[Kilala Mikal]

I've got the Sarya's bundle achievement, so here's what I've got in my inventory with Sarya in it on an av.

I went ahead and did it in purple, if you want to see the other colors, let me know.

[I was in the process of fixing my av, and saving it to pb, so I didn't see that someone had already posted XD]

[Tam I am]

Originally Posted by AutobotDen

*points to what her av has on* It's a three piece set. Top, pants, boots.

Originally Posted by Kilala Mikal

I've got the Sarya's bundle achievement, so here's what I've got in my inventory with Sarya in it on an av.

I went ahead and did it in purple, if you want to see the other colors, let me know.

[I was in the process of fixing my av, and saving it to pb, so I didn't see that someone had already posted XD]

Thanks, guys!

So I just need to get the top. Looks like a comfortable and nerdly outfit.

[Lawtan]

*Looks around library*
...quiet as the grave...I like it...MUAHAHAHAHA

[Tam I am]

*comes tip toeing in*

*NOISE*

:D

[Lawtan]

So, how are you, Tam?

[Tam I am]

Fervently grateful for the cool, rainyish weather today, even though it hasn't cleared up the smoke. You?

[Lawtan]

Tired and about to fall asleep...

3...2...1...ZZZZzzzzzz.....

(Is not feeling good for no reason I know of, so hoping to sleep it off)

Also, I am adding a climate/geological site to the library...umm, considering the possibility of the FCC allowing for anti-net neutrality (in other words, allowing internet to be treated like cable - sanctioned off into bundles and the like)...I may be trying to save as many of these resources as possible...

[Tam I am]

...Into bundles. What???

[Den]

Ah, yeah. that stupid thing with the FCC. If they have their way, the rest of us get screwed over.


Also, Lawtan... Ever hear of a paradox smoothie? :3

[Lawtan]

From my Facebook post on it:

"Okay, on the conflict with "net neutrality" - I somewhat understand what part of the issue is.

So, the Court of Appeals had earlier struck down the FCC's policy promoting "net neutrality" due to not making the internet a service like phone lines, yet restricting the market for broadband connections. In their minds, it was "having your cake and eating it, too."

Now, were the internet to be made such a service, it would give government increased control (and increased, potentially out of date, regulation of the internet). This would likely kill several indie (independent) things that are not quite understandable within modern law.

And, were the broadband connection market allowed open, you would most likely see the "nightmare scenario" of rich people/websites paying for faster internet "bundles", and the poor having their choices of what they can access, and how fast they can access it, restrained greatly.

To the people, more than stupid videos, games, cats, and all, the internet is a chance for near-equal market. Between Wikis, the Internet Archive, Project Gutenburg, the release of Tesla's Patents, archives of Leonardo da Vinci's and others' old journals, Kickstarter, Online universities and open-source learning guides and material, Indigogo, Free tools for making digital art, 3D rendering, and music, Indie Game sites, Online Dictionaries/Thesauruses, and many other tools...people who are being pressured by the piss-poor regulations and laws of the last decade-and-a-half...still have a chance.

So...from what I understand, the FCC has opened up a 60 day period of open debate to find a solution satisfactory to all parties involved. Here's hoping that the new regulations of Internet 3.0 will be favorable to the continued conditions of an equal internet. When I can think of a good solution myself, I know I will write to them about it.

...I also half-want to pour green slime all over the Court of Appeals, but that would be immature."

...as an additional note, it was the Courts who said the FCC could make the rules in the first place...

FCC on the situation

Hyperbole of a world without open internet (without "net neutrality")

EFF Foundation on it

Forbes on the Issue

[Tam I am]

0_0 This is the first time I've heard of any of this.

[Den]

We've been fighting crap like this for at least the past year to year and a half, really.

[Lawtan]

*Hugs the Autobot* Save us, Den! XD

I know. I think that was what I was trying to talk about earlier, but as I couldn't find sources, it wound up in confusion.

...In truth, the more I understand it, the more it seems like something people are trying to navigate so it doesn't crash, but without a way to actually do so. They are trying to reword it to get the same result as the one the court rejected (That was beneficial to "net neutrality"), but with "nicer words."
There is a push for it being governmentalized, and there is a push to let it be like cable TV, and both groups are avoiding the actual document itself. (Typical socio-political shenanigans)

[Tam I am]

So WHAT exactly are they trying to do? What do you mean, "Like cable"? Not having TV, and never having had cable in my life, I might be missing the obvious in what you're saying.

[Lawtan]

The cable companies (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc...control phone, cable TV, and internet broadband) are able to only offer certain television channels to their clients - the channels have to pay them for the benefit of being able to show to viewers in certain areas. Also, like health insurance, most cable companies have monopoly-like control over areas, they can fine-tune and control what people view.

With the current/possibly past internet, the policy avoiding such things has led to a less controlled/financially viable market for them. The argument is thus: for them to continue to improve internet connection, among other things, they would like something closer to what they have with cable.

[Kilala Mikal]

Ugh! *flops into library exhausted*

The last 24 hours have been... well... let's just say they've been. DX

My almost 14 month old dropped my Andriod phone into a cup of juice while I wasn't looking. (The crappy thing is, I was holding the juice when she did it.) So it's been drying in rice overnight.
My hubs helped his uncle move yesterday, but he was supposed to be home last night, but they didn't finish unloading the truck until 3 this morning, so he wasn't home last night, but I didn't find out he wasn't coming home until about 3:30. I didn't get to sleep until 6:30, because I have serious problems sleeping by myself in this house. Luckily, the kids didn't get up until 10:30 (Yay! 4 hours of sleep!), but Boyo's been hyper, and Girlie's been whiney, and they both keep fighting with each other over crayons and bs. My hormones are all out of whack. I cried, LITERALLY CRIED, during "The Circle of Life" from Lion King.
Somebody save me... *falls over* Ugh.