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Sacrificial Broadband?

Posted by Cliff on from the who-needs-lent? dept.

BitGuy asks: "SBC's VP of Network Engineering reckons that 78% of broadband users would give up their daily newspaper instead of living without their broadband connection (hmm, being a broadband user, I don't need a newspaper), and 63% said they'd give up their morning coffee (the freaks!). Personally I'd rather give up watching TV - what would the rest of Slashdot give up to keep your real sweet net access?"

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  1. I've chosen to live without ANY connection. by arcade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    After having some way or another to connect myself first to BBS'es, and then to the Internet since December'94 - i finally got disconnected in July this year (2002). And a wonderful thing it has been.

    I'm still connected to the internet from the university or from my workplaces - but after work/study hours, I'm free.

    I've actually started reading books again! Yay! I've started walking in the the woods again! Even started watching a tiny little bit of TV (Less than 3 hours a week I would guess). I've started working out again. I've started to hack on my laptop again, instead of wasting time on IRC. I've started watching movies with friends again.

    Hell I enjoy beeing disconnected at home. I'm NOT planning on getting an Internet connection at home any time soon. _Maybe_ I'll set up a radio network with friends - but there is just NO WAY i'm gonna get connected 24/7 again. Or have any way of using dialup. :)

    So, what would I give up to keep my broadband connection? Nothing! I've given it up without having to. I don't miss it. I don't want it back.

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    "Rune Kristian Viken" - http://www.nwo.no - arca
  2. Re:My TV is the closet. by Quinn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After no TV for months, I watched the tomb opening on FOX and was disgusted at the quick-cut hip-hop in-your-face commercials and the robotically insincere "we care" talking heads on the local news!

    Before the special started, I was telling my wife I'd like to get cable at the new house, just for TLC, Discovery, and the other "edutainment" channels, but after that barrage of primetime pablum, I'd changed my mind.

    Sure, one can always turn the channel, but why? Why force yourself to find something else to /watch/, when there are other things to /do/?

    I still miss classic movies on AMC and TMC, but beyond that, I can get all the entertainment I need from broadband and DVD.

    Oh, and the wife, of course. :)

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