Looks like we're going to need some mega firepower to deal with this threat. Let's blow the bastage up to kingdom come before it gets here. We have here a cyber recreation of Dr. Teller, whose devoted his now vast computational facilities to devising a star destroying laser beam.
And, as we role along, Microsoft has actually booted, I think, ISVs from its own Windows store, so now, there's just Microsoft selling a Microsoft stuff, and, a bunch of shareware sites with varying degrees of reputation. I think, in the long run, not having a good store is really damaging the market for Windows software. While Google and Apple get it, Microsoft seems not to.
This thing looks more like a Jet Refrigerator or a Jet Stove that you attach to it. The whole beauty of the Jet pack was that it was something you carried with you, perhaps even under your sport coat, then, suddenly, you throw your coat off, ignite your rocket, and you are saved, and probably with a hot chick in your arms.
I have had queezy feelings about the W3C for some time now and this just makes them even sicker. At this point, I would rather almost have the FSF friendly browser makers create a standards body that is, well, for those people that are interested in open systems and not playing leverage games with it.
I reminded of what became of OpenGL, when a cool little company tried to make a nice standard for everybody and instead the whole thing got hammered by a bunch of egos until it was more or less abandoned in mainstream Windows based 3D rendering.
Finally, I wish people could see that patents and lengthy copyrights are less free market than what we have now. You can say a system is free market when it is really a hodge podge of government subsidies and monopoly grants. I would propose that FSF people start calling themselves Free Market Services, and simultaneously label closed shops as Government Regulated Services, which is really what they are.
what else would you expect from a public servant. he won't admit the private sector has them beat because it'd be the end of his job.
I don't think gov't vs private sector has the same meaning here. Would anyone flat out admit that another institution of any kind has them beat, and thus lose his or her job?
Obama has never come close to Step 2. With anyone.
Dude, both political parties have gone off into total amateur hour. Republicans are ridiculous, not only for their own sudden fiscal austerity, but because they are still riding the free trade pony and even they can't ignore just how much Asia is gaming currency markets. Democrats are just well, like a kid that got handed 5 bucks in a five and dime, running around like retards not knowing what to do with themselves.
Happy Universal Service Fund / Terrorism Insurance Program / Payments to Copyright Owners Day! That's what your life was devoted to today, working for the Federal Government. And, tomorrow will be Happy Other HUD Mortgage Credit, and Payments to the Post Office (on and off budget) day!
Enjoy!
But we'll have to wait until half the country grows up or at least until they're not so scared of there being a black man in the White House.
See, maybe the other half should realize that you actually have to work to produce those billions of dollars. So, now, here's a question: How many hours do you think you should be required to devote of your life, each year, to the Federal Government. Go have a look. I set the site up. I've got the whole federal budget, every program, even the military broken out, entitlements, social security payouts by demographic (for old age), and by disease, for disability.
Balance the budget, chop away, and if you feel like working more for the government, come right around here and throw that out there!
As an added bonus, I've got the whole budget distributed across a calendar, so we can all share, every day, in the special knowledge that every working stiff in the United States devoted his or her entire productive capacity for today, to Happy Universal Service Fund / Terrorism Insurance Program / Payments to Copyright Owners Day!
Oh, by the way, just to -balance- the budget, you have to work an additional 127 hours above and beyond what you are working now.
The issue is, with federal spending, not so much the amount of money involved itself, because really, it could be worth anything because currencies these days are a joke. What is important is how much of your life do you want to live for yourself, or your government, and hence, hours worked. I went through the federal budget, line by line, and honestly, for the most part, there's really not a single line on it that is bad. But there we are, at the end, we need to work 127 hours more to pay for it. And you have to ask, is that fair? How many hours should a man have to give to the government, per year. That's what I'm asking, I'm asking you to choose, to prioritize, and, that's something the Democrats have never done either, just as much as you demonize Republicans.
Whether it be phone lines, electricity, and water all the way to the boonies, or research into "useless contraptionsJ" like vacuum tube computers that can do a massive 8 calculations per second, or transistors that are too large to have any useful applications, government involvement is indepensable to the growth of a modern, developed nation's economy.
Phone lines, electricity and water, all were done by the private sector.
My talking points? What the devil are you talking about? Where the frick do I use "talking points"??? Do you always use criticisms blindly absorbed from cable news shows completely out of context?
