> ~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.

Your link says 46M total which includes native speakers. So it does not state how many non-native speakers. (not that it would matter as most would be proficient english speakers, just pointing out you're exagerating and your numbers are wrong)

Where does it state this?

Do you assume that all immigrants are non-native english speakers?

wikipedia. You are a bit off...

As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.

It's not fully 3d printed. 3d printed parts are fragile.

So what exactly are they banning?

Why not ban the electrochemical machining instead?

The static blocklists can be defeated easily by having ads served by the same domain.

In that case you are stuck due to apple's decisions.

I configured iptables and had no trouble blocking WAN access to docker...

In addition to that there's the default host in daemon.json plus specifying bindings to local host directly in compose / manually.

As long as they make a fair guess and I get my bandwidth whenever I want, all is good.

That seems to be the case right now.

Dedicated internet access is a different thing, I agree, it also provides different guarantees, support, etc.

As long as they also provide people the bandwidth sold to them when they want it.

Otherwise compensation should be in order if they throttle.

If ISPs sell you a bandwidth per month they should deliver it.

You're the one that's short changed if you accept the throttling.

Same logic for interstate. You lay fiber once and scale equipment as needed. If you already have the fiber there then just use better modules.

> Netflix and YouTube have already agreed to switch to standard-definition streaming in Europe to reduce bandwidth demand.”

You can change quality back to whatever. You can also use other services or use the connection for other things.

Plus compensation which is an admission of fault on airlines.

> There is no way on Earth that you being in Europe somehow makes you immune to reality.

Perhaps you can think of how that might work, i can think of:

- large fiber pipes capable of accomodating spikes

- average out traffic for large systems - have predictable traffic at scale, scale up as needed, power on/off equipment, etc

Large systems have their own rules.

If everybody watches the superbowl at the same time I'd expect the power grid not to fail.

If everybody gets home at around the same time from work and start powering on devices I'd expect power grid not to fail.

If it suddently gets cold and people turn on heating around same time, I'd expect it not to fail.

Those seem valid expectations and are met.

Therefor when I say if everyone starts streaming netflix it should work, then this is also valid expectation and should be fine.

> It is the level of service you paid for. The overbooking possibility? You paid for it, it was in your contract.

I get what I pay for when I want. I have 1gbps, I can run full speed as much as I want and sometimes it's nice to do that.

I am also in europe. I don't get throttled service and what you say is not in my contract.

What do you say to that?

You pay for a certain level of service, you expect it delivered.

I do not buy your argument.

People buy a certain level of service, they should be able to enjoy it as in the rest of the world.