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If all of this is true I sure hope my Cubbies win the World Series this year...that would really stink to have your 100+ year drought interrupted by something as menial as the Apocalypse!
-------------------- Jeff Margeson High School Art Teacher 49 Kincaid St. Bolivar, NY 14715 jmargeson@brcs.wnyric.org Posts: 29 | From: Bolivar, NY | Registered: May 2008
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I could live without the internet if I had to. The only way to fight big business is make them choke on their product. If you don't buy it, things will change. Problem is as Americans we don't think we can live without everything under the sun....I can!
-------------------- Rob Larkham Sign Techniques Inc. Chicopee, Ma Posts: 607 | From: Chester, Ma. | Registered: Apr 2002
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I think something will change, too many business models with no profits. There's a whole generation that thinks everything, music, movies, research, communication, graphic design should be free (aside from your IP fee)_thanks to the internet. I am personally amazed sometimes at what can be had for "nothing" on the internet. REmember all those 90s businesses that thought all you needed was "eyeballs" on your site to make money?
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Well, hopefully there will be at least a few ISP's who will be rogues and continue to offer unlimited packages for a reasonable fee. Can you imagine how many subscribers they would have? They'd have a billion customers.
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-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 3395 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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Face it, were paying big business right now to be able to use the internet. Your paying an internet provider. I for one would be more than happy to walk away from my computer for a few months to get the point across that the world could survive another gazillion years without the internet.
Boy am I gonna miss you people!
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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I personally don’t think this can be done. The internet is too large, too powerful and it’s worldwide. I just have a hard time believing that a few companies can some how tame such a wild and free beast. I don’t think you can treat the net like TV, it’s a completely different animal. If for what ever reason they do try, I think the majority of people around the world will fight this. But you never know.
Business is already being done all over the internet. If a few companies change the game at the source, it will create such a huge conflict with all the other industries that are already in place. Do you honestly think these existing online businesses will allow this to happen?
-------------------- Joe Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, IL 61764 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 538 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Aug 2005
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Prodigy didn't last... the anarchy of the net took over instead, because we didn't want a controlled homogonized experience, or a Walled Garden as it's been called... so I agree with Joe.. I just don't think a handful of greedy corporations will be able to unring this bell.
....oh, the conspiracy theory about the internet. I'll leave that to nut jobs like Alex Jones. Life is too short to worry about the CFR, Trilateral Commissions and collusion between Time-Warner and AOL.
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They are trying big time.. This from Yahoo news.. "On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month will offer 15 megabits per second and a 40GB cap.
Both downloads and uploads count toward the monthly total. Overages will be charged at $1 a gigabyte."
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