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Time Warner Political Pal Resigns Under Ethics Probe
Spending a little outside of his $14,000 salary...
If you recall, back in May Time Warner Cable tried to force a bill through the North Carolina legislature that would have banned towns and cities from wiring themselves with broadband. Specifically, Time Warner Cable lobbyists were targeting a handful of new fiber to the home projects in the state in places like Wilson, where users can now get FTTH service that far exceeds Time Warner's aging DOCSIS 1.1 technology. The bill ultimately failed, thanks in part to heightened attention from consumers already annoyed by Time Warner Cable's efforts to impose metered billing, though dozens of such bills have already been passed in other states. The company's key Democratic political ally for the bill in North Carolina, who at the time seemed remarkably oblivious about his own bill, has now resigned under a cloud of controversy surrounding his strangely robust campaign finances for a non-election season.
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woody7
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hmmmm.....

Where are all the shills, you know who you are.I guess people are waking up for a change.

Matt3
All noise, no signal.
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Jamestown, NC

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Re: hmmmm.....

said by woody7:

Where are all the shills, you know who you are.I guess people are waking up for a change.
He's served two terms, my guess is he learned that anything goes from the previous administration.

S_engineer
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Re: hmmmm.....

Don't stop at the "previous administration", this has been going on for decades!
vinnie97
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Didn't take long for a lemming to blame Bush.

NOVA_Guy
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Re: hmmmm.....

Of course... Don't you know that everything is always Booooosh's fault?

When Obama breaks our economy with his out of control spending and a loaf of bread winds up costing $100, it will still be Bush's fault. When our health care system is broken due to government overinvolvement, and the middle class are made poor through imposition of the "public option" that Obama seeks, it will still be Bush's fault.

The word "Bush" is the liberal buzzword equivalent of "Our inexperienced ACORN-elected candidate couldn't do it, so we need a convenient excuse."

woody7
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Re: hmmmm.....

A lot of this out of control spending is actually The previous admins fault. 2 wars not on the books, paid for by credit cards, what Obama did wrong was he actually accounted for it. Bank bailout was started by previous administration. So if he decided not to try and fix the problem, it would have been worse than the great depression. I have the answer lets cut taxes, ship all jobs over seas, and go back to the stone age. Whether people like it or not Obama is the president. Do you actually think we would be better off under McCain Palin? Peace

Matt3
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Re: hmmmm.....

said by woody7:

Bank bailout was started by previous administration.
You always spend in a depression, that is how you end it. Any student of history (or Day 1 Google user) can ferret that information out. Bush put a band-aid on it by providing $600 "checks" and propping up a housing bubble he knew would collapse. You're also correct that Bush rushed the $700 billion bailout through, not Obama.

Matt Latimer, a Bush Speech Writer, released an excerpt of his book to Style that shows just how inept Bush really was. It's an eye opening read for sure: »men.style.com/gq/feature ··· nt_10957

Personally, I think Bush had his heart in the right place and truly believed what he was doing was right, but was easily manipulated because he trusted his gut and didn't stand up for himself. The article shows that my feelings about Bush were generally right, as he had no idea what the bailout package would accomplish, but presented it anyway.
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said by vinnie97:

Didn't take long for a lemming to blame Bush.
I said previous Administration, as in the one in NC. A little defensive are we?
PineTrees
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aging tech

DOCSIS 2.0?

still 1.0 In my area
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Austin, TX

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Re: aging tech

1.1, not 1.0.

But yeah, I don't know that TWC has DOCSIS 2.0 ANYWHERE
PineTrees
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Re: aging tech

that's what I meant. haven't quite woke up yet.
iansltx
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Austin, TX

iansltx

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Re: aging tech

Looks like the statement was revised
Sammer
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Canonsburg, PA

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Lesson for bought legislators!

Once the public turns against you, those who thought they bought influence will throw you under the bus.

Eagles1221
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Vincentown, NJ

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TWC

D2?

I doubt they even have that. They are only 1.1 here

hayabusa3303
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Florence, SC

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Re: TWC

said by Eagles1221:

D2?

I doubt they even have that. They are only 1.1 here
In some of the old Adelphia plants, are running docsis 2.0. It been in the news a few times on here.
hottboiinnc4
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Cleveland, OH

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Re: TWC

Actually there are a LOT of old Adelphia systems on 2.0. Ohio has many of those.
iansltx
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Austin, TX

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Re: TWC

Who cares?

No, really. TWC doesn't have upload PowerBoost and doesn't have tiers above 2 Mbps up ANYWHERE on coaxial plant. 2 Mbps up can be sustained on DOCSIS 1.1 plant (I've seen it in practice). Therefore DOCSIS 2.0 is of little-to-no consequence on TWC's current network.

This is in contrast to companies with upload PowerBoost (Cox, Comcast) and companies that have more than 2 Mbps up (anyone with DOCSIS 3, Cablevision with their Boost tier).

Then again, I'm thankful for TWC in a sense. Without them we wouldn't have 15/2 for $50 on residential with download PowerBoost taking speeds to 25 Mbps or so. OTOH without them the nearby telephone company would've worked with my hometown to deploy an HFC network of their own. That said, the local telephone company has now been bought by a company that was merged into Windstream, so the cable system might have ended up with Suddenlink (ech).
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just tell the Americans its a Canadian CEO and that will screw this over fast
tmc8080
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democrat, republican or martian!

impede the will of the people and your going down!
now the new development should go ahead with FTTP deployment just because this happened! that will teach them a lesson.. to stop screwing around and give the people what they want! we're well beyond the old adage shit or get off the pot! this is 2009 and they're still milking 1.1?!?