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Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire

THIS is one example why we must have Net Neutrality. Telecom companies are about as honest as anyone you’d ever meet in high-security federal penitentiary.

Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire
Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.

When a gaffe isn't a gaffe

The right-wing media stopped talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' policies after a few weeks, and shifted to calling her a stipud dummyhead.
You know, like on an elementary school playground.
To back up this claim, they point to her gaffes, and she has made a few.
Of course their hero, Trump, is a daily gaffe machine, but that is so easy I won't even bother going there.

Thought for the day; or "Plus la change, plus le même chose."

I was doing some of my more esoteric historical reading this evening when I encountered this little nugget:

In the nations of the civilized world there are two leading forms of government. The supreme power either proceeds from the people, and in this case the government very frequently presents a sad picture of weakness, and the men in power become the mere instruments of ambitious tribunes;
or the supreme power lies in the hands of a monarch or an aristocracy, and then the people are generally an object of spoliation. Periods of history in which a despot, free from egotism, made his people happy, or a majority of people paid due regard to the rights of a minority, are of rare occurrence. For this reason men even now are yet searching a way of balancing the powers in such a
manner that they may prevent each other from doing evil and leave liberty only for doing good. But to this day no one has succeeded in solving the problem, though the greatest minds have made it the study of their lives.

-- The Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII, Benziger Brothers, 1883, p. 172

Christopher Steele’s Victory in a D.C. Court

Here’s another miscarriage of justice for ya...

Christopher Steele’s Victory in a D.C. Court

The author of the explosive dossier outlining the president’s alleged ties to Russia won an important legal victory on Monday, when a judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against his firm by the co-founders of Russia’s largest private bank.

Imran Awan Gets No Jail Time For Bank Fraud

I am too disgusted for words. Americans can do more time than this on a misdemeanor charge.

Imran Awan Gets No Jail Time For Bank Fraud

Embattled former Democrat IT aide Imran Awan gets no jail time in connection with federal bank fraud charges.

Instead, a D.C. judge sentenced the 38-year-old to timed served plus three-months supervised release.

Another dystopian scifi becoming reality

In the episode 'Nosedive' of Black Mirror, people are judged by a numeric rating given to them by their interactions with other people. Poor ratings, or even interacting with other people with poor ratings, can have real-world consequences, such as not being able to get on an airplane.

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