This is about the last mile. You don't need fiber to your door to take advantage of it nor do you need access to that much bandwidth. My broadband comes in on twisted pair at 12Mbps and my issue isn't with bandwidth capacity, but with the price. The price of broadband needs to go down. The definition of what broadband is needs to change to increase the baseline of what can be called broadband.

2004 doesn't feel like that long ago. But hearing it phrased like that makes me feel old. -_-

We have plenty of tech jobs, not of the kind glorified by Google or Facebook, but Rackspace and USAA are major employers. Also do your research, San Antonio is #7 in city population and #25 in metro population. Not to mention in the top 20 for fastest growing cities.

Austin has all the big names, but San Antonio is just a better city.

Where is my popcorn?

Following the builder analogy, at my university, there were issues with a new building's facade, so the builder came back and repaired it. But warranties also expire. This sounds a lot like maintenance contracts used when buying servers/software(eg Oracle). But as for 'blaming' a particular developer for the issue, couldn't you also argue that the QA team is at fault? What about those who wrote the spec? There are many people involved in building software and this is where the analogy breaks down.

I think things like common sense and courtesy are cultural ideas that are created and modified in the marketplace of ideas. I'd rather let the airlines, and thus the consumers, decide. The FCC showed via Science that its ok to use a cell phone, that it doesn't affect the safety of the flight. They should just leave it there and not legislate social norms.