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FCC Reports Comcast P2P Blocking Was More Widespread
bob charlton from 66 tips us to a ComputerWorld story about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, who has testified that Comcast's P2P traffic management occurred even when network congestion wasn't an issue, contrary to the ISP's claims. After defending its actions and being investigated by the FCC over the past few months, Comcast has tried to repair its image by making nice with BitTorrent and working towards a P2P Bill of Rights. Quoting:
"'It does not appear that this technique was used only to occasionally delay traffic at particular nodes suffering from network congestion at that time,' Martin told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. 'Based on testimony we've received thus far, this equipment was typically deployed over a wider geographic area or system, and is not even capable of knowing when an individual ... segment of the network is congested.'
And your point is, what exactly? Native American's were here for a little bit longer than 1,400 years before we appeared. Will you support a Native American movement that seeks to carve an independent country out of the United States? How about a "right of return"? My great-grandparents had to flee Germany in the 30s -- can I now return to Germany to seize the house they used to live in?
Don't get me wrong -- I don't pretend to have a solution for the Middle East either -- but this idea that a racial/religious group has a "right" to some land based on the fact that they controlled it two millennia ago (the Jews) or even a few decades ago (the Palestinians) is a pretty thin argument.
The World doesn't owe you a damn thing just because your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents or ancient-ancestors-living-in-the-time-of-Julius-Ceaser got a raw deal.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
So conquest of wandering nomads is ok?
this should give an idea why proto jews were there as nomadic tribes already, LONG before 1800 BC.And this is relevant to the present day situation because....?
jews were there more than 2 millenia ago, they controlled it aroun 500 yearsMore than two millennia ago, modern day England was controlled by the Roman empire for about 400 years. Should London be returned to it's rightful owners in Italy?
with your argument you could totally justify israeli occupation of palestinian lands - nobody owes any palestinian anything because early muslim empire arabs were able to take those lands from byzantine empire, but then lost it.Why did you draw the conclusion that my argument was only directed at the Jews?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Who cares? If I wanted to read pseudoinsane rants about desert cults, theres plenty of that garbage on the web.
GTFO, banhammer, imo. With spam ad in sig, to boot.
heritage. just as almost third of the koran is borrowed from christianity, but it explicitly orders muslims to attack christians and jews in maida surah 9/29.
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Relevance? A response to this remark:
heritage. just as almost third of the koran is borrowed from christianity, but it explicitly orders muslims to attack christians and jews in maida surah 9/29.Please explain why pulling a random quote out of the Koran is any more 'relevant' then someone doing the same thing to your holy book?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.