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 N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1 | It's like deja vu all over again Didn't I see a very similar story on BBR a few months ago?
Let's see, sooner or later this will slouch towards another USA VS the world argument, or a ICANN VS the UN debate, or GASP, the dreaded Bush VS humanity debate.
Or at least I hope it won't.
I think it's a dual edged sword. All of us come to this site because we like the idea of a big fat pipe delivering everything from e-mail to HDTD into our homes. Therefore, I think some of us have an instilled bias towards calling broadband a utility. I'm sure most of us would be more than peeved to go without high speed internet for more than a few days at home.
As far as folks in rural communities, I don't think it's a matter of "deserving" anything. I mean, how does one determine who "deserves" such services. Sure, I would like to see everyone who wants broadband to have it, but every decision has positives and negatives. Living in a "rural" area, imho, is far more desirable than living in a urban or suburban area. I like the idea of wide open space, or a home surrounded by wooded lands, or farm land. This was my home up until about 12 years ago, when the builders went crazy and planted a bunch of infernal houses in my country wonderland. Now I'm stuck living in a town full of yuppie snobs driving their BMW SUV's like they own the whole damn road.
Of course, up until all those houses came, we couldn't even get cable TV.
Given the choice, I would rather see all these houses go away, the woods and the farms to come back, and you can take the high speed internet. I'll get DirecTV and go to the library when I need to get on line.
Just my 2 cents... | |
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New Milford, CT | said by N3OGH:I like the idea of wide open space, or a home surrounded by wooded lands, or farm land. This was my home up until about 12 years ago, when the builders went crazy and planted a bunch of infernal houses in my country wonderland. Now I'm stuck living in a town full of yuppie snobs driving their BMW SUV's like they own the whole damn road. Of course, up until all those houses came, we couldn't even get cable TV. Given the choice, I would rather see all these houses go away, the woods and the farms to come back, and you can take the high speed internet. I'll get DirecTV and go to the library when I need to get on line. Just my 2 cents... You and me both. And that is precisely what happened to my home. I've been here for forty years, and some 22 years ago, some ultra-luxury homes were built around me, cutting down the forest. We lost some of our privacy, and our taxes went up 100-fold from affordable but irritating, to unaffordable and facing tax foreclosure on our paid-for home.
Development sucks, big time. I wish they'd all go back to the cities where they belong.
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N3OGHYo Soy Col. "Bat" GuanoPremium
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Philly burbs
kudos:1 | "our taxes went up 100-fold from affordable but irritating, to unaffordable and facing tax foreclosure on our paid-for home."
Me too, me too.
It is, in a nutshell, sad and sickening... | |
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New Milford, CT | The question is, "how do we stop these criminals from wiping out the most fundamental right in America--the right to be safe on our own land?" | |
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