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http://www.pcmag.com/news/344766/gop-moves-to-gut-net-neutrality-fcc-budget
>Republicans have opposed FCC efforts to impose net neutrality rules for years, and they are trying again with their 2017 budget proposal.
>Not only would the plan prevent the FCC from enforcing its net neutrality rules, it would also end its plan to boost set-top-box competition, not to mention gut the agency's funding.
>"We are still reviewing impacts and we will work with the committee staff to make them aware of potentially critical resource shortfalls," an FCC spokeswoman told PCMag.
>The $21.7 billion proposal cuts the FCC's budget by $69 million to $315 million and prohibits the agency from implementing net neutrality orders until "certain court cases" are resolved (which could happen any day now).
>The proposal also stops the new "unlock the box" rules, which would open up TV data to innovators who can create new consumer hardware and software to replace traditional set-top boxes, "until a study is completed."
>Meanwhile, the bill "prohibits the FCC from regulating broadband rates," something it recently proposed for business data services. And the GOP wants the agency to make new rules public before they are voted on by the commission. As it stands, the FCC chairman drafts a proposal and circulates it to fellow commissioners before it's voted on at a public FCC meeting. At that point, the draft is open to public comment before a final vote, but the GOP wants the public to have access to drafts for 21 days before the first vote.
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>Wheeler wrote that the House’s proposed rule “would introduce significant uncertainty into the commission's ability to enforce the three bright-line rules that bar blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization rules, as well as our general conduct rule that would be applied to issues such as data caps and zero rating.”
>In addition, Wheeler said the Republican proposal would also "cast doubt" on the FCC’s ability to ensure that broadband providers receiving universal service subsidies do not overcharge their consumers, while also hamstringing aspects of the commission's merger review process. “I write to make plain that this bill is not consistent with the views I expressed last year,” Wheeler said.
>An Ongoing Fight
>As a result of the legislation, the FCC would effectively be barred from developing any regulations on Net neutrality regardless of how the market landscape might change in the future. Wheeler wrote that the House’s proposed rule “would introduce significant uncertainty into the commission's ability to enforce the three bright-line rules that bar blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization rules, as well as our general conduct rule that would be applied to issues such as data caps and zero rating.”
>In addition, Wheeler said the Republican proposal would also "cast doubt" on the FCC’s ability to ensure that broadband providers receiving universal service subsidies do not overcharge their consumers, while also hamstringing aspects of the commission's merger review process. “I write to make plain that this bill is not consistent with the views I expressed last year,” Wheeler said.
>An Ongoing Fight
>As a result of the legislation, the FCC would effectively be barred from developing any regulations on Net neutrality regardless of how the market landscape might change in the future.
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Soooo on the one hand you have Comcast/Verizon ripping you off,,, and on the other you have whoever currently holds the conch in Washington fucking up what you can and can't reasonably view on the net
This is not a matter for snap judgement desu
Politicians severely cutting budgets of government agencies that give them and their investors trouble? No way, that never happens.
For all of you that have been living under a dark hole for some time, the FDA is essentially trying to destroy vaping.
These regulations can be found in this 499 page document here: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/05/10/2016-10685/deeming-tobacco-products-to-be-subject-to-the-federal-food-drug-and-cosmetic-act-as-amended-by-the
Now, to summarize what this is saying is that Cigars and Electronic Cigarettes will be classified as a tobacco product, and so with all Vape Liquids.
This means that every time a company comes out with a new product it will have to go through an application process, and in case you are unaware, just to send an application to the FDA costs roughly a million USD (and this is for every product that is made).
This could mark the end of vaping as we know it, and these regulations will go into effect in the months to come.
Companies simply will not be able to pay for the application process for their products, and all products on the market will be cigalikes.
Now, thoughts?
Vaping is retarded and vapists are cancerous degenerates, but I don't think it should be illegal
>>44864
Vaping has saved plenty of lives, and not everyone is simply a douchebag who thinks it's cool to blow massive clouds in people's faces at a coffee shop.
Now, that's retarded.
>>44867
Vaping has temporarily stopped a tiny group of people from accelerating their deaths
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36394819
BATHROOMS IN THAILAND NEVER EVERNEVER EVERNEVER EVER
>A Thai man is recovering in hospital after a 3m (10ft) python emerged from a squat toilet and sank its fangs into his penis.
