Posts by stiv

Anti-ICANN Cruzade continues: Senator Ted still desperately trying to defund US govt

Re: "unlikely that President Obama would allow a government shutdown over the IANA issue"

the 2014 elections gave republicans their largest congressional majority in over eighty years, you're postulating they would have done better sans shutdown?

Yes, Obama has got some things wrong on the internet. But so has the GOP

and you know they won't happen because?

Cruz undermines his message by arguing, quite unnecessarily, that things that won't happen might.

'cause we're only gonna enforce the right parts of this law, and they will be interpreted and enforced intelligently and equitably, like we do with all our laws!!

Global warming fingered as Superstorm Sandy supersizer

Re: The politics of it

so they're working for free?

RIM launches five BlackBerry smarties

just guessing

but there are business establishments <petro-plants for example> that don't like folks bringing cameras on site without written permission

Paris, 'cause we're talking about taking pictures

Porn found in Osama bin Laden compound

can we define some terms here?

what exactly constitutes "massive" in the age of cheap terabyte drives?

ok then, amend that to

every <i> real </i> man's computer has porn on it

<-- you know who, 'cause you know why

AT&T ends illicit handset tethering

sorry to be the one.....

oh deary, don't open the financial section tomorrow until after you've had a nice breakfast

Steve Jobs fears Nation of Bloggers

uh, yeah

papers that provide quality reporting on subjects the subscribers want = well run. papers whose reporters are hack PR aggregators and op-eds that could have been churned out by sixties era AI simulators = poorly run.....

also, the WSJ has always had very little in the way of classified ads, another disappearing revenue stream for most papers.

full disclosure, I am a subscriber, but unfortunately all of my financial decisions are mighty small.

not sure

but think the WSJ is profitable, so maybe its not newspapers that are outdated, just ones that are poorly run