ProfessorPeregrine

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27 April 1987 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I had this posted over my when I was at engineering college!

Delegate Math and the Futility of Haley’s Challenge to Trump in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over a political party's nomination process. That said ...

Donald Trump will be the first former president to face a criminal trial, judge rules in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

From a jury I was being considered for (sexual assault), is not that you have no opinion, it is that you think you can be objective based on the evidence.

Lauren Boebert denies allegations that she punched ex-husband in restaurant in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It's not scare quotes. Just indicating a verbatim quote from her ex.

Supreme Court agrees to weigh whether Trump can be kicked off ballot in Colorado in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

His name will be on the ballot, but if scotus finds that he's ineligible he can't win the nomination here, so vote for him would be wasted. Well, it's wasted no matter what but you know what I mean.

I've felt intense love and heartbreak before and I don't think I could ever handle it again. Am I wrong for thinking that it doesn't get any better? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

After you've had the Ultimate Love Affair that has broken you, leaves you certain love has been poisoned in your system, then, and only then, can you be saved and uplifted by the Post-Ultimate Love Affair. - Harlan Ellison http://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0072/ERBAEN0072.htm

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Ad firm plans to use people’s data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill (www.politico.com)
 

Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals.

One of the world’s largest advertising firms is crafting a campaign to thwart a California bill intended to enhance people’s control over the data that companies collect on them.

According to emails obtained by POLITICO, the Interpublic Group is coordinating an effort against a bill that would make it easier for people to request that data brokers — firms that collect and sell personal information — delete their dossiers.

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is there a way to set the default sort order across all comments? (reddthat.com)
Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well to be fair to the actual journalists, a lot of those articles are published by random people with an agenda that are labeled "Contributor" as opposed to staff.

Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Shrug maybe they could. They have yet to prove it in the real world in the US, as you mentioned.

I like that my ISP has no profit motive and is driven solely by customer/taxpayer satisfaction.

I wouldn't like it if it became a political football, but so far so good. I think its safe for now because it is the same network used by the fire and police departments. Comcast really tried to kill it off.

Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We taxpayers built a municipal fiber to house broadband in Longmont Colorado. Stable service, one of the fastest in the nation and inexpensive.

I love it when a telecom asks me to"upgrade" to their service. It messes up their script when I ask them if they can beat 1 gig up and down for $45.

This is the way competition should work. Some things private companies do better, other things the government can do better. Let them hash it out in the market without loading the dice.