>Attaporn Boonmakchuay said the python was "yanking very hard" as he and his wife tried to wrestle it off.
>Doctors said Mr Attaporn, who lost a lot of blood in the ordeal, was making a good recovery.
>Workers dismantled the toilet and extracted the python which had slithered through domestic plumbing.
>It was released back into the wild.
>It was released back into the wild.
>It was released back into the wild.
This can't be real. This is honestly something I'd see in a dream.
>>46490
>Mr Attaporn
>>46490
Snakes in the plumbing happens in the US too
https://theintercept.com/2016/05/25/american-sniper-chris-kyle-distorted-his-military-record-documents-show/
Fucking faggit!
>>46262
Sums up americans perfectly
what a lousy nigger..but he dindu nuffin
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-derides-pick-of-clinton-allies-as-convention-committee-leaders.html?_r=0
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is seeking to bar allies of Hillary Clinton from leading the powerful rules and platform committees of the Democratic National Convention in July, escalating his battle with party leaders.
In a letter sent on Friday to party officials, lawyers for Mr. Sanders said that the appointments of Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts congressman, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut violated party rules. Mr. Frank is to co-lead the rules committee, and Mr. Malloy the platform committee.
In the letter, Mr. Sanders’s lawyer Brad Deutsch said that both men have been “harsh, vocal critics of Senator Sanders, and equally active supporters of his challenger, Hillary Clinton.” Mr. Frank has called Mr. Sanders “outrageously McCarthyite” for his suggesting that Mrs. Clinton would be influenced by her speaking fees from Wall Street; Mr. Malloy has led efforts among Clinton allies to attack Mr. Sanders’s record on gun control.
Under convention rules, Mr. Deutsch said in the letter, their open criticism of Mr. Sanders made them unfit to co-lead the committees.
“Their criticisms of Senator Sanders have gone beyond dispassionate ideological disagreement and have exposed a deeper professional, political and personal hostility toward the senator and his campaign,” Mr. Deutsch wrote. “The chairs therefore cannot be relied upon to perform their convention duties fairly and capably while laboring under such deeply held bias.”
Democratic officials replied on Saturday morning with a letter from Jim Roosevelt, a retired health insurance executive, and Lorraine C. Miller, who head the party’s permanent rules and bylaws committee. They said the appointments did not violate party rules, and that Mr. Sanders had not demonstrated otherwise.
Too long to post the rest. This should be interesting.
America loves trump right? Fuckin lets put a little to no respect for anyone but himself and his fam in power just because he's a god damn racist! Fuck it stir the geo political world shitshow more than it already does on its own without it over a bunch a greed and BS!
>>46758
Did you mix energy drink and fucking Mountain Dew before you posted that shit?
>>46758
How triggered are you right now?
Donald Trump is taking Reddit.
Seemingly out of nowhere, the place nicknamed "the front page of the Internet" has been flooded with pro-Trump materials over the past two months.
http://www.michellhilton.com/2016/04/um-exercito-de-trolls-pro-trump-estao-assumindo-o-reddit.html
>>42954
And obviously this is all some big raid of paid supporters and nut jobs, right?
I fucking hate politics, and I hate these news-blogs more.
>>42954
>link is in mexican
build wall
Fascists gonna face
Two Gypsies (sinti) have been arrested after a series of robberies in Versilia (Italy). They had a drone with a camcorder and infra-red viewer. The two are living in a "casa popolare" (a house or apartment meant to be given to the indigents) at the expenses of Italy tax payers.
http://tuttiicriminidegliimmigrati.com/ora-i-rom-usano-i-droni-per-individuare-le-ville-migliori-da-svaligiare/
http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/genova/2016/05/22/ASsLropC-denunciati_spiate_svaligiare.shtml
>>46070
Time to bring back slave labor and put them to work.
>>46070
Fucking cigany romani cockroaches.
It's a shame that the holocaust was fake because it would've gotten rid of a lot of those goddamn gypsies.
