nateerb
join:2002-07-17
Milwaukee, WI
| Doctor's waiting room
Now grannies born before WWII are probably happy with People magazine, but the baby-boomers know what the Internet is. And Gen X'ers like myself, who get things like cancer and need specialists, really don't care when the TomKat baby will hatch.
WiFi the doctor's, hospitals, and dentists!!! |
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nateerb
join:2002-07-17
Milwaukee, WI
| Another thought...
I am at a Tully's in Seattle waiting for the Empire Builder train to take me back to the dump that is Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That's right... a TRAIN. United Airlines has screwed me for the last time.
Amtrak is always in a sorry state, but I think people are starting to revisit rail travel. Most pax on the way out here were first-timers who had been bumped from reserved and paid for airline seats (so that sorry industry could clear out Denver).
Boy, if they had Internet on the train I could basically run my business from a Superliner coach seat. I'd even pay a rip-off price of, let's say, $20 a day. Great revenue stream, would increase ridership, and make two nights from the Midwest to the coast more bearable.
Write your senators... they gave the airlines $15B after 9-11, and piss and moan about the couple hundred million Amtrak requests for annual deferred maintenance. Wifi would be a small capital investment and would likely pay for itself in added revenue. All mass-transport requires public money, and none are really profitable (including the airline industry).
Rant over. |
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FiL
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join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | WiFi for Every Toilet...No Man should EVER shite without a proper connection to the internet! |
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WiseOldNerd
De gustibus non est disputandum
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join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ | or woman---truer words was never spoke
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Promote the radical middle |
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FiL
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join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | 
Touche. |
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