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Broadband Internet access is a "core utility" that people need in order to participate in modern society– just like electricity, running water, and sewers, the White House said on Tuesday. A report written by the Broadband Opportunity Council, a group created earlier this year by President Obama and co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Agriculture, says that even though broadband "has steadily shifted from an optional amenity to a core utility," millions of Americans still lack high-speed Internet access.
The report cites 2013 data indicating that about 51 million Americans, or about 16 percent of the population, cannot purchase broadband access at their homes. That number may have dropped by now, but the White House says the government needs to make a bigger push to expand broadband deployment, especially in rural areas and low-income communities.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 24 2015, @07:44PM
Stupid? Hurling insults indicates that you've run out of rational arguments.
I'm not so stupid as to think that anyone in the world owes me for doing something I enjoy. If people don't want to pay you, then don't do whatever it is. When I was growing up, half the guys I knew had guitars. They were happy to play for anyone who would listen to them. Has the world changed so much?
I keep coming back to this: Entertain. If you're good, people will pay you for the privilege of listening, watching, reading. If you're no good, they might pay you not to entertain them.
BTW - WTF makes Hendrix better than any dozen other contemporary artists? I understand that he impressed some music industry executives, and his individual sound appealed to a lot of people. Had he not been "discovered", it would have been some other schmuck. The industry was going to distribute some tunes, Hendrix or no Hendrix. I contend that there were others just as worthy. Don't we owe those others something? At least an honorable mention? They certainly didn't get the promotional advertising that Hendrix got. And THAT is what made Hendrix, and countless other artists.
Look around you today. Without much effort, I could name a dozen vacuous bimbos, and a dozen braindead meatheads who have all the same marketing - and none of them can sing or act worth a crap.
How 'bout them Kardashian sisters? Do you need a better example of vacuous bimbos? They have contributed just about nothing to the entertainment world, unless you count the first porn video. Personally, I don't count that as any kind of a contribution. There are better looking, more talented women living within a couple miles of my house.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.