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Yeah, see my above comment. Starlink is coming and going to make 81% of that shit obsolete anyways. Per usual, Warren is just pandering free shit for votes. Big surprise.PurpleThrobber said:You guys live in the outer zone of food stamps too much when it comes to situations where government can actually do some good.
When I'm talking rural high speed access, I"m talking like farmers, ranchers, maybe young people who are techies and want to keep living Bumfuck, Montana and take care of grandpa instead of venturing to the godforsaken city of Seattle or San Fran.
Not everybody has a T-1 line or Google fiber running along their dirt road. -
If that Tribal area has a casino it has broadband and I'm not even being a smartass
PBS had a 4 part series called Blue Skies about aerospace and space development in Southern California.UW_Doog_Bot said:
"Oh but there's no way the private sector will ever have enough capital to do this without the government!"
[Starlink is a satellite constellation development project underway by American company SpaceX,[1][2] to develop a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and requisite customer ground transceivers to implement a new space-based Internet communication system.[3][4] SpaceX also plans to sell satellites that use a satellite bus that may be used for military,[5] scientific or exploratory purposes.[6]
Starlink constellation, phase 1, first orbital shell: approximately 1,600 satellites at 550 km altitude
SpaceX has plans to deploy nearly 12,000 satellites in three orbital shells by the mid-2020s: initially placing approximately 1600 in a 550-kilometer (340 mi)-altitude shell, subsequently placing ~2800 Ku- and Ka-band spectrum satellites at 1,150 km (710 mi) and ~7500 V-band satellites at 340 km (210 mi).[7] The total cost of the decade-long project to design, build and deploy such a network was estimated by SpaceX in May 2018 to be on the order of US$10 billion.[8]
Product development began in 2015, and two prototype test-flight satellites were launched in February 2018. A second set of test satellites and the first large deployment of a piece of the constellation occurred on 24 May 2019 (UTC) when the first 60 operational satellites were launched.[1][9] Initial commercial operation of the constellation could begin in 2020.[10]
The SpaceX satellite development facility in Redmond, Washington, houses the research, development, manufacturing and on-orbit control operations for the satellite Internet project.]
Much like California's high speed rail, by the time the government gets around to actually building it after wasting trillions of dollars it will be obsolete.
The last one was on current day and all the private firms doing the work. Space X gets the free pub but their are dozens of companies just like the good old days when there were 4 or 5 major government contractors.
Guess who is getting better results for less money?
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I have some bad news for you.PurpleThrobber said:The purpose of government is to provide services, infrastructure and defense that the private sector can't or won't take on.
If the cost of providing essentially the national highway system of the 21st Century to rural areas, so be it. If the private sector is not providing comparable 'roads' and is cherry-picking only high volume/high traffic metropolitan areas without making any attempt to upgrade the rurals, that's a problem. We? need farmers and agrarians to feed the masses in the cities. We need them to want to stay in the wheatfields and ranches growing goddamned delicious food. A national high-speed network is something The Throbber can get behind.
Now, that said (and Jake Browning still does suck), the only caveat would be if the gubmint makes a concerted effort to track, monitor and prohibit interweb usage....that ain't cool. Treat it like a utility - and I'm 99.9% sure the power company doesn't know when I plug in mydildophone charger, I sure as fuck don't want Big Bro watching porn with me over my cyber-shoulder. -
Fiber or some other ditch digging connectivity to low population density Red State areas is stupid. And I'm sure it's exactly what WarrenNET would do. Fixed point wireless is what makes sense, be it satellite or 5G (obk?) or whatever. I will say, I had Hughes satellite 15 years ago or so and it was terrible. Unusable.
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53 seconds -didn't see it.UW_Doog_Bot said:
Yeah, see my above comment. Starlink is coming and going to make 81% of that shit obsolete anyways. Per usual, Warren is just pandering free shit for votes. Big surprise.PurpleThrobber said:You guys live in the outer zone of food stamps too much when it comes to situations where government can actually do some good.
When I'm talking rural high speed access, I"m talking like farmers, ranchers, maybe young people who are techies and want to keep living Bumfuck, Montana and take care of grandpa instead of venturing to the godforsaken city of Seattle or San Fran.
Not everybody has a T-1 line or Google fiber running along their dirt road.
