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FCC Commish - US Playing 'Russian Roulette' with Broadband
LarryBoy writes "In a speech given at the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps lambasted US broadband policy, saying that the US is 'playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet and more traditional media."' Copps also took issue with an op-ed piece ('Broadband Baloney') by fellow commissioner Robert McDowell last week. 'In his speech, Copps didn't mention McDowell by name, but he did claim that broadband in the US is "so poor that every citizen in the country ought to be outraged." Back when then OECD said that we were number four in the world, he said, no one objected to its methodology. Copps also had fighting words for those who blame the US broadband problems on our less-dense population; Canada, Norway, and Sweden are ranked above us, but all are less dense than the US. Besides, this argument implies that broadband is absolutely super within American urban areas. Copps noted, though, that his own broadband connection in Washington, DC was "nothing compared to Seoul."'"
7Mb/sec download, 1Mb/sec upload, fine by me (rural Alabama... most, but not all, of the US has it better I'm sure). Seriously, there is good enough to get the job done, and then there is digital penis envy. I'm not saying don't innovate, but what's the point of pissing and moaning when 90% can get higher speeds than they need for the time being?
If I didn't get broadband for free (bene of so who works at comcast) I'd buy the cheapest dialup I could find. Wha! You can't afford broadband. If you can't afford $10 a month, I suggest forgetting about it or a shotgun mouthwash.
Leftwing pinko whines because everything isn't free.
News at 11.
We are behind in health care (all First World nations have national health care programs that cover all citizens), in broadband (the speeds we have are those that other First World nations had ten years ago), and in many levels including how long we live.
Heck, just look at our crumbling infrastructure - bridges, airports, roads, rail (talk about a JOKE), etc.
Why should we be surprised that we have second world level in broadband?
Meanwhile the ultra-wealthy, as in Mexico and other Second World nations, are becoming more wealthy as our middle class is destroyed.
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Listen to the jerk beg for socialized medicine. The completely inept federal government should provide everyone health care, right? The same federal government that runs the pyramid schemes of social security and medicare, which will bankrupt us if not reformed in the coming decades. You want that government to give every single person a health care entitlement. Federalize a huge chunk of the economy. Why don't we all just become employees of the federal government? You say in a soft voice, please government, come and rape me for crying out loud! I need free Internets and health care.
Go sneak into Europe (by claiming you're a Muslim doctor) and enjoy your Socialist paradise, you pinko piece of dog crap.
I told you it's the Federal Communist Commission http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=258305&cid=200 64027.
I wouldn't expect people to "be outraged" anytime soon either. People keep getting fed shit and being told it tastes just like democracy. It's gotten to the point where you can't wipe your ass without congressional approval.
You're not going to see a government (including an FCC) that is for the people until it starts acting in the best interests of the people.
The companies that buy Washington vote with dollars, everything else is just an opinion.
Hope is the currency of fools
That's your conservative government's tax dollars at work!!
They have more than enough money to commit genocide "defending the nation" in countries halfway across the world, but zero money to do things for America... like repair bridges, give education and health care to kids, keep the ocean out of major cities, or repair said major cities once their neglect causes it to be destroyed.
Conservatives have it half right about government not being able to do anything... but it's CONSERVATIVE government which cannot get anything done. Bill Clinton proved exactly how much Liberal government can get done.