This sign has an entirely different meaning if you are a fan if Battlestar Galactica.
R2-D2 was found wandering about in the latest Star Trek movie. This is pretty darned cool, and makes a good Star Trek movie even better. Now I’ll have to buy it on DVD when it comes out, just so I can pause it and see this for myself.
I stopped by Asheville Parking Services today to renew my parking pass, and there on the waiting room table were all these magazines about, well, parking. Who woulda thunk?
If Senator John McCain has way by defeating the FCC’s move to support Net Neutrality with his “Internet Freedom Act“, this is what your Internet plan options could easily look like:
Say “goodbye” to experiencing the World Wide Web as you know it, and say “hello” to experiencing it as you do your cable TV, with restrictions on what you get unless you want to pay more, and unless the content providers pay more to be listed there.
As usual, the notion that a “government takeover” and a “marxist plot” are being bantered around to generate support for McCain’s bill through fear and ignorance. It goes without saying that McCain was the biggest beneficiary of telco/ISP money in 2008, to the tune of $894,379.
Picture courtesy of some quink at Reddit. Click the pic for the full-size image.