Tuesday Talk
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 29th, 2014
Good morning!
Chris: Your comment two days ago inspired me to dig deeper and take a closer look at this issue. This is what I found on The Daily Beast:
Killing Net Neutrality Kills the Dreams of Young Entrepreneurs
Let’s say a young, Black, male 6th grader made it all the way from his local elementary school on the far west side of Detroit to one of those really awesome science fairs the White House started putting on. He had invented a doodad that helped his elderly grandma in a nursing home down south more easily take ‘selfies,’ and share them with her family around the country. His school noticed, and the next thing you know, the kid’s at the White House showing off this fascinating little invention.
Then, in 8th grade, because he had rock star teachers due in part to the administration’s new teacher training standards,, he received stellar grades in algebra and geometry, bolstering his confidence that the tech field might really be for him.
After his 11th grade year, because of the President’s My Brother’s Keeper program, this young man received a scholarship to attend a new science and technology summer camp. At the camp he connected with mentors at Facebook and Google, developing invaluable relationships and refining his burgeoning tech skills.
And because the administration had protected his Pell Grants, this kid—whose parents are by no means wealthy—could afford to head down south to Georgia Tech for college. He leveraged his earlier experience and knocked a Computer Science degree out of the park, graduating with high honors.
He decides that the major tech firms aren’t for him: he can possibly do better financially, and do more good back in Detroit, by starting his own business, hiring some techie friends from his neighborhood, and bringing a new digital product to market. And he has just the idea: a radical new video service, the details of which he’s smartly keeping under wraps.
There’s just one problem: after months of design and testing—and a bit of angel funding from contacts he met along the way—the young man learns that to deliver his product to customers at fast speeds, and compete with the “big boys,” the multi-billion dollar firms already in his field, he’ll have to pay Comcast or Verizon an exorbitant fee. His video service uses a lot of bandwidth, and, years before, in 2014, The Federal Communications Commission began allowing cable companies to charge startups like his more for the bandwidth they use. The cable companies call it a “fast lane,” but in reality it’s a barrier to entry that the kid’s fledgling company just can’t afford.
So it’s off to an engineering job at big firm for this brilliant youngster, where he’ll pour his ideas into an existing structure rather than creating something on his own—something that could have allowed his own family, and the community around him, to flourish.
That’s what the debate over the FCC’s proposed rules boils down to. Last week, the FCC announced that they would propose new rules to allow major companies like Netflix and Google to pay cable companies like Comcast and Verizon more for faster lanes of service to send video and other products to customers. By definition, that means that if you’re a company that can’t afford these “fast lanes,” your service will be slower, less appealing to customers, and more likely to fail.
Over the last five years, the Obama administration has done a stellar job of investing in opportunity for our nation’s young people, working at each stage of a child’s development to ensure that kids have the ability to succeed and thrive. But—for at least the sizable segment of the next generation that desires to move into science, technology, engineering and math fields—these new FCC rules could waste a substantial portion of that investment, stifle innovation, and create a two-tiered opportunity structure with big companies on the top and future innovators left behind.
Let’s hope the FCC doesn’t continue down that dangerous road, and that Congress and the administration finds ways to preserve net neutrality. This debate is much bigger than the players on the field today—the cable companies and software firms and lobbyists spending millions on each side. It’s about kids around the country who are putting the building blocks of their futures together right now; let’s be sure to not get in their way.
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Readers: This is a serious issue. This is the kind of thing where once again the rich and big business will get an edge over the rest who cannot afford to pay the big bucks to get a fast lane on the net. Once again it is all about the money, these big guys getting greedy. And if you can’t afford it, sorry you can’t play in the big league.
What is the solution? Call Congress and start voicing your opinion to preserve net neutrality. Thanks again Chris for broaching this topic.
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April 29th, 2014 at 10:15 am
Barry #32, it never ceases to amaze me how women and esp in LA land of the gorgeous allow themselves to be used and almost have a bring it on attitude.
