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 SnickerdoPremium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON | reply to ChrisXP
Re: Good luck by 2005 said by ChrisXP:
[You can read also about the guy who froze to death in a blizzard checking traplines. Just imagine a service crew trying to maintain a network in Timbuktu, Canada].
You Canadians need to learn more of your northern neighbors.
Timbuktu is in Africa, not Canada. You're more then likely thinking of Tuktoyaktuk.
In the future, I suggest the American not make mistakes like this while in the same message making snide and condescending remarks about Canadians not knowing their own country. I assure you, myself and Robert know a good deal more about our own country then you do. Robert lived there, and I have family who still to this day live on Baffin Island (Arctic Bay/Nanisivik). Next time, at least get the settlements correct.
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 ChrisXPUnited We Stand, Divided We FallPremium
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USA | said by Snickerdo:
Timbuktu is in Africa, not Canada. You're more then likely thinking of Tuktoyaktuk.
Actually Timbuktu -- which it's general meaning is a town in the middle of nowhere. And you can pick up that meaning from the term "Smalltown, USA" too.
I won't bother to comment on the rest of the trash as it has nothing to do with the thread in question.
BTW, in case you didn't know (and you don't) the Inuit aren't one people. The Inuit in the Baffin region are totally different than those further south (more so as they were the most effected by European exposure), much like Japanese and Koreans are different. So don't make the mistake of comparing them all as one -- which tends to be a common mistake even with other races, but because they look the same people automatically claim they are.
But back to broadband in all Canada: only in the south Canada. Nearly impossible to deliever it to people who have little use for it.
CXP
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SnickerdoPremium
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Niagara Falls, ON | There really is a place in Africa called Timbuktu, so when you mentioned that about Canada I assumed you meant Tuktoyaktuk since they could be mistaken for one another. Valid explaination and I do apologise for the other comments since I took your comment out of context to begin with. No hard feelings I hope.
Needless to say, broadband WILL happen in the north, just like telephones are there right now. It's a matter of including an internet connection on that same satellite and then using point-to-moint DSL modems for anyone who wants the service. As you said, I'm sure most people in the arctic couldn't care less about broadband, but it will at least be available to them if they want it. It is already available to every 'community' in the Yukon. I use the term community, because the feds have an actual definition of what a community is. Mind you, the Yukon has a LOT of fiber running along the pipelines leading into Alaska so providing broadband there isn't as big of an issue as it is to a place that requires satellite access. As I said previously, a house (or in this case, igloo) that already doesn't have any wireline telephone service isn't going to be getting broadband internet service anytime soon. These aren't a 'community' by definition. One can say the same thing about homes in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario or Northern Quebec.
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