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2013-Aug-19 8:41 am
That chick is highBroadband is an extremely competitive market more so than it ever has been. Over 80 percent of the public can get super-high speeds of over 100 Mbps, and nearly all Americans can (or will soon) get four different wireless 4G technologies with speeds up to 20 Mbps. Prices per megabit are dropping quickly.
I think this could be used in a Baker Act hearing as evidence of delusions. |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus join:2001-06-20 Cheyenne, WY
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What Senator Catherine Pugh means is My broadband is great screw you. |
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KearnstdSpace Elf Premium Member join:2002-01-22 Mullica Hill, NJ |
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not only that but Baltimore is her region. One would think she would be promoting what her region wants.... Oh wait that is a pipe dream, She is promoting what her sponsor(s) think her region wants.
Anybody have a breakdown of her campaign funding to see how many telecoms on are on it? |
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Often find myself on the opposite side of the argument with BF69, but on this one we agree. |
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And if we still lived in a world with real journalists, Karl wouldn't be the only one posting articles about this kind of BS from a Senator. These claims aren't even open to interpretation, she is just flat out spouting off false data.
If she can be so fooled, so bought, or just so ignorant, why is the media not calling her out on it? |
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said by Kearnstd:One would think she would be promoting what her region wants.... Whate her region wants? Or what some pols on city council want so that their relatives and supporters can get pork jobs on the new venture handed out by the pols? |
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said by Camelot One:And if we still lived in a world with real journalists, Karl wouldn't be the only one posting articles about this kind of BS from a Senator. Ok not bashing Karl but let's be honest the VAST majority of his posts are OP Ed not journalism. Pure journalism is post just the fact without any opinion or bias or hyperbole. EVERY Karl post has an opinion and/or hyperbole in it. here's an example from this article In addition to hallucinating the fact that Baltimore enjoys "extremely competitive" broadband (her 100 Mbps claim is directly out of fantasy land), Pugh reads from her lobbyist talking points on just how vile and dangerous city-run broadband services can be:Clearly this is hyperbole not actual facts and the article could have been posted without this remark. And I agree with his assessment. My point is when I want OP Ed, I'll read it. I would just like FACTS. I can form the hyperbole and sarcasm in my head myself. |
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said by 88615298:Ok not bashing Karl but let's be honest the VAST majority of his posts are OP Ed not journalism. That was exactly my point. There are so many blatant factual lies that the main stream media should be writing about it, not just those with an opinion on the subject matter. |
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Only plebeians worry about the Internet for entertainment. /sarc |
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actually Karl wouldn't be a true journalist to start off with. His true title would be: blogger. DSLR/BBR is far from any news site and is a message board. |
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CosmicDebriStill looking for intelligent life join:2001-09-01 Lake City, FL |
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said by 88615298:said by Camelot One:And if we still lived in a world with real journalists, Karl wouldn't be the only one posting articles about this kind of BS from a Senator. Ok not bashing Karl but let's be honest the VAST majority of his posts are OP Ed not journalism. Pure journalism is post just the fact without any opinion or bias or hyperbole. EVERY Karl post has an opinion and/or hyperbole in it. here's an example from this article In addition to hallucinating the fact that Baltimore enjoys "extremely competitive" broadband (her 100 Mbps claim is directly out of fantasy land), Pugh reads from her lobbyist talking points on just how vile and dangerous city-run broadband services can be:Clearly this is hyperbole not actual facts and the article could have been posted without this remark. And I agree with his assessment. My point is when I want OP Ed, I'll read it. I would just like FACTS. I can form the hyperbole and sarcasm in my head myself. Yes, but....... where Karl may insert his opinion, he does always include a link to the actual story, where you are free to ummm...... read the facts...... |
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CXM_SplicerLooking at the bigger picture Premium Member join:2011-08-11 NYC |
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Her check from the telecoms gets delivered right on time so the Internet MUST be fast! |
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Ahhh so this whole 'people want fast connections' thing is a load of made up B.S.? |
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Unfortunately, the Main Stream Media has declined to such a state over the past 20 or so years that any distinction between 'News' and a 'Blog' are barely visible at this point. You are right, though that there is (should be) a difference but Karl has his shit together IMO... I would trust him more than the MSM to report accurately. This story is a glaring example; so many inaccurate comments by Pugh completely ignored (or unnoticed) by any 'real' news outlet. |
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What "story" often to his own??? or to Stop The Cap??? Hardly either are stories. They're blogs. |
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Karl rarely has his facts together. Karl is a PR machine for who ever pays the most $$$. Especially Google on many fronts or Apple. It used to be VZ and FiOS. Before them it was AT&T and their iPhone at the time. Karl is a typical blogger that has found someone and a chain of massive companies to pay him for what ever he spills out of his keyboard, mostly for the sides of think tanks that are for Muni and Gov't Internet, or Google Fiber. |
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High speed connections draw in businesses and determine where the people that work in those businesses want to live.
