| said by cpsycho:The net should not be self regulated. Look at what happend to wall street. It was self regulated. BOOM! lol, you call having the Federal Reserve, naked short-selling contracts not enforced, trillions of dollars in bail-out money being put up, and massive regulation in the market, in general (not to mention a plethora of other things) "self-regulation"...I don't think so.
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"True Patriotism is more closely linked with dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security...I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist abusive state power." -Ron Paul |
| Thats after the fact, is it not? Once something breaks thats important it has to be fixed.
I dont know where your from but up in canada. Our banks are doing basicly fine.
Becuase of heavey regulation.
Sometimes rules are very good. I dont know why some americans are afraid of being librial. Super Capitalist are not there to help you, they are their to help themselfs. Well this is my belief on that anyway. |
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Keep wishing..... governments have shown time and again that they can't make a decision when they're holding a fire extinguisher and their backside is on fire....
Don't know about you, but our economy's a bloody mess, and our school system sucks hard c**k. Americans are getting dumber by the second (don't believe me, just see how many people don't even know where Great Britain is, or the difference between Nairobi and Helsinki...=\ Hell, plenty of today's students can't even properly locate Iraq or Afghanistan. Yep that's right, there are people who don't even know the countries where our army has lost so many thousands). Maybe we need to actually teach our kids the ABC's, 123's, and the map before moving on to a whizz-bang national fiber network. I know, the internet sure has some cool sh*t, but maybe, just maybe, it's time to open a book and actually learn the basics. Countries around the world manage to teach kids much better than our school system does, and they don't need trillions in "funding", for any kind of uber-high-tech network, for all of you guys out there pushing the "virtual classroom" agenda...... And if your job depends on the internet, you should actually cough up the money for a T1 line, considering the fact that you're actually making money from your connection.
And I have been saying this over and over,if we wanted universal broadband, our dear gov't should've actually enforced the Telecom Act of 1996, instead of whoring themselves out to the telcos. But we blew our chance. Look at France on the other hand... they actually actively maintained an even playing field between ILEC's and CLEC's. Thanks to that, CLEC's like Free.fr have deployed FTTH or at least ADSL2+ extensively, even in more remote areas.
As to some people expecting the gov't to magically build a free-for-all FTTH network, are you SURE you want a government-build network (especially in light of er..recent developments regarding the NSA and AT&T)? Do you want the filtered, censored, monitored internet to be your ONLY internet? Guys, come on!! Government's already itching to get their hands on network traffic on PRIVATE/CORPORATE-run networks. If the gov't starts owning their own FTTH network, do you HONESTLY think they will pass up the chance to spy, filter, and censor every last packet that passes through it? Do you think your internet selves won't be sold to corporate tools like the **AA's?? What's to stop the government from regulating their network the way THEY see fit (except that pesky dog-eared thing called the Constitution, that's already been trampled several times over)? We've already seen what Utah wants to do with Utopia (attempt to play net nanny). Do we really want a national staging of the same exact thing?
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