Dude, you start rattling on about all of your talking points from the left wing shows. It's absurd.
ou have no idea the kind of margins ISPs make on their internet services. Wireless especially is their cashcow, and it's just ridiculous how stupidly profitable these useless infrastructure companies are. They do absolutely nothing to innovate.
IF they are that profitable, then, uh, buy stock in one?
The stimulus is a dead issue. GOP won the round. Considering Bush essentially ran.5 stimuluses a year in deficits for 6 years and then capped it off with a stimuluses worth of bailouts for banks, its rather remarkable that the GOP could do so, but they did.
Trying to keep refighting the stimulus battle is just bad politics...
Obama ought to be a good enough fighter to know that and move on. His best hope for 2010 is to get the troops out of Iraq and declare an epic victory, then use the mantle of victory to take his case before the people.
I've been paying a great deal of attention to FCC policy and various clashes between telecom and local and federal governments. It doesn't take a friggin' genius to follow the news if one's interested
Well, I'll concede that you have proven that it takes more than a moron to understand it. Nicely done!
I've been paying a great deal of attention to FCC policy and various clashes between telecom and local and federal governments. It doesn't take a friggin' genius to follow the news if one's interested
You said it yourself! "Oh the millions of masses wait with baited breath..Google save us!"
Christ almighty, can you even be honest, or are you just that stupid that you can't see the disconnect in all your talking points. Reading doesn't make you smart, thinking does. Practice it.
I'm hip deep in MARX? I never even mentioned the guy. Is that your natural defense mechanism? Label anyone who disagrees with you a Marxist and assume you know better than them?
You characterize everything like a class struggle between rich and poor. You've adopted the ideology of the Democrats in blaming everything on the evil rich corporation... Uh.....like you wrote below.
There was a huge disconnect between the super-elite super-rich who had the money...
Like, well, Marx always says.
Dude, come on, just admit that you are a marxist. Most times, when it comes out of your ass, its a piece of shit, and that's the way it is with the class struggle and marx.
Again, I ask the question, do you want to work 127 hours more this year or not, to balance the budget. How many more hours of your life, each year, are you willing to donate to the Feds? Just answer that question.
Your whole ridiculous diatribe did not answer the question.
Answer it.
I bet its going to be some b.s. about how you shouldn't have to work more hours to balance the budget because you are a victim of something... which basically translates into tyranny.
Right now, the number of additional hours you have to work, just to balance it, is 127. So uh, how many?
I could care less and am generally opposed to world trade. Currency conversion is a total fraud, particularly when converting asian currencies, because somebody is always gaming the system. This sort of free trade is just like socialism, nice idea on paper, but completely cannot work.
The objective was [something like] increasing family landholdings. Another way of looking at it is to understand that the Proprietary view of owner's equity didn't exist.
That's totally not true at all, because the Pennsylvania Railroad was obviously proud of the fact that it paid dividends for 100 years and celebrated it.
You are just wrong. You really need to educate yourself on industrial history. The basic deal of the USA was that you had ample natural resources, a people that knew how machines worked due to an agricultural background, and a sudden... ah, forget it... you are too hip deep in marx to see reality.
The telecoms horde their money and use it to buy large content companiesor merge with each other. Take the rebirth of AT&T and Ma Bell, or Comcast trying to buy NBC. The dividend shareholders get is a miniscule portion of the overall profit.
Ok. Let's pretend you are the investment manager for a 100B teachers union fund in California. You have the head of Comcast on the other end of the phone. Which would you prefer to hear?
a) "I spent 20 billion dollars laying fiber for a bunch of poor people in Arkansas that I will recover your investment in Comcast on, in say, 20 years."
b) "I spent 20 billion dollars locking in an exclusive content pipeline for all of the subscribers of Comcast."
It's a no brainer. Buying an existing profitable media business sounds more lucrative than taking a risk that people in Arkansas will pay their bills.
So what you're saying is because your... items are bigger than theirs you're better. Ah why didn't I think of it like that before.
You were saying that faster is better now, didn't you?
Considering I'm currently living in Japan....I have been paying attention to the US telecom industry for the last 2 years now...new entrants have zero chance to succeed.... massive nationwide excitement over Google's 1 gbit broadband initiative
Ok, so you are living in Japan and have become an expert on Japanese housing, by anecdote, but still are an expert on what is happening in the USA also by anecdote, and your thesis is that there can't be any competition but Google will somehow compete and save the day.
