Comments on: Internet In The News

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:32:01 +0000

They way they work DSL locally is that you have to have a telephone on that line, and any savings on the DSL bill is only “possible” if you increase your phone bill, so I have cheap DSL and an expensive phone that I don’t use.

The cable company is just as bad.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:15:55 +0000

I was an early adopter of DSL here. I’m paying my original rate, because a) Comcast bought the cable company here, so there’s no longer a viable broadband alternative to The Phone Company, and b) I’m afraid to make major changes to my account, based on Stella’s experience of hours on the phone with multiple sales rep’s to save a few dollars a month on her DSL.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:06:04 +0000

How about actual 256Kb broadband for less that $50 – that would be nice.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:08:54 +0000

We need to get a rural broadband initiative going too.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:37:29 +0000

There is a lot of that with the prominence of “multi-national” corporations – no need to worry about any particular country.

They move to Dubai and still get US government contracts.

They are a rootless bunch, our current overlords.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:31:58 +0000

This is largely because they don’t *see* a future for the US. If there is no future, if tomorrow will be worse than today, why plan for it? Enjoy now, for tomorrow we shall die. That is the attitude of far too many.

The real ruling class is stateless and can live anywhere (just look at all those Hong Kong Chinese who suddenly became “Canadians” when they decided their millions were safer elsewhere as China took over, and Canada was happy to sell them citizenship for a million bucks a pop). Why *not* clear-cut one nation after another, if you have no real attachment to any of the nations you’re clear-cutting? They view the wealth of nations in much the same terms that the timber robber barons viewed trees. Cut first before someone else cuts them, and damn the future — there’s always more trees elsewhere to cut.

Until there are no more, of course. But we’ll just ignore that.

– Badtux the Pessimistic Penguin