Topic 'most people do not need it' in forum '' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/most-people-do-not-need-it-13949829 en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:05:25 EDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:05:25 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13960436 quote:
Times change, and now broadband is not only a necessity, it is a right that everyone is entitled access to, it should be considered a utility that we can CHOOSE not to have...


Internet access sure; BB no. Again, you can get the same information from narrowband that you can with BB. The ONLY difference is that it just takes a little longer.
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Formerly DSLWho]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13960436 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:06:28 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13959626 said by AreSee:

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it can no longer be considered a luxury, and is now almost required to survive in todays society...
Maybe if you're a 14 year old with no girlfriend. For the rest of us, BB is most certainly a luxury if for no other reason that the fact that you can get the same information with a dial up connection.

Here's an analogy and you tell me if it fits:
When I go to work I drive my car, but I could just as well take the bus. Car = luxury, bus = utility.
No it does not, a better analogy might be public education, before it became a "right", only the very rich could afford for their children to go to school. Most working class families & poor families need their children to work to survive. I know all about the child labor laws, I am not getting into that...

Education for my child (then) == Luxury

Education for my child (Now) == Right

Times change, and now broadband is not only a necessity, it is a right that everyone is entitled access to, it should be considered a utility that we can CHOOSE not to have...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13959626 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:29:59 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13951711 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13951711 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:06:50 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950948 --
"There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the Boogeyman or Michael Jackson." - Bart Simpson]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950948 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:32:12 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950510 quote:
it can no longer be considered a luxury, and is now almost required to survive in todays society...
Maybe if you're a 14 year old with no girlfriend. For the rest of us, BB is most certainly a luxury if for no other reason that the fact that you can get the same information with a dial up connection.

Here's an analogy and you tell me if it fits:
When I go to work I drive my car, but I could just as well take the bus. Car = luxury, bus = utility.
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Formerly DSLWho]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950510 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:39:20 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950307 said by DHRacer:

oh, you mean the DARK AGES?

Bubonic Plague and all that? People didn't look like they were doing too fine then.

Sure but the life expectancy was you were lucky to get to 50.

Of course working your ass off in a field for your king probably meant that obesity wasn't a big deal at the time.
I think you missed my point...

People did "fine" without those things, but now they are NOT luxuries, they are necessities, and so too is broadband, though still climbing, it can no longer be considered a luxury, and is now almost required to survive in todays society...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950307 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:14:56 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950118
Bubonic Plague and all that? People didn't look like they were doing too fine then.

Sure but the life expectancy was you were lucky to get to 50.

Of course working your ass off in a field for your king probably meant that obesity wasn't a big deal at the time.
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"No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them." (R&D Supervisor, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing /3M Corp.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13950118 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:53:35 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13949890 said by npln:

I see it mostly like a luxury, the world was doing fine before it!!! I have it....barely ever use it!!!

Utility not really.......

A Right......you are kidding right?
Many years ago...

People did just fine without PHONES....

People did just fine without ELECTRICTY....

People did just fine without MEDICINE...

Broadband opens up access to information to the masses, and that is a right, it should be treated like a utility, you might be able to argue that at some point, the AMOUNT of bandwidth could be considered a luxury, but it would IMHO be a weak argument...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13949890 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:22:46 EDT Re: most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13949877
I vote for utility. It use to be a luxury but now everything practically requires the internet. Dialup is way to slow for anything now except email. We are in the information age so it is a utility in this day'n age.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-most-people-do-not-need-it-13949877 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:21:05 EDT most people do not need it http://www.dslreports.com/forum/most-people-do-not-need-it-13949829
Utility not really.......

A Right......you are kidding right?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/most-people-do-not-need-it-13949829 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:15:57 EDT