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On Digg.com they let you see who voted for a question to prevent fraud, but Ask500 doesn't have these kinds of protection to prevent someone from ballet stuffing their own agenda. I'm not sure what the obsession with "environmental footprints" is but this is a unique enough term that it's hard for me to believe that all of these people are unique voters. Instead of trying to push your viewpoints on the community why don't you ask questions that deserve to be on the front page instead?

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This question assumes that it's the mortgages that are the underlying problem. Don't believe everything you've read. If you look at the major stock indexes we're down 30% YTD. The mortgage index is up 4.40% It wasn't 7% of the mortgages going bad that tanked the economy it was the CDS/CDO bets that banks made on them. When you've got ten times as many derivatives as there are underlying bonds, it creates problems like these.

If I was a cable company, I'd set up every customer's home with a repeater and then give away the wifi network as part of your regular subscription. Why make users pay for a service twice just because they happen to be on the go. They could still have it password protect to prevent freeloaders and to track people trying to release viruses, but it would give them a huge advantage over DSL.

I would also offer the much talked about, but rarely seen quadruple play and offer cell phone service to my customers as well.

Of course even if I wasn't a cable company, it's still a good idea to give away free wifi to your customers. I will seek out hotels, coffee shops and restuarants that let me surf the net for free, but if they charge for it, then it makes me feel negatively about their products that brought me into the store to begin with.