I like most things on Opera. Unfortunately there are still too many websites I use frequently that Opera just does not work with.
I am looking for a home and when I use the nkymls.com website for example you get a search screen where you enter your desires. With Opera you get the screen heading and that is all. With FF you get the screen and it works just fine. This is just one of the ones I run into. I contacted the supplier of the software for that website and asked about this problem and they essentially sloughed it off and said they were not going to support anything but IE, Safari and FF. Wish I could find a way around this but that is the reason I am a FF user.
There is also BlueWhite64 which is another Slackware based 64-bit system that works very well. I have been running it now for almost a year and find it very satisfactory. Excellent performance and the people behind it really are very responsive to any questions you might have. I highly recommend it. Best 64-bit distro I have tried yet.
Looks like shunning is about all that is going to be done with this woman. I would bet she has a hell of a time getting waited on in stores, getting invited to anything, having anyone talk to her, or walking down the street without people pointing her out and talking about her right to her face. She basically has not life left in that community and to me that is as it should be. She is about as low as you can go in our society IMNSHO.
Has anyone tried the 64-bit version? I am currently running 64-bit versions of BlueWhite64, Sabayon and Mandriva and they all work pretty well, especially the BlueWhite64. I was wondering how Fedora compares with these on 64-bit.
Here's another one:
Here's some more pathetic blame shifting:
In 1992, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published a report citing racial discrimination in the mortgage lending industry.
As a result, Clinton administration Secretary of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros and later Andrew Cuomo increased the percentage of sub-prime mortgages that could be held in the Fannie/Freddie portfolios.
The Clinton administration also revamped the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a 1977 law designed to motivate banks to âoeinvestâ (aka lend) more in the minority communities. Clintonâ(TM)s bank examiners now scored banks on how much âoeinvestingâ they were doing. The failure to achieve an adequate CRA score would mean trouble for any bank in the highly regulated industry.
The Clinton administration encouraged âoecommunity groupsâ to get involved. Consequently, groups like ACORN or the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) were given the opportunity to essentially run extortion rackets against banks.
In 1999 President Clinton named Franklin Raines CEO of Fannie Mae. Mr. Raines and his friends in Fannie Mae were âoeincentivizedâ with bonus packages tied to Fannieâ(TM)s earnings. The more loans they made, the more money they got as individuals.
The more of these risky loans Fannie Mae made to people who couldn't pay them back, the more the government (i.e. the taxpayers, i.e. you and me) were on the hook, because Fannie Maie is a government sponsored entity (GSE) and as such it benefitted from the implied backing of the US Treasury.
But it's all Bush's fault.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087284/posts
3:36 PM
Check out this website which has links to the White House reporting of Bush's talking about the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problems. The website is conservative but the link is to the official White House website.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-called-for-reform-of-fannie-mae.html
As to the Glass-Steagal repeal, you might have a point there but again the major problem was the CRA loans and the push to force the banks to loan money to people who clearly could not repay the loan or else face problems with the law. That was strictly the Democratic congress of 1994 under Clinton that passed that and the major people pushing for it were Barney Frank, Chris Dodd. You have to also remember that at the time Barney Frank was involved in a relationship with one of the heads of Fannie Mae who would get the major benefit of this act. You also have to look at the revision of the accounting during the last phase of the Clinton administration which resulted in Raines, Johnson, Gorelick and Murray getting huge payoffs based on the same false accounting practices as Enron used - and at about the same time. You also might check into who was pushing Enron globally to get them more business, even to the extent of sending his Commerce Department personnel along with the Enron salesmen to our allies to push for business - hint: it was not Bush - Bush is the one who prosecuted Enron.
There is some blame to spread all around but the media has done a lousy job of reporting the president's initiatives in this matter and also done a lousy job of reporting what was really going on. In fact, the media has done a good job of only one thing - reporting the Democratic party bullet points in this matter.
It is not the invisible hand of the free market that punches workers. It is the invisible hand of the liberals trying to micromanage the free market that results in the workers getting punched in the nuts.
I'll dig them up and get back to you. This was brunted about when the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problems first came out and the Bush initiatives was mentioned with sources. If I remember right there were references to over 35 times the president has tried to get Congress to do something about the Fannie Mae situation but Barney Frank and company kept talking up how they were strong and there was no problem. Guess who was right! no matter how much the LLL dems try to play it down.
