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If you thought the internet was crowded now, just wait 5 years. :eek:

If you live in the United States and don't have Internet yet, chances are you aren't getting it anytime soon. It costs a tremendous amount of money to build out infrastructure to places that aren't already being served; there often isn't enough demand to make those investments worth it.
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We need google fiber worldwide to accommodate all that porn :eek:
 
We need to vlan Nigeria and certain parts of Russia off before the rest get online...
 
And this is exactly why internet access should be treated as a utility exactly the same as electricity...

Government mandated and regulated access for everyone, managed by private companies that have ABSOLUTELY NO TIES to media companies or content providers that are only going to invest in "growth" if it increases their board members ability to buy themselves another yacht or vacation home.

At this point areas with poor internet access are already facing economic and growth problems due to their lack of infrastructure, and this will only continues to increase in the future and exacerbate the problem of the quickly growing gap between rich and poor as the middle class continues to vanish and the U.S. slides further and further towards 3rd World Country status.
 
Good, there was a shortage of Mexican gypsies online and virtually no youtube videos uploaded by Zulu tribelords which this will hopefully address.
 
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot said:
And this is exactly why internet access should be treated as a utility exactly the same as electricity...

Government mandated and regulated access for everyone, managed by private companies that have ABSOLUTELY NO TIES to media companies or content providers that are only going to invest in "growth" if it increases their board members ability to buy themselves another yacht or vacation home.

At this point areas with poor internet access are already facing economic and growth problems due to their lack of infrastructure, and this will only continues to increase in the future and exacerbate the problem of the quickly growing gap between rich and poor as the middle class continues to vanish and the U.S. slides further and further towards 3rd World Country status.
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You do know what it cost just to get power line run to house now days in rural area it not cheap.
 
shspvr said:
You do know what it cost just to get power line run to house now days in rural area it not cheap.
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Yeah the only thing that's legally mandated IIRC is a telephone line, my in-laws had AT&T trying so hard to give them the runaround because they bought a parcel off a very large hunk of land where there never needed to be a phone service, however with phone service you don't need to pay for the extension. Electricity however.. you do.
 
I have an issue with this statement. It actually means that half the human population (along with some small part of the dog and cat population, and I'm sure even some ferrets, but they don't address that) will be connected to the internet in 5 years. That is far different from half the planet. To say "half the planet" invokes an inferred meaning of half the land mass or even half the total surface area, which would be very wrong. Much more than half the human population lives in big cities, leaving large areas with very low population density.

So, with half the human population connected to the internet, we're probably only talking about 10% of the land mass surface area, and only about 3-4% of the total surface area. In short, only about 3-4% of the planet is on the internet.
 
dgingeri said:
I have an issue with this statement. It actually means that half the human population (along with some small part of the dog and cat population, and I'm sure even some ferrets, but they don't address that) will be connected to the internet in 5 years. That is far different from half the planet. To say "half the planet" invokes an inferred meaning of half the land mass or even half the total surface area, which would be very wrong. Much more than half the human population lives in big cities, leaving large areas with very low population density.

So, with half the human population connected to the internet, we're probably only talking about 10% of the land mass surface area, and only about 3-4% of the total surface area. In short, only about 3-4% of the planet is on the internet.
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Most of the planet is devoid of humans.
 
this is terrible news. it just means that we'll have more fuckernauts and astrobastards to contend with.
 
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot said:
And this is exactly why internet access should be treated as a utility exactly the same as electricity...

Government mandated and regulated access for everyone, managed by private companies that have ABSOLUTELY NO TIES to media companies or content providers that are only going to invest in "growth" if it increases their board members ability to buy themselves another yacht or vacation home.

At this point areas with poor internet access are already facing economic and growth problems due to their lack of infrastructure, and this will only continues to increase in the future and exacerbate the problem of the quickly growing gap between rich and poor as the middle class continues to vanish and the U.S. slides further and further towards 3rd World Country status.
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Um, the internet was nothing until it was deregulated and taken away from the government. It is precisely the lack of statist regulation that has made the internet as successful as it is. Allow the government to start "regulating" internet access and you destroy it.

I reject the notion that internet access is a right. You do not have the right to force someone else to give you their private property. That is called theft. The problems with lackluster internet access are due to government-granted monopolies that allow internet providers to do whatever they want because there is no competition to loose business to. Get rid of the monopolies, get rid of the FCC and allow for unregulated wireless (rather than allowing a few wealthy companies to buy up all the spectrum) and you won't have a problem getting internet access.

Network neutrality is equally as foolish. If I own a network, I have the right to direct traffic flow through that network. Again, if there was an actual free market for internet service, network neutrality wouldn't be a problem because you could just switch to a competing ISP.
 
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot said:
And this is exactly why internet access should be treated as a utility exactly the same as electricity...

Government mandated and regulated access for everyone, managed by private companies that have ABSOLUTELY NO TIES to media companies or content providers that are only going to invest in "growth" if it increases their board members ability to buy themselves another yacht or vacation home.

At this point areas with poor internet access are already facing economic and growth problems due to their lack of infrastructure, and this will only continues to increase in the future and exacerbate the problem of the quickly growing gap between rich and poor as the middle class continues to vanish and the U.S. slides further and further towards 3rd World Country status.
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Your logic is just a liberal conspiracy to infect us with socialism.
 
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot said:
And this is exactly why internet access should be treated as a utility exactly the same as electricity...
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The gubment had internet, didn't do shit with it. It blew up with the whole information age when AOL and other entities took over.

And electricity is deregulated in Texas and working just fine for me. I pay 8.7 cents per KWH, and I have a broad choice in electricity providers.

That model seems to work well, only one "cable" has to be run to my house, that company that laid the cable is reimbursed, and then any schmuck with a power plant on the grid can sell me electricity over that line.
 
And no, it is bullcrap to require half the country to buy internet access for the other half.

You want internet, YOU pay for it yourself. It is not a necessity of life, so I'll give you clean water, food, and some used clothes, and that's it. The rest, get a job, pay for it, or go to a library. Efforts should only be made to ensure that companies are incentivized to expand infrastructure, such as the deregulated electricity system we have in Texas.
 
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