A few casually racist words on the air may not seem like much but it does imply that racism is okay.
Actually, I would fear the opposite. If we make these words racist, then it implies that we cannot control our society or in a sense give people more reasons to use them.
Could it be possible that in an attempt to get rid of racism through political means it only creates more racism? Perhaps certain groups who have laws passed towards them feel disenfranchised and now feel a reason to hate the other race because in their eyes the laws have been skewed to benefit persons by race.
After all... I don't think people are drawn to Nazism because of what the Nazi's believed in (the majority of white Americans haven't even met a Jewish person in their life time for that matter) but rather because of the taboo we've created. We've created a group that is evil and yet cool to follow because it goes against mainstream crowd and the only reason people join up is because they want to rebel.
Fortunately, most of the leaders of said groups have been real idiots when it comes to public discourse, but I can't help but think forcing a political solution is the best route when it comes to language control. If a crime has been committed then prosecute it, but not until someone passes that point including the crime committed when you yell "fire" in a crowded theater or incite someone to violence with words... Those are already crimes on the books.
You have the right to hold such beliefs and vote accordingly in the elections. Even if you disagree with the law you dont have the option of simply ignoring it. Either challenge it in courts or refuse to obey the law and accept whatever punishment the government dishes out.
True. Just because I disagree with the IRS doesn't mean I won't play my taxes, but I will argue that just because elections are held means that what they do is right. Secondly, if a law is wrong then it should be ignored without civil disobedience.
Take the US prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's for example. It was largely ignored by the general populace to an extent that the Federal government eventually relented and reverse its decision. No one got into the streets and protested nor had "drink ins" and let the police take them away.
The other example of ignoring laws was during the American revolution when the colonists ignored many monopoly and tea trade laws. The patriots actually avoided detection by pretending to be Native Americans and refused to turn themselves in after throwing the tea into the harbor.
Not really your definition of civil disobedience, but I would say it would be towards the same goal.
A sale is a sale and income is income. If the law says there is a tax on income it should apply uniformly to everyone.
Oh lordy. You don't know how wrong that statement is because current tax laws are all messed up due to uneven tax brackets. (I'm sure someone will come out of the wood work and post a link to that fair tax website) Secondly, it has always been questionable on how much authority the IRS and the Feds really have on non-interstate commerce.
Even if it is the way the laws are, I will still disagree with them because these laws do more harm than good to the average American while affording larger corporations more loop holes.
Then slowly it dawned on me that most Americans would not buy goods of doubtful provenance from shady sellers.
You make me chuckle. At least in my city (where we had 300 murders last year) it is quite common for break ins to your house and car. I had a CD case with CDRs stolen... even though it cost me $200 to replace the window I wonder the surprise of the thief who tried to pawn those off.
But yeah... I've had relatives who don't lock their house that live in nice neighborhoods, but most of the US isn't like that if you live in a major city and most Americans wouldn't give a second thought to buying shady items as long as they didn't get ripped off in the process. (Think flea markets and Pawn shops)
It's "technically" "illegal" to sell most MMO stuff like gold and characters, at least for the most heavily populated. The irony?
No... It is not "technically" illegal. Violating an EULA does not actually violate any criminal laws. They can of course refuse you service or take you into civil court for a breach of contract but they cannot impose criminal fines or jail time on you for such an act.
Secondly, the IRS still requires taxes paid on money gained through illegal means. Drug dealing, gambling, bootlegging, extortion, and laundering all count under this aspect. Chances are if they can't prove you are doing something wrong they will nail you for tax evasion.
Happened to Al Capone since they couldn't get him any other way.
And if they are going to fulfill their obligations to their shareholders by staying as competitive as the law allows them then they should do it some more.
This is a bad argument if you hope to have long term investors.
Just because it is legal to do and gains you short term gains on your quarterly income, doesn't mean it won't come back to bite you when you have a PR fiasco on your hands. Of course most CEO's don't stick around long enough to see the results of what they have done, but to commit to questionable ethics in your business practices will make you end up looking like Enron or SCO and make traders in the long term funds shy away because of your rep.
