plk
bo may sleep in loft
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join:2002-04-20
Ogden, IA | The whole reason why they want NO Net Neutrality
Sounds like a confession to me. |
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PhoenixDown
-- Wants FIOS
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join:2003-06-08
Fresh Meadows, NY
clubs:  
| I can't even remember the last time I saw my ISP's portal page. I think I go there once in a blue moon when I need to log into webmail or get a tech on i-chat.
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL
1 edit | Wha?
What fantasy-land does he live in? The "portals" offered by incumbents are inferior in every way to the companies that are "leeching" off of the ISPs. And, incidentally, how are they "leeching" anything if they're paying their dues as is proper?
He has absolutely no idea what he's even talking about.
Edit: Further, did he just insinuate that people or companies are not allowed to make money on the internet, other than ISPs? |
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master1000
join:2001-02-22
Fort Pierre, SD
|  to big
I wish these huge company's would be shrunk back down to a manageable size they are getting to large and they have to big of heads when they think they can tell the consumer what they should have this is BS... Where are the politicians at that are supposed to be protecting the rights of the little guy like me... oh yea I forgot we live in a society where the government is in the back pocket of the highest bidder and the little guy is just a number paying his taxes like a good little animal..  |
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IanR
join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ | Doesn't he know...
...that Time Warner own AOL? |
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NPGMBR
join:2001-03-28
Arlington, VA | Apparently not. Maybe he should take some time to do some reasearch aka:
MSN = Microsoft Network
AOL = Time Warner Cable/Time Magazine
Google = Need I say more.
This guy is clueless. |
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA | Yeah, he IS clueless. But, to be fair, he is representative of 99.9% of the 'executives' who are supposedly in charge of this companies. |
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rudnicke
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join:2004-10-23
Rantoul, IL | Dumb
Leo Hinery is just as stupid as Ed Whiteacre. They are both just blithering, greedy fat idiots! |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs | reply to tsu9
Re: Wha?
I think he might be smoking something that takes him to fantasy-land..... |
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spewak
R.I.P Dadkins
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join:2001-08-07
Elk Grove, CA
 ·SureWest Internet
·FrontierNet Intern..
| said by N3OGH  :I think he might be smoking something that takes him to fantasy-land..... My thoughts exactly Wacoyle. Doesn't even begin to make sense! 
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AdamD
join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | reply to rudnicke
Re: Dumb
I pay my ISP (RR NYC) to get a connection to the internet, that's all. I don't want anything else from them and I don't even where their portal is as I don't care. This guy is seriously drugged up indeed.
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| Portal?
WTF is a portal? Haven't seen Comcast's "portal" in a while now... Home page is set to my main email inbox on one browser, DSLReports - All Forums on the other browser.
Never got into the AOL-ish portal-to-internet thing... never needed it!
Even when I was on dialup, no portal was needed/used(Bay Area Internet Solutions dialup).
XP dialed and connected, then the dial window closed... What I did after that was my business. 
Man! AT&T is SO lost! LMAO!
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Think outside the Fox... Opera |
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Varlik
Without Honor You Will Never Be Free
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join:2002-01-06
Anderson, SC | Lookout here comes the box.
You know the one the telcos are hell bent on putting us in. Can you say Walled Garden? |
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china crisis
join:2003-05-28 | reply to dadkins
The wind blows many directions
Isn't this the same guy who is pro competition, or did he change his tune? |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA | reply to PhoenixDown
Re: The whole reason why they want NO Net Neutrality
You log into your ISP's webmail?
I don't use mine. I'm not even sure I remember what it is. For pure personal use, I use my GMail and Yahoo Mail e-mail addresses exclusively. |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
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Re: Wha?
said by tsu9 :how are they "leeching" anything if they're paying their dues as is proper? Let me help you out a bit by doing some translating. English to Teleco/CableCo-speak
Leeching: The act of earning money without giving some to at least one (preferably many) large Teleco/CableCo company.
The hubris of some of these interweb companies to do this!
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cbrigante2
Cubs 20??
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join:2002-11-22
North Aurora, IL
| reply to tsu9
This was the best comment from the linked article that pretty much sums up the situation:
"This is not an unexpected stage of denial for the 'gatekeepers' of the communications industry. They have become so accustomed to their role of content provider that anything new and exciting is simply irrelevant. Even as it's clubbing them over the head and carrying off their client base into the inky darkness outside their ivory towers." |
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jbjetta
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join:2004-07-23
Laurel, MD | reply to Jason Levine
Re: The whole reason why they want NO Net Neutrality
Wait I get e-mail from verizon? I dont even know what the account or password name could be. Even with comcrap I never used their e-mail system, their software, or their portals. |
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL | POP3 is amazing.
(ps: thanks gmail) |
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bamabrad
join:2006-01-27
Port Orange, FL | Can anyone say.....
CORPORATE MONOPOLY? I remember a few other corporations' tentacles being cut back because they were buying up too much of their business sectors. |
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