@microinjectionist: .....wait what? Why on earth not? The only way one could assume this is if he believed that all anonymous peers in the peer review process are essentially equal, as in equal in insights and reasoning capability. Am I supposed to believe that all these peer-reviewers are essentially robots?

@Digitalidiot: The problem that I see here is that google and verizon seem to be learning the paramount lesson of public choice economics: if yer ass is gonna get regulated (and you did not engineer for it to happen), then you best move to make sure you essentially set the rules of play.

@bakagaijin: Actually i did not imply that large taxes had to be levied in of themselves. I was simply implying that the full cost of the service is not shown in the monthly bills being payed because a large part of the cost is being borne by others in the economy who must pay for it through general taxes. (I'll…

@bakagaijin: No I never do. I find I run an uphill battle whenever I get into these discussions.

@famoustrip: Could you clarify please?

@Ampillion, Dayman. Fighter of the Nightman.: um..yes? By definition being "corporatist" means that you have a lot of pull with the state. That is what it means. Being a corporation by itself is not sufficient for the term "corporatist" to have any real meaning.

@bakagaijin: .....I'm sorry but how does this take anything away from my argument?

@anonpwny: How does it follow from this that the government should take control over the internet then?

@Theoutlet: Oh yeah, clearly I am the one spreading disinformation. It is clearly not bakagaijin who mentions Korea's "low monthly rates" without mentioning the fact that the bulk of their infrastructure was made through the use of transfer payments acquired through taxes.

@Walking Eye!:The Business-Casual Gamer: your forgetting the part where the government sanctioned monopoly in the form of phone service led AT&T to charge outrageously high rates for long distance calls. It did this until the government finally undid its mistake and broke up the phone monopoly they themselves built.…

@bakagaijin: The Korean system is heavily subsidized through general taxes, this is the reason it is much cheaper. Population density the last time I checked is higher, which means it is easier to accomodate a larger population with broadband.

@blake.comotion: I see where you are going with this. The answer is that I was personally referring to when one gets older, he simply does not physically have the time to devote to the game. If you look closely at my wording I thought it seemed pretty apparent that I was referring to the gamer HIMSELF becoming…

Well part of it also has to do with gamers simply being somewhat older now than they used to be.

@karoc: ....but where is the money for those loans coming from? The answer is the government which means the money is originating either from taxes or from the printing presses of the Federal Reserve. It is true that the students pay the government back for the loans, but at a much lower rate of interest than if it…

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.....so then she basically admits that she initiated a false sexual harassment claim, under the correct assumption that instead of fighting it out in a very sordid court battle he would buckle and grease her palm for silence.

@madammina: "Cops say the woman "confused, manipulated" heaped gifts on the two teenagers."

@Krackatoa was hit by a smooth criminal: It made me so happy that atleast the spirit still lives on.

Russian robots in SPACE!?!

@wahrugene1: To be honest after seeing HOW she was hit I have to say that I cannot in any way justify that kind of behavior.