The question:...Why do VHS, DVD and software require intrusive and inconvenient warnings?
The answer
For VHS and DVD: Jack Valenti, and the money he spends on lobbyist.
For software: Bill Gates, 'cause that's the way he wants it.
Heaven help us if the two of them should ever fall in love... all our non-representing in-god-we-trust paid for Representatives, Senators, and White House dwellers will have MS initials shaved onto their heads and deliver warnings before all utterances, in or out of Congress, saying we cannot look and listen to what they say until we send in our subscription money, to be paid on an annuity basis, which subscription does not include permission to quote them.
The question is: Can telecommunications giants realistically keep up with the public's need for ever-growing bandwidth without going bankrupt?
Most certainly, if executives can be satisfied with a couple of hundred tousand dollars a year each instead of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars a year each, and if stock holders can be satisfied with modest but steady returns on their investment. Greed ends up killing all it touches.
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The question: ...Why do VHS, DVD and software require intrusive and inconvenient warnings?
The answer
For VHS and DVD: Jack Valenti, and the money he spends on lobbyist.
For software: Bill Gates, 'cause that's the way he wants it.
Heaven help us if the two of them should ever fall in love... all our non-representing in-god-we-trust paid for Representatives, Senators, and White House dwellers will have MS initials shaved onto their heads and deliver warnings before all utterances, in or out of Congress, saying we cannot look and listen to what they say until we send in our subscription money, to be paid on an annuity basis, which subscription does not include permission to quote them.
The question is: Can telecommunications giants realistically keep up with the public's need for ever-growing bandwidth without going bankrupt?
Most certainly, if executives can be satisfied with a couple of hundred tousand dollars a year each instead of tens and hundreds of millions of dollars a year each, and if stock holders can be satisfied with modest but steady returns on their investment. Greed ends up killing all it touches.