Unless you are the US government.

In my personal experience, ex military IT pros are far too rigid for coming up with solutions that are outside of the norm. This is a good thing when you need NOC jockeys. Not so good when a service goes down at 1 AM and you need to get that service up, and an unconventional manor is the only way. It may be less than ideal, but it buys the time necessary to fix it correctly. I cannot say this is only ex-military that have this problem of rigidity, I have seen it in a lot of other people as well. Especially those who have come from a call center, where all they do is follow a flow. I would say it is more prevalent in those who are ex-military.

It isn't really unlimited though, After 5Gb they have the option of terminating your contract, throttling you, or cutting you off. It is there in your contract. Nothing is unlimited, most of the services that claim to be unlimited have break-over points where they shunt you onto 3g or severely limit your speeds. I would claim collusion, but they have way more resources and lawyers than I do.

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Delicious Tears!

That doesn't stop a CEO of a corp from handing money to a politician and asking for the same favors.

I would say that they don't understand anything of internet service. At least the elected officials (in general of course). Otherwise I agree fully.

The real question is are they passing people, or just keeping up with speed in the lane they are in? Important, because there are laws (FAR TOO RARELY USED) on the books for impeding the flow of traffic as well, such as going too slow for conditions in the fast/passing lane.

Wait just a moment here... Where does all our current funding go?

I pay roughly 45% of my annual income in Taxes (split between state and federal), this is not including sales tax, fuel tax, property tax, and registration. With all of that added in (some via estimate) it is pretty easy to get that number to between 50 and 55%. I will never agree to a tax increase, ever. What we have here is a very poorly run situation, one where police are required to "tax" people from breaking silly laws and distracting the police from doing what they should be doing, stopping real crime.

In a world where it takes an hour or more for police to come to my home after it has been robbed, yet you can drive around and see 10 speed traps, there is something wrong. Tickets should not be used as a source of income for the police departments, there should be no incentive for them to harass what are otherwise law abiding, tax paying citizens. "There is a person across town who is being murdered, and here is the officer writing a citation to someone who has never committed a real crime."

Just your standard Government contractors, hired to do what the government cannot do.

Exhibit A: Someone who has never played golf.

Golf is one of the hardest sports to play, requiring a precision unparalleled in any other sport. It may not be as physically demanding as say football, soccer, hockey, basketball, racing, etc. In terms if difficulty, there aren't many that are equal. I challenge you to just go to a driving range, and hit 2 balls out of 1000 strait.

Before you belittle something, you should probably try it first. I used to be like you, until I started playing golf, never in my life have I been as frustrated.

At any rate, I don't think it is the difficulty of the game that is turning away players, it is the cost of greens fees for a decent course, the other assholes on the course, either slowing you down, or rushing you, basically not allowing you to have any fun. People take it too damn serious.

I have been saying this for years... literally Oldest I can find, unfortunately my comment history only goes back to 2007 (though I have been a member for much longer), but I digress.

I still say, allow fighting in schools again, allow kids to ball up their fists and duke it out.

I am tired of all the folks who say "Violence isn't the answer, violence solves nothing, booo hooo hooo hooo, whaaa whaaa, etc..." Humans by nature are a violent, conquering, species. We very much have a pack mentality, with that pack mentality comes the need to sort out who the leaders are. Historically, this happens around the age of jr. high school (ages 11-14 or so), this is one of the reasons that most school systems are broken into elementary, Jr High, and High schools. It separates out kids at the times they are most violent (and sexually curious, but that is for a different post), it protects the 10 and under crowd from those who are just starting to determine their pecking order, and protects the 11-14 crowd from the pubescent adults.

Kids need to fight, fighting makes us stronger, both mentally and physically.

Kids have no interest.

Kids want to grow up to be a movie star, or a pop star, or a $sports star. That is what the culture in America idolizes, those who don't fall into this modicum are rejected as "geeks", "nerds", "freaks" , etc.

All you really have to do to get a good idea of this is to watch American television. Even our news consists mostly of the lives of those who are considered celebrities. Hell this morning there was a report that one of our state level representatives is getting married, nothing about policy, nothing about what she does, her stance on things, just that she is getting married to some lawyer. This is what we consider to be news..... It is only going to get worse, we praise the dumb, lift the idiotic, and work those with intelligence to death.

Mostly Livestock, animals, and even humans. In the form of breathing. That is where most of the CO2 in the atmosphere is coming from.

"The Market" is thrown out the window when one has only two or three choices for an internet connection.

I have the choice of high speed cable via Time Warner, DSL via ATT, or satellite via Houges net. Lets see here, fast, slow, and slower! There is no real choice for the market to make, as the city makes the choice based on what cable, and phone provider gives them the right bid to lay the lines.

On the peering issue, network owners have a right to charge for a peering connection. However, it would be in the best interest of the companies in question to provide the best service to the customers... if there was any competition.

The reason is... have you ever tried to ship via train? When you ship via train, you have a "delivery window" think of it like the cable guy who will be at your house some time between 8 am and 5 pm. With trains that window is usually 7 days long, depending on when the crews get to the car your stuff is in. Trucks are so popular because, generally speaking, one knows how long it is going to take to get from hub A in Boston to hub B in Las Vegas.