So for the past few months there's been this thing where I'm just scooting through my life and the same moment keeps going past, over and over, and then the whole exercise just seems like a tragic waste of human potential.

Other times it just goes round and round, fuckably, and it takes a moment to recognize that demented sexuality is the whole point.

(The finest, most poignant element of that piece is the oboe figure in the "procedural" music.)

(Generations of Americans, the wealthiest people in God's Ancient Eternity, spent their lives watching that shit.)

Amy, Jeff: Nyah-nyah.

An 18-year-old girl is being charged with involuntary manslaughter. She coaxed her 18-year-old male friend to commit suicide.

While this girl is sick and evil, no question, I have a problem with her being charged with anything. She committed no crime.

I say the US gov should but the airline tickets of anyone wanting to fight for ISIS, gets them out of here and they'll wind up dead, arrest them if they evver come back.

Cheaper than locking them up for decades only to have state paid for lawyers arguing entrapment to get them out

LN

Washington's new "net neutrality" applies the 1934 common carrier standards to the Internet. Goodbye innovation.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gordon-crovitz-liberals-mugged-by-obamanet-1425252804

Excerpts:

The Progressive Policy Institute said: “There is nothing progressive about the FCC backsliding to common carrier rules dating back to the 1930s.” The Internet Society, a net-neutrality advocate, said: “We are concerned with the FCC’s decision to base new rules for the modern Internet on decades-old telephone regulations designed for a very different technological era.” Former Clinton official Larry Irving wrote in the Hill: “Most of today’s proponents of a utility model for the Internet either have forgotten or never knew the genesis of the ‘regulatory restraint’ model that helped spur and continues to support Internet expansion.”

AND

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler justified Obamanet by saying the Internet is “simply too important to be left without rules and without a referee.” He got it backward: Light-handed regulation made today’s Internet possible.

What if at the beginning of the Web, Washington had opted for Obamanet instead of the open Internet? Yellow Pages publishers could have invoked “harm” and “unjust and unreasonable” competition from online telephone directories. This could have strangled Alta Vista and Excite, the early leaders in search, and relegated Google to a Stanford student project. Newspapers could have lobbied against Craigslist for depriving them of classified advertising. Encyclopedia Britannica could have lobbied against Wikipedia.

Competitors could have objected to the “fast lane” that Amazon got from Sprint at the launch of the Kindle to ensure speedy e-book downloads. The FCC could have blocked Apple from integrating Internet access into the iPhone. Activists could have objected to AOL bundling access to The Wall Street Journal in its early dial-up service.

Among the first targets of the FCC’s “unjust and unreasonable” test are mobile-phone contracts that offer unlimited video or music. Netflix , the biggest lobbyist for utility regulation, could be regulated for how it uses encryption to deliver its content.

Until Congress or the courts block Obamanet, expect less innovation. During a TechFreedom conference last week, dissenting FCC commissioner Ajit Pai asked: “If you were an entrepreneur trying to make a splash in a marketplace that’s already competitive, how are you going to differentiate yourself if you have to build into your equation whether or not regulatory permission is going to be forthcoming from the FCC? According to this, permissionless innovation is a thing of the past.”

Sophisticated coastal urbanites understand perfectly: The little bitch was asking for it.

Conan, thank you.

"Net Neutrality" is, unfortunately, the benign-sounding name being applied to a program of heavy government regulation of the Internet.