Paying for something does not equal morality, I could pay a "fair market rate" to have someone killed, that does not make murder moral.
And no I don't want to kill the Jews or harm the Jews, I just think the nation state of Israel ought to deal on it's own, without our help, with the problems it has created by violating international law. For example according to Jews against the occupation the state of Israel is in violation of literally dozens of U.N. resolutions regarding it's occupation of the Palestinians territories:
Am I suggesting the Palestinian suicide bombers are right? No, what I'm suggesting is that the mess Israel is in is none of our affair in the U.S. and we ought to stop supporting Israel with out tax dollars, period, end of story.
Does that concern you? Article about Bush hearing voices in his head telling him God told him to do it:
"President George W Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals."
Christian nut cases like Bush in my own country concern me far more than some pissed off Muslims half way around the world. 911 was a one off and the forces of repression in the U.S. are using it to fan xenophobia and torch the constitution. If we just stopped consuming more than our fair share of oil and stopped catering to Israel's every whim, poof, no more pissed off Muslims problem solved, then all you religious fanatics hearing voices of "God" in your head can maybe get some Thorazine and the rest of us sane people will then sleep more soundly.
BOTH communists and capitalists suck. Being an apologist for the American puppet is no better than being an apologist for the Soviet puppet. All forces of centralization and power whether religious, capitalist, or communist tend towards oppression, police states, violence and destruction. Lets do better than being apologists for communists, capitalists, or fundies of any stripe.
"Kraj Majales (King of May)
And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and lying policemen and the Capitalists proffer Napalm and money in green suitcases to the Naked, and the Communists create heavy industry but the heart is also heavy and the beautiful engineers are all dead, the secret technicians conspire for their own glamour in the Future, in the Future, but now drink vodka and lament the Security Forces, and the Capitalists drink gin and whiskey on airplanes but let Indian brown millions starve and when Communist and Capitalist assholes tangle the Just man is arrested or robbed or has his head cut off..."
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Bzzzt survey says wrong. Tracking cookies install automatically and if you are running IE possibly other active x controls such such page resets, etc. I assure you I downloaded nothing, nor did I click on any dialog boxes of any sort, to the people who moded the parent up if you are running Windows I suggest you install Adaware or Spybot Search and Destory and see what results you get, I suspect you will be shocked, dismayed and may lose some of your cockiness. I'm just glad I use OS X for 99% of my web browsing.
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It's certainly possible to run a Windows box without getting a virus and getting hijacked with a firewall and sensible computing practices. Not getting spyware is a whole other ball of wax, I just set a Win 2K box for a few old games I like to run like "Porsche Unleashed", and Quake. Only using Firefox as the browser and with Zonealarm set up, Adaware said I got three critical pieces of spyware in 1 day of surfing and no not to pr0n sites.
"Patriotic crap," exactly right, time to call BOTH parties on their fear mongering they use to diminish our rights, shut down transparency and accountability, and promote war.
The next round of elections will do exactly ZERO to stop this erosion of democracy through fear mongering. BOTH parties are going to run a flag waving fear mongering improve "national security" campaign. The Dems are calling their's "real security," and it's all about waving national and state flags, and "posing in front of tanks," according to the Dems leader Reid. Read it and weep neither party could care less for our most basic freedoms. Note this a critique of the Democrats from the left not the right.
""Real Security" calls for Democrats to hinge the 2006 fall campaign on how the Republicans have failed us on the issue of national security. Harry Reid says Democrats should wrap themselves in the flag, use tanks as backdrop and then try to outflank the Republicans from the right with demands for increased military funding, a better fought war, tighter borders, and ports run by white American-born Christians, preferably free of radical organizers from the ILWU.
As reported in the Washington Times, Reid's strategy memo advises: "Ensure that you have the proper U.S. and state flags at the event, and consider finding someone to sing the national anthem and lead the group in the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the event." Next up was Joe Biden, standing between two gold-fringed flags, and probably with Old Glory underwear, telling the press that " to the extent that Bush fails in Iraq, American interests are seriously damaged, and I'm rooting for his success, not his failure." This is the man who explained his 30-minute opening speech at the Alito hearings by saying he wanted to put the nominee at his ease.
