BTW, it WAS an interesting article. My comment on it was that until the Seattle area governments manage to actually DO something... anything. You know, accomplish at least ONE thing they're charged with... YOu know, like end crime, fill the potholes, educate the children, or any of the other 2000 things they don’t do worth a damn, perhaps adding yet another item for them to NOT accomplish but yet spend huge sums of money upon would be... Uhhh... Like... Dumb?
Why is it we think that the same people who cannot clean up Hanford (they have yet to clean ONE SINGLE TANK OF WASTE in decades of effort!) despite decades of promises and countless billions in budget overruns, cannot regulate the banks, who ran their own post office into the ground, who committed fraud against their OWN bank, who can't even run their own cafeteria worth a damn.... Should run our economy, broadband, health care, and other essential services? Someone... Anyone... Somewhere... CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME???? Cripes... I've read a million arguments about the value of MT vs Canopy VS blah blah blah blah... And each of the advocates of the respective services or products or people can demonstrate in real life that each can actually DO certain things. But yet, nobody can demonstrate to me a single "service" provided by the swamp dwellers on the Potomac that so inspires me with awe I want them to do something else for me. Each of us reading this does SOMETHING. Presumably more than one something, and presumably well. And, before you advocate to others the merits of what you've done or tried or seen or witnessed, you've been all over it and it's convinced you... Someone please show me. And Jack... That's not trolling. It's called HONESTY and INTEGRITY. If someone came on this list and constantly trolled the virtues of some entirely crap product, this list would be all over it like white on rice... But for some reason, a certain number of us advocate for a huge industry change, choreographed by Congress. Before I buy into it... PLEASE DEMONSTRATE HOW GREAT THEY ARE. Some of us recall the advocacy of another well known list member who used to evangelize for Alvarion. This guy, however, WENT AND SAW AND DID. When he said X, you could generally accept it as reasonably believable, if he was talking from experience. So, I’m not trolling. I’m just asking... dangit, people... SHOW ME. I'm just not convinced by blind faith that Congress (or state legislatures or county or city governments) can, in spite of a track record of utter incompetence, suddenly transform our industry into something fantastic. If you want to advocate for it, then SHOW US. Seems danged reasonable to me. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian Webster" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:42 AM To: "WISPA List" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "WISPA Board Members List" <[email protected]> Subject: [WISPA] Broadband compared to electricity of the early 1900's > I have been of the thought process that Broadband needs to be compared to > electricity and telephone service expansion and deployments of the early > 1900's. Here is a nice article that draws a direct comparison to > electricity > (and municipal networks). Should be good food for though to all: > > The Killer App of 1900 <http://publicola.net/?p=20687> > by Glenn Fleishman <[email protected]>, 12/11/2009, 11:18 AM > > It’s instructional to look back 100 years, not long after the first > electrical generation plants were built to bring power to towns and > cities, > to assess the situation we find ourselves in with broadband availability > today. > > http://publicola.net/?p=20687 > > Thank You, > Brian Webster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
