3 edits | Why do you even need consultants? Simply tell the engineers where you want the service to go. In the end the engineers make all the decisions anyway.
I don't know why this is a surprise to anybody, ultra large corporations are about as inefficient as big government, and when you combine the two its just a big foul crap filled toilet.
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join:2001-01-25
Mechanicsville, VA | This should also... Be prompting a Federal investigation as to how the stimulus money was spent. Then, the Federal government should be demanding that every penny be paid back out of State only funds so that we recover the wasted tax money we gave these retards.
And people wonder why WV is so backwards? Here is one of your reasons. |
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| Yeah, but if they need meth, they get it!
(reference Whites of WV)
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join:2003-08-10
038xx | Verizon should be banned from receiving fed monies VZ has been the worst corporate actor in telco. They'll robber baron each and every project they can every time. So far all they get is public tongue lashings which, as a tax payer, is incredibly maddening. Individuals can and do deprive them of patronage but our little dollars can't compete with suckling the public money teat.
Total failure of governance at both State and Fed level here. And government can fix this one still but.... |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to DataRiker
Re: Why do you even need consultants? The problem here is the expectation that a central government can be responsible to collect and then redistribute tax money in an appropriate manner.
Once you accept that premise, you are doomed to fail.
Let people keep their money in the first place, and decide for themselves how to spend it. |
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | said by elray:The problem here is the expectation that a central government can be responsible to collect and then redistribute tax money in an appropriate manner.
Once you accept that premise, you are doomed to fail.
Let people keep their money in the first place, and decide for themselves how to spend it.
Good philosophy; that our pols completely ignore. A pols reason for existence is wealth redistribution, with themselves taking a cut of every transaction.
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lol. Sure thing, we'll just pave our own roads and install our own FTTH network.
"The problem here is .. government ... collect ... redistribute tax money."
You guys seem to assume that if you repeat these baseless talking-points and cherry-pick examples to suit the narrative, it will somehow come true.
BTW This is a classic Red state in play here, where they run the government inefficiently, and then use the imminent failure as an example to support their dogma against government. |
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 diablo1892Say hello to my little friend
join:2011-04-21
Friendly, WV
 ·HughesNet Satell..
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| Don't care anymore We already have a service here in WV, its called HughesNet by Satellite and its working just grand.. So if everyone would hock up to the satellite world we can all skip this and start depending on satellite. Also, we dont have to be reminded over and over that broadband internet here in our state sucks, yes that we already know thats cause we should just go with satellite end of story. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | reply to Telco
Re: Why do you even need consultants? said by Telco:lol. Sure thing, we'll just pave our own roads and install our own FTTH network.
"The problem here is .. government ... collect ... redistribute tax money." You said it right there. Rather than collect taxes and use it to build their own FTTH network, they are "redistributing tax money" to private companies who will charge them 5 to 100 times the price. In addition, you fail to accept that the private sector who is supposed to do eeeeevvvrything better, failed epically here. Government has purpose. Limited purpose.
We can expect a central government to set standards for telecom and broadband interconnectivity, but beyond that, once you expect them to make everything "fair", the price goes up for everyone, and coverage doesn't happen, as the capital is taxed away, and the local entrepreneurs stand down, knowing that those with friends in the statehouse can squash them like a bug.
Not sure why you embrace government at all costs.
We would certainly be better off building (locally contracting) our own roads and FTTH. |
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| Are you posting from an alternate universe where state subsidized 1 Gbps FTTH doesn't exist in Japan, South Korea, and Europe? |
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| Good service is available in WV I'm enjoying my 50Mbps, TV and one of those new fangled telephones here in WV. WV may be red in presidential elections, but very blue in others. By the way, I even have an indoor toilet and running water. |
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Re: Don't care anymore You're the first person that I ever heard tout satellite as a viable alternative to broadband internet. |
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join:2008-01-07
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| said by mlcarson:You're the first person that I ever heard tout satellite as a viable alternative to broadband internet.
I think he is being sarcastic, just look at his review he gave HugesNet.
»Review of HughesNet Satellite Broadband by diablo1892 |
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join:2008-01-07
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Re: Good service is available in WV said by dekerfman:I'm enjoying my 50Mbps, TV and one of those new fangled telephones here in WV. WV may be red in presidential elections, but very blue in others. By the way, I even have an indoor toilet and running water.
Yes, the parts of WV that can receive Comcast or Suddenlink do have a viable broadband solution. |
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diablo1892Say hello to my little friend
join:2011-04-21
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Re: Don't care anymore Actually I am not being sarcastic, and that review i did a long time ago, it was when Hughes was only providing us 170kb/s but now we upgraded and now getting over 1mb/s I don't see broadband coming through my area in a million years or if our governor had a bunch of money now to do it, its not going to happen today, not this year or next, in fact it will never happen and all of us in my neighborhood know it. I was told that we will get high speed connection last year in spring, the guy said 9 months (roughly) so we waited and still nothing.. We call and call but we get the same answer again and again, your area dont support or capabilities, bye.
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Re: Why do you even need consultants? said by Telco:BTW This is a classic Red state in play here, where they run the government inefficiently, and then use the imminent failure as an example to support their dogma against government. Actually, it's the blue states that are in financial troubles. And if you take it even further, Democratic local government also has a high bankruptcy rate. That has been proven here in the USA time and time again. |
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join:2008-08-09
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1 edit | Incompetent state government WV has an incompetent state government.
Another example, of all the land-grant colleges in all the 50 states (such as Purdue, Auburn, Cornell, Michigan State, Texas A&M), the ONLY one to EVER be stripped of land-grant status was West Virginia State University in Charleston. This was due to the state legislature cutting off funds, after that Federal funding was terminated.
This lasted from 1957 to 2000, a long time considering that they had Senator Byrd to help fix it! |
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| what a waste... that federal stimulus was a huge waste and did nothing to improve anything except:
* make a few corporate executives richer
* make a few government programs fatter and look really stupid
here's an example from Forbes...
»www.forbes.com/sites/nickschulz/···program/
yes, that's right... for the low low price of 350,000$ USD.. you too can get cable TV.
what a bunch of dimwits...
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| cliff notes, harumph Now you know why the country's going broke.. money that could be going to build a better future if it were spent wisely instead goes to corrupt and incompetent municipalities which are co-conspirators in allowing profiteers to plunder the treasury to little benefit of the American people. Anybody with a 12th grade education should know that a $10,000+ piece of networking equipment is the equivalent of the $10k hammer.. and the $500 band-aid at the hospital.
Every now and then you see some watchdog type news report of graft, waste and profiteering and the people go harumph to do something about it.. but they are looking a the mole-hill.. look at the WHOLE MOUND for a change..
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN99jshaQbY |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to jap
Re: Verizon should be banned from receiving fed monies Actually AT&T, AT&T Mobility, Verizon, and Verizon Wireless not receiving any Universal Service Fund money (not a penny) would be the first step toward improving the USF. |
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