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kudos:2 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. Exactly. All I hear from our politicans is Iraq this and Iraq that and Iraq did this and said this.
I'M TIRED OF ABOUT HEARING ABOUT IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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kudos:1 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. So, have you heard about Iraq????  | |
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kudos:2 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. said by N3OGH:So, have you heard about Iraq???? Nope. Who is Iraq?  | |
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| | | | | | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. No no, that's iRaq, a new breast enhancement device | |
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kudos:1 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. said by verolom:No no, that's iRaq, a new breast enhancement device LOL
Be careful, I hear Apple may have all ready copyrighted that term...
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West Newton, PA | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. Isn't it manufactured by Apple? I hear they copyrighted the letter I. Kind of how Metalica copyrighted the chords D, E and F. | |
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Glen Head, NY | Can you say IRA Q N ??
(I knew you could ) | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. said by n2jtx:Can you say IRA Q N ?? I-ran, I-ran so far away-ayay-ayay...
But we have ICBMs
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kudos:1 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. Hey you, Flock of Seagulls..... | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. said by N3OGH:Hey you, Flock of Seagulls..... I know... 1982 called me and they wanted their joke back.
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Tenafly, NJ | Iraq is more important than someone getting internet. Until everyone we have over there is out of there, it should be a priority for the politicians... especially the ones who started this war in the first place. | |
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London, ON | Yeah, if they put all the money they've spent in Iraq into building out broadband everyone would have gigabit FTTH by now. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. said by yabos:Yeah, if they put all the money they've spent in Iraq into building out broadband everyone would have gigabit FTTH by now. Yeah, like that money would've gone to giving everyone FTTH.
It would've been spent on more pointless bridges to nowhere and other stupid shit.....
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London, ON | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. I'm not saying it would because obviously they don't really care about broadband as much as say Japan or South Korea, but if they did that amount of money could have done it. | |
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Mount Airy, MD | said by N3OGH:It would've been spent on more pointless bridges to nowhere ... Looks like they need one of those bridges right here
»maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=10&ll···t=h&om=1
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kudos:1 | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. Yikes.
Makes you wonder just what is in that spot.... | |
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kudos:1 | That's Cool.... Even when God forgets something He doesn't screw around.
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: There is a problem with universal broadband. said by De Astra:There's another massive gap on Greenland. Zoom in and you won't miss it. (Neither will anyone else, for that matter) And again... there is no such gap on Microsoft Live Maps... unless they just painted it white!
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Silver Spring, MD | Re: Cant get at least three broadband options? Iraq...lol, well, there are STILL American's dieing over there...
Should we forget about them too?
Universal BB my ass. Pipe dream by some tube heads. And even if they aren't tube-heads, they are certainly LIARS 'cause this has yet to be a solid concept in the minds of our "Representatives". | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Or roll their own... why haven't more people put up their own money and invested in a privately run, non-profit Internet service for their own small towns if they want it so bad?
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| | | | Re: Cant get at least three broadband options? said by pnh102:Or roll their own... why haven't more people put up their own money and invested in a privately run, non-profit Internet service for their own small towns if they want it so bad? Or for profit,
I am an EBay seller. Lat year Vernonia, had their annual community garage sale, the sale was a wash but I did some advance real-estate recon. Unfortunately Metro is doing their best to drive out the middle class with their urban growth planning. One thing I did was to strike up a conversation with the seller and as k what kind of cable and broadband was available. Most say they can get DSL (758K). One cul-de-sac all the home have a line to site to a guy who set up a network in his home and sells faster broadband wireless connection to his neighbors. | |
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kudos:2 | said by pnh102:Or roll their own... why haven't more people put up their own money and invested in a privately run, non-profit Internet service for their own small towns if they want it so bad? Because if you happen to be in an AT&T area, they'll sue your ass. | |
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Mount Airy, MD | Re: Cant get at least three broadband options? said by Jodokast96:Because if you happen to be in an AT&T area, they'll sue your ass. Only if you ask the local government to do it.
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kudos:2 | Both of my broadband choices have merged (Adelphia into Comcast & BellSouth into AT&T).
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kudos:1 | blame the telcos Its the telcos to blame, see the northeast where Verizon just sold the Maine, New Hampshire, & Vermont Lines. There are places where independents can do it better, then traditional carriers. | |
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| | Read my Post No More Entitlments First universal healthhellcare now universal broadband. When will this madness stop? If one wants broadband go to private business.
PS DSL Reports, there nothing innovative about government supplied tax paid entitlements. Entitlements have a nasty effect to impeding innovation. | |
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Middlesboro, KY | Re: Read my Post No More Entitlments Indeed. When I hear the term "universal" applied to anything, it means a grab for my wallet.
