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Chandler, AZ | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: OECD still using a flawed counting method said by fAcEtIOUs:It's a fallacy because even if the criticism of the person is true, his argument may still be valid. but your "logical" reasoning is based solely on nothing but gut reaction. nowhere in the top 20 countries is there an argument for 10 children huddled around a flickering crt screen looking at youtube on a high speed connection. even post-cold war europe is advancing and while the economic downturn has hurt them severely, countries like lithuania, poland, and the czech republic are no longer the war-torn third world countries of the reagan-era that so many people in this country want us to go back to. unlike your normal posts, you did not provide any evidence to back up *why* you see the stats as flawed, you simply put it out there. my post, with evidence, refutes what i assume to be your "gut feeling". as such, i feel that you are simply promoting the status quo.
again, i present the material above. the household size is not that far off between countries. would it shift maybe a country up or down? possibly, but nothing major. the point is still made.
if you want to argue that the difference is due to the vast differences in land mass, go right ahead. the fact of the matter is you have people who are willing to pay for rural broadband (take a quick look at the costs for satellite or rural wisp internet), but the major carriers refuse to provide service and fight tooth and nail to make sure no one else can. you have a nation that is fascinated with "the free market" but fails to understand that even if you have a few carriers in any given market, you still have a nationwide oligopoly of providers that can dictates the nations broadband policy. its like opec, but because its the us, suddenly it is capitalism.
my above statement still stands, regardless of what type of attack you feel it is against you.
of course, the key phrase in your above post is
his argument may still be valid
what if it isn't?
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