Maybe putting a restriction on Comcast that it's not allowed to set rates giving it more than a certain minimal profit for the next N years because that would probably ensure that the current management would be thrown out by the stockholders
Hey, that's actually a pretty good suggestion. Fixing the prices for comcast and not allowing any rises over years is a surefire way to punish the company. They live on money, and in absence of profits, as you say, the current management would be thrown out.
Don't worry. McDowell will quit and join Comcast once Obama is elected: For good measure Bush will pardon him too. I say we should do a valerie plame on the bureaucrats who did not vote to punish Comcast. Rat their personal lives out and shame them. Spitzer'ed i say.
Hmmm... But tell me one thing: When the Second Bank of United States was deliberately vetoed by the then president, thousands were affected. But it did not result in chaos. According to you, Enron should never have been allowed to fail: because millions were affected, and hence Enron should have been propped up. I may not have managed a business or been involved in accounting (although i did work in banks for 12 years), but i understand that the law is the same for all: Nixon or Joe Black. Corporates seem to clamor for equality with real people: So here's the reality: When you seek authority as a real person, be prepared to accept the responsibility that comes with it. A judge will accept facts presented to him: If FCC had ball$, it would suspend the operating license of comcast, force comcast to pay for creating problems to its customers by disconnecting their service and if questioned the judge can decide whether FCC was right or wrong.
Fining a business is peanuts like you said: pass it onto customers. So how do you protect customers while punishing the criminal: Put him in Jail while liquidating his assets to pay for alimony. Again i repeat: Unless FCC votes to suspend operating license of comcast as punishment, it is not punishing enough.
Hmmmm... legally speaking, not fulfilling the terms of a contract is illegal. In your parlance, what comcast did was to violate the terms of contract it had with its customers. This has been proven at all locations comcast wanted it tested. Hence FCC, as sole mandated authority to regulate telecommunications, is authorised to convict Comcast. The law says so. The FCC is not an enforcement arm. Its duty like all other government bodies is to the constitution and laws of the land. Power flows from the constitution to the authority and subsequently to bodies the authority creates. In this case the congress created this body.
This is exactly the kind of stupid reasoning that gives corporates more leverage and power than us. If i was arrested on manslaughter, my family and friends would suffer. Can your same reasoning be applied to me and iam just fined a paltry sum? My life may not be worth much to millions, but to my family am worth millions. Will a judge accept this reasoning? How should comcast be any different? Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time: Its applicable to corporates too!
Well, fines is like asking a serial killer to say sorry to all victims and let him go scot-free. Yanking the license is another thing. Corporations are fictional persons. If the FCC is really serious (which am sure it is not) about setting an example, it will simply suspend the license of comcast for one year as punishment. This is equivalent to jail. No income at all, but all expenses need to be paid (salaries, etc). Comcast will move heaven and earth to get it revoked, but ultimately the SCOTUS can prevail (minus Antonin Scalia of course) and refuse to hear the case. This will be *chilling* to all corporates. Once they realize they are not omnipotent, they will fall in line.
But all i said will happen in a realistic world where our president has the highest IQ, and the House impeaches presidents for violating laws...
What will actually happen is FCC will impose a fine of $150/- and will suspend the payment of fine if comcast removes the blocking...
1. NBC's Meet the press progam with Russert in 2006 where Pelosi agreed to look into Impeachment as one of the solutions should she get a 15 seat majority. People believed her and voted her in. What did the bitch do? Disown impeachment and suck upto the president. If Clinton had a Monica, Bush has a Pelosi. 2. The Senate and House can do anything on a majority basis: Order the marshal to arrest and bring any person [in chains] to the Senate to answer it. It alone has the power to do so. 3. The point here is breach of contract: It was legally contracted by Yahoo and MSN that the music i licensed from them would play on my devices as long as i continued to pay the license fees for it. Same like my payments for my mortgage. What instead MSN and yahoo are saying is, even though i continue to pay, they want me to prevent me from enjoying the music i paid my license fees for. Much like Countrywide refusing to accept payments for my house and then forcing me to vacate the same even though iam not under default. Well, if taken to a court, yahoo and MSN would NOT prevail. 4. Foreclosures happened NOT because i can't pay: But because my interest rate was raised by the bank even though my credit history was perfect and my repayment was on schedule, because, some thousands of idiots defaulted on their payment. All these times banks wanted freedom from regulation. They got it. Now why do they complain and come running to Bush for bailouts? 5. A congressional enquiry and a GAO report on Oil companies is within the power of congress to order. If i can be arrested and convicted and sentenced to 20 years in jail because i stole movies and shared them, why can't oil execs be done the same way? 6. Well Britain has NHS. France has the BEST rated medical system in the world. Hell, even singapore has an excellent, cheap medical system. And US? 48th place. 7. This i agree. It is stopping at a glacial pace. 45 years from now when am not alive, probably it will come to an ultimate end. The corporatocracy of US is complete. It expanded with Reagan (that bastard), and achieved its full in Bush. Much like Skynet. Neither you, me nor even Obama can do anything. Look at Obama talking nowadays... Everyone is corruptible. Get onto the band wagon before its too late. Your letter??? Well bush uses a paper which contains the same words you mentioned to wipe his bare brown ass.