Strange but great minds can thnk alike. Bush said the same thing starting in 2001 and spent 8 years trying to get the Congress and the Senate to agree with him while Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Barry Obama argued against him. For 4 of those years John McCain has been agreeing with him as well.
Now we find out from the Swedes that Bush was right. Think he will get any credit for it?
Check out what the wonderful protesters in MN are up to now:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bus-attack-in-st-paul-anarchists-attack.html
Just wonderful. The peaceful innocents throw bags of cement from overpasses on buses taking people to the convention. It is so bad for the cops to try to interfere with them in their endeavors. These protesters are such wonderful role models for the yoot of today. And just look at all the supporters they have here.
Take a look at what the Code Pink and ANSWER and Anarchists leave behind. Why should they just think that it is their right to mess up everyone else's home and then go away as if it had nothing to do with them. Those same people have a conniption if someone tries to do something in their own area. Check out the yells in the western suburbs (totally blue and very liberal) of Boston when the state tried to force them to build low cost housing. How about when they tried to open a methadone clinic in the Needle Park area. They almost had a riot over that one. All your big Bway stars from the UWS were out in force. The same people had no problem with protesters messing up the other parts of the city. Same with the commenters here too, I guess. We just have to sit back and think of England while they mess up the area.
So I as a citizen of a community have to wait until someone breaks my window or sets fire to my home before I can have any recourse. I just have to sit there while people plot to destroy my city to make their political points and then once they have destroyed the city I can do what to them. I can sue them at their parents' home for their computer and other possessions?
The groups are there plotting to subvert the lives of the regular citizens. Who gave them the right to do what they want without regard to my rights. On top of that there were informants who knew what the plans were. Would you, knowing that people were planning to destroy the fabric of a city and disrupt the livelihood and peace of mind of the citizens, not do anything at all?
Actually it is the enablers like you who destroy the lives of the rest of the citizens. Who will pay for the damages to the buildings and businesses and cars. Who will pay for the cleanup of the messes that the protesters will leave - and they will leave a mess unless you think they will come back after the convention and clean up all the crap they throw in the streets and the garbage they strew around the place. It is the people like me, the ones you call enablers, who will have to pay the price for picking up all the garbage and repairing all the damages so the city can function again. It is the people like me who just want to go to work and find instead that some punk schmucks are there throwing bottles and rocks at cops and shouting slogans about the supposed rights that they have lost. If you want to protest go protest in an area that does not interfere with the lives of the people who live there. We also have lives and we are the ones who have to pay for all the crap you idiots do.
I sure don't see the ANSWER people or the Code Pink people or the Anarchists ponying up the money to clean up the area and fix the broken windows and disrupted businesses. Those groups are just happy to show up and make a bunch of noise and get photographed and then go on to the next place to show their asses. Meanwhile the working people, the ones you supposedly support, are losing their jobs and work places due to the antics of these creeps.
I am old enough to have seen it the first time around and it was funny then. You would see the leaders up there urging the people on and they would lead the parade for about half a block. Then they would disappear and be taken away by friends. The ones arrested would be the proles. Once in awhile just to make a point the leaders would be arrested but their parents or their handlers would bail them out right away and help them hide. This crew is trying to do the same thing. It is party time for a few hours and then when it comes time to pay the bill we will hear all about police brutality and how your rights have been taken away. In the meantime you have taken away the rights of all the citizens who live there and pay the taxes and the other bills. No skin off your ass, is there.
The question is not about rebuilding NOLA at all. The question is rebuilding it in a location that is at least above sea level. They could move the city 5 miles away and leave the port there and it would work fine.
I have a friend in the general construction business. He is located in Arizona but he has a lot of contracts in NOLA. I asked him what would happen if there is another hurricane like Katrina. He said that even after he recommended building on higher ground the people went right back to where they got flooded out before, so a hurricane just filled his pockets. He tried to get it through their heads but it didn't sink in so he just gets more contracts out of it.
