Re: FCC votes to remove protections for the open Internet in the USA.

[Rav <PaulR@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12/20/2017 9:31 AM, Wolf K wrote:
> On 2017-12-19 21:11, The Real Bev wrote:
> > On 12/19/2017 03:01 PM, Wolf K wrote:
> >
> > > Footnote: At the current (Ontario) minimum wage of $14/hour, a shopping
> > > trip costs around $60 to $120 in time, plus the mileage cost of the
> > > vehicle, which at the current common expense-claim rate of around
> > > $0.40/km amounts to about $120. Total direct and indirect cost: $180 to
> > > $240 or so. If saving money on shopping is the prime motive for
> > > travelling to the city, you'd have to spend a thousand dollars or more
> > > to come out even. OTOH, since we do have to go to the city for services
> > > we can't get here, adding a shopping excursion reduces the cost of 
> > > the trip.
> >
> > There are real advantages to being retired -- my time is worth NOTHING.
>
> To me, it's worth more than ever. Because there isn't that much of it left.
>
> >   Given that I run cars into the ground and I bought the Corolla on 
> > the assumption that maintenance costs would be negligible, all it 
> > costs me to go shopping is  ~15 centsUS/mile.  My shopping trip may be 
> > a 20-mile round trip (if I include Costco, no more often than once a 
> > monh), and I don't do this more than once a week, if that.
> >
> > There are real advantages to living in pretty places, though, and I 
> > wish I did :-(
>
> Commuting to work and shopping the conurbations may cost a couple of 
> hours or more per day. That's why we use transit when we visit Toronto: 
> you can catch up on your reading, or even have a conversation with your 
> travelling companion. :-)

Conurbation -- now THAT's a word I had to look up!  Sounds like Houston, TX.
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