Entries from January 2008 ↓

This is just plain crazy and quite frankly anti-American. Time Warner Links Web Prices With Usage:

NEW YORK (AP) — Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

The company, the second-largest cable provider in the United States, will start a trial in Beaumont, Texas, in which it will sell new Internet customers tiered levels of service based on how much data they download per month, rather than the usual fixed-price packages with unlimited downloads.

It is always surprising when a company takes a page from the government playbook of waiting until someone is dependent on a service and then tax the crap out of it.  Oh wait, this isn’t a tax, it is consumer choice! What a sack of crap!!  Hey Time Warner here’s an idea for you, why don’t you try innovating your product first and then charge appropriately for the service.  Crazy? I know.  Really though, shouldn’t this have been the first step followed by the current unlimited bandwidth we now currently enjoy?  I thankfully don’t live in an area serviced by Time Warner but I fear that if this plan succeeds all providers will adopt the same model, so if you do currently have TW, please call and air your frustration.

What kind of sick world do we live in these days?  Now we are arresting 13 year old girls for “inappropriately” touching boys of the same age?  13-year-old girl arrested for alleged school bus assaults:

PALMER –—A 13-year-old Sutton girl is being held in the Mat-Su Youth Facility after two boys said she sexually assaulted them on a school bus.
The boys, also 13, of Sutton, said the girl touched them over their clothing, Palmer Police Det. Kelly Turney said. Police went to Palmer Junior Middle School Jan. 9 to investigate and ended up arresting the girl.

Wrong? Yes. But unless the girl was trying to do a little late term circumcision, where’s the foul here? Don’t want to speak for all men out there but I think most men would have killed for this kind of attention at 13.