Well, I could have told you this for free. I think in some cases, particularly legacy codebases, 5% is pretty generous too.

Well, far be it for me to pull your head out of the sand. For some reason you seem really defensive about this, like the truth would shatter your fragile grasp on reality. I suggest not turning on the TV to something other than fox news...

Yea well I know that but I meant it sarcastically.

You can pretend all you want that the fact of the differences in base costs of living and the lack of availability of network infrastructure that is Netflix-capable across the vast majority of the geographic area of the continental USA is as irrelevant to my initial statement and the relative economic status of Cuba vs places in the USA you can only get to after driving for hours down unpaved dirt/gravel roads, but I doubt most the rest of the readers of this now rather tiresome and pedantic thread (though I pity them) will miss your lame attempt at astro-turfing over the actual problem.

I have an Idea! How about you dig up the wikipedia page and do the math yourself for the adjustments for inflation and commodities costs and subtract stuff paid for implicitly by their socialized health care and food and housing systems? Also, maybe get a second opinion on that 20$ figure; Fox News isn't really known for their super accurate accounting of facts on numbers like this. I heard somewhere that the actual number for Cuban monthly household incomes is over 20 times what you cited.

Really? I thought I just enumerated 3 of them, as you requested. Its not like you're gonna be able to find these places on Google Maps. The whole continent isn't a city, bro.

You should visit the back woods of Montana or Arkansas some time, it'll enlighten you. Also, we still have "Indian Reservations" and the tribes don't *all* own casinos. Adjust for inflation and lack of demand due to how sparse the population is in some areas and you'll find that its really easy to get out-of-range of modern cable/dsl/fiber internet once you're in a place where the ratio of Deer per square mile is 5x that of humans. I know someone who lived about a mile outside of a town of about 4,000 people who just finally got high-speed DSL LAST YEAR.

Note: I assume here they're not counting satellite or dial-up internet as "internet." I assume they meant "broadband capable of Netflix streaming" when they said "internet."

A lot of rural regions in the U.S. are not only fairly sparsely populated but also aren't really that much better off economically than Cuba.

I honestly think this is one case where your ultra-paranoid right-wing "all regulation is always inherently bad and packed with lies and subterfuge" view of things can't possibly live up to what reality will eventually pan out to be. Personally, due to the existing state of things, I *can't* actually suffer one bit more due to the outcome of this action by the FCC one way or another, because I'm *already* paying extra for business-class internet at my home just to avoid these types of shenanigans so that I can get real work done. I'm *already* in the worst-case scenario. Maybe *after* the FCC steps up and actually starts *doing their job* I won't be anymore.

And yea, I'm known as the MOST PARANOID of my people. So me telling you that you're irrational here means something.

Ironically, they actually let you SEND mail. They just don't let you *receive* it, so while what you're saying is technically accurate, its actually also completely irrelevant to my argument.

Ironically, they actually let you SEND mail. They just don't let you *receive* it.

The point being that it will be illegal to make standard usage against the terms of service going forward.

Oh, so its ok then if your ISP blocks it as an anti-competition measure and claims its "for your protection?" That's the exact type of crap to which Title II is meant to put a stop.

Where nothing was actually blocked?? Bullshit. You never tried hosting a mail server on a Comcast residential cable modem, did you?

The real lesson is "don't jog." Ask any +70 year old who has had to have double knee-replacement surgery.

Oh wait, he still won't be old enough. Nevermind. I should have done something cool with my childhood... sigh.