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Madison Rolling Out City-Wide Wi-Fi
It doesn't come easy wrote to mention the announcement that Madison, Wisconsin will soon be home to the newest Municipal Wi-Fi network. From the article: "'I made a commitment in 2004 to bring Wi-Fi to Madison,' said Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in a statement. 'This is an important new service for Madison residents and businesses.' The Madison network will be rolled out at no cost to the city and the providers have secured initial funding from service agreements from ISPs. The initial phase of the Madison network will cover users in the downtown region of the city with plans to later cover the entire city." I love my town. Zombies and Wi-Fi. What more could you want?
For the "Conservatives" and the "Liberals" here: ... And even then, how many neighborhoods are even more segragated than that?
There's a couple of neighborhoods here in Atlanta that are 100% African-American. The lowest price house is about $1,000,000.00. They live there out of choice and they can live anywhere they want. Oh, there's no poor housing at all in these neighborhoods. So why do you suppose that they live in an ethically "un-diverse" neighborhood? How about this: a lot of people like to live with people that they have something in common with. And it's not just white and black. It's also: French with French, Poles with Poles, Spanish with Spanish, Chinese with Chinese, Vietnamese with Vietnamese, etc
What I'm getting at is if government isn't segregating out of policy - why is it a problem?
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
If I'm not mistaken, Madison has a pretty healthy party scene for the kiddies?
Add wireless and the possibilities are endless. Real time advertising of the night's 'all you can drink' specials: expect to a see a entrepreneur marketing a 'live ratio' (M/F) count app of the establishments to avoid a night of Octoberfest (plenty of beer and plenty of sausage).
This is like Strange Brew meeting Snowcrash.