No, you're a jackass. He's saying that without fuel to transport/prepare/store food (like someone said "we've done before") the majority of human beings would die off. And he's right.
"I'm sure there's lots of profit that could be made delivering broadband access to rural areas." The cost of running the cable to the rural homes is far greater than the income provided by 4 farmers paying $19.95/mo to check their internets.
I've got plenty of respect for CDL holders, I have a hard enough time backing my Honda Civic up into parking spots without hitting anything (which I have twice). The guys who deliver to the Hospital I work at can place the back of their trailer up to the same spot on the loading dock and they make it look easy.
If I came out with a home gaming console that was in 200 million homes next week you bet your dick people would be making games for it. That's 200,000,000 customers to pay $50 per game.
The Wii's out selling the 360 and the big game houses have said "We dropped the ball on the Wii and will be developing more games for that console in the future."
The console that sells "THE MOST" is the winner by everyone's standards but yours.
And Exclusivity drives sales.
And your "OMG THE MOST GAEMS" argument is a lot like the one used by Playstation fans during the Playstation/N64 wars. And I shall reply as I did when I was defending Nintendo at that time:
Word of mouth isn't required when you have a government supplied monopoly. Blog posts don't matter, since people who have Comcast can continue to use them or get something slower. People who don't have Comcast in their area aren't lost business for Comcast.
You have county police departments? I thought that's what the Sheriff was for. In my county all the Sheriff does is law enforcement for towns too small to have their own police force. They also do prisoner transfers.
Go for a drive on your local highway at 3am. I had to drive a friend home (150 miles round trip on the highway) at 2am and it was nice just me and the semis. They were doing 75mph or so. Didn't see one cop on the whole trip, either. Where I work I get to talk to some semi drivers, nothing long haul just local stuff, and they are VERY defensive drivers. You have to be when you can crush cars who try to cut you off and race you at lane merges.
I'm guilty of that. As I said in my post above, half my library is purchased (iTMS) songs. Songs I had torrented first and liked. I enjoy one album from an artist and I go a little crazy with the buy album button. I also spent $100 all in one go buying all the Trek movies.
My connection maxes out at 1.7 MB/s. Big B. This is Road Runner cable. No special packages. 5 gigs a day? Well, I'm currently downloading a total of 85 gigs of stuff. It's not maxing my connection but it's using about half of it (damn unreliable seeders). Most of these have an ETA of one week.
so, yeah. 24/7 traffic of 60 KB/s isn't that insane.
Comcast isn't kicking people off because of the other user's experience. They're kicking people off because the power users cost more. It's that simple.
For a while back when Adelphia still existed, I had a bandwidth monitor installed to see just how much I was downloading. Over a 3 month period I downloaded 1TB of movies/music/games/whatnot. Now, with Road Runner, my connection is 2x as fast. I've never gotten a "Omg stop downloading copyrighted whatever" letter and never been asked not to download as much as I do (connection is almost always pegged). Road Runner, in my area at least, couldn't give less of a crap about any of that.
Now I have a friend who has Comcast. He gets constant letters saying "Stop downloading" and he does. He gets emails saying "lolover bandwidth limit we won't tell you" and he tones it down. But they still come. Unfortunately for him, Comcast is all that's available in his area.
It's the reverse of the stories everyone else tells me, but I tend to have better experiences with the Mass State Troopers than with Local cops. The Staties usually just tell me "Next time, I'll write you up for everything" and let me go with a verbal warning while the Townies seem to have something to prove and write a pretty big ticket.
The Staties also tend to be more willing to laugh, which is good as I tell bad jokes when I'm nervous, and a man with his hand on a big gun makes me kinda nervous.
For the most part, unless they're all over the road and REALLY blowing the speed limit away, semi trucks get some professional courtesy. I've never seen one get pulled over on the Pike.
How, exactly, could ISPs block all the spam? And if they did, what if they block something important? False positives are still an issue. I'm pretty sure the first ISP to figure out how to do that would advertise it and would get TONS of people switching to them.
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No, you're a jackass. He's saying that without fuel to transport/prepare/store food (like someone said "we've done before") the majority of human beings would die off. And he's right.
It's kinda like whne slashdot's article summaries are the opposite of what the linked article says.
Pissed off people tend to be more active than people who agree with everything you say.
"I'm sure there's lots of profit that could be made delivering broadband access to rural areas." The cost of running the cable to the rural homes is far greater than the income provided by 4 farmers paying $19.95/mo to check their internets.
So why can my Windows 98/95/2000/ME/XP computers play mp3s without this happening?