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Banks, OR | said by richardpor:First universal healthhellcare now universal broadband. When will this madness stop? If one wants broadband go to private business. PS DSL Reports, there nothing innovative about government supplied tax paid entitlements. Entitlements have a nasty effect to impeding innovation. No one is saying that 'universal' means 'taxpayer funded'; it means universally available to those that wish to purchase it, like telephone and electricity.
This is not just a campaign promise, it's the law. The 1996 Telecomm Act said that it is official U.S. policy to work toward making BB available to everyone. Not that is matters; it still won't happen anytime soon. | |
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| | So let me ghet this straight It took a century to get everyone a telephone. Louisiana just wired up it's two final cities. To get electricity it took over half a century. But to get broadband everywhere we have to get it to every spot for only a few bucks a month in less than a decade.
You can get it fast... you can get it perfect... you can get it cheap. Just don't be surprised you can't get all three. | |
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| | Wow!! ZOMG a politician promised something and it DIDN'T HAPPEN!
Why is this news?
(I find it much more significant that he never once mentioned New Orleans or Katrina. How can the state of our union be "strong" when we lost an ENTIRE CITY?) | |
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Pleasant Grove, UT | If we could just give Bush a third term... It might be worth noting that AT&T did promise to provide 100% broadband (but only 200 Kbps) coverage in their territory by the end of 2007 as a condition for their acquisition of BellSouth on 12/29/06. AT&T promised to provide at least 85% wireline coverage, and provide broadband to the remainder through wi-max or satellite.
So, the promise has been fulfilled to some extent in AT&T territory, but NOT in the rest of the nation, and certainly not in Qwest territory.
But at least our hard working President has saved us from the WMD in Iraq. I couldn't even sleep at night in 2002 due to my fear Saddam Hussein was going to blow me to smithereens at any moment. Too bad President Bush can't run for a third term -- if he could just get Iraq off his plate, he would solve all our problems... | |
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Rosendale, NY | Re: If we could just give Bush a third term... Our version of broadband would include dixie cups and string! | |
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Richmond, VA | you are kidding right? I really hate to say it, but there are way more important things going on in our country and the world than your HSI.
This is so very american, for people to complain about internet access when hundreds of people die every day in war, and hundreds of thousands die everyday from famine and disease.
If I were the president, and we didn't goto war, the internets would still be the last thing on my mind. I'd rather put a trillion dollars twards aids and cancer research than one penny twards making americas internet better.
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Marine On Saint Croix, MN | al gore to save the day Since Al Gore invented the internet, you would think it would be relatively easy for him to make it accessbile to everyone.
Ever hear Ted Stevens? This is what happens when politicians try to legislate technology (see sarbanes-oxley). These people don't have a clue, that's why they become politicians | |
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| Well, what he said was.... that we OUGHT to have broadband by 2007. He made no specific promise about it, just commented that it might be a nice thing to do.
He's taken a page from the Democratic, feel good - mean nothing play book and delivered it with what I'm sure was a bunch of other political gobbledygook(Firefox knew how to spell that!).
Anyone here remember the year he promised we'd have a man on Mars in 10 years?
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Pittsburgh, PA | Re: Well, what he said was.... said by Noah Vail  He's taken a page from the Democratic, feel good - mean nothing play book
[/BQUOTE :Actually, I think it's a Republican thing now. Nancy Pelosi's 1st 100 hours has done more than the last congress did in two years. And anyone remember Bush promising a billion dollars for AIDS in Africa? Or 5 billion for hydrogen car research? More feel good from past State of Union speeches. | |
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Rosendale, NY | There is a problem with Universal Broadband by '07 The problem is that the person promising us this 'benefit' is a pathological liar.
He lied about the intelligence,
he lied about Saddam,
he lied about 'mission accomplished,'
he lied about tax cuts,
he lied about being for the environment,
he lied about his military record,
he lied about keeping Social Security in a 'lock box'
he lied about why he went to war
And that's only a small smattering of his lies.
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Mary Esther, FL | Not for a long time. I would like to see broadband available everywhere too. I know people who do a show on a dialup connection because they can't get broadband. Heck Verizon hasn't upgraded their CO yet to even allow for broadband in Dendron, Virginia. I would love to move to the countryside and still be able to get 10/1 for $50 a month. Of course, it would be higher there since theres no DSL.
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Oroville, CA | What he Should have said... ...is that we ought to have a meaningful definition of broadband coverage by 2007, instead of the FCC's ridiculous zipcode scam.
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