>>46070
You haven't seen a cockroach fly before?
http://www.worldanimalnews.com/content.php?content_ID=659
BREAKING NEWSUPCOMING EVENTSHOW YOU CAN HELPCONTRIBUTE
Up To 200 Lions Could Be Culled In Zimbabwe Due To The Cecil Effect
Posted: Saturday, March 5th 2016 | By: Ginn Andrews
One of Zimbabwe’s largest wildlife reserves, the Bubye Valley Conservancy, recently announced that they must reduce their number of lions, currently at 500, by at least 200.
This “issue” is being called “The Cecil Effect” by some, as the overpopulation is being attributed to the fact that trophy hunters are afraid to hunt after the uproar over Cecil the lion’s death at the hands of American dentist Walter Palmer
>>45212
Ignore the breaking news part, I don't know how that got copied
>HOW YOU CAN HELP CONTRIBUTE
Is this you telling me to go to Zimbabwe and shoot some lions, OP?
>>45212
Top Kek this is why SJWs need to learn to mind their own business. Hunting is required whether they accept it or not.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36397505
>a python sank its teeth into his benis
>what animal can swim from your toilet up your loo
>loo
Thailand == India
Except you need toilets for animals to swim up. thailand > India.
>>46593
Ha. Well done
This is not news. This is a tabloid. You're focusing on some Thai man's penis instead of caring for your fellow man. Your ancestors would slap you if they could.
>An NYPD officer who was seen on video pointing his gun at a bystander who was filming a police encounter in Harem has been stripped of his gun and badge.
>The officer from the 32nd police precinct is now on modified duty after the video made its way across the Internet and back to police department officials, CBS2’s Magdalena Doris reported.
>It happened Thursday afternoon at a housing development at 480 Saint Nicholas Avenue.
>The video shows two officers struggling with a man on the floor when one of them orders bystanders to move back. The video shows the officer then pulling out his gun and shouting, “I’m not playing.”
>Ronnie Pinkerton Jr. witnessed the incident. He said the crowd believed the officer was using excessive force while making an arrest.
>“He has him in a headlock between his legs, so his head is between his legs and he’s kind of like squeezing, so as he’s doing that, he’s telling us to back up. But you’re overreacting, you’re using too much physical strength on him,” Pinkerton said. “So he pulled out his gun and says, ‘Back up! Back up! Back!'”
>According to police, the man being wrestled to the ground is 21-year-old Dayshawn Bettway, who was arrested for riding an illegal dirt bike.
>Police said that man, 19-year-old Jahnico Harvey, was arrested for menacing and disorderly conduct.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/05/21/harlem-nypd-officer-gun-video/
They're taught to whip it out in those situations. They're also taught to not trust bystanders. That said, I can't help but feel sorry for the guy? Now the police nation is going to use him as a scapegoat, protesters are probably gonna harass him, and his job prospects are going to be underwhelming at best.
That is, if he understands what he did wrong. If he doesn't, then he can go fuck himself.
>>45912
>Too much physical force
I didn't really read the story, but if the guy was dangerous, what other option do you have? Also, his crowd control method worked well, i don't see the issue here.
>>45912
And this is how you end up with minimal policing amid rising crime.
A hospital can often be a cold, sterile place, and probably the last place you'd expect to find love. That's especially true if you're just 12-years-old. But Stella Usiak and Lucas Lowe have found a very special friendship while both fighting a very serious disease.
"She's had a crush on me for a while now, and I've had a crush on her, so her and me are boyfriend and girlfriend now," said Lucas.
Stella describes Lucas as hilarious and "a gentleman." And Lucas describes Stella as kind and nice, "like a woman should be," he said.
Lucas and Stella first met when they both started fighting Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Both went into remission, then both relapsed. Both had bone marrow transplants and both have constantly been in and out of hospitals, including Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
"He worries about how I'm feeling just like I worry about how he feels," said Stella.
The hospital staff has watched their special friendship grow.
"No one really knows what a kid with cancer is going through- not the parent, not the nurse, not a friend- the only other person that knows what a kid with cancer is going through is another kid with cancer," said Roswell Park Registered Nurse Angelica Zachara.
Understandably, Lucas and Stella's dates have to be simple, and they're ok with that. They have lunch, Lucas pushes Stella in her wheelchair, and they just talk.
"It was like this cute little old couple, sitting on the porch. It's very rare that kids their age could kind of have that sort of compassion for each other," said Stella's mom, Jennifer Usiak.
