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Cheyenne, WY | stupid question.. Eastern shore...as opposed to Maryland's western shore? | |
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| | | Re: stupid question.. said by Omega:Eastern shore...as opposed to Maryland's western shore? 
Eastern shore of Maryland shares a peninsula with lower Delaware on the Eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay. The Western Shore is opposite the Peninsula on the other side of the Chesapeake.
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|  madylarianThe curmudgeonlyPremium
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Parkville, MD | said by Omega:Eastern shore...as opposed to Maryland's western shore? Yep. They are separated by the Chesapeake Bay. It's the yellow part.
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Mount Airy, MD | said by Omega:Eastern shore...as opposed to Maryland's western shore? Or, as former Governor William Donald Schaefer would call it, a shithouse.
*ducks*
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Do···Schaefer
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| | | | Re: stupid question.. I never did like him! I find it highly amusing that wikipedia has a section devoted to "Controversies" for him  | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: stupid question.. said by xmrocks:I never did like him! I find it highly amusing that wikipedia has a section devoted to "Controversies" for him I was too young to remember how good/bad of a governor he was (while I lived in MD the first time)... I do remember how nice of a place Baltimore was to visit when he was mayor there though... now if I go to the Inner Harbor I am more likely to be accosted by bums and panhandlers than to enjoy myself anymore.
But as for the Eastern Shore... I'd love to live there if it wasn't so far form where I work.
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Maryland is better off without him. He was a jerk.
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: stupid question.. said by newview:Take it from someone on the Eastern Shore that DOES remember him . . . Maryland is better off without him. He was a jerk. Hate to break it to you but he's still here:
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It's not that Comcast has been that bad of a ride, it's that we have no real choice.
Have not read the proposed plan yet but if all the money is going to Verizon... I wonder if any thing will change.
After all Fios would be great but if they lock everything down what good is a fat pipe?
What about WiMax? It seems like the Eastern Shore is a prime location for a large scale rollout.
--- The potential customer base is huge.
--- The potential customer base is spread out ideal for WiMax.
--- The Eastern Shore is growing like a deer tick on a blood hound in the middle of July.
--- Flat. No hills. Lots of open space.
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Gaithersburg, MD | Pwned by...? Yes, I confess I'm too lazy to read the article. So who would own the pipes? Verizon or the state of Maryland? | |
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| | OK, But Where the hell is all the money going into the USF? Isn't that supposed to be funding this kind of thing? They must have billions in the fund by now (you would think).
Let me guess, it's just like the social security trust fund. no funds, just IOU's. | |
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Salisbury, MD | Finally another choice Hopefully this provides some competition for Comcast...they are free to do any rate inflations here and those who want the fastest speed have to pay them.
Maybe this would also help with development and bringing more technology into the area, as it is now this area is mostly agriculture. | |
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| | | Re: Finally another choice Depends on where you go,.. Around here Kent Island, Grasonville thru Centreville up to Chestertown, farms have been selling off in alarming rates, and communities have been springing up left and right. So many commuters from the western shore moving in that most of us that were born and raised here can't afford to live here anymore. If fios were to move in here, I would pretty much expect it to have two branches, one from Kent Island thru Queenstown, and the other from Salisbury out to ocean city. Since the only part of the eastern shore that the state seems to care about is ocean city, and its revenue. If ocean city were to become a toxic swamp, The state would probably kick us out  . The way technology comes around here, the rest of the country will have had it in abundance for a while, and they will be moving to deploy the next great thing, before we ever get it here. | |
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