After all... After the 15 year patent expires and your company is hated by all... Then well... Your outlook is bleak for future income.
The reason is that with a larger collection, lets say 12,000 songs, who wants to spend the time to pick which 8,000 song to sync to the device?????
I don't know about you, but when I do that and don't do play lists... I end up fast forwarding through 10 consecutive songs until I find something I feel like listening too then repeating the steps when that song is done.
Apparently, I've collected a great deal of music over the years that I don't actually like anymore all the time, but sometimes I am in the mood for. Hence... It is easier to choose which songs I want to listen too.
Today, the US is what the rest of the "civilized" world is: Fat and afraid.
Maybe I don't get out that much, but I don't see many fat Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people in the world. Considering they make up a bit of the civilized world... *coughs* I think your statement isn't that true.
One of my favorite internet stations is Industrial/Techno http://ebm-radio.de/ and is hosted out of Germany. I would suspect they have little RIAA music as it is, but couldn't you just find a hosting company in another nation? Sweeden perhaps?
So, in summary, if you sign a contract which has a clause which requires a penalty for early termination, service providers charge you that penalty.
Actually, with ISP's with self install kits you sign nothing, but the contract is implied.
I worked for a rather major ISP once that did self install DSL kits (and they weren't the actually lin owners... like Bell South, Covad, and SBC... of course any of my former coworkers... all several hundred of you that were laid off... already know who i am talking about) and we would have people calling into the tech lines screaming about the $150 cancellation fee.
In fact we were told we couldn't send them over the customer service without dangling this threat over their head if they wouldn't let us help them.
However, in truth these people signed nothing... They often signed up through the web page or over the phone and there was no contract. It was simply implied.
I've had several people screaming about their lawyers are going to sue us and so on... But I really doubt most of these people ever saw their money back (heck I was an employee and my DSL didn't work either reliably and got the same fee)
So I recommend cable since there is no disconnect fees since it doesn't cost them a buttload of money to go to the central office and setup the DSLAM correctly each time they get or loose a customer.
Add to the list one thing: sorting. No matter how Google would like to claim that Search is better than Sort, it isn't. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for, you're doomed. Was the email from John/James/Juhn ? How do you search for something so vague?
Umm... If you don't know what you are looking for, sorting won't work either unless you can read really fast while scrolling. If you are talking about scrolling, then yes, desktop apps beat webmail hands down.
But sorting your emails any differently won't help you find something you don't know what it was in the first place.
But if you have an idea, you could just search in the from field for J*@*.com or something. You could do that in Groupwise at least... Outlook not so well in prior versions (I haven't tried 2007 yet), but do I love Outlook search folders.
Her next call will probably be to you. Problem solved.
And for those who don't have geek relatives...
Her next call will be to the ISP's tech in India who will say to call Microsoft who to says to call your OEM-Computer Vendor who says to call your Anti-virus vendor who tells you to call your local Geek squad who then proceeds to just somehow fry your video card while formatting your computer.
Hypothetically, I could live in Canada while the WoW servers I play on are housed in the U.S. but do business with a guy in Germany whose playing through a proxy in France.
Or you could just play WoW in Somalia over a satellite phone and the only taxes you'll pay is the protection money the local warlord shows up to collect every Sunday.
Since money doesn't change hands over the WoW servers, it would be hard to see how the IRS could enforce this especially when dealing with other countries who may not be friendly. What could you do against North Korean gold farmers working for their government?
The point of the Television devices in 1984 weren't actually that technology controls society, but to rather to show the prevalence of informants amount the people. During the "Great Purges" of the 1930's everyone turned in everyone to the state for thought crimes. There was a statue built for a young boy who turned his parents in for plotting against Stalin.
Not to mention Stalin actually had government apartments for government officials with built in audio devices to listen for treason.