Please don't contact your congressmen and senators on stopping this bill. It doesn't matter whether you do a sit-in in front of their office or send in thousands of letters protesting this bill. This bill WILL BE Passes because the money-bags have already bought the senators. Don't you guys ever learn even after suffering multiple insults? 1. No Impeachment of bush even though most senators swore to it. 2. No arresting Karl Rove. 3. No pro-consumer choice for DRM infested systems that hang us high (Yahoo and MSN) 4. No relief from foreclosure for your homes and mine, but only to Countrywide and Fannie Mae. 5. No relief from high gas prices by siccing the RICO act on Exxon. 6. No free/low-cost medicare 7. No stopping the war in Iraq. Take the hint: Your senators and congressmen and the president do NOT represent you. They are voted by you by "force". Just like you are forced to pay taxes but can't decide how it is spent. Stop posting, writing or protesting (by citizen-arresting karl rove???). You will only end up in prison or worse in Gitmo.
Slave, pay your taxes and go home silently to enjoy the 500 channels. God save the King.
Anything you say is protected as free speech as long its not deliberately false. Libel is deliberate lie. So suing this guy with a libel statement can make the blogger turn around and sue for libel. Am sad that the city has to take the costs of the same when the police director's salary should be deducted for wasting people's money.
Thanks a Lot for the detailed info. Well, in the initial discussions i was bit clueless so i deserved the scathing critique. Sometimes you need to break a few eggs to make an omelete-:) I was incredibly dumb and i had it coming. PF Delta: Got it checked. Surprisingly Kaspersky's avp.exe has a HUGE figure: 132. Rest all fall in line with expectations. Hmmm. you had no BSOD's with no paging file... well i must experiment it with Vista now.. lemme first take a full backup and then try. Thanks for the tuning link. This guy seems to knows a LOT and i will pick it up from there. I stopped playing crysis exactly because of same reason you told: we had an internal match with 5 of my friends, and even though i shot this guy using the sniper rifle, the dumb game AI didn't act well...I switched to Opposing Fronts. Far better. Thanks anyway man.
True... I never thought of it that way. But i didn't mean installing programs on RAM Disk. Use a RAM drive for Swap: Vista insists on a swap file even if you have 8GB RAM. Shutting off swap file??? Nope. Windows doesn't like it much. I tried that once on XP and it BSOD'ed on reboot. Tried twice and had same effect. Vista i don't dare try it. Suppose i have 12 GB RAM (entirely possible with 2GB sticks), i can create a RAM Disk for 4 GB, and use it as both TEMP and Swap. Vista does need a swap file everytime, and i provide it in RAM as a RAM drive. System Restore? Check. I use Acronis so i switched off Sys Restore. Indexing? Check. I use google desktop instead. Result: Still thrashing the disk with no programs running. Let me try this way tomorrow and then get back with statistics buddy. Crysis Hell; Here i come!
what???? Let me make myself clear: I own a Mac and a PC. I play Crysis on my PC. I use my Mac for blogging, work, etc. 64-Bit VISTA allows more than 4 GB RAM to be accessible by the OS. My setup has 4 GB RAM, but poor 32-bit OS can't "see" it fully. With 64-bit Vista i can make full use of the 4 GB RAM i have. Plus, i can add 8GB more (i do have 4 slots remaining). By creating a RAM disk out of the 8GB extra RAM i have, i can use it as a SWAP drive or as TEMP folder.
Are you implying am lying when i say Vista is slower than XP on same hardware???
