Posted on 03/02/2023 4:24:37 AM PST by gattaca
Keen technophiles may recall that the internet is “a series of tubes” (not a “big truck”), and sometimes those tubes get congested. The late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) fretted about streaming services crowding out other data packets. The analysis is highly technical, but do your best to follow:
“Ten movies streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet? I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.”
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One of the episodes of the IT Crowd.
the ‘why’ is easy... they want more money.
how they can convince you they are due more money is their only problem
“I just the other day got, an internet “ Wow. You got a whole internet. Quit reading right there.
““Ten movies streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet? I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.””
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Maybe there was a kink in the line somewhere, like when the water hose gets bent so that the water flow turns to a trickle. The left may not know how something works, but they certainly want to tax it every step of the way.
“Don’t ask me what I want it for...if you don’t want to pay some more...”
Too many people typing “Google” into Google.
Back in about ‘94 or so, I attended a sort of bulletin board convention held by the magazine Board Watch.
On the last day, the picture you posted was exactly what was presented.
Much of the meeting was concerned with what graphic standard was going to prevail but the announcement of the internet outright killed the growing bulletin board business.
I know Sen. Stevens passed away, but what a great example of legislators and other bureaucrats writing laws and regulations about things they know nothing about.
Combine that with the thick layer of morons and dullards... we’re screwed.
I know Sen. Stevens passed away, but what a great example of legislators and other bureaucrats writing laws and regulations about things they know nothing about.
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It would be more more logical to throttle media streaming. We already have the technology to do it, and you wouldn’t even have to burden the ISPs and telecoms. You could require the streaming services to do it. Youtube, for example, has it’s browser client check to see how much media has been viewed before downloading more data.
The idea of taxing or charging for streaming is something that is common to the mindset of leftists in particular but politicians in general. They really just want more of people’s money, but they rationalize it in their own minds as solving a problem when in fact it doesn’t solve it at all. It just punishes common behavior.
Class of service could be offered to consumers to differentiate products and mate to user needs. It would add a big layer of complexity and I’m doubtful ISP’s would want to be accountable to SLA’s.
Think the real driver here is the incessant hunger to tax. Charge a special tax for heavy streaming, charge a tax for file sizes of a certain size, tax for exporting your data to another country, use tax, non use tax, it’s Thursday tax....
I typed too fast and left out “best”.
I wouldn’t laugh too hard at the late Senator Stevens. He was born in 1923 (before bubblegum was invented) and died in 2010.
He left the senate in 2007 shortly after the iPhone was invented,Blockbuster was still in business, Netflix hadn’t started streaming, and Hulu wasn’t released.
He also seemed to have a better grasp on tech than most of these ditzes running the show today.
I don’t like falling into the trap of history only starting yesterday.
EC
That was the best episode. “ I dont care if you are from Iran.” Lolol.
Lol. Streaming services did slow the internrt in past years. Frequent spinning arrows were the order of thecday.
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