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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.
"Will you support a Native American movement that seeks to carve an independent country out of the United States?"
They have a semi-independent group of counties already. Sure, they're not allowed to do a lot of the standard government stuff, and it's far from the same thing, but they do get to ignore a lot of laws within their territory.
Other than that I tend to agree with your argument.
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
do you know that the early christian leaders were in conflict with jews, and satanized them ? do you know that the 4 major versions of bible were edited and chosen in council of nicea around 400 ad ? they are not reliable books. old testament, new testament, no kind of christian text can hold any weight, because they were written by the extreme bias early christians had against jews, due to the pains of a fledling religion had with the established one. you have to go check babylonian and egyptian records. they are reliable. jews were there long before egyptians brought them in as slaves. actually their nomadic existence goes way back than 1800 BC. long before moses brought them out of slavery in egypt to their lands in caanan back again. that happened around 1300 BC.
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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.