XBL2009
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join:2001-01-03
Chicago, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to kapil
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said by kapil  :What the US absolutely must have by 2012 is universal health care. I'd willingly go back to dial-up if every resident of this country got health-care as a result. Sure, having a decent broadband infrastructure would help competitiveness, but that boat sailed a long time ago when we shipped our factories to China and our software development to India and imported Mexicans to make our fast food and cut our grass. 100Mbps won't fix that. We need 100mbps, better health care, electric cars, bridges rebuilt, hospitals built, rebuilt school systems. If only the US would stop wasting so much money on stupid things. |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
 ·Optimum Online
| said by XBL2009 :We need 100mbps, better health care, electric cars, bridges rebuilt, hospitals built, rebuilt school systems. If only the US would stop wasting so much money on stupid things. It will never happen. Issawi's Law of Conservation of Evil states: "The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction - for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment - is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g. crime or air pollution."
Therefore, you can never remove all the waste or inefficiency because it will only pop up in some other form. Also, as an immutable law of the Universe, it cannot be changed.
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DrZEUS
join:2004-01-13
Mississauga, ON
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We need 100mbps, better health care, electric cars, bridges rebuilt, hospitals built, rebuilt school systems. If only the US would stop wasting so much money on stupid things.
...you mean war? ding ding ding ding |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
·Comcast
| reply to n2jtx
I believe the current administration has caused this law to become out of whack and that the supply of evil has increased substantially. This implies that we are due for an uptick in good to bring the supply of evil back to it's original balance.
that being said, it ain't gonna happen with broadband, because the government of this country just doesn't seem to give a sh1t if we have fast, inexpensive, widely deployed broadband or not. |
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Derspankster
Premium
join:2003-02-12
Marion, OH
·RoadRunner Cable
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to XBL2009
said by XBL2009 :said by kapil :What the US absolutely must have by 2012 is universal health care. I'd willingly go back to dial-up if every resident of this country got health-care as a result. Sure, having a decent broadband infrastructure would help competitiveness, but that boat sailed a long time ago when we shipped our factories to China and our software development to India and imported Mexicans to make our fast food and cut our grass. 100Mbps won't fix that. We need 100mbps, better health care, electric cars, bridges rebuilt, hospitals built, rebuilt school systems. If only the US would stop wasting so much money on stupid things. Like stupid foreign wars that do nothing but kill people, (a lot of them Amercian) make fat-cats richer and bankrupt our country.
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to n2jtx
I think calling that a "Law" is a little generous. Maybe a Rule of thumb, or Superstition. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to XBL2009
its not the Feds that screw Public School Systems. It's the states that won't turn the money over to them. I went to two school districts in HS. One received only State money. One received Federal Money. Want to know which one was more maintained? the Federally Funded. Buildings that were always being remodeled to be more Eco-Friendly today, computer systems that were always being updated, school buses that weren't broken down all the time, bus drivers that were paid like they should have been, Text books that were new every 3 years (like they should be). and smaller class sizes. The most I had one one class at the Fed. Funded school was 23. The Public State funded the most was 35. BIG difference in terms of weather or not you had a text book that day with all the pages still there or one that was missing half of the chapter, or a Xerox copy. |
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | reply to XBL2009
everything you say we need can and should be done by the states or private sectory. Nothing you mention belongs in the hands of the federal government. |
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n2jtx
join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY
·Optimum Online
| reply to Ahrenl
said by Ahrenl :I think calling that a "Law" is a little generous. Maybe a Rule of thumb, or Superstition. I didn't make it up. It is part of the Murphy's collection of laws. If Murphy is considered a law, then so is Isawwi. |
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