- Sep 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: plastick
wireless is cheap??? i didnt think that it was... the cheapest cable internet here is like $56 and im sure the luxory of wireless is no much less than that..
fricking sucks.. i wish the internet was just free
And that is the whole point.
The internet is NOT free.
Any communication is NOT free short of shouting at the top of a building. (well you can receive broadcasts and use radio, but that is beside the point...we're talking 'The Internet' here.
I'll go off on a rant.
Having internet is not a right, it is not free. There is a cost to all things communications related. This is what I do - communications.
Someway, somehow, somebody is paying for it.
Be it dial tone, be it cellular, be it any form of communication - it ain't free. Somebody is paying. That's what gets me so worked up over these threads. People think they are "entitled" to free internet. But your free is somebody elses money.
News flash - the internet cost a whole bunch of money and the gear/operations/contracts are all there to generate money. THey don't do it "for free" or "but mankind needs access to information and that info should be 'free!!!'". Nothing in this life is free except for air and water and food if you can grow it.
Equate Internet to a dial tone and you'll understand because that is EXACTLY what it is. A dial tone and the ability to make calls to whoever you like.
Yep yep.. but i still wish internet was free.. not that i think it should be, but i wish it was...i guess mainly for the fact that it is like THE main communication power of all time, and every person should be able to have it no matter who they are...or whatever... but i suppose poverty and pornography are some of the big boundaries to such a thought. Anyway, I guess I wont mind paying once i get a better paying job.
And after reading all these posts, my decision is to not abbuse the wireless internet access.
Thanks guys.
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