> That means the public is composed of blithering imbeciles who rally to inane causes without even understanding what's going on.

This has been my overall experience when dealing with people on the internet or otherwise.

I agree with you, for what its worth - Settlement only works if traffic is near symmetrical otherwise some money needs to change hands. It's just a matter of who is doing the paying for the extra bandwidth, it all has an incremental cost, and someone at least has to pay for the bearer.