qdemn7
Smurf in My Loop
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join:2003-09-16
Fort Worth, TX
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Re: So what?
said by mclassing  :Like France or Japan is anywhere near the size of the US. I get sick of hearing that Japan or whoever has the next gen cell system. We need more infrastructure in one state than they need in an entire country! First post...almost Absolutely! 
That reminds me of those fools who cry:
"Why doesn't the US have widespread passenger rail service, like Japan or England or France or ....... You get the idea.
When Big Brother subsidizes all sorts of neat things, it's easy to have them. If you told the average person, (who might NOT have health care), that the US government should subsidize extremely high-speed broadband, so a bunch of technogeeks could fileshare a bunch of crap, they would look at you like were mentally ill, and they would be right.
There is a hell of lot more important things the US Government should be doing. Subsidizing broadband is at the bottom of the list, IMO.
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hailinfantry
Bizarro Quinn
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join:2004-01-18
Brooklyn, NY
| Actually, we do have widespread passenger rail. It's Amtrak, and the coverage isn't really any worse than Europe's offerings.
You better believe that the coverage of Eurail is not to every city and village...it primarily goes for the larger cities.
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UnKown
The Underground Network
join:2002-09-08
Orlando, FL | we do have that stuff in our large cities, aka chicago, nyc, l.a. why cant we have broadband like that too? |
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