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I would like to be called Burger King... now that's a name that has a great ring to it. But not Spam King. Oh man, that sounds awful! Imagine, you're driving down the street and you see two places next to each other. Burger King and Spam King. Which one will you go to?!

BURGER KING of course!!! Burger King rocks!

Which is somewhat ironic given the headline Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper

"Have it YOUR way" indeed.

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Or, if McDonalds sue Burger King because the whopper is similar.

Wouldn't that be Burger King suing McDonalds because the Big Xtra is really a Whopper in disguise? I guess it wouldn't matter...McDonalds could probably sue over the Big King anyways.

But the big boys know they can fight in the courts for years with each other. Fighting against it's own consumers to prevent bad reviews or "top secret recipes" from getting out would be handle very quickly since no one could really put up a fight. But unlike some businesses, I don't think they are stupid enough to do that. Mostly because there are still too many disadvantages to suing your consumers. But, as consumers, we should be fighting to keep those disadvantages stable, which includes fighting for free speech to say all those things they don't like...

This may very well explain why colorectal cancer is common in the developed countries but rare in the developing countries.
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Uhh, BIG W(H)OP(PE)R?

Or is it the other way around?

Capped bandwidth reduces the cost of the service to ordinary users by not making the rest of us pay for what is probably P2P piracy.

Which could possibly be the big reason behind this.

It's also going to kill net radio services like shoutcast.

Another thought: It's going to make people (well, me at least) even more resentful of advertising.

I have to pay for (1) simple access, then I have to pay for (2) metered usage, then I have to be bombarded with (3) advertisements to see anything of value -- which I am paying to (4) download, and I have to (5) register with the content provider to get the content and advertisements.

I've got an internal network for testing and development. But I've been spoiled by the net. Maybe I'll just switch back dial up, and use lynx to read slashdot, google groups, search.cpan.org and java.sun.com. And pine (though Evolution is pretty nice) to read email. Maybe I'll resubscribe to a print newspaper and a weekly news magazine for news again.

I'll miss having so much technical information immediately at my disposal, but I've paid for all these technical reference books on my bookshelf. And many of them come with a digital version of themselves. Maybe it's time to use them as a first resource instead of google groups.

Yet another thought: I've been lazy wasting all this "precious" bandwidth by continually accessing content that doesn't change regularly. I'll start using local copies.

I'll have to look inito creating a caching server.

I'll certainly get some junkbuster software running now.

If they want us to *really* pay attention to bandwidth, it will kill a lot of the internet. Animation Express will die. That stuff is interesting, but I'm not going to pay to see it. Even stuff like Yahoo! Games (which I haven't played in while) won't last.

Think about it. A lot of the Internet is entertainment. What sorts of entertainment are people willing to *pay* for? Movies, Music, Pr0n... what else? This is all high-bandwidth, and outside of mp3, the online quality sucks.

Dancing Hamsters? 3 minutes Flash cartoons? Are you kidding?

Quickly changing information is useful to have. Weather, stocks, news. Which can all be distilled down to text and tranferred efficiently.

Technical documation, I can have a local copy of.

This is why I cancelled cable. If they started making you pay for each tv show you watched, how much of it is really worth watching? Not a whole hell of a lot, that's for sure.

So, for me, the internet boils down to two things: one-to-one communication (email and instant messaging) and e-commerce. I shop online to save trips to the store.

Here's a good question. If you had to pay for metered access, can you name any reason at that you ever, ever go to these web sites:

Burger King

7-Eleven

insert usless site here.

Lastly, one of the beautiful things about the Net was the smaller niche and fringe communities that conform without being bound by geographical boundaries. With metered access, those communities will have one more barrier. If you have to pay for acesss, people will more likely stick with the "tried and true" sites, rather that sifting through the mountains of crap to find the gems. This will undoubtedly result result in more concentration of users, content and money around the Big 10 Media Corporations. Which will incredibly boring.

Maybe this internet thing was a fad after all.

Don't mind me. I'm just bitter.

Hell, how many left-handed mice and joysticks are out there?

But there are good news for lefties as well.

In related news, McDonald's Corporation Executive Vice President Steve Barfly spoke to legislators on Tuesday regarding the escalating numbers of free soup kitchens in inner-city America.

"Soup kitchens are the destroyer of commercial food enterprises," Barfly said. "I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the food industry."

Barfly made his announcements shortly after confirming rumors that the Justice Department would be investigating their planned acquisition of Burger King, another fast food empire. Burger king announced last month that they would be stopping all of their donations to soup kitchens, but claimed that McDonald's was not consulted regarding the decision. Maggie Smith, founder of Charitable Look, said most cities with soup kitchens do retain some number of for-profit restaraunts.

"I think McDonald's is trying to paint the soup-kitchen community as being fascist; that all food has to be free, or none of it can be," said Smith, whose organization assists churches and community groups in setting up their own soup kitchens.

Barfly said he's concerned that the give-food away model could stifle initiative in the food service industry.

"I'm an American, I believe in the American Way," he said. "I worry if the government encourages giving away food, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat."

"We can deliver a tastier product than the soup kitchens," he said. "There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free."

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"You owe me a case of beer. Sucka'."

Adam said that Mc Donald's serves Coke, and Burger King serves Pepsi. Actually, Burger King used to serve Pepsi, but switched back to Coke in 1990. (Burger King also served Coke prior to 1983 when it first switched to Pepsi.)

Just thought it was important.

P.S. I know this for several reasons, one of which is that the Frozen Coke is the only reason I ever go to Burger King.

Doesn't mention it on their website .
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