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October 28, 2004

If you can’t vote

by @ 5:25 pm. Filed under political perspective

Here (sorry-pdf) is a card with instruction on what to do if you have problem or are turned away while trying to vote.

I doubt that I’d have a problem. From the amount of political physical spam-mail I get (I think the NRA sold my name to the Republicans and the ACLU sold my name to the Democrats - thus I have generic signed photographs of both Clinton and Bush) I’m probably whitelisted for full access.

Where’s my superbroadband?

by @ 5:05 pm. Filed under Technology

This is pretty obvious - if you have only one choice in high speed internet, how can competition happen? Remember that much of the telephone physical infrastructure was paid for by the us government. Why should it become the exclusive right of one telecom? In the case of cable, they should only have to share it if they received free access or something in exchange for providing public communication services.
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(Washington, D.C.) - The Bush Administration’s Internet policy has resulted in high prices that are retarding the spread of high-speed Internet service and widening the digital divide, a report released today by the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union concluded.

“Allowing cable and telephone companies to squeeze out competition is a double-barreled failure,” said Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America. “Americans pay ten to twenty times as much as consumers in Korea and Japan for broadband, and the U.S. has fallen from third to thirteenth in the world in the percentage of citizens with broadband service. Meanwhile, the percentage of households
that have the Internet at home has stagnated at about 60 percent.”

http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/ddnewbook.pdf

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