Hogmanay
\ hog-muh-NEY \ , noun;
1.
a gift given on New Year’s Eve.
proper noun:
1.
New Year’s Eve in Scotland.
It’s the end of the year, as we know it, and I feel fine….
Game over.
The Chamberpot of Commerce Has Its Greedy Eyes on Net Neutrality
We see just how conservative — and one-sided — Trever is with his recent cartoon on the FCC and Net Neutrality. While *all* of the voices in the cartoon say "it isn’t broken," those wacky meddlers on the FCC insist on "fixing" Net Neutrality with wacky tools. Ha ha. Of course, the No Action / No Change view wants to let business decide how to throttle and divide the Net for its own profit. To insist "it isn’t broken" is to agree that money equals free speech and the Rich should have all the access they can afford. The Net belongs to all equally. The “don’t fix it” crowd wants to change that.
The Open Internet teaches net neutrality to everyone
The Open Internet is a nice little website that strives to explain the topic with very little text, and lovely vector graphics. It flows from top to bottom, with two main illustrations. The first illustration shows how things are today, with the ISP providing access to a raw "stream" of Internet goodness. The second one shows what things might be like if net neutrality is not guaranteed, with "special packages" offering "premium access" to email, Facebook, YouTube or other services many of us spend significant amounts of time browsing.
The site goes on to explain that ISPs would even be able to block access to certain services entirely so they could offer their own competing services — a frightening scenario. All in all, it’s a very quick and enlightening read and it sure beats having to explain the subject over and over again…
Net Neutrality
The FCC took steps toward assuring everyone’s equal access to the Internet. And the puppets of the Chamberpot of Commerce, windbags like Lush Limbaugh, are braying that it is just the opposite. Liars and fools, filling their pockets with money from people who believe money equals access and, therefore, those with more money *deserve* more access in all things in life. Truth is what you pay these guys to say it is.
After the longest night, today is unlike all those since the Summer Solstice: the days grow longer, lighter, warmer. Happy (Re-)New Year, everyone!
Who needs a calendar when you’ve got a solar system?
Season’s Greetings from Gingrinch 2.0
“There’s much for them to be angst-ridden about,” McConnell said with a chuckle. “If they think it’s bad now, wait till next year.”