Customers who use the internet in more sophisticated ways, for example to cut their TV cable and stream; to use bittorrent; to game, and so forth will not benefit from this pricing plan.

We're left with less informed and poorer customers as the target demographic. The problem here is that most people and especially those in the target demographic don't realize how many bits that javascript game is transferring. They don't realize Mom's facebook page links to 3 gigs of pictures. This will inevitably result in a large percentage of their customers going far over the cap and getting hit with an unpayable bill.

I would like to think this company will simply cut off internet service at cap but a much, much more likely scenario is debt collectors harassing poor people for anything they can get.

This is evil from start to finish.

Wait, a cruise ship with classes and lectures?? What is this magical cruise line?

>Just fill out the paperwork, and get on with life. Don't upset the pencil pushers. They're goons with badges and guns.

This way lies fascism.

"Not a pound for the ground" worked very well for the F-15. If the F-22 is needed for air superiority those choices will be proven well made.

Communists, "gun violence", video games, SARS, terrorists, jesus fucking christ. I can't believe people are actually stupid enough to fall into line for the scare of the day anymore.

Average price is a damn poor way to measure affordability. Today you can buy four brands of car new and with much higher safety and quality than those that used to exist anywhere for $12,000 or less. After inflation that's just about spot on.

Or you can buy a used car for $1999 (a quarter the 1977 price after inflation) and have it last twice as long for the same maintenance and still have much better quality and safety.

When the defense was "everyone should know the story is bogus" calling Musk a bullshitter is pretty well preposterous.

>If you demand that the minimum wage increases by 25 percent, I will have to let go of 25 percent my employees in that pay bracket. Complete bullshit. As a business owner (if you were one) you would keep the number of employees that makes you most profitable. It's VERY unlikely your margin is so small that you'll be best off canning 25% of your minimum wage employees.

>it's a post-privacy society, get over it. No it's not, no I won't, and fuck you.

I don't use facebook, twitter, or anything else. That others do doesn't mean I'm willing to give up my privacy like they do. It gives me comfort to know that a court order is generally needed for the government to get my email. I'm happy knowing that Google employees aren't allowed to read my email. And I'm aware of the Chinese wall at Google separating automated scanning for ads from anything requiring a human.

If these things change I'll be closing my gmail account and damn the consequences. So no. It's not a post privacy world for those who opt out.

So your argument is, they act guilty therefore they're guilty? There's no evidence here and any presumption of guilt is wrong.

I'll just leave this here.

If this happens it will strike a hard blow to the control over money the US government has been trying so hard to achieve.

That "circus magic" showed enough intelligence to parse natural language. I understand you want to believe there's something special about a brain but there really isn't. The laws of physics are universal and apply equally to your brain, a computer, and a rock.

You should know after all science has created that "we don't know" doesn't mean "it's impossible" nor does it mean "this isn't the right method"

"open up the internet" is something they will listen to. "stop being isolationist" isn't. The best advice, ignored, is just noise.

If there should ever be a limit to FOIA this is it. The leaks tell every scum in New York where to steal a weapon.

But you bring up an excellent point.