Something I haven't seen many people mention lately is the legal immunity that common carrier status provides to the carrier against criminal content.

Aren't ISPs at risk of losing common carrier status if they start doing the things that NN proponents fear? If they do lose CC status, can't they then be held liable for illegal content traversing their networks? Seems like one major ISP CEO going to jail because his company is aiding and abetting the distribution of illicit imagery, or unlicensed software, or any other "criminal information," would be enough to stop the ISPs from not playing nice with our data. No?

Next?

How much time do you allot to reading a lot of RSS feeds?

You really have no idea what stuff costs, do you? In particular:

So you think you can afford the cost of running a wire from your house all the way back to the generation plant? Let's not forget the transformers, safety mechanisms, rights-of-way, poles to erect or trenches to dig and pipes to lay. Not to mention the cost of mining or reclaiming copper, extruding it into wire, and wrapping it with insulation. No, you can't use that pole or pipe that's already there, because you didn't pay for it.

I guess really you ought to build your own generation plant as well; we can't have any electrons flowing to your house for which your own money is not responsible.

tl;dr: You're an idiot.

Not likely. At least in my state, you're in heaps more trouble if you shoot to injure rather than kill, as it undermines the "imminent threat" defense. If that operator has a gun and is any good with it, the OP will be dead, dead, dead.

The log jam here is at the point where the vinyl is pressed. There is an oversupply of content (or, rather, requests for pressings, i.e. logs) being served by too few manufacturing facilities (i.e. the river). Perhaps not the most apt metaphor, but not the worst.

Nice try, though.

I'm pretty sure there's something to this. Periodically my iPhone 5S becomes hot enough to be very uncomfortable to hold while charging, and a power cycle cures the issue. Personally I think it's awfully daft to have something as important as a Li+ battery temperature sensor dependent upon the OS rather than being a separate, independent component.

Mod points aren't about whether you agree with the person. Stop abusing the moderation system.

Don't go so easy on him. It is his job to substantiate the claims he makes with cited evidence.

Can't be the NSA, then; they've been hacking that $#!+ since the dawn of time.

Not "someone." "The person who sold it to me and still has my money" broke my toy. Hey, toy-seller, you want to come break my toy? Sure. Come on! Just give me back my money and we'll call it even.

What just blows my mind is how this is even possible. There should be somebody somewhere that signs the checks and goes "oh, you're the head of this government agency and you also own this company that you want the agency to buy from? Nope." In lesser circles I believe this would be considered a conflict of interest...

I think you accidentally a word. Assuming you meant "just stop paying the bill," how would you then recover from the economic bitch-slapping they'd hand you by turning your account over to a collections agency? How would you recover your credit rating? How would you get out from under the liens placed on your property due to nonpayment? I'm certain your contract's fine print exposes you to all sorts of nastiness should you fail to pay the piper.

1,000 people each from 24 countries. So, 24,000 respondents.

Still, 24,000 out of over 7,000,000,000 is definitely not statistically significant.

Stop paying your property taxes and see how long that land stays "yours."