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I have seen this happen with phone, electricity and television. Some for of government local or national will have to provide the fiber network(not incentives) if Americans want to be able to have the kind of connection the rest of the world has had for years now. I don't see Corporations being able to pull off something like fiber rollout since they would have to invest now for future gains. The Corporate culture with their "shareholder value" mantra and nearsightedness will leave America in the dark ages of the Internet.

If you want a good model look at what Utopia has been able to do despite bitches and cries by the likes of Qwest and Comcast. Also one should realize that fiber will be the last rollout of cables needed for the foreseeable future(unless of course we find something faster than the speed of light).

In other news, they're working on a bill requiring teachers to say that evolution is just one among many theories. They're working on a bill to ban gay/straight alliance clubs from high schools. They've decided that Utah's future economic growth depends heavily on new roads, but not at all on education.

Every morning, my local public radio station does a legislative summary from the non-partisan League of Women Voters. A good day is one when I only have four or five stomach-clenching moments of impotent rage. Our legislators are not reasonable, not competent, and not listening to anything but the "still small voice" that they think is the Holy Spirit talking directly into their miniscule brains.

Good response letter from the Salt Lake City Weekly: (scroll down to "Gamers Know Reality"). At least a few of us still have some sense. Just nowhere near a voting majority.

Well, Jimmy, I also live on the Wasatch Front, and by the way, you may want to come out of your FPS, Cheetos and Mountain Dew-induced haze once in a while an read the newspaper. Either one will do, the Trib or the DN. Heck, you could even get adventurous and read the SL Weekly. You see Jimmy, not only does Orrin Hatch (a rabid environmentalist by anyones reckoning) oppose the PFS site at Skull Valley (boy, there is some irony for ya) and most of the rest of Utah's hardcore Republican "environmentalists", but also the uber-activist "Earth First" enviro himself, the ultra liberal John Huntsman. You know him, right, the governor of Utah? You live in Utah, right?

Here is a quote from that most activist, liberal, anti-business Governor of ours, who, by the way is a Republican. Who would have known?

that is cold comfort to the hundreds of thousands of Utahns who live immediately downwind from this site.

The magic keywords are "spanish fork canyon". Here's a link.

In fact, Alex Eckelberry thinks exactly like Tom Cruise. Who would have figured that!

Oh? You think that's bad? Atleast this "ban" is optional. If you'd like some insight into how our 95% mormon legislature operates, give this a read: http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/city_2_2005 -03-17.cfm That's right. Our legislatures won't so much as piss without a nod from the church (that's what they call it, the church. Not the LDS church. Not the mormon church. the church. The fucking arrogance!). Enough to drive a man to drink. Oh wait, I didn't order food with that so I can't have one...

I live in Utah and we have a little weekly paper calld the Salt Lake City Weekly. This week they had an article on the whole SCO debacle. It can be read here. Not a whole lot on the UL effort but an intereting read into the shennagings going on here. I just was reading it on lunch at work and came back to this.

I was like, "where have I seen this guy before?" Computer guy...wearing a blue work shirt exposing bare forearms. Cocked a bit to the site with his arms folded across his chest.

And then I realized, it's Peter Norton.

SCO must be trying to distract attention from something. Could it be the hearing scheduled for this Friday?

Two things

1. According to http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2003/city_2003-0 7-03.cfm, Caldera bought DR-DOS $400K, but got from law suit $155,000,000.

As far as I know (I guess somebody could check) they didn't purchase the UNIX source, or value it in their SEC reports, for anything like $1bn, or $3bn, let alone $50bn... so how can they claim billions of damages, if they bought it for a few millions, and valued it of the same order?


2. I keep seeing patents in lots of news articles about the case. My understanding is the case is about alleged contractual violations, alleged trade secret issues and alleged unfair competition etc.,

http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle .jhtml?articleID=10818216
"McBride, who is fluent in Japanese, will visit with several founding members to show them code samples in which the Linux open-source operating system allegedly violates SCO's Unix patents, said an SCO spokesman"

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59551,00 .html also has a SCO spokesman refering to patents

So the obvious questions are:
- Is the press getting it wrong?
- If the press is indeed getting it wrong, why are they (and not just one news source) getting it wrong?