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US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years
An anonymous reader writes "Internet speeds of users nationwide shows that the United States has not made significant improvements in deploying high-speed broadband networks in the past year, and if the average US Internet speed continues to improve only at the same rate it did from 2007 to 2008, the country won't catch up with Japan's current download speed for another 100 years, according to findings released by the Communications Workers of America's (CWA's) Speed Matters campaign." With enough statistical mangling, nearly anything can be presented as plausible, but that's not enough to cover up my envy of Asian broadband speeds.
The speed might be good on Mars, but the latency to most websites is going to be horrible.
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Porn is better... ...in slow-motion.
it's hard to keep up with those gookers these days. I do like Japanese porn though, so I'd say it's a reasonable compromise: they take the lead in broadband Internet, we download their porn movies. Love that Japanese poon.
The Japanese are also at least a hundred years ahead of us in cartoon porn, particularly tentacle rape porn. This "tentacle gap", as I call it, cannot be allowed to continue.
Yes, because we all know upgrade paths are all completely linear...
Yeah, and the US is next in line... so we should get it sometime next year!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
After reading this summary and feeling a sense of outrage rising in my stomach, I felt obliged to call the Japanese Internet Minister and set the story straight once and for all. After many hours of argument regarding relative price structures, exchange rates, and international broadband infrastructure, he assured me that I had a very large penis. He used such words to describe it such as 'gargantuan', 'mammoth', and 'really freakin huge', and that in comparison, his penis was microscopic. I for one applaud the Minister for his honesty. That is all.
Proxy Servers.....big freakin' proxy servers...
Heck I bet they'll be owned by Google because instead of just cataloging the internet, Google will be cashing the internet.
"Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." Mark Twain
Wow, simply to plan on living in a hundred years is a fairly ambitious goal.
"Asian Pipe Envy"
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I would have gotten it, but I'm posting from the damn slow U.S Broadband.
the US system encourages people to work hard, whereas laziness is often seen to be rewarded in the UK.
I am so totally moving to the UK.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
You say that, but I'll be you're too lazy to follow through with it.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Fookin pikeys...
The word is "gypped." It's a racist slur meant to evoke images of conniving gypsies tricking you out of your treasure.
In light of TFA, I'd rather be "japped" racial slur or not.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
I mean, take it from me. I'm up here in Canada, where the average internet connection is
Really. I thought that in Canada the average internet connection is not.
And broadband speeds also means faster downloads of penetration videos.
Wow, good argument. Touche.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Yeah, I for one want to move to western Europe so that I can be lazy and get paid a whopping 400 euros per month or so (Germany). I'll be rich! My god, I'll almost be able to afford food along with my cardboard box!
I think they prefer "Nomadicly swindled"
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
I mean, take it from me. I'm up here in Canada, where the average internet connection is
Mr. President, we must not allow a broadband gap!
Proverbs 21:19
Nah, we'll have the ansible by then...and alien bugs to contend with =/
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Funny, my wife has always told me that size matters, speed is just a courtesy to her TV viewing time.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Why do we maintain an expensive military if we won't use it to acquire things our country needs? Oil, women, and broadband. Soldiers, go get them and bring them to us.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!