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Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican?
Reader Ant wrote to mention the article entitled Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? The author argues that media companies are systematically ruining the MuniWiFi efforts across the country, likening the community initiatives to a form of communism. From the article: "Telecommunications giants have mobilized a well-funded army of coin-operated think tanks, pliant legislators and lazy journalists to protect their Internet fiefdoms from these municipal internet initiatives, painting them as an affront to American innovation and free enterprise"
What country are you from? And if you live in America, when was the last time you saw a company do anything remotely close to gracefull? And that too telcos! Sprint PCS slammed me a bill for $75 this month becoz for the first time in 5 years, I crossed the day time limit. You call that graceful and marginal?
you only see monopolies in america
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Ok when was the last time you saw someone in the library besides the same geeks and nerds who have been there for years! There is no money in libraries or streetlights. But on the other hand "talking" - now you're talking!
And hey, if someone doesn't like Sushi and doesn't want to pay for other people's Sushi, screw 'em. And who cares about the Sushi businesses that go bankrupt -- they're just greedy corporate types that don't want to suppress the PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO FREE SUSHI! Damn corporations.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
The idea of Social Security came about with the *New* Deal, ~70 years ago.
Income tax dates to WWII.
Had the Founding Fathers seen these feats of cranial rectalitis, they may have balked at signing the Declaration of Independence.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I don't think that people in other countries are that intelligent by comparison. That's all that I'm saying. I think that the entire planet is populated by mostly ignorant masses.
Do you think if you moved to France that all of the sudden you'd be surrounded by people bearing PhDs?
"If you don't want to fix things"
Right, because if you BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, you can get things fixed!
Uh huh. Worked real good last September, didn't it? The democratic ideal you're talking about is no more real today than the tooth fairy.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
I have no way of measuring your intelligence aside from your comments.
The point of my post was not to say that the people of France are any less intelligent than the people of the US, but to say that it is improbable that they are any more intelligent.
Your arument is poorly structured. You show that I have no reason to enter intellectual combat with you, as you come unarmed.
You Sir, are just as ignorant as those you would point the finger towards. Saying that Americans are lazy, is like saying all Canadians put gravy on their french fries, or all Scotsmen fuck sheep. It's ignorant and short-sighted. As far as not caring? You can blame that on the liberal arts public education system. Thanks to the "Let's all hold hands and play nice" mentality, we've raised several generations of people that can't take a leak without someone holding their hand, or giving them the answer to something. It's not that they're lazy, it's that they haven't been taught self-reliance. Big difference. Example: My girlfriend, (yes, I have one)...didn't know that the eggs in the store, if left undisturbed under the mother hen would make baby chickens. She thought chickens were born just like babies. It's not because she's stupid, it's because nobody every taught her. Same is true with modern day America. Americans aren't lazy, they just haven't been taught to rely on themselves, let alone accept personal responsibility for anything.
Who cares about the ozone layer?...thanks to CFC's I can write my name......IN CHEESE!!!