Verizon New $20 Fee

[oldhat]

Ha ha, you obviously have greater faith in a government sponsored monopoly than I. I think we'd have been limited to VHS and computers would be a novelty due to the difficulty of users stuck with COBOL.

Yeah, the government couldn't possibly come up with anything useful in the field of technology. Like that government project that turned out to be completely useless--what was it called again? Oh, that's right--the Internet.

[kib]

I think we get into an ugly cycle. We wind up with inferior technology because it's cheaper and as a group we're greedy, regardless of who runs the show, Nanny G or the free market, we reward the cost-competitive selection. Then once we're all hooked and better alternative B has been properly buried, sky's the limit on the price of the crappy alternative: screwed again.

I'm curious to see how the gas-price driven behemoth craze (the auto equivalent of bad technology, IMHO) will play out when gas suddenly shoots to $5 per gallon again in 2017. (Madam Azonka has spoken.)