On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Dan wrote:
At 10:57 AM -0700 3/5/2010, nestamicky wrote:
Most people in Japan, for example, would think it insane that
people are still paying for dial-up, in 2010, in the US. What are
we thinking?
We happen to give corporate profits higher moral/ethical value than
any sort of consumer or national interests.
Here, let me fix it for yah:
We happen to give *some* corporate profits higher moral/ethical value
than any sort of consumer or national interests.
I'm sure there's a lot of companies out there who would prosper from
better, faster and more widespread true high-speed internet out there.
Why they don't use their own lobbying clout to fight this, I don't know.
Look how the ISPs went ballistic over cities threatening to set up
their own WiFi broadband...they spent millions buying state
legislatures to ban the practice.
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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