On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:36 PM, rleesimon wrote:
Wing nuts want to provide broad band via those stinkin' ugly wires
around
all over the place. Finally, all that hardware gets jammed up with
every
neighbor downloadin' his daily dose of porn. The way to get
broadband out
is multivalent approaches where some get wires, some get over the
electric
grid, some get wireless from hotspots on the telephone poles, some get
cellular, some get satellite! ...it should be a concerted effort
based on
evaluation of what is the most effective way and what the burden is
to the
existing infrastructure as a factor of cost of expanding that
bandwidth as
compared with a new channel. But, of course, this would be the
government
deciding this so graft and no-bid contracts and under the table
stuff would
be the biggest player; isn't it always??
No, it isn't always. When government agencies get packed with pols and
frat boys you don't have the experience and intelligence necessary to
do a good job. I have watched it happen from close range. I worked for
12 years on environmental policy. Yes, I saw some very poorly drafted
regulations. But I also watched the regulations get revised year after
year getting better and better. Eventually they were getting almost
everything right. Then the administration changed and wingnuts took
over again. The hunted down the smart people, transferred them,
demoted them, gave them busy work, etc. Key positions got filled by
pols and frat boys who deliberately destroyed the hard work that had
been done. It was very sad. I really do mean it when I call these
wingnuts traitors and terrorists.
I see the current administration being unusually adept at putting good
people in key positions. In particular I see them getting things right
with IT and communications technology. I don't think your expectation
of poor performance is warranted.
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