Tzale
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Are you people serious? You actually believe EVERYTHING you hear? Come on... In many parts of India people can't even get clean drinking water, let alone electricity! Only in the cities for a select few people is broadband required. Don't be stupid.
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Tzale
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| said by Michieru2  :Aren't they still recovering from that Tsunami anyway? That wasn't really focussed on India, though small portions of the Indian coast were affected. It is just stupid how people act like India is going to be a better place to live because they have free 2mbps broadband to everyone... Well, you want to know the truth, I smell BULLSHIT.... There is no way they could do that in a country that lacks modern first-world infrastructure.
Get back to me when they reach our standards in a few decades or a century, if ever.
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kapil
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If the biggest problem 50-some years after becoming an independent nation is lack of water in remote villages, that's pretty damn good progress.
Ya'll were still lynching blacks for a much longer time after the redcoats left. |
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kapil
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said by Tzale :Get back to me when they reach our standards in a few decades or a century, if ever. What standards might those be? More divorces than successful marriages? a shamefully high teen pregnancy rate?
The President's insistence that the jury is still out on global warming and evolution? Election fraud?
Advocating "life" while jailing a larger portion of its citizens than any other "developed" nation?
Citizenry buried to its eyeballs in debt - which is being financed by the very foreigners you spurn?
Kids who, despite years of schooling that costs more than it does anywhere else in the world, can't even speak properly the one language they do...can't tell the difference between 'your' and 'you're' or 'too' and 'to', or 'there' and 'their', yet they are #1 when it comes to complaining how they have been harmed by affirmative action which creates a level playing field for those who have been disadvantaged for centuries - like blacks on whose back this country and come of its oldest and most profitable companies were built or hispanics who are bi-lingual, work hard, pay taxes, take jobs you won't take - yet succeed in the face of racist name calling?
Would it be the shameful morals that allow you to wage war and kill as long as long as the killed aren't white skinned?
...or, let me guess, it's how the free market has got giant corporations stuffing a dildo up everyone who works for a living while it awards golden parachutes to those who lie and deceive for a living?
If you ask me, the biggest problem India, or the entire developing world for that matter, faces is continuing its development while borrowing the least amount of American "standards". |
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Alpine
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WHOAH. You need to get a grip on yourself. "Lynching blacks?" That has absolutely no place on this board.
Get a freakin' life. Broadband access and related topics are NOT major social issue worthy of being compared to slavery. And if you think it is you are truly a pathetic human being.
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burgermeister
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Yeah, seems like the money would be better spent in basic infrastructure (roads, electricity, water, etc.).
Odd that they'd even consider something like that.
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wtf... |
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jaa
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Yes, those standards. And the billions of dollars of foreign aid. |
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in
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fyi... Indian broadband is still the BEST in the world... we don't have hilarious contention ratios of 1:50 or 1:100 like the "developed" world .. its 1:2 or max 1:4 ... NOT MORE
I am least surprised at this move...
Regarding your views about India... most villages DO have access to water etc.. AND they are connected by wireless to the internet... yes almost every mile out there.... the bottleneck is speed and the EDGE technology.. which will now be upgraded to WiFi or WiMAX...
All this shouting is just because "developed" countries can't beat this move ... Face it. India is NO LESS than any "developed" country in the world.
For those who want to spend a few bucks... we will get 20 Mbps connections |
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Tzale
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said by kapil :If the biggest problem 50-some years after becoming an independent nation is lack of water in remote villages, that's pretty damn good progress. Ya'll were still lynching blacks for a much longer time after the redcoats left. Ya'll? I'm in New Jersey and my family didn't move here until a few years ago from Europe, so don't blame me for what the Southerners did... Plus, it has no bearing on this conversation because this is the 21st century and we're not talking about which country is "better" (though clearly America is!), but rather that India has bigger fish to fry than worrying about deploying broadband to everyone.
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said by kapil :said by Tzale :Get back to me when they reach our standards in a few decades or a century, if ever. What standards might those be? More divorces than successful marriages? a shamefully high teen pregnancy rate? The President's insistence that the jury is still out on global warming and evolution? Election fraud? Advocating "life" while jailing a larger portion of its citizens than any other "developed" nation? Citizenry buried to its eyeballs in debt - which is being financed by the very foreigners you spurn? Kids who, despite years of schooling that costs more than it does anywhere else in the world, can't even speak properly the one language they do...can't tell the difference between 'your' and 'you're' or 'too' and 'to', or 'there' and 'their', yet they are #1 when it comes to complaining how they have been harmed by affirmative action which creates a level playing field for those who have been disadvantaged for centuries - like blacks on whose back this country and come of its oldest and most profitable companies were built or hispanics who are bi-lingual, work hard, pay taxes, take jobs you won't take - yet succeed in the face of racist name calling? Would it be the shameful morals that allow you to wage war and kill as long as long as the killed aren't white skinned? ...or, let me guess, it's how the free market has got giant corporations stuffing a dildo up everyone who works for a living while it awards golden parachutes to those who lie and deceive for a living? If you ask me, the biggest problem India, or the entire developing world for that matter, faces is continuing its development while borrowing the least amount of American "standards". Guess what, I didn't even bother reading your fucking reply because it's stupid as hell.... We're discussing India's problems that are far larger than the need for national broadband coverage. You seem to think America is worse than India, then go ahead and think that. We're not discussing social issues, we're discussing INFRASTRUCTURE.. Get that through your head... I bet you didn't realize this but India is one of the only countries in the world that have a favorable view of America, I bet you're shitting your pants now. 
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said by in :
fyi... Indian broadband is still the BEST in the world... we don't have hilarious contention ratios of 1:50 or 1:100 like the "developed" world .. its 1:2 or max 1:4 ... NOT MORE
I am least surprised at this move...
Regarding your views about India... most villages DO have access to water etc.. AND they are connected by wireless to the internet... yes almost every mile out there.... the bottleneck is speed and the EDGE technology.. which will now be upgraded to WiFi or WiMAX...
All this shouting is just because "developed" countries can't beat this move ... Face it. India is NO LESS than any "developed" country in the world.
For those who want to spend a few bucks... we will get 20 Mbps connections
I have ran across about 20-30 people who have moved from India during the last 5-10 years and each and every one of them moved because India has nothing to offer them. To even think that India is better off economically and infrastructure wise than America shows that you have problems with common knowledge/sense.
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