*LOL* The whole damned article is redundant!

That's a joke. They should have been fined at least as much as the backwages were.

Newspaper articles are written so that all the most important information is set right at the beginning. That makes them faster and easier to read, especially if you want to skim through a lot of news. So yes, a snippet of the first paragraph or two most likely does contain most of the important information, because it's written with the readers in mind, not the advertisers or google bots.

Powerful people associate with powerful people, including the government. Don't trust them.

*yawn*

Look. Claiming you need 10 times the speed of anyone else to accomplish anything on the internet is not sane. Period.

Buttheads like you just can't grasp the difference between "need" and "want", and nor can the author of the original article.

I can just picture you whining that you need a Lambourghini to drive to work...

Sweet!

I didn't say "imagine what you could do with it." I said what do you need to do that requires it.

Google fiber doesn't allow running servers as you describe.

Backing up data? Ever here of USB drives? Tape? Local media? You don't need to back up terabyte drives to the cloud -- there are plenty of viable, existing options for backups.

If you're going to share videos with families and friends, get a Dropbox account or something like that, upload the video, and use the cloud to serve up the data. Just how often are you creating hour long cat videos, anyhow?

People nowadays have a very entitled view as to what they "need".

As I said: spoiled. You never dealt with dial-up and resumable downloads that would take a week or more to complete. Everything for you has to be now, now, now, and instantaneously.

OMG! My game update will take 23 hours! I can't live without playing my game for a day!

Pathetic.

And even so, I already have more bandwidth than the last company I worked for had for all the users and customers of their systems, so I could have saturated the corporate link by myself if I were abusing it.

If I were downloading and uploading multi gigabyte images to my home system for any company I've ever worked at, I'd be fired for stealing "company secrets." You use a remote desktop, not do everything locally.

According to my calculations (and experience), your download would have taken about 23 hours, not "a week".

Yup. But the fossil record tends to be rather sketchy, and has little concern for what we consider our "needs".

Well, I don't think that quite matches the scientific concept of "species". By your definition, almost all species who were alive 50,000 years ago would be considered extinct, but hardly any biologists would agree with that. It's true that no humans alive today have 100% Neanderthal genes, but it's also nearly certain that there are no living humans with 100% Cro-Magnon genes, either. What happened would be considered a mixing of several human sub-species after migrations of one or more African groups into Eurasia. The Cro-Magnon sub-species disappeared, too, and modern human Caucasian and Asian sub-species are the results of that mixing. This sort of thing happens in species all the time, when conditions allow such genetic mixing, and the result is rarely considered a new species.

The fact is that modern humans are all one species. We can and do interbreed when groups mingle, and there are no groups of modern humans that are genetically incompatible. If sub-species "disappear" by genetic mixing, that is usually not called an extinction event. It's just the routine and normal mingling of subspecies.

An interesting contrast is that most North American duck species are known to hybridize occasionally, and the offspring are usually fertile. Does this mean they're really all one species? No, because they all mingle a lot, but interbreeding is rare. They have "behavioral" species-separation features, mostly based on female mate choice. The females are mostly all mottled brown (protective coloring), and the males often approach females of other species (because they can't tell them apart either ;-). But the females usually only accept males that have the "right" color markings; the others are ugly to them. This suffices to keep the species separate, though there is probably a very low level of genetic interchange between many of the species.

But humans aren't like this. Even if we do generally prefer mates in our own subspecies, most of us do find many members of other subspecies physically attractive, and we'll mate with them given the opportunity. This means that we really are all the same species. We now have good evidence that the Neandertals were merely another subspecies, because when they had the opportunity, they did interbreed with those slender, dark-skinned folks who migrated into their territory. They did so often enough to produce a new subspecies that's physically distinct from either of the earlier two (or three or more).

You may "need" a car, but you don't "need" a Porsche.

OMFG! I had to wait like FIFTEEN MINUTES for a movie to download on my link!

HowEVER will I survive!

Name ONE use case other than streaming multiple 4K video channels which REQUIRES anything more than the 6.5Mbit/s connection I already have. Sure if you're serving up a large family you might want to spring for a couple of 20Mbit connections or something, but "need" FTTH?

Hardly.