Random Rants
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Okay, so TV is boring and my satellite is down.
So, some random rants.
Ever notice that the Roger’s Internet ad on TV shows a kid “whose parents may not share his taste in music but 6,000 other do” with shots of him apparently webcasting or streaming over the Web.
Hmmmmmmmm. We’re sure, of course, that he has the licences necessary to stream music like that, even if he’s just sampling and remixing. Of course, Rogers knows that that unlicenced use of creative content is piracy.
Just checking.
Next, the touchy feely fun suckers are complaining that we shouldn’t make an issue of fat kids in schools. That we should accomodate them and be sensitive. That perhaps they should be excused from gym class. That they shouldn’t be bombarded with media images of buff bodies. Well excuse me, don’t the doctors and nutritionists on the other side say we have a national epidemic of obesity in our children. Shouldn’t we be holding up healthy bodies (not necessarily those runway waifs) as a goal? Works for me. It’s the reason I go to the gym and play footie obsessively. I don’t want to be a fat, bald, old guy.
Finally, what’s all this about competition in wireless? Sure there’s a slew of new players coming into the market and sure, we’re all expecting their offerings to be aggresive and undercut the Big Three, Rogers, Telus and Bell.
And yes, we all want that because our voice and data rates are among the highest in the world. We need competition to bring those rates down so we can all afford Web 3.0….the mobile, do it all anywhere Web.
But now, analysts are predicting, it’s all a sham. That those companies’ strategy is about bleeding money, undercutting the market and then rolling over and being bought out by the big guns in 2014 when the licences are transferable.
It’s sickening but it plays right into the convenient cabal that telecommunications regulation has become in this country.
Excuse me if I don’t continue to constantly figure way to circumvent the status quo with Skype, FTA and IPTV.
I guess I’m just a cynic.