Posted on 02/02/2008 4:28:42 PM PST by SJackson
What a pantload of a worthless article. Apparently this libwit socialist does not know that BJ Clinton did not use email either, and many politicians feel they must avoid it b/c they do not want their personal communications leaked to the media. Of course, in the age of leftist treason our govt is riddled with treasonous moles who will leak anything useful to the MSM, and in the present case that means anything that will undermine the WH and undermine the War on Terror.
I remember reading an article that years ago the French government was going to have everybody connected to an internet system designed by the French. At the time it was the most state of the art system in the world. Only problem was that it wasn’t as popular with the French people as the non government internet is with people elsewhere.
There is plenty of other examples in history of government involvement retarding a technology. My favorite is the War Department funding Samuel Langley while the Wright Brothers ended up inventing the plane.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Samuel_Langley.htm
It’s in the Constitution.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of YouTube.
Whata buncha BS. There are hugh rural areas in the US where broadband is not available.
Some might say that satellite broadband is available everywhere. That may be true, but the cost is outrageous ($80+/month just for the basics) and the service can be pretty flaky.
George did use email before he became President. He and his daughters and his father used to exchange emails frequently, and he used to surf the net a lot, too.
But he wanted his communications with his family to be private, so he had to stop writing them by email, BECAUSE under freedom of information and Congressional oversight, his emails can be read or suppoened by almost anyone.
He phones now by landline, and they phone him.
Small service areas.
It’s trouble every time. Best to not respond to anything at all.
If Pres. Bush had used the telephone in the way that ex42 did, you can be sure that the conversations would have been leaked. Ex42 is probably the worst person ever to inhabit the oval office.
President Bush does not use e-mail. The most secretive chief executive since Richard Nixon does not want to risk having his digital communications revealed as part of the official record of the republic he is sworn to serve and protect.
What's that old expression?
"No sh*t Sherlock."
This policy was announced at the beginning of President Bush's administration. If he had used e-mail, the Democrats in Congress surely would have tried to subpoena it several times.
I don't like the tone of the article, but it is true that the private sector is failing to deliver broadband service on a national scale. The telco utility monopolies are more like bureaucratic quasi-governmental agencies than an example of free enterprise. In return for their use of the public right-of-way, their eminent domain powers, and their rent-free passage through everyones private property, I think it is reasonable to expect them to do a much better job in wireline broadband deployment than they have.
The one company that has the right idea is Verizon with their FIOS network. I've heard that it has an inefficient architecture that will hamper its potential, but they deserve credit for trying to deploy ubiquitous fiber-to-the-premises.
The Clintons did not use email, either. It was a matter of security. All emails had to be backed up, and we all know that the Clintons didn’t want any back up of a lot of their communications.
Lincoln used e-mail. He weren’t afeared a nuffin’.
The Capital Times can do certain anatomically impossible things to itself, as far as I’m concerned.
This is one of those articles that makes you stupider for having read it.
Small service areas.
No kidding! Try getting high-speed Internet access in rural Nevada.
Huffman, Texas was no walk in the park either.
This article implies that broadband has become less widespread in the US, when the truth is that we have most of a continent and a place like Monaco has a few acres.
Whatever. It’s Bush’s fault.
btt
Now, as Bush enters his last year in office, the United States has dropped to 15th place.
Nonsense. We bought our brand new home and on the day we moved in, we had broadband turned on and good to go. This is a new area with 100% new homes. In 2001, it was unheard of to have broadband in place so quickly with new developments and new homes. In fact, getting broadband hooked up in 2000 was absolute MURDER with the way the telcos screwed around if you didn't buy their DSL service.
This "article" is nothing but out-and-out lies and distortions. It is not to be believed.
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