"This is partly due to the high fertility rate among communities such as Hispanics, but it is also because the fertility rate among non-Hispanic whites in the US, after falling to about 1.6 in the 1970s and early 1980s, had increased and is now around 1.9, or slightly below replacement level, rather than collapsing to the 1.3-1.5 level common in Europe"
When you see somebody like a Germany plunging from 80+ million now to barely 50 million by 2100, every claim of European cultural superiority must be taken with a grain of salt. How much of a socially superior state can you really have, when birth rates are so low that the population is going to go puff into a demographic bomb over the next century as birth rates on that side of the pond continue to plummet. It baffles the mind that Europeans, for everything they do in terms of social services, have not figured out how to make babies. If Europeans have created the perfect state, why is it that no one ever there has kids? And, what kind of Europe is there going to be when 25% of it is radically Islamic? Viewed in that context, Europe right now is just tech host for someday having 100TB / sec calls to prayer some decades from now.
Capitalism only says that people are allowed to invest their own money in what they want, plain and simple. If you want to get rid of gov't intervention, sure, you can, and what would we have, well, we would have what we had in the 1800s, when, GDP soared dramatically, and a lot of people got really stinking rich, the standards of living improved dramatically and the USA leaped from behind Brazil to challenge the British for ocean hegemony, and unlike Germany were smart enough to back them down simply by guaranteeing their access to raw materials and markets.
America decides to allocate its resources to a few rich people to do with as they wish.
No, America lets people decide how to allocate the fruits of their own labors. It's not like, oh, I work or invest and make something, and suddenly some commissioner gets his hands on it.
The fact is, Americans don't care as much about broadband as they do about other stuff. That other stuff includes housing and automobile ownerships. Americans would rather spend their money on bigger and faster cars than Europeans, and tend to have much larger houses than Europeans and Japanese both. Indeed, I wouldn't live in Japan for a second - sure, you have a nice download speed, but the people are practically living in fricking shoeboxes and shacks. F--- that. I have 1500 square feet that I can rent on just about one week's pay, a screened in porch, a big oak tree in my yard, and on weekends, when it is nice out, I go outside and plant stuff - no bandwidth is required for that.
Quite frankly, the reason more Americans do not have bandwidth is that, they do not want it.
to the short sighted "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings report" attitude of many of our telecoms today.
I love how everyone likes to say, "ah, to heck with the earnings reports", and then are shocked to find that state budgets are strapped because their pension funds took a beating. I mean, you do know that by the far most ruthless shareholders are in fact the teachers and other state employees unions. Calpers comes to mind but other states are as supposedly greedy as they want to be. The reason is simple - hanging off of each of those dollars reported as shareholder's equity is potentially a dividend and that's money in the pockets of retirees.
The People paid the telecoms 200 billion [newnetworks.com] for nationwide 15Mbps broadband, only to have them stuff it in their pockets and give us the finger. For those that wish to look up the relevant bill for themselves, it was the 1996 telecommunications a
I skimmed the bill, and I do not see any provisions for the government giving carriers 200 billion dollars.
Hell there are good chunks of the country where you can't get diddly squat here in the USA! Where I live (Northern AR) the cableco and DSL haven't run so much as a single foot since the mid 90s.
Northern Arkansas? Like, the state still flies a flag derivative of the old Confederate flag, the economy has been in a shambles since, well, its never been good, and to top it off, you have a state the size of a European country but with only 2 million poor people, on a geography that looks like its all mountains and granite. Like, yeah, someone is going to go run fiber there and be profitable across an entire state, when they can do the same in a -city- and get way more out of it.
I was once a very good touch typist but over the years I found that I had gotten sloppy. The only way to really get myself back into typing trim was to discipline myself to use the right finger for the right key and I found I had to start with the enter key, of all things. I had to reteach myself not to move my entire hand over to it so that I could use my index finger to hit it. Instead I can shift it ever so slightly and hit it with my pinky. You don't need to wail on todays keyboards at all.
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Looks like we're going to need some mega firepower to deal with this threat. Let's blow the bastage up to kingdom come before it gets here. We have here a cyber recreation of Dr. Teller, whose devoted his now vast computational facilities to devising a star destroying laser beam.
Now my laser sharks can be networked as well, for total precision!
And, as we role along, Microsoft has actually booted, I think, ISVs from its own Windows store, so now, there's just Microsoft selling a Microsoft stuff, and, a bunch of shareware sites with varying degrees of reputation. I think, in the long run, not having a good store is really damaging the market for Windows software. While Google and Apple get it, Microsoft seems not to.
