DUmbass Zalatix wants to restrict hi speed internet to liberals only

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TheMightyFavog


 
Darwin, CA, the town trapped by dialup internet.


Just to the west of California's Death Valley, residents of Darwin have been trying to get connected to the broadband internet age.

For some of the 35 residents in town, loading a regular web page at 28kb/s can take several minutes and is not always guaranteed to work out.

While others were able to upgrade to a government-funded satellite system that is much faster, it comes with strict data limits per day which make video streaming nearly impossible.

"We are not saying we want to be given anything," says resident Kathy Goss. "We found our own potential solutions and we are willing to pay what it takes to get the hardware installed."


It's not just here. Heck in my home county we have swaths of rural areas who are in the same pickle. Their only choice for internet is Dsialup or nothing. Broadband won't come out there. There's no money in it for the providers. What we need is a 21st century TVA/REA. Only instead of bringing electricity to rural areas, it would bring broadband internet to rural areas.

Innocent enough, nothing to see here until...

Zalatix
1. Rural areas are mainly Conservative bastions.

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Do we really want them to add to the problems we already have with Freepers online?

Who is this "we" Zalatiz speaks of? Rural DUmmies stop the butter churning long enough to chide:

scarletwoman
7. Thanks a bunch. I live in a rural area with only dial-up, and there are plenty of other lefties

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around here. How about putting away your broad brush?

pacalo
16. There are a lot of DUers who might take offense to that.

And rightfully so.

Digging a little deeper:

Zalatix
23. I CHALLENGE YOU to show that what I said was untrue.

And the smackdown is thusly applied:

EOTE
27. Nothing untrue, but incredibly stupid.

It's hard for a question to be untrue, but it is extremely stupid and offensive. Should we deny those rural areas movie theaters too? How about fast food restaurants? How about we go about making the lives of those who don't live like us as miserable as possible? That you can't see the stupidity of that comment speaks volumes.

And poof Zalatix has disappeared on the thread.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[Rebel]

Zalatix
1. Rural areas are mainly Conservative bastions.

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Do we really want them to add to the problems we already have with Freepers online?

And the I.T. geeks that provide that service, engineer the networks, etc., are, for the most part, Libertarians or Conservatives who can't stand you Marxist ****s, you DUmbass. They don't get degrees in useless studies like basket weaving. 

[Tucker]

The cheap bastards can always get HughsNet. It's about 70 bucks a month, but high speed can be had.

The one important factor to consider when dealing with liberals is that the cost is irrelevant. If it cost them anything, it's too much.

They want someone else to pay for it.

[NHSparky]

Okay, so 35 people can't get ****ing 4G speed on their cell phones or Innerwebz.

This so reminds me of Sam Kinnison..."You see this?  This is SAND!  You know why you have so much of this?  YOU LIVE IN A ****ING DESERT!!!!  WE'RE GONNA MOVE TO WHERE THE INTERNET IS!!!!"

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The cheap bastards can always get HughsNet. It's about 70 bucks a month, but high speed can be had.

Yeah but it comes with a usage cap of 17,000 meg DL and only 5,000 meg UL per rolling 30-day period. Exceed your limit and they shut you off.

And you can't escape the limit.

It's a government reg.

[Tucker]

Yeah but it comes with a usage cap of 17,000 meg DL and only 5,000 meg UL per rolling 30-day period. Exceed your limit and they shut you off.

And you can't escape the limit.

It's a government reg.

Why is the Government involved?

This is the satellite system that GM (DirecTV) sold to Hughs.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Why is the Government involved?

This is the satellite system that GM (DirecTV) sold to Hughs.

I've got Wild Blue but when I was shopping I learned Hughes has the same cap.

I'm *guessing* it has something to do with the bandwidth the limited number of satellites can put through.

Of course if people were allowed to pay more money the company would have more capital to expand productivity.

But what the hell do I know, I'm just a free-market rabbit.

[Tucker]

I've got Wild Blue but when I was shopping I learned Hughes has the same cap.

I'm *guessing* it has something to do with the bandwidth the limited number of satellites can put through.

Of course if people were allowed to pay more money the company would have more capital to expand productivity.

But what the hell do I know, I'm just a free-market rabbit.

Is there anything that they put their hand on that isn't ****ed up?

A person can't get 5 Gig a month from their cell phone provider for 39.00 a month.

[Maxiest]

You said there was nothing to see in the OP?

It's not just here. Heck in my home county we have swaths of rural areas who are in the same pickle. Their only choice for internet is Dsialup or nothing. Broadband won't come out there. There's no money in it for the providers. What we need is a 21st century TVA/REA. Only instead of bringing electricity to rural areas, it would bring broadband internet to rural areas.