There were accounts of people on trial that confessed with tears they loved Stalin and admitted to every insane crime they were accused of and begged to be punished for their crimes.
So it is safe to say 1984 did happen and it wasn't about the CCTV issue but rather an allegory to that era.
I'm not a psychologist, but from my understanding if you leave 'innocent' children unsupervised and isolated from the outside world they will naturally turn violent towards each other.
It is human nature to be violent, selfish, and evil.
Of course so is altruism.
But rather to get into a nurture vs nature debate I would argue that its best to consider that you are never too old to view the world as a child.
Why can't we continue to play hand-eye coordination improving games?
I was a 90's kid and I didn't like pinball or Pac Man.
I did play the hell out of Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, and pretty much all the Neo Geo fighting games. (Possibly thousands of dollars over the course of 10 years.)
However, you don't see me running around pulling anyone's heart out or doing a thousand hand karate chop move.
And I don't see your point on Doom being a bad movie... There is an unsaid law somewhere that if you make a movie off a video game it is going not only suck, but make you wish you had died on the way to the theater in order to avoid ever seeing it. Street Fighter the Movie, Mortal Kombat Movie, Mario Brothers (although Dennis Hopper was its only saving grace), Doom, Silent Hill, House of the Dead (gack *cough* gack*).
In fact is easier to just say the only video game movie that didn't suck was Resident Evil and the Final Fantasy Japanese movies (not the American one... that sucked pretty badly, but the CGI one with Cloud and Sephiroth)
Sin City was ok, but if I had a 13 year old boy I don't see how say 300 is going to turn him into a raving Spartan bent on killing everyone he things is a Persian.
However, I've noticed a lot of younger kids throwing around the F word these days. We didn't say that even when we watched R rated movies as kids. Of course it might be a moot point in 20 years when everyone that is a kid now grows up and things that cursing is fine.
I remember when it was normal to get kicked out of school for saying "suck" or "butt" or wearing a Beavis and Butthead T-Shirt. Of course I might have went to a strict school...
Besides, who wants to deal with IPv6 when dotted quads are easier to memorize?
And I forgot to add... Who memorizes IP addresses anymore?
I used to back in the day, but DHCP isn't as flaky anymore so no need for static IP on the OS side and if your router setup is worth a snuff you can assign a static IP via DHCP based of your NIC's MAC address so it gets the same IP address each time. And since most people are blocking use of their DNS servers unless you are on their network also makes it pointless to know IP addresses by heart.
Everything else can go into an excel file or a sticky note on the monitor (I've got one IP address that I don't have a DNS entry for, but I use it once in a blue moon but I made a sticky note for it)
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Reallocate the IPv4 space reasonably, force organizations such as Apple, HP, IBM, Merck, and Halliburton justify their IP allocation request like I had to for my puny/27 block, and then there will be plenty of space for all.
If I may make a car analogy...
Let us say that IPv4 is the oil we get from the ground and all cars run off it. Then a small group of scientists do a study and say discover "Egads! We've only got 10 years worth of oil left!"
Everyone panics and the scientists come up with a pure ethanol based car (IPv6) that has none of the limitations of oil when it comes to making new ones (In theory we could eventually use up all our natural resources in production of corn, but that would take thousands of years so that is someone eles's problem)
However, such a switch over would cost millions if not billions of dollars spent replacing all the oil based motors, but they start the work.
Then.... Some smart ingenious mechanic finds a way to make regular engines work off 50% ethanol and 50% oil (NAT addressing) and everyone goes "Phew! Problem solved!"
However, that doesn't resolve the fact that oil is still going to run out in 20 years but by then that will be someone else's problem.
But in reality, I think the US, Canada, and Europe will switch to IPv6 when their counter parts in China and India surpass us economically in 10 to 20 years. (As in Chinese companies start buying US companies and then tell their network departments to migrate so they can communicate better)
Asia is the big pusher for IPv6 because they simply did not get any of the IPv4 to start with and NAT isn't helping them much considering they will have literally the majority of world's internet users. Unless, like you say, the big US tech companies give up the IPv4 spaces to companies in Asia I think they are on the path to complete IPv6 networks over there.
