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Posted by jonathan - 11/12/07 at 06:12:51 amBack in 2000 I was quite progressive. I was a member of the green party (don’t start with Nadar) I was an early adopter of broadband and I completely threw off my parents by severing my ties with Ma-bell and sticking to my Sprint cell phone cancer stick. Since then I am turning Republican, my broadband connection barely spits out 150 Mbps and only my parents call me on my landline for which I shell out roughly $60.
As of last week Verizon decided to only play a sound similar to the old the 56k modem sound on my phone line and the word wide web comes to me at a speed only the slowsky’s could appreciate. After a few hours trying to get an answer from Verizon I decided that just like in politics, democrat or republican, I might as well switch teams and go throw money at the cable company rather than the phone company. Next Monday I’ll switch over, but I’m weary since Comcast has gotten bad press for bandwidth throttling and I woke up to an npr story about the author of comcastmustdie.com
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