98: Live Long & Prosper

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The geeks get sad as news that Leonard Nimoy has passed hits mid-podcast; Net Neutrality wins until the lawsuits hit; that damn dress & those silly llamas break the internet; big storage & big data; Tesla & uBeam, House of Cards & the three little pigs. Show notes http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/98 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason DeFilippo
0:07.5	discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.
0:11.7	Hey Brian, it is a great day for the internet, isn't it though?
0:21.0	The FCC has passed their net neutrality ruling and everything is great.
0:25.3	We're going to have competition.
0:27.2	It's going to be amazing.
0:28.8	The future is so bright.
0:31.8	And then Comcast says they're just going to go ahead and sue the shirt out of everybody
0:34.2	to slow it back down.
0:35.5	Yeah, I saw that one coming.
0:37.3	Yeah, that's that was pretty quick.
0:38.9	It's like, I mean, it's it's good.
0:41.8	The FCC finally did something smart and it's awesome, but this is going to be years and
0:47.8	years of battles and we're still probably going to lose anyways.
0:50.9	Corporations are going to do what they're going to do.
0:52.7	We're going to fight it goes back and forth, but we need the corporations because they're
0:56.6	the ones that give us the internet, but that's what the, you know, the whole opening
1:00.4	of the competition spaces.
1:02.6	But we'll see how it we'll see how it plays out right now.
1:05.2	My internet works.
1:06.2	I'm okay.
1:07.2	Everything's fine.
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