They say mostly their conversations do not revolve around their disease and treatment. They just chat about normal kid stuff. While they are mature and different from most kids, they're young and innocent, too.
http://www.wgrz.com/entertainment/television/programs/daybreak/12-year-olds-fall-in-love-while-fighting-cancer/203345962
"She just wants a boy to like her. She just wants to have somebody make her feel special," said Stella's mom.
As for kissing? They admit they have kissed on the cheek.
"We're not really supposed to kiss without a mask but she does it anyway," said Lucas.
When times get really tough- the pain too much to bear- Stella and Lucas know how to lift each others spirits. You can see it in this video Lucas made for Stella.
"It made her feel special and she cried and I cried," said Lucas.
"It was amazing. I've never felt that way in my life, ever," said Stella. "It made me so happy. It made me feel like I'm a princess."
For better or for worse, in sickness and in health. That vow truly means something to the young couple, so Lucas gave Stella a ring for Valentine's Day.
"It says 'You are my sunshine. My only sunshine.' And yeah, it means a lot," said Stella.
Most parents would discourage kids from that kind of commitment, but the parents of Stella and Lucas don't see it that way.
"Cancer teaches you, you are not guaranteed tomorrow," said Maureen Warren, Lucas' mom.
Stella and Lucas are thankful for each day they have together.
"I'm so lucky," said Stella. "Yes, I have been given all these bumps in the road, and all this yucky stuff,but if I never got that, I wouldn't have met Lucas."
Doctors might not yet have found a cure for childhood cancer, but these two children found the healing power of love.
No offense but that is more a reddit than 4chan story.
>>46467 has a point.
Unless the next part of the story is...
... cops realize that the guy is actually a 30 year ex-con running an insurance scam...
then you're probably on the wrong site.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/politics/bernie-sanders-israel-democratic-convention.html?_r=0
>A bitter divide over the Middle East could threaten Democratic Party unity as representatives of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed to upend what they see as the party’s lopsided support of Israel.
>Two of the senator’s appointees to the party’s platform drafting committee, Cornel West and James Zogby, on Wednesday denounced Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and said they believed that rank-and-file Democrats no longer hewed to the party’s staunch support of the Israeli government. They said they would try to get their views incorporated into the platform, the party’s statement of core beliefs, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.
>“Justice for Palestinians cannot be attained without the lifting of the occupation,” Dr. West, one of Mr. Sanders’s five representatives on the platform committee, said in an interview. Dr. West said that while he recognized the necessity to provide for the security of Jews, who for thousands of years have been a “hated people,” he thought that the platform needed to bring more balance to “the plight of an occupied people.”
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>The presence of Dr. Zogby and Dr. West on the 15-member panel, which also has six appointees of Hillary Clinton and four from the party chairwoman, does not guarantee their views will prevail. But it raises the prospect that one of the party’s most sensitive issues will be open to public debate while Mrs. Clinton is in a fight to unify her party and appeal to voters turned off by Donald J. Trump.
>It also laid bare a steady shift in the Democratic Party, whose members have been less willing to back Israel’s government than in years past. According to a Pew Research Center survey in April, self-described liberal Democrats were twice as likely to sympathize with Palestinians over Israel than they were only two years ago. Forty percent of liberals sympathized more with Palestinians, the most since 2001, while 33 percent sympathized more with Israel.
>Mr. Sanders, who is Jewish, has himself criticized Israel’s military posture in the Palestinian territories, saying, among other things, that it used disproportionate force in responding to rockets launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza in 2014.
>“I have always and will always be 100 percent supportive of Israel’s right to exist and live in peace and security,” Mr. Sanders wrote in a statement. “I also believe that lasting peace in the region will not occur without fair and respectful treatment of the Palestinian people. I believe that most Democrats agree with that position and that a strong consensus will be achieved at the Democratic National Convention.”
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>In the interview on Wednesday, Dr. West, a public intellectual who is well known for his provocative statements — he once called President Obama a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” — went further than Mr. Sanders has gone. Dr. West accused the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of “war crimes” and said that “the role of money and lobbies makes it difficult for there to be a candid dialogue” on Israel.
