[Toasty]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/20...mic-justice.ars

Broadband is a necessity, eh? Sounds good to me.

[Legolastom]

The evil bastards.

[Golden Legacy]

Not bad. Advocating for broadband isn't exclusive to religious groups of course, but it's good to see at least some embracing of a progressive idea.

[Toasty]

Progressive idea? It's plain common sense. The rate of technological advancements has a decent correlation with broadband integration and overall average transfer speeds among the populous. At least thats what I remember. Could be wrong.
Either way, higher speeds = more data being sent between people = more **** getting done.

I'm really kind of appalled that America still has support for dial-up. I mean, I've got fiber, and my download speed is roughly 27Mbps. Which is a bit more than 3MBps. Yet on average, I see file transfer speeds of about 500kbps. Torrenting or DDL. Part of that, though it may not be a very big part, is because we still have lines that transfer data at those incredibly slow rates.

If everyone at least had 768kbps DSL connections, I'm sure you'd see a noticeable boost in speed, even if you already had a high-speed connection.

[Golden Legacy]

I fully agree with you, every word you said. By "progressive" idea I meant something beyond the tired stances of holding strict social views, talking about social issues, and lamenting the further deterioration of "morality" in every instance they can find.

I would hope this is the beginning of religious groups realizing there are far more practical approaches to improving lives than doctrine and deity.

[Toasty]

To be fair, not all churches try to improve people's lives by converting them. My church, for example, does many community related things where the closest we get to that, is praying together as a group before we start.


But either way, I'm sure there are drawbacks to balance the benefits of this. Not that I'm against putting money into our data and communications infrastructure, but we also don't exactly have money to spare right now, and we have more important infrastructures (that our lives actually depend on to some extent) to spend money on.

I mean, our roads and bridges aren't exactly in tip-top condition, and I personally don't look forward to driving across a bridge that's nearly a century old and being taxed to it's limits.