That was the only good thing about the browser hijacks, they made people update their damn browsers. I know I ditched IE soon after I had to learn how to remove HomeSearchAssistant.
"$1 on all Internet connections" Yea and the income tax was only supposed to hit the top 1%.
"After a few years, phase out the fee (hum...)" Income tax was just to pay for WW2 right?
The Internet depends on everything (bandwidth, hardware...) always getting cheaper, taxation only ever increases, this is why taxation would kill the net. Rupert knows this.
I remember hearing that RIAA wanted to tax the internet too http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14477.cfm
To me, this is like robbing Tesla Motors to keep GM afloat. Just let the failures fail and the successes succeed.
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That was the only good thing about the browser hijacks, they made people update their damn browsers. I know I ditched IE soon after I had to learn how to remove HomeSearchAssistant.
"$1 on all Internet connections" Yea and the income tax was only supposed to hit the top 1%.
"After a few years, phase out the fee (hum...)" Income tax was just to pay for WW2 right?
The Internet depends on everything (bandwidth, hardware...) always getting cheaper, taxation only ever increases, this is why taxation would kill the net. Rupert knows this.
I remember hearing that RIAA wanted to tax the internet too http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/14477.cfm
To me, this is like robbing Tesla Motors to keep GM afloat. Just let the failures fail and the successes succeed.