Either way... I think most of us will get IPv6 equipment when it was cheaper for the manufacture to not disable the feature in our standard IPv4 products (think built in modem or video into the mother board trend) but this might be some time from now.
How does what you describe not fit under the umbrella of "very few people"?
Perhaps if I meant "very few people with influence" it would have made more sense. If a company (who chances are you buy a daily product of every day) notices that its employees can't do its job because of another company... Well they might say something either to the other company or to another press related group.
Of course I think I forgot to mention the company I'm referring (vaguely) to is in the States and their sales reps are regional so they would all have different ISPs.
I would guess that very few people use SSH, VPNs, or other encrypted connections that require the speeds to which we have become accustomed.
Actually, some major companies out there have several thousand "work at home" employees that are required to use VPN. Most of these people are in sales type of jobs, but plenty others are required to use VPN to connect to Exchange servers to access email from home.
Considering MS Exchange and dialup don't really mix, these people often have to have broadband to do their jobs efficiently. Seeing how not having VPN with an exchange server is a security risk, I can't really see any alternatives for these work at home types other than to switch to the provider who downgrades them the least.
Keep in mind these people are often working on company laptops who are locked down completely and couldn't install P2P software even if they wanted to.
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The leaker was arrogant/foolish enough to use his real name.
To be fair, it isn't that hard for a Robert to type in Richard instead.
Heck... This 15 year old's stunt got it on slashdot and made me go to Youtube to look them up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2veTZlmaUJI
Pretty funny stuff.
A few casually racist words on the air may not seem like much but it does imply that racism is okay.
Actually, I would fear the opposite. If we make these words racist, then it implies that we cannot control our society or in a sense give people more reasons to use them.
Could it be possible that in an attempt to get rid of racism through political means it only creates more racism? Perhaps certain groups who have laws passed towards them feel disenfranchised and now feel a reason to hate the other race because in their eyes the laws have been skewed to benefit persons by race.
After all... I don't think people are drawn to Nazism because of what the Nazi's believed in (the majority of white Americans haven't even met a Jewish person in their life time for that matter) but rather because of the taboo we've created. We've created a group that is evil and yet cool to follow because it goes against mainstream crowd and the only reason people join up is because they want to rebel.
Fortunately, most of the leaders of said groups have been real idiots when it comes to public discourse, but I can't help but think forcing a political solution is the best route when it comes to language control. If a crime has been committed then prosecute it, but not until someone passes that point including the crime committed when you yell "fire" in a crowded theater or incite someone to violence with words... Those are already crimes on the books.
You have the right to hold such beliefs and vote accordingly in the elections. Even if you disagree with the law you dont have the option of simply ignoring it. Either challenge it in courts or refuse to obey the law and accept whatever punishment the government dishes out.
True. Just because I disagree with the IRS doesn't mean I won't play my taxes, but I will argue that just because elections are held means that what they do is right. Secondly, if a law is wrong then it should be ignored without civil disobedience.
Take the US prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's for example. It was largely ignored by the general populace to an extent that the Federal government eventually relented and reverse its decision. No one got into the streets and protested nor had "drink ins" and let the police take them away.
The other example of ignoring laws was during the American revolution when the colonists ignored many monopoly and tea trade laws. The patriots actually avoided detection by pretending to be Native Americans and refused to turn themselves in after throwing the tea into the harbor.
Not really your definition of civil disobedience, but I would say it would be towards the same goal.
You'd think that Bethesda had raped everyone's dog the way people are reacting to this news.
I'm sorry! I tried to keep Bethesda from doing that to my dog, but I forgot to keep Dogmeat behind the forcefield.
A sale is a sale and income is income. If the law says there is a tax on income it should apply uniformly to everyone.
