Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02
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Re: What's left?
This sounds like it is now a Pork Bill. Maybe. The mapping provision could be useful if done correctly. The problem with this country's approach to broadband has traditionally been follow up. The bill could contain a million brilliant propositions, but if nobody accurately maps broadband coverage, or nobody holds anybody accountable across a wide slew of well-lobbied agencies, it all means nothing. |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
 ·Embarq
| said by Karl Bode  :This sounds like it is now a Pork Bill. Maybe.The problem with this country's approach to broadband has traditionally been follow up. The bill could contain a million brilliant propositions, but if nobody accurately maps broadband coverage, or nobody holds anybody accountable across a wide slew of well-lobbied agencies, it all means nothing. You could replace "broadband" with just about anything 
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | True, that. |
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Porky 33
@rr.com
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said by Karl Bode :This sounds like it is now a Pork Bill. Maybe. The mapping provision could be useful if done correctly. The problem with this country's approach to broadband has traditionally been follow up. The bill could contain a million brilliant propositions, but if nobody accurately maps broadband coverage, or nobody holds anybody accountable across a wide slew of well-lobbied agencies, it all means nothing.
Yes, sounds like the only thing in the bill that is worth while. |
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soothsayer15
join:2002-03-01
Irving, TX
| So often on this site people complain about how South Korea is so far area of us in broadband deployment. South Korea's broadband is largely subsidized by their government. The problem is America is the lack of accountability with public funds.
Having worked for a couple of large corporations, accountability isn't that great in the private sector either. There are so many people publicly and privately there are unqualified in the jobs they are doing, or are just too lazy to take the time to learn. In the corporations I've worked at, making some arbitrary number was the only thing that mattered regardless of how that numbers was met.
I would like this stimulus to work, but the lack of accountability and greed will probably derail it. There is something about having access to a large sum of money that makes it hard for people to control themselves, especially free money. |
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
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"change we can believe in" must mean whats left in our pockets after a forty hour work week...Change.
I'd gladly give a kidney for a politician that actually knows what he/she is doing. This is just as painful as watching The View!
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