I also like turning on my lights when it's just starting to get dark. If they're only 2 feet behind someone going 80mph, taking the time to distinguish between tail lights and break lights can be expensive. (I actually did it when I was being tailgated by a cop, he slowed down pretty quick;)
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Europe has the convenience of having small areas to cover. Even Sweden [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden], which is one of the larger countries by area, is just barely bigger than California [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California]. If that was all we had to worry about, I'm sure that ISP's would not be shy to try to blanket the entire country in hi-bandwidth goodness. As it is this is a big ass country, and the cost for building up that type of infrastructure is huge. Of course we're starting to see places like NYC get higher bandwidth coverage, but again, we're back to the case of having a large population in a relatively small geographical area.
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I also like turning on my lights when it's just starting to get dark. If they're only 2 feet behind someone going 80mph, taking the time to distinguish between tail lights and break lights can be expensive. (I actually did it when I was being tailgated by a cop, he slowed down pretty quick ;)
Europe has the convenience of having small areas to cover. Even Sweden [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden], which is one of the larger countries by area, is just barely bigger than California [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California]. If that was all we had to worry about, I'm sure that ISP's would not be shy to try to blanket the entire country in hi-bandwidth goodness. As it is this is a big ass country, and the cost for building up that type of infrastructure is huge. Of course we're starting to see places like NYC get higher bandwidth coverage, but again, we're back to the case of having a large population in a relatively small geographical area.