Dee:

Let me appeal to your feminine side, that side where "religious
zealot-ism" is absent.

My grandfather claimed the first phone companies used peoples' barbed wire
fences, metal buildings, abandoned wiring, railroad tracks, etc. for the
very first phone lines. I wasn't born back then, and have just taken his
word for that, until someone points out is false, I like dreaming about
it. It is darn near as good a story, to me, as a romantic novel is to
heart sick teenager!

Now, what these old amateurs see as the "frankenstein monster", I see as
hope. I am wondering if we are not seeing history repeat itself and
people in the future may reflect back on the first crude methods we
implemented in BPL? And, what will BPL become when we are able to stop
using the "fences and railroad tracks?"

And, surely, you realize someone able to hold a "third-person point of
view" here would see all the players here, the self-serving, the petty,
the liars, the special interests, the con-artists, those of a "good ole
boys mentality", etc.

Gawd, haven't you ever had to sit though such a boring play that it almost
brought you to tears. Look at the opportunity here, free entertainment,
raw emotion, evil doers, the protagonists and the antagonists... you
could never purchase a ticket to such a show. And, it is real, it
is/"will be" history.

Enjoy the entertainment and keep in the mind, whatever the outcome, most
probably, we ALL win... this is not the end of the world...

John

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:21:22 -0400, Dee Flint wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
news
Dee:

I say, if it is technically possible, we WILL have it, if not, we WILL NOT
have it--I hear "authority hams" on the bands--I avoid them--what they say
just doesn't matter... if you really want to look into that crystal ball,

If it is economically viable, it will happen. If it is not, it won't.
Technology is seldom the driving force as to whether or not something is
implemented.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE