If I were more motivated, I might still be trying to fly solo, but I really didn't like all the extra work.
If a person doesn't like or have the knowledge they could partner with others who do like and know how to run a business, do the accounting, and find clients. I'm not sure but I think that that is why many people fail on their own. They try to wear a bunch of hats, some they have no business doing. I'd like to start my own business but I'll want to find others who can help me.
We're no where near the Great Depression, not as far as unemployment is concerned. Economists expect unemployment will crest at 8%. However from 1932 to 1935, 4 years, unemployment was above 20%.
US manufacturing activity is now down to its lowest level since 1948.
Yea because manufacturing has been outsourced.
It's going to be a long recession.
Yea, recession not depression. Caused by as you say, the housing bubble. In the hopes house prices would continue to boom, too many people paid too much for homes. Then many got interest only or adjustable interest rate, ARM, mortgages. They hoped they could turn around in a few years and sell the house for more than they paid for it. Low down payments also hurt.
IN a volcanic eruption of the one we are talking about you will have no sunlight for several months
Ah, modern technology. Crops can be grown in greenhouses with grow lights powered by geothermal, hydro, or wind power.
and most sources of water would be contaminated.
These greenhouses can also help provide filtered water. And while new technology may provide some answers so can old tech. Pottery can and is used to purify water. Local potters could have a good business making pottery. Here's an abstract of a study on the effectiveness of ceramic filters from the University of Southampton. I didn't find the article I had a few years ago but here's Google's results for pottery water filters africa, a number of people in Africa started businesses making pottery to filter water. References like these can be found throughout the world.
Only people in the other side of the world would have any realistic chance to make it on their own
Who says people have to make it on their own? People form communities because it helps them and because they are social animals.
If farming is so easy why are so many people starving? If they could farm they could grow their own food. Fact is is not everyone can garden never mind farm. After looking at my garden this past summer a number of people asked me to help them start their own gardens next year, and I now have brown if not black thumbs when it comes to growing plants. Among other things I lost my green thumb for gardening after an accident.
Most people, in the modern world, don't know what's edible in the wild either. Growing up in the "woods" I learned what was and wasn't edible around where I lived. For instance I used to eat pine cone nuts, seeds from pine trees growing in my backyard. When I shop in Asian food stores, I love cooking also, pine cone nuts are sold there as delicacies. Or palmettoes, the stalks can help a person stay hydrated. As can cacti.
If you have guns and ammo, you can get food and water. The opposite is not true.
The opposite IS true, I can grow my own food without guns or ammo.
On the other hand, you cannot defend same without guns and ammo.
Sure I can. I know how to make traps and trapped animals as a teen. And unless the person has antibiotics they won't live long once they step in an Apache foot trap dipped in human feces. In the army my MOS, Military Occupation Speciality, was 11B, infantry, and I loved setting up booby traps. Though it's been years I used to practice archery and would like to learn to make bows and arrows. I would also like to learn metallurgy and make blade weapons. Prior to moving years ago I was a member of the local kingdom of the Society of Creative Anachronism where I lived.
Even if I couldn't do these things though I could make arrangements with people who could provide defense in exchange for food. Besides if all a person knows is how to shoot once their firearm is inoperable or they're out of ammo, they're out of food too. There are no tools I can't make myself that I need to grow food or trap animals. On top of that, I could fast, go without eating food. I used to be in the natural and health food scene and for health reasons I'd fast occasionally, anywhere from days to weeks. How much strength would many people have after not eating for two or three weeks? Even those weeks I did fast I still rode my bike 200+ miles a week. I admit all this is unusual but for as long as I can recall I've tried to be self-sufficient. Actually now, I'd rather be dead than continue living as I have the past years.
Maybe that has something to do with that region of Pakistan harboring the people who murdered almost 3,000 Americans?
Using that line of reasoning, is it reasoning?, the US should then be attacking Saudi Arabia. Most of the 911 hijackers were Saudis.