And Dijkstra does have quite a few genuinely useful and lasting achievements speaking for him (semaphores and such),
Didn't Dijkstra also pretty much lay down subroutines and coroutines.
This thing looks more like a Jet Refrigerator or a Jet Stove that you attach to it. The whole beauty of the Jet pack was that it was something you carried with you, perhaps even under your sport coat, then, suddenly, you throw your coat off, ignite your rocket, and you are saved, and probably with a hot chick in your arms.
I have had queezy feelings about the W3C for some time now and this just makes them even sicker. At this point, I would rather almost have the FSF friendly browser makers create a standards body that is, well, for those people that are interested in open systems and not playing leverage games with it.
I reminded of what became of OpenGL, when a cool little company tried to make a nice standard for everybody and instead the whole thing got hammered by a bunch of egos until it was more or less abandoned in mainstream Windows based 3D rendering.
Finally, I wish people could see that patents and lengthy copyrights are less free market than what we have now. You can say a system is free market when it is really a hodge podge of government subsidies and monopoly grants. I would propose that FSF people start calling themselves Free Market Services, and simultaneously label closed shops as Government Regulated Services, which is really what they are.
what else would you expect from a public servant. he won't admit the private sector has them beat because it'd be the end of his job.
I don't think gov't vs private sector has the same meaning here. Would anyone flat out admit that another institution of any kind has them beat, and thus lose his or her job?
Obama has never come close to Step 2. With anyone.
Dude, both political parties have gone off into total amateur hour. Republicans are ridiculous, not only for their own sudden fiscal austerity, but because they are still riding the free trade pony and even they can't ignore just how much Asia is gaming currency markets. Democrats are just well, like a kid that got handed 5 bucks in a five and dime, running around like retards not knowing what to do with themselves.
Happy Universal Service Fund / Terrorism Insurance Program / Payments to Copyright Owners Day! That's what your life was devoted to today, working for the Federal Government. And, tomorrow will be Happy Other HUD Mortgage Credit, and Payments to the Post Office (on and off budget) day!
Enjoy!
But we'll have to wait until half the country grows up or at least until they're not so scared of there being a black man in the White House.
See, maybe the other half should realize that you actually have to work to produce those billions of dollars. So, now, here's a question: How many hours do you think you should be required to devote of your life, each year, to the Federal Government. Go have a look. I set the site up. I've got the whole federal budget, every program, even the military broken out, entitlements, social security payouts by demographic (for old age), and by disease, for disability.
http://www.mightyware.com/federalbudget.bhs
Balance the budget, chop away, and if you feel like working more for the government, come right around here and throw that out there!
As an added bonus, I've got the whole budget distributed across a calendar, so we can all share, every day, in the special knowledge that every working stiff in the United States devoted his or her entire productive capacity for today, to Happy Universal Service Fund / Terrorism Insurance Program / Payments to Copyright Owners Day!
Oh, by the way, just to -balance- the budget, you have to work an additional 127 hours above and beyond what you are working now.
I can just see the buzz on the street now... "they want me to pay every time I poop..."
I predict 0 adoption.
The issue is, with federal spending, not so much the amount of money involved itself, because really, it could be worth anything because currencies these days are a joke. What is important is how much of your life do you want to live for yourself, or your government, and hence, hours worked. I went through the federal budget, line by line, and honestly, for the most part, there's really not a single line on it that is bad. But there we are, at the end, we need to work 127 hours more to pay for it. And you have to ask, is that fair? How many hours should a man have to give to the government, per year. That's what I'm asking, I'm asking you to choose, to prioritize, and, that's something the Democrats have never done either, just as much as you demonize Republicans.
Whether it be phone lines, electricity, and water all the way to the boonies, or research into "useless contraptionsJ" like vacuum tube computers that can do a massive 8 calculations per second, or transistors that are too large to have any useful applications, government involvement is indepensable to the growth of a modern, developed nation's economy.
Phone lines, electricity and water, all were done by the private sector.
My talking points? What the devil are you talking about? Where the frick do I use "talking points"??? Do you always use criticisms blindly absorbed from cable news shows completely out of context?
Dude, you start rattling on about all of your talking points from the left wing shows. It's absurd.
ou have no idea the kind of margins ISPs make on their internet services. Wireless especially is their cashcow, and it's just ridiculous how stupidly profitable these useless infrastructure companies are. They do absolutely nothing to innovate.
