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1. Comment - Comcast Boosts Cable Upload Speeds

   (May 9, 2007 - 2:33 AM)

   Yeah, and the US, unlike the other countries, also has vast uninhabited (or minimally habited areas) that also demand fast internet service (I think the population density of South Korea is an order of magnitude denser than here.) The problem in this country is that everything must be made backwards compatible or people demand that the government give them an HDTV for free.
   
   If we truly want the government out of our business, let's at least be consistent! I'd love for the government to focus on their job - the defense of this country, so the market can focus on its job - unimpeded supply and demand. Get rid of the stupid subsidies that pay people to be lazy and things might turn around.
   
   Jeff.

2. Comment - Wired Publishes AT&T NSA Documents

   (May 22, 2006 - 9:56 PM)

   There are two things I find common in just about every "forum" I visit:
   
   1. People who complain the loudest are the quietest when it comes to providing a solution
   
   2. People in "forums" have a serious mistrust of our government
   
   Regarding #1 - My dad had an analogy about a dog who sits on a thistle and whines and yelps until somebody comes by and gets him off of it. I think that applies here as well.
   
   Regarding #2 - There are things about every administration that I don't like. It is impossible to please everybody. I greatly respect the office of the president, even if the man is not my favorite. I just so happen to be impressed with Bush, and I admire him greatly. That said, even if Clinton or somebody like him were president now, I would still feel the same way about this issue. The government needs freedom too!
   
   We demand the government to protect us, yet we give them no authority or ability to do it. We blame them for failing to properly respond to disaster, and we demand them to tell us why, yet we do not accept the answer when it comes back - "Well, to answer your question, we could not get to the proper intelligence because, quite frankly, you don't allow us to gather it. Sorry."
   
   There are people in this country who would kill us for no other reason than they hate everything we stand for and we demand the government to protect us, yet when we find out that they are keeping records of which phone numbers called which other phone numbers, we cry "Illegal Wire Tapping!"
   
   But I suppose I should not be surprised. We live in an age where it is OK to put a Crucifix in a jar of urine and call it "art" and tell women that the only reason they have any power in society is because they can choose to kill their children. It's no wonder that when somebody tries to look at patterns of calls to see if somebody is trying to kill us, we scream "INVASION OF PRIVACY" - we have given the inmates the keys to the prison!
   
   I wonder what the outcry would be if somebody planned to kill your family and they could have been stopped but the proper paper trail was blocked because of "rights to privacy". You'd better believe AT&T would get sued for that too.
   
   And speaking of suing, I need another $150K - does anybody know if Burger King is paying out for spilling scalding coffee on myself? Oh, I forgot, everybody is making coffee at 60 degrees now so we CAN'T burn ourselves. Maybe I should click on one of the sidebar ads on this page right now - they'll be different from what you see, but tey are:
   
   "Ripped Off? Take Action."
   "Trasylol Lawsuit Needs?"
   "Identity Theft Pritection"
   "Law Suit"
   "Class Action Law Suit"
   
   America...what a country!
   
   Jeff.