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Off Topic: Hope the moderator...and the
room...will indulge this lengthy reply:
Concerning the status of Internet connection
technology development and its low connectivity levels in America, I saw the
following written somewhere. I think it had something to do with a
comparison to the high level of rural coverage in the delivery
service of the UPS company.
"When Hoover, who had insinuated himself into a
high position in the Harding and Coolidge administrations, culminating in a
cabinet post of Commerce, used his influence to promote the mistaken idea of
central planning in the new science of radio, rather than leave the new property
that radio pioneers were creating in radio wave broadcast frequencies to
existing property rights law, which was entirely adequate to the circumstances
and the Field enterprises found out in their case against frequency
infringement. This matter was decided appropriately in the normal course
of private legal disputes by Chicago judge Chancellor. Men discovered that
a 50 kilocycle distance was sufficient to protect property rights in this new
field of science, commerce and industry."
"Had Washington (D.C.) left well enough
alone there would never have been any need for an FCC or federal legislation of
any kind. But as we have seen in the years since then, politicians, and
the political entrepreneurs who ply them, are ambitious and avaricious
beings; who apply everything they learn in prison to what they promote from the
awesome authority of their collusive executive, judicial, and
legislative perches, whether elected or appointed."
"If you want to see what FCC alone would have
done commercializing access to the Internet all you have to do is look
at dial-up. This relic of experimentation, long ago discarded by industry as
an inappropriately spare pathway for a demanding public clientele, is
still maintained by the coercive force of regulation in what can only be
described as a profoundly anti-competitive wall of restriction thrown up against
the populace with mendacious effect, productive largely of antiquated
Mercantilist techniques of political protectionism for a favored few
who would rather benefit from restrictions against their competition than
undertake the effort of riding along the wave right behind them.
("The aversion to reality of this political
class of society was so thorough and intense it could not even
accommodate the award of the radio patents to the proper inventor, until the
outcome of his suit pothsumously removed the artificial glory from the Italian
usurper, Marconi. US Supreme Court finally returned the honor of the discovery
of radio to the inventor Tesla, whose patents Marconi used without
permission. The dishonesty and ineptness of political rule is always
counterproductive to the peace and prosperity of the subjected
citizenry.Such actions, so praised by
political punditry, if attributed to an enemy, would be considered acts of
war."
"But US is a large enough market to support a
flurry of competitors in almost any field of productive enterprise; "Old World"
bounties, favors and subsidies to selected partisan producers, being
elevated above the competitive efforts of others, is (supposedly, in the "New
World", post 1775) no longer accepted as having any economic justification,
(if it ever did)."
"When coercive utopianism is dissected it often
reveals the base and crude criminality of the common strongman and thief,
protected by a naked ruler, collusive court and somnambulant citizenry.
Still, in our brief time among men we have seen the dissipation of powerful
factions of political entrepreneurs together with the implosion of the rickety,
suffocating and stifling apparatus of social arrangement and control they
originated in their Devilish fortnights of plunder, divvying up all they
could grasp inside their cave..."
MR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:54
PM
Subject: [amibroker] Re: OT:Two DSL
Services
> Here in Japan, population density means that
almost everyone has
> access to reasonably priced 100 mbps glass.
And since Japan tries to
> balance market economics with at least some
semblance of
> egalitarianism, we city folk pay a small premium over
what the market
> would normally call for, in order to provide the
service to our
> country cousins at a price they can afford.
>
> Try getting that idea across in the States, and good luck.
^_^
>
> Yuki
Again, only one point of
view.
During the 90's, so many US$ were poured into
broadband
infrastructure, only to be margainilized by the US FCC which
was
lobbied by other competing communications interests that
competed
against nationwide broadband.
Forgive my mis-spellings
(it's late).
Our major telecomunication providers were required by law
(FCC
Requirements) to provide competing wholesale operations with
'below
cost' business rates of telecommunications for consumer
pricing.
As a result, major US telecommunication providers just
withheld
broadband from the market rather than give competators access to
the
technology at below market cost rates.
And so, here in the US,
because of artificial governmental regulatory
policy, our major telecom
providers have with-held broadband for
competative reasons (and
self-defensive reasons).
Once we are able to obtain fair FCC treatment
of ownership rights,
then we will see fair distribution of broadband
nationwide.
Just My
Opinion.
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