Everyone should be aware that the Net Neutrality issues are still under attack. There is a Senate Resolution (S.2686). Read up on this one. I dont have time right now to rant about it.
I do have time to mention. Check out this short Flash cartoon called Animator vs Animation. Very original stuff. It gave me a lil chuckle.
peace and stick grease
I am so proud I installed my first toilet last night. How prophetic after reading the crap I got from my last post.
You may note that my last post spoke about HR 5252 and Net Neutrality and impacts on the internet and public access. Well a nice gent from Hands off . O R G responded to my little blog. For those of you who dont want to dig through the comments I will quote:
Hi, I work with Hands Off, opposing net neutrality, so we’ll probably agree to disagree, but I would like to point out something.
There are no net neutrality laws on the books. COPE doesn’t remove anything, it just doesn’t add them in. Yes, that’s right — the Internet has never been “neutral” — and it’s been going just fine.
And it may be worth noting that the pro-Neutrality side is made up of big corporations, too — Microsoft and Yahoo, for example.
My favorite line is “— and it’s been going just fine.” The image of a man with a cheesy moustache dangling a pocket watch in my face while he pick pockets me is my first thought. I checked out their cartoon www.dont regulate .org. I messed with the link, I hope to make it tough for people to see their message, like the phone co. will make it for other folks. The cartoon (a Laid Off look alike) plays like a bad sex ed filmstrip. It is filled with some amazingly blantant hand waving.
OMG this is intolerable. Even this response to my blog shows that it is nothing but a form letter. Im sure they google and hit auto-respond. Which is funny considering Googles stand on the issue.
The response doesnt address anything I stated. What kind of moron doesnt know about Microsoft….start up your PC, what do a million people see….Microsoft…duh.
This is all from the idea that the Telephone Companies want to broadcast like Cable. Hell Cable want to be a phone company.
So this is going to be like the Katrina of the internet. We will find out that the adminstration doesnt give a damn about the poor people. OK maybe that is harsh. But this legislation is so poorly thought out that when the levy breaks. Everyone will be on vacation running around with the hands off saying, oh dont worry
— and it’s been going just fine.
I need some coffee
peace and neutrality grease
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I hate politics. But at some point you have to get up to do something. And when it becomes close to the things I like to do, it becomes time to act.
The Communications Opportunity Promotion and Enhancement Act or COPE is the reason for all those commercials from Verizon and the Cable companies. I am going to give you the site to go to and e-mail congress to not vote for this.
Go here and e-mail your Representitive
Essentially COPE will:
Allow the big Tel Companies will Have major influence on your local internet and public access Television.
Allow Companies to descriminate against low income areas by making fees that are out of reach for most households.
Cuts the funding that goes to Public, educational, and Government (local) television stations.
These are the reasons that this Bill irratates me. It impacts my internet, and it impacts my TV job. Enough to get my lazy fat carcass OUT of the chair and…….well sit back down and type this.
There are a lot of sites out there that talk about HR 5252.
It is a long drawn out resolution to to summarize I will quote from the Save ACCESS website:
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About COPE – HR5252
COPE HR5252 is a bill created by Rep Joe Barton (TX) . It is an update of previous drafts known as BITS I and BITS II. This is a bi-partisan Bill, the democratic co-sponsor is Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush (IL) whose non-profit community center received one million dollars in donations from an AT&T/SBC foundation over the past five years. Rep. Barton has pushed hard to get this legislation passed quickly and without revision. During the Telecommunications Subcommittee markup process, Democratic amendments were either voted down or excluded. Barton deferred many amendments personally and instead added his own changes in the ‘manager’s writeup’.
The Barton/Cope Act as presently written will severely impact the thousands of Public, Educational and Governmental Access channels and facilities around the country. The legislation effectively removes local municipal control over local rights-of-way and removes local voices from the process of negotiating for local video franchises.
Under COPE cities would recieve a 5% fee with an additional 1% going to PEG services. This is the problem for many larger cities who currently receive a larger percentage, under COPE, their PEG services would be reduced and cut back. A ‘Do No Harm’ amendment by Baldwin/Wilson was voted down. Many other unanswered questions arise with the loss of local oversight and the transfer of auditing and accounting obligations to the FCC.
The COPE legislation would eliminate ‘net neutrality’ by allowing internet providers (phone and cable companies) the right to charge for preferential content delivery, creating a multitiered internet based on the ability to pay.
Even worse, under COPE, communications providers will no longer be required to ‘build-out’ their networks equitably, that is, they can offer the new services in a wealthy neighborhood but neglect an adjacent low-income community (this is referred to as red-lining). The overall effect of this legislation will be devastating to what we consider to be the basic principles of democratic media in our society, it will effect all of us.
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Ok, very long winded, but if you have ever read a House Resoultion this summary is nothing.
You know that keeping First Amendment Rights is important. I am sure the Big Companies will tell you that they are in line with it. But think about what access the people who cant pay will get. Oh sure they will have access to free speech……here are your 2 soup cans and twine.
Way to go Big Biz
peace and freedom grease
OK I usually mention, if not here, to anyone that will listen….ok anyone who can listen……ok anyone dead or alive….that my son Garrett can throw out a stream of concious thought as mighty as the Mississippi. Believe me when I say, he comes by it honestly. To prove this point I will summarize the last 10 minutes of my day. See if you can follow this……
At work, having a rough time with an international shipment, I decide I need to doodle with a quality app called MSPaint which Microsoft happily includes with every copy of Windows.
OK no critiques of the art but this is what I drew:
OK now looking at that one would say “?????????????????” but doodling keeps me from chewing pens, computer cables, doctors, ect. It (the picture) is suppose to be a cow. The thought being “Thank god(s) I dont have to work with these” Then I think to myself “Well Mr Life Science man! Your Cow has horns and except for a few rare breed….standard dairy cow (bos taurus) doesnt have horns…or look sort of like a capibara
OK not much at all like that (stream of Consc, remember).
I tried to remember what those contests were from old comic books when you had to draw “Sparky” and send it in and become an instantly famous comic book artist. Well back to Google. I got “Sparky the Fire Dog” as being the closest thing. I tried Winky too but decided I better steer away from that one.
But of course Capibara has a direct correlation to the comic “The Tick”. The Tick had his pet Capibara named Speak. So pop on the old Google to see what comes up. Well the Tick has a lot of dead links but still there is some shiney Justice still out there.
As everyone know speak didn’t look much like a Capibara, more like a bulldog wearing a groucho mustache. But then again neither did my original picture, so logically I jump to the next site…….NINJAS!!!!!!!!
Now as many of you may know I studied Ninjutsu for a while(or maybe not because I was such a good ninja at the time no one could see me. But apparently I missed out on the secret decoder ring I could have gotten from this site. I cant even begin to discribe this site BUT honestly it reminds me of the advertisement from the back of a comic book. I could have studied ninjutsu at home by Video tape and become a master. But as we all know NINJA hate pirates .
So the next I think is that we dont need the advertisements in the back of comic books anymore because we have this wacky think called the internet and you can become a popular comic artist without even drawing “Sparky” . But then I realized that I just wasted 10 minutes doodling and thinking about that crap.
So I decided to waste another 10 minutes to write this to waste someone elses time and that is called…..empowerment.
Peace and Ninja Grease