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The 700MHz Question
mstrchf07 writes "The FCC will soon be auctioning off the rights to use the 700MHz spectrum for wireless communications, with the winner being able to choose the direction of wireless services development in the US. With stakes this high, is the playing field fair, and are business needs trumping consumer and technological interests?"
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In Soviet Russia, government controls the commerce.
If you don't get why that is amusing and appropriate - this about the nature of the Soviet Russia jokes, and what that says about the US.
Glad someone got it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
mstrchf07 asks ...are business needs trumping consumer and technological interests?
Of *course*!
And it's not even a matter of business needs, it's business greeds.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
That is clever. It turns the whole joke on its head.
Well I would like to see Sprint get it since they are currently the least evil of the cell companies in the US.
Sounds a bit like saying, "I want to sell my soul to Mephistopheles because he's the least evil demon in hell!"
Fixed that for ya.
Even people that believe in pre-destiny look both ways before crossing the street.
I understand the digital signal can possible narrow the bandwidth required 'some'. Yet Why don't they let the Stations use the remainder also? I suspect they might be afraid that they may try to compete with the other communication service providers for supplying other supplemental information and entertainment and perhaps even two way communications. I have noted that the cell phone frequency is not a healthy one [brain tumors are a possible concern]. It probably was an analog device I was using, none the less, it was making my head feel odd on the side I was holding it. I have no real love for them anymore. As for the Government and financial system we are in; I am of the notion that the only wise way to go is to get back the original Constitution's potential for diversity in the executive branch. [We used to have two votes. It wasn't long before the political parties ground that to a halt.] Yet, since in the end the full nature of reality rules over us all; we need a system that is applied just as rigorously upon those that can put the hand of power over many, as it is applied to common science endeavors and common law. No doubt only one can be the boss. Yet the potential to check the dominate entity in the courts, at the very least, is not an insignificant influence. Likewise, the ability to sequester the executive branch where security concerns arise is understandable. Yet the facts should always eventually come out. They are sworn to service the people, not the other way around. As far as the financial system goes, we are not well induced to consider the balance of things very well. I am of the view that there need to be two kinds of money. 1) Resource money, you cannot function without the resource base. 2) Cultivation money, one can work in the realm of IOUs with it, and not run into a wall. It might also help the people consider the balance of the various factors need to have a better standard of living. Also, given that there is a concern to reach the goal of more equitable availability of resources; business will be focused on cultivating the individuals to have their resources go through their system of cultivation. Ultimately everyone is poor where they cannot fully express the nature of the benefit they could provide to the whole. We just need a more balanced way to get there. I suspect, there would develop "instutions" of views and processes that would call out their benefits, and their competitor would point out the weaknesses. At least we might be better informed. And with MUCH computerized recording, it might even be possible to have the value of the cultivation moneys change as the processes fully played out their impacts and benefits. [Even failures have some value if they are recorded and used to prevent another.] At least it would keep everyone thinking more clearly, and precisely, in harmony with the reality that rules over us all; to which, perhaps, we owe the most. Sincerely, Gregory D. MELLOTT