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Rewiring (and Unwiring) New Orleans
stinkymountain writes "Is New Orleans bouncing back from Hurricane Katrina with the most advanced telecom system in the country? According to Network World, carriers have invested billions to rebuild the wired and wireless networks in the city, and businesses are taking advantage of new, advanced telecom services."
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site I've ever seen. About 10% of that page is actually the article content! The rest is just links and ads.
I'm taking this off-topic chance to post a thought I just had:
The post I responded to represents, to me, everything that has broken down since the "conservatives" have conquered the media, government, the courts and the zietgeist. The basic premise is: fuck you if you're too stupid to be rich.
This are George Hearst's grandchildren. William Randolph Hearts's children. Reagan was the dumb son, and Bush II the idiot son of the dumb son. The basic problem is that they value capital, but not people. Corporations are a symptom of their outlook. Let the smart win and the dumb get out of the way.
For this, we've a dying economy -- for those who aren't already wealthy. We're entrenched in another oil war, using the poor strivers who comprise the army to win wealth for those whose children will never serve. We've a dead health care system that is based on profit rather than healthcare, so we shuck the sick and bundle up the young and healthy into corporate packages, dumping those who don't make the cut onto what remains of the liberal subsidized healthcare created during an earlier, saner era. We're borrowing from abroad to finance oceans of tax cuts for the very wealthiest, who are poised to buy up the real estate plunging in cost as we hit bottom in the next decade. We've little manufacturing, so we can't create wealth, really. The tax revenues shortly are going to fund 1) interest on the borrowed money, paid to those who we gave the money originally, as interest to the loans taken to give them their tax cuts... and 2) guns to fight a Forever War.
This can't work, of course, and like the Soviet Union, we're going to have to crash, bottom out, to shake out the cognitive dissonant dingdongs who bankrupted us from the ranks of heroes. It's going to take a long time. See ya in a couple decades.