I dont like suits, but I also disagree. A big reason to require suits is because you want your workforce looking professional. You want them looking professional because it makes a good impression on customers; it does this because it gives the appearance of having ones act together.
I don't generally consider arbitrarily slowing down the transfer rate from Netflix to myself to be providing "a pipe with a fixed bandwidth".
I was speaking to now, not the hypothetical future. To my knowledge, noone is currently throttling in the manner you describe (its more to do with peering agreements).
But if I am capable of 1mbps, yet am only getting 1kbps because they don't like the competition from Netflix, fuck them.
Thats not whats been happening
The throttling due to bandwidth constraints occurs when it hits the last leg of the connection-- as it is sent to your router. What your router does at that point doesnt change the limitations on bandwidth upstream of it.
ISPs should provide a pipe with a fixed bandwidth the user pays for.
They do.
And user can decide what traffic to prioritize inside his own network.
You can, but prioritization doesnt help very much after the chokepoint.
QoS at your end of the pipe is quite a bit different from QoS at the ISP's end.
I believe in not crafting logical progressions based on invalid premises.
"Since X, therefore Y" when X is an unknown is unsound. You could perhaps say "probably", and pay respect to the fact that a lot of the knowledge we have is based on assumptions.
In this one, people like me who live well within their means are not considered quite respectable.
I dont personally hold people without debt in low esteem. But more importantly, you shouldnt care: in a world where foolishness is held in high regard, being thought low of is of no consequence.
Debt is optional, dude. You cant even claim you need debt for school, full time at in-state schools generally runs ~10k/year which is easily achievable with a student-level job.
Since it's the same elements and forces all across the universe,
That is neither provable nor falsifiable.
I think his beef is that a number of us have long since grown out of our "trite comment" phase, when some of us (or at least I) had the good fortune to be too intimidated to open my mouth and say something dumb on the internet.
Unfortunately the newer batch of posters seems to have no such inhibition, and happily prove their ignorance to all.
and two cars in front of our debt-bondage
You COULD choose not to take on greater financial burden than you could bear.
Real life 101: If you cannot hold people accountable, they will goof off.
Personally, I am a big believer in the "paleo" diets, I think they are the healthiest way to eat.
Because as we know life expectancy has been dropping steadily over the last 2000 years?
You ALMOST got a heated response out of me, till I saw it was just more AC trolling.
Why dont we leave it at this: Google actively fights the CPC's Great Firewall / repression in China, Microsoft (Skype/Bing) actively cooperates with them.
Honestly thats enough for me.
I believe they will provide it if you package up the sum total of the convenience they provided to you, and ship it back to them via UPS.
I have yet to figure out how to package an experience, but let me know if you figure out how.
Gluten is a core component of bread, something people have been eating for thousands of years.
If you want to make the claim that it is doing us all bad, you're gonna need some very very good evidence and it would help if you could establish a mechanism of action.
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