Its a sad day when a company can't say: "We do not fully understand the opportunities of the Vista environment." Instead of making Vista an opportunity for product developers and making their life easier, Microsoft is making their life harder and more miserable. Microsoft seems to forget its history: Its strength lies in the external developers and manufacturers who make products that work seamlessly with Windows. Screwing them is not an option for MSFT especially when Apple is making inroads into traditional PC market. The two eyes for Microsoft are its developers and manufacturers of Peripherals. Poke them both in the eye and MSFT can kiss its business model goodbye. IBM did that and it quit PC business altogether.
Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk
FALSE. Vista is not optimized for ANY Hard Drive in existence today. Like Crysis, it can bring any system down to its knees. Throw a seagate barracuda @ 7200 RPM and 16MB cache at it and it will slow down the disk. Throw a WD Caviar black with a 32 MB cache, and it will slow down the disk. Hell, for fcuk's sake if i use a RAM Disk with 64-bit Vista and a 10 GB RAM disk as non-system disk, it will slow down even RAM by superfetching its crap. Any software that does not run on current hardware is not worth buying. Mac OS X Leopard runs on my iBook G4 768MB RAM. I upgraded from Tiger and found Leopard actually is faster. (same was case when i moved from Panther to Tiger). Hmmm... when will Microsoft learn that upgrading an OS should NOT slow down an existing system.
...and you californians wonder why the rest of the US looks at you in a strange sort of way... Oh dude...i can't even begin to wonder at your intelligence and smugness...
... the KGB or better yet, the NKVD would have shamed Gitmo... Hmmmm i miss the old times, when it was just KGB agents trying to steal our secrets and CIA stealing KGB secrets... now we have to deal with this whole crap of different entities.
Hmm.. Cops here in US have no such worry. They can do a Rodney King Special daily and still go scot-free. And that is why we have more laws in US to govern even the smallest of things: like mattress tags.
To continue your steps: 5. Start attacking slightly above-average used stuff. Use the same principles. For instance attack FTP. 6. Block FTP claiming to protect children. More users get affected. Charge more for "clean" FTP access. 7. Block BitTorrent claiming same as above. Still more cry out loud. Get AG to say whoever uses Torrents is a child abuser. Block the same. 8. Stop HTTPS unless bought from ISP. Say HTTPS is used for child piracy. Same results. 9. Start charging separatetly for Torrent, HTTPS, and even HTTP. 10. PROFIT!
one mph over the limit??? That's illegal in some states (CT,NH). Laws in those states clearly say up to 5 mph above speed limit is allowed. And judges have been known to throw the book at cops who waste their time for one mph. Seriously, dispute the charge and force a jury to hear it on a Monday morning -:) The cop would get such a dressing down, you will be smiling.
Iam totally relieved. For a second i thought this corporation-friendly, people-robbing BushCongress combo was actually doing something AGAINST corporations. Whew... i can sleep sound at night knowing well my investment in Comcast is not going to the poopers, that AT&T can recover the conversation i had with my wife 264 days ago. FCC, please don't scare corporations like this. Go back to what your real duty is: Screwing people around. Atta boy!
Well what scares me more is Locomotives using Windows. Imagine during wartime, enemy hackers crashing railways windows by thousands !!! Die hard 4.0 is actually possible then. And our NYC cop will be the gun slinging Giuliani running around in his car and shooting every black on sight...
Actually the Municipality has more rights than a company. For instance take the case of common good usage of private property. A single municipality can decide to limit, withdraw or impose HUGE costs on any telco taking a power/telephone line through the county. Yes, the telco will simply move away, but if two or three municipalities adjacent start taking similar action, the Telco will suddenly either: 1. Appeal to courts for relief, and courts will not grant as it is a common right. 2. Appeal to Fed/Bush for new laws and our coward nancy pelosi will agree to a law that trumps local rights. 3. which results in courts striking down the law. So back to 1. Companies operate on profit. They sue municipalities because the cost of suing is a cost that can be tax deducted. First take the right away from corporations that suing government is tax-deductible. You will see a huge drop in lawsuits. Secondly, counter-sue the company and simply withdraw its local charter. A company has no human rights. It ceases to exist once charter is withdrawn. But our cowardly congress and senator critters would not allow that to happen. They will support the Telcos come what may.
http://poorgeorgesalmanac.com/?p=328/ Contains the proof for what you said. Sorry i didn't believe you earlier. Came across it today and thought i would bring it to your notice. Thanks
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Maybe putting a restriction on Comcast that it's not allowed to set rates giving it more than a certain minimal profit for the next N years because that would probably ensure that the current management would be thrown out by the stockholders
Hey, that's actually a pretty good suggestion.
