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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2011.01.24

Hooray for the government! Always there for the big telcos and their ilk.

They've decided to allow our internet services providers to charge for every byte of Internet traffic we use. I'm sure the rationalizations put forward by the telcos and cable companies were quite expensively written and therefore have that spurious tang of sensibility. But this amounts to charging for nothing: it costs the telcos nothing to bear more network load and this allows them to create profit from that nothing.

I've rarely noticed that signing petitions does a lot of good, but I'm a believer in speaking up and have therefor made my attempt at lobbying the government to reverse this decision.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov