

Study shows many users wouldn't upgrade even if given the option













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Let's get post modern
By Alias1431 on 7/4/2008 11:10:04 PM , Rating: 2
Dial-up should be free for everyone. The internet is becoming less of an option and more of a necessity. It would do wonders for education, or just overall awareness. The only problem is the inevitable flourishing of ungodly creations on myspace. *shudder*

RE: Let's get post modern
By StevoLincolnite on 7/5/2008 1:08:52 AM , Rating: 2
It used to be Free for everyone in Australia with ISP's such as Global Freeway and GoConnect, which were ad supported, but unfortunately they died out around 2000-2002.

Basically some people don't see the need to upgrade to Broadband for the simple fact of: "It ain't broke, so why fix it?"

RE: Let's get post modern
By Rev1 on 7/5/2008 11:24:20 AM , Rating: 2
About that time 99-00 netzeor here was free, and there was another company which name i have forgoten, those were the days.

RE: Let's get post modern
By larson0699 on 7/5/2008 1:45:41 PM , Rating: 2
There were tons running nationally, but NetZero's ad-ridden shell never got my vote.

The one I used was purely "make your account and dial in"...

It went by the name of FREEI.NET.

RE: Let's get post modern
By ZootyGray on 7/5/2008 2:55:08 PM , Rating: 1
I used a freebee ad-supported connex also.

The AdBlockers kinda killed that idea.

I am amazed that people spend mega$$$ a month on tv/internet/cellphone. Do the math - say $100 a month per person x 50% of the population = $BILLION$$$$$$$$ for the telco isp's cableco's cellphonyz - and people are starving while we play on the net.

Am I missing something here? I guess genocide is profitable so that's just fine? sick. Are you saying 'OK' to this? Note how we feel helpless to do anything about it - money owns yer butt.

Oh, then the 'green' thing - now we have to pay for bigbiz to continue screwing everyone - WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE. Hijacking oil is expensive. To stop any of this means redirect the $$$ to stop genocide - but it keeps finding the money funnels. There is no longer a need for this kind of medieval suffering. It's transpareny is terror - and that's the real terror. The next 911 will be brought on by the continuance of this - gawd I feel like nostradamus. This is pathetically obvious to me.

Real change will encounter bigbiz opposition. So they want to make zillions b4 they shut down.

RE: Let's get post modern
By larson0699 on 7/5/2008 3:24:41 PM , Rating: 2
While I generally agree with you, I kind of wonder where the lower 80% of your reply relates to anything in this thread.

The idea that money makes the developed world go round wasn't borne yesterday. Maybe you can sense a economical catasrophe, Nostradamus, but that should empower you to appeal to your legislature--or, if you don't believe in them, your people instead--to stand up and bring some relief to those who are suffering... not rant to other big heads on DT (It's really hit or miss with the moderation system here.. People will play favorites day in and day out before, if ever, applauding innovative or generally agreeable sentiments).

I'm amazed at the amount of money that does make its way to charity and how little of a real effect it has. I would think that in the course of my lifetime, the housing situation and economy in Africa could have been made quite self-sufficient. I must be missing something.

I don't believe that people are driven by money, but choose by their own volition to live in the interest of it for their own (or family's) material pleasure and/or peace of mind. Obviously, to some, money precedes humanity, but you never spend your own life's worth wishing they were "better", or worse yet trying to change their ways. In the end, you can only help yourself and anyone who even partially accepts the example you set.

I think that (maybe with a bit of nostalgia, as the wife just put me through another viewing of Marie Antoinette this morning) eventually enough of a leading mind will have "awaken and smelled the coffee" and give their sincerest energies to instituting some change in the best interest of life and equality, but more likely than not, we will not see that day, giving much credit to the overwhelming influence of corporate culture and the privatization of natural resources. Some people say that weed makes them happier, so why not privatize that too?

RE: Let's get post modern
By ZootyGray on 7/5/2008 4:06:40 PM , Rating: 1
Well said.

I seem to constantly return to trying to change other people - and the futility of that - and perhaps spending too much life energy on such thinking. Point taken.

However, I seriously distrust the powers that be. The hidden agenda is always money. Price of gas - if I owned the oil, you would hate me. The problems with health care - mostly this is about poor nutrition, and a lack of education - I believe doctors don't treat health, and they do not do nutrition, oe wholistics, herbals, etc. (not part of "MD"). And we are placated by gov, more than served real truth - so we are kept out of the loop potentially. (cos we can't handle the truth?)

The trigger for my comments (which do seem off topic) was the response from all the broadbanders (mockery) in a thread about dialup - so I am disappointed at how this thread has become comedy, when I believe that the "coverage" issue and services of isp's (etc.) is simply a bandwagon moneygrab of easy pickings, and now the tek is changing so the rural scene is potentially excluded (the scary notion of being left behind), and this based on higher costs to provide coverage. And yet, for a global community, full participation is most desired. From there all the issues of the have-nots just easily reveal themselves.

So my comments might be irrelevent; but many others have preceded me in that regard.

Your comments are appreciated. Thanx for gentle correction.

RE: Let's get post modern


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