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Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
>and corporate executives Sure why not, all they did is take money from willing people called customers. While we're at it let's add... Basketball, baseball, football, hockey, and soccer players, golfers, Hollywood stars, and successful book authors like Steven King. These people are so greedy because they make millions a year! All while their viewers/readers/hot dog venders/editors make so much less. It's not fair.…
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Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
Sure fire way to encourage politicans to take bribes as well as ensuring only the independently wealthy can be politicians,
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Show them what life will be like if you're on the internet slow lane in the hopes they'll wake up and realize what it really means. How do we get from "the kind of deal Netflix struck with Comcast will continue to be legal in the future" to "Comcast will start serving web sites to customers paying $50/month at dial-up speeds"? It's nonsense. Why have so many ostensibly smart people bought into it?
Because Netflix only struck a deal with Comcast because too little Netflix traffic could pass through Comcast. That doesn't hurt Comcast at all, because they have monopoly. It does hurt Netflix, because now they have a bunch of subscribers who can't effectively use their service. People who can't effectively use a service tend to stop paying for it. So, given that these kinds of deals only happen when service is slow…
The only references to Comcast traffic shaping I can find are related to BitTorrent. Did you have something else in mind? And again, what does that have to do with a supposed future of browsing websites at dialup speeds?
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Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
Minimum wage for elected officials sounds good on paper. Michael Bloomberg would not mind. However, how does this work for corporate executives? When you say pay does this include stock grants and options or just salary?
How about instead, you set their pay to a percentile marker for the income of their constituents, entirely disregarding income received from any government, including those without wage or salary income. For households with spouses and dependants and such, each member has income equal to the total income of the household divided by the number of members.
So if 20% of households have no one working at all (as it is now), elected officials could significantly increase their own pay just by finding a job for just one person in each of those households. Increasing the income of the top 1% would not produce any additional pay.
If 51% of households are broke or on the dole, elected officials paid at 50th %ile would get $0. They get to rely on welfare too, just like everyone else. And really, if that's the case, they're lucky enough to not be paid with bullets to the head for their "service".
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Good luck attracting and retaining talent if you can't pay market prices for executives.
All you need to do is break it into two jobs. The first job is a paid actor that collects and enters all business-relevant data into a computer system, then follows exactly the script that the system provides in response. This actor is replaced immediately if he ever tries to deviate from the script. Internally, the system automatically translates the recognizable business symbols into abstract values. The second job…
From the comments > Should a simple header/corner banner be injected also? This would be good, particularly if it was served from a connection without this throttling.
I'm actually against this idea, for the simple reason that if that page ends up being delivered via cache somewhere, I don't want them thinking "Well, it says I was throttled, but it actually wasn't that bad. I don't see what all the fuss is about."
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Why not take it a step further and limit the lobbyists and bad telcos?
Oh I thought about that, but how are you going to target the lobbyists and bad telcos without harming actual customers on those providers who may very well be against this whole debacle. Government branches likely have a block of IPs while lobbyists I doubt are registered like that :)
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Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
Good luck attracting and retaining talent if you can't pay market prices for executives.