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To: neverdem

I live a half hour from downtown Chicago and I can’t even get DSL service. Just good ol’ 130 year old analog phone technology.


2 posted on 09/29/2009 11:28:42 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Post Toasties

DTE eliminated 50% of it’s linesmen in MI a couple of years ago. AT&T leases pole use. Poles are rotted out— +50 years old. The entire system is decrepit


4 posted on 09/30/2009 12:12:51 AM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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Good piece as far as it went, but the really dense energy source is Nuclear. I think Mr. Sandorff is correct about hydrocarbons for mobile applications,(trains,boats,planes,etc.) but Nuclear is very well suited to power our electrical grid. I hope we do not lose sight of that.
6 posted on 09/30/2009 2:50:16 AM PDT by Old North State
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To: Post Toasties

Post, you CAN get DSL equivalent service; you just aren’t willing to pay for it. There are satellite ISPs and cllular plans, but they are relatively costly.


10 posted on 09/30/2009 5:04:30 AM PDT by Zippo44 (Liberal: another word for poltroon.)
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