Either way, that was good too. Even funnier because I'm in Chicago and that will probably happen with the Teamsters some day to non-union drivers. Don't give them the idea though.
in the beginning. Net Neutrality is not about charging more for us to get what we want. Net Neutrality is about charging more to the content providers such as Google and YouTube and MySpace because they send out a lot of data such as videos.
The biggest reason that Net Neutrality is coming up is because ISPs are finally getting into the VOIP services. They want to be able to slow down the performance of services like VOIP for providers like Vonage or Skype so that unless Vonage or Skype pay them more money there service will suck but the ISPs VOIP service will be great.
The problem I have with all of this is that the content providers (vonage \ skype \ google \ youtube) are already paying for the bandwidth that they put out. But Comcast and\or RoadRunner don't like it because google is paying MCI for their bandwidth and Comcast\Road Runner have to carry their traffic anyway.
Think of it this way, I am in a truck that is licensed in Iowa so I pay my registration money to Iowa. I have to travel to Indiana and pass through Illinois. Now Indiana and Illinois are pissed off because they have to let the truck use its roads to get to Indiana but don't get any money to keep up the roads that the truck is using. So what do they do? Put in a tollway to say "If you want to use this road you need to pay for it."
We already do this in our world. The problem is that the internet was created so we didn't have to worry about this crap and we can get anything from anywhere. If the company is complaining that they aren't making enough money then they can kiss my ass and go somewhere else.
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Either way, that was good too. Even funnier because I'm in Chicago and that will probably happen with the Teamsters some day to non-union drivers. Don't give them the idea though.
in the beginning. Net Neutrality is not about charging more for us to get what we want. Net Neutrality is about charging more to the content providers such as Google and YouTube and MySpace because they send out a lot of data such as videos. The biggest reason that Net Neutrality is coming up is because ISPs are finally getting into the VOIP services. They want to be able to slow down the performance of services like VOIP for providers like Vonage or Skype so that unless Vonage or Skype pay them more money there service will suck but the ISPs VOIP service will be great. The problem I have with all of this is that the content providers (vonage \ skype \ google \ youtube) are already paying for the bandwidth that they put out. But Comcast and\or RoadRunner don't like it because google is paying MCI for their bandwidth and Comcast\Road Runner have to carry their traffic anyway. Think of it this way, I am in a truck that is licensed in Iowa so I pay my registration money to Iowa. I have to travel to Indiana and pass through Illinois. Now Indiana and Illinois are pissed off because they have to let the truck use its roads to get to Indiana but don't get any money to keep up the roads that the truck is using. So what do they do? Put in a tollway to say "If you want to use this road you need to pay for it." We already do this in our world. The problem is that the internet was created so we didn't have to worry about this crap and we can get anything from anywhere. If the company is complaining that they aren't making enough money then they can kiss my ass and go somewhere else.