So you are saying that what? One out of ... 9000 government programs do ok? One out of 900?

We all know that it will almost assuredly be fucked up.

Well. To be honest though if the government owned your last mile....

It would be badly maintained at a high cost. Every issue would have to be bounced between your service provider and the government to see who was at fault.

Of course there will also be a ton of regulations put in place by the politicians and major telcom / cable lobbyists about who can and who can not provide service over that last mile.

I am sure this will end up really well for the customer.

Most companies want to control what you see. They want to insert their own ads in your streams and re direct your DNS queries.

When there is no competition they can and do do this. With competition you can have companies that maybe charge a bit more and promise FAT pipe and no messing around.

Of course you can enjoy your choice between Satellite(Slow and massive latency), Cable (What ever one company is allowed in your area), and Phone company (Decent if you happen to be near a CO) if you like, but I want real competition.

Some people might tell you that Comcast is not the internet.

I just want to know how I can upload all of my medical data to them.

You do not have to have the last mile that someone put in open to everyone in order to have competition.

Google seems to do ok with their experiment

They should have to obtain right of way of course.

What should not happen is that the local government should not sign away the peoples right to have competitors. This is happening in almost every municipality. It results in high prices and bad service.

The details can and should be left up to the market. The local government are the reason there is no competition in your community.

While there is very little federal regulation there to limit innovation the issue there is the contracts signed by the local municipalities giving defacto monopolies in the area. If those were gone you would see much better competition.

I think you are only looking at small parts of what has been going on in the Utilities area for the last bunch of decades.

Widen your scope a little and you will see some glaring issues with over regulation and under regulation. For the most part under regulation of utilities causes one set of problems while over regulation stifles any real innovation.

As in many things balance is required.

While I kind of agree with the title 2 thing, I have to say. While the utilities have been regulated they have had almost zero innovation. The internet being unregulated for the most part has had major innovation. Would love to see net neutrality able to be done with a very soft regulatory hand.

You still have the right.

You just need to decide to not be a Verizon customer.

Won't happen. Because he is falling straight toward the planet he will not bounce. Pick up enough speed and the g-force of the deceleration will kill him if the fireball of friction does not.

I doubt that you are correct here. At an the apogee of 205 miles I figure that from just the gravitational acceleration he is going to hit close to 5000 mph before friction starts slowing him at all. Rough figures.

It is all good dude.

Not everyone has the ability to learn after they think they already know something. I am sure you can still be useful as a burger flipper or a university professor.