So what are we looking down the road towards, across the next year or two? A bunch of national Democrats like Hillary Clinton screaming about illegal immigrants and voting for funding for a wall running from Corpus Christi to San Diego, staffed by Israeli death squads. If the war gets mentioned at all, it'll be back to the old winning Kerry formula: We'll fight it better. They'll be drawing up Patriot Act 3, plus new national ID cards and street cameras on every street corner, just like they're installing in the UK."
No I think they are trying to tell people to not use a wrench as a hammer. I do desktop publishing and I know there is no real subsitute for apps like Photoshop, Indesign, Illustator, etc. I cringe everytime I see a document designed in Word.
If these things are run on ordinary t.v. monitors they can be turned off with the t.v. b-gone universal remote. At some point people have to fight back against the big brotherish aspects of our society. Thus far at least the telescreen has an off switch. And no I have no association whatsoever with the t.v. b-gone people I just think it's cool.
ilife 5 works quite nicely for the sort of causal photography needs the ilife suite is aimed at, and itunes 6 will actually run under 10.2.8. Finally 10.2.8 IS still getting security updates. I'd say being able to get an old CRT imac for 75 to 100 bucks that will run ilife 5 firefox 1.5, and abiword is a fine deal for someone who needs a hassle free computer to do simple tasks like web surfing, e-mail, simple digital photography, and word processing. No it's not going to replace my dual G5 tower but in my moms case it doesn't need to (shrug). And just for the record I do think Apple does some things wrong like selling over priced hardware not going with an open source gui, etc. But the complaints in the parent and grand parent posts are mostly troll like disinformation.
I wish I had mod points to mod you -1 troll. For starters each.1 OS X upgrade is equivalent to major Windows upgrade like from Win 2000 to XP. Further ilife will run on several year old versions of OSX. My mom is using ilife 5 on 1998 G3 333 crt imac running OS X 10.2.8 and yes it is quite usable for music photos etc.
I would prefer the Federal Republic to break up entirely so the politicians would be FORCED to listen to people directly instead of think thanks in D.C. And least you think that's a states rights conservative position I'd like to see that accompanied by the rise of co-ops and labor unions. A kind of Vermont or Oregon view of the world writ large.:)
And as we all know non U.S. citizens are un-persons who should have no rights whatsoever.
What's that you say, the U.S. signed the Geneva conventions preventing torture of prisoners of war and bombing of civilian areas and that treaty has the force of U.S. law according the constitution.
War crimes trials for Bush AND Clinton, who'd have thunk it (certainly not the MSM that avoids this very real legal issue like the plague).
P.s. the numbers don't matter at all, my constitutional rights don't go away because some hair brained sociologist manipulates some numbers that mean nothing in a scientific sense as human psychology is far too complex to model in a truly scientific fashion complete with control groups, double blind testing, and eliminating variables like pre-existing conditions. Even if the numbers did prove something my rights ARE still primary to some sociological study.
We have become such a nation of cry baby safety freaks that many would make a bon fire of our civil liberties if some one says 59% of people say boo, THAT scares me. We need to stop being so easily frightened, hint the terrorists aren't going to get us so we don't need to discriminate against or bomb Arabs and books aren't going to get us either so put away your torches and go home and do something useful with your priggish uptight lives censors.
I don't even really care for most commercial glossy porn, but I do care a great deal for our civil liberties and the 1 st amendment to the constitution. It's attitudes like yours that drive me further every day from what is considered the "left" and more towards what is considered "libertarian." If the left is joining the censorship oriented book burning brigade I want no part of it. Did we learn nothing from Nazi book burnings, from fundies burning Beatles records, from Tipper and her priggish Dem friends trying to ban the "Penis Landscape" Geiger poster in that Dead Kennedies record Frankechrist, from Fahrenheit 451?
Fuck censorship, left, right, or moderate. Long live offensive literary writing from Anais Nin's explicitly sexual writing of 1930s Paris to Pat Califia's S.M. Lesbian writing, to William Burroughs very explicit tales of homosexuality and being a junkie. When we get p.c. censorship another part of our souls and our ability to express ourselves withers and dies.
I'm sorry if you have some sort of hangup about controversial and sexual expression in the arts but leave ME out of your hang ups, OK? Go censor YOURSELF.
