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Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband
Syngularity writes 'MaximumPC is featuring an article about one broadband provider's decision to sue the city of Monticello, Minnesota after residents passed a referendum to roll out their own fiber optic system. TDS Telecommunications had earlier denied the city's request for the company to provide fiber optic service. During the ensuing legal battle, which prevented the citizens from following through with their plans, TDS Telecommunications took the opportunity to roll out a fiber system.'
Yes. As long as Private roads don't have a monopoly on the Path from A to B, Public roads are unnecessary.
If our elected representatives no longer represent us, do we still live in a Democracy?
How does killing people who kill other people teach others that killing people is wrong?
"Oh God help us. We're in the hands of engineers."
Does anyone honestly think we would have an interstate system today (or even standardized road signs) if we had followed that model?
The only real reason we have an interstate system is because of the red scare.
Actually... gas taxes are not a percentage of the sale price; instead they are $0.xx/gallon. Unfortunately that means that as gas prices go up, the government actually loses money because people buy less gas. Gas stations are the same way, many of them nearly went broke when prices soared to $3+ just because the credit card companies take their cut as a percentage while the gas station takes a fixed cut per gallon, with high priced gas, the credit card cut was often higher than the stations' cut.
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
Ya know, I'd rather cut things like welfare, food stamps, etc. Its infurating to see some fat slob with her four kids riding on a bus for two blocks FOR FREE because she's too lazy to walk, just sucking away the earings of hard working people. We need a saftey net, but we also need to cut the dead weight that doesn't contribute to society AT ALL. And believe me, there's a lot of them around.
Government doesn't run power or phones. They are private corporations that are merely regulated, not run. That gives you the advantages of both a free market (electricity is bought and sold all across the U.S.)(phone calls are available from AT&T or Sprint or MCI or Skype or whatever), but still making sure the monopoly does not abuse its power.
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