Kyoto is a flawed treaty. It will cripple the economy of the developed World while giving a license to pollute to the developing World (China/India). Why the hell should we cripple our economy if they aren't going to be on board with solving the problem?
Though I didn't want to see a President Gross, er Gore, I voted against Bush by selecting Gore on the ballot because of Kyoto. Having said that, after President Bush came out against Kyoto something he said provoked me to do some research. I didn't know it before but Kyoto did not have limits on GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions on either China or India. And both countries are building a lot of coal fired power plants. So from one perspective Bush was right, however he still could have encouraged or pushed businesses to cut emissions and develop renewable energy sources. What does he do? He instead tries to relax emission regulations, so power plants can emit more pollution.
You remove more and more of the basic rights of your own citizens.
Actually all that volcanic ash could make the US even more productive agriculturally. Volcanic ash can significantly improve soil fertility and quality.
Food enough to feed a few hundred thousand people - though, that's still about 0.016% chance, or so.
So yeah, to survive you need to kill a hundred people.
However most of those people are in cities not where the food is. And if those people want to survive then they're going to need people who can grow food.
I'll travel to meet up with some hunter friends of mine who have guns and wilderness survival skills... we'll shoot you and your newly found progressive buddies, eat your vegetables, and have a long pig BBQ
Six weeks, six months?
Guns need powder and ammunition. Lubricating oils. Spare parts.
Although nice firearms aren't needed for game. Besides using firearms I've also hunt with bow and arrows and have trapped wildlife. Though I don't like fish I have woven nets that can be used to fish.
Game becomes hard to find. Edible plants, fruits, nut and berries become hard to find.
Now that depends on the location and population. Even though I live in a major metro area in the north, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St Paul, on the postage stamp sized lot where I live I can grow 10% of my own food food easily in my garden. Though I started my carrots and radishes late this year, I had enough lettuce and cherry or grape tomatoes for salad every day for a month. I had enough tomatillos for one soup, or salsa, a week for months. There was enough rhubarb for a few sticks a week as well. This spring I'll add blue berries and strawberries. And maybe potatoes and corn. This past growing season I got a bunch of remarks about how well my garden grew and was asked a number of tymes how I was able to grow my plants as big as they did grow. A few said they wanted me to help them on their garden next year. And my growing season is short.
And that's just where I live now. When I lived in Florida I was able to grow enough food for most of the year in my mother's backyard. Preserving food, canning, drying or dehydrating, smoking, and using other methods of preserving food allows the food supply to last longer. I mention each of these because I have done all of them, and have lived in survival situations.
Rather than request a specific company lay fiber, they should remove all restrictions hindering companies from laying fiber, and persuade other cities in the region to do the same.
I'd prefer more competition myself but it's highly unlikely the easement or right of way would be capable of having 10 runs each of cable, fiber, phone, and powerlines. Fiber could replace cable and phone but there'd still be 10 runs. This is one reason I was hoping the FCC would open up the airwaves, the frequencies now used by analogue tv stations would be good for wireless broadband. But the incumbents are fighting to keep these frequencies closed, they don't like competition.
they should remove all restrictions hindering companies from laying fiber, and persuade other cities in the region to do the same.
None of the articles said the city was blocking anyone from laying fiber. If you have a reference the city was blocking others from laying fiber please share it.
Swap files which, unless the whole disk is encrypted, won't be. Files used in hibernation (Linux uses swap, not sure about Windows).
I have 2GB in my MacBook Pro, which it came with as standard more than a year ago. If I wanted to I could add another 2GB. For now at least I seriously doubt I come near maxing that. I can see doing it when I start working on multi-media. However if I wanted to I could move my swap. Windows users can also move their swap, as can Linux users.
you can't simply send a message to the operating system to say "This is now in secure mode, any user data or swapfiles must be stored in THIS location and any which are outstanding must be moved and the disk area they occupied securely wiped".