Fixing the prices for comcast and not allowing any rises over years is a surefire way to punish the company. They live on money, and in absence of profits, as you say, the current management would be thrown out.
Don't worry. McDowell will quit and join Comcast once Obama is elected: For good measure Bush will pardon him too.
I say we should do a valerie plame on the bureaucrats who did not vote to punish Comcast. Rat their personal lives out and shame them. Spitzer'ed i say.
Hmmm... But tell me one thing: When the Second Bank of United States was deliberately vetoed by the then president, thousands were affected. But it did not result in chaos.
According to you, Enron should never have been allowed to fail: because millions were affected, and hence Enron should have been propped up.
I may not have managed a business or been involved in accounting (although i did work in banks for 12 years), but i understand that the law is the same for all: Nixon or Joe Black.
Corporates seem to clamor for equality with real people: So here's the reality: When you seek authority as a real person, be prepared to accept the responsibility that comes with it.
A judge will accept facts presented to him: If FCC had ball$, it would suspend the operating license of comcast, force comcast to pay for creating problems to its customers by disconnecting their service and if questioned the judge can decide whether FCC was right or wrong.
Fining a business is peanuts like you said: pass it onto customers.
So how do you protect customers while punishing the criminal: Put him in Jail while liquidating his assets to pay for alimony.
Again i repeat: Unless FCC votes to suspend operating license of comcast as punishment, it is not punishing enough.
Hmmmm... legally speaking, not fulfilling the terms of a contract is illegal. In your parlance, what comcast did was to violate the terms of contract it had with its customers. This has been proven at all locations comcast wanted it tested.
Hence FCC, as sole mandated authority to regulate telecommunications, is authorised to convict Comcast.
The law says so.
The FCC is not an enforcement arm. Its duty like all other government bodies is to the constitution and laws of the land.
Power flows from the constitution to the authority and subsequently to bodies the authority creates.
In this case the congress created this body.
Read the constitution before you open your fly.
This is exactly the kind of stupid reasoning that gives corporates more leverage and power than us.
If i was arrested on manslaughter, my family and friends would suffer. Can your same reasoning be applied to me and iam just fined a paltry sum?
My life may not be worth much to millions, but to my family am worth millions.
Will a judge accept this reasoning?
How should comcast be any different?
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time: Its applicable to corporates too!
Well, fines is like asking a serial killer to say sorry to all victims and let him go scot-free.
Yanking the license is another thing.
Corporations are fictional persons.
If the FCC is really serious (which am sure it is not) about setting an example, it will simply suspend the license of comcast for one year as punishment. This is equivalent to jail. No income at all, but all expenses need to be paid (salaries, etc).
Comcast will move heaven and earth to get it revoked, but ultimately the SCOTUS can prevail (minus Antonin Scalia of course) and refuse to hear the case.
This will be *chilling* to all corporates. Once they realize they are not omnipotent, they will fall in line.
But all i said will happen in a realistic world where our president has the highest IQ, and the House impeaches presidents for violating laws...
What will actually happen is FCC will impose a fine of $150/- and will suspend the payment of fine if comcast removes the blocking...
1. NBC's Meet the press progam with Russert in 2006 where Pelosi agreed to look into Impeachment as one of the solutions should she get a 15 seat majority. People believed her and voted her in. What did the bitch do? Disown impeachment and suck upto the president.
If Clinton had a Monica, Bush has a Pelosi.
2. The Senate and House can do anything on a majority basis: Order the marshal to arrest and bring any person [in chains] to the Senate to answer it. It alone has the power to do so.
3. The point here is breach of contract: It was legally contracted by Yahoo and MSN that the music i licensed from them would play on my devices as long as i continued to pay the license fees for it. Same like my payments for my mortgage. What instead MSN and yahoo are saying is, even though i continue to pay, they want me to prevent me from enjoying the music i paid my license fees for. Much like Countrywide refusing to accept payments for my house and then forcing me to vacate the same even though iam not under default. Well, if taken to a court, yahoo and MSN would NOT prevail.
4. Foreclosures happened NOT because i can't pay: But because my interest rate was raised by the bank even though my credit history was perfect and my repayment was on schedule, because, some thousands of idiots defaulted on their payment. All these times banks wanted freedom from regulation. They got it. Now why do they complain and come running to Bush for bailouts?
