SBC woes

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:33:38PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> I'm not sure it actually matters who's in charge anymore.  The FCC is
> more or less non-partisan,

Ah; they've sold you that bill of goods.  Nope; the FCC's decisions can
be discernably categorized into "we're non-partisan", and "that
ideological Republican just made chairman".

>                            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.  

Yep.

> 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.

You bet.

> 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.

I wish I could say <chuckle>...

> > -- 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.

I do my best...

> 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

Ah, Simon; we hardly knew ye...

Cheers,
-- jra
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