We’re living in a time when computers ask humans to take tests to prove they are human.
《Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they're lobbying the FCC and Congress to end net neutrality. Why? It's simple: if they win the power to slow sites down, they can bully any site into paying millions to escape the "slow lane." This would amount to a tax on every sector of the American economy. Every site would cost more, since they'd all have to pay big cable. Worse, it would extinguish the startups and independent voices who can't afford to pay. If we lose net neutrality, the Internet will never be the same.》
We live in a culture where you get told you are going to get paid minimum wage for the first six months because they need to make sure you are going to work out, but then get mad when you refuse to quit your second job because you lack commitment to the job that is going to underpay you.
Napoleon returns France after his first exile (1815, colorized)