Per-Byte Broadband Billing Is Neither Necessary Nor Inevitable > Who is looking out for the telcos.

Who is looking out for the telcos.

how is it a luxury item for that disabled person with a lack a mobility? Do you think it is healthy to stay in your room and talk to no one ...EVER? Go ahead ask that question to ANY DOCTOR....In Canada solitairy confinement past 7 days was ruled to be CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT( Section 12 of the charter of rights and freedoms).But then id not expect compassion form a system that doesnt give 40+ million people any health care....instead just goes around blowing shit up

so next time the riaa sues a disabled person think how nice they really want to be , they want to effectively mentally rape this person of faculty. AND for how frivolous people sue people in the USA i am surprised an insurance company doesn't sue the riaa/mpaa for hospitalization costs of those that have no such communications due in part or whole of these actions.

i think that nonymous forgot to put in the (sarcasm) (/sarcasm) tags.

reply to chronoss2009
So, uhh, how did disabled people manage to survive, mentally, ten years ago?

Your argument is weak, at best.

reply to chronoss2009
First I believe his entire post was meant in sarcasm.

Second, the only thing CRUEL AND UNUSUAL about any punishment is that it is not done enough and quick enough to those that deserve it. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Third, you get what you pay for in life. Because we have spent decades fostering the weak to build even more weak instead of letting the process of natural selection take it's course as it does in every other species on this earth does not mean the strong should have to guarantee someone can get that liver transplant because they drink them self half dead.

reply to nixen
um thats about as silly a comment as it gets , and its proof of what i say , in fact here is a perfect example.

got me a job one day , so i moved to that town and got a room with a retired elderly man. P.S. ask a doctor how most stroke victimes recover with no one talking or interacting with them KEYWORD INTERACTION and seriously ask them if they had lack of mobility physically would the internet aid in mental health-if you find a doctor thats says it would not report the sicko cause ALL should say INTERACTION AIDS MENTAL HEALTH)
When i moved in he was almost bed ridden and hardly could look after his self. Didn't speak much and what not.

4 months later after simple hi's and little talks after work you can really see a change, so its not just the net that helps, but in fact allowing cheap affordable internet means a real human isn't always needed to get the communication centers going and stimulate a persons brain, and were not talking about disabled people 100% it can just be ANYONE ask a doctor buddy if its healthy to be stuck in a room or never talk to another person, in fact i say your prime candidate to try and never speak cause what comes out makes NO SENSE what so ever.

IT was ruled in Canada in fact to be against the law to place prisoners in solitaire confinement as it was CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT under SECTION 12 of the CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS. IF the supreme court of canada thinks its not fair to a person in prison to have no communication/contact with others.... why is it its ok to price gouge so bad that some disabled and elderly that use this to communicate should be any less then CRUEL and UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT to them as we have the power to make a lil less money and be a little less greedy and allow for some compassion to retirees and disabled. It should be a crime to do this to anyone intentionally. This might actually be a matter for lawyers to stick it back at the big telecoms that medically they are causing harm for a few cents on the share prices.

»www.canlii.org/en/ca/charter_dig···-12.html
i would think that most people that undertake any research of the elderly and disabled would know what i really mean here when i say to treat them like YOU WOULD is abhorrent and dishonorable and cruel. While it might be legally weak or tenuous if enough people made noise it would gain enough political clout to get dealt with before a charter action was/would be required.

kinda like downloading a music tune and getting a 20500$ fine cause you had to rip it off a dvdr ( that had protections )
and i'll argue they would claim all the tracks on said dvdr as once protection is broken its broke for all the tracks.
Does a 300K + fine when we have a cdr levy sound CRUEL AND UNUSUAL? go read the link about fines and jail time to see what i researched and why i was VERY LOUD about jail times regarding BILL C61 and that all xvids are breaking a dvdr protection and thus are a 20000 fine and so are most music tunes on dvdrs....

P.S. before technology we stuffed people with mental health issues into homes and hospitals away form people and there eyes ....so problem doesn't exist. Today with interaction and better care they ( most ) can at least have some dignity......

AND 300K fine at 10$ per day ( the max ) is over 82 years in jail.
FOR a SINGLE DVDR of music

Wow... You really do like to wander about, don't you.

It's nice to believe that people can't do without the Internet and that, somehow, access to it should be some kind of "human right". However, just because you seem to believe that, it doesn't make it anywhere near approaching true.
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