Houses With Tails

nnfiber writes "What if home owners could also own their Internet connection? Tim Wu, of New America Foundation and Derek Slater, Google's Policy Analyst, say this can be a new effective way to encourage broadband deployment — an important issue in 'America's economic growth.' In his post, Timothy B. Lee says: 'That might sound like a crazy idea at first blush, but Wu and Slater do a great job of explaining how it might work. The key idea is "condominium fiber," an arrangement in which a number of neighboring households pool their resources to install fiber to all the homes in their neighborhoods. Once constructed, each home would own its own fiber strand, while the shared costs of maintaining the "trunk" cable from the individual homes to a central switching location would be managed in the same way that condominium and homeowners' associations currently manage the shared areas of condos and gated communities.'"

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[mrraven]

@ jcnnghm

"If you want something, get off your ass and get after it."

Tell that to the ass sucking banksters who fly into D.C. in their private jets with their tin begging cups outstretched.

For literally 1/1000oth the cost of bailout of people who just last month were fierce Ayn Randian "free market," Libertarians and who now cry like stuck pigs for the government to coddle them as "too big to fail," we could roll out a lot of fiber rural and inner city urban areas. I for one would rather the money go to the downtrodden than to snide, fate, greedy, two faced hypocritical caviar eating on their Lear jet banksters.

And if it seems like I am angry you are right I am very fucking furious, I have had it up to here with right wing smug self centerdness, sociopathy, greed, cruelty and kicking the weak and poor into the gutter, while hypocritically begging for government bailouts while making millions per year and having multiple vacation "villas" grrrrrrrr!!!!!!

FUCK THAT COMPLETELY!!!!

You people lost decisively in the elections, time to stop acting entitled like you still run things, you don't. You need to take a time out, figure out what you did wrong, and come up with some new talking points.