Quote:Hence the reason that I said he spliced into your line here:
Your water analogy simply put, does not hold water; as both you and your neighbor pay for that usage separately.
Quote:I live in a state where you can choose your power provider on the public grid. Any plant can sell more power than they produce. All the power is in the grid so it is impossible to prove whose power it is.
having your neighbor tap your line and water his yard into a swamp
Quote:No, the internet service costs money. Yo pay the same currently if you send 0 e-mails or 500,000,000 e-mails a day. If we are paying per e-mail sent... that is when we pay for e-mail. Hence a simple counter of sending text message file via an instant messenger. E-mail is only one thing you can do to get your moneys worth. If it did your original point is nonsensical, as youd be openly complaining that each e-mail will cost money when it already did. The connection costs money.
E-mail does cost money.
Currently you pay for the price you pay it is your job to get your money's worth from the service. You pay the same for both levels of e-mail sending. If AOL wants to charge per e-mail let them the service that doesnt will get their customers.
Quote:Those standards only effect the broadcast channels. CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, and other networks. That and publicly broadcasted. If you pay for the service it can show anything it wants. You could have a basic cable channel that showed nothing but naked Emo idiots cutting themselves and angsting or the Bondage, Furry Porn Network. That is legal. The problem is a station needs two things to survive: An audience and an income source. If people won't watch the channel can't get advertisers. If the company isn't getting its advertisement money back through sales it won't advertise with that network. That and few corporations would want to be known as the proud sponsor of the BFPN.
rigorously protected in the United States until the Reagan presidency, where the rules were steadily eroded.
The same is true of public radio. The Broadcast rules apply. Pay radio they dont they place all sorts of broadcast illegal things. TV cable can show anything it wants... they just don't. The Regan Era might have killed the quality of SNL, but thats public broadcast. Its the taste of the public that hurts or helps cable.
Quote:Your deluded. The difference between dial up and cable is that cable is faster and dial up eats your phone line. Slow broadband is the new dial up. Dial up is going to the land of the buggy whip. Dial up is advertising like mad... the reason for doing so it one of two reasons.
All of the media in the pipe that you buy comes at the same speed; regardless of its source. Under the proposed legislation; the cable/dial up company decides what comes faster or slower. That is a rather significant difference.
1) You have gobs of cash incoming and can expand the service so call for new clients.
2) Your going broke and need for clients.
Dial up is not a rapidly growing market. Dial up is dying off.
Do you have any proof that they aren't going to make cheaper broadband? Do you have anything, but conjecture that the current model is the slow stuff? So far your showing more confusion over the market forces then solid issues.
I've never heard of a petition working anyway... spamming the Senators e-mail and phone service works much better.