But there would be exceptions to the no encription rule. Some key people would have special privileges, like presidents, generals, businessmen, me, but not anyone.
"In other news, Comcast announced that the NBC Universal websites will throttle speeds for non-Comcast customers. AOL is belived to follow with non-Verizon customers. Fox and Disney are believed to be in discussion for similar deals with AT&T and Charter."
Another issue that undermines the United States political system us the lack of proportional representation in legislative bodies.
A party could get second place with 40% of votes in each circumscription but get no seats, as long as they don't win at any. That's why unsatisfied Republican and Democrat politicians won't leave to organize a third party with a purer ideology (like libertarian or anticorporation).
Here in Uruguay, a party with roughly 1% of votes gets one of the 99 seats, no matter where did they get the voted. And we also have proportional representation of departments, with a little overrepresentation of less populated drpartments.
NHL may decide not to authorize accredited media staff some descriptions or depictions of game information. Interesting. I mean, what else are journalists expected to do?
Culture tax isn't the same as piracy tax, because the collected money is used for different things (one for national productions, the other for collective societies).
Taxing online services like iTunes and Netflix is legitimate (unlike taxing Internet access). Now, how about using regular taxes like VAT for that fund?
"A cap is usually better understood as a threshold after which the user is subject to a different set of conditions for access, such as movement to a higher priced tier, different product or different speeds."
If after reacing the 200 GB or so the company would provide a slower connection (say 1 Mbit/s), that would be a flexible data service. But cutting access to 0 Mbit/s is a data service cap.
"A current TWC subscriber would be moving from a TWC monopoly in service to a Comcast monopoly in service."
Well, yes. But residential subscribers aren't the only customers. Internet companies are also customers.
Suppose that Facebook has a project to install a super connection between their servers and Internet providers. If there's seven internet providers with each under 20% of the market, the project is tricky to do.
But if Time Warner Comcast had 40% of the market, Facebook can choose to connect to them only and ignore the rest of the internet providers. This is a huge advantage for TWC, and kills their rivals. In addition, TWC could set a very high price for the deal, whereas in a less concentrated market each provider has much less bargaining power.
Re: The banking system uses encryption
But there would be exceptions to the no encription rule. Some key people would have special privileges, like presidents, generals, businessmen, me, but not anyone.
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Artists could refuse to sign blanket licenses, and demand approval of each public performance.
Or they could do a whte list and black list for acceptable abd unacceptable uses.
Of course, copyright associations would then have to think before collecting fees.
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"Sky TV suing Skype, despite there being not a lick of competition between a messaging/calling system and television."
Sky also offers telephone landlines, and their logo is akso blue.
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"The prize is £1,000 (and, I assume, a lifetime ban from visiting Turkey)."
Actually he's welcome to enter Turkey, but not leave (like Mordor).
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"In other news, Comcast announced that the NBC Universal websites will throttle speeds for non-Comcast customers. AOL is belived to follow with non-Verizon customers. Fox and Disney are believed to be in discussion for similar deals with AT&T and Charter."
Websites should never discriminate by provider.
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Wait, two bloggers agreed? On the internet? Heresy! Bring the torches!
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https://bgr.com/2016/01/14/netflix-vs-network-tv-nbc/
Mike, please start using the term "comcastically". It's a synonym of "tragicomically" or "orwellidiotically", I guess.
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Well, BYD is famous forbuilding cheap copies of cars by Peugeot and Toyota...
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People have vastly different tastes. I know movies loved by millions that I hate and viceversa. So I ignore overalk ratings.
Instead, websites should compare your tastes with people who have similar tastes to you.
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Another issue that undermines the United States political system us the lack of proportional representation in legislative bodies.
A party could get second place with 40% of votes in each circumscription but get no seats, as long as they don't win at any. That's why unsatisfied Republican and Democrat politicians won't leave to organize a third party with a purer ideology (like libertarian or anticorporation).
Here in Uruguay, a party with roughly 1% of votes gets one of the 99 seats, no matter where did they get the voted. And we also have proportional representation of departments, with a little overrepresentation of less populated drpartments.
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Can a local government add sales taxes on top of the sales taxes of the U.S. state?
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It's easy to attract customers when they pay taxes and you don't
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NHL may decide not to authorize accredited media staff some descriptions or depictions of game information. Interesting. I mean, what else are journalists expected to do?
Re: App Platform Neutrality vs. App Market Neutrality
I agree, app market neutrality is an issue. Apple shouldn't prevent users from installing software by themselves.
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The originality threshold is low in these.
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Culture tax isn't the same as piracy tax, because the collected money is used for different things (one for national productions, the other for collective societies).
Taxing online services like iTunes and Netflix is legitimate (unlike taxing Internet access). Now, how about using regular taxes like VAT for that fund?
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"A cap is usually better understood as a threshold after which the user is subject to a different set of conditions for access, such as movement to a higher priced tier, different product or different speeds."
If after reacing the 200 GB or so the company would provide a slower connection (say 1 Mbit/s), that would be a flexible data service. But cutting access to 0 Mbit/s is a data service cap.
Re: The proper reaction
How about Ford? That's a car maker company, among other things.
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Text streaming! This is getting ridiculous.
Re: Competition?
"A current TWC subscriber would be moving from a TWC monopoly in service to a Comcast monopoly in service."
Well, yes. But residential subscribers aren't the only customers. Internet companies are also customers.
Suppose that Facebook has a project to install a super connection between their servers and Internet providers. If there's seven internet providers with each under 20% of the market, the project is tricky to do.
But if Time Warner Comcast had 40% of the market, Facebook can choose to connect to them only and ignore the rest of the internet providers. This is a huge advantage for TWC, and kills their rivals. In addition, TWC could set a very high price for the deal, whereas in a less concentrated market each provider has much less bargaining power.