sjn wrote:Are the "Arab Spring" states better examples of functional democracy than the UK?
Timo wrote:For example, how was the Egyptian Spring coordinated? Twitter and other forms of social media.
Timo wrote:Net neutrality is about to become a thing of the past. Those who can pay for faster service will do so in order to control a larger segment of the messages being relayed over the intertubes.
Pops wrote:Timo wrote:Net neutrality is about to become a thing of the past. Those who can pay for faster service will do so in order to control a larger segment of the messages being relayed over the intertubes.
I don't get this Timo, I've always been limited by how much bandwidth I can purchase from the days of Delphi and Compuserve. Even if the guarantee was first come first served neutrality, someone's dozen T1 lines and billion packets would edge out my dial up single packet 9.99999999 times out of 10. The simple fact that YouTube spits out x10000 of data in itself makes them more equal than me, likewise Netflix.
Maybe that isn't the point?
Pops wrote: So like any despot he decided to crack down on communication and made everyone speak different languages and sent them to Siberia ( and everywhere else) to put the kibosh on any human inventiveness. It worked like a charm and humans were dirt poor for eons afterward.
So you see it as homogenization and I see it more as hybridization; mixing genes to increase vigor, develop new and better traits and in the end eliminate unnecessary competition.
How about that for a leap? LOL
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Not wanting to hijack the discussion into another "Stupid American Partisan Squabbling Thread Part 73.3 Merged", but why would this be, considering that the MSM is owned by a handful of corporations:Subjectivist wrote:Today the mainstream media in TV and Radio is about 85% Democrat viewpoint with 10% Republican and 5% Libertarian. If you survey the population the break down is more like 45% Democrat, 40% Republican and 15% Libertarian.
Keith_McClary wrote:Not wanting to hijack the discussion into another "Stupid American Partisan Squabbling Thread Part 73.3 Merged", but why would this be, considering that the MSM is owned by a handful of corporations:Subjectivist wrote:Today the mainstream media in TV and Radio is about 85% Democrat viewpoint with 10% Republican and 5% Libertarian. If you survey the population the break down is more like 45% Democrat, 40% Republican and 15% Libertarian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cros ... Big_Six.22
Are these corporations controlled by Democrats?
Timo wrote:Unfortunately, when the masses lose control over their lives and their familes and their future, they resort to violent revolutions. That's the only means at their disposal. World-wide, we're seeing that happening right now.
Subjectivist wrote:If the current 1% are smart they will be finding ways to stay the upper class in the next version of our civilization. When William I conquered England in 1066 those locals who fully assissted him became the lesser nobility and their children married up into the new ruling class. Those who resisted were eliminated and their children who managed to survive either self exiled or became commoner merchant class members of society.
Ibon wrote:In the US we have such a long way to fall to come anywhere near to parity with the rest of the world. Such a challenge for a culture taught to feel entitled to have only the best.
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