fiberguy
My views are my own.
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Re: More BS from BS
Bogey, get real would you?
You buy a service which is defined by not only the cable company, but the FCC as well. There are laws about what you can do with the service. You are also bound by an agreement you have with the cable company to view the service in the dwelling at the address authorized by them at the time of the agreement was started.
Further, you don't have the permission from the networks to redistribute THEIR signals to anyone else for profit or not.
Like cable who signed a licence agreement to distribute the networks, you don't have the same right.
You're really reaching on this one. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | Likewise. Where's the authorization for what the city is doing? |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
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join:2005-05-20
| You mean the same city that has the authority to build roads, hire a police force, and provide other services? THAT city?
I didn't think that the city was becoming an ISP, rather, providing relief.
I think the question you should be asking is "where does BS get off gauging N.O. residents in a time of disaster?"
Bell South is in there charging people that are trying to literally pick up the sticks after the hurricans and floods $70.00 for internet, twice as much because they don't have phone? GET REAL! I guess you were ok with paying $6.00 a gallon for gas the on September 11th, 2001, too?
You stated you could run a cable down the fence and provide cable tv service to others. You don't have the right to do that. The city, who owns the network and the internet that's piped through it, is another case.
I could give a rats ass about BS and their temper tantrum.
Bogey, you are comparing apples and oranges. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | Gov't can't do anything it wants because it feels like it. Where was the vote or amending of the city charter to allow this?
Go reread the story about who this is affecting. |
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scaredpoet
join:2001-03-26
Monmouth Junction, NJ
1 edit | said by bogey780  :Gov't can't do anything it wants because it feels like it. No, but it can make a decision to provide essential services in a time of crisis. New Orleans is NOT "business as usual" yet, and won't be for some time.
Where was the vote or amending of the city charter to allow this? Where was the vote allowing the Red Cross, or FEMA to step in and offer assistance? No one I know who lives or lived in Louisiana remembers casting that vote, either. but it happened, didn't it?
(Well, it *barely* happened, but that's another debate...)
Go reread the story about who this is affecting.
The Red Herring article doesn't mention this hurting anyone, except maybe Bellsouth's ability to restrict basic communications access to a city where BellSouth has already failed to restore more than 66% of its basic phone service. I guess if BellSouth is incompetent, no one else is legally allowed to be competent, eh?
Lastly: what if New Orleans throttled the network to 128kbps as per the law's requirements? Would that still be "Stealing" under your flawed philosophy? |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
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| 'Where was the vote allowing the Red Cross, or FEMA to step in and offer assistance?'
Because there are laws allowing it. No vote needed.
Where y'at?
Because ya ain't here. That's for sure. All NPA/NXX in the city are up as far as I know. Most localities served by the muni-net are a lot farther along then 33%. A lot. Downtown, CBD, and French Quarter were relatively ok after Katrina. New Orleans Main never went down. The 66% you pitch must be a lot of New Orleans East and the 9th ward where service is almost 100% still out.
It's a simple question, can the people on the muni-net get service from a telecom company. The answer is yes. They can. They just don't want to pay for it. |
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