 plkLil' Duffer Burger BarnPremium
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Ogden, IA | What's ahead of us. Well, this is a good sign. The Bells will test the waters and see if they can put it through one more time. Like others have mentioned, people are watching and calling.
I called both of my senators again yesterday. Did you?
However this all plays out, the end user will be the one paying for it. Frankly, I look for a price per gig model down the road. We will all hate it, but it is by far the lesser of 2 evils when compared to what may have happened in a two tiered model.
Speaking of two tiered..... Here is how I seen the lower tier working. You try and go to Kelly shoes..... who is a small local chain..... when you do....you get a screen that says "waiting to connect"....mean while.... a pop up....it says connect to Amazon shoes right away..... flashing nice ad's on both sides of the screen while you wait.
Say that won't happen? Who says? Some say they want no regulation...... under that paradigm it would happen.
What the Internet would end up looking like is another cable provider. You can select packages but not pick and choose. You can't effectively connect to Yahoo, Ben's place etc via DSL. You can't effectively connect to your favorite game servers via cable...... So we end up with lack of choice or you need to be connected to both...cable and dsl.....and its still the same price as it is today.
The faster pipes or tubes as a senator calls it we were suppose to see......never happened....all the new cash is going to the share holders. Just as it has in the past. Especially true if they are the gate keepers.
Net Neutrality will to some degree save us from all this. Its not going to save us from higher prices down the road. The price per gig is in our future. And it isn't so bad if you think about it.....no reason to block or degrade anything.....the more data you move the More the Bells and cable make. The less data they CAN move the less they may make. Much truer market forces will keep prices in check.
I see them all wanting you to have a OC3 to the home and using it...... the more the better for them. Because the connection is 10 bucks a month and you pay per gig. Price wars will keep it in check. You can go to any site you want.....stream HDTV.....from a hundred sites. Hell..... HDTV web cams would be coming.
Anyway.....a world where the Bells and Cables etc can limit choice and limit the Internet as a whole is not the route to go. These companies have a viable model via price per gig to work with and pay for the next generation Internet. When don't need to give it to them. They should avoid providing content and focus on what they really do best....the network and selling us all we can eat.
A generation of kids who live on the net are coming of age and will be eating all the "fast content" they can eat. (you heard that term here first)like fast food...a new addiction.... joke.
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KMKSU
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Atlanta, GA
1 edit | Well said. I delivered a short speech about this issue a few weeks ago that you all might be interested to read. The future may be closer than you think.. 
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plkLil' Duffer Burger BarnPremium
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Ogden, IA | Nice article KMKSU
your line: I recommend that we institute a mandatory public campaign finance policy, which would provide equal funding and media time to all competing candidate:
I have been saying that for years. Even if it cost us 50 billion, it would be cheaper then the damage done.
Has your student government joined the fight?
I can't believe every computer science dept in the nation aren't raising hell over this.
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KMKSU
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Atlanta, GA | Thanks plk!
And you're right, any expense to us would be worth it. Why can't the media provide the airtime though. It wouldn't cost them hardly anything.
And no, I don't even know if we have a student government. Nobody even knows about these issues around here. Nobody. We live in the heart of Bellsouth territory, we won't find out until after the fact. Welcome to the South.  |
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plkLil' Duffer Burger BarnPremium
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Ogden, IA | reply to plk
Well, get permission to set up a table and hand out fliers. A few kids have sever clips on youtube that are great. Have that running on a laptop and on the fliers have some links.
Put a big banner out....The end of the Internet as we know it. That's what I would do.
Get a few friends to help man the stand. Just one day should be enough. If not.... go talk to computer science students.
Students usually don't pay attention to this. They worry about beer money and nookie. But knowing this just may change that to a small degree.
Many people have clips.....here is one I like. »www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
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KMKSU
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Atlanta, GA | I like that one too, I hadn't seen it before.
Trust me, I am doing everything that I can. But right now class is out for the holidays, and so is Congress. And when we return, I doubt if anyone (Bellsouth or other) would care even if the entire 25,000 + student body threatened suicide. You have to fight fire with fire around here, or else nobody listens. And unfortunately, that means we are going to need to get the word out through the media...and we know where their paychecks come from...as i said before, we can't compete with the big money, so we have to deal with the politicians. I think they want to do the right thing, most of them anyway. Ok some.. |
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