On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 12:28 PM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > "If Roseburg can do it , Portland should have accomplished this too! The > only thing affecting this lack of Fiber in PDX is entrenched interests - " > > I'll entertain this a bit as I think about it a lot. As I suspect you > well know, rarely is anything that simple. Over the years, through a > lot of social justice activism and volunteer work I've gotten to know > a lot of non-tech, every day, common people. > > Most of them just want to be able to use the internet when they need > to and don't think about things like bandwidth price, security, > infrastructure, etc. My point is there's not a real public driver. > People are concerned with all sorts of other issues like jobs, money, > housing, healthcare, climate change, etc. > > Necessity is the mother of invention. There are countries who are > farther behind the U.S. in industry and economic power that have fiber > run all over their land that provides high-speed internet to almost > everyone. They didn't have existing infrastructure to deal with and > the time was right for them to do it. > > The state of the internet in PDX frustrates me too but there are a lot > of other things happening in Portland and in the greater PNW that I'm > much more concerned about. > > Maybe I'm just an aged out techie turned hippy but I often think that > high speed internet & technology does way more damage to humanity, > civilization and our shared life support system and doesn't really > deliver all the good that it promises and people willing shell out > lots of their hard earned cash for. >
What the Fuck? Have you ever downloaded a Linux OS? Do people just hand you pre-burnt install DVD's? You act like someone who has never touched a Linux system in his life. Your ignorance is matched only by your arrogance. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
