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Ah, push it - push it real good
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The Cloud | Better hold it in a stadium Given Comcast will pack the place with their stooges. | |
| robertfl
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Mary Esther, FL
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| Why? Were behind the times in speed, pricing and everything.
Will Comcast have ppl there sleeping during this like in the other conference??!
..and what good will this do the average consumer?
the FCC recently said that 256K isn't broadband well neither is 786.
dear FCC, please tell the ISP's that 50mpbs is considered broadband anything less then that is too damn slow.
and what about the caps?
-Rob
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FCCSux
@comcast.net | Why Why deside this first...we have a merger that been sitting there at the fcc for over 400+ days just say yes or no damn it | |
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Bloomfield, CT | Come on national FTTH program! A person can dream right?  | |
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Cuchulainn
The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts
join:2000-11-09
Chevy Chase, MD
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·ntlworld
| Because It's Lack of Broadband that Holds our Economy Back Not an outdated tax code -
Or a horribly inefficient and expensive health care system -
Or bloated agricultural subsidies that skew production-
Or crumbling infrastructure that hasn't been updated since the 1950s (if then) -
Or an IP paradigm that stifles innovation and encourages oligopoly -
Or a President who is hell bent on making his friends richer by thumping his chest and driving the price of oil ever higher -
NAAAAHHH. It's none of those things. We're not competitive because 13 year old Porno Pete in East Buttscratch Taixys doesn't have 1,000,000 gbps broadband for a nickel a month.
Jesus - I wish the FCC would go back to trying to regulate cable - or prosecuting Howard Stern for saying "penis" on the radio. Anything but this misguided, Socialist, pork-barrel "broadband for all" bulls**t.
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join:2006-04-14
Carlsbad, NM
·US Cable
| Re: Because It's Lack of Broadband that Holds our Economy Back Please get over yourself and your anti-Bush propaganda mate!
We are slaves to the Arabs because we CHOOSE TO BE!!! We knew we were being and would continue to be sodomized by them since the 70's. EVERY president since then shares in that blame! We should've started looking for alternative energy resources right then and there.
I'd rather pay $7/gallon for some other fuel than be held captive by people who actually hate us and bring death to our shores. | |
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Mary Esther, FL | Re: Because It's Lack of Broadband that Holds our Economy Back anti Bush? you do know he too has a boss. look it up.
and, if we pay for gas that's $10.00 a gallon, this country will be standing still.
Rob | |
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dragus
@rr.com | what about?? what about isps trying do unfair bandwidth cap they should allso do something about that. | |
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join:2007-04-17
Laramie, WY
| Lobbyists The trouble, Robb, is that the lobbyists are the only people who have the money to follow the Commissioners around wherever they go -- inside or outside the Beltway. Their goal: to make EVERYWHERE "lobbyist-land."
It would cost me about $1,000 to make a quick trip to Pittsburgh for the hearing -- enough to deploy broadband to 20 square miles of countryside that was previously unserved. But the monied lobbyists, such as Free Press (AKA "Save the Internet"), have no such money issues.
The two organizations that call themselves "Free Press" (there's a "Free Press" and a "Free Press Action Fund," because by running the two under separate sections of the IRS code they can evade restrictions that would limit their lobbying) said, in their Form 990 reports to the IRS, that they spent $711,971 on activities related to their push for network regulation. This puts them right up there with the corporate big spenders. And what are they lobbying for? Internet regulation that would actually put small and independent ISPs out of business and pave the way for a total telco/cable company duopoly.
One has to wonder whom Free Press really works for! (The names of the contributors were blanked out in their filing.) The press has long speculated that Google (Motto: "Don't be evil unless it makes us money") is among the biggest contributors, because it is also a huge contributor to Larry Lessig's Internet center on the Stanford campus. (Lessig has used that Stanford organization to push for regulation and legislation that is consistent with Google's wishes, and also is on the Board of Directors of Free Press, so there's clearly a strong connection.) But whoever is giving Free Press those big bucks, they're rich enough to make contributions as large as $300,000 per year (again, according to their 2007 Form 990).
In short, roaming the country is no guarantee that the Commissioners will hear from the public or from knowledgeable people in a particular region. They also must choose their witnesses carefully, and discount the scripted rants of people such as the busloads of people whom Free Press brought in from San Francisco to pack the Stanford hearing.
To paraphrase Lessig's rant at that hearing: "A lobbyist has a nature. It is not one that you trust with your country." | |
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Robb
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Hillsboro, OR
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|  Re: Lobbyists
#2: Even if you were determined to go, the cost is about the same...
Depart Mon, Jul 21, returning the next day
From Laramie, WY to Washington DC
Great Lakes Aviation $672
Frontier Airlines $701
From Laramie, WY to Pittsburg PA
Great Lakes Aviation $672
Frontier Airlines $777
#3: Roaming the country may be no guarantee that the Commissioners will hear from the public, but staying in Washington DC year-'round makes it even less likely so.
#4: What the hell does any of this have to do with Free Press? Even if they are the evil lobbying group you paint them to be, it seems to have nothing to do with this topic at all.
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HTTP is the new Bandwidth Hog...
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