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Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead
Geek of the Week writes "No surprise here, a report by the International Telecommunications Union shows the US lagging in broadband adoption. S Korea and Japan lead with between 60 and 70% of S Korean households wired for speed, with Japan catching up quickly. The U.S. ranks 11th. Story here and the full press release can be found on the ITU website. Having traveled through Asia for business I can't say I'm surprised, but it is disappointing that the availability and price are in such sorry states here in the U.S."
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first post suckers
fp? yeah.
This was the kick in the pants I needed to finally call up Senator Clinton's office (+1 (716) 854-9725) in Buffalo and ask what the fuck they were thinking when they invited Tata to set up shop in Buffalo in March (http://www.tata.com/tcs/releases/20030310.htm)...
What a chilling experience. The guy that answered is the director of the Buffalo office, Jim Kane. I thought he'd just spew some platitudes and hustle me off the phone, instead he came out swinging. I'm guessing he thought I was a shill from some opposing political party, 'cause his stance softened somewhat (but not much) when he found out I have voted mostly Democrat in the past and that I really am an unemployed software engineer...
I couldn't get a straight answer as to why Senator Clinton actively sought out an Indian offshoring services firm in to New York State instead of working with one or more domestically owned and run ones in Western New York.
In the past, I've thought the "beholden to the corporate interests" stories we've seen in the news have been a little overwrought--I'm reconsidering my opinion in light of my conversation with Jim Kane.
Among the more fantastic comments Jim made:
- There are University of Buffalo graduates making $100K in Binghamton working for defense contractors.
- Tata Consultancy Services is a bigger company than General Motors. I could not get him to state whether this is as a measure of revenues or in terms of headcount.
- TCS is creating IT jobs in Buffalo, not outsourcing them back to back to India.
BTW, if anyone is looking for a job, you may have to pay your own airfare to India for the interview, but here are some leads: http://www.tata.com/0_careers/vacancies/index.htm"If you can't afford broadband, you don't deserve to have a computer." -Something I've heard many times.
What a bullshit thing to say. Everyone definitely needs a way to the internet, and the mass influx of information. Plus, certain schools and businesses require you to have a computer to do certain things.
The reason I mention this is that the reason people are still using dialup is because dialup is still cheaper than broadband. Maybe in the future, when broadband prices go on because it's easier to have here, then and possibly only then will dialup ever be replaced.
(and don't give me that Comcast offer BS where it's about the same price as dialup - that only works for a month or so, after that they jack up the price to normal).
We're number three! We're number three!
no surprises here either. unprecedented evile is coolappsing at a disarming rate. there's still more than enough pateNTdead evile left to go 'round with though.
.compliant. if you think that you are already compliant, & it's somebody else, consider this a chance to rat them out, to gain re-admission to the onLIEn wwwhirled again, (c SourceForgerIE(tm) all rights reserved, you have none).
/.puppets.
.asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.
good work so far J.. still much to be done. see you there.
coming soon to/already on, yOUR desktop/network?:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily (permanently, if we could figure out how to do it) been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, we don't care.
alert: you've been lax in yOUR payper liesense 'upgrades', you're out.
alert: there's a rumour that you've been badmouthing/lowrating the corepirate nazis, & the naykid furor of the felonious kingdumb, you're out.
alert: looks like yOUR kids have been listening to music again, you're out.
alert: although you appear to be browsing regularly, you've failed to make a purchase recently, you're out.
consider this a chance to stare at your monitor screen, & plan how you can become
etc... lookout bullow. these foulcurrs haven't a clue yet, as to what J. Public can do, once he's peaced off. they live in a tiny wwworld, consisting of only their owned greed/fear based goals. they should get ready to see the light.
we're building a vessel that floats on almost any suBStance.
as to the newclear power/planet/population rescue initiative:
it's all free (as in survival), & available immediately to you/all of US.
as you can maybe already see, yOUR survival/success is not the least bit dependent on the gadgets/combinations of the greed/fear based corepirate nazis, & their phonIE ?pr? ?firm? buyassed
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet (somtimes that means not buying anything, a notion previously unmentioned buy the greed/fear/war mongers). seek others of non-aggressive/positive behaviours/intentions. stop wasting anything/being frivolous. that's the spirit.
investigate the newclear power plan. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...
truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.
the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the power that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.
as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.
EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your
we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any other pretense is totally false.
pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about yOUR motives.
that old tune title (hope we don't get 'busted' for using it) "make the world go away", takes on new/varied meaning in these times.
the prevalent notion that 'everything wil
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