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by conroe64 4431 days ago
Comcast's stock is up over 250% over the last few years and has made me a lot of money... so whatever they've been doing has been working and IMO they should keep at it.

It's a dirty game and no one is completely clean, so we should all come down from our high horse. Fluid and evolving business strategies are not the devil's spawn that people make them out to be.
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betterunix 4431 days ago
"Evolving business strategies" like fighting new technologies to maintain a decades-old business model? Interesting perspective you have there...
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conroe64 4431 days ago
These weird political fights are in the wrong arena. I'm not going to try to argue with you about what it means to fight a new technology and whether a decades old business model is valid or not, because it's just silly. Regardless of how you and I feel whether a company is doing the right thing, it's there and it's surviving, and in this case, thriving, in its niche.

It might feel good to bad mouth giant corporations and swear that you'll never invite them to the next family BBQ because of some negotiation spat they have with each other, but, in reality, all successful big corporations get down in the mud like everyone else. If you don't like what they do, try and get the law changed.

But please stop with this whiny horseshit... it's like crying to your mom over Billy eating your desert from your packed lunch. It's sad and pathetic and no matter how many of you all bleigh the same memes and buzzwords over and over again, it won't have any lasting effect.

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ncallaway 4431 days ago
In general I agree with the sentiment behind this post. Except, I disagree with one sentence that's key to the context in the case of Comcast:

"If you don't like what they do, try and get the law changed." I think this needs to be appended with "and do not buy goods and/or services from them."

Unfortunately, in my case with Comcast, as with many high speed ISPs around the country, there is 0 competition. In order to get speeds higher than 5Mbps in my area, the only option I have is Comcast. In an anti-competitive / monopoly market, I lose the ability to vote with my wallet by finding a competitor whose practices I agree with.

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conroe64 4431 days ago
The sheep have neighed.. er down voted
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