Oh lordy. You don't know how wrong that statement is because current tax laws are all messed up due to uneven tax brackets. (I'm sure someone will come out of the wood work and post a link to that fair tax website) Secondly, it has always been questionable on how much authority the IRS and the Feds really have on non-interstate commerce.
Even if it is the way the laws are, I will still disagree with them because these laws do more harm than good to the average American while affording larger corporations more loop holes.
Then slowly it dawned on me that most Americans would not buy goods of doubtful provenance from shady sellers.
You make me chuckle. At least in my city (where we had 300 murders last year) it is quite common for break ins to your house and car. I had a CD case with CDRs stolen... even though it cost me $200 to replace the window I wonder the surprise of the thief who tried to pawn those off.
But yeah... I've had relatives who don't lock their house that live in nice neighborhoods, but most of the US isn't like that if you live in a major city and most Americans wouldn't give a second thought to buying shady items as long as they didn't get ripped off in the process. (Think flea markets and Pawn shops)
It's "technically" "illegal" to sell most MMO stuff like gold and characters, at least for the most heavily populated. The irony?
No... It is not "technically" illegal. Violating an EULA does not actually violate any criminal laws. They can of course refuse you service or take you into civil court for a breach of contract but they cannot impose criminal fines or jail time on you for such an act.
Secondly, the IRS still requires taxes paid on money gained through illegal means. Drug dealing, gambling, bootlegging, extortion, and laundering all count under this aspect. Chances are if they can't prove you are doing something wrong they will nail you for tax evasion.
Happened to Al Capone since they couldn't get him any other way.
And if they are going to fulfill their obligations to their shareholders by staying as competitive as the law allows them then they should do it some more.
This is a bad argument if you hope to have long term investors.
Just because it is legal to do and gains you short term gains on your quarterly income, doesn't mean it won't come back to bite you when you have a PR fiasco on your hands. Of course most CEO's don't stick around long enough to see the results of what they have done, but to commit to questionable ethics in your business practices will make you end up looking like Enron or SCO and make traders in the long term funds shy away because of your rep.
After all... After the 15 year patent expires and your company is hated by all... Then well... Your outlook is bleak for future income.
The reason is that with a larger collection, lets say 12,000 songs, who wants to spend the time to pick which 8,000 song to sync to the device?????
I don't know about you, but when I do that and don't do play lists... I end up fast forwarding through 10 consecutive songs until I find something I feel like listening too then repeating the steps when that song is done.
Apparently, I've collected a great deal of music over the years that I don't actually like anymore all the time, but sometimes I am in the mood for. Hence... It is easier to choose which songs I want to listen too.
Today, the US is what the rest of the "civilized" world is: Fat and afraid.
Maybe I don't get out that much, but I don't see many fat Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people in the world. Considering they make up a bit of the civilized world... *coughs* I think your statement isn't that true.
One of my favorite internet stations is Industrial/Techno http://ebm-radio.de/ and is hosted out of Germany. I would suspect they have little RIAA music as it is, but couldn't you just find a hosting company in another nation? Sweeden perhaps?
And before I forget... Our web page and sales department were very skimpy when it came to letting people know about this fee.
So, in summary, if you sign a contract which has a clause which requires a penalty for early termination, service providers charge you that penalty.
Actually, with ISP's with self install kits you sign nothing, but the contract is implied.
I worked for a rather major ISP once that did self install DSL kits (and they weren't the actually lin owners... like Bell South, Covad, and SBC... of course any of my former coworkers... all several hundred of you that were laid off... already know who i am talking about) and we would have people calling into the tech lines screaming about the $150 cancellation fee.
In fact we were told we couldn't send them over the customer service without dangling this threat over their head if they wouldn't let us help them.
However, in truth these people signed nothing... They often signed up through the web page or over the phone and there was no contract. It was simply implied.
I've had several people screaming about their lawyers are going to sue us and so on... But I really doubt most of these people ever saw their money back (heck I was an employee and my DSL didn't work either reliably and got the same fee)
So I recommend cable since there is no disconnect fees since it doesn't cost them a buttload of money to go to the central office and setup the DSLAM correctly each time they get or loose a customer.
