You know, if we didn't have any nuclear ICBM's, we wouldn't have to worry about anyone falling asleep while guarding said ICBM's against potential terrorists.
Oh. So you are saying we should be a Marxist/communist regime where the government dictates prices. You've been reading too many Obama bumper stickers. Chances are, you have one on your own bumper.
Government dictating prices has nothing to do with Marxism or Communism. It's a form of market control that can be a rather effective tool if used properly. The problem is we have all these people who seem to think Laissez-faire economies are wonderful, when in fact, laissez-faire economies tend to run on the long side of a giant clusterfuck. Especially when monopolies are involved. When it comes to internet, there aren't a lot of providers, and they're all more than willing to avoid stepping into a market if someone else is already there. We have the same situation with cellular providers.
There's no problem with asking the local representative to fight for uncapped internet. Capped bandwidth usage makes no sense anyway.
Regulation of the free market is important, 'cause otherwise companies are more than willing to screw the general public over. What do you think got us into the current market state? Y'know, the one we're asking the government to haul our respective asses out of?
If the government has no right to dictate certain things about the market, then we have no right to bitch about the current market conditions. It's the free market, after all.
Didn't the original scrolling intro always say "episode 4"?
Not in the original showing of the film. The "Episode IV" part was added later when the film's popularity made it viable for a sequel.
OR something like that.
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You know, if we didn't have any nuclear ICBM's, we wouldn't have to worry about anyone falling asleep while guarding said ICBM's against potential terrorists.
Oh. So you are saying we should be a Marxist/communist regime where the government dictates prices. You've been reading too many Obama bumper stickers. Chances are, you have one on your own bumper.
Government dictating prices has nothing to do with Marxism or Communism. It's a form of market control that can be a rather effective tool if used properly. The problem is we have all these people who seem to think Laissez-faire economies are wonderful, when in fact, laissez-faire economies tend to run on the long side of a giant clusterfuck. Especially when monopolies are involved. When it comes to internet, there aren't a lot of providers, and they're all more than willing to avoid stepping into a market if someone else is already there. We have the same situation with cellular providers.
There's no problem with asking the local representative to fight for uncapped internet. Capped bandwidth usage makes no sense anyway.
Regulation of the free market is important, 'cause otherwise companies are more than willing to screw the general public over. What do you think got us into the current market state? Y'know, the one we're asking the government to haul our respective asses out of?
If the government has no right to dictate certain things about the market, then we have no right to bitch about the current market conditions. It's the free market, after all.
Didn't the original scrolling intro always say "episode 4"?
Not in the original showing of the film. The "Episode IV" part was added later when the film's popularity made it viable for a sequel. OR something like that.