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Vote how you will it's your choice just don't vote just because someone is going to be the first....we tried that experiment with barry and even though he said what bush did with the national debt was "unpatriotic" he grew the debt more than all presidents combined including bush and has given us a bigger racial divide and made us much less safe.

Anyway be informed. This is a short clip talking about how mean spirited Hillary is behind closed doors. Not an opinion first hand account from the secret service who were bound to serve her as First Lady.

Not Hillary for president...Hillary for prison

https://youtu.be/gUbnGGwhkfw

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@TallJames: I was just kidding about google'ing stuff :-) No, I did not look these things up on Google.

There is a fiber optic network, that's not totally utilized, that spans nationally, over high voltage power lines, seeping into every single community, through medium voltage power lines. If you want to be a WISP, then you should probably be OK leasing/buying data through this network. If you want to run fiber to every home in the rural community, then that's a different story, as last mile is not 100% built up with fiber.

What stuns me, is that all the primary and secondary carriers (cable and phone), and a bunch of other carriers, are still building up fiber networks, without giving a single thought to sharing.

This is tragic and not good for customers. I wish the government would force them to cooperate, but then there would be cries of socialism. There's no reason why I do not have Gbps + phone + basic cable, for $25 per month.

If you go to Chelan, a tiny community in Eastern Washington, you will find fiber to the home. The same for more than half the rural communities in Washington State. But not Seattle!

The reason is that these rural communities, followed technology and did what they were advised to do. Seattle did not. Alas, in these communities, there are no ISPs taking advantage of what they have at their disposal.

Roughly 18 years ago, one of the houses in a community, near Seattle, that was receiving fiber to the home, was showing a spike in Internet traffic. When asked, the people (Eastern European) in the house finally fessed up to buying the house, specifically, so they can run a porn server farm. They explained that $17 per month for fiber service, was well worth the mortgage, when the equivalent from the phone company (if available) would have cost more than $10,000 per month.

Good luck with the waitresses (does it ever work with waitresses?), and don't forget that had Bill Gates not bailed Apple out in 1997, there would be no Apple today. Of course, he thought it would not look good for Microsoft's anti-trust trial, if Apple disappeared, but I'm sure he regrets that decision now.