Which is why I'm still leery of DSL today.
Add to the list one thing: sorting. No matter how Google would like to claim that Search is better than Sort, it isn't. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for, you're doomed. Was the email from John/James/Juhn ? How do you search for something so vague?
Umm... If you don't know what you are looking for, sorting won't work either unless you can read really fast while scrolling. If you are talking about scrolling, then yes, desktop apps beat webmail hands down.
But sorting your emails any differently won't help you find something you don't know what it was in the first place.
But if you have an idea, you could just search in the from field for J*@*.com or something. You could do that in Groupwise at least... Outlook not so well in prior versions (I haven't tried 2007 yet), but do I love Outlook search folders.
Her next call will probably be to you. Problem solved.
And for those who don't have geek relatives...
Her next call will be to the ISP's tech in India who will say to call Microsoft who to says to call your OEM-Computer Vendor who says to call your Anti-virus vendor who tells you to call your local Geek squad who then proceeds to just somehow fry your video card while formatting your computer.
Problem solved! Oh wait...
Hypothetically, I could live in Canada while the WoW servers I play on are housed in the U.S. but do business with a guy in Germany whose playing through a proxy in France.
Or you could just play WoW in Somalia over a satellite phone and the only taxes you'll pay is the protection money the local warlord shows up to collect every Sunday.
Since money doesn't change hands over the WoW servers, it would be hard to see how the IRS could enforce this especially when dealing with other countries who may not be friendly. What could you do against North Korean gold farmers working for their government?
Not to side track your argument, but both Animal Farm and 1984 actually happened in an actual country between 1917 and 1937.
It struck me odd after reading Edvard Radzinsky's book on Stalin how Stalin's life really mirrored Orwell's stories.
The point of the Television devices in 1984 weren't actually that technology controls society, but to rather to show the prevalence of informants amount the people. During the "Great Purges" of the 1930's everyone turned in everyone to the state for thought crimes. There was a statue built for a young boy who turned his parents in for plotting against Stalin.
Not to mention Stalin actually had government apartments for government officials with built in audio devices to listen for treason.
There were accounts of people on trial that confessed with tears they loved Stalin and admitted to every insane crime they were accused of and begged to be punished for their crimes.
So it is safe to say 1984 did happen and it wasn't about the CCTV issue but rather an allegory to that era.
You get to be an innocent child ONCE!
I'm not a psychologist, but from my understanding if you leave 'innocent' children unsupervised and isolated from the outside world they will naturally turn violent towards each other.
It is human nature to be violent, selfish, and evil.
Of course so is altruism.
But rather to get into a nurture vs nature debate I would argue that its best to consider that you are never too old to view the world as a child.
Why can't we continue to play hand-eye coordination improving games?
I was a 90's kid and I didn't like pinball or Pac Man.
I did play the hell out of Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, and pretty much all the Neo Geo fighting games. (Possibly thousands of dollars over the course of 10 years.)
However, you don't see me running around pulling anyone's heart out or doing a thousand hand karate chop move.
And I don't see your point on Doom being a bad movie... There is an unsaid law somewhere that if you make a movie off a video game it is going not only suck, but make you wish you had died on the way to the theater in order to avoid ever seeing it. Street Fighter the Movie, Mortal Kombat Movie, Mario Brothers (although Dennis Hopper was its only saving grace), Doom, Silent Hill, House of the Dead (gack *cough* gack*).
In fact is easier to just say the only video game movie that didn't suck was Resident Evil and the Final Fantasy Japanese movies (not the American one... that sucked pretty badly, but the CGI one with Cloud and Sephiroth)
Sin City was ok, but if I had a 13 year old boy I don't see how say 300 is going to turn him into a raving Spartan bent on killing everyone he things is a Persian.
However, I've noticed a lot of younger kids throwing around the F word these days. We didn't say that even when we watched R rated movies as kids. Of course it might be a moot point in 20 years when everyone that is a kid now grows up and things that cursing is fine.
