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-3675774179280037742010-12-28T06:23:47.324-05:002010-12-28T06:23:47.324-05:00Is there a way to email you separately from "...Is there a way to email you separately from "comments"?<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br />Will NAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-77277275133892847152010-12-24T10:18:20.345-05:002010-12-24T10:18:20.345-05:00They are not capable of understanding how competit...They are not capable of understanding how competition and free markets work. Absolutely incapable of grasping how something that isn't controlled by anyone could work positively. <br /><br />It's the same mindset that sees Enron means every business is corrupt, but doesn't see Lenin ordering the starvation of the Ukrainians or Mao ordering the deaths of millions meaning states are corrupt.<br /><br />"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely".SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-40828156739488046002010-12-23T13:32:46.016-05:002010-12-23T13:32:46.016-05:00"He figures he'll do the arresting. Tyra...<i>"He figures he'll do the arresting. Tyrannies are cool if you get to run the gulag, right Mark?"</i><br /><br />As V.I. Lenin would define it, the central question of politics is "Who does what to whom?" We seem to be infested with these jackals, especially in the upper echelons of the <i>unelected government</i> consisting of the executive branch alphabet agencies. Want to make a rule? Go ahead, you don't answer to anybody that might be affected by it anyway. It may be illegal but if nobody can do anything about it then you get away with it. <br /><br />I like Borepatch's idea of selectively defunding executive branch agencies that abuse their power. Checks and balances at work! My oldest daughter had some questions about the checks-and-balances system that was described in her civics textbook. I explained to her that such a system could only work outside of a politically polarized environment. When political ideologies are aligned within the branches, instead of each branch providing a check on the others they instead reinforce each other and create a three-headed ideological tyranny. This is a large part of why there are so many people angry with the .gov right now.<br /><br />They can't stand having anything outside of their control, can they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-7372246832089565742010-12-22T23:25:13.802-05:002010-12-22T23:25:13.802-05:00Works for a start. I said a couple of weeks ago,...Works for a start. I said <a href="http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-i-got-to-dismantle-fedgov.html" rel="nofollow"> a couple of weeks ago</a>, I think the FCC has outlived its usefulness and could be taken apart. <br /><br />By refusing to create a budget, though, the congress is reinforcing their uselessness. That's their major constitutional responsibility, and they're afraid to let people see what the budget looks like?SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-21570153651466112162010-12-22T23:07:10.415-05:002010-12-22T23:07:10.415-05:00Let's see ... in the last year, Congress didn&...Let's see ... in the last year, Congress didn't pass a budget. It seems that the Democrats weren't up to it, with a majority in the House and a fillibuster proof majority in the Senate.<br /><br />OK, those seem to be the new rules. Let's go with that.<br /><br />The new Congress should pass a budget one department at a time. Departments that haven't been addressed yet should see a continuing resolution, at last year's budget, but for no longer than six months. Departments that are causing trouble - the EPA, FCC, DHS, etc, should be defunded, until the department rescinds these regulations.<br /><br />Let 'em do what they want, if they don't care if they get paid or not.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.com