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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.
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.
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. . . .
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.
And broadband speeds also means faster downloads of penetration videos.
I mean, take it from me. I'm up here in Canada, where the average internet connection is
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!