Comment Re:Shocking... (Score 1) 123
If Verizon can freely violate the contract then NYC can violate it, too
If Verizon can freely violate the contract then NYC can violate it, too
Why would Verizon take that deal?
Because it's a BETTER deal than being found in breach of the contract.
That's like saying LeBron James not playing on your basketball team is hindering your team.
No, it's like signing up LeBron James to play on your team, paying him to play, and he doesn't show up.
don't want one company to be able to dictate prices by controlling the cable.
Yeah this is why we have contractual agreements between ISPs and local governments. The local government owns the land that the cable passes through, and it can take the right to use the cables away from the company if it doesn't use the resource in a responsible manner. That's the theory anyway.
So NO, no company is "controlling the cable", your local government is "controlling the cable" and you have the ability to get involved here.
If Verizon is unable to provide a connection to a resident because an asshole landlord is unwilling to allow the connection, how is that Verizon's fault?
The telephone companies were MARVELLOUSLY successful at passing laws that prevented landlords from getting in the way if the tenants wanted telephone service. If they REALLY wanted the customers they would further manipulate the lawmakers into making it ILLEGAL for landlords to interfere with Internet wiring.
What did NYC give to get Verizon to lay the fiber?
Permission to use the city's infrastructure without being arrested for trespassing
so why pray tell is verizon not using this wonderful argument if they have it at their disposal?
What I said is that you will only make money in the Bronx if you are selling drugs
Citation required
Should they break into the buildings/apartments that refuse to allow to install FIOS despit the tennants wanting it?
They were pretty good at convincing the government that everyone needs a telephone, and they got government backing behind laws that make telephones available to everyone. Why not the same for Internet?
The quality of programs is steadily declining with ever more emphasis on reality programs.
I'm assuming you've never actually watched television if you are making the assertion that there has ever been any "quality" at all.
This statistic by itself hasn't changed much in 20 years or so
it's been much longer than that. The standard broadcast tape for a half hour TV show is 22 minutes long, going back many decades to betacam and reel-to-reel.
The Old always beats the new in the end
I think there are some dinosaurs out there that would disagree with you if they weren't extinct
Even donning your favorite player's jersey is no different than cosplaying at an anime or comic convention
really? So if I put on my Tom Brady shirt and spend the afternoon scrubbing the bathtub, this is the same as going to a convention?
so you are still falling for the same practical joke after all these years?
No one knows what it will do before just trying it.
and gosh it would never occur to anyone to make a backup first
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