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| The downfall of corperate america See, here's my problem. I have my computer's routed, and connected to the internet. Both I and my brother are avid gamers. We game daily, possibly for hours at a time. My concern is using the cap because of our gaming time. I doubt it will happen, cuz i can't see quake and anarchy online taking up 30 gigs in bandwidth in a month. But it is still to be considered.
I really dispise these futile attempts to limit the internet. Something that was originally created as a means to communicate after a nuclear disaster has now turned into an unstopable hydra.
With current technologies and future upgrades to current protocols, these companies will not be able to control it any longer.
I ask you this, if one day, and i do see that day arising, but if the day comes where people rebel against the companies, and the internet ceases to exist do to the greed of corperate america's need to put a price on everything. Will not another internet emerge?
The answer is yes. Mostly in part due to there not being any hardware bottlenecks that could cause a conflict.
Personally i see the future internet wielding many more clustered communities interlinked. Without the need for what is known now as the backbone.
This is just another ploy by corperations to squeeze every last bit of money they can out of their service, while trying not to piss of the consumers filling their greedy pockets. These companies sicken me. They are the same companies dodging their taxes, insisting that our country is in a recession, when it is truly not.
Sad truth to it is that america is no longer the land of the free. It is the land of the top 1% screwing the other 99%. What makes it worse is the government backs them up, because the top 1% are part as the government as well. All political bs. The majority isn't being listened to any longer, the economic balance not being preserved.
This is why companies like ford can post higher earnings after they increase their rate of reposess people's car's for having late payments, even if the owner has 3 payments left. Also the reason why companies like comcast can increase their monthly broadband cost by 150% within the last year without any adequate reason.
Only other thing i have to say, is a warning to all these corperations. Your really starting to piss off the consumers, and if you keep pushing the majority, your not going to like it when you get pushed back. Consumer relations is the primary means in what makes and breaks a company.
I hope the consumers band together and deny their funds to keep some of these services alive. We need to start realising that were being taken advantage of, and do something about it. | | |
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 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Go for the "oppressed people" argument if you want, but the big ISPs aren't really getting rich lately. UUNet is just swimming along with WorldCom in bankruptcy court, and BBN/Genuity was so uncertain that Verizon abandoned it's pickup option and almost bankrupted Genuity in the process--so Genuity was sold at a bargain basement price to Level3. No backbone ISP is making money at a rate that inspired big money to bid for Genuity.
I could go on, but the simple economics of the matter are that the big ISP backbone market isn't viewed by your big corporate fatcats as one worth spending a lot of money on right now. Yes, we all have faith that these are tremendously valuable assets--but it's not widely shared by the money guys. (Perhaps this is because knowledgeable fatcats realize that the commodity nature of the lightly used backbone will indeed drive down prices soon.)
Now, if your attack is on the "last mile" providers who bottleneck "access" (the telcos and cable companies), then that is inherently a different matter--but please distinguish your target. I think we'd all like to get around the local stranglehold, but I doubt that many of us would agree that new ISP backbones could magically spring up from clustered communities. Limiting an example to the domestic US, somebody needs to haul traffic from NY to SF--it's not reasonable to expect Columbus, St. Louis, KC, and Denver to build and run the necessary facilities to do it for free.
Anarchy might seem attractive--as it does on the TV in Baghdad right now. However, I don't see any of those guys gleefully plowing fiber or connecting routers--some structure has to be in place beyond 802.11 protocols. (No slight to the current celebrants--who really deserve a chance to let off steam.)
Calvoiper
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 DSL987
join:2000-03-22
Helotes, TX | reply to Zero_db
said by Zero_db:
This is why companies like ford can post higher earnings after they increase their rate of reposess people's car's for having late payments, even if the owner has 3 payments left.
Uh - there's obviously more to this story than what you posted. Anybody that lets a car get repo'ed under those circumstances should be shot and put out of their misery. | |
calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Agreed.
And people are often the sum of their experiences--sometimes you learn more about them by learning of their experiences. For example, if you find out someone had his car repo'd with only three payments remaining, you've learned a lot about that person. And if he blames someone else for that screwup, you know about all you need to know.
Calvoiper
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