I disagree... a lot to see.  Of course nothing we don't already know.  This has been a topic on a talk show I listen to everyday. The fact that people think they have a "right" to high speed internet access in rural areas.  In fact I believe there was 7.2 billion in the Stimulus bill for broadband.  And these ****ers wonder why we have a deficit?  STOP SPENDING!!!!!!

[AllosaursRus]

TheMightyFavog


 
Darwin, CA, the town trapped by dialup internet.


Just to the west of California's Death Valley, residents of Darwin have been trying to get connected to the broadband internet age.

For some of the 35 residents in town, loading a regular web page at 28kb/s can take several minutes and is not always guaranteed to work out.

While others were able to upgrade to a government-funded satellite system that is much faster, it comes with strict data limits per day which make video streaming nearly impossible.

"We are not saying we want to be given anything," says resident Kathy Goss. "We found our own potential solutions and we are willing to pay what it takes to get the hardware installed."


It's not just here. Heck in my home county we have swaths of rural areas who are in the same pickle. Their only choice for internet is Dsialup or nothing. Broadband won't come out there. There's no money in it for the providers. What we need is a 21st century TVA/REA. Only instead of bringing electricity to rural areas, it would bring broadband internet to rural areas.

Oh **** you asshole!

Ya ever hear of WildBlue? It's a satellite service anyone on the planet can get! It's what I have, since I live outside the DSL web! Been on it for 10 years!

These people say they don't care about the cost? Then WildBlue oughta be right up their alley! For $80 you get 17 Gigs of download per 30 days. In 10 years, I have exceeded it twice.

You can't use it for a damn TV, but any music, or radio program rarely gets above 9 Gig/month! Sure as hell oughta take care of their needs!

Do some research before ya go shootin' off yer pie hole, TheMoronFrog! Ya have no idea what the **** yer talkin' about!

(edited to add)

HughsNet is who this moron is talkin' about limiting your daily downloads. They limit you to 400 MB's per day. Hell right now, they are offerin' free setup! It cost me $300+ to hook up to WildBlue!

[AllosaursRus]

Ya know, there is some research goin' on for broadband over a carrier signal on your power lines. They have been trials in certain areas. Unfortunately I wasn't in one of them, so I'm not sure how it is workin' out.

I do know many alarm systems use a carrier signal over the electric lines to monitor individual houses, and you can use a remote control in your home to turn on and off lights or appliances within the domicile.

[BlueStateSaint]

I do know many alarm systems use a carrier signal over the electric lines to monitor individual houses, and you can use a remote control in your home to turn on and off lights or appliances within the domicile.

Time Warner Cable has this "Intelligent Home" thing that probably works that way.

[delilahmused]

Is there anything that they put their hand on that isn't ****ed up?

A person can't get 5 Gig a month from their cell phone provider for 39.00 a month.

But 5G isn't available everywhere, either. Out here we don't get anything "G". We have a device that hooks up to our DSL that improves the signal but before that it was just the basic Edge wireless. When we first moved here we had to use satellite. Our DSL isn't the fastest in the world but it's faster than satellite.

Cindie

[Kyle Ricky]

What about winbeam? They are a wireless provider. We have a lot of farm land around where I live and a lot of people have it. they have towers in a couple of places. Plus they have DSL Co's in a couple of locations as well.

[GOBUCKS]

I have a friend in the boondocks in Ohio where the phone lines haven't been upgraded for DSL, and he can only get dialup or satellite.

The satellite is pretty fast, but if he downloads over 250MB in a day, they cut him off for 24 hours.

I was flabbergasted when he described it to me. I had no idea such limits existed.

[Rebel]

The satellite is pretty fast, but if he downloads over 250MB in a day, they cut him off for 24 hours.

Well, that would do it for me. I can d/l that in an hour. Not to mention, Netflix would be out.

[Kyle Ricky]

The satellite is pretty fast, but if he downloads over 250MB in a day, they cut him off for 24 hours.

I would drop them in a second. Like state above, that wouldn't last me an hour.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I would drop them in a second. Like state above, that wouldn't last me an hour.

For some of us it's that or modem.

You can't DL 250meg/day if you ran 24 hrs straight on a 56k line...assuming you actually get an actual 56k speed.

[Maxiest]

For some of us it's that or modem.

You can't DL 250meg/day if you ran 24 hrs straight on a 56k line...assuming you actually get an actual 56k speed.

UH??

Assuming you were getting actual 56k speed in a 24 hour period you could download about 576 megabytes.