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Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access
An anonymous reader writes "Due to contracts that are allegedly FUBAR, and associated wrangling, the Navajo Nation is being cut off by its satellite ISP. This is the final stage of the process, which already deprived chapter houses of access last April. While the business mechanisms play themselves into the expected ludicrous snarl, the real question may be: Is there a place for an inexpensive ham/technogeek/FOSS solution that could bypass the antics of the for-pay providers?"
just like the raven spirit provided in the days before the paleface
Totally insensitive to the actual reprecussions of their actions, some GS weenie, probably balding and fat and fearful of doing anything constructive to solve problems because it might screw up his/her next stepping increase in the future, consigns thousands of people to being offline.
Government just doesn't really work.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Books? The Bevier pamphlets for one. James Quinlan's book Tom Quick as another. I have dozens of others whose names escape me at the moment in my personal collection. These were written by people who actually lived in the 18th and 19th centuries and personally battled these bloodthirsty savage Indians.
I bet you will be laughing if China destroys our country, you PC police liberals seem hate America so much. You nutballs won't be happy until America is in ashes and all white people are shipped to concentration camps for destruction (except you suburban white liberals who will magically be spared!)
Indians spent their time fighting each other and crapping in the dirt, not inventing useful things. There are no great Indian authors, inventors, or musicians. Period.
Those native bastards, charging you a tax. Its a crime, really, isn't it?
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
clearly this is the white man's fault for showing them the pleasures of the internet, then failing to give it to them for free.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
And why would anyone do business with a dirty, corrupt government? One of the challenges with applying modern business to a prehistoric governance is that, like roughly all tribal people, they have a strongman concept of governance, and that makes honest business dealings pretty much ... well, impossible.
Way to idealize the past. By any reasonable interpretation of the evidence most Natives Americans lived short, brutish miserable lives especially compared to the lives of luxury we live.
In a harsh winter in modern day America we worry about high heating bills but we don't worry about starving to death. If your child gets pneumonia you can get medicine for them instead of just praying that they don't die like an incredibly high percentage of children did in that time period. Also, lets not pretend that before the Europeans arrived that the Americas were some peaceful paradise since in many areas tribal warfare was rampant.
Would you honestly rather live their life then rather than now?
As a comparison...
Would you rather live in: Typical modern American house or a teepee?
Its snowing outside. Whichever of the above abodes you chose would you rather:
Go chop firewood with a stone axe or turn up the dial on your thermostat?
Your child just tripped and broke their leg. Would you rather:
Bring them to a hospital or an Indian herb woman?
You're hungry. There has been a drought in your region recently. Would you rather:
Go to a grocery store where food has been imported from a region of the world that isn't experiencing drought or...starve?
Life wasn't paradise back then however much you wish it was.
And the education comment. Sure, maybe the US doesn't have the highest primary school standards in the world but most of us still learn to read and write and do some basic math which is more than most people throughout history and is certainly more than Native Americans learned as they didn't, for the most part, even possess written language.
Cheers,
Greg