How about discussing the conference in Miami. The crowds there smashed windows all up and down the street, set fires in the street, threw rocks at the cops protecting the citizens. Don't you think that maybe the citizens of St Paul and Minneapolis are entitled to have the lives and property guarded and the right to be safe. It seems their rights should trump the rights of those protesting and throwing bottles and smashing windows. I know if it were my property and I was at home in my living room and some protesters threw rocks at the cops and broke my windows I would want some recourse and protection.
The right to protest does not automatically the rights of the citizens of the city. They have the right to move around doing their business and living their lives too. That is what the protesters seem to forget.
If he has sponsored legislation himself and not just signed a petition, then what are the bills and what were they accomplishing. Ones that he himself filed.
To sponsor a bill just means you say "yeah, good idea, where do I sign up." That is what he has done so far as I know. Sure haven't seen anything else he did. He sure never held a meeting of that foreign relations committee he heads and has headed for 2 years.
In other words, what legislation has he introduced and when has he been in the Senate office long enough to do so. THus far in 4 years he has spent the first 140 days there and the rest of the time campaigning for president. Not a sterling record of accomplishment IMNSHO.
So going by your logic every senator who votes for a bill automatically gets credit for that bill. Makes a lot of sense/ not. What has Obama created that actually got passed. Sponsoring a bill is just a backhanded way of getting something done; writing a bill shows that you are trying to accomplish something. Obama has no record of that at all and that was when he even bothered to show up!
What does helped pass the largest tax cut mean, he signed onto some one else's bill? He didn't write any of that. He just signed onto what someone else put in the hopper. Big difference.
What did HE propose that got passed. Why did he not call meetings of the committee he was chairman of. he was supposed to be responsible for that committee and for representing the state of Illinois. He did a p*ss poor job of chairing the committee since he has thus far not held even one meeting and he was too busy running for president to represent the state of Illinois. he should pay back his salary to the people of Illinois because he surely has done nothing for them.
Your facts are nothing but hot air.
And of that 11 years just what has Obama accomplished. He voted present most of the time. He ran a funding setup that was to fix the Chicago schools and they are worse now than they were then. He entered the US senate and has spent 3-1/2 years of the 4 years running for president. He is chairman of the Senate committee on European relations and he has never held a meeting. He has almost no accomplishment at all.
In the meantime Palin has accomplished a lot in that time period in Alaska with regard to getting rid of sleaze. She has not been beholden to either her own party or the other party in what she has done. She canceled that Bridge to Nowhere that Ted Stevens was trying for and has tried to apply the funds to improving the roads in Alaska.
Note also that Obama has won the elections only by having the opponents taken off the board in every election he has been involved in but this one. He is part and parcel of the Chicago party and it is almost as sleazy as the party in Louisiana is.
What about all the things Obama has been in favor of. How many of them are stable and how many are still developing and changing as we speak.
Interestingly enough that the other two who were doing the snooping were employees of a Clinton campaign official. That means the snooping was done by operatives of the Obama and the Clinton campaigns. How amazing. One would think that the media would blame the administration when it was not them at all. Guess then there is no story.
Problem is that it sometimes is easier to make them appear also. Remember the Washington state governor's race last time? They kept checking what were supposedly boxes that had been emptied and finding more and more ballots until the democrat won. She lost the first 3 times they counted but every time they checked the boxes and found more ballots. Amazing how tricky those ballot things are!!
Simple answer. Those of us who use Linux are bored silly at the thought of playing games. I don't enjoy them, I don't want to use up my precious time playing them, I have a life outside the computer. It has nothing to do with saving money. It has to do with the way I wish to allocate my time and playing computer games is not something I want to do at all.
Seems to me that the logistics of this would negate it being true. Can yuou imagine the facilities just to store the volume of data. Then just imagine how you would go about analyzing that much traffic. How many people would it take to do anything with it even to segregate out what you would want to follow up on. Just does not ring true to me at all.
I could see something like this on lines that pass data from certain countries and that pass through the US but that is already approved by congress. Anything more than that just does not seem feasible. Sounds like somebody wanting his 15 minutes of fame and now that he is ex-AT&T he thinks this will get it for him.
I am not amazed that buildings such as Gehry's ever get build. I am depressed that someone thought something this ugly was worth investing even a thin dime in.
