SBC woes

[Fairlight]

With neither thought nor caution, Jay Ashworth blurted:
> 
> The government are mostly Republicans; Big Businesses are good because
> they're good for larger campaign donations.

I'm not sure it actually matters who's in charge anymore.  The FCC is
more or less non-partisan, and they just sold us off into HDTV when the
standards aren't even fully implemented (1080i isn't actually fully
specified nor ratified from what I've read, even though it's supposedly the
best out there)--all so they could free up broadcast frequency space to
sell to the highest bidders.  

What ever happened to "public resource"?  That was the whole argument
behind regulating and protecting the spectrum in the first place.  Then
they slap us in the face by reallocating the space to the highest bidders
and forcing the market into something we're -not- fully ready for yet, and
putting half-arsed programs into place to (partially) fill the gaps they're
leaving.

Let's not forget the practically silent deregulation of DSL that just put
it squarely in the hands of the telcos, leaving no local recourse at all;
you have a problem, you -have- to take it to D.C. now.

> -- jr 'Where's the outrage?  Over there, in the corner, in a box' a

I like that.  Sad, but it cracked me up anyway due to sheer dramatic irony.
Matches one of my newer favourites:

"When did our choice become erased? 
Where is the violence in this crowd? 
Now that our voice has been replaced
with a silence that screams out loud..."  --Le Bon

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