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join:2003-10-23
Ottawa, IL | Cool Maybe one day the U.S will consider broadband a utility.Probably on the day pigs fly. | |
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telcolackey
The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA
1 edit | perspective perspective | |
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Chicago, IL | Re: perspective Always some excuse why they can't deliver but hey Verizon is getting it done at least. | |
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join:2005-06-24
| Re: perspective said by XBL2009  :Always some excuse why they can't deliver but hey Verizon is getting it done at least. Yep and the most populous states per capita as well..God forbid they have to wire somewhere like Wyoming(if they could) Or any of the Rocky Mountain states...Qwest isnt doing much why???  | |
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Re: perspective Doesn't Wyoming qualify as one of the "Rocky Mountain states"? The bastards go right through the middle of it. | |
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telcolackey
The Truth? You can't handle the truth
join:2007-04-06
Death Valley, CA
1 edit | Re: perspective said by XBL2009 :If they can wire the entire country with copper then they can rewire it with fiber. Copper was paid for by Uncle Sam. This communication infrastructure was also a life line service vs. the scene of entitlement around unlimited free bandwidth and free content along with it. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | not insane Wow, not all govts are insane. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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1 edit | Re: not insane many rural parts of Canada have good broadband coverage:
Eg. White River, Ontario (pop 1000), 200 miles from any city (Sault Ste. Marie is the closest), and 60 miles from the next nearest town of 5000.
Cable/DSL available from resellers (doesn't require TV service or local/ld) from Vianet »www.vianet.ca
Cable broadband 5Mbps
* $37.95 / month
* Modem rental included
* Download Speeds up to 5 Mbps
* Upload Speeds up to 512 Kb
* Data Transfer Limit - 60 GB/month
* No charge dial-up access if Cable connection fails
DSL:
* Free activation until further notice
* $39.99 / month
* Modem rental and software included
* Up to 5 Mbps download speed
* Up to 800 Kbps upload speed
Need faster... tap into the OC-192
»www.bigpipeinc.com/pdf/network_m···bone.pdf
»www.bigpipeinc.com/pdf/network_m···rnet.pdf
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garmst
join:2000-09-17
New York, NY | It won't change anything. A backwater place will just become a "connected" backwater place in 2009. I doubt it will happen anyway. Canadian governments as well as American governments have a talent at announcing things but not delivering them.
Show me the beef! | |
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join:2002-11-19
Canada | Re: It won't change anything. It's peaceful living in a backwater...
How's your filthy city?  | |
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Snickerdo
Premium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
| said by garmst :A backwater place will just become a "connected" backwater place in 2009. I doubt it will happen anyway. Canadian governments as well as American governments have a talent at announcing things but not delivering them. Haha someone from New York calling Nova Scotia backwater. That's rich! I guess you don't travel upstate very often, eh?
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BonezX
Basement Dweller
Premium
join:2004-04-13
Canada
1 edit | said by garmst :A backwater place will just become a "connected" backwater place in 2009. I doubt it will happen anyway. Canadian governments as well as American governments have a talent at announcing things but not delivering them. Show me the beef! backwater, hardly, next time you get into a BMW or a mercedies or volvo or most other NEU car, remember, it came in through said backwater place.
and i got to sit in the damn thing first.
personally, i live outside the city, and have had broadband for the last 5 years or so, and it's not slow either 10/1. | |
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lkviewguy
join:2004-02-13
Chicago, IL
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DrewD50
Premium
join:2004-08-28
Canada | Re: Useless... The above comment is useless... and I'm from Ontario
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JammerMan79
Premium,VIP
join:2004-05-13
Prince George, BC | Re: Useless... since when is nova scotia in the prairies? | |
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Hmmmmmmm
@rogers.com | Re: Useless... Haha, I always get the Prairie and Atlantic mixed up. Thanks for the correction. | |
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Snickerdo
Premium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
| Re: Useless... said by Hmmmmmmm :
Haha, I always get the Prairie and Atlantic mixed up. Thanks for the correction. Ummm... I'm not even sure if I should qualify this with a response. What part of the USA are you from again?
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@rogers.com | Re: Useless... I am not sure where Ontario fits into the USA.  | |
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join:2004-04-29
Regina, SK | Re: Useless... oh right, you're the center of the universe, we all forgot | |
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wintr
join:2004-10-13
Calgary, AB
| A drain on society since confederation?
Sorry man, but your province is not the only one that feels slighted about Equalization payments.
At least Alberta has a strong growing economy and not only has the largest GDP per capita per province, but it also produces something more than just lame anonymous posters....
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta#Economy
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalizati···s#Canada
Sorry for feeding the troll but I honestly felt slighted. What's worse is that he slighted the wrong provinces in the first place... man. | |
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@rogers.com
| Re: Useless... Wait, I am a troll simply because you disagree with my views? Nice standards you got there.
