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| What ought to be, and thank you Sen. McCain! After reading this thread I am fascinated by the sides, ideas, opinions, and concepts given. Well spoken, guys!
But here is the thing:
As some of you have pointed out, McCain is a war hero and a very brave and resolute man. Every democrat I know likes him a lot and have said that they would vote for him. Sure, many of the core population of the right are leaning left because of disillusionment right now. I am one. Not because of the action in Iraq, because I happen to think that liberating a people and given equal rights to women is a key responsibility to our bountiful nation. Somebody *has* to be the hero, or there are NO heroes. Someone *has* to attempt to make a difference.
Now, carry this concept over to what Lautenberg and McCain are trying hard to do: Doing what is heroic, something that someone, anyone, *has* to do. As always, Mr. McCain is being a blessed soul and doing his best to affect a proper outcome. Sure, he is not a perfect man, all men have been corrupted, no man is innocent (at least *this* Christian believes that), but he tries to do things when they must be done.
Now, think for a minute, guys (and ladies if, God willing, some of you are here too, there are too few of you):
What if most of those involved in this issue, most of those in government, the voters, people here and in this thread, etc. etc. are failing to see an obvious needed concept!
The ideal solution to getting FTTH (fiber to the home/office) isn't necessarily a thing where only one company has to do and profit from. You guys and everyone else seem to be forgetting something: This is optical fiber, and this is the web/internet!!! Here, let me explain a (hopefully) rational concept, a wider and more competitive look at an alternative that takes advantage of the scope of the debate here:
But before I do, one small comment... Smaller government is something that should always be sought after, where it is effective and serves the people, the businesses, the children, and the infrastructure. However, since smaller government does NOT always serve the people, and I site this example of what dirty Mr. Sessions is doing, a larger government oversight tactic must be undertaken until such time as it takes for the "natural process of people and things" takes control again. Oversight is always a needed option, Republicans are always open to this and have very often explained that it IS the Federal Government's job, otherwise, there would be no raison d'etre for the US HOR and Senate, let alone the Supreme Court and the White House branch of the US Government. It is very simple, and it is silly to site what most Republicans say that they are seeking and then seeing them do what is necessary, as being hypocrisy, it isn't. That would be like calling a doctor a hypocrite if he let someone gently pass away instead of suffering any longer. All of life is full or gray, NOT black and white. And THIS is a good spot to segway into what I think is the obvious way for Munis, business, government, and the people to live through this complex but easily simplified issue:
Let's say that Lautenberg and McCain win the fight, and God I hope they do, with passion! Let us say that those two men are intelligent and visionary enough to see things that other people don't, much as Einstein saw Relativity when the rest of the community of science was blind to the obvious solution in physics... Let's say that they realize that there is a whole n'other way that all the players can get partly what they want, and the people are still the winners!
Here: The Munis, via vote/acclamation/committee, handle the jurisdiction and install and maintenance of the FOC (fiber optic cable) and the head-end hardware at the "CO" (Central Office). The people then fully own the cables, all of the head end hardwares (up to a connect point) and the people continually look after their own best interest.
Now, here is where it gets cool: Fiber Optics isn't like Cu cable, it offers a hugely larger amount of bandwidth support and it offers a much cleaner signal, and it is not affected as much by sun storms, and on and on. But what is important is that the bandwidth is so good and the way it works is so good that, if the people wanted it, more than one service, maybe even 20... 50... 100... services could all feed to clients being supported at a neighborhood CO. VIA some new iteration or using the current iteration, the signals from any given of these sources feeds into the FO, and down the pipe, but at the client end the hardware/firmware/software "sees" and uses only the signals of the services that they are subscribed to, and pay for. (Now, before you knock this idea down because you want to say that people could hack, let me remind you that if only ONE service fed down an FO they would be hacking it, and besides, hacking a client end FO box would be made to be very difficult, especially without the right equipment, much harder than Cu.)
Since FO can support huge amounts of bandwidth, and this service approach would be limited to a neighborhood size approach, the FO and hardware would'nt even "care" if one service or 20 where hooked up to the cable, in fact, less hardware would be needed! than with Cu (copper) twisted pair, because the needs for some of the hardware approach would be eliminated.
Furthermore, clients could instantaneously subscribe or unsubscribe to any of the companies riding on the cable into their edifice.
There would be a main top tier CO of the COs, where the different services, the different "cable/telco/new name fill here->_________" would run their backbone cable, or whatever you call it.
The point is that there would be NO NEED for anything to be done at the COs for a person to get any of the given plentiful services to recieve any service once the companies back bone was hooked up. The community would charge the service by metered signal exchange, for total bandwidth used by that given service at the main CO, so no one service can "bully-up" on the cable when others are sharing on it.
If you look at this alternative, and the idea that, if it went national there would be a HUGE economic benefit as well as educational and safety benefit (all cables run underground where possible up to the POP). Many new jobs and industries would result, and the USA could become the expert on taking on this task, and we could export our knowledge, earth moving equipment/fiber optic equipment/CO hardware...
It would be the new moonshot, almost. When the nation's homes were wired up to the telephone gride, that was done by legislation and act and it changed the US economy of the times greatly. It is time for us to grow up, see past the limitations that we *think* are there, and do this.
If any of you care, contact Mr. McCain or Mr. Lautenberg and tell them of your support, and if you like the idea that I have presented, tell them about it and point to the post in an email to them.
God Bless America, and to those with intelligent, ethical, and visionary minds.
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