20 Replies to “"Cheaper broadband coming to low-income families"”

1. apotheosis says:

   November 10, 2011 at 9:45 am

   The workplace remains a great place to meet chicks.

2. Crawford says:

   November 10, 2011 at 9:52 am

   The workplace remains a great place to meet chicks.

   Um, no. Sexual harassment?

   So, no, there’s no point in having a job.

3. charlesaustin says:

   November 10, 2011 at 9:55 am

   Sure, you can be one of the 1% supporting the 99%. It’s gotta be great for your self esteem.

4. motionview says:

   November 10, 2011 at 9:57 am

   There’s nothing like the warm glow of spending your whole life working 70+ hour weeks knowing the bureaucrat who turned down your business permit application will retire with 90% of their salary at age 55.
   Let me give you just one example of these hard working professionals. Here’s a dedicated public servant who is forced to live off a public pension of just $530,268 dollars a year. Retired doctor or academician? No, he just pretended in his last year of employment to be the city manager, finance director, redevelopment director, city clerk, city treasurer and head of the municipal light and power operation –- all at the same time.

5. Crawford says:

   November 10, 2011 at 9:59 am

   motionview, stories like that make me think we could balance the budget with some rope and lampposts.

6. Bacon Ninja says:

   November 10, 2011 at 10:11 am

   Awesome. I’m thrilled that because my wife has been very successful we are now going to be forced to subsidize everyone else’s pr0n habits. I hate everyone.

7. Ella says:

   November 10, 2011 at 10:26 am

   apotheosis, I work from home. :( And the guy I like at work is getting married in 9 days. Double :(.

   Stories like these make me feel a little bit like a sucker.

8. Pablo says:

   November 10, 2011 at 10:45 am

   Oh, come on, Bacon Ninja. Think of the gaming! You can’t play X-Box on dial up.

   Why do you hate the children?

9. Pablo says:

   November 10, 2011 at 10:46 am

   Isaac can’t move around on the web like he likes! Isaac got very upset!

10. motionview says:

    November 10, 2011 at 10:50 am

    C’mon Ella, life is a rom-com. Go get that guy before it’s too late. Try this:

    I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.

    If he agrees, let him go.

11. Slartibartfast says:

    November 10, 2011 at 10:50 am

    I met my wife at work. If a total dweeb like me can pull off something like that, anyone can do it.

12. Jeff G. says:

    November 10, 2011 at 10:57 am

    By the way, for those wondering: no email.

    No cease and desist letter, either. But that one you probably knew.

    I’m starting to think I was being set up.

13. Bacon Ninja says:

    November 10, 2011 at 11:02 am

    Like most right-thinking people, I hate other people’s kids, Pablo. Besides, we take care of our kids, is it too much to expect other parents to do the same?

14. apotheosis says:

    November 10, 2011 at 11:04 am

    Crawford, your reply betrays a distressing lack of imagination. Running up to the edge of legally actionable and then backing away is the modern day equivalent of bullfighting or bear-baiting. Pitting one’s wits and skill against a bloodthirsty force of emasculation.

    Girls go nuts for that kind of machismo. Secretly.

15. Ernst Schreiber says:

    November 10, 2011 at 11:18 am

    we take care of our kids, is it too much to expect other parents to do the same?

    Yes.

16. mojo says:

    November 10, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    “Ok, hold it right there – first of all, it’s not “OUR” children, it’s YOUR children, because I sure as hell don’t care what happens to your nasty little yuppie larvae.”
    “You’ll care when you get robbed by one!”
    “No. I won’t. I’ll just shoot the worthless little rat and sleep well that night.”

17. Squid says:

    November 10, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    A Commerce Department report on U.S. broadband adoption released on Wednesday found that only 43 percent of households with annual incomes below $25,000 had broadband access at home, while 93 percent of households with incomes exceeding $100,000 had broadband.

    Only 43% of poor people have high speed internet? Only?! How about this headline, Commerce: “USA so fucking awesome that almost half of its poorest have high-speed internet!”

    Next week they’ll be charging me an extra buck a month for programs to keep poor teens from exploiting each other to make internet porn. And then another buck a month for self-esteem programs for the kids who are so ugly they have to make amateur porn.

18. Crawford says:

    November 10, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    “No. I won’t. I’ll just shoot the worthless little rat and sleep well that night.”

    I don’t believe you’ll sleep well at all.

    That damned ringing in your ears will keep you up.

19. SDN says:

    November 10, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Guys, I’ve been a misanthrope for 20 years, basically since Dilbert came out and I realized it was an operations manual for about 80% of the population and all our so called leaders.

    We used to have sabretooths to eat idjits. I guess we’ll have to cull them ourselves.

20. Swen says:

    November 10, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    Not to worry SDN, the true idjits still manage to find all manner of creative ways to remove themselves from the gene pool.

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