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Comment Re:No favorites here (Score 1) 134

Stop pretending that the government cannot promote competition via regulation. It can; it just did. With net neutrality it did not. Net neutrality need not limit competition, but it does forbid certain abuses of monopoly position. (And many people have few choices of ISP.) Even the anti-net-neutrality crowd acknowledged this; they just claimed anti-trust law offered an effective remedy. This was quite wrong, as many economists explained.

Comment not over yet (Score 2) 308

This is not over yet! Sadly, we need to keep saying the same thing to the same people, who want to ignore the overwhelming, bipartisan public support for net neutrality. Weigh in directly with the FCC with this form, type 17-108 in the "Proceeding(s)" box, then fill in the rest of the required information.

This is a battle between the interests of consumers (citizens) and the interests of large ISPs (corporations). It is also crucial to us as citizens to have the free speech protections provided by strong net neutrality rules. Economists and lawyers have studied this. Claims that net neutrality rules hinder innovation have proved to be nonsense, empirically. Claims that existing antitrust law provides adequate net-neutrality protections have proved to be nonsense, legally. Tell the FCC to serve the public interest, not just corporate interests.

Comment Re:After consultation with "my Generals"... (Score 1) 904

Of course you are right that Strat is fantastically rewriting history to say what he wants it to. But in pointing this out, you still followed down his path of deflection. His use of whataboutism is typical of embattled Trump supporters, as is his feigned tone-deafness to the implications of such appalling phrasing.

Comment why net neutrality? (Score 1) 245

Quoting the EFF:

Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a service can be either a “telecommunications service” that lets the subscriber choose the content they receive and send without interference from the service provider; or it can be an “information service,” like cable television, that curates and selects what subscribers will get.

That's why.

Comment Re:Ehh maybe halfway? (Score 1) 256

I tried it. Rendering was fine and reasonably speedy. (They disagree with FF and Chrome on whether the first EOL after a `pre` tag must be rendered in an XHTML document, and they are probably on the wrong side of that.) But then I tried to download a file to my preferred location: no choice, and no way to set a preference to ask for a save location. 'Bye to Edge.

Comment Re:Tables? (Score 2) 103

Tables are not pivot tables, which LO has had for ages. Tables are a crucial spreadsheet feature, providing structured references to rectangular arrays of data. Elementwise operations become trivial with tables. A collection of tables can be used similarly to a relational database.

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