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In Case You Were Wondering

I simply didn't have the time to keep this up.
But I have now joined the ranks of professional writer (well blogger... but I just like the sound of writer better.)

I'm a contributing writer at Switched.com, the AOL tech and gadget blog, and I have a music blog sponsored by B5 Media clumsily called Big Apple Music Scene.

Check me out at both.

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This guy regulates the internet...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Senator Ted Stevens.

There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

But this service is now going to go through the internet* and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.

We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [¿]

The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [¿]

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?

Do you know why?

Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.

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Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.

Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.

It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.

The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.

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More local news

I realize its been a while since I've updated. Its been busy, and I've been focusing on my other blog In The Buzz recently trying to build some content and a reader base...

As I'm sure you're all aware Armageddon is upon us…
But I don’t want to talk about that, I’d like to talk about James Molinaro, Staten Island’s borough president, and his hoodlum grandson, Steven Molinaro.

James Molinaro is often credited with being, if nothing else, a superb politician. He knows how and when to flex his persuasive muscle, and is unsurpassed in the field of calling in favors. Take for example his grandson, Steven, 18 years old, and back before a judge in St. George again, for the 4th time… and the 3rd time for assault.

Molinaro objected to 14 year old Mark Veras leaving half of his Staten Island Advance stack infront of his home while he delivered the other half. The punishment for such an offense? 10 stitches and a brain contusion.
This is not even the first time Molinaro has been charged with attacking a 14 year old boy!
In February he was charged in the stabbing of Richard Orloski who spent 2 weeks in the hospital and underwent surgery twice to repair a punctured lung.

Despite a 3rd assault charge and a drug charge Steven is not in prison, or even under house arrest. Steven was released on bail of his own recognizance. If he was any one but the borough president’s grandson you can be assured that he would be spending his wait for trial in jail where criminals belong.


Technorati Tags: Staten Island, New York, NYC, Molinaro, Borough President

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Allow me to re-iterate

I Fucking hate Israel, Palestine, Hammas, Hezbollah.... I hate them all soooo much....

Please share your distaste for these bickering violent idiots in the comments!
lets have ourselves a hate-in!

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Thats just not fair!

Ok I hate to sound heartless here but, Ken Lay died this morning before we could get him behind bars... just not fair.

...Oh and North Korea sure is out of hand huh?


Technorati Tags: politics, enron, Ken Lay

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Fuck Israel, Fuck Palestine, Fuck those bickering assholes!

I would like to present you all with a quote from a New York Times today. It is from an article about the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

“The Israeli analysis, by the Foreign Ministry, focuses on language, inserted in negotiations with Hamas, that insists on the right of return, "without discrimination," for all Palestinian refugees "to their homes and properties from which they were evicted and to compensate them."
The Israelis argue that this stronger language gives the lie to any claim that Hamas has recognized the right of Israel to exist, implicitly or otherwise, because such an interpretation of refugee rights would eliminate Israel as a Jewish state by flooding it with Palestinians”

Now I’m going to try and be nice and politically correct… you know what… no I’m not.

FUCK ISRAEL!

You know just as I was starting to swing towards feeling a little more sympathy for the Israeli’s. The pull out from Gaza and the West Bank I believe was on the whole a positive step. That war criminal Sharon is no longer in power. And Hamas, who are militant Islamist terrorists were elected to power.
But then I read this. Israel opposes a Palestinian policy draft because it “would eliminate Israel as a Jewish state by flooding it with Palestinians”
Israel has no right to exist as a “Jewish state”. No nation has the right to exist as a religious theocracy. Saying they oppose the return of Palestinian refugees to their rightful homes because it would change the ethnic make up of their nation is no different than some asshole in a bar complaining about the influx of “negroes” or “Mexicans” to his neighborhood.
If the Israeli government continues to insist upon being a “Jewish state” then I refuse to recognize their right to exist as well. I can not condone the existence of any state sponsored religion. I wouldn’t recognize the Taliban, Iran, or Saudi Arabia. I oppose all attempts to enshrine Christianity as a part of the United States government. This is nothing more than government endorsed xenophobia and racism.
Which brings me to the larger idea of how to solve the conflict. I used to suggest that we take all the weapons we ever sold to Israel away, forcibly if necessary, and dismantle their nuclear arsenal. Then pull all funding from both the Palestinian Authority and Israel. I then proposed we build a 20 foot high wall around the entire place… and now that they’re on more equal footing resource wise force them to figure it out for themselves. Whether they come to some sort of peace agreement or just slaughter each other I didn’t really care.
I now have a new approach. I call it the Kindergarten Policy. Basically it means going to the governments of both “nations” and saying “look if you can’t share then no one can have any”. Now I realize that with our military still strung out in Iraq, and there is potential for conflict in Iran and North Korea, so perhaps forcing them off the land is not a viable option (I’d love to just nuke the whole area but I don’t want to kill any one so that’s off the table). But we can starve or smoke them out. All funding all support for both nations should be pulled off the table. By all nations. The Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government should be isolated; diplomatically, economically, just completely cut off. Next all nations should cease to recognize either group as the rightful inhabitants of the land.
With out an effective government or any semblance of legal standing the situation would quickly deteriorate. People would begin to voluntarily migrate to other nations. Then once everyone is gone… then you nuke the whole place. Turn all of Israel into the largest mirror and use it to build the worlds largest telescope… it’s the only good thing that can ever come from the land.

Technorati Tags: Israel, Palestinian, Hamas, Politics, Intifada, Gaza

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