Modern Priorities: The importance of a working Internet connection...

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Broadband, Yes. Toilet, No.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/garden/31yurt.html

Here is an amazing story of a family that lives in a yurt in Alaska without running water, showers, or a toilet -- but they have broadband Internet access.

Today, their lives unfold under the conical eaves of a Mongolian yurt, where they have lived since November 2008, high on a spruce-covered mountainside of the Kenai Peninsula in the coastal town of Seldovia (population of around 250), where Mr. Higman grew up.

The remote town has no access to other parts of the state by road. Residents have to travel by boat or airplane. A recent passenger on Homer Air, the local airline, was a poodle on its way to the vet....

They decided they could live without running water, shower, bath or a working toilet, but they had to have broadband Internet access.