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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:08:38 EDT

Metatron2008 posted : liar

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:44:40 EDT

anon posted : Rocks are hard....

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:21:48 EDT

skeechan posted : That is the very definition of and inelastic item. People need insulin and to avoid death will pay whatever it costs to get it but that doesn't mean that the cost paid can't be excessive.

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Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:11:03 EDT

htroberts posted :

said by Qwest exec :

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

That's only true if the price is set by the market: that is, if there are many buyers and many sellers. Internet providers work hard to ensure that there's not a competitive market.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:40:36 EDT

anon posted : 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.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:51:26 EDT

anon posted : 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.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:19:56 EDT

Bingo_Ringo posted :

said by Scree:

...And we still pay too much for services...

In Canada the new trend with Rogers is 200 MB on a 3-year $55/month plan. It used to be 500 MB for cheaper just a few months ago... That doesn't mean you're getting a deal though.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:25:12 EDT

skeechan posted : The air is free, you pay to use the compressor.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:24:13 EDT

bear73 posted : 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...

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:30:48 EDT

chip89 posted : We are charged for air already try felling your tires at a gas station sometime.

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Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:27:23 EDT

Androidian posted : 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.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:27:08 EDT

Metatron2008 posted : All of you lie !

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:40:13 EDT

miser posted : 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

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:59:00 EDT

anon posted : ...water is wet

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:55:52 EDT

WHT posted : I discovered I like women better than men...

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:21:20 EDT

PapaMidnight posted : ...the sky is blue...

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:56:20 EDT

anon posted : The rent is too damn high.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:12:39 EDT

Telco posted : Indeed, because Americans have so many choices. Oh you mean it's 'your choice' to use electricity or running water.

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:50:28 EDT

Xioden posted : 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!

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:06:35 EDT

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

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:27:36 EDT

Scree posted : ...And we still pay too much for services...

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:17:18 EDT

mr sean posted : And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead...

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:57:04 EDT

N3OGH posted : Birds flew south for the winter...

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:50:23 EDT

skeechan posted : ...the Sun rose in the east.