> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of Matt Lawrence > > > Now, if it was basic electrical power, maybe that would be true. The power > > company certainly shouldn't be offering you a discount on your electric > > bill, with the caveat that they can turn off your power whenever other > > higher-paying customers need more. Right? > > Funny, that's exactly the deal that Alcoa has here in Texas. And they do > get power cut off on occasion.
That's explicit. "We the power company will explicitly offer you a discount, if you agree to let us cut your power occasionally." And it's different from "We sell you a service with variable performance, that's not clearly defined, and today when you subscribe, all the averages are great and everything is fine, but we're going to continue provisioning higher priority customers and consequently lowering your relative prioritization over time, until that service becomes unreliable and sometimes unusable." _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