5. A congressional enquiry and a GAO report on Oil companies is within the power of congress to order. If i can be arrested and convicted and sentenced to 20 years in jail because i stole movies and shared them, why can't oil execs be done the same way?
6. Well Britain has NHS. France has the BEST rated medical system in the world. Hell, even singapore has an excellent, cheap medical system. And US? 48th place.
7. This i agree. It is stopping at a glacial pace. 45 years from now when am not alive, probably it will come to an ultimate end.
The corporatocracy of US is complete. It expanded with Reagan (that bastard), and achieved its full in Bush. Much like Skynet. Neither you, me nor even Obama can do anything.
Look at Obama talking nowadays...
Everyone is corruptible.
Get onto the band wagon before its too late.
Your letter??? Well bush uses a paper which contains the same words you mentioned to wipe his bare brown ass.
Please don't contact your congressmen and senators on stopping this bill. It doesn't matter whether you do a sit-in in front of their office or send in thousands of letters protesting this bill.
This bill WILL BE Passes because the money-bags have already bought the senators.
Don't you guys ever learn even after suffering multiple insults?
1. No Impeachment of bush even though most senators swore to it.
2. No arresting Karl Rove.
3. No pro-consumer choice for DRM infested systems that hang us high (Yahoo and MSN)
4. No relief from foreclosure for your homes and mine, but only to Countrywide and Fannie Mae.
5. No relief from high gas prices by siccing the RICO act on Exxon.
6. No free/low-cost medicare
7. No stopping the war in Iraq.
Take the hint: Your senators and congressmen and the president do NOT represent you. They are voted by you by "force". Just like you are forced to pay taxes but can't decide how it is spent.
Stop posting, writing or protesting (by citizen-arresting karl rove???).
You will only end up in prison or worse in Gitmo.
Slave, pay your taxes and go home silently to enjoy the 500 channels.
God save the King.
Anything you say is protected as free speech as long its not deliberately false.
Libel is deliberate lie.
So suing this guy with a libel statement can make the blogger turn around and sue for libel.
Am sad that the city has to take the costs of the same when the police director's salary should be deducted for wasting people's money.
Thanks a Lot for the detailed info.
Well, in the initial discussions i was bit clueless so i deserved the scathing critique. Sometimes you need to break a few eggs to make an omelete-:) I was incredibly dumb and i had it coming.
PF Delta: Got it checked.
Surprisingly Kaspersky's avp.exe has a HUGE figure: 132.
Rest all fall in line with expectations.
Hmmm. you had no BSOD's with no paging file... well i must experiment it with Vista now.. lemme first take a full backup and then try.
Thanks for the tuning link. This guy seems to knows a LOT and i will pick it up from there.
I stopped playing crysis exactly because of same reason you told: we had an internal match with 5 of my friends, and even though i shot this guy using the sniper rifle, the dumb game AI didn't act well...I switched to Opposing Fronts. Far better.
Thanks anyway man.
True... I never thought of it that way.
But i didn't mean installing programs on RAM Disk. Use a RAM drive for Swap: Vista insists on a swap file even if you have 8GB RAM.
Shutting off swap file??? Nope. Windows doesn't like it much. I tried that once on XP and it BSOD'ed on reboot. Tried twice and had same effect. Vista i don't dare try it.
Suppose i have 12 GB RAM (entirely possible with 2GB sticks), i can create a RAM Disk for 4 GB, and use it as both TEMP and Swap. Vista does need a swap file everytime, and i provide it in RAM as a RAM drive.
System Restore? Check. I use Acronis so i switched off Sys Restore.
Indexing? Check. I use google desktop instead.
Result: Still thrashing the disk with no programs running.
Let me try this way tomorrow and then get back with statistics buddy.
Crysis Hell; Here i come!
what????
Let me make myself clear: I own a Mac and a PC. I play Crysis on my PC.
I use my Mac for blogging, work, etc.
64-Bit VISTA allows more than 4 GB RAM to be accessible by the OS.
My setup has 4 GB RAM, but poor 32-bit OS can't "see" it fully.
With 64-bit Vista i can make full use of the 4 GB RAM i have.
Plus, i can add 8GB more (i do have 4 slots remaining).
By creating a RAM disk out of the 8GB extra RAM i have, i can use it as a SWAP drive or as TEMP folder.
Are you implying am lying when i say Vista is slower than XP on same hardware???
Its a sad day when a company can't say: "We do not fully understand the opportunities of the Vista environment."
Instead of making Vista an opportunity for product developers and making their life easier, Microsoft is making their life harder and more miserable.
