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sonicmerlin

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Cleveland, OH
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reply to amigo_boy

Re: Throttling?

said by amigo_boy:

said by RARPSL:

The "All You Can Eat" Buffet near me, where I sometimes eat, has a set of rules on signs near the door which are repeated on the walls. These include the usual of "Eat what you put on your plate" (ie: Do not waste food) and has a Time Limit listed. These former give them the right to toss bulimics (who were mentioned up thread) due to Food Wasting as well as exceeding the eating time limit (they only really enforce the time limit when the restaurant is packed.
I don't know anyone (except a few activists here) who would say a group of bulimics are entitled to binge/purge at the all-you-can-eat buffet just because the buffet didn't qualify the word "all."

It's just common sense. Everyone knows "all" doesn't mean "all" in the literal sense. It's defined toward the 95% of patrons who understand the term within their own usage patterns.

Mark
No it`s not. You have no idea what you`re talking about. Average bandwidth usage grows over time. It`s not a few, small minority of users who brought AT&T`s network to its knees. It`s the fact that so many iPhone users actually used their data plans.

You can`t use an all-you-can-eat buffet example. People`s appetites don`t grow exponentially over time. The buffet has no way to augment its supply of food above and beyond what it normally does. Your argument is meaningless.

Your 5% number is completely arbitrary. You have no hard data to back it up. Ethically it`s also baseless. If you advertise unlimited, you cannot discriminate against those who you don`t think are `relevant`. That sort of discrimination is against the law. Whether it involves discriminating against race or gender, or discriminating against high bandwidth users or low bandwidth users, you just can`t do it *if you want to advertise unlimited*.

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