Weekly Off-Topic Our government has spent the last few years using taxpayer money to install a national fibre optic network for internet. Now that it's mostly done, I got a letter informing me that all the existing copper is being ripped-out. This means, if you don't subscribe to the new government-created, taxpayer-funded monopoly, your internet will be cut. That should be great for competition. Of course I am in a contract with my provider so I call them. They would be within their rights to charge me for the remainder of my contract, but fortunately they are waving it. That could have cost me $700. They offer me a comparable plan on the new network and of course it's slower and will cost me more money. It's almost like that's why I didn't opt for fibre when I bought the contract. I could upgrade to a faster plan ... that will only cost me 50% more each month for way more than I need. This means that I have been forced to pay for a network I don't want, I have been forced to subscribe to it, it's slower, it's more expensive, and possibly worst of all, a stranger has to come to my house this week "sometime between the hours of the beginning of time and the end of time" and install a box on my wall. I don't want that either because I'm planning on moving in a few months so I'm really paying for someone else's wiring.  Thank you, government. As usual, your influence has been nothing but an expensive detriment to my life.