You must work for the treasury department.

Total cost of ownership is way too high nowadays. And they've even taken away the "ownership" part. If you read the TOS it's scary as hell. You just can't whip them anymore.

The best bit is the banks valuing Uber at 17 billion dollars and thinking of raking in many more billions than this with a possible IPO. Caveat emptor.

Yeah right up till the end when all those people died, excellent safety record...

What, you find the Pax Americana to be one sided? Shame on you. I think perhaps we should park a few legions in your province for a few decades.

But that's unlikely. For one, Latin happens to have gotten there first. It is now so deeply entrenched in print, education and media that switching to anything else would entail an enormous effort. We retain the QWERTY keyboard... the Chinese do not use QWERTY, either.

We can solve this problem if everyone stops breathing for 10 minutes. No cheating. Ready? 3, 2, 1 GO

I'm waiting for punch cards to come back. You just don't get the same experience when loading your program on cassette tape.

No I think it has to do more with the shitty overpriced movies.

In b4 drunk parrots become an internet thing...

Municipalities charge taxes for roads, garbage, schools etc. At least where I live it's the power company or the phone company that fixes their own damaged equipment when lines come down, not the city. And you bet your ass the city won't lift a finger to fix anything unless they are generating revenue from it.

What GP is proposing is some sort of "public" trunk that everyone can then attach to at the end points and sell from there. OK. What GP has not mentioned is that someone has to own and maintain this "public" line and if it's the city, you bet your ass they are going to charge you for it one way or another. It's not a city service otherwise, is it?

As for private industry being the only one that can fix anything no, that's simply not true. The city will charge you an arm and a leg to fix something, do a shitty job and call what they bilk you for it "taxes". Private industry will charge you an arm and a leg, do a shitty job, and call the difference profit. But unless it's a life or death service, governments tend to take their sweet time about things. Feasibility studies have to be done, committees have to meet and decide, and finally the 2 guys responsible for actually fixing anything that goes wrong in the whole town have to fit it into their schedule. Or does your town not have potholes, burst pipes, etc? If those get fixed overnight please tell me where you live so I can move there. Private industry tends to be a bit quicker because they want the money ASAP. The city already has your money. Try not to pay them and see what happens.

Sure. When a car crashes into the pole and takes out that one fiber, who is going to repair it? The municipality will do it in 2 months because they just don't give a shit. Anyone else won't touch it because they don't own it. Be careful what you wish for.

Unless you happen to be creating NEWS. Those emails are not copyrighted they are news-worthy and their publication and republication is to substantiate said news. Wouldn't it be a sad day if everyone could hide behind copyright. Politician - what I said was copyrighted don't repeat it. Court - this judgement is copyrighted you can't see it. Criminal - the slashing patterns on the victim are my copyrighted work, you can't reproduce it... etc. But first, "let's kill all the lawyers..." -- Shakespeare (proving you can still make money and be famous even 400 years after you are dead and copyright has expired).

So your argument basically boils down to "put up with whatever they want or shut the fuck up". Uh huh. You are the new America. I'm glad I don't live there.

But then they'd run the risk of entering the right house and god forbid - run the risk of maybe facing CRIMINALS. That's dangerous! Heck, it might even be someone who was caught smoking a joint! And everyone knows how violent those drug crazed pot smokers can be.