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Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
Barence writes "The majority of dial-up Internet users say they don't want to upgrade their connection to broadband, according to a new study in the US. The Pew Internet & American Life research found that 62% of dial-up users had no interest in upgrading to a high-speed connection." (CNN is carrying the AP's story on the study, too.)
We must convert the dial-up heathens!
Send more broadband missionaries!
"I only speak the truth"
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My grandmother refuses to upgrade to broadband even though it's an extra $5/mo because she's used it at my house and it loads too fast. She says that her internet at home is "perfect Grandma speed", and us "young-uns with fresh brains can handle the zip of that fast stuff."
$50/month?
Sucker! I only pay $49.95.
That's silly. Sure, you need to walk a mile to turn the page, but then you're already there and the rest of the experience is the same.
Dial-up -vs- high-speed is like reading a book with only one word printed on each page -vs- reading a porno mag with embedded videos on each page.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
You mean the little round thing with the red light and cord isn't for talking into?
If they have dialup their mice have balls.
--- Justin Dearing http://www.justaprogrammer.net/ We're just programmers.
I think I was just raised frugally.
Wolves are often quite frugal.
"If they have dialup their mice have balls."
My mice are female you insensitive clod!
BTW, first post!
No one needs broadband, just like 640k ought to be enough for everyone.
alias possession='chmod 666 satan && ls
Don't laugh, $420 is a tank of gas.
I live in a rural aria
I'm guessing you're an Opera user.
We must convert the dial-up heathens
Why should I change? My dialup connection works fine so long as noone picks up th# $% @#$#%)G$%$#^NO CARRIER
The dial-up users are obviously the only ones going to heaven because they must never visit porn sites and must never download music, video or software.
You know how these Luddites work...
I mean let's face it, once they're made up their minds you can't Torquemada anything.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
That's actually not interesting.
One elderly family member with a dial-up connection.
Another elderly family member with fast connection paid through the rent, and a digital camera.
Sadly, the bot-herders are mostly incompetent programmers, so I have had to disinfect computers on 33.6 lines.
One moron even tried to set up a gay porn distribution site via rootkit - on a 33K line!! I had fun with that one, though, because the owner is very macho.
"Hey, man, when did you start puttin' from the rough?"
"What?"
"Well, there's all this gay porno in these hidden folders... so I just assumed..."
"WHAT?"
"Not that there's anything _wrong_ with that..."
(pandemonium ensues, until I finally can't keep a straight face anymore)
Apparently behavioral modification is only for dogs.
You're just not using the shock collar correctly. Try bumping it up a setting or three.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
and vice versa!
A place for everything - everything in its place. Such a happy, tidy universe!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I used to be able to tell the connection speed from the squawk during the handshake - way too much time doing tech support.
You're not the only one to have that ability. I used to actually sing along with it.
*Bong! Dee-doo deeeee-dooooo*
It really flustered me when it didn't connect at 56k, not because it was slower, but because we couldn't harmonize.
God, I'm such a loser.
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!