PRELUDE: 2017 SUPPORT DRIVE

Thanks for the clarifications. Useful stuff.

Massive corporate ISPs like AT&T and Comcast are only a relatively recent thing. Expecting a massive corporation to do the right thing is naive. If they can profit from it, they’ll screw consumers.

Regulations like these are a necessary evil to prevent monopolies. If you look at the 3-tier system in the US for alcohol. It seems weird but it has been an effective anti-trust tool allowing competition from much smaller businesses. Compare this to New Zealand, Australia, or UK, and the smaller alcohol manufacturers just can’t compete against tied houses. Market forces can’t change the actions of a monopoly. If one company prevents a consumer from seeing a new product, the market may not even know they want that delicious, delicious thing because the monopoly fears anything new and does what it can to destroy the new thing.

My only optimism is that cities are starting/planning to invest in infrastructure like fiber and doing it right but just laying the fiber and allowing private companies to maintain it and provide access over it.

@cb4:

I would like to donate now (and also in the 2017 support drive). I don’t see a donate button and searching or “donate” didn’t help. Please advise.

Thanks,
cb4

It will become available on the right side of the screen, just above the “Buy Axis & Allies” block (See there: 2017 Support Drive - Coming Soon!).

@FieldMarshalGames:

As 2014 is the 100th Ann of WW1…  And we now have AA1914…   why not do the Mark I tank from the game?

Excellent idea.  It’s in keeping with the established pattern of using tanks that have been represented by sculpts in official A&A games, and it would mark the centennial anniversary of the start of what’s been called the defining event of the 20th century.

I haven’t switched to 2013 yet so 2012 is still available. Just hit that BUY NOW button to your right.

@Gargantua:

Is it too late to get a 2012 badge?

Or will you make an exception… JUST for me?

It’s not my fault you didn’t have correct change in that toronto hotel room david! (True Story!  :-o)