| Let Them Eat Dialup! I had an interesting conversation with my father, who lives in Yerington, Nevada, yesterday...
Yerington (and surrounding area) has 5000 inhabitants, who either are retired, farm, or "sell shoes to farmers", and is an "island" served by a rural carrier you might have heard of: VERIZON
They never offered DSL there (too spread out to be feasible), but had plans to install something newfangled called "fiber", instead.
Who killed it? Not Verizon... the City Manager. I told my dad: "Get a rope!" (or borrow a Guillotine).
-NK
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It's absolutely certain that any given database will eventually corrupt itself -- that's why we make backups.
Too much data in one place is absolutely corrupting -- that's why we have the Second Amendment! |
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 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | said by DOStradamus:Who killed it? Not Verizon... the City Manager. I told my dad: "Get a rope!" (or borrow a Guillotine). can you elaborate? while interesting, you provide zero detail on the reasoning why he killed it. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to DOStradamus
Why was it killed?
I agree though...get a rope! |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to DOStradamus
said by DOStradamus:They never offered DSL there (too spread out to be feasible), but had plans to install something newfangled called "fiber", instead. Fiber for residential or commercial? Most/all towers get Fiber now. Town hall and the library and the local schools WILL have fiber. And the local VZ Central Office is guaranteed to have multiple backhaul fibers going in the different directions to regional hubs 100s of miles away. |
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