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The $200 Billion Broadband Rip-Off

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where's-my-dsl-dangit dept.

Jamie noted that Cringley has a piece about the US Broadband situation. He talks about where we were and where we are: 'not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that is hurting our ability to compete economically with the rest of the world' and about the $200B the phone companies got to make it that way.

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  1. Re:Broadband in Holland by boguslinks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Holland doesn't have to spend billions to fight in Iraq: No war == free health care and education ;)

    And if the US hadn't been fighting Nazism and Communism in Europe the last 60 years, there'd be no Holland.

    So, in a sense, the US has been subsidizing the lavish welfare states of Europe. Pretty good deal!

  2. Re:Broadband in Holland by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 1, Troll

    1) We really did pull Europe's bacon out of the fire.
    2) We really did lose control of the military industrial complex during the cold war.

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  3. The Soviets helped put it into the fire. by HornWumpus · · Score: 0, Troll

    We saved their asses as well. No chance they would have survived without western equipment. The Russian winter alone would not have been enough.

    The Soviets fought by using their population (more correctly their subject nations population) as cannon fodder. Claiming they did most of the fighting because they lost the most people isn't accurate. They did most of the losing early, that's true.

    Stalin was worse then Hitler. If America and England hadn't built nukes you can bet western Europe would have been the next battlefield.

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'