You're on ISP A. You want to download from some random site. Random site is on a server hosted by ISP B.

Your buddy is on ISP B. He wants to download from another site. Said site is hosted on ISP A.

See how that works? ISP A is pulling data from ISP B, and ISP B is pulling data from ISP A. Therefore, rather than cut each other identical cheques, they swap data.

Now, you want to pull data from Netflix. Netflix does not want to pull data from your ISP. Therefore, Netflix cannot pay for data with data; they need to pay with cash.

No, that would be stupid, and it's unfortunate that you feel the need to resort to ridiculous hyperbole.

I'm saying that Netflix, like everybody else, needs to pay for wanting to access a given ISP's network. Seeing as how they can't pay with in-kind transit, like, say, other ISPs that both give *and take* traffic, they need to pay with cash.

His name is Kunte Kinte.

I hold out hope that the two of them are getting air time not because they could win, but because they are more interesting than Clinton v. Bush. Plenty of time for that boring crap later.

Vendors cannot be held responsible for stupid (or non-existent) engineering and policy.

Without knowing the GS/contractor divide at OPM, it's hard to say who is ultimately to blame. If OPM gave carte blanche to the contractor, the latter is generally the one at fault. If the government micro managed the contract and ignored suggestions, the blame is back with them.

Jim Webb doesn't strike me as particularly interested in the office.

That Goldwater girl was never liberal enough to want it.

this kind of comparison is meaningless when one side only needs to find one hole in and the other side needs to block all possible holes. the feds have a lot of work to do.

It's 2015. Why does transferring money in the US take more than a minute and a few cents?

Because in America, you can open a bank like you can open any other business, so there's thousands of them.

The car in front of you has ABS and you do not (or just vastly superior braking.

If you don't have ABS, or you have sub-average braking, you'd best be driving to reflect that. So no.

and what might be the case with the Google car) The car in front of you acts in such a way that it signals that it will keep going, then stops.

Or you could just watch the video linked in the submission, which shows the situation, and clearly shows the human driver as at fault.

Happy customers are paying to move traffic across their ISP's network.

ISPs agree to swap traffic in kind.

Netflix has nothing to swap in kind, so they need to pay.