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FCC Internet Grant Decision Riles Congress
museumpeace writes "The FCC, with no advance notice to congress, effectively made substantial cuts in the funding for the program that subsidizes provision of internet connection to libraries and poorer school systems. This was not small potatoes: 2.5 billion buys a lot of connection. [confess your real identity to them and the ]
NYTimes will tell you all about the uproar. The ostensible cause according to FCC officials, who annoyed congressfolk by dodging the inquiry, was an attemp to control possible fraudulent spending in the program but FCC actions then went far beyond fiscal oversight. FCC deference to phone companies by way of reducing the amount they were required to contribute to the program has compounded its financial woes according to Technology Review which also covered the story. [and which will also require a "free" registration]"
Since the FCC is worried about government overspending, they should be rewarded with an equal amount of reduction in funding for them.
The reduction can be used to then pay for the libraries (and underprivileged) to get internet access.
Fuck You Very Much the FCC!
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
...decide not to spend money until they have it. This *is* government, after all.
Hi Grampa! Still walking uphill to and from school?
New York, NY
The Grand Musicians Union (GMU) which represents live performers has sued 14,000 recording industry executives for "copying" their intellectual property and thereby undermining their right to work.
"These microphone devices are simple theft of our labor, and by suing the recording industry, we aim to put the world on notice that borrowed copies of the sounds we make will not be tolerated" Said GMU president George Brush.
"Microphones" he went on, "Are intended to reproduce copyrighted material, and are therefore misunllegal, along with kites, under the Digital Mullenelum Copyright Act."
The Recording Industry could not be reached for comment, but a recording on their answering machine in what appeared to be the voice of Ronald Reagan seems to be saying.
"We will develop this technology, and then we will share this technology with the Soviets"
AP
Actually you better ask for Cheney. Otherwise, Bush is going to mess up the big words when he has to relay the message to him.
Hey!
It's hard work, you know.
It's hard work.
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