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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.)
the other 19% are new-earth creationists and believe that since broadband is not in the new testament, that it must be foresaken for "the way we have always done it."
They only think they don't need it. Dialup usually ties up the phone while you use it and with sites becoming more graphic intensive that means you'll be on even longer tying up the phone or buying a second line and for that kinda money you might as well have broadband.
People who don't have broadband don't really want to be on the internet or don't value your time because so much of it is wasted farting about on a dialup modem.
we all know the next step: the rest of us will be forced to finance broadband for the digitally excluded
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Fuck that if niggors want broadband they can rob an old lady and pay for it themself.
junk characters my ass.
the essence of a paternalistic (and condescending) view
It is appropriate to be paternalistic when speaking to little children or dial-up users who think they don't need broadband.
As broadband becomes more essential to daily life, maybe this will inspire more people to move out of buttfuck and to civilization.
Everyone, including the large urban majority, pays for the staggeringly disproportionate infrastructure costs so a few rural people can live their cute little lives. I'm sick of it.
Force rural people to pay their own way for everything, including millions to run cable to five people, if they are so attached to fucking their sheep. I have no sympathy.
Right.
I pay more in taxes than I receive back. You suck at the government teat for nearly unused roads, telecommunications infrastructure, and rural air service, and then demand completely socialistic farm subsidies on top of that, all without paying nearly enough in to cover it.
And I am the stupid spoiled fuckface. Sure. Whatever.
We all work hard. Most "spoiled-ass yuppies," while they are in offices rather than outside, work 60-80 hour weeks to avoid getting fired. The free market forces us to. If food prices are not high enough for farmers to make money, then food prices need to go up.
And I hate California rolls (virtually any other sushi-like product is better) and never touch coffee. So stop projecting your little cultural fantasies onto me. And stop stealing my money with your stupid farm subsidies while you're at it.
Stupid spoiled fuckface. You disgust me.