P.S. those people who can't see that porn or violent video games aren't EXAMPLES to be followed have REAL problems of basic sanity and would probably do nut ball things without violent video games or porn.
Yeah how insightful why just this week I played a round of Unreal Tournament 2004 and then went out with an assault riffle and shot a bunch of people. Oh wait that's not true at all, I went to a PEACE march afterwards because I can tell fantasy from reality, deal.
Just because some people can't tell fantasy from reality doesn't mean my first amendment rights should be denied, what part of "shall not abridge" don't you understand?
Yeah Microsoft sure has straightened out, that end to end DRM is going to be super cool, I can't wait to upgrade all my hardware for no technical reason what so ever. Oh wait yes I can because I run only OS X and Ubuntu.
Do you really feel Bush is answerable to people? All the polls I have read indicate that a majority of Americans think the war in Iraq was a big mistake and want us to start withdrawing yesterday. Yet far from Bush addressing this outcry he forges on with the war with the funding and support of the so called opposition party the Democrats. Far from being responsive to people the majority against the war at this point in history literally have NO representation in D.C. The policy elite is so large and alienated from their constituency that they simply don't care what the people think. This is entirely a problem of scale, such an alienation from the desires of their constituency would be impossible is a New England style town meeting run city council where direct contact with constituents is inevitable. You can say but Bush can be voted out, and what replaced with Hilary Clinton who wants more troops in Iraq also supports corporate globilization and may try to censor video games and music, wow what a great improvement, not.
And to those Libertarians who assume that we vote with our dollars that is just laughable when often the choice offered in the so called marketplace is "none of the above," if I want to buy a 20 horse power diesel car that gets 150 mpg (which is possible) I'm not offered that choice because the big auto companies realize they can make more money marketing the crap out of giant V8 trucks to sell to people as commuter vehicles.
And yes maintaining our infrastructure will require large organizations, but we should always use the smallest organization possible to get the job done and realize that dealing with large bureaucratic faceless organizations public OR private is always a deal with the devil.
I often get frustrated with the left right argument between whether government or private industry is better, when I think the correct answer is BOTH large government and large private industry are dangerous to our basic rights.
I would say that using the smallest possible organization to get the job done and knowing when to stop are the two greatest signs of human wisdom. Remember the crash of the late 90s when internet start ups grew too fast? I would say we are headed for another such crash around google, ipods, the housing bubble and U.S. empire. The Greeks called it hubris which is great pride before a large fall. So to get back on thread yes I trust google less now than a year ago and I think the parent post is exactly right about the cause, things like EXPANDING into China led to ethical lapses.
Something tells me you have a nice house in the burbs or a nice apartment in the city, yet you are telling the roughly one million who are homeless, the one in sixteen who live in trailer homes, and the 46 million who can't afford health care they are well off, what nerve!!!!! Have you ever had to worry about where your next meal is coming from or dying from an infection? I thought not...
As one who has experienced homelessness and eating out of dumpster you are officially invited to bite me.
Clearly the cheap way to do it would be public wireless at least in large metropolitan areas. As some one with anarchist tendencies I'm genuinely ambivalent as to whether the government is the best social institution to do this, not just in terms of bureaucracy, but censorship. If the govt. controls your broadband connection how long before little Johnny shouldn't be able to see breasts, violent video games, and ideas from "terrorist" supporting countries like "old Europe." All internet connections being filtered like some libraries are now would just frankly suck.
On the other hand if money is to be spent by the goverment at all I'd rather see it spent on public infrastructure like trains, health care, and wi-fi than war.
Also I have question is there a technical reason why wi-fi couldn't be done with longer wavelength lower frequency transmitters? The idea of blanketing the country with microwaves does make me a little leary as at least some studies seem to indicate that prolonged exposure to microwaves COULD cause cancer. I'm not on the luddite ban cell phones and wi-fi bandwagon by any means but lets just say it makes me a little nervous despite enjoying my ibook with wi-fi.
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Paying for something does not equal morality, I could pay a "fair market rate" to have someone killed, that does not make murder moral.
