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Net Neutrality 12-28-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Net Neutrality/Data in New Congress? Don’t Hold Yer Breath

Of course, the pundits interviewed noted this coming Congress will be preoccupied with other stuff, like, uh, the war and the budget. Oh, and let’s not forget about a little presidential race that’s already gearing up.

My bet is that we won’t see any federal legislation that does any more than pay lip service to the Net neutrality issue. Maybe something in the data security and privacy realm might hit the floor, but the fact is (and call me a cynic) the government wants access to any and all of our data for pretty much ever. That means it will be exempt from whatever laws are put in place, most likely making them moot where civil liberties are concerned. Remember CAN-SPAM, where they conveniently wrote themselves out of the law?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag, Tag . . .

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Oh, I Get It , , , Now!

I was tagged at the very beginning of the five things meme. Then it happened that I got tagged again and again and again. Each time I said “thank you” for giving me an assignment I’d aleady completed. Soon I was tagged a fourth time. Then tagged a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh . . .

It took me a while to catch on to the fact that I needed to get five more things in a post. My life-long friend, Nancy, has been telling me for these many years, “Ya know, Liz, sometimes you’re so fast, and sometimes you are sooo sloooow.”

So here they are for those guys who tagged me on this second round: Carl, Thord, Thilak, Jason, PC, Mike, and Phil. Gosh, I hope I named you all.

Five Things Most Folks Don’t Know about Me

  1. I’m claustrophobic. I didn’t know that either until my son was about three. It’s the most interesting, amazing feeling to physically compell myself out of a small space at what feels like 90 mph.

  2. I didn’t like the original smiley face or the good-bye phrase “Have a nice day.” In college, I had a t-shirt with a frowny face and a patch on the back of my blue jeans that said, “Have a nice night.”

  3. I didn’t go to my prom in high school, but I turned down two nice, intelligent, good-looking guys who asked me. I was afraid we’d have nothing to talk about.

  4. My first nickname ever was “Bashful.” I got a dominant self-conscious gene. My second nickname was “Mushy.” My dad called me “Babydoll.” My mom called me “Petunia.”

  5. I was Alice in Wonderland in college. I went to get a hot ham and cheese sandwich and noticed the auditions on the way there. I probably would have kept going — I didn’t know anyone in the theater department — but the girl reading for Alice was just so . . . . someone had to do something! You know what I mean?

So there you have them — five more things about me — things I don’t think about much these days. Maybe that’s why most folks don’t know them.

–Me “Liz” Strauss

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Net Neutrality 12-26-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Eight Internet Losers In 2006

Though the Internet had a breakout year 2006, it wasn’t all birthday cakes and butterflies for everyone. Companies, institutions and philosophies came head to head every other day trying to exert some sort of control over it. And most of them failed miserably.

So while there were big time winners in 2006, every year has its colossal losers. This Biggest Internet Losers list rubs their faces in it because it has to be done. There are lessons to be learned.

Biggest Internet Losers 2006

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7. Net Neutrality

Though awareness and support for the concept of Network Neutrality increased exponentially, the construct intended to be the Internet’s First Amendment still suffered defeat after defeat in Congress.

8. The Telecommunications Industry

It’s interesting that all players involved in the Net Neutrality debate come up losers. But there was no compromise on either side of it. Just when it looked like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast would put the debate to bed, enough grass roots support popped up to delay it just long enough to get to the mid-term elections. Net Neutrality got a reprieve, and it’s driving the telcos crazy.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

What You’ve Given and What You Are

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People, Stars, and You

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May your day be with people
who put their differences away
who listen beyond the words that you choose
to understand what you mean to say

May the time be ripe with details
minor events and moments of laughter
that re-ignite your spirit with the joy of living
and stay in your memory ever, ever after

May you find ways to discover
questions that uncover mysteries
that capture incredible oral histories
that bring a opportunity to see
people you thought you knew entirely
as individuals brand new and interesting

May you have a day of wonder
filled with the music of voices singing.
the joy of what you’ve given me and what you are:
proof that people and stars are made of the same thing.

Thank you to every Successful-Blog reader. I so value you.

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