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I like most things on Opera. Unfortunately there are still too many websites I use frequently that Opera just does not work with. I am looking for a home and when I use the nkymls.com website for example you get a search screen where you enter your desires. With Opera you get the screen heading and that is all. With FF you get the screen and it works just fine. This is just one of the ones I run into. I contacted the supplier of the software for that website and asked about this problem and they essentially sloughed it off and said they were not going to support anything but IE, Safari and FF. Wish I could find a way around this but that is the reason I am a FF user.
Have you tried wicd for wifi install? My friends all claim this is far better than network manager.
There is also BlueWhite64 which is another Slackware based 64-bit system that works very well. I have been running it now for almost a year and find it very satisfactory. Excellent performance and the people behind it really are very responsive to any questions you might have. I highly recommend it. Best 64-bit distro I have tried yet.
Looks like shunning is about all that is going to be done with this woman. I would bet she has a hell of a time getting waited on in stores, getting invited to anything, having anyone talk to her, or walking down the street without people pointing her out and talking about her right to her face. She basically has not life left in that community and to me that is as it should be. She is about as low as you can go in our society IMNSHO.
Has anyone tried the 64-bit version? I am currently running 64-bit versions of BlueWhite64, Sabayon and Mandriva and they all work pretty well, especially the BlueWhite64. I was wondering how Fedora compares with these on 64-bit.
Here's another one: Here's some more pathetic blame shifting: In 1992, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston published a report citing racial discrimination in the mortgage lending industry. As a result, Clinton administration Secretary of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros and later Andrew Cuomo increased the percentage of sub-prime mortgages that could be held in the Fannie/Freddie portfolios. The Clinton administration also revamped the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), a 1977 law designed to motivate banks to âoeinvestâ (aka lend) more in the minority communities. Clintonâ(TM)s bank examiners now scored banks on how much âoeinvestingâ they were doing. The failure to achieve an adequate CRA score would mean trouble for any bank in the highly regulated industry. The Clinton administration encouraged âoecommunity groupsâ to get involved. Consequently, groups like ACORN or the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) were given the opportunity to essentially run extortion rackets against banks. In 1999 President Clinton named Franklin Raines CEO of Fannie Mae. Mr. Raines and his friends in Fannie Mae were âoeincentivizedâ with bonus packages tied to Fannieâ(TM)s earnings. The more loans they made, the more money they got as individuals. The more of these risky loans Fannie Mae made to people who couldn't pay them back, the more the government (i.e. the taxpayers, i.e. you and me) were on the hook, because Fannie Maie is a government sponsored entity (GSE) and as such it benefitted from the implied backing of the US Treasury. But it's all Bush's fault. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087284/posts 3:36 PM
Check out this website which has links to the White House reporting of Bush's talking about the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problems. The website is conservative but the link is to the official White House website. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bush-called-for-reform-of-fannie-mae.html As to the Glass-Steagal repeal, you might have a point there but again the major problem was the CRA loans and the push to force the banks to loan money to people who clearly could not repay the loan or else face problems with the law. That was strictly the Democratic congress of 1994 under Clinton that passed that and the major people pushing for it were Barney Frank, Chris Dodd. You have to also remember that at the time Barney Frank was involved in a relationship with one of the heads of Fannie Mae who would get the major benefit of this act. You also have to look at the revision of the accounting during the last phase of the Clinton administration which resulted in Raines, Johnson, Gorelick and Murray getting huge payoffs based on the same false accounting practices as Enron used - and at about the same time. You also might check into who was pushing Enron globally to get them more business, even to the extent of sending his Commerce Department personnel along with the Enron salesmen to our allies to push for business - hint: it was not Bush - Bush is the one who prosecuted Enron. There is some blame to spread all around but the media has done a lousy job of reporting the president's initiatives in this matter and also done a lousy job of reporting what was really going on. In fact, the media has done a good job of only one thing - reporting the Democratic party bullet points in this matter. It is not the invisible hand of the free market that punches workers. It is the invisible hand of the liberals trying to micromanage the free market that results in the workers getting punched in the nuts.
I'll dig them up and get back to you. This was brunted about when the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problems first came out and the Bush initiatives was mentioned with sources. If I remember right there were references to over 35 times the president has tried to get Congress to do something about the Fannie Mae situation but Barney Frank and company kept talking up how they were strong and there was no problem. Guess who was right! no matter how much the LLL dems try to play it down.
