Interesting. My question though is... why are there so few John Petersons on the UT

>This question was never answered too well back when it came up here. ABC just had a news story that completely explained it:
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>A web connection in Japan costs $100s of dollars a month. The phone lines are a monopoly that keep the rates astronomically high. Thus Japan, despite is technological revolution of the 60s-80s, is stuck in the past in the our new web-centric world.