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Doc Block posted:where the gently caress do you live that you have a choice beyond a landline phone company still desperately trying to convince people that DSL is a viable broadband option so they keep paying for a landline, and a single cable broadband ISP? satellite totally counts as an alternative
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saying "i can get the same price for the same service from three different places" doesn't at all imply that either the service or the price is remotely reasonable eg, the last time i was living in canada a few years ago, there were like five different options, all for the same price and with the same level of service, which was 25 megabits down / 3 up with a 50 gigabyte monthly cap for like 89,99 / mo
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Jul 29, 2014 01:36
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yess another nut neutrality thread with shaggar at the helm
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Jul 29, 2014 02:07
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Sagebrush posted:saying "i can get the same price for the same service from three different places" doesn't at all imply that either the service or the price is remotely reasonable a kentucky town opened a government run gas station for this exact reason http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...7d23_story.html spoiler alert: prices fell
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Jul 29, 2014 02:23
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:a kentucky town opened a government run gas station for this exact reason quote:“If milk got too high, are you going to build a dairy?” said Ted Mason, executive director of the Kentucky Grocers Association and Kentucky Association of Convenience Stores. hey yeah not a bad idea either
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Jul 29, 2014 02:30
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I can't believe it's at the point now where I look at my nz Internet and then American Internet and just die laughing at what a state yours is in and is going
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Jul 29, 2014 02:31
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Phoning It In posted:hey yeah not a bad idea either also milk prices are heavily regulated by the government
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Jul 29, 2014 02:34
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you're government is hosed up when it comes to subsidies. fuckin oil is subsidised? idgi given just how anti gubmint it claims to be
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Jul 29, 2014 02:43
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Shaggar posted:no, I can literally buy cable internet service from 3 different companies but it ends up being identical service at identical prices. thats cool, i actually have two options here. comcast and comcast business
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Jul 29, 2014 02:48
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also 1.5 mbit at&t u-verse for $45/mo but lmao no
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Jul 29, 2014 02:49
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lol at everyones poo poo internet i get 100 mbits for $60 a month with no bandwith caps through comcast
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Jul 29, 2014 02:52
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tbh i am more disgusted at how easy it is to manipulate minority groups to do the bidding of moneyed (white male) interests than i am at the manipulation itself
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Jul 29, 2014 02:53
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it's like when you hear about some politician getting busted for accepting, like, a $10,000 bribe and are all "really? that's loving it? have some self-respect and at least get up into 6 digits"
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Jul 29, 2014 02:55
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Cnidaria posted:lol at everyones poo poo internet 
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Jul 29, 2014 02:59
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wait what group can I set up a nonprofit about and then get sweet sweet slush fund money for?
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Jul 29, 2014 03:01
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Cnidaria posted:lol at everyones poo poo internet
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Jul 29, 2014 03:12
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duTrieux. posted:it's like when you hear about some politician getting busted for accepting, like, a $10,000 bribe and are all "really? that's loving it? have some self-respect and at least get up into 6 digits"
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Jul 29, 2014 03:14
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Jimmy Carter posted:wait what group can I set up a nonprofit about and then get sweet sweet slush fund money for? exploit their fear.
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Jul 29, 2014 03:14
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Phoenixan posted:that's called campaign donations when it reaches 6 digits fine, have the lobbyist throw in a live tiger or something instead idk just if you're gonna go in, go big, y'know?
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Jul 29, 2014 03:15
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i pay $65 and get 20mbit from comcast whats goin on here
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Jul 29, 2014 03:17
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Shaggar posted:the att breakup lead to a fragmentation of technology that probably set the telcom industry back 10 years lmao
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Jul 29, 2014 03:29
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Cnidaria posted:lol at everyones poo poo internet comcast is indefensibly bad and had badwith caps less than 2 years ago bandwidth caps that didn't exist a few years prior and were introduced solely as a way to rape the american public gently caress comcast
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Jul 29, 2014 03:33
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duTrieux. posted:fine, have the lobbyist throw in a live tiger or something instead idk i hear you can get a bengal cub for an even grand nowadays
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Jul 29, 2014 03:52
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that probably doesn't include all of the shots + microchip, though
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Jul 29, 2014 03:58
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Jul 29, 2014 03:58
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oh man shaggar you are hilarious
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Jul 29, 2014 04:53
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I pay $109/month for 50mbps internet, a dvr, and a second box plus like 500 HD channels that my wife watches it was gonna be $136/month but then I decided to walk into the xfinity store and talk to someone in person and see what deals I could strong arm them into and heh guess u nerds need to get out of your dwellings and go talk to some poor sweaty guy trying to make a living selling cable to Americans 
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Jul 29, 2014 04:55
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lol I was at home content with adsl and some fucker dropped some poo poo in my letter box and upgrades to fibre for not only free but CHEAPER so yeah strong armed my dick
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Jul 29, 2014 05:00
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Sagebrush posted:saying "i can get the same price for the same service from three different places" doesn't at all imply that either the service or the price is remotely reasonable no, it implies that publicly accessible lines dont make service cheaper or alter competition because all the cost is in the last mile. putting the government in charge of that last mile isn't gonna do anyone any good.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:03
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:a kentucky town opened a government run gas station for this exact reason yeah that works pretty well as long as people don't realize they already paid for the gas once w/ their property taxes.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:09
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mishaq posted:lmao it hosed up our cell networks too.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:10
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Shaggar posted:it hosed up our cell networks too. ooooh ooooh please share the details
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Jul 29, 2014 05:11
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the fragmentation led to each entity developing its own technology and leasing different frequency space from the fcc. so it ended up loving up frequency allocation too! nice work. the fix? just put every possible radio in every phone.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:14
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last time i talked about telecom in yospos i got fishmeched to hell so i gotta be careful id rather get shaggared than fishmeched though
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Jul 29, 2014 05:14
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Sagebrush posted:a 50 gigabyte monthly cap for like 89,99 / mo lmao
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Jul 29, 2014 05:16
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Shaggar posted:no, it implies that publicly accessible lines dont make service cheaper or alter competition because all the cost is in the last mile. putting the government in charge of that last mile isn't gonna do anyone any good. oh man, you're right. if there are three options then the invisible hand must be working right and these must be the lowest prices and the best service possible. pure, clean, wholesome american free enterprise like the telcos would surely never collude and fix prices. "record profits?" i'm unfamiliar with those words Shaggar posted:yeah that works pretty well as long as people don't realize they already paid for the gas once w/ their property taxes. presumably the state-run gas station is also paying taxes on the gas it sells and it's all sorted out somewhere upstream, but no one would give a poo poo either way because it's cheaper than the private ones.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:17
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aaargh im being shaggar'd hard
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Jul 29, 2014 05:18
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Sagebrush posted:oh man, you're right. if there are three options then the invisible hand must be working right and these must be the lowest prices and the best service possible. pure, clean, wholesome american free enterprise like the telcos would surely never collude and fix prices. "record profits?" i'm unfamiliar with those words Sagebrush posted:presumably the state-run gas station is also paying taxes on the gas it sells and it's all sorted out somewhere upstream, but no one would give a poo poo either way because it's cheaper than the private ones.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:20
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reminder that internet caps have nothing to do with net neutrality
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Shaggar posted:the fragmentation led to each entity developing its own technology and leasing different frequency space from the fcc. so it ended up loving up frequency allocation too! nice work. so if there was no divestiture there would have been only one mobile phone network technology in the us? sure, i guess we'd all be using IS-136 TDMA networks engineered to give us the best call quality in the world and < 50 kbps data speeds in tyool 2014 and every home in america would have an ISDN line shaggar's america
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