Believe it or not, but most people aren't xenophobes that want to live an hour's drive from work. Especially since most interesting things to do without taking a vacation are in the city, not the county or some Podunk village. |
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said by intok:High speed connections draw in businesses and determine where the people that work in those businesses want to live.
Believe it or not, but most people aren't xenophobes that want to live an hour's drive from work. Especially since most interesting things to do without taking a vacation are in the city, not the county or some Podunk village. xenophobes doesn't mean what you think it does: » www.merriam-webster.com/ ··· enophobeone unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin |
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2013-Aug-19 9:37 pm
Most of the reasons I hear from people that choose to live in the burbs on purpose are pretty xenophobic. And thats being nice about it. |
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said by intok:Most of the reasons I hear from people that choose to live in the burbs on purpose are pretty xenophobic. And thats being nice about it. My experience is that most living or moving to suburbs do so for better school systems and lower crime rates. And most suburbs of major cities are fairly diverse today. If any negative aspect could be identified it is an economic one - not living among poor people and that comes back to crime rate and not fear or loathing of foreigners. |
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CXM_SplicerLooking at the bigger picture Premium Member join:2011-08-11 NYC |
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From what I see, if Karl stands up for any particular group it is the broadband consumer. I find it hard to believe that he is taking money to be a 'PR machine' when he has bashed them all. |
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Right, because all poor people are criminals. I've lived in "crime ridden cities" my whole life and the only time I've ever been attacked was out in the country. I've never felt threatened by anyone when walking around outside at 3 A.M. because I can't sleep in the city.
Step your reasoning back 30 years and it's the poor blacks in the inner city being blamed for all the crime, 160 years back and it's the Irish. Same shit different decade.
inner city schools, when funded to the same level perform just as well as those in the middle of nowhere. |
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said by CosmicDebri:Yes, but....... where Karl may insert his opinion, he does always include a link to the actual story, where you are free to ummm...... read the facts...... One of the main reasons why I come here is so I don't have to go to 50 different websites. So maybe I should stop coming here instead if that is your "solution". Why come here if I have to still go to other websites to get the story? Sorry I'm not seeing the downside of him NOT inserting his opinion. |
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2013-Aug-20 1:38 pm
RTFA or GTFO? This site, like Slashdot, aggregates news from several sources so you don't have to dig through them all to find something interesting and/or relevant so you don't have to do the leg work yourself. If you want the actual article those links are provided so that you may read those if you don't like the synopsis posted here.
Whining about it here is just as pointless as it is on Slashdot. |
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CosmicDebriStill looking for intelligent life join:2001-09-01 Lake City, FL
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Obviously, one of the main reasons you come here is so you can vent YOUR opinion as well, Mr. Over 12k posts...... if you don't agree with Karl's opinions I guess you've been torturing yourself daily for the last 10 years by coming here and reading them.... |
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