>Oh my. Being a half-assed govt created and approved monopoly is now the >equivalent to that of a violent criminal? Has Comcast actually committed a >*crime*?
You are quite a spinner. Here we go for another round of "Thank You for Not Smoking." I think the events in the financial markets over the last few days should have refocused our attention on what should be considered criminal. If I were to drive a car recklessly and cause you to leave the road and be injured that would be a criminal act. In fact, just the first part would be criminal. Why should some fat cat who pays himself $1,000,000/day not be held responsible for operating a company recklessly in a manner that causes huge losses to the nation's economy, causes innocent people to lose their jobs, homes, savings, pensions, etc. and leaves the government holding the bag for $trillions? With Comcast and their ilk we are seeing new storm clouds on the horizon. Instead of upgrading their networks they downgrade our service, lie about the technology, and corrupt our governing system to perpetuate their thievery. Their greedy mismanagement is going to crash the USA's information economy. Acting today could right the system with mininal impact. Waiting until we discover that the USA has slipped way behind the rest of the world in this vital field will put the country into a position not unlike the current financial crisis, except fixing it will be a lot harder and costlier. The solution may be as simple as to void all exclusive franchises and any legislation that keeps communities from entering the market to correct market inefficiencies that may cause them to get bypassed. Another solution would be to enforce universal service to eliminate cherry picking and to set minimum service standards (network neutrality, no caps, no throttling, etc.). As we have seen with FIOS and they systems now spreading in Europe and Asia, broadband can be a lot better and cheaper than it is in tha USA. >What kind of nonsense is it when companies lie to us about the high cost >of a product that is demonstrably cheaper to produce than even a year >ago! We're quibbling about 2Mb, 6Mb, 10Mb service while they're testing >1Gb service in Amsterdam and in Sweden! Amen! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