Strange but great minds can thnk alike. Bush said the same thing starting in 2001 and spent 8 years trying to get the Congress and the Senate to agree with him while Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Barry Obama argued against him. For 4 of those years John McCain has been agreeing with him as well. Now we find out from the Swedes that Bush was right. Think he will get any credit for it?
Check out what the wonderful protesters in MN are up to now: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bus-attack-in-st-paul-anarchists-attack.html Just wonderful. The peaceful innocents throw bags of cement from overpasses on buses taking people to the convention. It is so bad for the cops to try to interfere with them in their endeavors. These protesters are such wonderful role models for the yoot of today. And just look at all the supporters they have here.
Take a look at what the Code Pink and ANSWER and Anarchists leave behind. Why should they just think that it is their right to mess up everyone else's home and then go away as if it had nothing to do with them. Those same people have a conniption if someone tries to do something in their own area. Check out the yells in the western suburbs (totally blue and very liberal) of Boston when the state tried to force them to build low cost housing. How about when they tried to open a methadone clinic in the Needle Park area. They almost had a riot over that one. All your big Bway stars from the UWS were out in force. The same people had no problem with protesters messing up the other parts of the city. Same with the commenters here too, I guess. We just have to sit back and think of England while they mess up the area.
So I as a citizen of a community have to wait until someone breaks my window or sets fire to my home before I can have any recourse. I just have to sit there while people plot to destroy my city to make their political points and then once they have destroyed the city I can do what to them. I can sue them at their parents' home for their computer and other possessions? The groups are there plotting to subvert the lives of the regular citizens. Who gave them the right to do what they want without regard to my rights. On top of that there were informants who knew what the plans were. Would you, knowing that people were planning to destroy the fabric of a city and disrupt the livelihood and peace of mind of the citizens, not do anything at all? Actually it is the enablers like you who destroy the lives of the rest of the citizens. Who will pay for the damages to the buildings and businesses and cars. Who will pay for the cleanup of the messes that the protesters will leave - and they will leave a mess unless you think they will come back after the convention and clean up all the crap they throw in the streets and the garbage they strew around the place. It is the people like me, the ones you call enablers, who will have to pay the price for picking up all the garbage and repairing all the damages so the city can function again. It is the people like me who just want to go to work and find instead that some punk schmucks are there throwing bottles and rocks at cops and shouting slogans about the supposed rights that they have lost. If you want to protest go protest in an area that does not interfere with the lives of the people who live there. We also have lives and we are the ones who have to pay for all the crap you idiots do. I sure don't see the ANSWER people or the Code Pink people or the Anarchists ponying up the money to clean up the area and fix the broken windows and disrupted businesses. Those groups are just happy to show up and make a bunch of noise and get photographed and then go on to the next place to show their asses. Meanwhile the working people, the ones you supposedly support, are losing their jobs and work places due to the antics of these creeps. I am old enough to have seen it the first time around and it was funny then. You would see the leaders up there urging the people on and they would lead the parade for about half a block. Then they would disappear and be taken away by friends. The ones arrested would be the proles. Once in awhile just to make a point the leaders would be arrested but their parents or their handlers would bail them out right away and help them hide. This crew is trying to do the same thing. It is party time for a few hours and then when it comes time to pay the bill we will hear all about police brutality and how your rights have been taken away. In the meantime you have taken away the rights of all the citizens who live there and pay the taxes and the other bills. No skin off your ass, is there.
The question is not about rebuilding NOLA at all. The question is rebuilding it in a location that is at least above sea level. They could move the city 5 miles away and leave the port there and it would work fine. I have a friend in the general construction business. He is located in Arizona but he has a lot of contracts in NOLA. I asked him what would happen if there is another hurricane like Katrina. He said that even after he recommended building on higher ground the people went right back to where they got flooded out before, so a hurricane just filled his pockets. He tried to get it through their heads but it didn't sink in so he just gets more contracts out of it.
