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General Talk / Help fight for Net Neutrality!
« on: November 21, 2017, 04:49:15 PM »
I've done my peace to help fight for net neutrality, I would like you all to help as well. Just put your phone number in and it will prompt you for your zip code, then connect you to your local representative (https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative) then to your state senators(if california) Dianne Feinstein and kamla harris. You leave voice mails on wanting them to support net neutrality and publicly oppose the FCC chairmen's decisions abolish it.
It has an easy script to follow and only takes a few minuets. If they over turn these protections, it will be bad for consumers all over the US. Would you trust companies like Comcast, time Warner and AT&T to look out for your interests and rights?

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

The script

Introduce yourself, be polite, and say: I support "Title Two" net neutrality rules and I would like you to publicly oppose the FCC's plan to repeal them. Please contact the FCC Chairman and demand that he abandon his current plan. We don't need legislation, we need you to stop the FCC from gutting the existing rules.

What is Net Neutrality?

Net Neutrality is the internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online.

Net Neutrality means an internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that ISPs should provide us with open networks — and shouldn’t block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn’t decide who you call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn’t interfere with the content you view or post online.

Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors’ content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open internet.

What would happen if we lost Net Neutrality?


The internet without Net Neutrality isn’t really the internet. Unlike the open internet that has paved the way for so much innovation and given a platform to people who have historically been shut out, it would become a closed-down network where cable and phone companies call the shots and decide which websites, content or applications succeed.

This would have an enormous impact. Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to decide who is heard and who isn’t. They’d be able to block websites or content they don’t like or applications that compete with their own offerings.

The consequences would be particularly devastating for marginalized communities media outlets have misrepresented or failed to serve. People of color, the LGBTQ community, indigenous peoples and religious minorities in the United States rely on the open internet to organize, access economic and educational opportunities, and fight back against systemic discrimination.

Without Net Neutrality, how would activists be able to fight oppression? What would happen to social movements like the Movement for Black Lives? How would the next disruptive technology, business or company emerge if internet service providers only let incumbents succeed?


*Spelling errors courtesy of Public schooling*

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So me and LBSteve are just finishing up our crazy work season and are looking for some salt action.  We have normally stuck to pacific grove for the easy launch and decent rock fishing but feel it might be time to try some place different. Any recommendations this time of year? i know we will try to fish next week or weekend depending on when our plant shuts down for the year.

Any and all advice welcome!
Thanks!

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Kayaks / Need some help deciding! Salt and fresh Kayak!
« on: May 10, 2016, 04:42:24 PM »
So currently I have an older Ocean Kayak prowler 13, I like it but I would like a much much more comfortable seat. So I have been shopping around for a nice fishing yak with stadium style seat. I mostly fish in large reservoirs and the out in the Monterey bay/ pacific grove area no more than one mile from shore. I am 5’11 and 200lbs so not huge but not tiny, My prowler right now is rather wobbly side to side and would like something that might let me maneuver around without going for a drink. So far I have found these, something under $2k or close would be nice and anyone with feedback would be great Also interested in any other options
Ocean Kayak Prowler Big Game Angler II Kayak

https://www.austinkayak.com/products/13773/Ocean-Kayak-Prowler-Big-Game-Angler-II-Kayak.html

Wilderness Systems ATAK 140 Kayak

https://www.austinkayak.com/products/17497/Wilderness-Systems-ATAK-140-Kayak.html

Jackson Kayak Cuda 14 Kayak

http://www.backcountry.com/jackson-kayak-cuda-14-kayak-2015?skid=JAK001L-BAH-ONESIZ&ti=UExQIENhdDpGaXNoaW5nIEtheWFrczoxOjM6YmNzQ2F0OTExMDAwNQ==

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Introductions / Greetings from the Central Valley!
« on: April 08, 2016, 08:43:58 AM »
Greetings Fellow Yakers. My name is Stephen, I'm a resident Central Valley guy with 98% fresh water fishing experience and am still trying to get a hang of catching those saltwater buggers. I am pretty new to kayaking, bought my yak in October. A used Ocean Kayak Prowler 13 on Cragslist for a song.  Been fishing is quite a few areas around the Los Banos area but am still quite green. Had one trip out to Pacific grove with LBsteve ( he recommended this forum as a very friendly, informative place) and plan many more!

Glad to be here!

Pacific grove

Don Pedro Lake




San Joaquin River

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