As for being anon, well I have not been registered on this site for a couple of years now, and don't see any reason to, as I am not sure how registering imparts some magical, mystical aura of credibility. I have never understood that about this site. I see that instead, more often than not, the "anon troll" bit is a convenient way of simply brushing off somebody's views so as not to take the trouble of engaging with them.
As for my mistake, I have passed both Canadian history and civics with passing colors, but still make the mistake of confusing the two regions. I never claimed I was Jesus or something that you not grant me a simple mistake.
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join:2004-04-29
Regina, SK | Re: Useless... confusing socrates with plato is a simple mistake
not knowing the difference between the prairies and the maritimes (in your own country!)screams single digit IQ | |
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Snickerdo
Premium
join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
| Re: Useless... said by Tikker_LoS :confusing socrates with plato is a simple mistake not knowing the difference between the prairies and the maritimes (in your own country!)screams single digit IQ Couldn't have said it better myself.
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@rogers.com
| Re: Useless... Well, no.
You misunderstood the mistake. I did not say that I do not know the difference between the two, but rather that I confused the two terms(prairie and Atlantic), as you have to understand that there are differences between the two. For example, sometimes when people ask you to look left and yo look right, does it mean that you do not know the difference between the two? Perhaps this is not a good example, as you will just say "I know the difference between the left\right etc."
okay, I have a better example. In your earlier response you said "I'm not even sure I should qualify this with a response". You obviously misused the term "qualify" in that sentence, as perhaps you were trying to say "dignify". No definition of "qualify" is appropriate for the usage you picked, and it is quite obvious that you simply confused "dignify" with "qualify", despite the fact that they mean entirely two different things. Now does that mean you have a single digit IQ score? No, right? | |
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Premium,VIP
join:2004-05-13
Prince George, BC
| Re: Useless... v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies.
v.tr.
To describe by enumerating the characteristics or qualities of; characterize.
To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task.
To declare competent or capable; certify.
To make legally capable; license.
To modify, limit, or restrict, as by giving exceptions.
To make less harsh or severe; moderate. See synonyms at moderate.
Grammar. To modify the meaning of (a noun, for example).
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To be or become qualified.
To reach the later stages of a selection process or contest by competing successfully in earlier rounds.
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@rogers.com
| Re: Useless... Actually, "to declare competent or capable; certify" is not the same thing as to "lend legitimacy", which is what Snickerdo was trying to say. To recognise and to legitimise are two entirely different things. The definition of "declaring competent" presupposes the quality and is thus only being recognised, while with "legitimisation", it is the act itself that is granting a quality which was not there previously. Subtle difference, but still a difference.
Microsoft Word has made abusing the thesaurus so easy that words are entirely losing their distinct meanings. | |
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join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| It's called establishing a track record of reasonable discourse. THAT's why you register. Since it's free, we can only assume you post for your own personal entertainment, and not to add to any discussion. Which is why people don't like to respond to anonymous posters with anything but, "take a hike troll". Personally (with this being an exception) I don't bother responding at all; being ignored is much worse than being insulted. | |
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wintr
join:2004-10-13
Calgary, AB
| Yeah, you never claimed you were Jesus. And I am fairly certain I didn't put you up on that cross. Oh wait, that was you! Come down anon lamer, your troll brethren miss you!
I won't grant you a simple mistake, not when your opening idea was evacuating a province and displacing it's residents into an already over crowded and sprawl challenged area.
For someone who passed both Canadian history and civics you display a lack of respect for both when posting comments that sound like the worst of each, and then fail to stand beside those words.
Oh wait, let me give you a little frowny or something as well, that will surely push home my points. hummmmmm...  | |
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join:2002-09-29
Ottawa | You're a complete idiot, period.
Please don't post anymore. It makes everyone dumber. | |
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bassnguitar
join:2003-09-11
Imperial, MO
clubs: | I have a better chance of shooting skip on my old CB radio (with only 4 watts, indoor antenna and a stock mic)to Nova Scotia than I do getting HSI from where I'm at. Sad thing is that HSI is only a mile or so away (thanks deathstar and charter). | |
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join:2007-10-07
Toronto, ON | broadband by 2009 I hope they get it. | |
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acrufox
join:2004-07-14
Canada
1 edit | Who cares...still too $$$ for what you get around here Who cares that Nova Scotia will have 100% broadband coverage in 2009, doesn't make this place any more appealing to live in. I'm sure this 100% will come with a ton of strings attached to those living in certain rural areas.
I remember actually visiting a friend had FiOS hooked up. A few weeks later I saw the local Telco running a new fiber line up the street. I inquired about residential fiber service and the guy gawked at such an idea and said "it would be years and years and years before you would ever see anything like that here"
...there is hardly 900,000 people in N.S....big whoop. I rather have lower prices on everything else day to day that most people west of the maritimes enjoy. | |
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Nova Scotia: 100% broadband by 2009
Useless...