When I installed Linux, years ago, it asked me where I want the swap partition to be. I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure I also told Windows where to put swap.
This is the kind of feature corporates will demand because you can never guarantee that nobody will ever lose a key or forget their password and "your data is now toast you silly fool" is seldom an acceptable outcome to such a scenario.
Yea, I'd imagine a corporation would have a backup key.
It's also the kind of feature which is highly unlikely to be implemented in any F/OSS solution like TrueCrypt because it's a potential security risk
How is TrueCrypt riskier or potentially riskier than a closed source proprietary program? Whereas anyone can examine the source for TrueCrypt and spot possible security holes, nobody can legally see source code that's closed. And that source code can be riddled with holes. Sure some cracker may find a hole in code that's open but with thousands of others having the code the likelihood of someone else seeing is better than if the code is closed, and closing the code only stops some.
Unless the disk is heavily encrypted then any boot password can be trivially worked around
Not too long ago, last month I think, there was an article on/. about how researchers were able to recover passwords after a few minuted with the computer shutdown. A recommendation when boarding a plane was to not use a laptop at the airport.
And what does this have to do with the discussion at hand?
The company was not being stopped from laying fiber. I specifically included the part of your post I replied to: "Call your city and ask if you're allowed to dig around the road on your street and lay fiber optic lines all down your street, down the neighboring street, etc. They will laugh at you and hang up." The city was not stopping them from laying fiber, instead the city asked them to lay fiber.
fiber is not yet profitable, and it won't be until people want it
It was the people who asked the city to lay fiber.
Again I say, ask your city if you can lay fiber, cable, telephone, or other lines in the ground around streets.
And again, I'll say the city asked them to lay fiber.
Yeah, "illegal" is the wrong term. "Against public policy" fits better
Okay.
I've been wondering about your sig on Natalie Portman for a while now. Before I ever heard about her being in "Star Wars" I saw two of her movies, "Leon, the Professional" and "Where the Heart Is" and loved both. Have you seen either one?
I don't know why legalizing prostitution would reduce it
Legalizing prostitution would not reduce it, it probably would increase it. However it would reduce crime and the prison population. The same with drugs. With less prisons taxpayers would be able to keep more of their money, then drug users and prostitutes could be paying taxes as well.
we've had some positive effects since it was legalized here in Germany
I didn't know prostitution was illegal in Germany, other than during the 1930s when the NAZIs were in power. Prostitution was legal when I was there in 1983, there were even magazine like publications that listed prostitutes with photos listing what acts they would accept money for and how to contact them to set up an appointment.
Yes, because it's better to have the government run the service than to have a choice between two, five, ten companies competing to give you the best service possible.
Competition is good, lack of competition is bad. There was no provider of broadband in the city. The city asked the Bridgewater Telephone Company to lay fiber and offer broadband. The company told the city to get lost. Voters then voted and approved a plan for the city to provide the service. All of a sudden the company complained the city was going to do what the city asked the company to do but refused. Now, instead of no providers or only one there will be two providers. So there will be competition.
How's it working out for you having your government take a "hands off" approach to your banks? (assuming you are an American).
It was a hands on not a hands off approach that caused to problem banks are in today. The Community Reinvestment Act forced lenders to reduce discriminatory credit practices such as not giving mortgages to those that could not afford the loans and giving low or no down payment mortgages. "The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities" published in 2000 foresees the problem. [I thank a poster who provided the link earlier.]
My overall point, and I know you disagree, is that the government will absolutely have to intervene before rural areas will get decent broadband
Again I suggest you look at the spread of the light bulb and the electric grid.
The spread of light bulbs and the electric grid is because government subsidized them. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Rural Utilities Service which subsidized rural electrification as I've stated elsewhere. And in many places electricity was generated by wind turbines, also as stated before. Jacobs Wind Generators were among the most popular. Even today people still search for Jacobs as they were reliable and are still usable. "Homepower magazine" has several articles about them including people using them today.
