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This place smells like dryer sheets.

I was relieved to find red stains on my socks. I feel like having blood in your socks means you've truly made a sacrifice - like, you're so hardcore, you've done something until your feet bled. That something need not have been dancing, running, or a winter at Valley Forge. It can be something like scratching mosquito bites on your ankles way too much - it's still hardcore.

Here's a shocker - Comcast is appealing the FCC's recent pro-net neutrality ruling. And apparently, public interest groups supporting net neutrality are suing the FCC, for not requiring Comcast to stop its bittorrent-blocking immediately.

I'm not sure that's a useful expenditure of our energy, pissing off the organization that we're trying to influence.

If this is an economic issue, we should look at the economic side of it. It seems to me that without net neutrality, we will allow a monopolizing of internet business. As I understand it, monopolies aren't good for the overall health of the economy. It seems like a compelling reason to believe that the telecomm industry isn't looking out for the health of the market, as they claim, so much as the short-term health of their own businesses. (Another excellent reason - the many corporations that support net neutrality).

And, you know, there are those ethical reasons. And the democracy thing.