I am sure that the prison population, assuming the tax money you refer to is them and not the utilities companies as that would be a subsidy, are glad that their efforts are rewarding people with a better internet connection.
Do you watch streaming content? Do you think for every packet you receive you send one back and that it is the same size? Yin and yang is not applicable to digital communication.
The modem you receive is subsidised by you with increased prices from the ISP.
My ISP bill has decreased by over 5 fold over the last 10 years for a 400 fold increase in bandwidth. How much has yours decreased/increased over this time?
You obviously fail at basic comprehension. I may fail at physics as you put it but I didn't fail my degree in Electronics. Power is going to be used somewhere and someone has to pay for it.
Someone has to upgrade the infrastructure to cope with the increased bandwidth required - oh but maybe the sweat coming off the men and women digging the holes and climbing the poles to support this is neutral as well because the water came from the sea or whatever and that doesn't cost anything.
You may argue that they should use lower power servers. That's fair enough but they have to invest in those too and someone has to pay for that too - oh but the server manufactures give them away don't they. The shareholders don't want a return on their money and the employees certainly don't want paid.
I am more than happy not to pay for services that I do not wish to have but do not want to subsidise those who want to take advantage of the perception that the internet is free of cost. I halved my internet bill by moving to a more restricted package and noticed no difference. I can still stream legitimate content. But hang on maybe my new ISP isn't charging me for power as it is free - I'll have to sue may old ISP for the free power they were charging me for all these years.
So these electrons that make up these bits and bytes happen to transport themselves without the influence of external energy then? You seem privy to some sort of perpetual data machine then. This could be very usfeul so perhaps you could share it with the rest of us.
I am content with paying less for a restricted service so how does that make me greedy?
If you want to download a shit load of stuff then what is the problem with paying for it? I pay for a limited daytime usage (60GB/month) which is more than enough for the time being. My ISP has a list of sites that will be capped throughput wise of which Megaupload is one of them and I am fine with that. People really need to get real with the concept that bits and bytes actually do cost something.
Adopt the out at 5 approach from the Dilbert Principle. Aim to get your work organised and finished by 5 pm. Give your customer good and reliable releases, no customer wants a feature rich product that does lots of things poorly. However do not take the rest of the book as a how to for business, I swear people have read this book where I work and have not realized the saracasm.
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I am sure that the prison population, assuming the tax money you refer to is them and not the utilities companies as that would be a subsidy, are glad that their efforts are rewarding people with a better internet connection.
Do you watch streaming content? Do you think for every packet you receive you send one back and that it is the same size? Yin and yang is not applicable to digital communication.
The modem you receive is subsidised by you with increased prices from the ISP.
My ISP bill has decreased by over 5 fold over the last 10 years for a 400 fold increase in bandwidth. How much has yours decreased/increased over this time?
You obviously fail at basic comprehension. I may fail at physics as you put it but I didn't fail my degree in Electronics. Power is going to be used somewhere and someone has to pay for it.
Someone has to upgrade the infrastructure to cope with the increased bandwidth required - oh but maybe the sweat coming off the men and women digging the holes and climbing the poles to support this is neutral as well because the water came from the sea or whatever and that doesn't cost anything.
You may argue that they should use lower power servers. That's fair enough but they have to invest in those too and someone has to pay for that too - oh but the server manufactures give them away don't they. The shareholders don't want a return on their money and the employees certainly don't want paid.
I am more than happy not to pay for services that I do not wish to have but do not want to subsidise those who want to take advantage of the perception that the internet is free of cost. I halved my internet bill by moving to a more restricted package and noticed no difference. I can still stream legitimate content. But hang on maybe my new ISP isn't charging me for power as it is free - I'll have to sue may old ISP for the free power they were charging me for all these years.
So these electrons that make up these bits and bytes happen to transport themselves without the influence of external energy then? You seem privy to some sort of perpetual data machine then. This could be very usfeul so perhaps you could share it with the rest of us. I am content with paying less for a restricted service so how does that make me greedy?
If you want to download a shit load of stuff then what is the problem with paying for it? I pay for a limited daytime usage (60GB/month) which is more than enough for the time being. My ISP has a list of sites that will be capped throughput wise of which Megaupload is one of them and I am fine with that. People really need to get real with the concept that bits and bytes actually do cost something.
Adopt the out at 5 approach from the Dilbert Principle. Aim to get your work organised and finished by 5 pm. Give your customer good and reliable releases, no customer wants a feature rich product that does lots of things poorly. However do not take the rest of the book as a how to for business, I swear people have read this book where I work and have not realized the saracasm.