IF they are that profitable, then, uh, buy stock in one?
The stimulus is a dead issue. GOP won the round. Considering Bush essentially ran .5 stimuluses a year in deficits for 6 years and then capped it off with a stimuluses worth of bailouts for banks, its rather remarkable that the GOP could do so, but they did.
Trying to keep refighting the stimulus battle is just bad politics...
Obama ought to be a good enough fighter to know that and move on. His best hope for 2010 is to get the troops out of Iraq and declare an epic victory, then use the mantle of victory to take his case before the people.
Because it takes an expert to look the frick around and determine they don't live in shoeboxes, is that right?
Shoeboxes, coming at you:
http://web-japan.org/Kidsweb/explore/housing/q4.html
I've been paying a great deal of attention to FCC policy and various clashes between telecom and local and federal governments. It doesn't take a friggin' genius to follow the news if one's interested
Well, I'll concede that you have proven that it takes more than a moron to understand it. Nicely done!
I've been paying a great deal of attention to FCC policy and various clashes between telecom and local and federal governments. It doesn't take a friggin' genius to follow the news if one's interested
You said it yourself! "Oh the millions of masses wait with baited breath..Google save us!"
Christ almighty, can you even be honest, or are you just that stupid that you can't see the disconnect in all your talking points. Reading doesn't make you smart, thinking does. Practice it.
I'm hip deep in MARX? I never even mentioned the guy. Is that your natural defense mechanism? Label anyone who disagrees with you a Marxist and assume you know better than them?
You characterize everything like a class struggle between rich and poor. You've adopted the ideology of the Democrats in blaming everything on the evil rich corporation... Uh.....like you wrote below.
There was a huge disconnect between the super-elite super-rich who had the money ...
Like, well, Marx always says.
Dude, come on, just admit that you are a marxist. Most times, when it comes out of your ass, its a piece of shit, and that's the way it is with the class struggle and marx.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Again, I ask the question, do you want to work 127 hours more this year or not, to balance the budget. How many more hours of your life, each year, are you willing to donate to the Feds? Just answer that question.
Your whole ridiculous diatribe did not answer the question.
Answer it.
I bet its going to be some b.s. about how you shouldn't have to work more hours to balance the budget because you are a victim of something... which basically translates into tyranny.
I guess my question would be, how many additional hours a year would you be willing to work to pay for all of this statist stuff?
There's the US budget.
http://www.mightyware.com/federalbudget.bhs
Right now, the number of additional hours you have to work, just to balance it, is 127. So uh, how many?
I could care less and am generally opposed to
world trade. Currency conversion is a total fraud, particularly when converting asian currencies, because somebody is always gaming the system. This sort of free trade is just like socialism, nice idea on paper, but completely cannot work.
The objective was [something like] increasing family landholdings. Another way of looking at it is to understand that the Proprietary view of owner's equity didn't exist.
That's totally not true at all, because the Pennsylvania Railroad was obviously proud of the fact that it paid dividends for 100 years and celebrated it.
You are just wrong. You really need to educate yourself on industrial history. The basic deal of the USA was that you had ample natural resources, a people that knew how machines worked due to an agricultural background, and a sudden ... ah, forget it... you are too hip deep in marx to see reality.
The telecoms horde their money and use it to buy large content companiesor merge with each other. Take the rebirth of AT&T and Ma Bell, or Comcast trying to buy NBC. The dividend shareholders get is a miniscule portion of the overall profit.
Ok. Let's pretend you are the investment manager for a 100B teachers union fund in California. You have the head of Comcast on the other end of the phone. Which would you prefer to hear?
a) "I spent 20 billion dollars laying fiber for a bunch of poor people in Arkansas that I will recover your investment in Comcast on, in say, 20 years."
b) "I spent 20 billion dollars locking in an exclusive content pipeline for all of the subscribers of Comcast."
It's a no brainer. Buying an existing profitable media business sounds more lucrative than taking a risk that people in Arkansas will pay their bills.
So what you're saying is because your... items are bigger than theirs you're better. Ah why didn't I think of it like that before.
You were saying that faster is better now, didn't you?