Indeed. If only more politicians would say no to every idiotic proposal thrown at them. The most active, most popular Presidents in history have in fact been the most damaging to individual rights.
And one of the most active presidents was FDR, who electrified rural America. Though he caused a lot of harm, that's was one of the things he got right. For instance the economy was already recovering from the Great Depression when he signed many of those socialist Second New Deal programs.
As for McShame, I wouldn't vote for that idiot or Obama, or the Libertarian Party, or any of the other dolts running for President. They're all for various flavors of rights violations.
"Verizon, for instance, didn't complain last fall when Pennsylvania handed them subsidies for broadband deployment worth nearly 10 times what Wireless Philadelphia will cost. Neither did Comcast object when Philadelphia approved a $30 million grant to build a skyscraper that will house its headquarters. To the incumbent providers, "unfair competition" means any competition at all."
What companies are not permitted to lay down more lines due to government restriction?
Call your city and ask if you're allowed to dig around the road on your street and lay fiber optic lines all down your street, down the neighboring street, etc. They will laugh at you and hang up.
The city first asked the company to lay fiber but it was the company who laughed at the city.
First, the government should not be providing such a service. If the people actually want it, then companies should be springing forth to provide the service.
The government did ask the company to provide the service and the company told them to get lost. After that the people voted to install the fiber, and only then did the company want to do anything.
However, companies are not permitted to lay more lines due to government restriction.
Though asked the company DID NOT want to lay lines. That's certainly within their rights, but they don't have the right to harass people when they decide to do for themselves what the company refused to do.
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If I were more motivated, I might still be trying to fly solo, but I really didn't like all the extra work.
If a person doesn't like or have the knowledge they could partner with others who do like and know how to run a business, do the accounting, and find clients. I'm not sure but I think that that is why many people fail on their own. They try to wear a bunch of hats, some they have no business doing. I'd like to start my own business but I'll want to find others who can help me.
Falcon
Second Great Depression
We're no where near the Great Depression, not as far as unemployment is concerned. Economists expect unemployment will crest at 8%. However from 1932 to 1935, 4 years, unemployment was above 20%.
US manufacturing activity is now down to its lowest level since 1948.
Yea because manufacturing has been outsourced.
It's going to be a long recession.
Yea, recession not depression. Caused by as you say, the housing bubble. In the hopes house prices would continue to boom, too many people paid too much for homes. Then many got interest only or adjustable interest rate, ARM, mortgages. They hoped they could turn around in a few years and sell the house for more than they paid for it. Low down payments also hurt.
Falcon
IN a volcanic eruption of the one we are talking about you will have no sunlight for several months
Ah, modern technology. Crops can be grown in greenhouses with grow lights powered by geothermal, hydro, or wind power.
and most sources of water would be contaminated.
These greenhouses can also help provide filtered water. And while new technology may provide some answers so can old tech. Pottery can and is used to purify water. Local potters could have a good business making pottery. Here's an abstract of a study on the effectiveness of ceramic filters from the University of Southampton. I didn't find the article I had a few years ago but here's Google's results for pottery water filters africa, a number of people in Africa started businesses making pottery to filter water. References like these can be found throughout the world.
Only people in the other side of the world would have any realistic chance to make it on their own
Who says people have to make it on their own? People form communities because it helps them and because they are social animals.
Falcon
If farming is so easy why are so many people starving? If they could farm they could grow their own food. Fact is is not everyone can garden never mind farm. After looking at my garden this past summer a number of people asked me to help them start their own gardens next year, and I now have brown if not black thumbs when it comes to growing plants. Among other things I lost my green thumb for gardening after an accident.
Most people, in the modern world, don't know what's edible in the wild either. Growing up in the "woods" I learned what was and wasn't edible around where I lived. For instance I used to eat pine cone nuts, seeds from pine trees growing in my backyard. When I shop in Asian food stores, I love cooking also, pine cone nuts are sold there as delicacies. Or palmettoes, the stalks can help a person stay hydrated. As can cacti.
