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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."
Well, most of this information is buried in dry industry and government reports. So save you some hunting I will link you to some articles that I got the quotes from that ALSO have links to the reports in them:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020571.php
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/despite-energy-crisis-dems-vow-no-new.html
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=296435488187160
http://www.americansolutions.com/General/?Page=d4b72449-7edb-493d-88ff-76bfe669e0f2
Enjoy!
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
Yeah, I'm thinking YOU are the ignorant one here.
The gross margin for ALL the products a company makes has NOTHING to do with the price of Gasoline.
It also doesn't change the fact that the profit on GASOLINE is around 4%.
Stop changing the subject when you can't fight the facts. Nothing shows a losing argument when all you can do is say; "Oh yeah, well what about THIS!" and bring up a tangential subject. Just admit that it's NOT obscene to make a 4% profit on Gasoline and that you are wrong.
Of course, as another poster as mentioned, focusing on JUST the profits ignores the very real market realities of the situation. But then, when all you are doing is throwing around emotionalist arguments meant to inflame without really informing, it's not surprising that you would overlook something so "econ 101" as Supply and Demand.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
YES! Let's just Nationalize all the Oil companies just like Maxine Waters wants!
/communistmoron
Yes Comrade, then we can have Government Run Oil. We will have all the fantastic efficiencies in our new Oil Bureau that we have in the DMV, the IRS, and the TSA!
Forward Comrades, into the new People's Oil Revolution!
You're an idiot if you think Nationalizing oil would help ANYONE.
And what God damned business is it of YOURS to determine how much money ANYONE can make? Oh yeah, IT'S NOT.
Socialism and Communism FAIL everywhere they are tried. Stop suggesting wasteful big govt. solutions.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
and your gas prices are lower than almost anywhere else in the world...
Not to mention when the oil crunch really hits, fuelling up your SUV is going to be the least of your worries.