Microsoft seems to forget its history: Its strength lies in the external developers and manufacturers who make products that work seamlessly with Windows.
Screwing them is not an option for MSFT especially when Apple is making inroads into traditional PC market.
The two eyes for Microsoft are its developers and manufacturers of Peripherals.
Poke them both in the eye and MSFT can kiss its business model goodbye.
IBM did that and it quit PC business altogether.
Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk
FALSE.
Vista is not optimized for ANY Hard Drive in existence today.
Like Crysis, it can bring any system down to its knees.
Throw a seagate barracuda @ 7200 RPM and 16MB cache at it and it will slow down the disk.
Throw a WD Caviar black with a 32 MB cache, and it will slow down the disk.
Hell, for fcuk's sake if i use a RAM Disk with 64-bit Vista and a 10 GB RAM disk as non-system disk, it will slow down even RAM by superfetching its crap.
Any software that does not run on current hardware is not worth buying.
Mac OS X Leopard runs on my iBook G4 768MB RAM. I upgraded from Tiger and found Leopard actually is faster. (same was case when i moved from Panther to Tiger).
Hmmm... when will Microsoft learn that upgrading an OS should NOT slow down an existing system.
...and you californians wonder why the rest of the US looks at you in a strange sort of way...
Oh dude...i can't even begin to wonder at your intelligence and smugness...
Why? Does it have oil?
... the KGB or better yet, the NKVD would have shamed Gitmo...
Hmmmm i miss the old times, when it was just KGB agents trying to steal our secrets and CIA stealing KGB secrets... now we have to deal with this whole crap of different entities.
Hmm.. Cops here in US have no such worry. They can do a Rodney King Special daily and still go scot-free.
And that is why we have more laws in US to govern even the smallest of things: like mattress tags.
To continue your steps:
5. Start attacking slightly above-average used stuff. Use the same principles. For instance attack FTP.
6. Block FTP claiming to protect children. More users get affected. Charge more for "clean" FTP access.
7. Block BitTorrent claiming same as above. Still more cry out loud. Get AG to say whoever uses Torrents is a child abuser. Block the same.
8. Stop HTTPS unless bought from ISP. Say HTTPS is used for child piracy. Same results.
9. Start charging separatetly for Torrent, HTTPS, and even HTTP.
10. PROFIT!
one mph over the limit??? That's illegal in some states (CT,NH). Laws in those states clearly say up to 5 mph above speed limit is allowed.
And judges have been known to throw the book at cops who waste their time for one mph.
Seriously, dispute the charge and force a jury to hear it on a Monday morning -:)
The cop would get such a dressing down, you will be smiling.
You made me spill hot coffee in my lap, you insensitive clod!
Iam totally relieved. For a second i thought this corporation-friendly, people-robbing BushCongress combo was actually doing something AGAINST corporations.
Whew... i can sleep sound at night knowing well my investment in Comcast is not going to the poopers, that AT&T can recover the conversation i had with my wife 264 days ago.
FCC, please don't scare corporations like this.
Go back to what your real duty is: Screwing people around.
Atta boy!
Well what scares me more is Locomotives using Windows.
Imagine during wartime, enemy hackers crashing railways windows by thousands !!!
Die hard 4.0 is actually possible then.
And our NYC cop will be the gun slinging Giuliani running around in his car and shooting every black on sight...
Actually the Municipality has more rights than a company. For instance take the case of common good usage of private property. A single municipality can decide to limit, withdraw or impose HUGE costs on any telco taking a power/telephone line through the county.
Yes, the telco will simply move away, but if two or three municipalities adjacent start taking similar action, the Telco will suddenly either:
1. Appeal to courts for relief, and courts will not grant as it is a common right.
2. Appeal to Fed/Bush for new laws and our coward nancy pelosi will agree to a law that trumps local rights.
3. which results in courts striking down the law. So back to 1.
Companies operate on profit. They sue municipalities because the cost of suing is a cost that can be tax deducted. First take the right away from corporations that suing government is tax-deductible. You will see a huge drop in lawsuits. Secondly, counter-sue the company and simply withdraw its local charter. A company has no human rights. It ceases to exist once charter is withdrawn.
But our cowardly congress and senator critters would not allow that to happen. They will support the Telcos come what may.
http://poorgeorgesalmanac.com/?p=328/
Contains the proof for what you said.
Sorry i didn't believe you earlier. Came across it today and thought i would bring it to your notice.
Thanks