<div dir="ltr"><div>FCC's staff continues to shrink. 1420-or-so employees in 2022, 1755-or-so in 2012, 1952-or-so in 2004. So about a 25% reduction over the last twenty years. There are several good people there among the staff, however they also face an increasing number of tasks and demands with less resources. Public service depends on folks being willing to step up and be of service. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, ultimately it is the decision of the Commissioners. Staff can brief the Commissioners and present evidence, the Commissioners are there to make the policy decisions. Remember Commissioners are Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed which selects for certain things in keeping with our Constitution. For the staff, this means accepting that politics may supersede even the best technical briefing. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Such is how representative governments work. And if you circle back to Plato's The Republic, the conclusion is such is how humanity wants it - we don't want a perfectly wise, benevolent, philosopher king. Each of us wants compromises - the difference being those specific compromises. Plato (through the voice of Socrates) also concludes humanity would probably kill a perfectly wise, benevolent, philosopher king if we were to ever have one - again because despite everyone saying they want this, they really only want such a person if that person agrees with them fully. Or as Tears for Fears aptly put it: "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" = <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awoFZaSuko4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awoFZaSuko4</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 1:00 AM Frantisek Borsik via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thanks, Robert. Exactly what I meant. Therefore I added NN list, because Nathan was engaging with us there, and with Dave (me and some others, to my knowledge) either directly or via his staffers and he really wanted to catch up on tech things that are the culprits of Net Neutrality (bufferbloat.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So instead of assuming that Nathan Simington and Brendan Carr are “bought” as someone did, I can the FCC itself as an entity can be understaffed at worse.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But still, I appreciate efforts to learn about what’s going in here and getting it right.<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">All the best,<br><br>Frank<br>Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<br><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><br>Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <br>iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<br>Skype: casioa5302ca<br><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" target="_blank">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 3:46 AM, Robert McMahon <<a href="mailto:rjmcmahon@rjmcmahon.com" target="_blank">rjmcmahon@rjmcmahon.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">I think this common in that appointment of commissioners go through a political process. The FCC has a technology group, too. When I worked with them about 8 years ago, they had skilled researchers on staff and a highly skilled director. They asked good questions about engineering decisions, like what is limiting the number of mimo streams on devices.<br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Their physical facility is a bit dated, and they don't get stock grants. I respect the engineers I worked with for what they did.<br><br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 13, 2023, at 2:38 PM, Frantisek Borsik via Nnagain <<a href="mailto:nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:</div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto">I would love for Nathan to be here with us, and comment on that :-) so I will add NN list as well.</div><div dir="auto"><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">All the best,<br><br>Frank<br>Frantisek (Frank) Borsik<br><br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik</a><br>Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 <br>iMessage, mobile: +420775230885<br>Skype: casioa5302ca<br><a href="mailto:frantisek.borsik@gmail.com" target="_blank">frantisek.borsik@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 11:21 PM, Richard Roy <<a href="mailto:dickroy3777@comcast.net" target="_blank">dickroy3777@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net" style="font-family:Tahoma" target="_blank">starlink-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>] <b style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Tahoma">On Behalf Of </span></b>Frantisek Borsik via Starlink<br>
<b style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Tahoma">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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<b style="font-family:Tahoma"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Tahoma">Subject:</span></b> [Starlink] FCC Upholds
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claiming they saw a path for the company to improve its speeds before the first
deployment deadline in 2025.”<u style="font-family:Arial"></u><u style="font-family:Arial"></u></span></font></p>
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a path” is because they were bribed/conned into to see it. In my nearly 50years
of experience dealing with the FCC, extremely rarely are the people at the top
in the commission tech savvy. In general, they have NO CLUE when it comes to
technology … period! </span></font></i></b><b><i><font size="2" face="Wingdings" style="font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;color:navy">JJ</span></font></i></b><font size="2" face="Arial" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u style="font-family:Arial"></u><u style="font-family:Arial"></u></span></font></p>
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