And no I don't want to kill the Jews or harm the Jews, I just think the nation state of Israel ought to deal on it's own, without our help, with the problems it has created by violating international law. For example according to Jews against the occupation the state of Israel is in violation of literally dozens of U.N. resolutions regarding it's occupation of the Palestinians territories:
http://www.jatonyc.org/UNresolutions.html
Am I suggesting the Palestinian suicide bombers are right? No, what I'm suggesting is that the mess Israel is in is none of our affair in the U.S. and we ought to stop supporting Israel with out tax dollars, period, end of story.
Happy now troll?
Does that concern you? Article about Bush hearing voices in his head telling him God told him to do it:
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"President George W Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/st
This attack in turn led to the death of over 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians:
http://iraqbodycount.org/
Christian nut cases like Bush in my own country concern me far more than some pissed off Muslims half way around the world. 911 was a one off and the forces of repression in the U.S. are using it to fan xenophobia and torch the constitution. If we just stopped consuming more than our fair share of oil and stopped catering to Israel's every whim, poof, no more pissed off Muslims problem solved, then all you religious fanatics hearing voices of "God" in your head can maybe get some Thorazine and the rest of us sane people will then sleep more soundly.
BOTH communists and capitalists suck. Being an apologist for the American puppet is no better than being an apologist for the Soviet puppet. All forces of centralization and power whether religious, capitalist, or communist tend towards oppression, police states, violence and destruction. Lets do better than being apologists for communists, capitalists, or fundies of any stripe.
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"Kraj Majales (King of May)
And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and
lying policemen
and the Capitalists proffer Napalm and money in green suitcases to the
Naked,
and the Communists create heavy industry but the heart is also heavy
and the beautiful engineers are all dead, the secret technicians conspire for
their own glamour
in the Future, in the Future, but now drink vodka and lament the Security
Forces,
and the Capitalists drink gin and whiskey on airplanes but let Indian brown
millions starve
and when Communist and Capitalist assholes tangle the Just man is arrested
or robbed or has his head cut off..."
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=0&poe
Bzzzt survey says wrong. Tracking cookies install automatically and if you are running IE possibly other active x controls such such page resets, etc.
I assure you I downloaded nothing, nor did I click on any dialog boxes of any sort, to the people who moded the parent up if you are running Windows I suggest you install Adaware or Spybot Search and Destory and see what results you get, I suspect you will be shocked, dismayed and may lose some of your cockiness. I'm just glad I use OS X for 99% of my web browsing.
It's certainly possible to run a Windows box without getting a virus and getting hijacked with a firewall and sensible computing practices. Not getting spyware is a whole other ball of wax, I just set a Win 2K box for a few old games I like to run like "Porsche Unleashed", and Quake. Only using Firefox as the browser and with Zonealarm set up, Adaware said I got three critical pieces of spyware in 1 day of surfing and no not to pr0n sites.
"Patriotic crap," exactly right, time to call BOTH parties on their fear mongering they use to diminish our rights, shut down transparency and accountability, and promote war.
The next round of elections will do exactly ZERO to stop this erosion of democracy through fear mongering. BOTH parties are going to run a flag waving fear mongering improve "national security" campaign. The Dems are calling their's "real security," and it's all about waving national and state flags, and "posing in front of tanks," according to the Dems leader Reid. Read it and weep neither party could care less for our most basic freedoms. Note this a critique of the Democrats from the left not the right.
""Real Security" calls for Democrats to hinge the 2006 fall campaign on how the Republicans have failed us on the issue of national security. Harry Reid says Democrats should wrap themselves in the flag, use tanks as backdrop and then try to outflank the Republicans from the right with demands for increased military funding, a better fought war, tighter borders, and ports run by white American-born Christians, preferably free of radical organizers from the ILWU.
As reported in the Washington Times, Reid's strategy memo advises: "Ensure that you have the proper U.S. and state flags at the event, and consider finding someone to sing the national anthem and lead the group in the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the event." Next up was Joe Biden, standing between two gold-fringed flags, and probably with Old Glory underwear, telling the press that " to the extent that Bush fails in Iraq, American interests are seriously damaged, and I'm rooting for his success, not his failure." This is the man who explained his 30-minute opening speech at the Alito hearings by saying he wanted to put the nominee at his ease.
