peak times
"So we’re also making a commitment to customers taking our Base, Mid or Max products that we will not slow down their connection speeds at peak times."
So that means they will be slowing them down at off-peak times then :p
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"Dropping the case against BAe was unlawful"
Was is the operative word, as two weeks ago the govt created a law saying that the govt could stop court cases it doesn't like (as long as it blames it on threats to national security). So this judgement could never be reached again in future.
And isn't threatening harm to a country's national security called terrorism?
As with most polarised debates the truth normally lies somewhere between the two extremes (from nothing is going on to a 75m sea rise). If anyone wants to settle most of the points of contention raised, there is a series of articles here that cover most of them:
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
As to what the scientific concensus is: the sea level has risen about 3mm per year for the last decade (half due to thermal expansion of the sea and half through melting of ice on land, archimedes doesn't come into it) and will continue to rise such that by 2100 the level will be about 0.5m higher than today. It is also unlikely that during the next century the gulf stream will get cut off or that either the West Antarctic or Greenland Ice Sheets will melt.
Now that terrifying assessment came from those fearmongers at the IPCC.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm
*Naively hoping to add some light and remove some heat from this thread.