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Every election year, we get ads telling us how great the politicians are, but we never get ads telling us how great Brooklyn Bridge Park is. That imbalance ends up cementing our existing assumption that markets are better than governments at improving our quality of life. But that isn’t always so. I’ll take one Brooklyn Bridge Park over a thousand new brands of detergent, thank you very much.
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GE corporate HQ in Fairfield, CT. This is the nicest corporate lobby I’ve ever been in.
It’s also a very nice room to hold a high school computer science competition in.
via Mike Hudack.
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Under the Google-Verizon definition of network neutrality, wireless companies would only have to be transparent about their network practices – meaning that they could block any application, content or service so long as they told consumers they were doing so. And while there would be no pay for priority on the best efforts Internet, there are almost no limits on so-called “managed services,” other than that they would need to be “distinguishable in purpose and scope,” from the Internet. Thus, it is conceivable under the agreement that a network provider could devote 90% of its broadband capacity to these priority services and 10% to the best efforts Internet.
— Public Knowledge statement on the proposed Google/Verizon deal. (via soupsoup)
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As an outsider, Shepard Smith has become the new anchor for old journalistic values while Bill O’Riley has become an anchor for independent conservatism.“We on Studio B did not run the video and did not reference the story in any way for many reasons. Among them, we didn’t know who shot it. We didn’t know when it was shot. We didn’t know the context of the statement. And because of the history of the videos on the site where it was posted. In short, we did not and do not trust the source.”
- Shepard Smith, on Andrew Breitbart and biggovernment.com
via worship the glitch.
