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Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP?
hawkeyeMI writes "I live in a small, rural town nestled in some low hills. Our town has access to only one DSL provider, and it's pretty terrible. However, a regional fiber project is just being completed, and some of the fiber is in fact running directly past my house. Currently, there are no last-mile providers in my area, and the regional project only considers itself a middle-mile provider, and will only provide service to last-mile providers. Assuming this will not be my day job, that the local populace is rather poor, and that because of the hills, line-of-sight service will be difficult, how could I set myself up as an ISP? I have considered WiFi mesh networking, and even running wires on the power/telephone polls, but the required licensing and other issues are foreign to me. What would you do?"
The best and most honest answer is marked troll?
Ahhh slashdot. how far you have fallen.
people hate honesty. what they love is being fed a line of bullshit. even when they know its bullshit, makes them feel important. every marketing, advertising, and propaganda employee knows this, that's why those businesses and everyone in them are evil. after all you must REALLY value my opinion if you will lie to me just to influence it your way. it's the only kind of status available to fat stupid people who had a bunch of kids they couldn't afford and now they can't do it on their own.
i mean how do you suppose obama got re-elected? by any rational evaluation of his first term? noooo.... because he's real good at the bullshit. every thinking person is like "WTF are you DOING?!?!!?" for the dumb masses (the ones that get their news from TV) Obama's got a Jobs-esque reality distortion field. and he promise yo baby mama some mo' Obama money from his stay-yash. i mean god damn skin color must be REALLY important to some ppl. so important it makes em think a privileged harvard-educated multimillionaire has any idea what it's like in the 'hood. a permanent tan goes that far, really?
well anyway the american experiment was nice while it lasted. maybe the next constitution can have some kind of anti-Balkanization provision? sure would be nice to hear about "the American vote" and not "the black vote" or "the white vote" or "the hispanic vote" or "women's vote" etc. i mean it's almost as though people are just people, hmm, what a concept right? "oooh yo! yo I's gon' vote fo' dis guy cuz' his skin look a lil' like mines, dawg!" no thought required! that's how a nation crumbles. white people wouldn't get away with "hey I voted for romney because he's white and I'm white!" so let's be fair about this.