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Rochester, NY | Re: Sponsor logos on their lawmaker's jackets
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| | | | Re: Sponsor logos on their lawmaker's jackets Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Time Warner Cable) another asshole politician who took money behind closed doors.
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| | | | Beautiful !! LOL Now vote her out, another disconnected legislator on the take. | |
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| | | she does know what she's talking about. iProvo was JUST ONE of those projects that failed. You do realize ANY business the Gov't gets into can NEVER EVER make a profit or break even? The IRS does NOT allow that. There for will always operate in the red and anytime a new upgrades are required or even content contracts come up; they may NEVER be able to either #1 make the upgrades or #2 even agree to keep said channels? What are you going do to then? Move back to TWC or ATT U-Verse? After all that's what others would do. Who cares if you get a better deal with the local gov't. They don't have what people want when they can't afford it. What would happen if a hurricane came and took out the FTTH network? Who's going to be able to rebuild that network? ATT, Comcast and TWC are STILL doing that with the South. The City would NEVER be able to rebuild the network all over again. You may think its better for the city now; but you don't think about the future. Philip doesn't either as long as his website gets posted with his name attached as the "editor" of just another blog. | |
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| | | | Re: Sponsor logos on their lawmaker's jackets said by MEohME :she does know what she's talking about. iProvo was JUST ONE of those projects that failed. You do realize ANY business the Gov't gets into can NEVER EVER make a profit or break even? The IRS does NOT allow that. There for will always operate in the red and anytime a new upgrades are required or even content contracts come up; they may NEVER be able to either #1 make the upgrades or #2 even agree to keep said channels? What are you going do to then? Move back to TWC or ATT U-Verse? After all that's what others would do. Who cares if you get a better deal with the local gov't. They don't have what people want when they can't afford it. What would happen if a hurricane came and took out the FTTH network? Who's going to be able to rebuild that network? ATT, Comcast and TWC are STILL doing that with the South. The City would NEVER be able to rebuild the network all over again. You may think its better for the city now; but you don't think about the future. Philip doesn't either as long as his website gets posted with his name attached as the "editor" of just another blog.
This entire post is so confoundingly bizarre and filled with so many inaccuracies and misleading conclusions I actually laughed. | |
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| They would need a lot of space to cover all of their "sponsors". For comparison look at some NASCAR race cars - they are covered in logos.
Anyone who believes that there are honest politicians left is living in a fantasy world.
In most countries "sponsors" would be guilty of bribery, but here is is acceptable. | |
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Faison, NC | Re: For the NC folks, if any is reading this... I would but it will not matter because TWC can pay more than I can. That is the whole problem with our system of government. Officials can promise the world before being elected then once elected can do what they want for 4 years and we have no choice but to put up with their decisions for those years.
There needs to be some sort of contract these officials have to sign before taking office outlining everything they say to get elected and when they break them , kick them out of office before their term is up. | |
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kudos:12 | Re: For the NC folks, if any is reading this... said by mworks:I would but it will not matter If people would stop thinking this, it would matter. | |
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Faison, NC | Re: For the NC folks, if any is reading this... Why would it matter ? If she is not going to run for re-election then what will she gain by doing something I want ? Instead she can take the money from TWC and profit and ignore me and lose nothing. | |
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kudos:12 | Re: For the NC folks, if any is reading this... said by mworks:Why would it matter ? If she is not going to run for re-election then what will she gain by doing something I want ? Instead she can take the money from TWC and profit and ignore me and lose nothing.
Another alternative is that she could get on a horse and ride up the lawn of the capitol praising Time Warner.
We can play what if's all day.
Call your local representative, not her. | |
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kudos:5 |  Why isn't TWC simply content to allow them to fail ?
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| | | Re: Why isn't TWC simply content to allow them to fail ? Well now they don't want competition they don't want nobody else knows something better out there besides their services low quality what they offer ! Which they know fiber to the home is better than copper. Welcome to slow North Carolina ! | |
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kudos:5 | Re: Why isn't TWC simply content to allow them to fail ? said by CopperFiber:Well now they don't want competition they don't want nobody else knows something better out there besides their services
Of course they don't. Businesses aren't for competition. That would be stupid on their part. Consumers want competition. The question is, should the taxpayers thru the state be the ones providing that competition? Or should the state just be encouraging other private companies to come in and provide that competition? And how could they encourage other private companies to provide competition? How about by not taxing businesses to death? | |
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Faison, NC | Re: Why isn't TWC simply content to allow them to fail ? Taxes are not the problem with deploying broadband. Monopolies and right of ways are the problem. It simply cost too much for another competitor to install new lines , dig up roads, to install a service to compete with the existing ones. The only way competition will increase is if government prohibits the ability of telecom to own the last mile to the home. Make that last mile line a public utility and require it to be open to all competitors.
Then they all can sell their services and the only thing the cities and taxpayers have to worry about funding is the line from the box on the street to the home. That is how other countries like south korea have cheap broadband, the government their owns the last mile but anyone can sell service over it. With 30+ ISP per home prices drop. | |
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kudos:5 | Re: Why isn't TWC simply content to allow them to fail ? said by mworks:The only way competition will increase is if government prohibits the ability of telecom to own the last mile to the home. Make that last mile line a public utility and require it to be open to all competitors.
Unfortunately for your idea, that ship sailed in 1996 when the gov't promised the telcos that IF they ran fiber, they wouldn't have to share it. The government is already super deep in debt. They can't afford to buy all the last mile infrastructure from the providers. And before you say just take it from them, US courts won't allow that to happen unless the government pays for it. | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Why isn't TWC simply content to allow them to fail ? Except many of them didn't, and all of them didn't to the degree they agreed too.
