Yeah...I'm not buying that. not questioning you, but I don't buy the cost of bandwidth.

Most of the developed world gets more for less.

I would expect that if Netflix can deliver the content to Comcast's network at X speed, regardless of how many carriers it goes through once it leaves Netflix's servers, then Comcast has an obligation to deliver that content to me at the speed that I pay for.

If Comcast can't handle legions of its customers using the bandwidth they pay for, then they have an infrastructure problem. It seems they are like the airlines, over booking and hoping people don't show up.

1. I Pay Comcast for internet access at X speed.
2. I Pay Netflix to send me movies via that line that I pay for.
3. Comcast holds my content hostage, wanting an extortion payment from NetFlix.

I see.

I'll be more impressed when they suspend/fire the managers/executives that did not pass along the information or made the decision it would cost less to pay off victims than fix it.

"So it does not require one to be a full blown Marxist"

So just a mostly Marxist?

Wealth redistribution, blaming the West, and are you advocating that skeptics not be able to voice an opinion?

I'm pretty sure that your average coder would quickly meet their end if they were to find themselves in a working coal mine.

Simply compare the policy initiates advocated by the AGW camp with those advocated by the radical environmentalists and other "Green" parties.

You will see they are mostly aligned.

Is the way it should be. No one should have to pay for your runny nose or whatever. Set aside the money like any normal and prudent person would do and use it for that. If the SHTF, the catastrophic insurance has you covered.

People will pay $60 to get their hair done once a month but think paying $60 for an office visit is robbery. Crazy. Have your hair dresser prescribe the antibiotics then.

I don't know why they don't have the entire bottom covered. Better aerodynamics and protection against road debris in one.

Has anyone noticed how much faster Slashdot is when view with Chrome?

Funny how you abandon the topic of renting a single family home and move straight to a straw man argument of abandoning all consumer protection laws. Must have figured you lost the argument before you even got started.

Blah Blah Blah...the same old, "you're too stupid and need the State's protection" argument.

It behooves one's self to do a lot of things. The State shouldn't be telling me what I have to "behoove".

That's pretty much her problem, isn't it?

But, the State knows much better than the citizen I guess.

I bet they want all those people should be fired.