(Note: Advertising 'unlimited' but imposing limits should be dealt with under false advertisement laws; no new legislation is required.)

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Does this mean you are pro gun control?

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I'm Libertarian - I oppose any kind of regulation or restriction of firearms.

Yes, that does mean that I believe that The People have a God-given right to own hand grenades and AK-47's.

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Even better, the congressman's name is "Massa".

"Massa! Massa! The ISPs done capped our 'loads! And we slave folks is fixin to uncap them loads hyah! Oh, pray, Massa!"

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Im all for removing government's power to play favorites.

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...and then sometime around 7/16/09, a workaround will be hacked out and it'll be like nothing happened.

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So you would prefer to have someone you pay to change terms and limit your downloads?

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oh stfu "i have no choice". you can choose to not have it. you won't die without it. you just WANT it.

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I guess you also don't like the military/police protecting you, the FDA making sure your food doesn't have excess amounts of feces in it, the EPA making sure your water is clean, or OSHA making sure you don't fall in a meat grinder either, eh?

Considering how a major corporation sees me (as just a line on a balance sheet somewhere), I bloody well WELCOME additional government involvement in my life.

If you don't like it, move to Somalia. Go ahead, move. I'll even buy your farking plane ticket.

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Of course, this regulation, without price caps, leaves open the possibility of a "creative response". For instance, companies might just increase prices to compensate for having no caps or volume- based fees. Consumers could get screwed either way.

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Just try and imagine a world WITHOUT them. I dare you.

I hope you like drinking sewer water.

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You see, there's these things called "progressive taxes" -- oh, it's not like you're listening, anyway.

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This isn't additional government involvement in your life.

@rimshot515:

FDA = Underfunded, understaffed, chronyism and admin appointees that are industry insiders and have an agenda contrary to its purpose.

EPA = Again; underfunded, understaffed, chronyism and admin appointees that are industry insiders and have an agenda contrary to its purpose.

Banking: HUGE deregulation at the end of 2000 (thanks Clinton!) and lack of oversight/regulation lead to the collapse.

Your statement concerning healthcare seems to blur the insurance industry and healthcare providers together.

Healthcare providers are not the problem, the insurance industry who's promary concern is profits is the problem.

You're just stringing together random concepts you might have heard any attributing them to other things you think might be related. It's utter nonsense.

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dude, how pathetically helpless are you that in your mind, a world without the FDA means drinking sewer water?

Are you really so paralyzingly frightened of the world that it turns nightmarish the second there isn't a mother figure making sure your cocoa isn't too hot?

Hunch - you've spent your whole life living in a large city.

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"The Recession was nothing more than a side effect of Deregulation. "

By that argument, then, industry was in a perpetual recession before regulation. And that simply isn't true - the entire industrial revolution occurred with virtually zero regulation.

Had the recession not happened, Old Man Madoff would still be scamming people. Recessions are necessary every once in a while because they expose the bastards and topple towers built too high. The problem here is the government isn't letting the big ones fall, which means that this recession is going to be a long, drawn out bitch of a time with little benefit.

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Agreed, This shouldn't require additional legislation - it is covered under false advertising laws. I think the meaning of the word "unlimited" is fairly unambiguous - I mean, obviously one IS limited by hardware etc, but "unlimited" means 'without arbitrary additional limits imposed'.

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