Boycott Clearwire

[Jim Oksvold]

>From: "Peter Yorke" <peter at seattlewireless.net>
> My main objection to Clearwire is their complete lack of commitment 
> servicing rural areas in Washington state while blocking competitive 
> usage of the spectrum in those area they don't/won't service.
> 
> VOIP is such a small percentage of the total bandwidth usage per 
> consumer that blocking it is another anti-competitive abuse of it's 
> customers that will doom this venture like so many other recent McCaw 
> business.


Which brings us to the core of WHY all this happens.
SOMEBODY sold radio spectrum to private companies.

The Socialist State represented by shortsighted white collar untechnical unpractical politicians are ALWAYS looking for ways to fill the insanely large deficit of the State.
I am not referring to the small deficit related to "communism went bankrupt as expected so now we finally get around to clean up/away our former fascist allies we formerly sorely needed to fill the gaps in the Boulder dam against communism but no longer need" thingy like
little things in Afghanistan and Irak and a few smaller places. Don't even think about Cuba and Venezuela as these are merely dustspecks on your Ray-Ban sunglasses easily rinsed away with a few drops of soap/Clearly Canadian and totally ignored. ( Yep - their democratically or not elected politicans are so clueless/talentless that they make ours look good - elected or not :-)

No, I am referring to the giant onslaught on the economy of baby boomers looking for a pension.
The huge mass of people born from 1945 to 1955.
As the pension funds and medical funds are inadequate start looking for
all sorts of taxes increasing to make up for lack of properly funded pensions.
(Did I mention USA mortgaged to the hilltop and property prices falling ?)
Forward financing of unavoidable future costs are now looking like an armada of icebergs
heading for Manhattan at 55MPH - Unstoppable unless you want to hit them with nuclear bombs.
I shall refrain from mentioning the hollowed out Central Banking System and the paperlike value defending it. Continentals ring a bell? (Yep - This year too I bought perfume for my chosen Lady from USA - Cheapest source worldwide was a nice Lady in Washington State of all places on Earth - USD 45 only with shipping to Europe included) - Previous years it used to be from a Highway junction across a bridge from Manhattan - Newark I think they call it :-)

Better think twice before you buy more real estate than you strictly need.
Real estate can hardly be moved, which makes it a suitable taxable object.
Got rodents? - Call the exterminater.
Got taxes? - Call The Governator - Ooops, even he can't perform miracles
even if you get around to elect him President :-)

It is the equivelant of selling your communal waterworks to a private company
and expecting the company NOT to maximize the profits
when they are selling you water. Dont expect them to be ethical about it.
Or as I joked with a few years back:
Would YOU sell your toilet seat in your bathroom to an american insurance company
in order to lease it back for 27 years?


Take it from me - I am a Libertarian and I have been connected to 10MB/s Ethernet Cat5
with optical fiber 20 meters away since January/February 2000.
When the Americans entered Bagdad it was the same as ALL of Irak combined.
Makes you think for a while.
If nothing else - The Kurdish men meeting at  a club one block away seems a lot happier now.
They got at least some freedom and now they can phone home with dirt cheap IP-telephone :-)
It's good to talk with your loved ones and even better when you can easily afford it :-)

I really don't like income taxes (Libertarian remember :-) - But if push comes to shove I would like some of my tax-money spent in Afghanistan - They could really need it - Don't expect any fast return
on investment - To me it looks like 30-40 years to get things done. (Dead Serious)
Judging from the grim faces of exiled antagonistic Marxists from Irak where i live
things will need 20 years to improve in Irak. Generals usually are no good as Finance Ministers - They are simply not educated in economy.
And The Governator? - He is actually educated in economy, and he's got his own little private
pension fund :-) - Not bad for a Nerdy Nerdanderthaler from a dark valley in Austria with a wifey who is a Scientologist just like myself  :-)

A Happy New Year to you all. And for those who survive the Baby-Boomers it looks like sunshine all the way to the sunset :-) - Be sure to build your own private pension fund and invest a small amount of it in producers of wireless equipment - There is not enough Copper in Chile to do it the old way with POTS worldwide. Who knows - On a sunny day Hugo Chavez might make a decent order of wireless equipment in order to give The People of the Bolivarian State "Free Internet to the People" :-)
And even if you cant get decent IP-Telephone to were you live,  you might do the world a service
and hopefully increase your pension fund while you do it. There is money to be made :-)


Greetings
Jim Oksvold
Oslo, Norway