2012: The year the internet ends

[Knight of Orient]

That was my point (which i didn't bother to spell out).
It's the same thing, because of taxes.
The USA is (barring ridiculously small countries) the richest country in the world cos of business -which is taxed. I just gave the very small, and the very large scale examples.
The internet is great news for capitalism.

To advance another reason, one admitedly more "Jay -like" (aaaaaagh!), one could even take an "opium for the people" approach.
While we're all blathering away on the internet, we're not causing trouble...
I emphahsis that just a thought - I doubt that is the reason why the Net will be kept free, but its a possibility.

The U.S. is also in the trillions in National Debt. And in reply to the 3rd world country status, im hearing more and more that that is actually going to happen from people who's opinion i actually trust; and there's hardly any of those people anymore.

[PLAYER57832]

The mayans predicted that 2012 will be the end of an era.
They might be right

On the basis that they are now all dead, I'm not sure I'd put a lot of confidence in their predictive abilities.

no according to the leading Mayan Anthropologists, they aren't ... they just changed the names of some rites to match Catholic rites (in a few isolated areas) or otherwise adapted, but their decendents are very much alive.


BUT, per the original question. This is why we all have make sure and lobby our respective gov'ts to make sure that doesn't happen!

[2dimes]

Meh, what ever, someone should PM me dec. 2011 and remind me to print off the girl thread.

[Utafar]

Piss me off, I'm going to miss you all............on the bright side there will still be Xbox Live! GIVE ME YOUR GAMERTAGS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

[Utafar]

Also I was counting on the world to end by then, I wanted to die fighting in world war III

[Nickbaldwin]

Ugh sorry to disappoint you but Xbox Live IS OVER THE INTERNET.

[brooksieb]

Yeah, i don't think the internet will stop but will dramatically change, if you guys were old enough to remember people thought the same problems were occuring in 2000

[Utafar]

Ugh sorry to disappoint you but Xbox Live IS OVER THE INTERNET.

yeah but it isn't a website! It is a money maker from a multi-billion dollar company and I doubt they would let it die

[Nickbaldwin]

The point here is some data will have priority over another. Xbox Live, while not a website, still sends data across the internet. In the VERY unlikely scenario that Microsoft doesn't pay up for the fast lane, Xbox Live will collapse and we Xbox users will all have to pitch in together and make a HUGE system link

[bspride]

this is old...South Park did an episode of the internet almost shutting down...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_Logging
follow the external link from wikipedia to view the episode

[Juan_Bottom]

Yeah it is old, but what is the deal with Time Warner's new experiment? Is it going to work? If it does, doesn't that spell the end?

[kerntheconkerer]

yea sure, just like 2000 was supposed to be the year where computers crashed...