no but really if they aren’t setting this up to be an epic romance that culminates in John and Sherlock finally realizing, finally at the right time, that they are completely and hopelessly in love with each other then I really have no fucking idea what on god’s green earth they’re doing.
Month / January 2014
sorry for not enjoying this show the way you see fit
Okay look
I’m really fucking pissed off and I’m not even going to sugar coat this or try to be diplomatic
because i have had enough
IMPORTANT!!! Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is dead.At least that’s the verdict of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which today struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order from 2010 that forced Internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable to abide by the principles of network neutrality. These principles broadly stipulate that ISP network management must be transparent, and that ISPs can’t engage in practices that block, stifle or discriminate against (lawful) websites or traffic types on the Internet.
That’s the bare bones story, wrapped in ugly acronyms (FCC, ISP, etc.). But why should you care that network neutrality (“net neutrality”) may be gone for good?
1. No more net neutrality means ISPs can now discriminate against content they dislike.
Everyone gets their Internet from an Internet service provider — an ISP like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Under net neutrality rules, these ISPs have to treat all content you access over the Internet “roughly the same way“ — they can’t speed up traffic from websites they like or delay competitor’s traffic.
Now, with net neutrality gone, ISPs can discriminate, favoring their business partners while delaying or blocking websites they don’t like. Think your cable CEO hates free online porn? Now you’ll know for sure!
2. No more net neutrality means ISPs can now force websites to PAY for faster content delivery.
You know how some sites you go to just load slower than others? Usually, that’s just because the slower site is image heavy, poorly coded, or dealing with intense server load. But with net neutrality gone, ISPs can now start charging hefty fees to websites that want quick content delivery — shifting the long load times to poorer sites that can’t pay up.
Prefer indie retailers to Amazon.com? You may be in for a frustrating future.
3. Destroying net neutrality is bad for small businesses.
Put together items one and two and it becomes clear — negating net neutrality is bad for small businesses. If ISPs force website owners pay for faster load times, tiny retailers and personal websites will be the ones to suffer from slower content delivery.
Alternately — or additionally — ISPs will have no reason not to favor partner sites: Time Warner Cable, for instance, might favor the website of CNN (owned by the Time Warner Corporation) over the websites of competing cable news networks MSNBC and Fox News. Still, it’s the indies again that will lose out here. While Time Warner Cable might favor CNN and Comcast MSNBC, independent news networks almost certainly won’t get special treatment from any ISPs. Expand this out to music sites, web publishing, etc., and you begin to see the problem.
In extreme cases, ISPs may hinder or block content that isn’t produced by partners —much like AT&T did when it owned the telephone networks back in the day.
4. Without net neutrality, entire types of online traffic (like Netflix) may be in jeopardy.
Netflix watchers and BitTorrent users might want to beware — soon your beloved services may not work like they used to. Now that net neutrality’s down for the count, ISPs can discriminate against entire types of traffic: For instance, an ISP could slow or block all peer-to-peer file sharing, or all online video streaming.
Think it sounds unbelievably stupid for an ISP to stifle a certain traffic types indiscriminately? Comcast has seen reason to stifle both streaming video and peer-to-peer in the past.
From an ISP’s perspective, discriminating against some traffic types makes business sense: Many ISPs are also cable television providers, which means the “cord-cutting” enabled by peer-to-peer and streaming online video isn’t good for their bottom line.
5. Without net neutrality, your ISPs can make even more money without actually improving the Internet.
Right now, America’s broadband is slow. It’s slow because ISPs can already make gobs of money by charging the rich a ton for high-quality Internet while leaving the rest of America with subpar (or no) service.
Now, with net neutrality gone, ISPs will be able to make even more money off their existing customer base. They won’t need to improve service or bring broadband to rural areas because they’ll be able to keep growing (financially, at least) by charging content providers more for faster delivery and charging customers more for faster access. In all likelihood, Tuesday’s ruling means the problems with America’s Internet will be magnified.
This FINALLY shows up on my dashboard and it only has 300 notes.
Here’s a petition on Whitehouse.gov that needs 88,000+ by the middle of February:
SIGNAL BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS SHIT AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE AIN’T HAVIN’ IT!
SIGN IT
Yeah, I’m beating this horse because IT AIN’T DEAD ENOUGH.
Look, here is the deal. The FCC has different categories of stuff it regulates. Level 1 is ‘telecommunications.’ I.e. services that provide the fundamental building blocks of communications in this country.
Level 2 is ‘information services.’ This is stuff that is useful, yes, but if somebody fucks with it a bit then you’re not fundamentally disrupting, redefining, or controlling life as American citizens live it.
Back in 2002, the FCC (for reasons unknown to God or man) decided to label The Internet, as ‘information services.’
So now, when people tried to pass a big ol’ law through Congress that says, “ISPs aren’t allowed to fuck with internet traffic or play favorites,” the courts said, “That’s not allowed, if you’re going to label the Internet as a category 2 service. However, we really highly advise the FCC to change the Internet to category 1 service, because we don’t know what you guys are smoking over there but even WE can tell that’s what it should be. In which case we’ll give this bill the stamp of approval so hard that the paper’ll smoke afterwards.”
