Awkwardly_Frank

@Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An airport is an air-port. A port via the air.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Side note: port isn’t the only terminology aviation has stolen from seafaring. For example: airspeed is measured in knots. Captain, pilot, and first officer were all used aboard ships first as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An airport is an air-port. A port via the air.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here I am calling them air fields.

  Of course it’s the folks taking it back to the ancient Greek and calling them aerodromes that are on the real next level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Several of the trade groups that sued New York “vociferously lobbied the FCC to classify broadband Internet as a Title I service in order to prevent the FCC from having the authority to regulate them,” today’s 2nd Circuit ruling said. “At that time, Supreme Court precedent was already clear that when a federal agency lacks the power to regulate, it also lacks the power to preempt. The Plaintiffs now ask us to save them from the foreseeable legal consequences of their own strategic decisions. We cannot.”

  This has to be one of the better, legal “go fuck yourselves,” I’ve ever seen.