I use HughesNet at home, so far they’ve done well by me and that’s pretty much streaming Netflix 24/7
Instead of NN, why aren’t we being urged to harangue the FCC, Congress, and state/local gov’t into breaking up these local ISP monopolies? It seems to me that’s a solution that everyone could agree on…well, except for the ISPs 
My area is the ISP equivalent of the bar in The Blues Brothers: We’ve got both kinds of internet: Comcast and Verizon.
Not a bad idea, but it still doesn’t solve the problem of many communities only having one ISP. It may only change the name of that one company.
It could help competition over all though. Last year, I read an article about certain states passing laws that banned local municipalities form starting their own ISP when companies like Comcast didn’t improve service, or even when those companies refused to service certain areas. One even went as far as requiring municipalities that owned one to either sell it or shut it down.
Interestingly enough, most of these communities found that once they launched their own service, Comcast, Time Warner, and others were able to improve their services almost overnight. Amazing how that worked…
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I’d like to hope that any ISP “trust busting” would open up the infrastructure to new competition, similar to the days of dial-up where there were scads of providers in communities.
While I wouldn’t trust my local gov’t to run an ISP (and I wouldn’t want to pay for that; putting in public water was a wallet-destroyer), I’d be shocked if that were ever considered as they’re in tight with the ISPs.
It’s definitely annoying that you can easily switch your phone or electric provider with just a phone call, but your cable and ISP is a whole drawn out process that requires new boxes and wiring.
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So we’re spending money (or, Japan is spending our money lol) to build radar to track objects in space when none of the countries in Asia had radar good enough to track commercial airplanes like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
#Priorities 
…If JAXA could spend our money to get a bluray remaster of Planetes while they’re at it, well, that’d be swell 
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It seems to me that maybe it’s better for a politician like Collins to switch to the party that reflects her political positions than to be a trojan horse/maverick within a party whose platform doesn’t jibe with her politics? Bernie switched his political party after being elected to the Senate FWIW.
…A federal plan to invest in rural broadband was just announced earlier this week. That, and discussing breaking up the local ISP oligarchies (“We got both kinds of Internet: Comcast and Verizon!”) are Internet issues that IMO Collins should be talking about instead of hyping that she’s going to be the penultimate vote to deliver a Congressional smackdown on her fellow (???) Republican Ajit Pai 
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Jan. 11, 2018 at 06:57 am JST
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Oreimo’s Ayase Turned in Conversational, Holographic A.I. Girlfriend
posted on 2018-01-18 17:45 EST by Lynzee Loveridge
Pretty Rhythm Fan Creates Web App to Combat Gory Twitter Spam
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Full-Size Hatsune Miku Robot Could Be Next YouTube Sensation
posted on 2018-01-22 17:45 EST by Lynzee Loveridge
They need to get out of the “News” business completely before they find themselves regulated.
Mark Gosdin
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