U.S. is 15 years behind South Korea in Internet speed [says a Union]

Biz Journals ^ | Steven Brown

[DieHard the Hunter]

> you are probably being paid by soros to post this here.

Don’t be insolent as well as ignorant.

> we are not falling for you socialists, who want government to own companies. this is called facism.

No, it is called an effective use of resource. When your country is small it is not effective to try to introduce competition into every business endeavor. That invariably leads to collusion, corruption, inefficiency and higher prices.

Sometimes it really is best to let the Government run things.

> you need to be educated probably. new mexico is a bad state, went obama for a reason, no wonder your phones dont work.

Maybe you need to be educated properly: after all, we managed to elect a Conservative government last November, and you managed to elect a Socialist.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[slowhandluke]

When your country is small it is not effective to try to introduce competition into every business endeavor. That invariably leads to collusion, corruption, inefficiency and higher prices.

Around here, it's usually the government activities that lead to collusion, corruption, inefficiency and higher prices. The Kelo decision is a good example.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Even though the US created the internet, we have a 100 year old infrastructure built on copper wires. South Korea is installing 4th generation information technology as framework while the US is still swapping out 1st generation. South Korea is a little bigger than Indiana so cut us some slack. We can't really swing into the next generation until there are enough illegals here to do the cabling.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Around here, it’s usually the government activities that lead to collusion, corruption, inefficiency and higher prices. The Kelo decision is a good example.

Government corruption does happen in NZ, but it tends to be small-time stuff by lone operators and usually not at a senior level.

The really mind-blowingly astonishing corruption is usually orchestrated and driven by the private sector here, and may also involve some hi-level governmental protection.

Probably the best known (and certainly not the only) example of this was the “Winebox Affair”, a conspiracy to defraud the revenues of Nations around the globe using fraudulent tax receipts from the Cook Islands, a NZ Protectorate.

Amazingly, tho’ the conspiracy was blown wide open, no convictions were ever entered — leaving little doubt of hi-level protection from somewhere.

How much money was ultimately defrauded is any man’s guess.

[slowhandluke]

The really mind-blowingly astonishing corruption is usually orchestrated and driven by the private sector here, and may also involve some hi-level governmental protection.

Which makes it government corruption, in my opinion.

The mind-blowing astonishing corruption around here can be seen in:

• Public schools - huge money, trivial results.
• Medicare/Medicaid - huge fraud, trivial amounts spent on fraud detection.
• Fanny/Freddy - the Government agencies involved in home mortgages - the administrators got millions while these pseudo-private organizations went bankrupt
• The Mortgage scam - The congress (and Bush) set up the drive to make sure everybody who could fog a mirror could get one or more house loans, and set up the mechanism for Fanny and Freddy to bundle those loans and sell them to Goldman Sachs, Lehmann and others who went bad.
• It was our fearless, feckless leaders who took a $trillion bucks to give away via TARP to undisclosed folks.
• It was our fearless, feckless leaders who want to spend a $trillion bucks on a stimulus program but also want to wait until the next election to spend most of it.
• Bernie Madoff made headlines in every paper in the country for a $20B scam. Yet Congress can build 20 separate billion dollar bridges to nowhere and not raise an eyebrow.
• Our government is handling billions to partisan political organizations such as ACORN, and nobody bats an eye. Yet if I give $2001 to a politician, it's a felony.

Nothing in the private sector comes close.

And that's true at the state level as well. Generally, only the scams with government protection get to be of much size at all.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Which makes it government corruption, in my opinion.

More likely the connexion would be Rugby Tie or School Tie. The government thing would be incidental.

[joey703]

it looks like another natural advantage that these rice civilizations have (from their high population densities)...