If you like your Internet you can keep your Internet. Period.

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UPDATED: Monday, March 9, 2015 00:16
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Sorry, Big Government is not the harbinger of competition that you seem to think it is.

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Who do you think designed the internet anyway? (No, not Al Gore.) Do you KNOW? If you did, you wouldn't have made such an ignorant statement!

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Shirley you jest. Perhaps you are merely pretending to be blissfully ignorant while asking if somebody else is ignorant. Could that be?
For those reading and interested, the origins of the internet which Algore invented arose from a project within DARPA (yes, the D stands for Defense, which translates to MILITARY) to provide exclusively to research facilities, and only between them - the military did not intend to freely share worldwide all of it's military secrets (aka Advancements), as Siggy would seem to have you believe - a SECURE and high-speed communications system and protocol. This was highly exclusive, highly exclusionary, available to only projects and research which fell within the DARPA umbrella, and was paid for and utilized exclusively for Defense Research and among Defense-funded facilities.
What level of ignoramus would suggest that the most exclusive and exclusionary of networks would be an adequate example of a "more free and open" communications system? Although DARPA's creation did post date the FCA of 1934 and The Railroad Act of 1855, perhaps Siggy either deviously or unintentionally really did use an applicable reference, pointing out this new "Internet Tollroad" will be reigning in all the freedom and liberty we've had to be a more restrictive entity, like the original "internet" creation of the DARPA program.

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Shirley, it must be the same enormous project to revamp every tower in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea as it must be in USA.

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Do you even know how to read? They don't use towers, they use fiberoptic cable.

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Shirley you must have a point here.
somewhere.
It must be immeasurably easier to replace every fiber instead of merely the box in the tower.

How long of a cable do you take to McDonald's to connect to their Hi-Speed WiFi?

This 10Mbps would be faster than all of those on your chart, except S. Korea. But since it is WIRELESS, your fiber would take a long time to get installed - because high-speed does not use TOWERS, according to you.
https://www.airspeedwireless.ca/wimax/default.asp
Have you heard of this new thing called smart phones, with 4G capability? These phones are not even required to plug into any cable or wire, fiber or otherwise - these newfangled "Mobile Phones" use WIRELESS connectivity.

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I saw a blue dress w/ black stripes.


Others saw a white dress with gold stripes.




Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

I saw a blue dress w/ black stripes.


Others saw a white dress with gold stripes.

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Today, everybody on The Talk wore that dress. Guest panelists were Lisa Kudrow and Alyssa Milano. They both are supposed to be smarter than the rest.

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WTH is " The Talk " , and why are you watching ?

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
WTH is " The Talk " , and why are you watching ?

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Some show that comes on after Craig Ferguson's Celebrity Name Game. It normally has Aisha Tyler, Sharon Osborne, Sara Gilbert, and the Chen married to Moonves, so not worth watching. But Alyssa and Lisa are rumored to have some sense in their heads, so I wanted to see if they were allowed to talk. Gilbert is on maternity leave with her wife, so there might be some reasonable chicks on the show until her return.

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Aisha Tyler = Agent Lana Kane. Archer.

That's all I need to know. All the others may be excused.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Gilbert is on maternity leave with her wife

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What was it Mal said ... "Oh God, I can't know that!"

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Sorry, Big Government is not the harbinger of competition that you seem to think it is.-JSF

Who do you think designed the internet anyway? (No, not Al Gore.) Do you KNOW? If you did, you wouldn't have made such an ignorant statement! -SIGNY

Shirley you jest. Perhaps you are merely pretending to be blissfully ignorant while asking if somebody else is ignorant. Could that be?
For those reading and interested, the origins of the internet which Algore invented arose from a project within DARPA (yes, the D stands for Defense, which translates to MILITARY)...

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...which translates to government...

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to provide exclusively to research facilities, and only between them - the military did not intend to freely share worldwide all of it's military secrets (aka Advancements), as Siggy would seem to have you believe - a SECURE and high-speed communications system and protocol. This was highly exclusive, highly exclusionary, available to only projects and research which fell within the DARPA umbrella, and was paid for and utilized exclusively for Defense Research and among Defense-funded facilities.

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The special thing about the DARPA-net wasn't that it was secure, but that it was designed to be un-interruptable because it was DISTRIBUTED.

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- blah blah blah- JSF

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Shirley, it must be the same enormous project to revamp every tower in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea as it must be in USA.

Do you even know how to read? They don't use towers, they use fiberoptic cable. - SIGNY

Shirley you must have a point here.
somewhere.
It must be immeasurably easier to replace every fiber instead of merely the box in the tower.

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What do you think connects the towers?

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Today's users of mobile devices depend on wireless connections for their voice, data and even video communications. Even homes and businesses may depend on wireless, especially those who are not in urban or suburban areas served by FTTH (fiber to the home) or FTTC (fiber to the curb.) Some of us in the business now use the term FTTW for fiber to wireless, since wireless depends on fiber for the communications backbone and increasingly the connection to the wireless antennas, no matter what kinds of wireless we use.

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http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/appln/wireless.html

So even "wireless" isn't really "wireless". It's true that the slowest part of the connection is the last 100 feet (or 1/8 mile if you're talking cell towers) but there's really no such thing as a "wireless" internet. Even satellite connections at some point rely on cable.

WHY IS US INTERNET SO SLOW AND EXPENSIVE?- CNN

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(CNN) -- People in the United States basically invented the Internet. So U.S. connections must be the fastest and cheapest in the world, right?

Not so much.

Broadband Internet speeds in the United States are only about one-fourth as fast as those in South Korea, the world leader, according to the Internet monitoring firm Akamai.

And, as if to add insult to injury, U.S. Internet connections are more expensive than those in South Korea, too.

The slower connection here in the U.S. costs about $45.50 per month on average, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In South Korea, the much-faster hookup costs $17 per month less. An average broadband bill there runs about $28.50.

So why is U.S. Internet so much slower and pricier than broadband connections in South Korea?....


Countries with fast, cheap Internet connections tend to have more competition.

In the U.S., competition among companies that provide broadband connections is relatively slim. Most people choose between a cable company and a telephone company when they sign up for Internet service.

In other countries, including South Korea, the choices are more varied....

There is vigorous debate in the telecommunications world about the role "open networks" have in creating fast, cheap Internet connec

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