Wikipedia cites a GAO report stating that "Between 1976 and 1990 the paid fare had declined approximately thirty percent in inflation-adjusted terms."

You've hit the real problem. Many large ISP have effective monopolies through high infrastructure costs. I would expect that any government regulation would first seek to formalize these, justified by the claim that service and rates would be managed centrally by the government.

We have, with great struggle, deregulated power and gas in my state. In most options, the prices were lower for competitors delivering service over the same "pipes" as the official, prior monopoly.

When the airlines were de-regulated in 1978, fares dropped. But, passenger loads increased. This, of course, allowed commoners better access to the friendly skies.

I'm pretty sure if government gains more regulatory control over the internet, speed will continue to lag our peers, quality will go down and price will go up.

Tom represented the cynicism, sarcasm and realism of many of my engineering brethren. RIP

Yep, had the wrong airport code.

Actually, a quick web search showed quite a few direct flights from Liberia to major US airports.

I believe the commenter used the little "d" to represent a democratically elected government, in contrast to a totalitarian government.

My Yoga 2 has a 3200x1800 display. It is practically useless as many applications cannot scale correctly. With windows 8 on there, it's rarely used. I've not found decent Linux distro that works well, either. I'll stick with 1080.

HD content, for video, is a lot of data for minimal increased information. Increasing pixel density provides no additional information if added pixels are below the threshold of perception.

Given the option, I'll watch HD over SD, but I can follow all the action on SD.

Been using netvibes as a replacement. It imported my xml export of igoogle and that built about 20% of the old page. I've got it about 60% serviceable. Much of the content is in embedded webpages and that seems to work OK.

I know, I know it's not really needed in a modern OS, but I don't want to give it up.

Actually, I bought a Yoga Pro 2 with WIn8 (now 8.1) and I find the touch interface useless when I have a keyboard and mouse. Only with the use of 3rd party utilities can I control Windows 8.1 enough to use the computer. But, I've found myself using my old netbook that I put Mint on. It's a shame when a small, slow and old computer is now more usable.

I'm pretty sure the "fortune" will be paid by the common folk, and go to the corporations making green products. And, I'm guessing these "green" companies are held by the 1%

Seems like Amazon might be fishing for authors to self publish and take the 70% of the $9.99. I'm sure Amazon would be glad to take a few extra percent to proof, layout and market the ebook for an author.

I never defined the population. If we define the population as survey respondents, we know rho.