"It is the only mass medium that reaches everyone." uhm radio? i despise pretty much all American news except for NPR/BBC (and that's coming from a conservative! ...or at least conservative-raised)

is it RUbuntu?

guess i may need to update it ;)

they already HAVE turned the power up, at least locally. back during the Olypmics, i couldn't even get the local NBC affiliate. i checked recently, and i'm getting between 90 and 100% "signal strength" and "signal quality" from all stations, even the local Hispanic one. and i'm ground floor of an apartment in one of the vallies in our city.

"People *are not* tied to a single provider. I can go with Comcast, Verizon, Road Runner, SprintPCS, and others."

lucky you. it's Comcast, Qwest (and any DSL provider that can use Qwest lines). and i'm in a quiet apartment complex in a comfortably populated area, probably in the middle of a middle class area. Accords and large new american cars in our parking lot, and you see a few S500s driving down our side street every week, so by no means the a poorly maintained street. in spite of this, only one of the national cellphone carriers has usable service (i dont' know and don't care as to who that is)...