Why bother with a grass roots efforts to attempt to compel corporate america to play nice. They don't care. The only reason most of them exist is to rip off at least a double digit percentage of the population or not do it.
We're paying 50+ bucks a month for cable and the company isn't going to be around by the end of the year. Their solution is to now raise rate even more and decrease service because who is going to stop them and might as well line their pockets while the gettin' is good.
With corporate greed on the fast track and providers unable to guarantee anything (Worldcom, XO, Metromedia Fiber Network to name a few) there had better be another way and don't look to corporate america to do it.
The geek shall inherit the earth by a network of parasitic grids utilizing wireless and/or free space optics.
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Why bother with a grass roots efforts to attempt to compel corporate america to play nice. They don't care. The only reason most of them exist is to rip off at least a double digit percentage of the population or not do it.
We're paying 50+ bucks a month for cable and the company isn't going to be around by the end of the year. Their solution is to now raise rate even more and decrease service because who is going to stop them and might as well line their pockets while the gettin' is good.
With corporate greed on the fast track and providers unable to guarantee anything (Worldcom, XO, Metromedia Fiber Network to name a few) there had better be another way and don't look to corporate america to do it.
The geek shall inherit the earth by a network of parasitic grids utilizing wireless and/or free space optics.
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