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New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski
could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday speech advocating enforceable network neutrality rules for the Internet. Despite declaring we cannot know what tomorrow holds on the Internet, he showed he intends to lead the FCC as if it were all- knowing. That will only end up choking the greatest engine of innovation in modern times. Genachowski laid out his plans in a highly anticipated speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. The mostly voluntary concept of net neutrality which encourages the free flow of content across the Internet would be transformed into formal rules Internet service providers (ISPs) would violate at their peril. Instead of managing traffic in response to market forces, ISPs would be forced to cede such decisions to the FCC, which would decide which practices are fair and reasonable on a case-by-case basis. But it would be foolish to replace the swift judgment of millions of consumers with the dictates of a handful of slow-footed, uninformed, unaccountable bureaucrats. [...] http://sroblog.com/2009/09/29/new-fc...rican-thinker/ http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/...ets_inter.html |
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On Sep 30, 5:36*pm, N∅ ∅baMa∅
wrote: New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday speech advocating enforceable “network neutrality” rules for the Internet. Despite declaring “we cannot know what tomorrow holds on the Internet,” he showed he intends to lead the FCC as if it were all- knowing. That will only end up choking the greatest engine of innovation in modern times. Genachowski laid out his plans in a highly anticipated speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. The mostly voluntary concept of net neutrality — which encourages the free flow of content across the Internet — would be transformed into formal rules Internet service providers (ISPs) would violate at their peril. Instead of managing traffic in response to market forces, ISPs would be forced to cede such decisions to the FCC, which would decide which practices are “fair” and “reasonable” on a “case-by-case basis.” But it would be foolish to replace the swift judgment of millions of consumers with the dictates of a handful of slow-footed, uninformed, unaccountable bureaucrats. [...]http://sroblog.com/2009/09/29/new-fcc-chairman-targets-internet-ameri... http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/..._targets_inter... I found "Air America" t be quite boring with their logic and facts, so I stopped listening to them well before bthey went under.. Yes, we need more like Beck, Savage and Rush. Bring back the days of "Laugh-In" |
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![]() "SeaWoe" wrote in message ... I found "Air America" t be quite boring with their logic and facts, so I stopped listening to them well before bthey went under.. Yes, we need more like Beck, Savage and Rush. Bring back the days of "Laugh-In" Better watch out or that rapier tongue will poke a hole through the cheek it's placed so firmly against. Laugh-In, yes.. but what this world really needs are the Smothers Brothers and Pat Paulsen "If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve." I know someone else said it before him, but Pat had a way about him. ![]() |
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SeaWoe wrote:
I found "Air America" t be quite boring with their logic and facts, so I stopped listening to them well before bthey went under.. Yes, we need more like Beck, Savage and Rush. Bring back the days of "Laugh-In" Air America is still alive. I suggest Thom Hartmann if you like facts and logic. |
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:42 -0700, N∅ ∅baMa∅ wrote:
New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday speech I see nothing wrong with prohibiting common carriers from censoring your internet. They took a big bite out-a usenet already The GOP Hypocritical do-nothing party of NO! They want to give all our constitutional rights to large trillion dollar corporations in the name of "not socialist" These people can't think past their large beacon beer belly but find it easy to cut-n-paste content from the republiCAN'T propaganda machine. Sorry bunch of folks. No brains to think for themselves. |
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![]() "Ima" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:42 -0700, N? ?baMa? wrote: New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday speech I see nothing wrong with prohibiting common carriers from censoring your internet. They took a big bite out-a usenet already For real. It's bad enough that they decide they're going to sell you 15Mb/s internet access, then throttle you back to 3 or 4 Mb, and sometimes even a few hundred Kb. Hopefully, that will now end. |
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On 10/1/09 24:50 , Brenda Ann wrote:
wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:42 -0700, N? ?baMa? wrote: New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday speech I see nothing wrong with prohibiting common carriers from censoring your internet. They took a big bite out-a usenet already For real. It's bad enough that they decide they're going to sell you 15Mb/s internet access, then throttle you back to 3 or 4 Mb, and sometimes even a few hundred Kb. Hopefully, that will now end. That would be nice. But I wouldn't count on it. There are always exploitable loopholes, and lawsuits to delay, or deflect implementation. |
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On Sep 30, 8:59*pm, Ima wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:36:42 -0700, N∅ ∅baMa∅ wrote: New Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski could have used a few more dollops of genuine humility in his Monday speech I see nothing wrong with prohibiting common carriers from censoring your internet. They took a big bite out-a usenet already The GOP Hypocritical do-nothing party of NO! They want to give all our constitutional rights to large trillion dollar corporations in the name of "not socialist" These people can't think past their large beacon beer belly but find it easy to cut-n-paste content from the republiCAN'T propaganda machine. Sorry bunch of folks. *No brains to think for themselves. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...bmufQD9B54ACO2 |
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![]() "D. Peter Maus" wrote in message ... Heavy users downloading hd movies and tv shows, playing high speed games requiring large amounts of bandwidth, can cause performance problems for other users on the radius as the bandwidth limitations of the network are approached. In the case of Comcast or ATT U-Verse, this can actually cause TV performance compromises for users who are very light internet users, but pay heavily for cable TV. I've experienced this in prime time at my g/f's house with Comcast. Bandwidth limitations are necessary to prevent a few heavy users from compromising the performance of other users who equally pay the costs. Though Comcast abuses the privilege, to be sure. Further, bandwidth limitations prevent residential users, on less efficient pipes, from using the net for high bandwidth businesses, like hosting FTP sites, as I do on my T-1, video streams, and other servers. Again consuming the bandwidth of other users. Compromising their service, for which they pay. The way to solve this problem is not to oversell bandwidth. For instance, if they sell you a 15 Mb/s connection, then you should be able to have that 15 Mb/s available to you at all times, no matter what you are doing with it (running an FTP server, or whatever). If they don't want you to use 15 Mb/s, they shouldn't SELL it to you. They should sell you 680 Kb/s or whatever they really MEAN for you to have. Right now, we are paying for three 10 Mb/s cable drops, and between the three we're getting MAYBE a solid 1.5 Mb/s. One drop is dedicated to a 64 Kb MP3Pro audio stream, and yet it can't even always keep up with that! I've had to pay for the additional drops (from two different providers, two completely different systems) in order to have an almost constant net connections for the home computers (one drop), the audio stream (one drop) and our Vonage phone lines (one dedicated drop). Our internet drops on the line for the computers about once every 3-7 minutes for about a second and a half. It's annoying as hell. |
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