When will people realize that limitations put on anything that otherwise comes natural to humanity ultimately results in conflict, most often of the violend kind.
And I'd say that homo sapiens is hardwired for net access.
However, that's the chinese government's way of saying: "we're too old and outdated to just give in to your new way of life, young punks, and if we give in too easily we'd lose face. You need to fight for it if you want it otherwise."
When you look at it, whats the cost for a small coffe chop of restaurant to offer free wireless in their place? Maybe $50-70 a month for broadband, then slap in a Linksys wireless router for $100, then maybe figure out how to lock the thing down a little.
It's really no cost to them. It's all tax deductable. They can only win.
This seems like the kind of thing that would keep me from using "free" wireless access, but I've a feeling I'm in the minority
It's hard for me to believe that you don't use Google. Were you too quick to opinionate or does slight hypocrisy apply?
That aside, the service isn't actually free. It takes mental effort to ignore ads, and that has its cost, however hard it is to translate it into monetary cost. In tune with the trend of big corporations trying to make us, the poor_looking_for_freebies_everywhere, all angrier, more afraid, and angrier again, and spend more money on stress relieving services/medication/THINGS... and guns I suppose.
So we all win in the end... if we're very rich to start with, of course.
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When will people realize that limitations put on anything that otherwise comes natural to humanity ultimately results in conflict, most often of the violend kind.
And I'd say that homo sapiens is hardwired for net access.
However, that's the chinese government's way of saying: "we're too old and outdated to just give in to your new way of life, young punks, and if we give in too easily we'd lose face. You need to fight for it if you want it otherwise."
When you look at it, whats the cost for a small coffe chop of restaurant to offer free wireless in their place? Maybe $50-70 a month for broadband, then slap in a Linksys wireless router for $100, then maybe figure out how to lock the thing down a little.
It's really no cost to them. It's all tax deductable. They can only win.
This seems like the kind of thing that would keep me from using "free" wireless access, but I've a feeling I'm in the minority
It's hard for me to believe that you don't use Google. Were you too quick to opinionate or does slight hypocrisy apply?
That aside, the service isn't actually free. It takes mental effort to ignore ads, and that has its cost, however hard it is to translate it into monetary cost. In tune with the trend of big corporations trying to make us, the poor_looking_for_freebies_everywhere, all angrier, more afraid, and angrier again, and spend more money on stress relieving services/medication/THINGS... and guns I suppose.
So we all win in the end... if we're very rich to start with, of course.