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In other news...

Birds flew south for the winter...

reply to skeechan
And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead...

reply to skeechan
...And we still pay too much for services...

If you're willing to pay it, it's not too much.

We're going to start charging for oxygen. $100 a breath. Since you want to live and all you'll be willing to pay so it's not too much!

reply to Qwest exec
Indeed, because Americans have so many choices. Oh you mean it's 'your choice' to use electricity or running water.

reply to skeechan
The rent is too damn high.

reply to N3OGH
...the sky is blue...

reply to skeechan
I discovered I like women better than men...

reply to PapaMidnight
...water is wet

reply to WHT
Hi WHT

You almost owed me a new keyboard and LCD display ....

Never drink coffee when reading DSLR!!!!

(I lurk and rarely post in the UBNT forum, so that's how I got the reference)

Cheers,

Miser

reply to Y2KDragon
All of you lie !

reply to Qwest exec
There's a difference between being "willing" to pay something and not really having a choice, isn't there? Some people work from home, and therefore have no choice but to pay for "high speed" Internet... even if they are price gouged.

And then we have the really anti-competitive businesses like AT&T and Verizon, who somehow magically will all die fiery deaths in hell if they aren't allowed to place ridiculously low caps on usage and bill for overages at ludicrous rates. They use the mythical "bandwidth hog" as their example, trying to paint a false picture about others' greed and habits when it's simply their own greed and desire to screw consumers which have led to their pricing model.

I'm not a big fan of big government... I'm really not. And I don't like it when government passes a whole bunch of new laws that aren't really necessary. But in this case, I believe we're almost at a point where our government has somewhat of a duty to step in and begin treating broadband as a utility... just like electricity and water. If we're going to be stuck in a nation with little to no choice of "high speed" Internet providers in most areas, then consumers should be at least entitled to the same protections afforded to them when faced with other monopolies.

reply to Xioden
We are charged for air already try felling your tires at a gas station sometime.

reply to Whatsupwhdat
Actually, in many areas, it is. And because rental unit occupancy is high (due to the market crash and high unemployment-underemployment people can't buy houses) and continues to rise because "supply&demand allows us" to charge rent till most people are out on hte street. THEN you 'll see rent come down until occupancy is high again and we'll start the merry-go-round again...

reply to chip89
The air is free, you pay to use the compressor.

reply to Scree

reply to Qwest exec
Yes because there's so much f'king choice in this non-monopoly driven communications market we have here in the U.S.

Please, leave the gems of wisdom home if they contain no wisdom, spouting lines like that requires willful ignorance of the situation.

reply to chip89
Actually you are not paying for the air. You are paying for the use of the equipment and electricity it takes to pump that air. But their profit is still 99.9% of that cost.