Falcon
The opposite IS true, I can grow my own food without guns or ammo.
On the other hand, you cannot defend same without guns and ammo.
Sure I can. I know how to make traps and trapped animals as a teen. And unless the person has antibiotics they won't live long once they step in an Apache foot trap dipped in human feces. In the army my MOS, Military Occupation Speciality, was 11B, infantry, and I loved setting up booby traps. Though it's been years I used to practice archery and would like to learn to make bows and arrows. I would also like to learn metallurgy and make blade weapons. Prior to moving years ago I was a member of the local kingdom of the Society of Creative Anachronism where I lived.
Even if I couldn't do these things though I could make arrangements with people who could provide defense in exchange for food. Besides if all a person knows is how to shoot once their firearm is inoperable or they're out of ammo, they're out of food too. There are no tools I can't make myself that I need to grow food or trap animals. On top of that, I could fast, go without eating food. I used to be in the natural and health food scene and for health reasons I'd fast occasionally, anywhere from days to weeks. How much strength would many people have after not eating for two or three weeks? Even those weeks I did fast I still rode my bike 200+ miles a week. I admit all this is unusual but for as long as I can recall I've tried to be self-sufficient. Actually now, I'd rather be dead than continue living as I have the past years.
Falcon
Maybe that has something to do with that region of Pakistan harboring the people who murdered almost 3,000 Americans?
Using that line of reasoning, is it reasoning?, the US should then be attacking Saudi Arabia. Most of the 911 hijackers were Saudis.
Kyoto is a flawed treaty. It will cripple the economy of the developed World while giving a license to pollute to the developing World (China/India). Why the hell should we cripple our economy if they aren't going to be on board with solving the problem?
Though I didn't want to see a President Gross, er Gore, I voted against Bush by selecting Gore on the ballot because of Kyoto. Having said that, after President Bush came out against Kyoto something he said provoked me to do some research. I didn't know it before but Kyoto did not have limits on GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions on either China or India. And both countries are building a lot of coal fired power plants. So from one perspective Bush was right, however he still could have encouraged or pushed businesses to cut emissions and develop renewable energy sources. What does he do? He instead tries to relax emission regulations, so power plants can emit more pollution.
You remove more and more of the basic rights of your own citizens.
Citation?
Warrentless wiretaps and searches as well as the PATRIOT Act.
Falcon
If you have guns and ammo, you can get food and water. The opposite is not true.
The opposite IS true, I can grow my own food without guns or ammo.
Falcon
USA?
Actually all that volcanic ash could make the US even more productive agriculturally. Volcanic ash can significantly improve soil fertility and quality.
Falcon
Food enough to feed a few hundred thousand people - though, that's still about 0.016% chance, or so.
So yeah, to survive you need to kill a hundred people.
However most of those people are in cities not where the food is. And if those people want to survive then they're going to need people who can grow food.
Falcon
I'll travel to meet up with some hunter friends of mine who have guns and wilderness survival skills... we'll shoot you and your newly found progressive buddies, eat your vegetables, and have a long pig BBQ
Six weeks, six months?
Guns need powder and ammunition. Lubricating oils. Spare parts.
Although nice firearms aren't needed for game. Besides using firearms I've also hunt with bow and arrows and have trapped wildlife. Though I don't like fish I have woven nets that can be used to fish.
Game becomes hard to find. Edible plants, fruits, nut and berries become hard to find.
Now that depends on the location and population. Even though I live in a major metro area in the north, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St Paul, on the postage stamp sized lot where I live I can grow 10% of my own food food easily in my garden. Though I started my carrots and radishes late this year, I had enough lettuce and cherry or grape tomatoes for salad every day for a month. I had enough tomatillos for one soup, or salsa, a week for months. There was enough rhubarb for a few sticks a week as well. This spring I'll add blue berries and strawberries. And maybe potatoes and corn. This past growing season I got a bunch of remarks about how well my garden grew and was asked a number of tymes how I was able to grow my plants as big as they did grow. A few said they wanted me to help them on their garden next year. And my growing season is short.
