I liked Prometheus and have never understood the hate for it. Now 2001: A Space Odyssey, that's a movie you can bash for having a poor / incoherent story line.

I found the MS employee!

Exactly, but the AC wants you to pay that flat fee (like you currently do for internet or phone) PLUS a "per MB" charge on top of it. I was pointing out that it should be either / or, not both (which is double charging).

Sounds more like a reason for people to think before they breed. Far too many people have kids that they cannot support, who then grow up to be unskilled workers (or on welfare) because they never learned responsible behavior from their parents.

That's retarded, why pay twice for the internet? If they want to meter it, then if you use no data in a month, you shouldn't get a bill.

Just because you might do something mildly productive with your time if you didn't have to work for a living does not mean that the majority would. Hell, look at the countless millions who bitch about their circumstances, yet do nothing with their spare time that would improve them (learning new skills, taking a class, volunteering in a position that would help them improve their circumstances, etc). For every person who wrote a useful app / book, you'd have at least 100 just sitting around drinking beer and watching football.

SSSH! You can't interrupt the anti-capitalism circlejerk, even though without the "evil" capitalism, we'd probably still be using horses and buggies and burning fires at night to stay warm while we write a letter with a quill and parchment.

Different? They look like something my six year old nephew drew in MS Paint.

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For the third time, I didn't say that they're currently throttling connections. I pointed out that if they were legally allowed to have various "speed lanes" for a given bandwidth, they would throttle the shit out of everyone (businesses and ordinary customers) unless you paid them huge amounts of money. Not only would every popular website / web-based service be charged massively more for a "fast lane" to their customers, but every end user would be nickled and dimed with "$5/month for access to Facebook" and "$10/month for access to Netflix" on top of their monthly payment for a given bandwidth speed.

This is not "a boogeyman", the ISPs already showed their hand and admitted that they want to do just that - keep your bandwidth the same but throttle your ability to access popular things unless you pay additional fees for a "fast lane".

Congrats on supporting ISP monopolies making the internet too expensive for most people to use. Then again, you're an AC, so you're probably just a dumbass troll.

I'm not referencing that, I'm talking about what they could (and WOULD) do if net neutrality was killed. They'd throttle the shit out of connections for both businesses and home users and if you complain "Well, you're not paying for the `high speed' option on your 50 Mb connection, that's why you can't stream any videos!".

If net neutrality was killed, they would nickle and dime the shit out of customers and force internet businesses to raise prices or be cut off from their customers.

Except if you bothered to watch the video linked above for actual in-game performance testing (NOT synthetic benchmarks), you'll see that most of the time Intel is neck and neck with AMD - not "smoking" them.

Bull, you can always pay for more bandwidth, just like we currently do at home. This simply means that Comcast can't charge Netflix an extra $1,000,000 per month to no be throttled and lose all of their customers due to performance problems and it they cannot charge home users an extra $5 a month to not have their Netflix throttled to unusable speeds, $5 a month to access Facebook, $10 a month to access Google sites, etc.

Well, at least your bullshit has been appropriately modded as "funny" - because it's a joke if you think that FISA gives a fuck about our rights or that your beloved NSA has no ill intentions towards Americans.

And why would a US company lose their right to privacy just because they deal with a foreign nation? News flash, this isn't 1605, EVERYTHING is international these days. Claiming that rights cease to exist because "DUH FOREIGNERS!" is idiotic.

It sounds like something every government would try. Sadly, few raise any real outcry over it and those who do are mocked because "Boogeyman!".