Well OK, if it a better plan then why try to hide the fact that what he really was after was water rights not wind power? What a bunch of bullshit. If it is better, then be honest about it. He isn't being honest, and you aren't either.
No he is an evil man for pretending that he is interested in Wind Power and using that to try to get land to use for water pipelines. Your reading comprehension stinks.
Then he needs to just be honest and not try to pretend he is doing Wind Power because he thinks its a good idea. He wants free land use rights to use them for water pipelines, not electricity. Screw him, if he wants the land to build his water pipelines then he needs to spends his own billions to get it. This man sucks but what do we expect from an oil baron.
And thats what those ISPs do, except they don't specify any fine print. There isn't anyone, anywhere on the planet that is really getting 1Gbps or 100Mbps to the home. The ISPs will be happy to keep adding zeros to the marketing material though if it makes you happy.
Its not magic at all. They put repeaters in the subways. Very few cities have as many buildings with the height AND density of Manhattan. And those cities that do have the same problem. Sweden/Finland/Norway don't have cities like Manhattan/Tokyo.
Its easy to deliver wireless to a mountaintop in Sweden. Its hard to deliver it in the canyons of Manhattan. Its not magic, its not due to lack of effort, its just a hard problem to solve technically.
This is exactly right. Think about it: if everyone in your 1000-unit apartment block was getting 1Gbps what would be the upstream bandwidth required to service that 1000-unit building? Basic math here tells you that no reasonable configuration could support that. No one is is deploying thousands of top-line switches and aggregators on the edge. Most countries have the same rates. The difference is in the US they know they would get class-action suits filed if they claimed 1Gbps FiOS connections.
You don't have 100Mbps either. Be honest. They just tell you it 100Mbps, but all that means is that they maybe have deployed a 100Mbps port somewhere in your neighborhood. When it gets to your residence it is a shared resource. In Japan it may be PON technology but it is backed by a 100Mbps shared port upstream.
And there is no way you are getting 100Mbps from any site even if you really had a full 100Mbps connection. Even in a lab a 100Mbps connection won't get you 100Mbps speeds.
They don't. They just claim to. Do you really think you are getting 1Gbps to the home? How would you aggregate 1000x1Gbps connections? Simple math will tell you it is not possible to deliver HONEST 1Gbps to the home at this point. It sounds like a lot of Slashdot people swallowed the marketing pill.
Also Seoul has many providers that claim 1Gb/s to the home as well. It is all lies. You aren't getting 1Gb/s. There is no accountability there, they can claim whatever they want. I lived there for years and the internet speeds in the US and in Korea are on par.
I would just like to mention that 1Gb to the home is a lie. They may ADVERTISE 1Gb/s to the home but the connection isn't 1Gb/s. It is called "Marketing". It is common to claim high speeds but not deliver.
Because everyone "throws their lot in" with either D or R we are in the situation we are in now.
You have to remember neither party represents your views (unless you are a war-mongering corporatist which I doubt you are). Both parties are the same side of the same coin now. Voting either way doesn't matter as the same policies will continue.
That is because you only see (D) or (R).
Of course there are insane people in the tea party. There are insane people in the (D) and (R) parties too. Hence the multi-trillion dollar debt and endless wars that the people don't want.
The tea party is the best chance at a third party we have right now.
So who do you support then? Republicans? Democrats? They both support the wars, look at the voting record.
Even if you don't agree with teabaggers you should support their activities. We need a multi-party system now.
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Well OK, if it a better plan then why try to hide the fact that what he really was after was water rights not wind power? What a bunch of bullshit. If it is better, then be honest about it. He isn't being honest, and you aren't either.
No he is an evil man for pretending that he is interested in Wind Power and using that to try to get land to use for water pipelines. Your reading comprehension stinks.
Then he needs to just be honest and not try to pretend he is doing Wind Power because he thinks its a good idea. He wants free land use rights to use them for water pipelines, not electricity. Screw him, if he wants the land to build his water pipelines then he needs to spends his own billions to get it. This man sucks but what do we expect from an oil baron.
Pickens is a scumbag. He doesn't care about Wind Power, he wants water. He used the guise of wind-power to try to grab land to transport water. Don't believe me? Read this: http://earthfirst.com/%E2%80%9Cblue-gold%E2%80%9D-t-boone-pickens-and-the-privatization-of-water/
And thats what those ISPs do, except they don't specify any fine print. There isn't anyone, anywhere on the planet that is really getting 1Gbps or 100Mbps to the home. The ISPs will be happy to keep adding zeros to the marketing material though if it makes you happy.
Its not magic at all. They put repeaters in the subways. Very few cities have as many buildings with the height AND density of Manhattan. And those cities that do have the same problem. Sweden/Finland/Norway don't have cities like Manhattan/Tokyo. Its easy to deliver wireless to a mountaintop in Sweden. Its hard to deliver it in the canyons of Manhattan. Its not magic, its not due to lack of effort, its just a hard problem to solve technically.
Thats because you don't apparently know how wireless signals work. Hint: big buildings block things.
This is exactly right. Think about it: if everyone in your 1000-unit apartment block was getting 1Gbps what would be the upstream bandwidth required to service that 1000-unit building? Basic math here tells you that no reasonable configuration could support that. No one is is deploying thousands of top-line switches and aggregators on the edge. Most countries have the same rates. The difference is in the US they know they would get class-action suits filed if they claimed 1Gbps FiOS connections.
You don't have 100Mbps either. Be honest. They just tell you it 100Mbps, but all that means is that they maybe have deployed a 100Mbps port somewhere in your neighborhood. When it gets to your residence it is a shared resource. In Japan it may be PON technology but it is backed by a 100Mbps shared port upstream. And there is no way you are getting 100Mbps from any site even if you really had a full 100Mbps connection. Even in a lab a 100Mbps connection won't get you 100Mbps speeds.
They don't. They just claim to. Do you really think you are getting 1Gbps to the home? How would you aggregate 1000x1Gbps connections? Simple math will tell you it is not possible to deliver HONEST 1Gbps to the home at this point. It sounds like a lot of Slashdot people swallowed the marketing pill.
Also Seoul has many providers that claim 1Gb/s to the home as well. It is all lies. You aren't getting 1Gb/s. There is no accountability there, they can claim whatever they want. I lived there for years and the internet speeds in the US and in Korea are on par.
I would just like to mention that 1Gb to the home is a lie. They may ADVERTISE 1Gb/s to the home but the connection isn't 1Gb/s. It is called "Marketing". It is common to claim high speeds but not deliver.
Because everyone "throws their lot in" with either D or R we are in the situation we are in now. You have to remember neither party represents your views (unless you are a war-mongering corporatist which I doubt you are). Both parties are the same side of the same coin now. Voting either way doesn't matter as the same policies will continue.
That is because you only see (D) or (R). Of course there are insane people in the tea party. There are insane people in the (D) and (R) parties too. Hence the multi-trillion dollar debt and endless wars that the people don't want. The tea party is the best chance at a third party we have right now.
So who do you support then? Republicans? Democrats? They both support the wars, look at the voting record. Even if you don't agree with teabaggers you should support their activities. We need a multi-party system now.