How many people are going to loose their jobs because someone in government decided that there should be free broadband?
Not as many as realize that “free government broadband” won’t ever be free or remain very broad for long.
And if there’s going to be free broadband, then why not free telephone service and satellite TV? What is the difference in principle?
Rotflmao… Can I use that sometime?
I don’t know exactly where I heard it, but it stuck with me thereafter.
It’s definitely in the public domain, so feel free to use it where appropriate or not.
If you like that one, you might like Ice-T’s cheery little ditty:
Ok, the Youtube video titled Shut Up, Be Happy. (url is being altered by OO.net droid)
Stay Focused,
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The logical conclusion of this sort of thinking is, everyone has a right to get laid.
Fortunately we’ve got the “No Fat Chicks” Clause to prevent such a bill from passing!
And if there’s going to be free broadband, then why not free telephone service and satellite TV? What is the difference in principle?
Because of the existence of Skype, and whatever competing equivalents may arise, none - not only in principle but in concrete fact, too.
JJM
Fortunately we’ve got the “No Fat Chicks” Clause to prevent such a bill from passing!
Yeah, to go along with the “No Stupid Guys” clause. 
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, john, but it’s already happened.
One of the clauses of the New People’s Constitution from that terrible third world country I escaped from, Ecuador- which should now be called The People’s State of Ecuador- lists the right to orgasm among one of its 200+ items. I believe it’s close to the one that gives plants and nature the same rights as human beings.
*sigh*
One of Miss Rand’s essays (I don’t have my stuff at hand so I can’t check which) noted that you’ve been pre-empted by 40+ years. She wrote (in a disgusted tone) about how someone waxed poetic about in the future people will have legally recognised rights to good orgasms and the like, which was a conclusion of a certain line of thought regarding the proliferation of bogus rights.
JJM
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, john, but it’s already happened. One of the clauses of the New People’s Constitution from … Ecuador, which … lists the right to orgasm among one of its 200+ items.
I don’t know Spanish so I can’t read the official text. The news articles I find say that there is no right to orgasm but a recognition of a woman’s rights to pursue her own sexual happiness. It’s a bizarre way of putting it, but women’s equality and their ownership of their own lives is of course legitimate, and I am not even sold on the idea that such a thing shouldn’t be in a Constitution. The ‘right to orgasm’ schtick sounds like a beat-up and a mockery of strange expressions that I figure are attempts to dance around what they really mean without openly saying it. In short, it’s a trial-balloon for the advancement of abortion and divorce rights in a Catholic country. Not everything that socialist filth propose is to be rejected out of hand merely because it is they who propose it.
I looked up the reference from Miss Rand I had in mind. It’s in “Egalitarianism and inflation,” published in June 1974 (so it’s 34 years old, not 40+, but who’s counting?)
JJM