Re: I think too many people are downloading 10g database

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<402cadab$0$18304$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Joel Garry" <joel-garry_at_home.com> wrote in message
> news:91884734.0402121746.53df4e3_at_posting.google.com...
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> > Hey, offer to build these guys' asia/pacific region :-)
> > http://www.currenttechnologies.com/
> >
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> been done. they were called Powerlan and are now a non-entity:
> funding dried up. Energy Australia might be interested,
> their network of distribution is ginormous.

US is pushing it:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-243879A1.pdf

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> Mind you, I still think this broadband thing has to be approached
> from the point of view of government infrastructures. Just like roads,
> parks, schools, etcetc.

Yeah! Raise taxes and do it!

http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2003/12/reed_hundt_on_b.html

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> Get local councils to install and operate the local broadband piping,
> as part of their social infra-structure obligation.
> Then concentrate and connect them to main channels, leased from private
> industry.

Local councils can be stupid! It's newsworthy when they are not. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego-sub/access/536445741.html?FMT=FT&FMTS=FT&date=Jan+31,+2004&desc=Committee+lets+plan+to+build+traffic+circles+move+forward

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> This way, one doesn't get into a dirty fight with pernickety local
> council laws and restrictions, while users still get competition in
> provision of main thoroughfares.

You get into persnickity fights with private industry, then.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/news/news_1n15power.html

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> Very much like what happens now with roads: councils take care of local
> roads, main freeways or motorways are privately owned. Council roads
> connect to them on common access points. Makes a lot of sense. Councils
> are dimensioned to take care of smaller roads while big companies can
> attack the problem of maintaining main thoroughfares efficiently.

You obviously haven't driven on my road. ;-)

(I live on the border of a city and county. Technically, I'm in the county, and the city has an agreement to maintain the road. The city doesn't have enough money. The county funding is dropping, thanks to our political, uh, situation. Road does not get fixed. In fact, road is not where it is supposed to be in the first place. Road is being hacked up by developer. At least they are undergrounding the wires. I'm just glad I'm not near a main thoroughfare.)

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> I can't even begin to understand the waste we have here with TWO
> main broadband hardware channels in front of where I live and none where
> HJR lives. Ridiculous waste.

People laugh at me, but I still maintain that raising progressive taxes to give cheap broadband to everyone is a good thing for a government to do.

jg

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