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 ChrisXPUnited We Stand, Divided We FallPremium
join:2002-12-13
USA | reply to murdok6100
Re: Good luck by 2005 said by murdok6100:
Okay, so they will miss the five hundred people who live in the arctic wasteland, so what?
Those 500 people are a "major" metro city up north. It's like a Dallas/Fort Worth sized city. A hamlets that has over a thousand, can be considered a NYC.
Because they're so small those below the treeline consider them not worth the effort, but they're the largest communities in that whole Canadian north. Heck, Smalltown USA is larger than Yellowknife, and that's the largest community in the NWT and Nunavut (I still call it all NWT and still use the district naming system).
said by murdok6100:
Hell if its that much trouble for broadband/sat/microwave, Im damn suprised they have electric and or telephone.
It's not easy. They have some local support of engineers, but if there's a major solar storm, it can all go up in a bang. Then they're out of touch with the rest of the world. That can last for days.
It's lonely and desolute up there. Even the Inuit go mad during the winter.
said by murdok6100:
And if thats the case, who give's a sh*t?
They do!
said by murdok6100:
Folks in igloos are probably not that concerned about it, besides if they can get 80% or 90% of Canada wired then thats great.
A lot less than that, considering you guys have just over 30,000,000 on over millions of square miles. Wiring all that for someone in Fort Enterprise to Pond Inlet to come to DSLR to chat, IS a pipe dream.
Get the priorities right: food, heat, education, jobs -- broadband can wait!
said by murdok6100:
What are you jealous or something?
Concerned for those who are being ignored.
BTW, the map is about 20 topographical maps I own of the NWT. The book collection is much larger. Really do have a sincere interest with the landscape and people up there. Would help Canadians themselves know something about their own people, too.
CXP
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 RobertPremium
join:2002-03-11
St John'S, NL | said by ChrisXP:
BTW, the map is about 20 topographical maps I own of the NWT. The book collection is much larger. Really do have a sincere interest with the landscape and people up there. Would help Canadians themselves know something about their own people, too.
CXP
I spent 24 years in Labrador, my brother is currently on Baffin Island. He has broadband 24/7, 365 days a year. He may not get 1.5 Mbit service like the majority, but he consistently gets higher than 640, and the majority of the inuit do not want internet, because they do not care for it.
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ChrisXPUnited We Stand, Divided We FallPremium
join:2002-12-13
USA | said by Robert:
I spent 24 years in Labrador, my brother is currently on Baffin Island. He has broadband 24/7, 365 days a year. He may not get 1.5 Mbit service like the majority, but he consistently gets higher than 640, and the majority of the inuit do not want internet, because they do not care for it.
The Inuit that reside in Resolute came from Labrador (no native Inuit inhabited that region as it's too brutal for them to live there). They were "relocated" in the region as Canada's grand experiment to colonize the region. It was brutal, on the level of the US "Trail of Tears".
They want cheaper food, better heating and jobs -- not much of a market in carvings (even though they're beautiful pieces of art I'd love to own myself, but alas, the PETA nuts keep me from getting it -- different regions will add skins and teeth of animals that the PETA nuts had banned. So it limits their livihood as the US market is out for traditional artwork).
Broadband just isn't a priority.
CXP
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"It's not what you see that's suspect, but how you interpret what you see." ~~~ Isaac Asimov
Remember 9/11: Bodies found "intact": 289
Body parts found: 19,858
Families who received no remains: 1,717 | |
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