Finland First to Make Broadband a Legal Right

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are you living in a city that is comparable in size to Melbourne? if so, then i'm calling shenanigans. there is not one city in America with a population of >50k that does not have at least 5 mobile carriers and/or broadband providers. according to wiki, Melbourne's population is estimated at ~4 mil. that makes it larger than L.A. so unless you live in Chicago, L.A., or N.Y., comparing melbourne to a city of 500k is apples and oranges.not getting enough time off or how someone else earned more money or how there's not enough choice in broadband providers.

Thanks to county rights and all of that bureaucratic inefficient government that repubs like, most places have a handful of providers. Once again, interesting how the definition of smaller government varies from Aus conservative to US conservative. Smaller government to Aussies literally means less government. Smaller government to repubs actually means lots of small governments. AKA inefficiency / duplicated salaries. How many companies would survive having to have a separate division in each county and city performing the same job? None. In the DC area I have 1, comcast. I don't even have DSL. So I have to wait for FIOS to be choice 2.

and now you're telling me that the dems are the champions of competition??? the very same people who are attempting to unleash a monstrous health care bill that will ultimately create a single payer system and eliminate all competition in the health industry???

I thought this one is another no-brainer. Public option equals competition. After all, may the best man (per say) win. I have a hunch it will be the government.

Americans succeed despite the government, not because of it. our winner-take-all attitude has been a source of human progress and innovation from the day this country was formed. there's a reason why the U.S. has over 300 Nobel prize winners, while Australia has 10 (not a typo - that's it). and it's probably because they didn't sit around pissing and moaning about not getting enough time off or how someone else earned more money or how there's not enough choice in broadband providers.

That is great. I have never denied the country's past success. This also ties into the argument of having the most entrepreneurs etc. I'll be the first to recognize that someone here will make the next facebook and become a billionaire. However, what about the other 3003 million? That is where Social democracies like Australia are kicking azz. Where rather than a limited group of self serving elitists doing well, 'We the People' are all doing well and sharing the success.

That heyday era is gone. Have you seen the US's education rankings? A hell of a lot of what is being developed today is due to highly educated immigrants like Neil Bohr. Certainly not some Nascar / NFL / E! channel obsessed fool.

you live in the d.c. area and you have 1 broadband provider? something tells me that you're not looking hard enough. but i guess the australian way is to try once, fail, then let the government do it. and anyone as educated and knowledgable as you in politics would know that d.c. is as blue as they come. not that repubs are faultless (i.e. 8 years of record deficit spending), but blaming repubs is pretty much the left's m.o. these days. but then again, an advocate of government regulation and control in healthcare, employment, finance, housing, education, etc. such as yourself surely wouldn't fault a little more regulation in communication, would you? sounds like you want it both ways. government should control this and this and this, but not that or that or that. well, name a politician who only wants to control 'some'.

and again, if you think that a public option will create competition, you're fooling yourself. government is not required to make a profit, cannot go bankrupt, does not need to base results or decisions on customer satisfaction, can alter the rules of the game in their favor, and can force the public to purchase their product. well, that's practically the definition of competition straight out of webster's dictionary!!

i think you've read a christmas carol a few too many times. there aren't too many scrooges who have amassed fortunes in order to taunt and belittle their employees and beat them with canes. entrepreneurs create businesses. businesses hire people. successful businesses hire more people. these businesses develop goods and services that improve peoples' lives. are you using a microsoft product to rant about the evils of capitolism? do you think bill gates could have grown microsoft without a few good employees? imagine what businesses could do if they didn't have to give 40% of their earnings to a bunch of suits who think that they know what's best for you and me. but i guess you're too concerned with the selection of shopping at the airport.......

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But I don't take offense. We'll soon see how trivial Booyah's college-granted reputation looks once his beloved Australian housing bubble pops.

The house prices just went up again and by 6% in the last month. There is a serious shortage of homes there.

I am looking at building two town homes and find it hard to even find a builder who is free.

All bubbles pop.

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All I want to say is...gotta love the Finns!!!

I love all my little insignificant friends.

ha!!!!! Thanks Simpson!

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All I want to say is...gotta love the Finns!!!

I love all my little insignificant friends.

ha!!!!! Thanks Simpson!

I joke I joke