And that's just where I live now. When I lived in Florida I was able to grow enough food for most of the year in my mother's backyard. Preserving food, canning, drying or dehydrating, smoking, and using other methods of preserving food allows the food supply to last longer. I mention each of these because I have done all of them, and have lived in survival situations.
Falcon
Rather than request a specific company lay fiber, they should remove all restrictions hindering companies from laying fiber, and persuade other cities in the region to do the same.
I'd prefer more competition myself but it's highly unlikely the easement or right of way would be capable of having 10 runs each of cable, fiber, phone, and powerlines. Fiber could replace cable and phone but there'd still be 10 runs. This is one reason I was hoping the FCC would open up the airwaves, the frequencies now used by analogue tv stations would be good for wireless broadband. But the incumbents are fighting to keep these frequencies closed, they don't like competition.
they should remove all restrictions hindering companies from laying fiber, and persuade other cities in the region to do the same.
None of the articles said the city was blocking anyone from laying fiber. If you have a reference the city was blocking others from laying fiber please share it.
Falcon
You've missed the whole point of my post
And you missed the whole point of my post.
Swap files which, unless the whole disk is encrypted, won't be. Files used in hibernation (Linux uses swap, not sure about Windows).
I have 2GB in my MacBook Pro, which it came with as standard more than a year ago. If I wanted to I could add another 2GB. For now at least I seriously doubt I come near maxing that. I can see doing it when I start working on multi-media. However if I wanted to I could move my swap. Windows users can also move their swap, as can Linux users.
you can't simply send a message to the operating system to say "This is now in secure mode, any user data or swapfiles must be stored in THIS location and any which are outstanding must be moved and the disk area they occupied securely wiped".
When I installed Linux, years ago, it asked me where I want the swap partition to be. I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure I also told Windows where to put swap.
This is the kind of feature corporates will demand because you can never guarantee that nobody will ever lose a key or forget their password and "your data is now toast you silly fool" is seldom an acceptable outcome to such a scenario.
Yea, I'd imagine a corporation would have a backup key.
It's also the kind of feature which is highly unlikely to be implemented in any F/OSS solution like TrueCrypt because it's a potential security risk
How is TrueCrypt riskier or potentially riskier than a closed source proprietary program? Whereas anyone can examine the source for TrueCrypt and spot possible security holes, nobody can legally see source code that's closed. And that source code can be riddled with holes. Sure some cracker may find a hole in code that's open but with thousands of others having the code the likelihood of someone else seeing is better than if the code is closed, and closing the code only stops some.
Unless the disk is heavily encrypted then any boot password can be trivially worked around
Not too long ago, last month I think, there was an article on /. about how researchers were able to recover passwords after a few minuted with the computer shutdown. A recommendation when boarding a plane was to not use a laptop at the airport.
Falcon
And what does this have to do with the discussion at hand?
The company was not being stopped from laying fiber. I specifically included the part of your post I replied to: "Call your city and ask if you're allowed to dig around the road on your street and lay fiber optic lines all down your street, down the neighboring street, etc. They will laugh at you and hang up." The city was not stopping them from laying fiber, instead the city asked them to lay fiber.
fiber is not yet profitable, and it won't be until people want it
It was the people who asked the city to lay fiber.
Again I say, ask your city if you can lay fiber, cable, telephone, or other lines in the ground around streets.
And again, I'll say the city asked them to lay fiber.
Falcon
Yeah, "illegal" is the wrong term. "Against public policy" fits better
Okay.
I've been wondering about your sig on Natalie Portman for a while now. Before I ever heard about her being in "Star Wars" I saw two of her movies, "Leon, the Professional" and "Where the Heart Is" and loved both. Have you seen either one?
