Stimulis Package Ties Broadband Funding to Net Neutrality
Great news if it stays in! It seems it's included in the stimulus bill:
"Cnet is reporting that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PDF), currently in the House Appropriations Committee, contains Net Neutrality provisions: 'The so-called stimulus package hands out billions of dollars in grants for broadband and wireless development, primarily in what are called "unserved" and "underserved" areas. ... The catch is that the federal largesse comes with Net neutrality strings attached. ... recipients must operate broadband and high-speed wireless networks on an "open access basis." The FCC, soon to be under Democratic control, is charged with deciding what that means. Congress didn't see fit to include a definition.' The broadband grants appear to begin in SEC. 3101 (pg. 49) of the PDF."
Frist!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
This is good news if it pulls through.
My brother told me that Obama will sign off on funding stem cell.
I haven't been able to verify this. Anybody?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
This will indeed be good news if my fears about:
are unfounded.
I worry that the FCC has been so packed with ground-level neocons that THEIR definition might not be what my preferred definition would be. We'll have to keep a close eye on these agencies for years until all the Bushbots have been neutralized.
If the FCC cannot be returned to integrity, such that it compells its licensees to fulfill their obligation to the law and to society, ultimately, this democracy will be toast.
The dark clouds are starting to part.
in my community, just spent the last year, putting in fiber optic lines, so that the internet is the fastest in the province. But, you have to sign up with that company, oh and the price per month? $79. Yup. Taxpayers financed the upgrade, only to be shown the pricetag.
the so-called stimulus package isn't gonna do shit but add to the monstrosity of a debt.
the federal reserve loans the money to the US government with interest charged.
we have to pay back that interest and principle with taxes in the future, on us, or future generations.
We've had the housing bubble (still in process)
we've had the banking bubble (just starting)
we're going to have a Social Security bubble, aka Ponzi collapse,
we're going to have an "entitlement" bubble
and finally we're going to have a government bubble.
Ladies and gentlemen, the US government and most of its institutions are INSOLVENT.
It is mathematically impossible to GROW out of this planet of debt with a measly, and at best, 2% growth rate. It's simple exponents.
We are broke, and anything else is just rearranging chairs on the Titanic.
So lets all go home and wait for the food to run out.
It's doom and gloom, but its also an honest assessment.
when a doctor tells you have terminal cancer, do you want them to sing you a song and dance and lie to you?
This stimulus package is going to help the food run out.
For 30 plus years we have borrowed our way into this mess
The politicians solution is to borrow more.
Ponder that
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
The world's fourth largest economy, California, can't even pay its creditors; is telling people they will have to wait for their "entitlement" payments and their tax refunds.
The writing is on the wall people.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/16/california.d...
This is snowball to the federal government. If you are going to send your taxes to a bankrupt government, both fiscally and morally, you are a fool.
The state spent their money before people figured out how much they needed to give back. Brilliant.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
me!!!
There are a few things that would be good to do, but they won't do them.
The first one is to slash the 'defense' budget by at least half.
W in the last eight years has doubled it with the extra going to his private contracting buddies, for the most part.
Pink slip them.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Truth B Told you are so very right, I don't know about you but I feel like a broken record trying to get people to see the obvious simple truth in our print until the ink runs out to save the economy insanity.
C&L folks are good but are not getting it either. So I will try as you are and hope even just one more person grasps it.
We might as well call it the elf'n magic stimulus package, because that is how were going to get the money, were going to wish it into existence and the Keebler elves are poof there magic and voila there it is.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Does this mean that here in rural Ohio I may no longer only have dial up as an option? Oh sweet mercy! This waiting 5 days just to load a nipple is killing me.
Sumpin somebody could trade away for sumpin else...
Sumpin you start with the knowledge you'll 'deal' with...
I hope somebody comes to the conclusion that wires should not be strung up like so many Xmas lights but should be buried or moved close to the ground for easy maintainance and where limbs, snow, sleet, etc. don't fuck up transmission.
Geeze, just because our great-grandfathers put telegraph wires on poles doesn't mean we have to stick to the same method of delivery.
utils on new construction. Retrofitting is horrendously expensive, I think averaging about 10X cost of wire on poles (Don't quote me on the cost--it varies by the type of area, voltage load carried, and soil type, among other things.)
In areas prone to ice storms and hurricanes, there is decided value to undergrounding though.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
of problems with ground water.
All of it bad.
Overhead wires look terrible but functionally they are far superior to underground wires.
I am as sorry as you are.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
With every utility company, the single largest obstacle to that isn't technical or cost, it's getting property owners to grant rights of way. Far too many property owners refuse to let it happen.
because unhindered, uncensored universal access to the net truly is the final remnant of a free press and last vestige of free speech in this country. Everything else has been subverted and corrupted.
Edit out. Translation is suspect. Deleted video.
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