So what are we looking down the road towards, across the next year or two? A bunch of national Democrats like Hillary Clinton screaming about illegal immigrants and voting for funding for a wall running from Corpus Christi to San Diego, staffed by Israeli death squads. If the war gets mentioned at all, it'll be back to the old winning Kerry formula: We'll fight it better. They'll be drawing up Patriot Act 3, plus new national ID cards and street cameras on every street corner, just like they're installing in the UK."
http://counterpunch.org/cockburn03252006.html
THANK YOU!!! That's what I always tell people who want to take away our rights and do things in secret which is fundamentally undemocratic.
No I think they are trying to tell people to not use a wrench as a hammer. I do desktop publishing and I know there is no real subsitute for apps like Photoshop, Indesign, Illustator, etc. I cringe everytime I see a document designed in Word.
If these things are run on ordinary t.v. monitors they can be turned off with the t.v. b-gone universal remote. At some point people have to fight back against the big brotherish aspects of our society. Thus far at least the telescreen has an off switch. And no I have no association whatsoever with the t.v. b-gone people I just think it's cool.
http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php
All I know is that the 10.2.8 box downloaded a security update last week. Perhaps it was an old one or perhaps that's all 10.2.8 needs.
ilife 5 works quite nicely for the sort of causal photography needs the ilife suite is aimed at, and itunes 6 will actually run under 10.2.8. Finally 10.2.8 IS still getting security updates. I'd say being able to get an old CRT imac for 75 to 100 bucks that will run ilife 5 firefox 1.5, and abiword is a fine deal for someone who needs a hassle free computer to do simple tasks like web surfing, e-mail, simple digital photography, and word processing. No it's not going to replace my dual G5 tower but in my moms case it doesn't need to (shrug). And just for the record I do think Apple does some things wrong like selling over priced hardware not going with an open source gui, etc. But the complaints in the parent and grand parent posts are mostly troll like disinformation.
I wish I had mod points to mod you -1 troll. For starters each .1 OS X upgrade is equivalent to major Windows upgrade like from Win 2000 to XP. Further ilife will run on several year old versions of OSX. My mom is using ilife 5 on 1998 G3 333 crt imac running OS X 10.2.8 and yes it is quite usable for music photos etc.
Actually front row can be hacked quite easily.
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Not that I'm going to bother I not so lazy that I'm incapable of walking 10 feet to change the media I'm viewing on my Mac.
I would prefer the Federal Republic to break up entirely so the politicians would be FORCED to listen to people directly instead of think thanks in D.C. And least you think that's a states rights conservative position I'd like to see that accompanied by the rise of co-ops and labor unions. A kind of Vermont or Oregon view of the world writ large. :)
And as we all know non U.S. citizens are un-persons who should have no rights whatsoever.
What's that you say, the U.S. signed the Geneva conventions preventing torture of prisoners of war and bombing of civilian areas and that treaty has the force of U.S. law according the constitution.
War crimes trials for Bush AND Clinton, who'd have thunk it (certainly not the MSM that avoids this very real legal issue like the plague).
P.s. the numbers don't matter at all, my constitutional rights don't go away because some hair brained sociologist manipulates some numbers that mean nothing in a scientific sense as human psychology is far too complex to model in a truly scientific fashion complete with control groups, double blind testing, and eliminating variables like pre-existing conditions. Even if the numbers did prove something my rights ARE still primary to some sociological study.
We have become such a nation of cry baby safety freaks that many would make a bon fire of our civil liberties if some one says 59% of people say boo, THAT scares me. We need to stop being so easily frightened, hint the terrorists aren't going to get us so we don't need to discriminate against or bomb Arabs and books aren't going to get us either so put away your torches and go home and do something useful with your priggish uptight lives censors.
I don't even really care for most commercial glossy porn, but I do care a great deal for our civil liberties and the 1 st amendment to the constitution. It's attitudes like yours that drive me further every day from what is considered the "left" and more towards what is considered "libertarian." If the left is joining the censorship oriented book burning brigade I want no part of it. Did we learn nothing from Nazi book burnings, from fundies burning Beatles records, from Tipper and her priggish Dem friends trying to ban the "Penis Landscape" Geiger poster in that Dead Kennedies record Frankechrist, from Fahrenheit 451?
Fuck censorship, left, right, or moderate. Long live offensive literary writing from Anais Nin's explicitly sexual writing of 1930s Paris to Pat Califia's S.M. Lesbian writing, to William Burroughs very explicit tales of homosexuality and being a junkie. When we get p.c. censorship another part of our souls and our ability to express ourselves withers and dies.
