We're not talking here of point-to-point signals that only travel a few feet, but of point-to-multipoint signals which, by their nature, are directional. The good news is they come into the house. The bad news is that they take power to produce, and can thus only be produced by a limited number of people before the interference makes the whole thing worthless.
Were it not for the continuing, overt racism of white southerners, these black southern megachurches would have told their flocks to switch sides long ago. Even despite that racism, preachers like Long have detached themselves from the Democratic Party, and wish to be considered independent, hopeful of being wooed rather than taken for granted.
The Democratic Party can be reformed, and is being reformed. There are Internet-savvy Republicans. When presented with an Open Source Thesis, emphasizing Internet values, this coalition can be made.
Folks have long understood that you either have a competitive market or a regulated one, and with the threat of Whitacre Tiering, the Bells and cable head-ends seek the very same power over you that railroads held over the farmers so long ago. An unregulated monopoly that lets them crush who they want and squeeze the rest. Just as the railroads had.
We have to find a cure for Democrat-itus. And we have to spread that cure, which is the lesson of this era, to democracies throughout the world.
The fact is that radio networks, in the mode of Air America, have not really existed for some time. Nearly all leading "networks" today are in fact single shows, or music formats that are pushed for specific day-parts. Rush Limbaugh is a network, in other words. The music you hear as you wake up is a network.
Why should content filtering software have a more powerful, profitable business model than anti-spam blacklisting? And what can we do to change that?
H-P had another choice which it could have made, a choice it rejected when it hired Fiorina, who is the person most responsible for the mess the company is now in. It could have gone the GE way.
The battle will continue, as Verizon lobbyist Tom Tauke has said. But the battle is going to be hard everywhere.
Donald Trump sells himself as an Horatio Alger story. His never-ending theme is that hard work, brains, and ruthlessness will make you rich like him. But Donald Trump did not become rich. Donald Trump started rich.
