But the truth is Physics was leaving me (behind)...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40819246/from/RSS/
for your viewing pleasure etc
12.28.2010
Net Neutrality or Something or Other
It looks like I was planning on writing something on the "net neutrality" law that passed about a week ago, but it was like a week ago, so I'll just put up the shit ton of links i procured in preparation, then maybe write a little something.
TV's future: FCC decisions on Internet access, Comcast-NBC merger approaching
FCC set to enact new net neutrality rules
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/obama-fcc-caves-on-net-ne_b_799435.html
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/fcc-rule/
And so it goes...
Clearly there do need to be some rules in place. While the vast openness of the Internet is it's strength, without ANY regulation, it can quickly turn into a madhouse of spam, viruses, and unsavory material. However, favoring the companies which supply the internet itself seems to be one of the dumbest ways to go about it (an alternative though, I cannot think of). I do like the example of what will happen to Netflix, now that comcast can kill the bandwidth dealing specifically with streaming it in favor of their own on demand videos.
By giving control to the gatekeepers, they do in fact keep things under control. By giving control to the gatekeepers, they give unilateral control to the Internet providers. By giving control to the gatekeepers, an entire market is compromised and colluded. By giving control to the gatekeepers, the creativity and ingenuity of the Internet may be reduced to the trickle speed given to off-market sites.
I guess we'll see how this plays out. I don't think anyone was expecting true net neutrality in any case.
-- Knuttel
TV's future: FCC decisions on Internet access, Comcast-NBC merger approaching
FCC set to enact new net neutrality rules
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/obama-fcc-caves-on-net-ne_b_799435.html
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/fcc-rule/
And so it goes...
Clearly there do need to be some rules in place. While the vast openness of the Internet is it's strength, without ANY regulation, it can quickly turn into a madhouse of spam, viruses, and unsavory material. However, favoring the companies which supply the internet itself seems to be one of the dumbest ways to go about it (an alternative though, I cannot think of). I do like the example of what will happen to Netflix, now that comcast can kill the bandwidth dealing specifically with streaming it in favor of their own on demand videos.
By giving control to the gatekeepers, they do in fact keep things under control. By giving control to the gatekeepers, they give unilateral control to the Internet providers. By giving control to the gatekeepers, an entire market is compromised and colluded. By giving control to the gatekeepers, the creativity and ingenuity of the Internet may be reduced to the trickle speed given to off-market sites.
I guess we'll see how this plays out. I don't think anyone was expecting true net neutrality in any case.
-- Knuttel
A Nation of Wusses
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5960674
"We've become a nation of wusses."
However inelegant, it is true, and perhaps my search for a more elegant explanation is evidence of my own wussiness.
Regardless, all of the circumstances regarding this affair just scream wussiness.
And why? Brett Favre doesn't have any streaks to protect, the Vikings played in worse weather on an unheated field only a week or two ago, the storm itself had hardly even begun when kickoff was slated.
"We've become a nation of wusses."
However inelegant, it is true, and perhaps my search for a more elegant explanation is evidence of my own wussiness.
Regardless, all of the circumstances regarding this affair just scream wussiness.
And why? Brett Favre doesn't have any streaks to protect, the Vikings played in worse weather on an unheated field only a week or two ago, the storm itself had hardly even begun when kickoff was slated.
12.20.2010
The Baby Boomers Are Dooming Us All
Indeed, they are...
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/2010-11-18-boomerloathing18_CV_N.htm?csp=obinsite
I came across that article very (very) randomly (I do not subscribe to anything on parenting -- children are a precious resource, yes, but mainly for food). Anyways, I decided that I, too, am tired of their shit.
It's all about "me", well you know what, who cares?
I guess, ironically (or not, I guess it's more coincidental), this disproves objectivism and other similarly minded philosophies, at least in the manner that I understand them. I am no expert on objectivism or Ayn Rand (mostly knowing her from the works of Rush and the Bioshock video games, though I hear her prose is mediocre at best, and even objectivists dislike her arguments for objectivism, the school of thought she is seen as creating), and I have an outright disrespect for the intellectual dishonesty that is Friedman, but I guess I'm starting to get sidetracked. I understand objectivism as the pursuit of self -- one ought to look out for ones own interests, doing what helps self, not what helps others, and eventually it all works out in the end. Basically it's libertarianism and total free market economics as applied to morality.
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/2010-11-18-boomerloathing18_CV_N.htm?csp=obinsite
I came across that article very (very) randomly (I do not subscribe to anything on parenting -- children are a precious resource, yes, but mainly for food). Anyways, I decided that I, too, am tired of their shit.
It's all about "me", well you know what, who cares?
I guess, ironically (or not, I guess it's more coincidental), this disproves objectivism and other similarly minded philosophies, at least in the manner that I understand them. I am no expert on objectivism or Ayn Rand (mostly knowing her from the works of Rush and the Bioshock video games, though I hear her prose is mediocre at best, and even objectivists dislike her arguments for objectivism, the school of thought she is seen as creating), and I have an outright disrespect for the intellectual dishonesty that is Friedman, but I guess I'm starting to get sidetracked. I understand objectivism as the pursuit of self -- one ought to look out for ones own interests, doing what helps self, not what helps others, and eventually it all works out in the end. Basically it's libertarianism and total free market economics as applied to morality.
