Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com)

Slashdot reader simkel shared an article from the Courier-Journal: A group affiliated with the Koch brothers' powerful political network is leading an online campaign against Mayor Greg Fischer's $5.4 million proposal to expand Louisville's ultra-fast internet access... Critics argue that building roughly 96 miles of fiber optic cabling is an unnecessary taxpayer giveaway to internet service providers, such as Google Fiber, which recently announced plans to begin building its high-speed network in the city. "Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding broadband or internet systems," said David Williams, president of the taxpayers alliance, which is part of industrialists Charles and David Koch's political donor network... The group says $5.4 million is a misuse of taxpayer funds when the city has other needs, such as infrastructure and public safety.
To shore up public support, the mayor has begun arguing that high-speed connectivity would make it cheaper to install crime-monitoring cameras in violent neighborhoods.

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[KGIII]

LOL @ NZ armed forces. That's what, sixteen guys and four jeeps? Give me a boat, four kegs of good beer, and a water pistol - and I'll take both islands by myself. Sheesh.

NZ armed forces is pretty much like saying US intelligence. We probably have carrier groups with enough people to be a sizable percentage of your whole population. We're not bright, no. We are about as collectively intelligent as NZ is to having military capacity.

Do you even have an air force?