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To: knarf

You can’t.

You’re asking for electrical service without powerlines, prepackaged foods without grocery stores, books without publishers. Ain’t happenin’.

To connect to FR (or whatever website or other internet-connected computer) you need to rent space/time on the infrastructure between FR and you. The owner of that infrastructure, or whatever piece thereof you’re going to connect to, _is_ your ISP. SOMEBODY owns whatever piece of the internet you’re using to connect, and you’re going to have to pay for that connection. Your only alternative is drive to CA, find Jim Robinson, and talk him into letting you plug into the FR computer(s) directly.

Remember: ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. If you want internet service, you’re going to pay someone to provide it to you. “The Internet” is not free; it’s toll roads the whole way.


15 posted on 04/01/2010 5:14:05 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (+)
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To: ctdonath2
OK ... now I go esoteric ... or mad ...

The computer is electrons, right?

Cleverly put together, but electrons nonetheless.

If so, are those electrons SO trapped withing a wire or satalite signal they can't be captured some other way?

Yeah ... I guess it IS stealing, in a way .... but like HAM radio and CB's ... a not too expensive outlay gets communication.

Why couldn't a HAM operator "get" the signal?

19 posted on 04/01/2010 5:20:17 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: ctdonath2
OK ... now I go esoteric ... or mad ...

The computer is electrons, right?

Cleverly put together, but electrons nonetheless.

If so, are those electrons SO trapped withing a wire or satalite signal they can't be captured some other way?

Yeah ... I guess it IS stealing, in a way .... but like HAM radio and CB's ... a not too expensive outlay gets communication.

Why couldn't a HAM operator "get" the signal?

22 posted on 04/01/2010 5:21:46 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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