Long story short, we get screwed unless... we do muni fiber projects to bypass the screwjob.
Best part about doing muni fiber projects? It doesn't put the incumbents out of business, it employs people, it provides competition and spurs growth and innovation. It encourages small businesses (at least the one out here, Utopia, actually works through local ISPs rather than direct to consumers) and encourages business growth in general.
This is good for the customers, not terrible for incumbents, though not as sweet as the current sweetheart situation they have now with competing with a nod and a wink.
The alternative that we have now is terrible for customers and great for incumbents. | |
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Boston, MA | I'd like to see these efforts expanded to other services Bottled water companies should push for a similar bill banning public water distribution systems. It's entirely unfair that Poland Spring has to compete with municipal water supplies. | |
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| | | Re: I'd like to see these efforts expanded to other services Screw dat old whore.
FIBER > HER | |
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| | | Dude are you whacked??? I suggest you go fire up NETFLIX and watch the documentary called "Tapped". Why you would even suggest something like that is crazy at best and stupid at worst. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: I'd like to see these efforts expanded to other services I think your satire detector is broken. | |
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Boston, MA | said by Iceman4u2:Why you would even suggest something like that is crazy at best and stupid at worst.
To draw attention to how stupid something similar is. | |
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Canonsburg, PA | If the Federal Government actually served the people There would be a federal law overturning these state bans because they violate the interstate commerce clause. Can you imagine a law banning a municipality from building a road or highway because the internet is exactly the same. | |
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| | Read the bill? Has anyone bothered to read this bill? Or just say its bad? You do realize that IT ALLOWS PUBLIC/PARTNER projects? The only thing is STOPS is FULL Public use money. Any new projects would REQUIRE the city to partner with a company to actually offer this service. So it's NOT fully bad. Ohio has one where it BANS ALL Muni builds. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Read the bill? Just because it could be worse doesn't mean it isn't bad. | |
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| | | Yes - I read it and it does NOT allow public/private partnerships. Time Warner Cable wrote the bill so that all purchases of facilities, equipment, anything related to the operation of a municipally-associated com service can only be funded with general obligation bonds. GO bonds cannot be used but for a sliver of private sector purposes - makes sense since they are directly backed by the full faith and credit of the City, e.g. it's taxpayers.Ironic, no, TWC has changed the funding from a financial tool that does not ball on the backs of taxpayers (COPS funding) to one that puts all the risk on the taxpayers, who TWCs feigns caring SOOO much about.... | |
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| | Better Bill Since TW is so worried about municipal fiber, here's a better bill. It would require Time Warner to provide fiber to the home to any city in the state that requested it or be forced to pay huge penalties that will go toward paying for the municipality to set up their own fiber project. Time Warner wins because they can serve the entire state without competition if they choose. The municipalties win because they can still set up fiber to the home if TW refuses.
I'm completely serious about this bill by the way. | |
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| | | Re: Better Bill like everyone else on here that is bitching about the bill- YOU NEVER even read it. If you took the time to read it. This bill does NOT stop the cities from offering FTTH. It only STOPs the use of doing it all on their own- iPROVO/LUS/Wilson. it would require the CITY to PARTNER with a private company- and there are MANY out there. Maybe Sonic.net? | |
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| | | | Re: Better Bill The fact that you're an anonymous coward speaks volumes about you and your beliefs. | |
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a 25/25 tier on DOCSIS 3.0 should be $50 or less by now, but instead the cable industry has not turned up the pressure on telco's like at&t to compete, so they don't. that duopoly power is what should be under assault by the FREE MARKET COMPETITON. this goes for telco and cableco alike. in places where Verizon stopped building fiber should be fair game as well. the biggest example is the comcast / at&t geographies, but time warner's profits lie in the content business and they're not giving that up so easily cannibalizing it with broadband (and the slippery slope of "piracy"). nevertheless, someone else will so it's better to profit some, then none. get off the ass and give people what they want!!!
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| | Fail? This B is full of crap. There is already a VERY successful fiber network NC has built that connects schools, libraries, and esp our many universities here. NCREN (NC research and education network) has been one of the premiere networks of its kind in the country. There are a lot of schools and small private colleges that would not have the kind of internet connection they have today without NCREN and it has been a tremendous success. This is another reason why none of should be voting for the criminals with the R and the elephant on their back. They are criminals. LOL
I will stop short of spanking them or kicking their behind up between their shoulders with a steel toe shoe. Though if it happened in real life then I would say they earned it and I would have any sympathies. LOL
Anyway, I am on TWC and actually it is alright for me. However, for TWC to have a say in what local governments do is nonsense. And also, this business of corporations having the legal rights of a person is criminal. Again, if you vote for an R you will get a criminal who only looks out for a quick buck in their own wallet. Just so you know who you voted for when you voted R. The d's are sometimes corrupt too. However, more of them care a little bit about our country than the R's that focus only on what they think about anyone else.
Now, fellow NC'in's... lets get out there and have even larger letter writing campaign than we did in 2009.  Show them whose boss and make them VERY afraid of us. VERY afraid to do the wrong thing. | |
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New Orleans, LA | Yet another reason how this true capitalism argument is laughably wrong.
These ISP's have effectively shut out any competitors that aren't million/billion dollar companies already
Any little guys who offer great deals will be stopped legally since the major ISP's have contributed heavy amounts to the politicians | |
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Simple: Our lawmakers are corrupt are being paid off by corporate special interests and the ultra wealthy who want to keep their 81% increase in wealth over the last ten years. They speak through generous campaign contributions and pay for unlimited media attacks on the opposition, while ordinary citizens suck wind.