My ISP provides me a 50Mb connection, so to the ISP I probably have 50Mb, but to the thing I am connecting at the very end of the route, Amazon or Google for example, provides me data at their rate. So asking this question is really nonsense since I can get 50Mb if I pick something close to the connection point, but I typically get much less because I am downloading from somewhere popular.

Consider a machine with PCI slots and specialist cards in those slots. No drivers except for Windows 2000/XP. What then? Any physical break of hardware either means upgrading, finding a similar machine to the old one that broke (there's a market in there somewhere), or trying an expensive VMWare + PCIe + external expansion case. Most people owning the hardware are suckered into the next upgrade through ignorance of the possibilities, or the unwillingness to risk potentially costly attempts to work around an issue.

I would go and tell myself to buy some Apple shares, and keep buying, with every spare cent.
Of course, if I try and work out the details of that it would not work, but I think if I could send myself a letter, I could convince myself that taking the risk would be worth it. The problems come from a) not living where I used to live then, so I would have to send a letter, b) not having any of the then current currency to send the letter, c) not being able to communicate the potential properly.
It would also be nice to wait around and see my wife when she was younger.

I would pay a flat fee, not for faster access, but to be able to freely download, and share with other licensed downloaders, everything I download.

Answer: "Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that."

I have to comment that I don't like the title, nor the story text. The title reads like a cheap CNN headline, and the story like some murder victim. With all the beauty of the English language at his finger tips, the OP decided to make it sound like a cheap US news bite. Other sites, thankfully, have been more kind.

All respect and best wishes to the family of Mr. Jobs.

After 13.5 years my eyes cannot cope with such small fonts. I imagine the developers are sitting in front of 30" screens testing on the latest browsers and are satisfied that the results are acceptable. But that's okay. When they are old and can't read anymore these small fonts they can take over my role and complain to the next generation.