I remember when it was normal to get kicked out of school for saying "suck" or "butt" or wearing a Beavis and Butthead T-Shirt. Of course I might have went to a strict school...
Well... If you are rich enough to buy a six figured electric car, might as well buy two.
Either there is some serious wrong doing by MSFT like bribing IT managers and giving kick backs to PC vendors. Or these people are really dumb.
I think people buy Microsoft products so if something does go wrong they can blame Microsoft.
And by the time the company realizes they can't open 10 year old important documents the person who had made the decision has left the company.
Besides, who wants to deal with IPv6 when dotted quads are easier to memorize?
And I forgot to add... Who memorizes IP addresses anymore?
I used to back in the day, but DHCP isn't as flaky anymore so no need for static IP on the OS side and if your router setup is worth a snuff you can assign a static IP via DHCP based of your NIC's MAC address so it gets the same IP address each time. And since most people are blocking use of their DNS servers unless you are on their network also makes it pointless to know IP addresses by heart.
Everything else can go into an excel file or a sticky note on the monitor (I've got one IP address that I don't have a DNS entry for, but I use it once in a blue moon but I made a sticky note for it)
Reallocate the IPv4 space reasonably, force organizations such as Apple, HP, IBM, Merck, and Halliburton justify their IP allocation request like I had to for my puny /27 block, and then there will be plenty of space for all.
If I may make a car analogy...
Let us say that IPv4 is the oil we get from the ground and all cars run off it. Then a small group of scientists do a study and say discover "Egads! We've only got 10 years worth of oil left!"
Everyone panics and the scientists come up with a pure ethanol based car (IPv6) that has none of the limitations of oil when it comes to making new ones (In theory we could eventually use up all our natural resources in production of corn, but that would take thousands of years so that is someone eles's problem)
However, such a switch over would cost millions if not billions of dollars spent replacing all the oil based motors, but they start the work.
Then.... Some smart ingenious mechanic finds a way to make regular engines work off 50% ethanol and 50% oil (NAT addressing) and everyone goes "Phew! Problem solved!"
However, that doesn't resolve the fact that oil is still going to run out in 20 years but by then that will be someone else's problem.
But in reality, I think the US, Canada, and Europe will switch to IPv6 when their counter parts in China and India surpass us economically in 10 to 20 years. (As in Chinese companies start buying US companies and then tell their network departments to migrate so they can communicate better)
Asia is the big pusher for IPv6 because they simply did not get any of the IPv4 to start with and NAT isn't helping them much considering they will have literally the majority of world's internet users. Unless, like you say, the big US tech companies give up the IPv4 spaces to companies in Asia I think they are on the path to complete IPv6 networks over there.
Either way... I think most of us will get IPv6 equipment when it was cheaper for the manufacture to not disable the feature in our standard IPv4 products (think built in modem or video into the mother board trend) but this might be some time from now.
How does what you describe not fit under the umbrella of "very few people"?
Perhaps if I meant "very few people with influence" it would have made more sense. If a company (who chances are you buy a daily product of every day) notices that its employees can't do its job because of another company... Well they might say something either to the other company or to another press related group.
Of course I think I forgot to mention the company I'm referring (vaguely) to is in the States and their sales reps are regional so they would all have different ISPs.
I would guess that very few people use SSH, VPNs, or other encrypted connections that require the speeds to which we have become accustomed.
Actually, some major companies out there have several thousand "work at home" employees that are required to use VPN. Most of these people are in sales type of jobs, but plenty others are required to use VPN to connect to Exchange servers to access email from home.
Considering MS Exchange and dialup don't really mix, these people often have to have broadband to do their jobs efficiently. Seeing how not having VPN with an exchange server is a security risk, I can't really see any alternatives for these work at home types other than to switch to the provider who downgrades them the least.
Keep in mind these people are often working on company laptops who are locked down completely and couldn't install P2P software even if they wanted to.