richardpor
Fur it up
join:2003-04-19
Portland, OR
| Free ???????????????????
How is the city paying for the bills? A taxpayer-funded system is not free.
In addition, where are the antitrust left on this? This is a monopoly design to drive out legitimate private business. If one is so worried about competition, why not oppose this. Who can compete with a government that can forcefully tax people to supply a service? Why should one buy service from a private government when the government ca steal their money and use it to provide me WiFI? What if one does not want to use government funded WiFI/ Tough you still going to pay for it? |
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Wireless Major
@adelphia.net | Personally, I wouldnt give two shits about paying to use the wifi. And who says its from the tax payer? You had better believe that this installed system will improve tourism. |
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cgw123
join:2002-09-13
Moraga, CA
| reply to richardpor
The notion of what public services a community should offer evolves with time, e.g., we did not always have free public schools, and I pay for them whether I have kids that attend or not. Public libraries clearly take business away from bookstores, but since they have been around for a long time, no one thinks that they are improper. As with schools, I pay for free libraries whether I use them or not. Communities with good public schools and public libraries are seen as good places to live, relative to communities with crummy schools and no libraries. People will pay more to live in a good community, and my guess is that free wifi adds value to property compared to nearby beach towns without it. The increased property values in turn adds to property tax revenues. Looks like a win-win proposition to me. |
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Rob850
join:2003-04-11
Mary Esther, FL
| A perfect spot to set up servers (im sure ports are blocked)
This is not a bad idea.
Rob
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splicesite
join:2005-04-06
Rochester, NY | so who is liable for downloading pirated material, in this scenario? and bandwidth abusers? does each person have to register for a userid to login or is it an open network? |
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