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Comment: Re:Perspective (Score 1) 306

by DiamondMX (#32396586) Attached to: Earthlink Announces It Must Honor Comcast Cap

To put some perspective on your comment - although there are some ISPs which do have a cap of 15-30, or even 50gb ... there are also quite a few providers who offer a premium service with no cap.
Zen Internet is a good example - it costs a bloody fortune, but you can download however much you like. If the ISP offends you after, you can also leave with 1 months notice. There is also no secret cap that I am aware of - and I downloaded several hundred gigabytes in some months.
Virgin's cable service is also uncapped, and it is significantly cheaper, although I don't know if they have an secret cap like some ISPs do.

The difference between the UKs internet and the US's internet is that the UK has competition, and the US has monopolies and duopolies for service in a given area. We might have to pay more - but you *can* get what you want.

Comment: Re:We told you. (Score 1) 303

by DiamondMX (#30954372) Attached to: FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Blocks BitTorrent

This is *exactly* how the UK system for DSL works.
British Telecom administers the infrastructure, and many, many ISPs offer service through BT's lines.
It doesn't prevent some ISPs from having draconian policies, but there is certainly enough competition to have both restrictive and open policies. Cheap and expensive.

Internet service is not a natural monopoly/duopoly. It can be a competitive enviroment and fair to consumers.

And guess what it required - govenment legislation to remove BT's original monopoly on the telephone infrastructure.

Comment: Re:Good luck with that (Score 1) 130

by DiamondMX (#29641033) Attached to: SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust"

I do believe you just claimed that student loans (almost free education) was a bad thing...
Well, only in that making education 'almost' free is only 'almost' good enough.
But you can go to your happy place in the dark ages.

Anyone who believes that the average person should be *less* educated should be sent to a third-world country to reconsider how nice education is.

I do believe your post claims that both low-income jobs AND welfare should be thrown out, I appreciate your natural selection instinct, and think you'd be first against the wall when the revolution came. And it would come hard.

You've got to be a troll, right? Surely someone can't actually believe this crap and be capable of mostly correct spelling and grammar?
Hell, someone who believed that probably couldn't operate a light switch, much less a PC.

Comment: Re:Well, we all know what to do... (Score 1) 359

by DiamondMX (#29297077) Attached to: UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards

Err...no.
Minimum wage means that the companies can't pay people less than subsistance for jobs, and can't take advantage of the fact that there are always more people than jobs - or at the very least it's a common situation.

Without minimum wage, companies can pay a pittance of a wage to the people already struggling to find employment, and can also abuse those workers with impunity, because a worker who can barely afford to pay for housing, food and electricity with a job sure as hell isn't going to quit unless they've got somewhere better to go to already.

The fact that immoral companies are willing to circumvent minimum wage by abusing workers without legal recourse does not make it fair to let them abuse all workers equally.

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