Shallow yet profound huh?

Hmmm.

Well, you’ll have to send me those links about Japanese regulation on broadband. I’d be very interested in reading that.

Oh yes, the space shuttle is going up again Tuesday with the first part of the Japanese science module! Yay!

xoxo,
nina

don’t look now, but i read Japan is wanting to regulate their broadband in the worst way.

No, that’s a different problem. Those people are running blogs hosted with wordpress.com; ex. blogname.wordpress.com, just like blogspot.

In my case, Askimet is a plugin which I can deactivate at will, and it works very well in catching legitimate spam. For some reason tho, your comments also get caught, and it instantly shows up in my spam folder. What I’m thinking now is it might be one of the configuration parameters, since you often leave links and many spam comments are riddled with links, so let me check that out.

I take objection to the other link you sent me about Net Neutrality. The Wall Street Journal editorial page has been a mouthpiece & propaganda arm for opponets of NN and the telecoms. These are two separate issues.

The United States is woefully behind among developed countries with respect to broadband, both in terms of network infrastructure and customers. Japan has the highest concentration of broadband customers in the world, and the best fiber network, and they’ve also recently launched a satellite to improve broadband access across Asia. If people in the US had the kind of broadband that they do in Japan, they’d be blown away! Japan truly brings a fiber connection to every doorstep in every major city. It’s everywhere.

This is a twofold argument; as a nation we need more broadband access, and we need to deregulate how telecoms are distributed and remove protected territories — so in some ways expanding broadband competion would help, but not at the expense of Net Neutrality, which is a separate issue.

In most areas people have only one or two choices for broadband access; the phone company or the cable company. Some people try to throw wideband wireless into the argument, but those providers are typically associated with one of the telecoms so that’s a red herring. If people had real access to fiber networks and had real choices about where that access came from, some of these problems would be improved.

Net Neutrality tho is about preventing these telecoms from controling how data moves across the network, which is a real and different problem.

xoxo,
nina

Oh and btw, We Need A Broadband Competition Act, Not A Net Neutrality Act

I’m betting it’s your url that’s the problem.

xoxo,
nina

That’s really funny! I love The Onion!

Yes, how about that Comcast thing? I got an email later that day from STI after they found out about it. I shall have to post about this again. The hearing was exceptionally tense too — but the good thing is the FCC is still taking public comments on this issue, so everyone needs to get in on this.

ugh… the upgrade. Very necessary, but a lot of work!

Thanks hon!

xoxo,
nina

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