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Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion

Andy King writes "The new Obama administration has pledged to deploy next-generation broadband to every community in America, but have offered few specifics. The Free Press have published a specific plan to accomplish broadband for all." I'm not sure which will be the bigger headache when my internet breaks: waiting in line at the new government internet office, or waiting on hold for cable tech support.

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  1. Niggers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's what you get when you elect them.

    1. Re:Niggers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Tell you what, asshole: pick a time and place, and a description of yourself, and I'll show up and kick the living shit out of you. Call it an old-fashioned, old-Testament-style trial by might of arms.

    2. Re:Niggers. by poopdeville · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Look, an internet tough guy responding to a troll!

      Can I make you my LOLCOW? I bet you can't help but responding.

      --
      After all, I am strangely colored.
    3. Re:Niggers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      If only there was a -1: Flamebaited

    4. Re:Niggers. by scamper_22 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      No, this is what you get when you elect fascists.

      Yes, I'm talking about traditional fascism... not the kind that is just an insult. There used to be people who prided themselves on being fasicsts just as people claim they are socialists or capitalists. I should say fascism is hard to define exactly. However Obama is especially fascist in his economic and social views.

      He is not socialist, but believes the government should call the shots in the economy and have a policy for the economy. Basically corporatism.
      His social policies are similarly fascist. Serve the state and you are rewarded. At the core of fascism is typically the view of rebirth. That after a nation is in decline, it must be reborn. Lack of class struggle...

      There's a reason why fascism is popular. There is a reason why people elected Hitler or supported Mossulini.
      It sounded like a good idea at the time :) They got things done. Fascism is a reaction. Of couse we can look back and realize what a disaster it was.

  2. carbon footprint by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    so what is the carbon footprint of a $44B dollar broadband system - or are you going to tell me its solar powered....

  3. Re:Comca$t to raise rates by $44 billion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    $erio$ly, $top u$ing the $tupid dollar $ign, it'$ ju$t $tupid. Fag.

  4. Re:and why he shouldnt ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We assume that your nigger is well trained and very gentle. By gentle we mean that he won't bite, kick, or strike inappropriately.

    We are going to cover four reliable ways of bringing your nigger to orgasm:

    1) Masturbation. If he is fully withdrawn you may get him to drop his member by using one finger to lightly trace the opening cleft at the tip of his prepuce.
    2) Blowing Him up. While grasping the shaft with one hand use the free hand to cup and massage the base of his member in the area of the scrotum. As he becomes more excited the erectile tissue associated with the glans-penis will engorge.
    3) Anal intercourse - front to back. To do this safely requires the right nigger-to-person size relationship. If he is too long and your legs are too short you may be in trouble. I often have to stand on my toes while he goes at it to keep him from going too deep.
    4) Anal intercourse - face to face. It has never happened to me but there is a good chance of getting an ashy mitt to the face with this, so wear head gear at least until the two of you have some facility with this. Also you will need to wear steel-toed boots. And you will need a few watermelons wrapped in blankets, or something similar in size and shape to that. A raw cantaloupe just won't do - he wouldn't like it, trust me.

    All of this is generally difficult to do without watermelons unless your nigger has something to climb onto, and ideally this should be you. Lead your nigger to the place (cage, pen, stall, etc.) that you have selected to be your regular playspace. Remove his loin cloth and give him a couple of minutes to acclimate to the setting, piss, take a dump, whatever. He may or may not let down his member in either case.

  5. dont feed that bullsh@t to us by unity100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    stop it.

    the credit crisis did NOT result from the lending to risky borrowers due to those laws, but, from the fact that the bastardly corporations of yours conjured 'derivative' assets over those mortgages, juggled them into complex composure hedge funds and sold them for over SIXTY TIMES their value. now, mark that, SIXTY Times.

    because these were considered as investments, therefore assets, the corporations and banks which invested in those showed them in their balance sheets. therefore, all those WATER VAPOR assets have been taken into account while calculating those companies financial health factors, borrowing/lending power and so on. governments and regulators worldwide have given o.k. for those corporations to buy, borrow or lend upon those numbers, because there were no reason not to trust investment banks in united states. entire world thought that they would act responsibly, like total fools.

    and those banks and corporations borrowed, lent, loaned and invested ALSO calculating those assets. therefore many of them loaned money/value they dont have, many of them borrowed value that is not there.

    and then it turned out that the regulators in u.s. did SH@T of a job in regulating and assessing the financial health of the lenders and the SCAM they were running. why ?

    why ! government is inefficient !! if government meddles in business, it kills jobs !!! hands off business !!!

    thats why.

    and when it came out that the wealth which ENTIRE world thought that was there, was actually a SCAM, VOID, WATER VAPOR. ON PAPER

    you know the rest.

    dont feed me that stupid 'risky borrower' shit. if a risky borrower bought a house through mortgage, EVEN if the bank gave the mortgage from an overinflated price of 600 k value despite the house was worth actually 400, and the house now only sells for 300 k, 1 million americans risking foreclosure means that there should be only 300 bn worth of assets at stake.

    america already provided 700 bn in bailout cash, britain 160 bn, germany 600 and france 400 bn, switzerland 80 bn.

    these cover the risky mortgages OVER a few times.

    so why bailout money is not fixing the situation ?

    BECAUSE THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE MORTGAGES, BUT THE POISONOUS WATER VAPOR ASSETS YOUR BANKS HAVE JUGGLED INTO EXISTENCE.

    if you multiply 300 bn with SIXTY, the overselling rate of those FAKE assets, you can get to a rough number of $180 trillion. 180 trillion dollars worth of FAKE assets or more were sold around the world, by your banks, which were NOT regulated in regard to what sh@t they were pulling out.

    being brainwashed by private corporations, is your thing. private, personal. we, out of civilized respect, only can voice our opinion on it, but not demand anything. that was what we have done up until now.

    however, when your corporations SCAM entire world, excuse me, but that takes on a whole different meaning. this is a global world. you cant do your will and still continue trading globally. you will have to f@cking stick by modern global regulatory standards, and use proper regulatory methods, or you will be going back to herding cattle from kansas to california. for, noone will trade with you again like that. imf, wto, are already pressurizing your government to take its responsibility. you better heed their words.

  6. Re:shut up with the 'inefficient government' sh@t by unity100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Health Care and Credit crunch hit Europe too even with your vaunted government regulations.

    yea, because everyone had the stupidity and foolishness to TRUST american corporations and do business with them.

  7. America, you have no President. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have elected...a magician. You were so desperate to expunge the perceived evil of the Bush administration that you voted into office a media-created personality in the vain attempt to right the wrongs of the last sixteen years. You have placed your political, social, and economic well-being, into the hands of an individual who has no chance of solving the monumental problems that have brought your country -and possibly the entire world- to the very brink of total social and economic collapse.

    You were so deluded by the 'Hope for Change', that you have placed your nation's destiny in the hands of an individual who, as both a Congressman and Senator, has directly sponsored less legislation that has been enacted into law than you could number on the ten fingers and ten toes that you have. He lacks both the will -and the experience- to solve your nation's issues, yet you keep piling on the demands that he do this or that, as if he were Jesus himself being commanded to perform miracles for the mob. He does not have the time, he lacks the experience, he hasn't the the money, to solve all of your nation's problems in four, very short, years. Here's hoping you will wake from your delusion. Soon.

  8. Re:Stop assuming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh god damnit people. Poor people don't need the internet, they need to get off of their asses, stop having children and get a fucking job!

    Stop giving these people more reasons to stay at home, watch Jerry Springer and not have a fucking job.