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.'"

Comments

Re:I got some tail at your mom's house last night

[pwnies]

Classy. The subtle twist on the word "tail" along with the allegory towards Mr. Bryant's affairs made this a decent and well thought out troll. Could be improved by getting first post, and perhaps adding some punctuation.

8/10

Re:Won't work

[fish_in_the_c]

Community contracts and condo committees are all the problems of living in monistic life without any of the benefits, because condo micro-government are all about prestige and money rather then peace of mind and soul. Who needs the stress?

Honestly though, communism works on the small scale, if you
1) have a small self regulating group of people
2) you agree with the concepts of morality and politeness of the group you join
3) you can be reasonably assured that 1 and 2 will not change because of the rules of the group.

It fails on the large scale though, at least in the purest forms , because it is human nature to feel invested in ones 'property'.

Accurate anger different than troll please read

[mrraven]

Moderating me troll is inaccurate I believe EVERYTHING I typed there. Troll implies that I am just making things up to get a response which is NOT the case here. You can disagree with my tone which IS harsh, these things make me mad, but if you do then take 2 minutes to type a calm reasonable counter response while calling me me out on my tone, rather than just inaccurately marking me "troll," OK?