Municipal Wi-Fi Failing, Earthlink Pulls Out [leaving low income families in a lurch......]

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[mnehring]

There is no such thing as free. Even the air you breath is the product of a system that required elements to be invested in a system (co2 into plants) and that system to produce something.. This entire mindset that anything should be free is a fallacy.

[Red Badger]

Everything free in America............

[pabianice]

Wi Fi over your electric lines is coming.

[Moose4]

Yeah, but as a resident of Nifongville, I wouldn’t trust free wifi in Carrboro. They probably block access to Free Republic and redirect your browser to the DNC website or something. :)

(For non-North Carolinians: Carrboro is right next to Chapel Hell, home to the University of North Carolina, and probably the most liberal spot in the entire state. Only Asheville, aka Berzerkely East, comes close.)

}:-)4

[krb]

True, moose, it is pretty damn liberal. But they know how to investigate crime when it happens. And it doesn't happen that much, except maybe when we export some of it south down 15-501 their way.

[AlexW]

“Only Asheville, aka Berzerkely East, comes close.)”

Wow, I had no idea.
I had relatives there in the 50s and it was a favorite
vacation spot.
What turned those hardy mountain folk liberal??
It just does not make sense.

[Wuli]

““If we don’t have Internet, that means I’ve got to take the bus to the public library after dark, and around here, that’s not always real safe.””

they need to move, even if it means migrating to states that still generate new jobs

[endthematrix]

"“If we don’t have Internet, that means I’ve got to take the bus to the public library after dark, and around here, that’s not always real safe.” "

Classic! The city isn't safe - but keep the public bus, library and an Internet free! Government must give Internet for Safety?

What's that quote again? "They that ask for Gov't Wi-FI to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Wi-FI nor safety."

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

Chapel Hell

UNC - Beijing. :>))

[Wuli]

the more intelligent members of their communities have done what smart people, poor as well as rich, have always done - moved someplace better, where jobs were more plentiful and they could, through work, buy the things they thought they ‘deserved’

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

What turned those hardy mountain folk liberal??

They have a large lesbian population. Lipstick lesbians to boot. They are hot but they like each other.

[Straight Vermonter]

DSL is available for $0.50 per day. It’s hard to imagine that someone could not afford it.

[AlexW]

“They have a large lesbian population.”

I understand now.
I know that gays tend to settle in and take over the
aesthetically pleasing areas.
They are usually the most extreme leftist.

[AlexW]

“Politicos will blame it on the service provider, not their marxist intentions.”

Yea and where is the free electricity, water, gas, telephone, and cable TV?
If he can't pay a lousy $15 for Internet, how can he afford a computer?

[BallyBill]

Al Gore invents the Internet and then keeps it for the rich.

Typical White Dude.

[jimmyray]

Wi Fi over your electric lines is coming.

Does this mean electric power will be beamed to my house? :-)

[SlapHappyPappy]

I am reminded of the fact that consumer lenders (not just the payday loan places) that list collateral are not allowed to use a television as collateral if it would leave the family without one. The courts have determined that people have a right to at least one television. I guess now there is a “right” to free high speed wireless Internet.

[JerseyHighlander]

The city of Philadelphia is to blame, they spent less than $20,000 total on promoting the WiFi service.

No one in Philly outside of tech geeks even knew it the WiFi network was operational.

[farlander]

Preaching to the choir. I kept trying to explain that concept, and then we get into the whole ‘the rich should pay for it’. I pretty much gave up as I started getting fun and interesting thoughts of bashing the head in of the guy I was debating with with a baseball bat.