I'll stick with my point. IF private enterprise doesn't step up, that's when the gubmint has to step up. Don't really care who or how - but strengthening the country's network should be A-1 priority.
I want goddamned 9G at my palatial inland lake lodge. All day every day.
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6% of the population lacks access to high speed internet. How many of that 6% even wants high speed internet? There is no fucking way we should create a massive federal bureaucracy to satisfy the desire of 3% (and that number is being charitable) of the population. Part of living in the sticks is about the things you choose to go without and I say this as someone who grew up in the sticks and who still has relatives that live in areas that lack high speed internet.PurpleThrobber said:You guys live in the outer zone of food stamps too much when it comes to situations where government can actually do some good.
When I'm talking rural high speed access, I"m talking like farmers, ranchers, maybe young people who are techies and want to keep living Bumfuck, Montana and take care of grandpa instead of venturing to the godforsaken city of Seattle or San Fran.
Not everybody has a T-1 line or Google fiber running along their dirt road. -
Hondo bros gassed out of this thread earlier than usual
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You clearly haven't read anything I posted.SFGbob said:
6% of the population lacks access to high speed internet. How many of that 6% even wants high speed internet? There is no fucking way we should create a massive federal bureaucracy to satisfy the desire of 3% (and that number is being charitable) of the population. Part of living in the sticks is about the things you choose to go without and I say this as someone who grew up in the sticks and who still has relatives that live in areas that lack high speed internet.PurpleThrobber said:You guys live in the outer zone of food stamps too much when it comes to situations where government can actually do some good.
When I'm talking rural high speed access, I"m talking like farmers, ranchers, maybe young people who are techies and want to keep living Bumfuck, Montana and take care of grandpa instead of venturing to the godforsaken city of Seattle or San Fran.
Not everybody has a T-1 line or Google fiber running along their dirt road.
You've got your Fios. Fuck those who live elsewhere or would consider living elsewhere than the mecca of tech.
Christ, now I have to go give myself another timeout. This sucks being on the left.
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I read it.PurpleThrobber said:
You clearly haven't read anything I posted.SFGbob said:
6% of the population lacks access to high speed internet. How many of that 6% even wants high speed internet? There is no fucking way we should create a massive federal bureaucracy to satisfy the desire of 3% (and that number is being charitable) of the population. Part of living in the sticks is about the things you choose to go without and I say this as someone who grew up in the sticks and who still has relatives that live in areas that lack high speed internet.PurpleThrobber said:You guys live in the outer zone of food stamps too much when it comes to situations where government can actually do some good.
When I'm talking rural high speed access, I"m talking like farmers, ranchers, maybe young people who are techies and want to keep living Bumfuck, Montana and take care of grandpa instead of venturing to the godforsaken city of Seattle or San Fran.
Not everybody has a T-1 line or Google fiber running along their dirt road.
You've got your Fios. Fuck those who live elsewhere or would consider living elsewhere than the mecca of tech.
Christ, now I have to go give myself another timeout. This sucks being on the left.
The purpose of government is to provide services, infrastructure and defense that the private sector can't or won't take on.
If the cost of providing essentially the national highway system of the 21st Century to rural areas, so be it -
Tim for a walk to gain some perspective, and maybe a bar of LTE.PurpleThrobber said:
You clearly haven't read anything I posted.SFGbob said:
6% of the population lacks access to high speed internet. How many of that 6% even wants high speed internet? There is no fucking way we should create a massive federal bureaucracy to satisfy the desire of 3% (and that number is being charitable) of the population. Part of living in the sticks is about the things you choose to go without and I say this as someone who grew up in the sticks and who still has relatives that live in areas that lack high speed internet.PurpleThrobber said:You guys live in the outer zone of food stamps too much when it comes to situations where government can actually do some good.
When I'm talking rural high speed access, I"m talking like farmers, ranchers, maybe young people who are techies and want to keep living Bumfuck, Montana and take care of grandpa instead of venturing to the godforsaken city of Seattle or San Fran.
Not everybody has a T-1 line or Google fiber running along their dirt road.
You've got your Fios. Fuck those who live elsewhere or would consider living elsewhere than the mecca of tech.
Christ, now I have to go give myself another timeout. This sucks being on the left.
