Vermont Fiber Efforts Run Into Sour Economy > Not that Karl doesn't do a good job, but...

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Re: Not that Karl doesn't do a good job, but...

Yeah, I picked up on that, too. As I was reading, I was saying to myself, "this isn't nasty!"

You'll note there's still oodles of skepticism though, and it's made clear that even Nulty is a "fiscal Conservative" who has his doubts...

so am I.

Well sure, competence is a dice-roll on these projects. Anyone who isn't skeptical, about all projects, all the time, is an idiot.

I just find the journal's new begrudgingly accepting though skeptical attitude kind of cute, for a paper that's spent the last eight years suggesting community broadband is a hybrid between satanism, socialism and puppy murder.

All run by some guy named "Azathoth", whoever he is.

My website partner lives up in VT. His home service is Wildblue. Which rhymes with "Ewwwww!". His office service is Fairpoint. At this stage, Fairpoint is only marginally better than Wildblue, especially as regards ability to pull an IP and get to websites. He's started working out of home, because Wildblue is more reliable.

Ponder that, wonchoo?

Upshot? Well, this DOES, in spite of what dupes, shills and astroturfers might say, have an economic effect. Except around the biggest cities, there ain't much. The economy is effected.

Broadband is not a luxury for some, so they can play COD4. It's a tool for business too. Business creates commerce and jobs.

Well, what do we reliably know about number-crunchers, these days?

They are not about objective results and answers. They are about ledgerdemane, cheap tricks of the parlor mesmerist, making the numbers dance, sing and play the guitar, so the CEO gets the news he wants to get and his quarterly guidance calls to analysts and SEC reports are placed in the best possible light. Truth is considered inimical to goals and objectives and raises holy hell on risk management.

You can bet that same ethos exists in these broadband penetration reports as well.

As the old saying goes, figures don't lie but liars can figure.