chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Dec 14, 2017 6:56:39 GMT -8
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Post by dreamRaj on Dec 14, 2017 8:09:39 GMT -8
Green start, yes, but faltering midway while others are comfortably green. And then there are days with opposite action. Trademark!
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Post by sponge on Dec 14, 2017 8:41:04 GMT -8
As usual we gravitate towards highest open interest calls or a few dollars below.
Depending on how the market reacts to tax passage, we could be trading in the same range at January OE. The 195,000 calls at 170 are a very juicy target.
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Post by Luckychoices on Dec 14, 2017 10:45:37 GMT -8
As anticipated, this just happened: FCC overturns net neutrality rules on split voteIn a 3-2 count, the FCC has voted to overturn the net neutrality regulations set in 2015 under previous chairman Tom Wheeler.
The news is seen as a victory for Internet service providers, who had been restricted from giving priority to forms or sources of Internet access in rules that sought to regulate service providers as utilities under Title II.========================= Call me crazy, but I view anything that's considered "a victory for Internet service providers" as a *defeat* for consumers. If anyone on the board has a different viewpoint, I'd love to hear it. Update: Seconds after posting this, I took the time to read the comments and found this from a fellow Comcast customer: =========== wHewitt Comments (50) |+ Follow |Send Message ISP's fought pretty hard to get this pushed through.. Knowing Comcast, any win for them is a loss for consumers. =========== and this from someone with an entirely different view: =========== Bret Jensen, Marketplace Contributor Comments (18782) |+ Follow |Send Message So we basically go back to the rules/structure that has governed the internet since the beginning, other than last year. Cue the MSM to say sky is now falling. ===========
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Post by macster on Dec 14, 2017 11:18:11 GMT -8
Call me crazy, but I view anything that's considered "a victory for Internet service providers" as a *defeat* for consumers. If anyone on the board has a different viewpoint, I'd love to hear it. I posted a link in the dungeon under the firestorm thread a point of view about this very subject, which is very clear. I'm not taking sides nor am I discussing the politics of this expected decision here. Just wanted you to hear another side but there are additional rules that are being enforced. It does not effect Apple.
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Post by bud777 on Dec 14, 2017 12:13:20 GMT -8
Call me crazy, but I view anything that's considered "a victory for Internet service providers" as a *defeat* for consumers. If anyone on the board has a different viewpoint, I'd love to hear it. I posted a link in the dungeon under the firestorm thread a point of view about this very subject, which is very clear. I'm not taking sides nor am I discussing the politics of this expected decision here. Just wanted you to hear another side but there are additional rules that are being enforced. It does not effect Apple. I read the article but i didn't really follow it. What is an "edge provider"? Is that someone who creates content as opposed to someone who is just passing packets? Is Comcast an edge provider? an ISP? both?
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Post by macster on Dec 14, 2017 15:24:36 GMT -8
I posted a link in the dungeon under the firestorm thread a point of view about this very subject, which is very clear. I'm not taking sides nor am I discussing the politics of this expected decision here. Just wanted you to hear another side but there are additional rules that are being enforced. It does not effect Apple. I read the article but i didn't really follow it. What is an "edge provider"? Is that someone who creates content as opposed to someone who is just passing packets? Is Comcast an edge provider? an ISP? both? Its complicated and I'm not complicated. I have nothing to add except we are going back to when the internet was free and had less of more regulation as before. But congress has the last say in the matter.
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Post by bud777 on Dec 14, 2017 18:26:43 GMT -8
Sorry,macster I wasn't trying to put you on the spot. It seemed like the distinction between edge providers and others was essential to the article. Since you recommended it I thought you might shed some light. But now i am even more confused. What did you mean by "had less of more regulation as before"? I really am trying to be informed here.
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Post by macster on Dec 15, 2017 6:29:32 GMT -8
\ What did you mean by "had less of more regulation as before"? I really am trying to be informed here. I was sarcastically saying the internet was open and free with little regulation and flourishing for 20 years. In 2015 "Net Neutrality" (as I understand it) introduced more regulation. This is difficult for me to understand all the angles of why it was voted down except it seemed to be the picking of winners and losers type of regulation. Specifically toward the utility's like Comcast and other ISP's while allowing (the confusing part), big Partisan content/advertising/search companies particularly Google (who are becoming ISP's) to control information.
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Post by macster on Dec 15, 2017 14:12:55 GMT -8
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