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1999 Chevy Cavalier. No big problems, except every time we do a smog check, it always somehow has the wrong type of muffler.
 
It's a nice lil' car.
 
'Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

2001 Chevy Cavalier. Back breaks need to be adjusted, the handbrake needs to be tightened, the ABS light is on and I haven't had the time to figure out why (probably because of the first thing), the windshield fluid bottle has a crack in it, and the engine is quite noisy.
 
Other than that it's great!

Ooh, I bet it's got a passenger-side air bag!

"Oh, look at me, I have a car from this decade"

"Oh, look at me, I have a car from this decade"

My country is one of the few left that still has mandatory conscription at age 18. I was declared eligible for service at that time, but had it in my head that I wanted to pursue a university degree instead. Luckily for me I pulled a high number (20022 to be exact) and that pretty much guaranteed I wouldn't be called upon. A few years down the line after struggling with my studies I eventually found myself without any kind of driven purpose or goal and mildly depressed for that reason. I quit university and signed up for the military. After about six months wait time I started basic and I've been with the army ever since.

I have a Switch! I finally get to play Smash! For the first time since Melee!

I mean, the thread has cockmongler in the title.

I mean, the thread has cockmongler in the title.

Which just happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to choking on an invisible cock.

yeah fuck sigs

"I, for one, welcome our new artistic overlards?"

All according to my plan to purge the forums of all pages except my creative projects’ threads

its part of the new move to make this forum more obscure. if you're unable to browse the forums without the main page, then you're not 1337 enough

I liked Attack of the Clones. Mostly the big battle at the end.

Blade was in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 and he was fun but that was maybe just because I saw Blade as a kid and thought it was gnarly so let's go with him.

A decade old today 

I'm glad, maybe soon I'll be able to get a graphics card for less than the price of a yacht. Fucking miners.

1 hour 14 minutes marker. 

I mean, the same goes for government. I'm a "member" of the EFF and even though support is currently for the Title II classification to remain, just a few years ago they were bringing the FCC to court over their previous attempt at the "Open Internet Order," claiming it was too overreaching. I support net neutrality, and also the Title II classification, but people have a legitimate argument when they express fear of potential regulatory misuse. 
 
Maybe it's an argument that's mostly relevant in the US. 

The reason that I've largely stopped caring about these net neutrality discussions is how apocalyptic the discussions are.  I mean that both in the sense of how overblown the predictions are for what will happen if it net neutrality vanishes, but also in how frequently it is presented as a final battle between good and evil which will determine the ultimate fate of the internet.  It's like if Wagner was still around he'd be writing about this instead of the Goetterdaemmerung.
 
Rather than dealing with specific pieces of legislation or specific historical precedents, the conversation all too often turns to hypothetical dystopian scenarios gleaned from cyberpunk novels.  It also all too often becomes a melodrama with one side full of mustache twirling villains who want to destroy the internet for laughs, and the other side a bunch of shining cavaliers making a brave last stand to save the internet. 
 
The reality of the situation is that we are largely dealing with a power struggle between various factions of large corporations and the government, each of which have shown that they are more than willing to fuck over the common internet user if they can get away with it and each of which stands to personally benefit quite a bit should their preferred set of regulations go through.  It's also clear that the reality of the situation is that there is nothing final about any of these conflicts.  No matter which way the matter is decided during the current conflict, it will inevitably be challenged a few years down the road.
 
In the end I don't think that we're really discussing any course of government action (or inaction) so much as we are discussing the extent that we like the status quo of the internet.  Thus the discussion actually becomes something along the lines of "do you want the status quo, or do you want horrible dystopian internet or no internet at all?"  Of course everyone's going to say the former, and anyone who disagrees is going to be mocked.  But at that point I don't see why it's worth having the conversation.

You can say that again

Oh yes, I forgot to mention that. In which case a good compromise would be to repeal Net Neutrality at the federal level, allow states to implement their own NN laws and outlaw those territorial agreements. I think could both agree to that.
 
 
That again.
 

Agreed on the anarchy statement. It is fundamentally Utopian, however, they do raise a fair point that time and time again, the state, more often than not, tramples on liberty whenever it gets involved with the free market, whether here or around the world. On the other hand, law and order is needed for protection for consumers, such as anti-trust, no false advertising, scams, etc., in which case, government is a necessary evil.
 
Call it my biases getting in the way of rational thought, but when I see something that is universally supported by everyone, seemingly immediately, for the federal government getting involved, or in this case staying involved, in an economic industry that is a crucial part of the modern economy, I think you can forgive me for being a wee bit suspicious and try to find the merits of the other side.
 
 
The concept? No. Title II? Cautiously yes, if only to uphold free speech.
 
If net neutrality was handled at the state/local levels and not the federal level, then I'd have even less of a problem with it.