I've got plenty of respect for CDL holders, I have a hard enough time backing my Honda Civic up into parking spots without hitting anything (which I have twice). The guys who deliver to the Hospital I work at can place the back of their trailer up to the same spot on the loading dock and they make it look easy.
www.google.com
en.wikipedia.org
Learn things.
So why not use Torrentz.com? It searches all the big sites including Mininova and TPB.
Your statement's a jerk and wants to murder babies.
My statement wants to give all statements universal health care.
If I came out with a home gaming console that was in 200 million homes next week you bet your dick people would be making games for it. That's 200,000,000 customers to pay $50 per game.
The Wii's out selling the 360 and the big game houses have said "We dropped the ball on the Wii and will be developing more games for that console in the future."
The console that sells "THE MOST" is the winner by everyone's standards but yours.
And Exclusivity drives sales.
And your "OMG THE MOST GAEMS" argument is a lot like the one used by Playstation fans during the Playstation/N64 wars. And I shall reply as I did when I was defending Nintendo at that time:
"Quality over quantity."
One of the issues I have with this story and the reactions that follow is that people are TREATING it like his freedom of speech is being trampled on.
I was the kid who was smaller growing up. And now I'm a (mostly) stable adult.
How do you know it's spam and not a *insert lame hobby* enthusiast sending out newsletters?
You can't block the usual ports because a lot of people do their own email stuff (VERY technical term).
There's a lot of iffy stuff involved and no matter what's done a group of people will be pissed off.
Word of mouth isn't required when you have a government supplied monopoly. Blog posts don't matter, since people who have Comcast can continue to use them or get something slower. People who don't have Comcast in their area aren't lost business for Comcast.
You have county police departments? I thought that's what the Sheriff was for. In my county all the Sheriff does is law enforcement for towns too small to have their own police force. They also do prisoner transfers.
Go for a drive on your local highway at 3am. I had to drive a friend home (150 miles round trip on the highway) at 2am and it was nice just me and the semis. They were doing 75mph or so. Didn't see one cop on the whole trip, either. Where I work I get to talk to some semi drivers, nothing long haul just local stuff, and they are VERY defensive drivers. You have to be when you can crush cars who try to cut you off and race you at lane merges.
I'm guilty of that. As I said in my post above, half my library is purchased (iTMS) songs. Songs I had torrented first and liked. I enjoy one album from an artist and I go a little crazy with the buy album button. I also spent $100 all in one go buying all the Trek movies.
My connection maxes out at 1.7 MB/s. Big B. This is Road Runner cable. No special packages. 5 gigs a day? Well, I'm currently downloading a total of 85 gigs of stuff. It's not maxing my connection but it's using about half of it (damn unreliable seeders). Most of these have an ETA of one week.
so, yeah. 24/7 traffic of 60 KB/s isn't that insane.
Comcast isn't kicking people off because of the other user's experience. They're kicking people off because the power users cost more. It's that simple.
Business plans tend to be the same level as Residential except you pay 5-10x more. And maybe you get a static IP if they feel like it.
For a while back when Adelphia still existed, I had a bandwidth monitor installed to see just how much I was downloading. Over a 3 month period I downloaded 1TB of movies/music/games/whatnot. Now, with Road Runner, my connection is 2x as fast. I've never gotten a "Omg stop downloading copyrighted whatever" letter and never been asked not to download as much as I do (connection is almost always pegged). Road Runner, in my area at least, couldn't give less of a crap about any of that.
Now I have a friend who has Comcast. He gets constant letters saying "Stop downloading" and he does. He gets emails saying "lolover bandwidth limit we won't tell you" and he tones it down. But they still come. Unfortunately for him, Comcast is all that's available in his area.
It's the reverse of the stories everyone else tells me, but I tend to have better experiences with the Mass State Troopers than with Local cops. The Staties usually just tell me "Next time, I'll write you up for everything" and let me go with a verbal warning while the Townies seem to have something to prove and write a pretty big ticket.
The Staties also tend to be more willing to laugh, which is good as I tell bad jokes when I'm nervous, and a man with his hand on a big gun makes me kinda nervous.
For the most part, unless they're all over the road and REALLY blowing the speed limit away, semi trucks get some professional courtesy. I've never seen one get pulled over on the Pike.
Stream low quality or download and have a high bitrate copy? Yeah, that's going to keep me from downloading.
My library is half downloaded half iTunes.
How, exactly, could ISPs block all the spam? And if they did, what if they block something important? False positives are still an issue. I'm pretty sure the first ISP to figure out how to do that would advertise it and would get TONS of people switching to them.