So um 2012 will be the death of the internet...

[Snorkel]

YAY GOBAMA

vote Obama for Boyah  toot;

[Feynman]

BOYAH OFFICIALLY ENDORSES OBAMA

[Classic]

BOYAH OFFICIALLY ENDORSES OBAMA

Not me. 

[Nyerp]

Not me. 

TYLER IS BOYAH'S ENEMY AND SHALL BE ELIMINATED

[Classic]

TYLER IS BOYAH'S ENEMY AND SHALL BE ELIMINATED

Aren't you gonna be banned soon?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/

I wish I could vote. :'(

[Nyerp]

Aren't you gonna be banned soon?

um what are you talking about

[Classic]

um what are you talking about

I mean exactly what I say.

[Nyerp]

I mean exactly what I say.

okay

i don't think so

[Daddy]

http://boyah.net/forums/index.php?topic=14704.0

I said it first. 

[Snorkel]

Don't worry, I'll start our own ISP. 

I was actually thinking about how to do that earlier

An interesting thing to think about is all the other news that's been coming out about alternate world networks on the rise... the one CERN is building for research purposes, for instances, includes 250,000 fiber-optic linked servers around the world, or something. This thing I was reading was saying that after CERN is done with it, it could likely be the beginning of a brand new "internet" that would allow for things like full-length movie downloads in a couple seconds because all the servers are linked by fiber optics instead of the shitty phone lines that most things use now.

So, if corporation-internet-takeover doesn't get ruled out by Federal law, the question is which will come first: a completely new internet or ISP consolidation.

[strongbad]

Do you think in the 60's anyone though that the hits on the radio would be conceived, written, and directed by a team of completely unmusical individuals, and then more or less forced onto the music channels of everyday consumers? Definitely not. But that's what we have now.

Do you think, before it happened, that anyone thought that a few individuals would someday own almost all of the major media and entertainment companies in the country? Nope. But that's what's happening now.

It has happened and is happening to everything, and it's only a matter of time before it happens to the internet.

I still can't see it happening, just because of how many business would be destroyed as an effect. Our economy would be so fucked if this all happened.

[Snorkel]

I still can't see it happening, just because of how many business would be destroyed as an effect. Our economy would be so fucked if this all happened.

The people who would be profiting wouldn't (and don't)  care, and it wouldn't make a difference to them. That's how capitalism works.

[Feynman]

[36chambers]

This seriously makes no sense and I can't see it happening.