I’m a Pundit

For those people searching for the ‘right’ ISP to supply their Broadband Internet many will find the majority of ISPs offering Unlimited internet packages.   However many families are finding tehir internet access restricted, removed and even in some cases extra charges appearing on their internet bill.

This is all down to the ‘fair usage policy’. A fair usage policy is basically a small line in your contract that says while your internet is Unlimited you cannot use more than xxGB per month.

Suddenly things don’t seem quite so unlimited anymore.

The ISPs back this move saying it keeps things fair for all of their customers.  Some users abusing the system can slow down the network for everyone.

Now here I think is a very important point.  If I bought an unlimited usage product I should expect unlimited usage. The company should have the network to deal with this if it decides to advertise such a product.

If I hired a Builder to paint a mansion I would be very friggin upset if the builder only did half of it and then said He couldn’t paint anymore because then there might not be enough paint for the other houses.

If I went to an all you can eat resteraunt but was told I could only have half a plate of food so there was enough for everyone I would also be pretty damn annoyed.

So why the hell should internet service providers get away with unethically and misleadingly advertising products as unlmiited when they sometiems have usage limits as low as 5 gig.

Fortunately there is help available, there have been several casse where people have won full refunds and even damages for loss of connectivity because the Fair Use Policy was not well displayed and that the advertisements were misleading.

Lets take down the corporate bastards who decided to call limited unlimited!

written by Oli \\ tags: Advertising, Crime, Fair Usage Policy, Internet, ISP, Law

The psychic community today delivered a 5000 strong petition against new laws which are asking for the peddlers in the supernatural to prove their abilities or reveal the fact that they are for entertainment only. The psychics who delivered the petition to enforce that their belief in their own powers should not be questioned was not deterred by the fact that they delivered the petition on a day when the Prime Minister Gordon Brown was not in the Country, and they blatantly ignored the headlining jubes about their failure to see the new law coming.

Personally I think this is a good and a bad thing. First off these guys are all con merchants in my opinion, but in the same vein if we make things too easy then natural selection will fall down and all the really stupid people will have just that little bit of an extra chance to reproduce.

There is another downside though, the good old placebo. Yes, While these idiotics, fanatics, and conmen pull away these peoples hard earned savings they do occasionally manage to pull off something that is a real miracle. Occasionally the homeopathic, religious healing, magnetic, ESP related treatments despite all practical tests do manage to work.

Now Personally I put this down to more of a power of the body kind of thing, but should a treatment that releases the power of ones own body really be so easily discounted from our system?

written by Oli \\ tags: Healing, Law, Placebo, Religion

The UK government has decided to change the way games are classified in the UK, htey give many reasons for this, the main one being that parents are confused by the current ratings system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7314751.stm 

The current video games rating system in the UK is based on an age, with a plus sign beside it, meaning it is recommended for that age and above.  Sureley anyone who doesn’t understand that is on a par with the American trailer trash or the UK Jade Goody (You Yanks Don’t know how lucky you were to avoid her).  However due to parental ineptitude by a minority the decision on suitability has been taken from the hands of the obviously irresponsible parents and will now be controlled by the government.

Fairly soon it will be illegal to sell or supply games to underage children,m the government have confirmed.  Britain truely is becoming a nanny state when basic entertainment is restricted by law.

written by Oli \\ tags: England, Law, Nanny State, Politics, Video Games