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Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks". Anyone here been shaken down by their Internet Service Provider? "The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538
In the immortal words of Scott McNealy, "Get over it."
"I'm already doing deals to sell your personal information to the highest bidder."
Only in Scott's case, he wasn't *quite* stupid enough to say that out loud.
Two blow hard members of the fait accompli / might-is-right crowd, deluding themselves into thinking they can pull off the "we're already in Iraq" card.
Wait a second there, guys. Neither of you can fill the pants of the loser who pulled that off. Dream on.
The "genie out of the bottle" argument was just as strong on the side of p2p as it is on the loss of consumer privacy. Yet in both cases, there was a loud "we'll see you in court".
It goes without saying that any content provider who finds it necessary to buy their content an express lane isn't competing on quality.
I was just viewing Ikiru, pausing at the end of the first act when my housemate had to run out.
In modern society, the 30 years of perfect attendance as a civil servant with no real purpose is replaced by 30 years of consuming bad content (television), because the average consumer is too lazy to walk an extra block or two to a video store that stocks movies more than a week old.
One of the symptoms of terminal stomach cancer in the movie is diarrhea. There's a good metaphor for the typical content delivered via the fast lane.
"We humans are so careless. How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death."
That's what's this ISP basshole is counting on: that his consumers will choose instant drivel, rather than wait for the good stuff.
It always happens this way, because too few of us care until sake is suicide.
First use of a term, write it out in full and put the abbreviation in parentheses next to it. Second reference to that item, use the abbreviation. Why? What are EUC and **AA? Presumably you mean to replace the letters RI with two asterisks. Why be cute? Write for your readers, please.