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Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down"
Zerocool3001 writes "In an interview with WSJ editor Alan Murray,Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg talks about how the FCC's broadband access studies are wrong (and the US is definitely 'number one, not even close'), how he had someone else stand in line for him Saturday to pick up his iPad, and how Verizon will soon hunt down, throttle and/or charge high-bandwidth users on its network."
Verizon will soon hunt down
"The Most Dangerous Game hunt down" or the boring old e-mail notification? Because if it's the former, I might start seeding large sets of prime numbers labeled as "Natalie Portman sex tape" through my noisy neighbor's unsecured wifi network connected to his Verizon FIOS.
My work here is dung.
They'll get the Verizon guy, as well as his posse out for you.
http://nycom.com/images/network2.jpg
And that map of the US with all that red? Those are targets.
Queue the theme from Jaws: "We're going to need a bigger Internet"
This CEO is smarter and harder working than you as evidenced by the fact that he makes more money than you. You think you know better than your betters? If there was anything wrong with what he said, the magic of the Free Market would have prevented him from saying it! If you want the nannystate to do everything for you, move to a communist country like Canada or Europe with all the other collectivist socialists!!!!!!11!1!1oneone [/conservative]
No no, they're hunting heavy users down, as in overweight. Just lose a few pounds and no problemo.
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Fixed that for you:
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Who cares about getting it right? That's like telling people they need to masturbate a different way. Hell, it's not even "like" it, it is that exactly.
This is Verizon we're dealing with, remember...
User 1: I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 2: I'm... I'm Spartacus!
*BLAM*
User 3: Um... I'm Spartacus?
*BLAM*
(User 4 just shakes nervously)
*BLAM*
*BLAM*
Soldier 1: That last one was just for fun! No more backtalk!
Soldier 2: Look at that! We're running out of users! They must be doing something illegal! Get our senator on the line!
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
If an ad said "This car gets 400mpg", the average person would expect it to mean 400mpg averaged over a tank not an instantaneous value at some point in time.
So... you propose a new disclaimer for ISP services - "15Mbps downhill in a hurricane."
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Queue the theme from Jaws:
Cue. It's cue. As in "This is my cue to pipe in the theme for Jaws". Granted, queue can make sense in a CS-type queuing up the theme, but....
Ah, fuck it. Go mangle the English language. I'll be curled up in bed, sucking on my language-nazi thumb.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
This thread has peaked my interest.
100 Mbit is the lowest I could get even if I tried here in Sweden
Didn't you hear the CEO of Verizon? He says we're number one! That's us in the US, not some Vikings of the north. Stop clouding the debate with your "facts."
You know, it feels like time to deregulate again. It hasn't worked for the last decade and a half, but I'm sure it will work from now on. Too bad there are no countries on the Internet except the US or we'd be able to compare broadband policies and consider something different.
WHAT DO YOU WANT, CUE?
"They said I probly shouldn't fly with just one eye," "I am Bender. Please insert girder."
Didn't you hear the CEO of Verizon? He says we're number one! That's us in the US, not some Vikings of the north.
He ain't no dummy, he know that AMERICA is the best country on earth!!! We don't need no commie Sweden universal healthcare, vacation time, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, or high speed web conneckshuns, cause we're number 1!!!! Start saying it, then repeat, over and over, repeatedly, with great repetition and redundancy, and you'll believe it too! Unless you hate America and freedom, you know we're NUMBER 1!!!!
PS: Don't forget that Verizon, GM, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft, Anheuser Busch, and Fox News have what you want and are AMERICAN - trust them, no matter what they say, and give them money. Unless u r a gay-loving commie terrorist. You do love your country,right????
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