older dog
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join:2005-06-09
Norwich, NY
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Re: 100 MB broadband for all
We all subsidize somebody with something.
Water comes to mind. We in the country subsidize your cheap water.
How by land restrictions around water sheds. Hurts resale of land, tax base, and prevents the area from ever growing to where the area would be viable for broadband deployment on its own.
After all you could just move to a area where water is easier to provide.
The list is endless on both sides. |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| said by older dog  :We all subsidize somebody with something. Water comes to mind. We in the country subsidize your cheap water. How by land restrictions around water sheds. Hurts resale of land, tax base, and prevents the area from ever growing to where the area would be viable for broadband deployment on its own. After all you could just move to a area where water is easier to provide. The list is endless on both sides. Not to mention all the "scenic restrictions" that serve no purpose, other than to give some suburban dweeb a pretty view when they go on their Sunday drive in the country. You don't hear rural folks demanding that strip malls all be dismantled, just so that they don't have to look at them at those times when they venture into the 'burbs. Why should rural people be forced to restrict what they do with their own property, just to satisfy the aesthetic sensibilities of some city slicker? |
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CaptainRR
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join:2006-04-21
Blue Rock, OH
| I hear. Sounds like living in the Adirondacks! Cell service is scarce because they don't allow towers. One thing I can say is most of the private telco's up there do provide DSL and are way ahead of any major telco. Were I used to live I used to have a small telco that covered only two townships. I have family up there and they cover every corner of there service area with DSL. What I am getting at is if you are on a baby bell telco more chance's are you will get DSL before most people will with major telco's in rural areas. I know that first hand. I am with the new AT&T out in the middle of no wear and just barley have dialup! |
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CConverse
join:2006-01-31
Syracuse, NY
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said by PDXPLT :Not to mention all the "scenic restrictions" that serve no purpose, other than to give some suburban dweeb a pretty view when they go on their Sunday drive in the country. No purpose? Ask the birds or butterflies that use the areas as migration "rest stops". As the swamplands that act as natural filters for earth's water supply. Ask the trees and plants that provide us with the oxygen we breathe. There's plenty of reason to keep these areas, we just have to look for them.
Edit: See (and look up) my quote for more details.
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