> The United States keeps getting further behind other countries that act > like broadband is important to their economies--it is. Broadband > companies are suffering from old ways of thinking. They can't/won't > solve problems that aren't particularly complicated because it will cut > into the profits that monopolies have allowed and enabled. They needed > monopolies to develop the networks, but that system was supposed to > expire--just not where I live, and not where Paula lives either.
And it was stupid to bow and scrape towards the technocrats solution to begin with. You'd think that little central Asian communal farm experiment in the 20th century might have been the tip off about putting an entire industry's eggs in one basket (no pun). Some people never learn. Powerful and entrenched entities don't like to give up or share power once they have it, even when you ask them really nicely. Whodathunkit? Better to not let them get into that position to begin with. Competition has a way of focusing one's efforts a bit and bringing a bit more imagination to the table than does omnipotence. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
