 screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
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Re: Location Location Location And when you chose to live in an urban area you chose to have price increases because these farmers can't get in contact with WALM*RT to send their pricing in to compete with the other carriers.
Thank you very much, so sick of this rural argument. In order for this country to survive people have noticed that oh hey we need to adapt. In order for these farmers to adapt they have went with DirectWay or Wildblue only to find out about those ugly FAP's.
Not to mention I don't see anyone putting a cattle farm in the middle of the city...
Sorry not really geared to you but I saw it fit here before this urban sacrifice went out of hand lol.
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heimdm
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Martinsville, IN | I live about 7 miles from a major town. Through that down runs Internet2 fiber.. that is to the east. I am part of ATT terroritory, and they have placed absolutely no investment. Just to the north less than 4 miles is a rural telco. They have just replaced their copper with Fiber to the home... but because I am stuck in ATT territory the only thing I can get is a T-1. I am hoping that Verizon LTE will finally give us a affordable form of Internet. |
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screavic4Premium
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Paron, AR
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1 edit | Same issue here, fiber runs right by our house but as far as I know unless they changed it our main terminal is still on copper. The Fiber runs to feed the next town over. ATT here too
I called to pay to get a DSLAM installed but they don't do that so my business is saving up for Comcast if they will still come here.
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I see. So you want to make your choice and not have to make any sacrifice and want it all.
So how do you handle the delimma when you want both Chicken and Steak for dinner but your poor little tummy isn't big enough for both?
Point being.... everyone has choices in life. Those choices generally mean you are sacrificing X for Y. Rural people make the choice to live the life of isolation and the lack of convenience that comes with it. Urban people have made the choice to live the life of convenience over isolation.
I personally have not seen a single innovation in "farming" that has done anything beneficial to society beyond raise the prices and introduce chemicals to our land and bodies that do more harm than good. But of course those things are what give us the millionaire farmers so....... |
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screavic4Premium
join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
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2 edits | Have you looked at the price of farm equipment lately? I'm not talking about a tiller from your local hardware store. I'm talking about a full all out Combine setup for every task the farmer needs. That is why the price goes up, not to mention the demand for these goods have increased while the number of farms producing food have dropped.
Now big companies require all these changes that farmers are having to adapt to in order to keep selling their food.
How am I making a sacrifice? I guess your talking about me being all jacked up from the Army and living on disability... Yeah that is a sacrifice I took and now i'm paying for it.
I live just 8 miles from the city, I'm far from Rural by the "rules" they were trying to place to define rural and I still don't have broadband.
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join:2006-09-19
Becket, MA | reply to Skippy25
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Point being.... everyone has choices in life. Those choices generally mean you are sacrificing X for Y. Rural people make the choice to live the life of isolation and the lack of convenience that comes with it. Urban people have made the choice to live the life of convenience over isolation.
Golly, I shor do miss all them thar big city "conveniences", like crushing taxes to pay for the "conveniences", a staggering cost of living, concrete and glass instead of trees, 24/7 traffic noise, polluted air, littered streets, living in fear of crime, sidewalks full of lonely, desperate people and wasted dregs of humanity ... oh yeah, us rural folks shor is deprived.
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I personally have not seen a single innovation in "farming" that has done anything beneficial to society ...
How about feeding much of the world? How about going into your local supermarket and seeing more food on the shelves than is available in some countries?
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...beyond raise the prices...
The prices would be considerably lower if we weren't wasting millions of acres of farmland growing crops for that environmentally disastrous "clean" fuel, ethanol, because ecowackos don't like oil, instead of using the acreage for food and feed for livestock. Then again, most city folk believe that food comes from boxes and bottles and jars.
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...and introduce chemicals to our land and bodies that do more harm than good.
You are evidently unaware that the "chemicals" that plants use to grow are the same whether they come from fertilizer or from cow dung. One of the biggest ripoffs for the gullible is "organic" food.
Back on topic, the arrogance of "urban" dwellers re broadband has ceased to be merely annoying and has become thoroughly tedious. You're perfectly willing to enjoy the "convenience" of relying on rural America for your sustenance rather than raising or growing your own, but let us hicks and rednecks know our place and be silent. How dare we ask for a service that will benefit all of America! Are we unaware that if we want broadband, the answer is to move to an urban shithole and live like rats in a cage?
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| Could not have said it better myself. thanks.
We can't bitch about lack of broadband where we choose to live, but them city folks sure can bitch about caps and faps. |
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