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Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use
As rumored a couple of months back, Time Warner is starting a trial of metered Internet access. "On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte... [T]iers will range from $29.95 a month for... 768 kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for... 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Those prices cover the Internet portion of subscription bundles that include video or phone services. Both downloads and uploads will count toward the monthly cap."
YOU'RE BOTH FUCKING IGNORANT.
Having worked in the oil industry, let me tell you the main costs.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO PUMP WHEN YOU'RE ONLY GETTING AN OVERALL *TWO FUCKING PERCENT* RETURN ON ENERGY INVESTED? Let's not forget that ONE little o-ring for one of the shafts costs over FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS (yes, four fucking hundred for a little 5g piece of RUBBER, that's THREE BARRELS OF OIL just to replace ONE LITTLE PART.)
How about instead of relying upon stupid reports, work the damned field yourselves. Get your ass on an oil rig and work it six months straight (with a lovely six month vacation afterwards!) and maybe you'd know better instead of relying upon economic reports made up by fucktards who have less statistical sense than Pascal.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.