Wow. That is brilliant. And insane. I can't believe I hadn't heard of it yet.

Rhetoric solves nothing and I believe I was quite polite enough in responding to someone who suggested that I'm not American enough to continue to be part of the United States. Dissolving the Union would cause untold amounts of problems, economically and politically. and would solve none of the issues you seem to have. Besides, the nation is only on the brink of civil war if you believe the nuts whose job is scare everyone in order to raise ratings so they can sell you more crap. I've been in almost every state and worked or lived in several of them, north and south, east and west. There are plenty of Americans in every state that could be called bible thumpers, just as there are plenty of overly enthusiastic atheists. Most Americans are somewhere in the middle with maybe some religion, but also an understanding and appreciation of science, even if they don't really understand much of it. Stereotypes of the southern and midwestern states as ignorant raving Jesus humpers shouting "I aint no damn monkey!" are nonsense even if there are a few of those people out there.

My original statement stands. Yes, I am a Real American. And a southerner. And a person who understands science. Please take your secessionist bullshit elsewhere.

Please go fuck yourself.

What are you, British?

Yeah that's great, except he's a British man living in the UK.

It's #2 on the Most Read list on the right hand side. That's where I found it this morning.

Yes! All this crap about heavy users hurting the ability of lighter users to access the network is just FUD crap. Dynamic throttling of connections that are using a larger share of bandwidth when the network is nearing being overloaded is the correct solution to this problem. Throttling users after a certain amount of data is used is just stupid. They were perfectly able to use all they wanted to the detriment of the other users at the beginning of the contract month and that's not a problem, but after a set amount of data it then becomes somehow worse on the network? WTF?

Biasing the throttling during busy periods towards the users who have heavier usage patterns would even be acceptable, but if there is spare capacity, why not use it? Oh, you want to be able to charge more money even though you advertised and sold these unlimited plans? I see.

Oh, that makes perfect sense, seeing as how there is obviously more bandwidth available at the beginning of the month and much less available towards the end of the month when those limits are imposed and connections throttled </sarcasm>

Spoiler alert: The live one wins

How is this being modded informative?

A guy running for president is called anti-science. He responds, "No, you're anti-science!" Standard political bullshit, nothing to do with science.

A couple of small-time politicians in 1897 briefly consider a bill for placing a method of squaring a circle into the public domain, until people who understand math better tell them it's wrong.

UK asks citizens what laws to repeal; gets tongue-in-cheek response to repeal the laws of thermodynamics. Sounds like a couple geeks making a joke,

Completely fabricated story from a fake news site.

Unrelated XKCD comic.

Why did you even bother finding links that totally do nothing for your argument? Should have stuck to the emotional appeal of "dumb politicians hate science"

Really? With all the anti-GMO propaganda and fear I figure it's more likely the synthetic stuff will be much more likely to be banned. The anti-meat folks are a pretty small minority compared to the OMG-evil-science crowd

Awesome, it's a mix of cooperation and competition. Still not quite sure how that works though.

Oh, they knew how badly they were overselling their service, it was just too tempting for them to go ahead and take all that extra money and hope the problem goes away eventually. All the data providers seem to be doing it. My mom recently switched from Comcast to Century Link for her home internet and television to save some money. In the three months before I got her to switch back it never worked a full day. The Century Link guys came out five times and couldn't ever fix it, then one of them let slip that our area was around 10x oversold compared to capacity and that was why the television and internet would die often and not work again for 20 minutes to a few hours.

I think the plan for both of them was to oversell now then use that income to build the network you already promised you had. Only they never got around to that second part.

Actually there was a slashdot story just recently that said it was the abilities of the A5 chip that allowed Siri to work and that the older A4 chips couldn't handle the load. Don't know if that turned out to be bullshit, just saying.

damnit, with == "without"