IIdeathboyII
join:2003-07-26
Nicholasville, KY
|  Broad band in the boones?....Highly unlikely
Yea, Ive lived in Daniel boone country for...well my entire life now. After calling several isps, cable companys, and my phone company and having all of the above listed corporatoins tell me that they don't see broadband ever coming to our area; i will be extremely suprised to see anything of the sort come my way...if at all someone elses : /
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Estragon
join:2003-06-20
Greenville, NH | Mixed up Priorities
87 billion for the Iraqi's, and we can't even find 20 million for rural Americans. |
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Omega
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| said by Estragon  :
87 billion for the Iraqi's, and we can't even find 20 million for rural Americans.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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broadbndgeek
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Graham, WA
| Forget foreign affairs, what about domestic affairs? What about America? Don't we too have a country to run and build? I pay taxes, I want to see my tax dollars come to the community not go half way across the globe to finish "daddy's war".
my 2 cents.
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David
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|  said by broadbndgeek :
Forget foreign affairs, what about domestic affairs? What about America? Don't we too have a country to run and build? I pay taxes, I want to see my tax dollars come to the community not go half way across the globe to finish "daddy's war".
my 2 cents.
That my friends we decide in the polls next year..
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lxAstrosxl
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I can't wait to see this joke of a president bush out of office. |
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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02 | Though I agree with you (about wanting him out), to be fair, it was one of the more solid things Bush assisted with, by passing the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 in the first place.... |
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nunya
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| bahhhh
All the money goes to corporations who need it the least. I'm trying to push broadband into the "boonies" myself. When I went to fill out the paperwork for this program, it became painfully clear that this is intended for large corporations and not the little people actually bringing broadband out rural areas.
So what it does is give larger companies an unfair advantage over me. They get free venture capital while I'm working 16 hrs a day trying to scrape it together.
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to lxAstrosxl
Re: Mixed up Priorities
it doesn't matter who is in office the Telco's et al will pay off whom ever is in power. |
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brandon
Some truth included in this post.
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Hurley, MS
| reply to Omega
-nah, nevermind. |
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Karl Bode
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| reply to nunya
Re: bahhhh
Ironic if say a bell is getting subsidized to deploy to rural areas they wouldn't deploy to because they were waiting for "regulatory clarity". They'd in essence be paid to hold off deployments in a sense....
Though I think many of these loans are either going to communities or small providers.....what hurdles did you face? |
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SuperJudge
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Re: Broad band in the boones?....Highly unlikely
I figure when all the new wireless technologies and stuff like powerline braodband becomes half way stable, you'll get something.
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klross32148
join:2003-02-23
Jacksonville, FL
| reply to broadbndgeek
Re: Mixed up Priorities
Just take 1% out of the 396 billion dollar defense budget and you can feed most of America. Kind of annoys me that we "have" to keep troops station in countries like Japan or Korea, there is just no need anymore. Other countries do not want us there, and most Americans do not want us there.
I'm also curious, do you guys think that World War 3 is ever going to happen? America seems to think so if they're going to pump this much cash in defense... I think that the world is civilized, not full of barbarians, but I guess Bush thinks otherwise. |
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nunya
SEE ROCK CITY 475 MILES
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| reply to nunya
Re: bahhhh
It's not going to Bells. It's going to "Mom-and-Pop" ILECs and Co-op's who have no intention of promoting "real" broadband. Some of the hurdles are catches such as the population of the town (and adjoining towns), free service to schools, libraries, etc...
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Dewi
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| reply to Karl Bode
Sort of like the infamous (much mangled by me) Alfalfa analogy (credit I think to the Novel Catch 22).
Farmer John gets paid $1000 by the government not to grow Alfalfa on his 5 acres. There is too much Alfalfa. Farm John takes the $1000 not to grow Alfalfa and buys an another acre, not to grow Alfalfa on. Next year, the government pays Farmer John $1250 not to grow Alfalfa on 6 acres. There is to much Alfalfa. Next Year Farm John buys an additional 1.25 acres not to grow Alfalfa on ... (etc etc etc) |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
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|  reply to lxAstrosxl
Re: Mixed up Priorities
said by lxAstrosxl :
DEMOCRATIC BABY!!!
I can't wait to see this joke of a president bush out of office.
Maybe the inventor of the internet gore will develop some magical way for broadband to be delivered into rural areas. |
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oliphant5
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join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
| reply to nunya
Re: bahhhh
There should be no federal funding of this crap. Of local municipalities are interested in deployment, let THEM build a muni broadband network and let THEM pay for it.
What luxury should be taxpayer funded next? Cell phones?
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lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL
| reply to Estragon
Re: Mixed up Priorities
Is this intentional misinformation or do you just know the facts?
$65.6 billion: Military Costs: The majority of the proposal is for the Department of Defense:
$41.1 billion: Ops & maint.
$17.8 billIon: Personnel costs
$5.4 billion: Procurement
$624 million: Fuel and repairs
$412 million: Construction
$360 million: Other
$20.3 billion: Reconstruction costs: Funds go to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund for use by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
$5.67 billIon: Electricity
$5.13 billion: Security (justice system and Iraqi police)
$3.7 billion: Public works
$2.1 billion: Rehabilitate and repair oil infrastructure
$875 million: Water resources
$850 million: Health
$835 million: Transportation and telecommunications
$470 million: Housing
$353 million: Private sector
$300 million: Human rights
Source: msnbc.com |
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lesopp
join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL | reply to lxAstrosxl
Go ahead and throw your vote away, you will still have to wait 4 more years. |
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ooluser
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Re: bahhhh
Don't you realise that without government funding, we wouldn't have a lot of the things we have today. I'm quite sure that power and telephone service was rolled out on government funds, contracted to the companies.
This is the same way, in the 21st century we need government funding to better improve our communications. How in god's name are we going to live in the coming years on century old copper lines that are way past there usage limits. Copper was designed for analog telegraph and voice communications, not transferring files around the world via computer.
It's time we upgrade our copper with an unlimited source of bandwidth, fiber optics. It's only limited by the hardware at both ends which can be easily upgraded over time.
-Tom |
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