RHF wrote:

= = = "Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
= = = ...

"reasonable doubt" wrote in message
v.net...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - President Bush, hunting for votes in hotly
contested Sun Belt states, said Friday his administration is working
toward wiring homes throughout America with high-speed Internet access
by 2007.

Seems rather inconsistent with his current policy though. Since Patriot

Act

II peeled through, I see more of a totalitarian agenda from Capitol Hill
that, in good keeping with dictatorship policy would stand to lose by
widespread high-speed internet access. Of course, when you have a

population

as stupid as the American populace I suppose it really doesn't matter

after

all. I fairly sure that there are some Americans somewhere waving their
flags about this BPL news, as they do for anything the government tells

them

to.


Broadband doesn't always mean BPL. You are getting confused here.
Broadband can be via cable modem such as I just signed up for or even via a
wireless system. Do not assume that the term Broadband, when used alone,
means BPL (Broadband over Power Line).

I saw the news clip and BPL was not mentioned, only Broadband.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE



DDF,

Liberal-Left Propaganga is NOT what Bush actually said.

But the Subject HeadLine "Bush Backs Broadband"
and the Twisting of the Message to "Bush Backs PBL"

Since you invoked the "L" word, it is kind of strange that the methods
of implementing the "universal access called for in the speech:

"We ought to have universal, affordable access to broadband technology
by the year 2007," Bush said in a speech focusing mostly on homeownership.
"And then we ought to make sure that as soon as possible thereafter
consumers
have plenty of choices..."

Assuming that we would have to expand the cable tv broadband system -
and if there is to be universal access, this would almost certainly mean
changing cable data service to a public utility. Remember that cable is
at present NOT a Public utility, it cannot be forced to run it's lines
where it doesn't see a profit.

Supplying broadband to everyone in the country is a project similar to
the electrification of rural America.

And right now, there are certainly *not* plenty of choices. So it is
left up to the listener to determine how the number of choices will be
expanded.

So to me it is a very liberal idea to even attempt universal broadband
access, and since not many other choices are available for increasing
the number of choices, it by default includes BPL.

- Mike KB3EIA -