Considering I'm currently living in Japan....I have been paying attention to the US telecom industry for the last 2 years now...new entrants have zero chance to succeed.... massive nationwide excitement over Google's 1 gbit broadband initiative
Ok, so you are living in Japan and have become an expert on Japanese housing, by anecdote, but still are an expert on what is happening in the USA also by anecdote, and your thesis is that there can't be any competition but Google will somehow compete and save the day.
I understand completely.
Wow, you really like to make things up, don't you
That Europe has a low birth rate is not made up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
"This is partly due to the high fertility rate among communities such as Hispanics, but it is also because the fertility rate among non-Hispanic whites in the US, after falling to about 1.6 in the 1970s and early 1980s, had increased and is now around 1.9, or slightly below replacement level, rather than collapsing to the 1.3-1.5 level common in Europe"
But hey, those are just the facts.
When you see somebody like a Germany plunging from 80+ million now to barely 50 million by 2100, every claim of European cultural superiority must be taken with a grain of salt. How much of a socially superior state can you really have, when birth rates are so low that the population is going to go puff into a demographic bomb over the next century as birth rates on that side of the pond continue to plummet. It baffles the mind that Europeans, for everything they do in terms of social services, have not figured out how to make babies. If Europeans have created the perfect state, why is it that no one ever there has kids? And, what kind of Europe is there going to be when 25% of it is radically Islamic? Viewed in that context, Europe right now is just tech host for someday having 100TB / sec calls to prayer some decades from now.
there's no such thing as a free market,
Capitalism only says that people are allowed to invest their own money in what they want, plain and simple. If you want to get rid of gov't intervention, sure, you can, and what would we have, well, we would have what we had in the 1800s, when, GDP soared dramatically, and a lot of people got really stinking rich, the standards of living improved dramatically and the USA leaped from behind Brazil to challenge the British for ocean hegemony, and unlike Germany were smart enough to back them down simply by guaranteeing their access to raw materials and markets.
America decides to allocate its resources to a few rich people to do with as they wish.
No, America lets people decide how to allocate the fruits of their own labors. It's not like, oh, I work or invest and make something, and suddenly some commissioner gets his hands on it.
The fact is, Americans don't care as much about broadband as they do about other stuff. That other stuff includes housing and automobile ownerships. Americans would rather spend their money on bigger and faster cars than Europeans, and tend to have much larger houses than Europeans and Japanese both. Indeed, I wouldn't live in Japan for a second - sure, you have a nice download speed, but the people are practically living in fricking shoeboxes and shacks. F--- that. I have 1500 square feet that I can rent on just about one week's pay, a screened in porch, a big oak tree in my yard, and on weekends, when it is nice out, I go outside and plant stuff - no bandwidth is required for that.
Quite frankly, the reason more Americans do not have bandwidth is that, they do not want it.
to the short sighted "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings report" attitude of many of our telecoms today.
I love how everyone likes to say, "ah, to heck with the earnings reports", and then are shocked to find that state budgets are strapped because their pension funds took a beating. I mean, you do know that by the far most ruthless shareholders are in fact the teachers and other state employees unions. Calpers comes to mind but other states are as supposedly greedy as they want to be. The reason is simple - hanging off of each of those dollars reported as shareholder's equity is potentially a dividend and that's money in the pockets of retirees.
The People paid the telecoms 200 billion [newnetworks.com] for nationwide 15Mbps broadband, only to have them stuff it in their pockets and give us the finger. For those that wish to look up the relevant bill for themselves, it was the 1996 telecommunications a
I skimmed the bill, and I do not see any provisions for the government giving carriers 200 billion dollars.
Hell there are good chunks of the country where you can't get diddly squat here in the USA! Where I live (Northern AR) the cableco and DSL haven't run so much as a single foot since the mid 90s.
Northern Arkansas? Like, the state still flies a flag derivative of the old Confederate flag, the economy has been in a shambles since, well, its never been good, and to top it off, you have a state the size of a European country but with only 2 million poor people, on a geography that looks like its all mountains and granite. Like, yeah, someone is going to go run fiber there and be profitable across an entire state, when they can do the same in a -city- and get way more out of it.
Enjoy the scenery, I guess.
I was once a very good touch typist but over the years I found that I had gotten sloppy. The only way to really get myself back into typing trim was to discipline myself to use the right finger for the right key and I found I had to start with the enter key, of all things. I had to reteach myself not to move my entire hand over to it so that I could use my index finger to hit it. Instead I can shift it ever so slightly and hit it with my pinky. You don't need to wail on todays keyboards at all.