End of Net Neutrality in U.S.?

Genesis

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I just hate anything BIG - like Google, Microsoft, Apple ..... they kill genuine competition. They get the big guys to make all of the rules. They also kill new enterprise and start ups. And yes, by definition they probably will have a effect on small joes like us and Gigarank.

This is bad news of course!
 
rrroberts

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Genesis said:
I just hate anything BIG - like Google, Microsoft, Apple ..... they kill genuine competition. They get the big guys to make all of the rules. They also kill new enterprise and start ups. And yes, by definition they probably will have a effect on small joes like us and Gigarank.

This is bad news of course!
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Genesis

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rrroberts said:
Anymore, it seems anything is fair game as long as you make lots of money (which is not the same thing as producing real wealth).

Sorry if I am ranting
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I don't see it as ranting. And agree. Anything is fair game with lots of money, including the presidency of the United States.
 
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Fat_Jay said:
All i read in the post "and not this one" is that Trump may be in financial difficulties after paying everyone for votes, so now he is parterning with people to esure he gets his money back

now watch one of your funny goverment agents will rock up here and put a cap in my ass oof something
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:smile:

Naw, Trump will just say
"You're Fired!"
 
Genesis

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Fat_Jay said:
The real brain work of how a country is run is done by more sofisticated people in the back end, like all sys admins know.
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Agreed. Those people in the President's case are probably the guys who bankrolled his election. They paid him to do their bidding.

And, no, I disagree. The American President has lots of power when it gets to putting legislation through the US system - he is definitely not just a puppet. He gets to bargain for votes that can make a difference to getting the legislation, as Obama did with his medicare legislation. Plenty of the bargaining happens behind closed doors, along the lines of "I pat your back, you pat my back". For me it's just a sophisticated form of institutionalized corruption. Not very far from the guy in South Africa. Except it's done just way more sophisticated of course.
 
Yozora

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That's really a shame. I wonder if Trump is going to get impeached eventually, because of all the things he's been doing...
 
Yozora

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Fat_Jay said:
yes he does have an opinion(before some patriot drops out of the sky and puts a cap in my ass), but it is the majority who put him there, so I seriously doubt it
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Technically it was the minority. He lost the popular vote, but won the electoral college vote, so it's like what happened in the 2000 election. I wish someone would reform or get rid of the electoral college so maybe we might have less of these elections where the person with more votes loses.
 
Genesis

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Fat_Jay said:
Ok, this is where i have to say, thank goodness i am South African

Say what

how the hell does electoral college do that to the loser
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I get the feeling that in the US they love to hate their President. So this way they get every opportunity to do so. Obama was not as badly liked as he was more of a Vanilla type President. But Trump is definitely going to provide lots of entertainment. :p

As far as I know the current President of South Africa likes to treat the South African income from taxes as his personal petty cash. He has also been on trial for a variety of offenses. A system that allows someone like that to even be eligible for the position of President has to be pretty corrupt. :pardon:
 
Genesis

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Fat_Jay said:
just an opinion from a white guy living in this mess.

also in my opinion, all presidents today are all just clown faces
to entertain the masses
and to keep the sheep in check

Goverments do not make countries run any more
Business does
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We were talking about the electoral college where all of the problems had happened with Trump being elected. Surely if a citizen of the country has been on trial for as many times as Zuma has been he should not have been put forward for President. His record should have disqualified him. Like Trump, I refuse to believe that there isn't an alternative candidate to Zuma who could have been put forward for the job. Both Trump and Clinton have to be the worst candidates in American history. If I had been American I wouldn't have voted for any of the two.
 
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