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  gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
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1 edit | Re: Yawn said by massysett:These stories will continue to make me yawn as long as they continue to fail to explain how someone's life will be better because she has symmetrical 100 Mbps broadband. Maybe you should be the person dreaming up the ideas and reasons to need these speeds at home?
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 | | | Re: Yawn said by gatorkram:said by massysett:These stories will continue to make me yawn as long as they continue to fail to explain how someone's life will be better because she has symmetrical 100 Mbps broadband. Maybe you should be the person dreaming up the ideas and reasons to need these speeds at home? Be an inventer.. So in other words societies should spend billions of dollars on things that have no current utility, rather than spending billions of dollars on known needs (e.g. healthcare, education?)
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| | | | Re: Yawn ...or foresight. Like the U.S. interstate system was "waste". | |
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| | | | said by massysett:said by gatorkram:said by massysett:These stories will continue to make me yawn as long as they continue to fail to explain how someone's life will be better because she has symmetrical 100 Mbps broadband. Maybe you should be the person dreaming up the ideas and reasons to need these speeds at home? Be an inventer.. So in other words societies should spend billions of dollars on things that have no current utility, rather than spending billions of dollars on known needs (e.g. healthcare, education?) That's called waste. Cool. I eagerly await your posts ranting against America's insane military budget. | |
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DesdinovaPremium
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Gaithersburg, MD | "These stories will continue to make me yawn as long as they continue to fail to explain how someone's life will be better because she has symmetrical 100 Mbps broadband."
I dunno, seems to me its not their job to figure out how to make your life better. That's YOUR task. And if you don't want or need anything faster than dial-up, well that's just fine. Quite a few folks around the world don't have phone service, indoor plumbing or automobiles, either. Yet they do okay. My guess is you have most if not all of those things and wouldn't give any of them up. You could survive without them but they make what YOU want to do a bit easier.
Personally, I'd like to be able to log on to a mulit-user immersive environment that was photorealistic in full field-sequential 3D with location specific surround sound and hunt dinosaurs. Then I'd like to explore an alien planet, or miniaturize myself and take a tour through the human body while an interactive Smart Guide taught me about the limbic system or how mesons and neurons interact in the frontal lobes.
Perhaps after that I could go on some virtual ride-thru's at Disney Online where I could reproduce the layout of any Disney park from any time in its history and go on a mini vacation that I could never have in real life. I'm sure a lot of children with terminal diseases at Children's Hospital would love the opportunity to experience some of these things before their lives are regretfully cut short.
How about a history lesson from Smithsonian.com where I can become immersed in any American city at any point in its history and witness historical re-enactments?
That's what I'D like to do with my internet experience.
But if you're happy sitting at home watching Matlock on Hulu, have at it!  | |
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