And the upstream bits that originate with an application arbitrarily called a "server" are somehow magickally different from the upstream bits that originate from an application arbitrarily called a "client". That's it!
Except that they aren't.
The only proper, civil response to such blatant and utterly transparent intellectual dishonesty as yours is, "Go die in a fire."
Only if you assume that they're both douchebags. Assuming that, just because some people are douchebags, everyone's a douchebag, is not a nice way to live.
My Linux desktop worked just fine for years* before Shuttleworth and his Fishery-Pricey, one-size-fits-all, ow-thinking-about-stuff-is-too-hard desktop even showed up on my "What the hell is this crap?" list, thanks very much.
*(Not 10,000 years, admittedly, but a number of them.)
My grailslaves have been transcribing my/. posts onto stone tablets and then carrying them upRiver to the server for the last 10,000 years. Why should I abandon a system that continues to work perfectly well for me?
We are not familiar with easy to use GUI clients. The solution should be something you could make your mother use (because of our CEO and installer, not the programmers).
No RCS on the planet can cure a CEO who insists on micro-managing something she obviously knows nothing about.
Your math makes the assumption that Sweden and the US have the same resources available to provide telecommunications infrastructure and services, and conveniently ignores economy of scale (or pretends that it doesn't exist).
There's also the fact US telcos have already pocketed the tax money that they were supposed to use for buildout, and now complain about how expensive it is.
As I already pointed out, the TV licence has nothing to do with bandwidth.
And you cap your arguments with an anti-intellectual and bigoted troll.
You are obviously a shill, and this discussion is concluded.
Since February 2013 every household in Sweden which has a personal computer connected to the Internet is required by law to pay a TV-License fee to the limited company Radiotjänst i Kiruna AB of approximately 240 Euros per annum.
"My internet service isn't capped. I just pay 20 euro a month extra to support a failing business model, because my country is super progressive."
Except that I'm not doing any such thing.
Since I already own a TV, I've been paying the TV licence fee for years. They have not increased the fee for those who were already paying it, and I'm still paying SEK 2076 per year (currently €237.70--wow, the exchange rate is heaps better recently... perhaps I should go buy some Euro, thanks for the tip!), just as I always have.
Charging that fee to folks who could access Swedish TV via the Net without paying for a licence seems entirely fair to me.
The rest of your post sounds like you're trying to persuade yourself that you're not suffering from a bit of, well, Stockholm Syndrome on behalf of the corporate interests who are happily raping you in the US.
ProTip: Not being a fanboi of the thing you're a fanboi of does not mean being a fanboi of some other thing. There is also the possibility that you've outgrown the need to be a fanboi at all.
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There's just a little bit of difference between teargas and Sarin.
One of those things was not like the others, one of those things was not the same.
You manage to ignore your own statement that physics is a process.
Newton's laws are not wrong. They're approximations. Now we have better approximations.
And the upstream bits that originate with an application arbitrarily called a "server" are somehow magickally different from the upstream bits that originate from an application arbitrarily called a "client". That's it!
Except that they aren't.
The only proper, civil response to such blatant and utterly transparent intellectual dishonesty as yours is, "Go die in a fire."
You: ISPs don't already limit or charge users for their upload bandwidth.
We: Liar, liar, pants on fire!
I give away stuff for free and still manage to live pretty well. So does FOSS.
Ubuntu != Linux.
And "Debian testing" is called "testing" for a reason. See if you can figure out what that is.
I thought you were describing a quantum Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, myself.
Crap, now I'm hungry.
Engage your sarcasm detector, and try again.
Buyer vs. Seller is a zero sum game.
Only if you assume that they're both douchebags. Assuming that, just because some people are douchebags, everyone's a douchebag, is not a nice way to live.
In any case, your analogy is flawed.
As a US citizen living (more or less permanently) overseas, that sure works out for me real well...
My Linux desktop worked just fine for years* before Shuttleworth and his Fishery-Pricey, one-size-fits-all, ow-thinking-about-stuff-is-too-hard desktop even showed up on my "What the hell is this crap?" list, thanks very much.
*(Not 10,000 years, admittedly, but a number of them.)
My grailslaves have been transcribing my /. posts onto stone tablets and then carrying them upRiver to the server for the last 10,000 years. Why should I abandon a system that continues to work perfectly well for me?
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We are not familiar with easy to use GUI clients. The solution should be something you could make your mother use (because of our CEO and installer, not the programmers).
No RCS on the planet can cure a CEO who insists on micro-managing something she obviously knows nothing about.
Get. Out. Now.
Run, do not walk.
It's not just about the money. It's also about control.
What if you're a Communist who also likes baseball?
Let's worry about following the Constitution as it is, first. Then we can talk about your fantasy version.
McDonalds in Stockholm sell Quarter Pounders, med eller utan ost.
You live in a capitalist society, and yet you completely fail to understand what it's based on.
That's pretty funny coming from someone with a 7-digit UID who uses G+ to log in.
Your math makes the assumption that Sweden and the US have the same resources available to provide telecommunications infrastructure and services, and conveniently ignores economy of scale (or pretends that it doesn't exist).
There's also the fact US telcos have already pocketed the tax money that they were supposed to use for buildout, and now complain about how expensive it is.
As I already pointed out, the TV licence has nothing to do with bandwidth.
And you cap your arguments with an anti-intellectual and bigoted troll.
You are obviously a shill, and this discussion is concluded.
"My internet service isn't capped. I just pay 20 euro a month extra to support a failing business model, because my country is super progressive."
Except that I'm not doing any such thing.
Since I already own a TV, I've been paying the TV licence fee for years. They have not increased the fee for those who were already paying it, and I'm still paying SEK 2076 per year (currently €237.70--wow, the exchange rate is heaps better recently... perhaps I should go buy some Euro, thanks for the tip!), just as I always have.
Charging that fee to folks who could access Swedish TV via the Net without paying for a licence seems entirely fair to me.
The rest of your post sounds like you're trying to persuade yourself that you're not suffering from a bit of, well, Stockholm Syndrome on behalf of the corporate interests who are happily raping you in the US.
Projection much?
ProTip: Not being a fanboi of the thing you're a fanboi of does not mean being a fanboi of some other thing. There is also the possibility that you've outgrown the need to be a fanboi at all.