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SunnyD

SunnyD

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Pakistan... they have a state-of-the-art nuclear weapons program so they can blow India away on a whim, but they can't afford infrastructure for even 56k dialup...

Talk about priorities.
 
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RobCur

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but you see nuclear is an old te4hnology that came a decade before the computer was even invented.
 
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welst10

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Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pakistan... they have a state-of-the-art nuclear weapons program so they can blow India away on a whim, but they can't afford infrastructure for even 56k dialup...

Talk about priorities.
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So high-speed internet should be of higher priority than national security?
 
Chiboy

Chiboy

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Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pakistan... they have a state-of-the-art nuclear weapons program so they can blow India away on a whim, but they can't afford infrastructure for even 56k dialup...

Talk about priorities.
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WoW! You sir are an idiot! They need the weapons program to be up to date with India, If they didnt have the program India could attack at any time with no retaliation. They do have 56k, & from what I remember they had one broadband company but the technology is a work in progress.
 
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zimu

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before you get into an india vs. pakistan flame war, here's the reason why internet here hasn't developed.

basically, people in this country are all selfish money hungry people who care much more about personal wealth over gain of the country. you may argue this is the case in most capitalistic nations. BUT the fact here is that there is a monopoly for the internet- there is only one company allowed to "import" the internet- and that is pakistan telecommunications, who have this priveledge until 2005. basically they get internet for cheap and charge ridiculous rates just because they can.

whoa. sounds like microsoft.
 
SunnyD

SunnyD

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Originally posted by: Chiboy
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Pakistan... they have a state-of-the-art nuclear weapons program so they can blow India away on a whim, but they can't afford infrastructure for even 56k dialup...

Talk about priorities.
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WoW! You sir are an idiot! They need the weapons program to be up to date with India, If they didnt have the program India could attack at any time with no retaliation. They do have 56k, & from what I remember they had one broadband company but the technology is a work in progress.
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God... you can't feel the sarcasm?

I was alive during the cold war - I know what armed deterrent means.
 
yukichigai

yukichigai

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Dude, I'd at least try to get a second phone line and dialup account and use both at once, run them through 2k3 server or something linux-ey so you don't run into routing issues. It'd be better than just one dialup account, I can tell you.
 
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cain

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hahaha, this is messed up dog. 60 computers on one 33.6 line? i cant even imagine 1 computer on a 33.6 line. good luck dog
 
vshah

vshah

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Originally posted by: zimu
before you get into an india vs. pakistan flame war, here's the reason why internet here hasn't developed.

basically, people in this country are all selfish money hungry people who care much more about personal wealth over gain of the country. you may argue this is the case in most capitalistic nations. BUT the fact here is that there is a monopoly for the internet- there is only one company allowed to "import" the internet- and that is pakistan telecommunications, who have this priveledge until 2005. basically they get internet for cheap and charge ridiculous rates just because they can.

whoa. sounds like microsoft.
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yup i read somewhere that there was something like a 50000gigabits of bandwidth between pakistan/india and europe, and only a small amount of that was reaching end users due to govt restrictions. things are getting better in india over the last few years...my house there has 786 dsl now, not so bad. two years ago it was horrible. i'm sure pakistan will get better pretty soon.

-Vivan
 
Shawn

Shawn

Lifer
Apr 20, 2003
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Originally posted by: Reon
hahaha, this is messed up dog. 60 computers on one 33.6 line? i cant even imagine 1 computer on a 33.6 line. good luck dog
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yea dog!
 
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zimu

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UPDATE!

put in a pic (http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/zimu/BBQdialup.JPG).

and good news! i'm getting cable tomorrow! :) yes i've literally been here 2 days and i've already signed up- they're installing tomorrow (the neighborhood is prewired).

speed= 128K... which in pakistan terms for a household is equivalent of having a 6Mbit connection in the US!! So i'm definitely happy with that, at least i can still do my usual stuff... just slower. a lot lot slower. but do-able!!

So ATOT won't get rid of me so quickly ;)
 
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