On Thursday 19 October 2006 4:47 am, Jim Worrest wrote:
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0I should be able to replay from
my VCR, the last =
half hour I did
> see "live" and that looked very good also,
but that had almost nothing to
> do with the Internet. ---Jim
Actually, it tied in very well with the part of the program
you didn't see.=
=20
The basic idea is that like the previous technology
watersheds before the=20
Internet (telegraph, railroad, radio and TV) the giant
corporations use the=
ir=20
money to influence both politicians (which is significantly
much easier now=
=20
that "campaign contributions" can legally be
converted to private use if th=
e=20
politician doesn't run for re-election) and the voters. We
have seen only=
=20
all to well how bribes^^^^^^ er, "campaign
contributions" have resulted in=
=20
the DMCA, and is well on the way to making the sale of PCs
sans the Microso=
ft=20
patented DRM chip illegal. The voters are being swayed by
FUD designed to=
=20
make the phone and cable companies POV look rational.
What the first part of the program documented was that in
the early 1990's=
=20
communities were pushing for the installation of fiber
optics (which I=20
remember well because I had my yard dug up when they
planted a fiber opt=
ic=20
cable run through it.) and the phone companies stepped in
and said "we'll=20
install the fiber optiic cables if you'll give us tax breaks
and other=20
incentives". The phone companies got BILLIONS in
breaks but never carried=
=20
out their promise to install the fiber optics.
Reason" collusion betwee=
n=20
the companies and the governmental watch dog agencies whose
job it was to=
=20
make them keep their promises.
To combat the robbers barons of the past congress finally
passed the "commo=
n=20
carrier" regulations, which outlawed the practices of
the owners of the =20
telegraph, railroad, radio and television technologies.
Prior to that ac=
t=20
the RR owners, for example, would give one rate to their
special friends, a=
nd=20
another, higher rate to those less favored, who soon went
out of business. =
=20
Telegraph and radio owners did the same practices. But,
in August of 200=
5=20
congress gutted the common-carriers act, opening the door
for the formation=
=20
of radio and tv monopolies or deuopoloies. =20
What the phone and cable companies want to do is NOT
upgrade the copper wi=
re=20
infrastructure to more modern and hundreds of times faster
fiber optic. =20
Nooooo. They want to avoid that expense by
"splitting" the US portion of t=
he =20
internet into a fast lane and a slow lane, and double dip
at both ends of=
f=20
the internet pipeline, by making certain internet sites pay
a higher rate f=
or=20
the privilege of using the faster "lane".
Overall, the speed of the US=20
internet won't increase (it can't with just cooper wire),
its just that you=
r=20
packets will be made to take more jumps and have a shorter
"time to live=
"=20
than packets of folks who pay premium rates. =20
The solution is simple. Throw the current lot of greedy
($#)(%* politici=
ans=20
out of office and vote into office folks who understand the
rights of the=20
community over the "corporations" and their paid
lobbyists, and to restore=
=20
the "common-carriers" act, and make it illegal to
charge different rates f=
or=20
different kinds of packets.
GreyGeek
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