How about discussing the conference in Miami. The crowds there smashed windows all up and down the street, set fires in the street, threw rocks at the cops protecting the citizens. Don't you think that maybe the citizens of St Paul and Minneapolis are entitled to have the lives and property guarded and the right to be safe. It seems their rights should trump the rights of those protesting and throwing bottles and smashing windows. I know if it were my property and I was at home in my living room and some protesters threw rocks at the cops and broke my windows I would want some recourse and protection. The right to protest does not automatically the rights of the citizens of the city. They have the right to move around doing their business and living their lives too. That is what the protesters seem to forget.
If he has sponsored legislation himself and not just signed a petition, then what are the bills and what were they accomplishing. Ones that he himself filed. To sponsor a bill just means you say "yeah, good idea, where do I sign up." That is what he has done so far as I know. Sure haven't seen anything else he did. He sure never held a meeting of that foreign relations committee he heads and has headed for 2 years. In other words, what legislation has he introduced and when has he been in the Senate office long enough to do so. THus far in 4 years he has spent the first 140 days there and the rest of the time campaigning for president. Not a sterling record of accomplishment IMNSHO.
So going by your logic every senator who votes for a bill automatically gets credit for that bill. Makes a lot of sense/ not. What has Obama created that actually got passed. Sponsoring a bill is just a backhanded way of getting something done; writing a bill shows that you are trying to accomplish something. Obama has no record of that at all and that was when he even bothered to show up!
What does helped pass the largest tax cut mean, he signed onto some one else's bill? He didn't write any of that. He just signed onto what someone else put in the hopper. Big difference. What did HE propose that got passed. Why did he not call meetings of the committee he was chairman of. he was supposed to be responsible for that committee and for representing the state of Illinois. He did a p*ss poor job of chairing the committee since he has thus far not held even one meeting and he was too busy running for president to represent the state of Illinois. he should pay back his salary to the people of Illinois because he surely has done nothing for them. Your facts are nothing but hot air.
And of that 11 years just what has Obama accomplished. He voted present most of the time. He ran a funding setup that was to fix the Chicago schools and they are worse now than they were then. He entered the US senate and has spent 3-1/2 years of the 4 years running for president. He is chairman of the Senate committee on European relations and he has never held a meeting. He has almost no accomplishment at all. In the meantime Palin has accomplished a lot in that time period in Alaska with regard to getting rid of sleaze. She has not been beholden to either her own party or the other party in what she has done. She canceled that Bridge to Nowhere that Ted Stevens was trying for and has tried to apply the funds to improving the roads in Alaska. Note also that Obama has won the elections only by having the opponents taken off the board in every election he has been involved in but this one. He is part and parcel of the Chicago party and it is almost as sleazy as the party in Louisiana is. What about all the things Obama has been in favor of. How many of them are stable and how many are still developing and changing as we speak.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/index.html
Interestingly enough that the other two who were doing the snooping were employees of a Clinton campaign official. That means the snooping was done by operatives of the Obama and the Clinton campaigns. How amazing. One would think that the media would blame the administration when it was not them at all. Guess then there is no story.
Problem is that it sometimes is easier to make them appear also. Remember the Washington state governor's race last time? They kept checking what were supposedly boxes that had been emptied and finding more and more ballots until the democrat won. She lost the first 3 times they counted but every time they checked the boxes and found more ballots. Amazing how tricky those ballot things are!!
Simple answer. Those of us who use Linux are bored silly at the thought of playing games. I don't enjoy them, I don't want to use up my precious time playing them, I have a life outside the computer. It has nothing to do with saving money. It has to do with the way I wish to allocate my time and playing computer games is not something I want to do at all.
Until Apple lets me sign up for other that AT&T they can put the iPhone where the sun don't shine.
Seems to me that the logistics of this would negate it being true. Can yuou imagine the facilities just to store the volume of data. Then just imagine how you would go about analyzing that much traffic. How many people would it take to do anything with it even to segregate out what you would want to follow up on. Just does not ring true to me at all.
I could see something like this on lines that pass data from certain countries and that pass through the US but that is already approved by congress. Anything more than that just does not seem feasible. Sounds like somebody wanting his 15 minutes of fame and now that he is ex-AT&T he thinks this will get it for him.
I am not amazed that buildings such as Gehry's ever get build. I am depressed that someone thought something this ugly was worth investing even a thin dime in.