Posted by Richard Bennett
This is funny:
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Posted by Richard Bennett
The most idiotic analysis of net neutrality you’ll ever want to read has been prepared by obscure consultancy Ramp^Rate:
With the permanent barriers that the removal of net neutrality will erect for [gamers], the worst-case scenario includes three waves of change:
* One or more mainstream ISPs will introduce excessive lag that will [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
I have a hard time taking Nancy Pelosi seriously as a political leader. Granted, she’s the offspring of the powerful Maryland political machine headed by her former Congressman father, she’s connected to the Burton-Brown machine in Frisco, and a protege of the corrupt and influential Jack Murtha, but she’s dim. When the Democrats chose her [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
The more things change:
House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi’s endorsement of Rep. John Murtha for majority leader, the No. 2 position in the Democratic leaderhsip, has roiled her caucus. “She will ensure that they [Mr. Murtha and his allies] win. This is hardball politics,” Rep. Jim Moran, a top Murtha ally, told the Hill, a congressional newspaper. [...]
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The nation may be riveted to the War in Iraq, the Democratic takeover of Congress, and Britney Spears’ custody battle with her Fed-Ex, but in the Frisco Bay Area some really important stuff is going on: the A’s are getting a new ballpark:
Cisco Field will be located in Fremont, which is approximately 20 miles to [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
I like a good fight, no matter who’s fighting. Matt Stoller, the MyDD blogger who’s wasted so many electrons on the dubious cause of net neutrality, wrote a post immediately after the recent election in which he declared that the “netroots” legislative agenda begins and ends with his pet cause. A somewhat more serious thinker, [...]
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Posted by Richard Bennett
She’s not officially Speaker yet, but Nancy Pelosi has already screwed-up big time by supporting corrupt peacenik John Murtha for House majority leader:
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), in line to become Speaker in January, is throwing her support to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) in the race for Majority Leader, a move that will be an early [...]
Posted by Richard Bennett
Post-election blogging on the partisan political sites has been predictably loony today. It seems to me that the Republicans lost because the voters have lost patience with the corruption, incompetence, and pandering (especially to religious extremists.) But right wing bloggers such as Hugh Hewitt says the Reeps simply weren’t mean enough on illegal immigration (where [...]
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What’s going to happen to Microsoft when Bill Gates takes over the Defense Department? I figure he’ll be passing out laptops to the Iraqis with Windows Vista pre-loaded, in hopes they’ll be more interested in downloading porn and stealing music than fighting each other, and he may be right. But Microsoft without Gates just won’t [...]