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Published by NiteMayr on December 2, 2011

The problem is it creates the wrong incentives. Data is not like water or gas where you can save it by not using it. The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use, and any bandwidth we don’t use is lost forever. This means we should encourage people to use more bandwidth, and if we don’t have enough, we should build more infrastructure. Usage based billing encourages us to waste network capacity, and discourages ISPs from building out infrastructure. Why spend money to upgrade the network when you can make money by charging the heavy users instead?

Hatta – http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2555322&cid=38236644

Published by NiteMayr on November 30, 2011

Private sector pensions are one of the great scandals of our age. Only 40 per cent of private sector workers are now in an employer-sponsored pension scheme. It’s even worse with low-paid workers: only 20 per cent of those earning between £100 and £200 a week are in an employer-backed scheme.

But the argument should not be to drag down the pensions of public sector workers: it should be to drag up the pensions of private sector workers. Why punish public sector workers for the bad practices of private sector employers? If we do, we end up in a race to the bottom.

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/11/four-myths-about-todays-strike-busted/

Published by NiteMayr on November 29, 2011

RIP: Comedian Patrice O’Neal has passed away. He was 41.

thedailywhat:

RIP: Comedian Patrice O’Neal has passed away. He was 41.

The news was first reported on the Opie and Anthony radio show. A cause of death has not yet been released, but O’Neal was known to be in poor health, having suffered a stroke in October.

The stand-up comic got his start in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to LA in the late 90s to pursue an acting career, landing bit parts on Arrested Development, Chappelle Show, Yes Dear, and The Office. He also starred in the short-lived Fox series The Jury, lent his vocal talents to Comedy Central’s Shorties Watching Shorties, and was the first host of VH1’s Web Junk 20 among many other contributions to television, film, and comedy.

Taking to Twitter to confirm the sad news, Opie wrote: “Yes it’s true that our pal Patrice O’Neal has passed away. The funniest and best thinker i’ve ever known PERIOD.”

[tmz / @opieradio.]

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Published by NiteMayr on November 27, 2011

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