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capnq said:
Why should anyone who doesn't need one pay for one?
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Given how little time the average person spends actually in the home in today's society, one could ask the same question of the ubiquitous land line. Why pay for something that's only going to be available for use 3-4 hours a day, when you can pay roughly the same amount and have the same service available to you, with the added benefit of being free from geographic constraints.
Them crazy Europeans are catching on quickly, and on the other side of the pond, the land line is quickly disappearing in favour of the mobile phone. Hell, I lived for Ireland for 6 years and only had a land line for that last 2, and only then because it came bundled free with my internet connection.
As for dictatorships, you only run into problems with them when the egomaniac in charge starts taking people's complaints as personal insults & reacts accordingly. The ideal solution would be an apathetic dictatorship that dispassionately rule with the best interest of the state/nation/world in mind. Of course, humans aren't too good at that, but I've found a little company that's got some pretty good ideas about how to deal with that problem. They go by the name of Cyberdyne Systems....