Falcon
One way to start removing this corruption is to socialize the infrastructure
That's also a good way to censor what you don't like and prevent the infrastructure from being improved.
Falcon
I don't know why legalizing prostitution would reduce it
Legalizing prostitution would not reduce it, it probably would increase it. However it would reduce crime and the prison population. The same with drugs. With less prisons taxpayers would be able to keep more of their money, then drug users and prostitutes could be paying taxes as well.
we've had some positive effects since it was legalized here in Germany
I didn't know prostitution was illegal in Germany, other than during the 1930s when the NAZIs were in power. Prostitution was legal when I was there in 1983, there were even magazine like publications that listed prostitutes with photos listing what acts they would accept money for and how to contact them to set up an appointment.
Falcon
If people demand fiber, they'll get it, if only the government would permit companies to lay it down as they please.
Monticello asked for fiber but Bridgewater Telephone Company refused. The government was not stopping fiber from being installed, they wanted it.
Falcon
Sure, you can pass laws that violate rights, but those rights still exist and are still being violated. Rights violations are never justified.
What right is the city violating?
Falcon
Yes, because it's better to have the government run the service than to have a choice between two, five, ten companies competing to give you the best service possible.
Competition is good, lack of competition is bad. There was no provider of broadband in the city. The city asked the Bridgewater Telephone Company to lay fiber and offer broadband. The company told the city to get lost. Voters then voted and approved a plan for the city to provide the service. All of a sudden the company complained the city was going to do what the city asked the company to do but refused. Now, instead of no providers or only one there will be two providers. So there will be competition.
Falcon
How's it working out for you having your government take a "hands off" approach to your banks? (assuming you are an American).
It was a hands on not a hands off approach that caused to problem banks are in today. The Community Reinvestment Act forced lenders to reduce discriminatory credit practices such as not giving mortgages to those that could not afford the loans and giving low or no down payment mortgages. "The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities" published in 2000 foresees the problem. [I thank a poster who provided the link earlier.]
Falcon
My overall point, and I know you disagree, is that the government will absolutely have to intervene before rural areas will get decent broadband
Again I suggest you look at the spread of the light bulb and the electric grid.
The spread of light bulbs and the electric grid is because government subsidized them. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Rural Utilities Service which subsidized rural electrification as I've stated elsewhere. And in many places electricity was generated by wind turbines, also as stated before. Jacobs Wind Generators were among the most popular. Even today people still search for Jacobs as they were reliable and are still usable. "Homepower magazine" has several articles about them including people using them today.
Indeed. If only more politicians would say no to every idiotic proposal thrown at them. The most active, most popular Presidents in history have in fact been the most damaging to individual rights.
And one of the most active presidents was FDR, who electrified rural America. Though he caused a lot of harm, that's was one of the things he got right. For instance the economy was already recovering from the Great Depression when he signed many of those socialist Second New Deal programs.
Falcon
As for McShame, I wouldn't vote for that idiot or Obama, or the Libertarian Party, or any of the other dolts running for President. They're all for various flavors of rights violations.
What rights would the Libertarian Party violate?
Falcon
Can you provide some sources for this?
Falcon
What companies are not permitted to lay down more lines due to government restriction?
Call your city and ask if you're allowed to dig around the road on your street and lay fiber optic lines all down your street, down the neighboring street, etc. They will laugh at you and hang up.
The city first asked the company to lay fiber but it was the company who laughed at the city.
Falcon
First, the government should not be providing such a service. If the people actually want it, then companies should be springing forth to provide the service.
The government did ask the company to provide the service and the company told them to get lost. After that the people voted to install the fiber, and only then did the company want to do anything.
However, companies are not permitted to lay more lines due to government restriction.
Though asked the company DID NOT want to lay lines. That's certainly within their rights, but they don't have the right to harass people when they decide to do for themselves what the company refused to do.
Falcon