So if someone who is paralyzed and didn't buy a wheelchair should also have the right to park their car in the movie theater since that's the only way they can get in there. I'm sorry you didn't buy a non-google glass pair of glasses, but that is your fault.

You are totally correct here. ISPs should only be allowed to be content producers, or content distributors, IF they relinquish all their monopoly statuses with local municipalities. Comcast, Time Warner, etc should be taken to court under anti-monopoly laws in the US. As they are guaranteed monopolies and their behavior is definitely harming consumers and they are trying to leverage their monopoly in one sector to give them an unfair advantage in a different sector, this seems a rather simple case, but well... lobbying... money... corruption... self-serving politicians... yeah.

Asking for some example is considered a shill? I guess we don't need things like facts any more. Let's just make stuff up and call it undeniable truth.

Please show an example where Microsoft sat on a standards body and then patented something regarding that spec, because as much as you'd like to believe this is true, it simply isn't. You have this backwards. Microsoft often had patents relating to things they sat on a standards body for (much like everyone else on that committee), and in most cases had already implemented a version of it before the committee was formed, let alone ratified anything. In some cases, they implemented something that was being discussed prior to ratification (which takes years), and then the standards body changed their minds and made changes to the standard before ratifying it. And in other cases, Microsoft implemented functionality that was already prevalent in the marketplace (another companies work -- usually netscape), and the standards body came up with a different, incompatible solution to the same thing.

If you have an example (any example) of what you say, I'd like to hear it, because I've never found any evidence of it, yet.

Yes. Because it will work on 90% of the websites the user uses, he will likely understand it's not his browser problem, it is a problem with the website in question. The browser should not indicate a secure connection to the website if the browser knows that the connection is in fact not secure. Seems pretty self evident.

And since Chinese isn't a race, it's not racist. It may not be nice, but racist it isn't.

As I said, it's in the IP header. It solves for your not so hypothetical issue of a bottleneck between two tier 1 providers already.

That's pretty simple. Allow the user to prioritize their own traffic. There is even 3 bits set aside for this in the IP header known as precedence. Then do QoS using that as your indicator on what to drop first if connections become overtaxed. Which, was the exact purpose of those bits but no one ever actually implemented them. I'd be more than happy to tell my browser, etc to please mark those packets as "Best Effort", but please mark my actual browsing as "Priority", my netflix and pandora as "Immediate", and Skype and VoIP as "Flash".

Note that doesn't mean always don't throttle stuff I have marked as Flash, because then everyone will just mark everything as a high priority. Just throttle the packets I marked lowest first, and if there aren't enough of low priority packets then throttle the next highest priority until necessary. Or limit the number of packets per second for each tier, and silently treat them as a lower tier if there are too many.

Well, you can't really rent a blu-ray quality movie for a long time anywhere else. Unless you want to wait another 1-3 months, that is. And you happen to be on an ISP that isn't throttling the hell out of whatever video service you want to rent it from.

Wasn't meant as a "brag", but it's the only numbers I had access to. For example, a 4-seater jet from my local airport to one that I fly to most:
Source Airport Fee $4,336.35 ($956 Fuel, $31.44 Landing, $157.60 "other", $22.31 parking, $3,169 reposition)
Dest Airport Fee $4,662.04 ($269 Fuel, $6.26 GPU, $12.29 landing, $37.53 "other", $8.34 parking, $4328 reposition)
Flight Rate $9,029.13
Fed Excise Tax $1,461.69

54% in airport fees and taxes.

New name changes.

Windows 9 (Home, Home Premium, Pro, etc) -> Windows 10 (Home, Home Premium, Pro, etc)
Windows 9N (No media player) -> Windows ID-10-T
Windows 9E (European version with no IE) -> Windows ID-10-T2

I don't know about commericial airlines, but I know that when I was checking private jets, the airline fees and taxes was much more than 50% of the cost. It was closer to 80-90%.

And this is exactly what you don't want.

First, the managers don't need to know a lot of the technical details beyond an overview, and they need to be able to trust their developers to give them good information, and listen when they give advice. Any company that tries to have their managers both retain top notch technical skills using the latest technologies AND be a competent manager is doing it WRONG.

Really not that much more absurd than setting the coldest temperature based on what a ??? physicist could cool water at a particular height in the atmosphere that changes all the time.

Does this mean that I can get a refund for the BIOS? Almost all machines license their BIOS from award or phoenix. What if I want to write my own? Can I ask for a refund since they don't sell a machine without a BIOS installed? What if I want a machine without a hard drive? I already have one. Can I force them to take the hard drive out and give me a refund? Or a case? I got a computer case. And the power supply. I have one of those. Don't need the motherboard. Heck, can I force them to remove the broadband cellular chip from my verizon only phone so I can tinker with it and maybe get a different one working? Can I have my car manufacturer remove the radio and get a refund since they don't offer one without a radio?

Italy is crazy.