[TriLUG] Intel bug in the news today

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

Yeah.... my postal delivery lady has a well documented tendency to deliver 
everyone's mail to the wrong house.  When she shows up at all.

William Sutton

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Charles Fischer via TriLUG wrote:

> "STOP expecting all locations have equal service. It will never happen. Not
> every location has access to mass transportation or airports or water or oh
> geez, pick a topic."
>
> I pick electricity.  Second pick mail.
>
> -Charles
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 10:50 AM, John Vaughters via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Trolling??? Hahahaha!!!!
>>
>> If a discussion on broadband competition started by someone else and my
>> comment does not agree with yours = Trolling????
>>
>> We all have, uh.... Belly Buttons, yeah Belly Buttons as well as opinions
>> right???
>>
>> I can get 4-5 decent internet options and these days that includes TV and
>> phone.
>>
>> Major options:
>>
>> 1. Spectrum
>> 2. AT&T
>> 3. Soon Google (2-4 years maybe?)
>>
>> Minor Options:
>> 1. Verizon Wireless
>> 2. Sprint Wireless
>> 3. Satellite Internet
>>
>>
>> Just about everyone on this list has at least 3 of these options and a few
>> only 2. If you chose to live where you live, eeeeeeh...... about 99.9% of
>> you did choose, then why is it anyone's fault but yours what service you
>> have? Before Train, Cars, Planes, you pick the technology, not everyone in
>> every location had equal access, NOR should they or do they deserve equal
>> access to services or advantages of said technologies. HOW ON EARTH does
>> anyone believe they should have equal access???
>>
>> Now for most people let me layout a few cases.
>>
>> Case #1:
>>
>> A young college student getting an Accounting degree wants internet and
>> video services so he can get all those hot dates that accountants are
>> renowned for to his house for some good lovin fun. So being a bean counter,
>> he comes to the solution the the best case scenario is Verizon Wireless
>> Unlimited plan so he can have internet, TV and phone and pay the least for
>> the total services. So he can save his beans to pay for all those hot dates.
>>
>> Case #2:
>>
>> IT College Student decides he wants to have a decent website with a good
>> internet connection to allow for many connections to his web server to make
>> some Ad revenue. Since Computer Science folks are smarter than the average
>> bear, he comes to the same solution as his accountant neighbor. A wireless
>> connection only, but to also buy a virtual server with duplicated fast
>> internet connections.
>>
>> Case #3:
>>
>> Rural Area Farmer, Decides he needs access to internet to manage his
>> hedging strategy on his cattle. No Wireless, No cable, only telephone and
>> Satellite. He opts for Satellite knowing he does not need large monthly
>> bandwidth and the overall service is cheaper.
>>
>> Case #4:
>>
>> Professionals that live in Raleigh/Durham and neighboring towns who have
>> access to multiple vendors with 100-1000Mb services from 3 High Speed
>> vendors (or will very soon) or 3 Wireless vendors and they decide on which
>> company they feel provides the best service for the money aka best value.
>>
>> Case #5:
>>
>> You live on the out skirts of a large town and you did not do your
>> homework to find out where the planned high speed connections are going to
>> be laid and you you only have 1 High Speed vendor and 1 Wireless vendor.
>> Then you cry because its just not fair that you do not have the same
>> options and end up paying the 1 vendor because the Gov. that you may or may
>> not have voted for regulated policy in your area that only this one vendor
>> had exclusive access and the solution is Federal Regulation to further gum
>> up the works because the exclusive policies have already gummed it up and
>> you are not happy that your municipality has screwed you over so everyone
>> else must get screwed over as well.
>>
>> Cry me a river!!!
>>
>> Ok, you got me case #5  was trolling.
>>
>> Sorry, Competition for Bandwidth is screaming right now, and if you do not
>> realize it, you just are not paying attention.
>>
>> STOP expecting all locations have equal service. It will never happen. Not
>> every location has access to mass transportation or airports or water or oh
>> geez, pick a topic.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, January 4, 2018, 4:16:57 PM EST, Thomas Delrue <
>> delrue.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On January 4, 2018 3:48:13 PM EST, John Vaughters via TriLUG <
>> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> >   +1 Nothing Burger Why? Because enough competition already exists and
>> is getting more competitive by the year. Let the markets work and they will
>> return the best most competitive product. If the issue ever gets to a
>> monopoly situation, we already have laws for that problem.As an example,I
>> do not care if they throttle, because I do not have to buy their service,
>> and they will not retain customers if they create bad business.Markets
>> work, keep them free from Gov. intrusion.
>>
>> You're trolling, right?
>> --
>> Thomas
>> (Sent from my mobile device, please forgive brevity or typos.)
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