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Cities Building Own Fiber Networks

Posted by simoniker on from the using-wheaties dept.

cmburns69 writes "It's been posted before that some municipalities have plans for building their own networks (such as Utah's UTOPIA). There are many people who don't want that to happen. But despite that, CNET News has coverage of some success stories regarding 'a growing number of municipalities, state and county agencies, and local governments that are building their own networks.'"

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  1. It's the Venezuela debacle all over again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Why was no-one fighting for Aristide? Why are there foreign troops all over Haiti right now?

    Because the US wanted him removed for being too leftist!

    Read more here and here.

    Aristide did not resign! He was abducted by the US Special Forces.

    1. Re:It's the Venezuela debacle all over again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Aristide was installed by US forces under President Clinton

      Oh really?!

      Well, I think it is just unfair that he was removed by the US SPECIAL forces if he was installed by just US forces. Where's the justice in that?!

    2. Re:It's the Venezuela debacle all over again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Clinton sucked, yes. But it's not only the Democrats that have been meddling in the affairs of others. Saddam Hussien got lots of help from 80's Republicans, and the Pentagon was even aware of Saddam gassing the Kurds and yet did nothing. Saddam only became the bad guy after invading Kuwait (which he told us he would do beforehand) and began messing around with oil. Haiti is not a concern because they control no oil and is not a threat to Israel.

  2. Great site for learning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here

  3. Think of the African children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What about the starving African children? Think of the children!

    Oh wait. Who cares if I can get all the p0rn I want in a blink of an eye...

    Screw the African children! I want my monkey-porn and I want it NOW!

    1. Re:Think of the African children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You want starving African kiddie pr0n?!!! Duuuuuuude, you've got issues. Even for slashdot.

  4. Schools making money... by ticklemeozmo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the instances where schools make money off of selling broadband access, I would only hope a substantial portion of the money goes to the teachers.

    That's right, I said TEACHERS, not students. I don't care about the kids, I care about the teachers. With teacher burn-out rate going higher, and parents expecting nothing but A's, and with Bush's stupid ass "No Child Left Behind Policy"**; I hope it's the teachers who could at least get a better apartment/house/car rather than the dippy administrator who did nothing else but say "not the fiber that we eat right?"

    After all, without good teachers...

    ** I stand on neither side of the Rep/Dem platforms when I vote against the "No Child Left Behind" policy. It would require teachers to work harder than they do now because the kids who didn't even pass the last grade are now in a higher one.

    --
    When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
  5. You know it's true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hispaniola would be prime real estate if it just wasn't infested by all those dirty poor people!!!

    1. Re:You know it's true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Well, you Canadians, Frenchies and Americans have your troops in there right now so fight it out.

      Let's figure out who gets to out the darkies from the prime real estate...

  6. or your government's criminal actions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to control other governments:
    US ousts Aristide in coup, by abducting him.

    Another example of the flawed and criminal behaviour of the Bush administration.

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid= 57 8&e=1&u=/nm/20040301/ts_nm/haiti_aristide_kidnap_d c

  7. Please read: Why I modded parent up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. This is a correct URL redirect for the Yahoo story, which won't be broken up by spaces in two locations:

    http://tinyurl.com/24us2

    2. This "story" is getting flooded by ACs to /. articles and keeps getting modded down to -1 Troll or -1 Flamebait.

    3. I never mod posts down, only up. If we're building a free marketplace of ideas, it's appropriate to ignore (via thresholds or custom content area promotions [the famous "Read at Flamebait +5" bit]) offtopic or troll or flamebait posts rather than wasting mod points on them. I'd rather see more insightful posts brought to the critical +5 mass.

    4. The parent post is clearly not going to get attention until it reaches some critical mass where enough moderators review it, get informed, and determine whether to discard or include in in the /. rhetoric sea.

    5. The story the parent post goes to -is- informative, whether you believe the statements in it by Aristide or not. It either exposes a major US foreign policy blunder, or it showcases the tactics world leaders use to salvage their power bases after they've lost office. Ergo, it's interesting.

    6. You're right, it is off-topic. But it needs to go somewhere...

  8. Pentagon...aware of Saddam gassing the Kurds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    the Pentagon was even aware of Saddam gassing the Kurds and yet did nothing.

    Even if true, what the hell should the Pentagon have done? Go off and start a war without orders? Should we have declared war on Syria and invaded whan Assad, Sr. levelled the city of Hama? Because the military of the US is under civilian control.

    And the only reason we "supported" Saddam was he certainly seemed better in 1981 than Khomeini. Remember, the US never gave him anywhere near the backing the French did - who stood with Saddam at the Osirik reactor ground-breaking ceremony?