said by Nokiasac :

Hydro - You may have a 200 amp electrical service panel in your house. Ya you have 200 amps available to you but the "normal" consumer will only use 20% on average. 8 houses may be fed of a transformer that rated to provide 50kw. 50kw == 208amps. If hydro had to size transformers to make sure everyone could draw 200amps power would cost more because the infrastructure will cost more.

said by Nokiasac :

Water - During the stanley cup playoffs in Vancouver during commercial breaks the water pressure for the city dropped dramatically , to the point where higher elevation had no real supply.

said by Nokiasac :

Telephone - Others have mentioned before but I think there may only be enough trunks for maybe 10% of subscribers and if everyone picked up their phones many would not get dialtone at all.

said by Nokiasac :

Since many of you think of internet just as essential as any major utility , like hydro etc, maybe we all should be paying for what we use on the internet just like we do for hydro and water, pay per meg or gig. Bell and TSI are in this to make money. That is the bottom line.

said by Nokiasac :

Anyways I would like to also add I think this whole business of the CRTC making telcos provide open access to their networks at cost + 15% to wholesalers destructive to innovation.

said by Nokiasac :

Perhaps utilities should all still be in the public hands so they are the ones that profit from their success not the shareholders.

said by Guspaz:

Except, when people here in the TekSavvy forum say they're downloading Linux ISOs, we don't mean we're downloading the CD images of linux distributions, we mean we're downloading Angelo's brand of Linux ISOs, which you might otherwise know as porn.