On Jul 27, 2008, at 5:37 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
Yes, I do. The free market is a system where corporations like to
take
the easiest road to do the least work to maximize profits, while
everyone
else is doing the same thing.
Recognizing your biases here, I think an economist might define it
Fred Baker wrote:
The key thing in that definition is the lack of government intervention
in its various forms. That's D'Arcy's point. Where there is government
subsidy, regulation, or other intervention, it cannot be described as a
free market.
I have always understood the issue to be
Mark Foster wrote:
deadfake.com offer anonymised email services with no signup. Does this
not immediately raise questions in itself?
Or am I just unnaturally suspicious of such services?
Have to admitt as soon as I see traffic relayed by a system such as
that, I stop putting much stock
Dave Crocker wrote:
I have always understood the issue to be the presence or absence of
unfettered
competition. Competition is good. It's lack is bad.
The problem is that it is rather hard to enable full competitive
environment in the last mile. No city, no citizen wants to have 300
wires
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On 2008/07/27 10:18 AM Randy Bush wrote:
the fact is that real 100m/100m is about USD30/mo in japan. in the
states, i pay about USD90 for 256k/768k. as far as the internet is
concerned, the united states is a third world country.
I currently pay (converted from ZAR to USD) $40/m for
Now that I am on my third round of an email argument with cogent's
support department about adding prefixes to our filters (and them not
understanding why I want le 24 matches on the blocks from which we
allocate subnets to multi-homed customers) I figure it would be a good
idea to ask if anyone
Hi All,
we are rendering similar (but up to 1Gbps to home) service. This is also
very popular in Russia. This type of network is much cheaper to build
and much cheaper in maintain than ADSL or CaTV (DOCSIS).
The problem is... USERS!!! A regular user just don't understand the
difference.
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:37:09 -0500 (CDT)
Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with the free market is that it doesn't work in the public's
best interest, but rather in the best interest of the companies involved.
Say What? You talk about government mandated monopolies,
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:29:38 -0500 (CDT)
Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The key thing in that definition is the lack of government
intervention in its various forms. That's D'Arcy's point. Where there
is government subsidy, regulation, or other intervention, it cannot be
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:29:38 -0500 (CDT)
Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The key thing in that definition is the lack of government
intervention in its various forms. That's D'Arcy's point. Where there
is government subsidy, regulation, or other intervention, it
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
Ok, it's probably a stupid question, but given the relative ease of putting
4gb+ ram on a 64bit platform,
could packet per second performance be improved by brute forcing the route
lookup as an array of 1 byte destination interface indexes for a
List members are reminder that the NANOG List Acceptable Use Policy
states that:
6. Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are prohibited.
The current thread on the Free Market and So why don't US citizens get
this? appears to be solely political and should be moved elsewhere.
Cogent does not support IRR. Since you're using IRR yourself, Richard
Steenbergen's IRRPT (irrpt.sf.net) has a script called 'irrpt_nag'
which is good for sending automated requests for prefix-list updates
with providers that continue to process them manually.
You can (and should) ask that
That software might be a good solution for sending them updates, heck a
script sending it out every time it detects an update might also cause
them to get more excited about automating updates. ;) We also had
issues with them wanting a paper (or faxed) LOA which seemed a bit
onerous given the
Simon,
Sorry to steer this in a different direction, but could you please
tell us a bit about the new MLC's plans for suspending habitual
off-topic posters in violation of the three strikes rule, such as
Gadi Evron and Larry Sheldon?
Paul
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Simon Lyall [EMAIL
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Paul Wall wrote:
Sorry to steer this in a different direction, but could you please
tell us a bit about the new MLC's plans for suspending habitual
off-topic posters in violation of the three strikes rule, such as
Gadi Evron and Larry Sheldon?
That question is off-topic
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Paul Wall wrote:
Simon,
Sorry to steer this in a different direction, but could you please
tell us a bit about the new MLC's plans for suspending habitual
off-topic posters in violation of the three strikes rule, such as
Gadi Evron and Larry Sheldon?
can you take your
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