On 3/5/2010 12:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Look how the ISPs went ballistic over cities threatening to set up
their own WiFi broadband...they spent millions buying state
legislatures to ban the practice.
And that is perhaps a great example of how amassing personal/business
profit is retarding technological progress in the U.S. Think, for a
moment, what it would have meant for other industries if cities had been
able to set up their own WiFi broadband.
Think, for a second, what technological development that could have come
from that. Think, for a mega second, what that would have meant for the
ordinary folks who don't have the wherewithal, courage or money to fight
the greedy bast***** who're draining their pockets from hard earned cash
while providing them inferior products and services.
And finally, think, or imagine, for a brief moment that where it not for
the ghastly business of greed, spiced with political insanity and
impotency, those living in the boondocks themselves may now enjoying the
virtues of the internet which ever way they see fit, unencumbered by
such absurd explanations offered by ISPs: "sorry, we can't get you on
our network because our closest box is too far from your house." Or,
"you have way too many trees around your house, our signal can't reach
your house."
This nonsense, in America, in 2010...WTF? You know what, let me just
quit talking about this now.
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