Yes for all you adoring fans out there who can’t wait to get your hands (or ears) on the next release of No Prisoners, No Mercy show 58 is live!
Join Sr. Fran (as Huckleberry Hound), and Sr. Julie (as Tom Waits) as they talk to Tipa from West Karana and Saylah from Mystic Worlds about net neutrality (that’s the internet not fishing in Switzerland), Zynga, developers circling facebook, Eve Online, and a certain socialogist who thinks that WoW will one day be the afterlife…and you thought WE were crazy!!??? Join us for the fun!
You can find it on Itunes here or on our Podbean site here. You can read about the article involving WoW and the afterlife here.
We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did producing it. Tune in next week for an hour with Shannon Posniewski, executive producer of Champions Online.
Fran and Julie
We received this comment from Eric, obviously on his break at work, regarding show 58. So let me straighten out semantics. If you, the listeners, were left with the impression that the FCC gave Comcast permission to do anything you were indeed left with the wrong impression. Here, as they say, is the way it went down:
1.) FCC asks Comcast to comply with an application of FCC regulationis which are based on published law.
2.) Comcast says they will comply voluntarily but then turns around and sues the FCC, literally making a Federal Case out of it.
3.) The FCC loses the case, and Comcast is, at least for the time being, free to stomp on unsuspecting customers with a giant hobnail boot…er….charge customers an extra fee for a higher usage of the interne – as well as charge web sites more money to download faster.
4.) The FCC says it will go through the process to publish changes to its regulations. Basically this means publishing proposed regulations for public comment before it can become law. Once it has become law it is published in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Thanks for the comment Eric.
Hiya, thanks for posting my email. I am glad that on a second reading, it sounded like I intended. Sometimes when I shoot off a note in a hurry like that it comes out sounding messed up.
I tend to like analogies, and the one I came up with for this situation is:
It’s like an “Old West” scene, where the evil rancher with the black hat (Comcast) is rationing the water rights along a stream that flows through his land, and that his neighbors rely on to feed their cattle and livestock. He builds a dam, and allows only as much water to flow on to his neighbors as he wants, and take great pleasure in their misery. When they challenge his right to do this, and call in the sheriff from the town; it turns out that the rancher owns the water rights and can pretty much do as he wishes. The sheriff’s hands are tied.
What we need now, is the intervention of a stranger with no name who rides in, his steely eyes glinting as he puffs on a stubby stogey. He sits on his horse silently surveying the evil rancher’s land. He turns and rides slowly away, pulling his poncho around him as he makes plans for the rancher. Gunplay and mayhem ensues.
Clint Eastwood, where are you? An oppressed internet community needs you!
It is, perhaps, like a twist on the old adage (more sarcastic remark) “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”. Only in this case it would have to be “I’m from the U.S. Court system and I’m here to help you.” Yes, the court system will say “but we are only enforcing the letter of the law, no matter how poorly the letter was originally penned.” The problem being, of course, that when this particular set of laws were penned there was probably no internet to be deal with. Still it feels like Comcast is waiting in the side lines, along with AT&T with a hot poker to shove up everyone’s bum. Thank goodness our area has a third choice.
Thanks for the comment, don’t be a stranger
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