12.16.2010
cop-out
So I am backlogged like crazy in links that I bookmarked, therefore I shall merely dump them upon the site. Maybe a witty comment or two, but that's not likely (I'm not that witty). Honestly, I even think some of them I wanted to keep for personal use or sharing amongst friends, not to leave to the barren, cold, and unforgiving anonymous internet. Whatevs, they're mostly in chronological order, in two parts (saved up on two computers), so here goes.
12.06.2010
12.01.2010
TCU Joins the Big East
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=5862368
I might do a College Football rundown later this week, if not next week, but until then I found this story humorous.
TCU is in Fort Worth, Texas (of Dallas/Fort Worth region fame). It is WEST of the Mississipi river, usually the indicator of East/West in NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES.
That's enough caps for now.
I might do a College Football rundown later this week, if not next week, but until then I found this story humorous.
TCU is in Fort Worth, Texas (of Dallas/Fort Worth region fame). It is WEST of the Mississipi river, usually the indicator of East/West in NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES.
That's enough caps for now.
Oh, NHL Rules Committee...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/With-Pronger-penalty-justification-more-NHL-rul?urn=nhl-289971
Yeah, this? It doesn't fly. Come on!
It's funny how everyday the NHL does something stupid like this to threaten it's own existence, when it was left comatose during the lockout year. It should know better, and it should reprimand REALLY bad officiating in a case such as this (it would be counterproductive to reprimand bad officiating on a regular basis in any sport, examples must be made, however).
-- Knuttel
Yeah, this? It doesn't fly. Come on!
It's funny how everyday the NHL does something stupid like this to threaten it's own existence, when it was left comatose during the lockout year. It should know better, and it should reprimand REALLY bad officiating in a case such as this (it would be counterproductive to reprimand bad officiating on a regular basis in any sport, examples must be made, however).
-- Knuttel
Facts Can't Get in the Way of What's Right, Damnit
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40426795/from/RSS/
Remember when McCain was a "maverick" of a moderate? Now he just seems more like a dinosaur (literally) of a conservative (not quite paleo) everyday.
Moving on...
What would it take then to make this work, and allow openly gay citizens to serve in the military? If the study had been done the other way around then McCain et co. could simply have stated that this should not have been done as a referendum, because policy decisions should be made top down. Honestly, I think he secretly agrees with the way it was done, given the way he so quickly deferred, not to the study, but to the Chiefs of the individual branches of the Armed Services.
Remember when McCain was a "maverick" of a moderate? Now he just seems more like a dinosaur (literally) of a conservative (not quite paleo) everyday.
Moving on...
What would it take then to make this work, and allow openly gay citizens to serve in the military? If the study had been done the other way around then McCain et co. could simply have stated that this should not have been done as a referendum, because policy decisions should be made top down. Honestly, I think he secretly agrees with the way it was done, given the way he so quickly deferred, not to the study, but to the Chiefs of the individual branches of the Armed Services.
101 Dalmations remake?
You know Hollywood loves its remakes -- it prevents them from having to pay writers (like me) for doing actual work and creatively coming up with new ideas...
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/is-wearing-fur-acceptable-if-you-hate-the-animal-2413815/;_ylt=AqH8EYS12Ocsj4qC4ElOiw5pbqU5
From what I understand, the difference is negligible. My buddy, Bob Sacomato, he sells nutria hats down at the park.
-- Knuttel
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/is-wearing-fur-acceptable-if-you-hate-the-animal-2413815/;_ylt=AqH8EYS12Ocsj4qC4ElOiw5pbqU5
From what I understand, the difference is negligible. My buddy, Bob Sacomato, he sells nutria hats down at the park.
-- Knuttel
IT'S A TARP
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40424612/from/RSS/
Awesome, so TARP, which was actually signed under Bush, not Obama (though it was during election season and both then-Senator Obama and Senator McCain bi-partisanly met up with Bush to get it done), is actually going to cost the American budget about 0 dollars (relatively speaking) and pretty much prevented the financial ruin from getting any worse (yes, it could have gotten much much worse, I could have been super-unemployed).
Ok, so it still cost a few billion dollars -- that's less than a percent of the total budget. Can we stop bitching about TARP now, and start bitching about something productive? Like, I dunno, the President that signed this bill was a total socialist...
-- Knuttel
Awesome, so TARP, which was actually signed under Bush, not Obama (though it was during election season and both then-Senator Obama and Senator McCain bi-partisanly met up with Bush to get it done), is actually going to cost the American budget about 0 dollars (relatively speaking) and pretty much prevented the financial ruin from getting any worse (yes, it could have gotten much much worse, I could have been super-unemployed).
Ok, so it still cost a few billion dollars -- that's less than a percent of the total budget. Can we stop bitching about TARP now, and start bitching about something productive? Like, I dunno, the President that signed this bill was a total socialist...
-- Knuttel
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