Big Daddy Government aka Santa Claus says that you have the right to a 1 megabit/second broadband connection, which will go up to 100 megabits/second in 2015.
Because, as we all know: rights obtain from government fiat.
Why on earth would you ever need that much speed.
100megabits/sec is a lot of porn. I’m assuming that’s the only way you could use that extra speed is with porn.
Maybe torrenting.
There’s no such thing as too much speed.
And there’s Usenet…
Maybe I’m an old man trapped in a young man’s body.
Could always torrent a lot of porn.
More seriously, what are they going to do? Nationalize all the ISPs? I would love to use monopoly, guaranteed, state-run internet access as an example of inefficiency.
You should move to Finland to see how many rights we have here… [:)]
Seriously, the overload of government shouldn’t be a big surprise once you recoignize that a large bunk of the bureaucrates are ex-union people, ex-hippies, ex-acid heads, ex-stalinists and ex-members of all kind of “Friends of beloved East Germany” and “Friends of Pol Pot”- societies.
A couple of months ago one social democratic opposition leader thought seriously that everyone earning annually less than $ 53000 is counted as a “poor” in statistics (happily taxes and prices are not that high here yet).[A]