 ZuhaibKing Of FoolsPremium,ExMod 2001
join:2000-06-29
San Francisco, CA | San Francisco does something... With no cost to tax payers.. NOT!
I am a local from SF, born and raised here and i just dont see it happening. And a lot of them are tech, not political (tho can you really expect a socialist system like SF not doing something without wasting tax money?).
The tech problems are a lot like the problems cell phone companies had in SF, the hills. Even today, in San Francisco its easy to go in to cell phone/tv dead spots (I live in a TV dead spot), so what hope does Wi-Fi having making it to all of SF. Installing towers? Ha! SF gives a hell of a time to cell phone companies, and once people learn that a wi fi relay is going up in there area they are going to fight it teeth and nail. So where can this service go up with little problem or fight.
Downtown.
So now the idea of giving wi fi to everyone is not really true, because only a small % will be getting the Wi fi. And someone posted a link that people that cant "afford" it will only get it for free. Well, if your in downtown with a laptop, more then likely you will be one of the paying group. And that assumes no one abuses the system and get there name added to the free list, i mean how are they going to check? That must take money to cross check (and if they dont, everyone will get free Wi Fi just like everyone used to get free lunch at school)
This program will not be free of taxpayer money, what we are going to see is peoples tax money being used to fund the system, and then those good tax paying people will have to pay to use the Wi-Fi, only when they are in downtown, while people who have not soul will cheat there way on to the free list and take full use of it.
What i want to say to Gavin, use the money for schools in San Francisco, the San Francisco school system is at its worst. Schools closing, teachers leaving, this is the real need for San Francisco, NOT Wi Fi.
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