Men will always try whatever they will & the car thing really works here, I’ve watched women hit upon a man just bc he drives an expensive and/or exotic car, unbelievable…and that’s a sad energetic state to be operating from for anyone, woman or man…
Luv, Zen Lill
April 29th, 2014 at 11:03 am
Zen Lill what’s so sad about it? I think a not so handsome or young man providing money, social status or even a nice for in exchange to be in the presence of a beautiful woman is a fair exchange. Why should a beautiful woman be held to some societal more of not expecting to bargain hard for the pleasure of being in her company?
It is no more sad for a woman to be hitting on a man just because he has an expensive car than a man to be hitting on a woman just because she is beautiful. I been had by beautiful women who come to a certain spot and sit and have a latte regularly. They wait until some guy has the balls to make it known he is interested. Then they like me decide if he is worth playing the game with.
April 29th, 2014 at 11:08 am
Zen Lill, in Russia beauty is a commodity like anything else. A beautiful woman should be just as proud of her asset as some the pot-bellied men here are of their wealth.
April 29th, 2014 at 11:32 am
Zen Lill, I’m iranian, men flip when they see me in public. I left Iran because I couldn’t show my beauty in public. Here in France, if a man wants to meet me he had better have something in his pocket or under his ass when he pulls up if he is not physically up to my standards.
April 29th, 2014 at 7:28 pm
That’s not the ‘sad’ part – I referred to the energy, and if you want to exchange energy that’s not calculated in terms of beauty and a beast (big wallet/cool car) but whatev – I’m down with it…
I get it about beauty, trust me, I’m not looking for it and I get enough attention so I get the value…& I never said to not be proud of beauty or fat wallets, that wasn’t my point, but it’s cool…no time to explain vibrational stuff here, have to go out tonite : )
- ZL
April 29th, 2014 at 11:30 pm
maintenant il ya deux: b is for … blue … et Bleu, est pour Vous
I got a late message that was about You.
Ergo the updated post, thanks be for guidance by Chou.
If by any slim chance, I’ve Awakened Something in You,
I Wish for You Memories of the Love You Gave Bleu
PrP
April 29th, 2014 at 11:46 pm
Lucy Says:
April 29th, 2014 at 12:19 am
You are absolutely correct to question my posts. Why should you believe me? I can’t answer that for you. My truth doesn’t depend on your belief or validation.
But If I were you, I would question others’ reality too. That’s a shrewd trait of self preservation in any situation. From my perspective, I would advise to never believe anybody that tells you their story. It’s their story. When you hear it, it becomes yours by the simple fact of your mind processing how you understand the story. Not the same as the reality of the person who tells you the story (maybe they left out important facts for example). (Maybe you’ve played the kindergarten game where you whisper a phrase in the ear of the kid next to you and it goes around the room until the end when the last person hears it and repeats something far removed from the word that started.) We see/hear/judge from our own individual frames of reality/perspective/mental capacity to grasp. Anyone who is willing to believe anyone else without considering it for themselves and how it relates to what they know, well, think they should just get in line with the sheeple and keep moving, head down.
Absolutely don’t believe anything I might write or state. That’s my advice, since you asked.
PrP
April 30th, 2014 at 12:24 am
Caroline Says:
April 29th, 2014 at 12:09 am
Lucky you! Sounds like fun. I’m glad you were able to make it work, reap some bennies and keep your friends. You are indeed lucky if you managed to avoid the Jesus Christ/Satan reality HBs sometimes get when dealing with ABs, or the “falling in love” that happens to the (in my experience) female HBs that are made love to by a skilled AB. Its like a drug fix-reward and they are hooked. It can be bothersome for sure, even if you aren’t a jealous lover and you know the syndrome. Kinda like, oh girl, stop drooling. You are my friend and supposed to be able to hang with the party. That experience, I will go out on a limb and say most likely, you’ve experienced for yourself.
And hey, you didn’t say if he was around the full 39 years (you know, like if he went AWOL and went native (HB), or if he was an AB always living as an HB-born, or if he was a permanent or vacationing visiting AB constantly traveling in and outside of the galaxy (or our solar system) and necessarily missed chunks of your HB life, events in your time continuum. (You may look 30 but you know you are 60 and even if you are trying to do 30 year old things now and can, you know you had 30 years of waiting, as an example, not saying this is your situation, let me clear, before you misunderstand my writing on that, too.)
