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I'm "of two minds" (a fine conservative blog BTW).

I have to ask the question, should everyone be invited to the subtle discussions?
When people tried to exclude me from conversation on the basis that I'm ignorant, I couldn't handle being excluded!

Now I'm thinking there's something to be said for keeping people out. Just so we can have an uninterrupted conversation.
(I'm old enough to remember when AOL put all of it's members onto usenet)

my main issue is privacy, if I learned myself Videosift was like facebook in terms of privacy, I would ex communicate and sue the sift gods !

I hate facebook for the blatant advertising privacy fuck over they give, in "your benefit".

In reply to this comment by dag:
Facebook is like Kiss when I was in the 7th grade - fun to hate. Still, show Facebook to an AOL user from 1998 and their eyes would pop out of their head. Without the hype, privacy issues and dickish CEO it's an AMAZING tool

for stalking my ex-GFs

>> ^BoneRemake:

you use face book ?
hah.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Facebook is like Kiss when I was in the 7th grade - fun to hate. Still, show Facebook to an AOL user from 1998 and their eyes would pop out of their head. Without the hype, privacy issues and dickish CEO it's an AMAZING tool

for stalking my ex-GFs

>> ^BoneRemake:

you use face book ?
hah.

Dear law enforcement,

rottenseed is Gregory Davis and he lives at 288 Willow West Drive, Unit #4, Palo Verde, CA 91452. His email is rottenseed4america@aol.com and his home number is 656-399-8122. He's usually at home before 8:30am and after 5:45pm.

>> ^nanrod:
It wasn't the gay retards, it was the fagets
>> ^garmachi:
The internet was a place of civility and restraint till all the gay retards showed up.



I'm pretty sure it was the kids who screwed it all up.

The internet was great before the kids showed up. Even for a while after they showed up, when they were all still in their AOL chat rooms. But you could see the slide happen when they got out of their cages.

It started in every pleasant forum when a kid showed up one day acting like a 12 year old in a bar, disrupting the atmosphere. That we easily dealt with by admins...but then they kept coming and coming and coming...like foul mouthed tribbles..multiplying until they filled the internet up with their obnoxious presence. Then the contagean spread, infecting normally rational adults until they cursing and screaming all over the interwebs like overgrown children.

Of course, it's all over now. There are few bastions of civility left and even those places are in a constant battle against the tide. Whatever.

5 years?!? That means I've been here for half the time Videosift has been up, not counting the year and a half I lurked before signing up. It seemed such a cohesive and including community at that time that I imagined it to have existed for a much longer time. It was certainly the main reason I finally joined.

Big thanks to @Fedquip for pointing the way here from his now discontinued AOL blog. I always enjoyed reading it.

While I'm sure they have a website their main thing is a television show which hundreds of thousands of people watch. I respect that you don't watch television(I'm guessing). I've got a television two meters (6 feet for Americans) away from me right now and I haven't turned it on in several months. The medium of television should become extinct. You're given 2/3 of what you want to watch and 1/3 corporate propaganda (also included is when you should/can watch it). Fuck television. I'll stop ranting now. >> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Didn't know what TMZ was, so I looked it up. It's an AOL affiliated 'Celebrity Gossip' website. Pretty lame content within. Stop giving attention to these nobody's Charlyne, or at least mock the fact that they were created by the antithesis of cool: AOL.

Didn't know what TMZ was, so I looked it up. It's an AOL affiliated 'Celebrity Gossip' website. Pretty lame content within. Stop giving attention to these nobody's Charlyne, or at least mock the fact that they were created by the antithesis of cool: AOL.

Video was found with AOL article:
Your Video Resume: Don't Be Dave!

AOL article that lead me to the video:
Dirty Denim: 'Raw' Blue Jean Fans Go Months Without Washing

I had to use AOL at work for testing.

Man, those AOL days feel so long ago! Or is it just me?

I am not too proud to admit that I was actually an aol member about twenty years ago. My mom sent me the installation kit on 3.5" floppies, and I connected using the 9600 baud modem which came with my Quantex 486 (which cost three thousand dollars at the time...) Aol used to charge by the hour back then, and one month my bill was larger than my car payment.

Then came the shareware version of DOOM.

It's all been downhill since.

Each packet is already treated differently on the internet and people haven't had a problem with it. For instance, I have a premium membership at file planet. As such, I don't wait in lines, and have faster service on the whole. AOL, and Google treat individual users to different ad experiences based on their profile. These types of explicit and implicit relationships make the internet the crazy mashup that it is, it is what makes it work. There might be a market for people who want to pay extra to have their traffic prioritized. When you are talking about a finite thing, that is worth paying for. For example, if someone on the bogged down AT&T network wanted to pay extra to have a bigger piece of the network pie, companies should be allowed to offer such things.

The REAL problem is that new network infrastructure isn't allowed to be installed by anyone other than explicit government enforced companies. As such, the network gets more and more crowed and the cable companies can charge people for these "deluxe rate plans" and not have to keep their services competitive. This has only changed small amounts in the era of high speed; once cable and DLS started to offer similar rates and speeds both sides tried to get the leg up. But in reality, they are still dealing with huge areas of influence against outsiders making it even more competitive. If Comcast becomes as data unfriendly as AOL did in its hayday, people have no choice due to decades of government control.

In reality, you don't want the government telling people what they can do with their pipes, the end result is worse than if you just opened up the markets to outsiders wanting to string up new services. It is no small stretch of the imagination to presume if the government starts getting in the business of telling ISPs what they can or can't transmit with priority, it will lead to what they can transmit at all. Like if they decided to crack down on cyber bulling, a very hot political subject right now, the FCC could demand that ISPs can no longer deal traffic to sights that have anonymous posting. That would be letter of law now instead of just one punk ISP trying to pull one over on consumers. The internet will remain more free the more you keep the FCC out of it, just look at their track record. How many small independent radio broadcasts companies exist? Well, it has gone form about 70% before the FCC to about 5% now, and less than 1% for television. If you want huge media corporations taking over the internet, then you want the FCC involved in the regulation of the internet.

Ask Howard Stern or George Carlin about the FCC and how open they are.