Which ISP also sells video? Everyone single one of them that is pushing for fast/slow lanes? Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, AT&T Uverse, Verizon FIOS, every single one. Even the ISPs that aren't pushing for fast lanes still sell video so that they can offer triple play service to compete. Often this is done by re-selling satellite TV as the video portion of the triple play.

When the ISP in question sells pay-per-view video as well, and also wants to choke down that IP traffic growth so they don't have to do as many network upgrades.

It's not intended to. It's only intended to get some politicians names in the news in conjunction with a popular issue. This is a toothless pointless bill.

Only if the video of them singing it is "exclusively licensed by independent record labels". This article is hugely overblown. This is targeting some specific labels, not everybody with a guitar and a phone.

The Tier concept is a silly one mis-applied by layer 3 guys to telecom. TWT owns fiber, has a large transport and IP network, and has large enterprise and wholesale accounts worth many millions of dollars per year. They aren't a pure re-seller, as you seem to believe.

Not much, its a wholesale/transit/large enterprise carrier buying a smaller wholesale/transit/large enterprise carrier. Both of these guys are going to come down on the side of being pro-neutral, because they don't have residential customers to exploit.

Off hand I would guess zero cases.

If you want uncapped prices, you pay an uncapped bill.

Look at T-Mobile, Sprint, various MVNOs. If you want one of the Big Two you pay Big Prices.

Moore's law is a terrible example as it's not based on any theory or math. It's more like "Moore's Observation that has held fairly true for a few decades".

This is right on point. Although I think upbringing is huge. People who were raised on garbage by their parents and think vegetables are gross and that food that isn't beige is weird will eat that way till they die prematurely.

I'm tempted to see just how cheaply I can eat for the next week or so. Red beans and rice, taco night (no ground beef and taco shells, grill a cheap cut of meat and put in steamed tortillas), crock pot chicken and broccoli soup. I can think of a lot of ways to eat for less than the dollar menu.

Bananas aren't propogated by seeds.

Well, color me impressed. Well done Minnesota.

Here's a specific example. In a Cisco router you can install a Cisco SFP. In a Juniper router you can install a Juniper SFP, a Finisar SFP, a Fujitsu SFP et cetera. As long as it's standards compliant it works. The Cisco devices will read the manufacturer from the EEPROM on the pluggable, and shut down the port if it's not theirs.

We don't repeal laws. Every year there are more laws than the previous year.