>Dr. Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, a veteran of Democratic politics and a longtime advocate of the rights of Palestinians, framed the drafting committee’s work as a healthy consensus-seeking mission. But it is one in which he depicted Mr. Sanders as having the leverage.
>“Any honest assessment would say that the debate on this issue has shifted over the last 30 years and the platform has reflected that but lagged slightly behind, and it’s now time to catch up,” he said in an interview. “Clearly most Democrats agree. But we will see what happens.”
>As a candidate, Mrs. Clinton has been less inclined to criticize Israel, emphasizing that it had a right to defend itself. In a statement on Wednesday, Jake Sullivan, Mrs. Clinton’s chief foreign policy adviser, indicated that her appointees to the platform committee would resist Mr. Sanders’s attempt to shift the center of gravity on the Israel debate.
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>“Hillary Clinton’s views on Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship are well documented, and she’s confident that her delegates will work to ensure that the party platform reflects them,” Mr. Sullivan said.
>The reaction was less reserved among those who champion a more traditional and full-throated support for Israel. Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said he found the inclusion of Dr. West on the committee “disturbing.” He said that the presence of other representatives of Mr. Sanders on the platform committee, including Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Muslim who has supported the rights of Palestinians, raised concerns that the party could “adopt positions that could be seen as hostile to Israel.”
>“For us, the concern is that it legitimizes and potentially puts into a major party platform” a point of view “that undermines the principles of the Israeli-U.S. relationship that have been bipartisan for decades,” Mr. Hoenlein said.
>At the 2012 Democratic convention, delegates booed officials who reinstated in the party platform a recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a view at odds with the United States’ official position that the city’s status must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians.
>“My concern is that the Democratic platform is not the venue in which to litigate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said Robert Wexler, a former congressman from Florida and Clinton supporter who served on the platform drafting committee that year.
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http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/23/smart-tv-hackers-are-filming-people-having-sex-on-their-sofas-and-putting-it-on-porn-sites-5899248/?ito=facebook
someone know the link of porn video ?
Fake news, and it's been around since VHS times. It pops up every once in a while with a different technology involved
Do smart TVs have cameras in them?
>>46363
Why would anyone have a superfluous camera pointed at them?
China’s is hoping to lose its image as a sometimes unhygienic country in a widely publicized “toilet revolution“, but it may all be for nothing. Last week, people in two different cases ignored bathrooms to answer nature’s call in some very public places.
On the morning of May 9, an unidentified middle-aged woman was caught on camera defecating in full view by a train station in Dalian, Liaoning.
While some Chinese media have said pedestrians were “shocked” by the woman’s brazenness, the video shows about eight people walking past her without one of them giving her a second look.
And even if the camera didn’t capture the gasps of offended pearl-clutchers just out of view, the woman herself displays a nonchalance towards public defecation that shows no shame. After wiping herself and hiking up her pants, the woman doesn’t furtively sneak away from the evidence of her disgrace; instead, she waits to be handed a plastic bag that she can use to conceal her public transgression.
The next day on the other side of the country, it happened again on a bus in Kunming.
A male commuter is seen on the bus’ suveillance camera rocking back and forth in apparent discomfort, continually touching his belly. When the bus pulls into the terminal station and most everyone disembarks, the reason becomes clear: the man had surreptitiously pulled his pants down slightly and pushed out of his butt the biological remains of what was bothering him.
As new passengers filed onto the bus, each did their best to ignore the intruder in their midst as they each tried to make it to work on time.
Kunming bus driver Zhu Lingmei told a television news reporter that she had “never seen anything like this before in her life.”
There is no Chinese law that expressly forbids people from defecating in public.
https://thenanfang.com/public-defecation-gaining-exposure-recent-outings-dalian-kunming/
This is my new fetish
>>45089
>news
>>45096
poo in loo
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-from-2017
Ahh so the jobs ARE coming back!
So this is what Trump was talking about huh?
>>46328
This is a good piece to link with the article the former CEO of McDonald's wrote about why fast food workers should be happy with wages that don't pay enough to live. No matter how low wages are workers will always be a liability in a Post-Fordist economy.
>>46328
why don't low level service workers and blue collar workers work together? It seems that they are both living in insecure labor markets.
Without land or stock, it seems the average person is completely fucked.
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