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Reason #84,674,291 the two-party system must go
Reason #4,911,855 to vote Libertarian

Enjoying your broadband bill? I'm just checking. Because the rest of the world isn't putting up with what we are. What am I talking about you ask? The price of broadband. In France of all sorry countries you can get DSL that's 10x greater than the fastest residential grade available in the US.... unlimited telephone service.... and 100 TV channels for $38/mo.

Article: <a href='http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/10/18/broadband/index_np.html' target='_blank'>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/10/...d/index_np.html</a>

To quote a Slashdot user, who nailed this one on the head:
"If you suddenly had a better alternative to paying $45 a month for your cable or DSL internet, you'd take the alternative. Instantly. I know I would, without second thought. There's just nowhere downhill to go, without going back to dialup.

That means the existing monopoly corporation providing broadband to you would suddenly have to invest major capital into revamping their business to approach a competitive edge with this new alternative that everyone smart like you and I would switch to immediately. This would cut into profits. Businessmen like their profits, so they look for an alternative, hmmm, how not to have to revamp their networks, think think think...

So the company instead pays out campaign donations the right people in senate and congress, hires some lobbyists to naysay revamping impractical and backwards laws, say if they do change the laws the terrorists will get us over the intrawebs on their haxxor boxenz and copyrighted material will be given away on the street corners. And the people of the country that invented and played a major part in developing the internet into what it is today, lose out to nations with 1/100th of the population and GNP.

God Bless America. What would Liberty be like without a caring, guiding corporate hand to slow things down to maximize their own profits? I rarely rant on like things about this, but let's face it; American broadband users are sheer cash cows to their ISP's."
10-19-2005 04:20 AM
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Which is why as soon as Lafayette offers their fiber-optic network to my neighborhood, I'm cancelling our Cox Communications cable internet and digital cable. Lafayette's fiber-optic network will provice high speed internet, cable TV, and phone service for about $80/month. We're already paying over $100 for just internet and cable.
10-19-2005 08:05 AM
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