Yep those kinda of governments thrive best when there isn't an easy way for common people to spread news about them and organize.
nicetriangle
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Etc
That's actually the most interesting concern I've seen raised about this. I hadn't thought about that. The embrace, extend, extinguish thing is what you see most people raise as a issue.
yep definitely
I've had decent bacon vodka before but it was made in small batches by a bar. Made some pretty good bloody marys. Anything mass produced I would avoid though.
It's vodka. The bar is pretty low.
Yeah most people won't notice much of a difference past 1gbps for now. A lot of the infrastructure hasn't caught up yet and a lot of people don't even have fast enough WIFI routers yet.
I upgraded from something like 200mbps to 1gbps a while back in my last place and I verified I had 1gbps but my download speeds even directly over ethernet were not much if at all faster from the sorts of places I typically download from. Like you said a lot of sites throttle.
Can't even get those speeds where I live. The fastest I see available is 1gbps down/100 Mbps up and this is a decent sized European city.
Goddamn the rooms basically just straight fell out of the building
Fact of the matter is that most people can't afford an $8000 furniture set. They may end up paying more for furniture in the long run than someone who can afford that set, but that's just the unfortunate way of things. This well summed up in one of Terry Pratchett's books:
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
That's been one of the culture shifts I've noticed moving to the EU. People are a lot less likely to lead with that question here than in the US.