Tech Talk with Travis

Hello little kiddies and welcome to tech talk with me your host Travis. Today we are going to talk about neo-liberalism and the wide spread damage it has done to the non-billionaires of the world. Particularly we will look at its negative effect on the average citizen in New Zealand. New Zealand is a socialist democracy so people here generally get a good deal, universal healthcare, secure employment, state supplied euphoric happiness, stuff like this. However this country seems to have missed the whole freedom of information act memo. Uncharacteristically of most other industries in New Zealand the Internet seems to be tightly strangled by private market forces (perhaps private is redundant, like saying violet war forces, ahem, anyway). All Internet traffic is sold in megabytes. Quite simply more money equals more megabytes per month of downloading and uploading. As you know in American it’s an on or off service. You call Comcast, they turn on the tap and suddenly the entire World Wide Web could be brought down to your computer, Comcast could give a shit less how much you use the internet as long as you pay up every month. Additionally compounding the problem in New Zealand (and perhaps there is a conservation necessity I am unaware of here) the country runs on DSL (phone lines) and satellites, no cable wires or fiber optics in the infrastructure yet. So they partition the speeds 80 (download)/20 (upload) on the total bandwidth of the puny little line. All this adds up making it at times impossible to upload stuff onto the blog. For the last two days I have tried to upload a measly 9mb vid to the blog to no avail. So here, for once it appears that America on this one issue is freer. Hooray America you're all totally free and shit! I knew things would be better with you Obama!