there's only one thing that comes to mind when i read this:

"Well i woke up this morning
On the wrong side of the bed
And how i got to thinkin'
About all the things you said
About ordinary people
And how they make you sick
And if callin' names kicks back on you
Then i hope this does the trick

'cause i'm sick of your complainin'
About how many bills
And i'm sick of all your bitchin'
'bout your poodles and your pills
And i just can't see no humour
About your way of life
And i think i can do more for you
With this here fork and knife

(chorus)



> Eat the rich
There's only one thing that they are good for
Eat the rich
Take one bite now - come back for more
Eat the rich
I gotta get this off my chest
Eat the rich
Take one bite now - spit out the rest

So i called up my head shrinker
And i told him what i'd done
He said you best go on a diet
Yeah, i hope you have some fun
And a don't go burst the bubble
On rich folks who get rude
'cause you won't get in no trouble
When you eats that kinda food

Now they're smokin' up their junk bonds
And then they go get stiff
And they're dancin' in the yacht club
With muff and uncle biff
But there's one good thing that happens
When you toss your pearls to swine
Their attitudes may taste like shit
But go real good with wine

Chorus

Believe in all the good things
That money just can't buy
Then you won't get no bellyache
From eatin' humble pie
I believe in rags to riches
Your inheritance won't last
So take your gray poupon my friend
And shove it up your ass

Chorus

Eat the rich
There's only one thing that they are good for
Eat the rich
Take one bite now - come back for more
Eat the rich
Don't stop me now, i'm goin' crazy
Eat the rich
That's my idea of a good time baby"

Aerosmith, "Eat the Rich"

Edited at 2008-05-12 04:19 pm (UTC)

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I love it!

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I've been seeing ads on TV for some sort of thing you add to your laptop to get Verizon WiFi service from anywhere. Am I not understanding the ads? There's some woman who gets all caged up and says she's a prisoner of WiFi, in a Starbuck's, I presume. Then they say she should get *X* and she can go anywhere and have highspeed internet access. If these folks can afford a place on Cape Cod, presumably they could invest in one of whatever this is. Tell me what I'm missing.

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You're right on the money. Verizon is the very best Broadband-over-cellular provider there is. I used to tether my Blackberry to my laptop all the time when I was traveling, and it was just about as fast as Broadband.

They could certainly get a cellular modem from Verizon and pay the fifty bucks a month for their BroadbandAccess service, and the problem would be solved. In fact, a few respondents suggested that very thing--as well as putting the HughesNet satellite dish in the attic and replace the roof tiles with fiberglass (which is microwave-transparent.)

What really irked me (and this is why I'm a bit of a conservative Democrat) is that the dude wanted help with this issue on a governmental level. And I think that there are plenty of better ways to spend a lawmaker's tome than with a completely trivial, eminently-solvable problem.

Aww, poor little rich folks don't want to sully the outside of their house with a dish? Too freakin' bad.

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Lotta places won't LET you put a visible dish. They don't even have above-ground electric cables. I can understand that, if that's your bag. But to whine about it and ask for government AID!! That's just wrong. I hope he got seriously trounced in the comments column.

$50 per month, huh? Whew, that's a little pricey for my usage. Guess I'll wait til it comes down some. Unless maybe they'd bundle it with my Verizon phone service. I'll have to see.

HughesNet isn't for everybody. My brother in Seattle looked into it, and it seems they don't have "a clear view of the Southern sky" where he lives.

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I sincerely doubt a 300-year-old cottage on Cape Cod falls under the jurisdiction of a homeowners' association.

Your brother looked into HughesNet in Seattle? I didn't know Seattle was rural enough. Or did he just not care for the local Cable and DSL concerns?

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Oh, you'd be surprised how restrictive some of those neighborhoods can be. Don't you watch This Old House? 8-P

My brother bought a piece of land out in the boonies, waaaaaay out in the boonies, outside of Tacoma. They don't have cable access out there. Heck, he's having his problems even getting electricity run. As it is now, he's still using dialup at his home in Bremerton, just because he's a lazy, cheap curmudgeon who only fires up his computer about two or three times per month and doesn't surf at all. Makes me crazy because I can't send him stuff like links or pictures. He won't open 'em cuz it takes too long. But when he finally builds his house out in the middle of nowhere, he won't even have dialup, so he was checking into Hughes. That Verizon thing might work for him, but I doubt that he'd pay the money for it. He'll probably just go to the library when he needs internet access. Honestly. In this day and age. Hard to imagine he's related to me. Well, for that matter, I've always thought I was adopted....

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