At Population Statistic, CT talks about the revived idea of forcing cable companies to sell access to individual cable channels rather than a large package of cable channels, a plan often called a la carte. We’ve only been asking for this for decades, but cable companies — secure in their local monopolies — haven’t seen [...]

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If we dispose of Net Neutrality and allow telecommunications companies to tier their service, it will decimate my career and destroy independently published sites like Thudfactor which don’t have the funds for preferential treatment. But it’s a confusing concept for most people to grasp. Fortunately, someone has made a graphic of what you could see [...]

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In case you missed it, there was another coal mine collapse, this time in Utah — six people trapped. The owner of the company that operates the mine says the cave-in was caused by an earthquake, but other experts seem to think he has events backwards. From Canada.com:

Six miners were trapped in the collapse of [...]

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