I'm sorry if you have some sort of hangup about controversial and sexual expression in the arts but leave ME out of your hang ups, OK? Go censor YOURSELF.
P.S. those people who can't see that porn or violent video games aren't EXAMPLES to be followed have REAL problems of basic sanity and would probably do nut ball things without violent video games or porn.
Yeah how insightful why just this week I played a round of Unreal Tournament 2004 and then went out with an assault riffle and shot a bunch of people. Oh wait that's not true at all, I went to a PEACE march afterwards because I can tell fantasy from reality, deal.
Just because some people can't tell fantasy from reality doesn't mean my first amendment rights should be denied, what part of "shall not abridge" don't you understand?
Yeah Microsoft sure has straightened out, that end to end DRM is going to be super cool, I can't wait to upgrade all my hardware for no technical reason what so ever. Oh wait yes I can because I run only OS X and Ubuntu.
Do you really feel Bush is answerable to people? All the polls I have read indicate that a majority of Americans think the war in Iraq was a big mistake and want us to start withdrawing yesterday. Yet far from Bush addressing this outcry he forges on with the war with the funding and support of the so called opposition party the Democrats. Far from being responsive to people the majority against the war at this point in history literally have NO representation in D.C. The policy elite is so large and alienated from their constituency that they simply don't care what the people think. This is entirely a problem of scale, such an alienation from the desires of their constituency would be impossible is a New England style town meeting run city council where direct contact with constituents is inevitable. You can say but Bush can be voted out, and what replaced with Hilary Clinton who wants more troops in Iraq also supports corporate globilization and may try to censor video games and music, wow what a great improvement, not.
And to those Libertarians who assume that we vote with our dollars that is just laughable when often the choice offered in the so called marketplace is "none of the above," if I want to buy a 20 horse power diesel car that gets 150 mpg (which is possible) I'm not offered that choice because the big auto companies realize they can make more money marketing the crap out of giant V8 trucks to sell to people as commuter vehicles.
And yes maintaining our infrastructure will require large organizations, but we should always use the smallest organization possible to get the job done and realize that dealing with large bureaucratic faceless organizations public OR private is always a deal with the devil.
I often get frustrated with the left right argument between whether government or private industry is better, when I think the correct answer is BOTH large government and large private industry are dangerous to our basic rights.
I would say that using the smallest possible organization to get the job done and knowing when to stop are the two greatest signs of human wisdom. Remember the crash of the late 90s when internet start ups grew too fast? I would say we are headed for another such crash around google, ipods, the housing bubble and U.S. empire. The Greeks called it hubris which is great pride before a large fall. So to get back on thread yes I trust google less now than a year ago and I think the parent post is exactly right about the cause, things like EXPANDING into China led to ethical lapses.
Something tells me you have a nice house in the burbs or a nice apartment in the city, yet you are telling the roughly one million who are homeless, the one in sixteen who live in trailer homes, and the 46 million who can't afford health care they are well off, what nerve!!!!! Have you ever had to worry about where your next meal is coming from or dying from an infection? I thought not...
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As one who has experienced homelessness and eating out of dumpster you are officially invited to bite me.
http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/homel
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1993/01/k
Clearly the cheap way to do it would be public wireless at least in large metropolitan areas. As some one with anarchist tendencies I'm genuinely ambivalent as to whether the government is the best social institution to do this, not just in terms of bureaucracy, but censorship. If the govt. controls your broadband connection how long before little Johnny shouldn't be able to see breasts, violent video games, and ideas from "terrorist" supporting countries like "old Europe." All internet connections being filtered like some libraries are now would just frankly suck.
On the other hand if money is to be spent by the goverment at all I'd rather see it spent on public infrastructure like trains, health care, and wi-fi than war.
Also I have question is there a technical reason why wi-fi couldn't be done with longer wavelength lower frequency transmitters? The idea of blanketing the country with microwaves does make me a little leary as at least some studies seem to indicate that prolonged exposure to microwaves COULD cause cancer. I'm not on the luddite ban cell phones and wi-fi bandwagon by any means but lets just say it makes me a little nervous despite enjoying my ibook with wi-fi.