So BASICALLY this is SUPER-EASY TO FIX, and all it needs is for the FCC to get off its apparently addled duff and make the change.
Which is what these petitions are for.
So seriously. SIGN THEM.
IMPORTANT!!! Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality
Girl and her dragon growing up and growing old together and stuff. ( I picture dragons having very long lives so it would suck making human friends OTL ) It started as just the first pic but then I wanted to draw the dragon after it hatched and then it just continued from then on…
I am sure its by no means an original concept so I’m gonna add mine to the pile of mythical creature friendships 🙂
I’m having a horrible artblock so I’m just finishing up doodles I did at work over 4-5 months ago or something OTL
I case someone want to experiment what real terror is go here it’s in english.
WHY WOULD YOU SOURCE THAT.
BECAUSE IM AN EVIL ASSHAT WIZARD THATS WHY
NOPE NOPE NO NO NO NONONONONONONON BYE
I’d seen this before, but it had been long enough that I didn’t really remember it so I followed the link.
#regret
reblog if you like Sherlock and John being switches in bed.
Mary shot Sherlock for the same reason that John shot the cabbie in A Study in Pink and Sherlock shot Magnussen at the end of His Last Vow: sentiment.
John is Mary’s pressure point. There is nothing she would not do to protect him. Even if it means killing his best friend. It’s not understandable for us as an audience because we see this from Sherlock’s point of view. He is our main character. And Mary shot him.
But what if Sherlock would have shot Mary for the exact same reasons as she shot him, wouldn’t that have been plausible for us? That Sherlock would do whatever it takes to protect John? Because that is what Mary is doing in her own way, perhaps it’s not the right way but she’s doing it because she loves John, nothing else.
“Love is a much more vicious motivatior”… I couldn’t find a plausible explanation why Mary would shoot Sherlock but now I have and this is it. Love.
No, a thousand times over. She shot him because she is selfish and would rather keep John to herself and see him mourn his best friend (a process which almost destroyed him and which she witnessed firsthand) than buy herself time by knocking Sherlock out instead of shooting him, or negotiating with Sherlock to keep her secret. This isn’t love, it is greed and manipulation.
What hazeltea said. Mary’s action was out of a very selfish love. She chose to risk the death of John’s best friend—the man whose loss nearly BROKE HIM the first time—rather than TAKE THE RISK of losing John’s affections (as we see later, in fact John does accept her).
Contrast this against Sherlock’s love for John which, even when they are at their worst with each other, includes Sherlock being willing to put his life on the line and also handing John off to the love of another person even though it means he will have less of John’s time and attention for himself. THAT is selfless. (Not that Sherlock is always selfless when it comes to John, but he’s got a hell of a lot better grasp on it than Mary does.)
Mary might have called an ambulance for Sherlock, she might have given him a chance, but it was ONLY a chance. She did NOT save his life, no matter what Sherlock argues to John. For one thing, she’s the person who made the ambulance necessary in the first place. If you stab somebody and then sew it up for them, it doesn’t negate the stabbing.
For another, WHERE she shot Sherlock. In the upper abdomen, just below his rib cage. Do you know what’s there? Stomach, liver, intestines, spleen.
That is all soft tissue. Very delicate tissue. A gunshot wound acts on the soft tissues of the human body like an impact in water or a sonic boom in the air. It creates a traumatic shockwave that ripples out from the bullet hole itself and through the tissues to rupture and crush them. In fact, for a split second after the bullet enters the body, it creates what’s called cavitation. This basically means ‘the splash.’ Living flesh is actually smashed open in an entry channel significantly larger than the bullet itself (this is why higher caliber is so much more damaging; the cavitation is significantly greater) and then pushes closed again. All those soft, delicate, easily damaged organs in there—any or all of them could have been damaged beyond repair.
Granted that the suppressor would have slowed the bullet and removed some portion of the force that does the worst of that damage. But even if she was such a perfect shot she could thread the bullet between the stomach, intestines and spleen, all that would mean is that it had a chance of damaging all three.
Mary’s ‘surgical shot’ was more accurately a great way to doom someone to a slow, especially painful, almost certain death. The only reason Sherlock woke up again was because she was LUCKY, and Sherlock was too stubborn to die.
Or because the writers have decided to go for the Hollywood approach to guns.
This is not to say you should hate Mary or assume she doesn’t care about John. But understand that she is, as CAM said, very much not a good person. People who can kill others professionally are seldom angels aside from that.
If you have a child and they are creeped out by a nephew or older brother touching them or looking at them a certain way, you need to have a serious talk with that person and keep them the hell away from your child. Don’t minimize it or tell your kid to hug them anyway, that kid is picking up danger signals they don’t even understand yet. But so many families will tell that kid they are being a brat.
thankyou
Also family friends, and really just about anyone. Just because you think someone is trustworthy, if your kid thinks something is wrong, maybe it’s time to reconsider your view of that person.
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