I find these variables of AB/HB relationships affect the length of their relationships and how some HBs can wait for ABs that leave for long periods of time in earth time and others who feel their sense of finiteness and moving loss of recorded time and want to do the HB milestones that HBs are entitled to (pregnancy comes to mind, young ladies dont want to grow old waiting for the AB to commit in the human way – marriage, support, etc. when their friends are all moving forward). Or, the HB is married and the AB is in the picture long term as a lover, perhaps managed better because the HB has a life (with an HB, living as an HB) and getting some AB on the side. Best of both, actually, it would seem. I mean, that might be your situation too, you didnt say, just “alien lover” that could mean anything.
And then, some ABs have their only contact with HBs while they are in their sleeping levels. Ask anyone who has woken up with evidence on the body of what they dreamed up. Or, better example, anybody owning an abduction – they might find the point of implant.
But whatever, your reality is yours. And mine is mine. You know, like I told Lucy, no need to believe my reality.
Thanks for the invite. If I were closer, I just might have.
PrP
April 30th, 2014 at 12:45 am
Since I’m getting through somehow, I must state (lucy: just for you, i say: not transparent by intention) respectfully and with sadness, RIP *friend*, thanks for the knowledge you shared with us all here, while you had your time. Your contribution to Michelle’s blog was invaluable and your sacrifice has not gone unnoticed, I know for sure. Peace to you.
PrP
April 30th, 2014 at 1:07 am
rereading my post yesterday – first sentence, first – I left out a valuable word that would change the structure of the sentence and the intention of my message. this is my point to Lucy above, kind of. The sentence should have included *always* – you can figure out where probably. SOmething else was wrong too in what I wrote, but those that would know, let it go. And those that dont know, might believe that sentence, even though it was not my intention in what I was trying to convey or what I know to be true. Anybody get my point? When there is mass reality, it becomes reality, a truth if you will, whether true or not. (like reputations, history, and yes, typos)
PrP
April 30th, 2014 at 6:29 am
PrP, I understood your points. -ZL
April 30th, 2014 at 6:37 am
Michelle, you are so busted. When I read Prism Princess #10, I recognized Zen Lill’s posts when she is taking something back.
Sorry the handwriting style has given you away. Zen Lill and Prism Princess are one and the same person, and that person is you.
Really, Michelle? They are exciting characters but admit it. They are products of your blog mind.
April 30th, 2014 at 6:40 am
Prism Princess, forgive me but I don’t get it. What does AB and HB mean?
April 30th, 2014 at 6:41 am
Prism Princess(love the name) fuck the idiots. I get off on your writes. You have a deep mind. A bit mischievous at times but always hot.
April 30th, 2014 at 6:44 am
David#12 you make perfect sense. We(me and a lot of my friends) have been speculating for years that Zen Lill was really Doug playing Devil’s Advocate to Michelle’s Serious T Topic Issues.
Now you have spotted the connection to prove our suspicions. Nice detective work.
You Michelle have been busted!.
April 30th, 2014 at 6:47 am
Prism Princess#10???????????? if you could be more enigmatic, please do.
April 30th, 2014 at 6:48 am
Zen Lill#11, of course you do. PrP is you.
April 30th, 2014 at 7:35 am
Prism Princess, I am delighted you took the time to write me. Have you had an AB lover of your own or were you one of those who was brought into the relationship and then fell madly in love with the AB?
I have had many friends that joined us in a menage å trois and then went crazy for him. Most made every attempt they could think of to get next to him. He was always cool with it. But sometimes I got very jealous.
He would try to calm me down but I couldn’t see his view point. Now I am more mature and I understand that he was not interested in that way. He could fuck any human (male or female) he wanted if that was all he wanted to do was get laid. He was making my life more interesting in that department by allowing me to include others in our relationship.
He never really wanted to socialize with others. He was content to just hang out with me. He was always willing to socialize if I wanted him to but it wasn’t his thing.
When I got crazy he would remind me that he never told me he needed a second person in our love making that was my idea, he just went along. He was right of course, he was content to just make love with me.
I lost a few friends during my maturing jealousy phase. It took me a while to grow up in that department.
On my age thing. I had to move. My friends were too difficult to get along with. They envied my state and they made my life difficult because of it.
