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El Reg reports
Voters in Colorado have abolished laws that had prohibited local governments from offering their own broadband internet services.
Local ballots in 17 counties all resulted in voters electing to allow their local governments to offer broadband service in competition with private cable companies. The vote overturns a 2005 law that prevented any government agency from competing in the broadband space.
[...] According to The Denver Post , the 17 counties have differing reasons for overturning the rule. Some areas want to build their own broadband infrastructure, while others simply want to offer Wi-Fi service in public buildings or improve service for farming communities.
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday November 06 2015, @07:49PM
Convince me that my vote makes any noticeable difference whatsoever in policy, and I'll consider it.
The first, and last, time that I actually attempted to vote was for Obama. I learned my lesson.
There's no point in giving any energy whatsoever to politics. They're simply the cancer that I must somehow live with.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @08:29PM
And you deserve what you get, so why are you bitching about it?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by edIII on Friday November 06 2015, @09:32PM
That fact that fucking morons and complete mental failures like you think that voting would do anything anyways, *and* then also denigrate others that refuse to be as deluded as you are. I deserve a shitty country for recognizing the truth? My country is *not* a representative democracy? I bet you would tell an Iraqi citizen pre-invasion, that they deserve their lot by not standing up to Sadam's family enough right? If *only* they poured out into the streets to vote, they could *change* something? Not while the quasi-Baathists were in power. What do I have? Democrats and Republicans driving this country into the shitter.
Uh huh. I deserve a non-representative country because I refuse to waste my time voting between two groups of sociopaths that will directly, provably, and historically, flat out ignore their constituencies and proceed with unabated corrupt political practices. You're right. America could just change by voting.
I'd laugh right now if we weren't so fucking sad. You only need to look to extraordinarily prominent situations like our spymasters ignoring 90% of the public not wishing them to continue. Or Net Neutrality. How many different times has the government abjectly failed to represent the will of the people? These aren't 50/50 discussions, but pleas in solidarity that get completely ignored.
You would be right if there weren't such a pervasive history of corruption in my country... but there is. Now it's becoming more transparent by the day with new leaks coming out all the time.
Yet mental midgets like you continue to compare it to a group of people deciding on what to eat that night. In that situation, simplistically, you're correct. I don't get to bitch that we are eating Italian if I didn't vote for Chinese. Politics isn't even remotely the same situation in which my vote has actual power. My vote has absolutely zero power whatsoever, and it makes no sense at all to waste my energies believing otherwise.
You know what has power? money. If I ever get really rich (probably not going to happen), I might vote more. I would need to decide which Senator to pay first to push my agenda though. That's the only "voting" that has power; The Mighty Wallet.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2015, @11:48PM
Federal judges (especially SCOTUS members) can keep their jobs until they die or decide to quit.
Of the folks running for president last time, which one would you rather have choosing those jurists?
As a start, you might do a text search for the word "Justice" on this page [greenshadowcabinet.us] which names Jill Stein's Green Shadow Cabinet.
Compare that to the majority-Catholic, majority-Reactionary group now sitting at 1 First St NE, Washington, DC.
-- gewg_