paisp
join:2004-02-16
Newtown, PA | reply to ChrisPC
Re: Quality vs. Cost said by ChrisPC:The American way is piggish? Then how come Sweden, Japan, etc., have 100MB and we only have 6 or 8? I'm not really sure. I'm sure the economics are different though... such as law suits, corporate fraud, national debt, taxes, etc. Its all relative don't you think? I think this all affects us all individually. Maybe if we took a good atom-bombing from Japan and then let them rebuild our country brand new, then maybe they'd have less money to splash around on getting people 100MB of useless bandwidth, for example.
But a better question is this. What would you do today differently than you would normally if you were suddenly given 100MB?
Don't you think also that when we see 100MB, and Japan has Gigabit, then we'd all complain too? Human nature.. especially in a country where we have everything in an instant.
Oh, by the way isn't fuel costs over there three or four times the cost of what we pay? Its all relative... |
1 edit | National debt? You have got to be kidding me. Japan's national debt is 170% of its GDP, yet that is not stopping it from spending government money amid its budget deficits to pay for this stuff:
»www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac···ank.html
The United States has a much lower national debt, 64.70% of the GDP; thankfully we are not spending US dollars on building a national broadband infrastructure; we have enough stuff to pay for already. |