Since I’ve moved I have been living the life of a typical 30 year old. The men I date have no idea that I am old enough to be their mothers.
I’ve recently met this handsome 29 that wants to take me to America. I’ve met his parents and they want to get to know me better. I can’t have that. I went back to school and got an degree to practice being an X-ray technician. I didn’t need the money, but I certainly needed the exposure.
I am using the birthday of the niece that was named after me. She laughs when we are out because her friends especially the males want my number. She tells them we are twins.
As for having a baby. Heck no, I don’t feel the need to validate myself as a female by giving birth. I can wait for my lover as long as it takes. If he returns in 30 years when I am older looking I’m sure he can make it right.
Besides he loves me for me.
I have been proposed to several times, and I have been tempted, but I don’t want to go there just yet. If I do and he returns, I’m his whenever he wants me and however.
April 30th, 2014 at 7:46 am
Oh, god, PrP, your description about dreaming of fucking an alien are so true. I live in Brazil but my friend lives in Peru. When I visited her she introduced me to a threesome with a guy she said was an alien.
He was a fantastic lover. His dick obeyed our every whim. If we didn’t want to to get soft it didn’t. We (me and four other girls) would suck and fuck him and each other all day. He had a bottle of champagne that never got empty. It stayed cold without refrigeration and poured continuously.
Before I left I asked Robbie if she minded if he visited me in Brazil. She said ask him you may discover that it is easier than you think.
It’s real he fucks me in my sleep. One time my husband who fucks me and then rolls over to sleep pissed me off. I went to sleep asking my AB for some dick in my ass.
Girl I swear I came so many times that night. I thought it was a great dream until I felt the cum dripping from my ass.
April 30th, 2014 at 7:51 am
Michelle, many of my friends here in Turkey have long thought that Zen Lill and Doug were characters you added to give your personality reality.
Now that you have been outed they have been emailing profusely. I say who cares. I will continue to read your Zen Lill and Prism Princess posts as if they are real.
I love your blog. It makes my english better and my life better because you help us women get respect and understanding about how to remedy our tough situations.
Seni seviyorum, Michelle
April 30th, 2014 at 7:54 am
Chas#10, even in Malaysia, we know a fool when we hear one. You are an idiot. Mencium pantat saya dari Malaysia.
April 30th, 2014 at 7:55 am
So Prism Princess#9, who died? Anyone we know?
April 30th, 2014 at 7:57 am
“PrP, I understood your points. -ZL”
Kind of like patting yourself on the back, eh?
April 30th, 2014 at 7:59 am
Okay I don’t care who you wrote it to Prism Princess#10, just tell me what the fuck you are talking about.
You on your period or what?
April 30th, 2014 at 8:03 am
I started reading your blog Michelle because some friends toll me that it was a good way to improve my english reading and writing skills before I sneak across the border to North America.
That was 4 years ago, and I have been here for 3 years. I never miss. I’ve gotten married divorced and gotten married again but I have never missed (even on 2 honeymoons) your blog.
I don’t believe that you are anybody but you.
A loyal fan.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:03 am
Fuck you Eric#24, get a life.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:05 am
Ditto Chris. Some assholes have nothing better to do but to harass women.
Pick on a man you coward.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:07 am
Prism Princess, I don’t believe for a second that you are anyone but you. Pay no attention to the scuttlebutt you hear here.
I love your insight on the issues. I think you are as valid as Howie on the subject of Aliens. You write like someone who has been there.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:08 am
Whoa fellows. I wasn’t being disrespectful to Prism Princess I just wanted her to be more specific.
It was only sarcasm for pete’s sake.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:10 am
Zen Lill you and Social Butterfly, and Prism Princess are my favorites.
You make this blog jump off the page.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:12 am
Yes, you are so right Prism Princess, my dreams are real.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:13 am
Sorry, Vivian but it is Howie who makes this blog jump off the page.
April 30th, 2014 at 8:13 am
I wish you lived in China Prism Princess I would love to visit you.
April 30th, 2014 at 3:05 pm
Uh oh busted not being myself again, lol…
April 30th, 2014 at 3:06 pm
& am I the only one who likes one man at a time? Last serial monogamist left? Bummer…