[time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math

[Ziggy]

Wow - yet another on-topic time-nuts discussion...
Really guys? I mean REALLY?

On Feb 4, 2011, at 8:30 AM, William H. Fite wrote:

> True enough.  And it certainly was not the left that condoned--or ever would
> condone--leaving the stadium lights on while turning off power to hospitals
> and nursing homes.
> 
> Which didn't happen, by the way, but it makes a fantastic tale.  And power *
> did* roll off for virtually all non life-critical applications.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:32 AM, <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:
> 
>> Five out of nine people believe money is free speech and a corporation is a
>> person.  Well five conservative judges.  ;-)
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Perry Sandeen <sandeenpa at yahoo.com>
>> Sender: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
>> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:45:05
>> To: time-nuts-request at febo.com<time-nuts at febo.com>
>> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>>       <time-nuts at febo.com>
>> Subject: [time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math
>> 
>> List,
>> 
>> Wrote "The nationwide LightSquared network, consisting of approximately
>> 40,000 cellular base stations, will cover 92 percent of the U.S. population
>> by 2015
>> 
>> You can make book the missing 8 percent will be areas that exclude the
>> farmers and ranchers who provide our food but the left will make sure the
>> always “financially challenged” in the slums will have it and probably for
>> free.
>> 
>> The proof?  In every state in the US there is something called a universal
>> service fee on your phone bill.  This is usually 35 to 45 cents.  It is not
>> optional. The purpose of that fee is modeled after the postal system that
>> charges you the same amount whether one sends a letter 2 miles or 2,000
>> miles so that everyone can economically communicate.
>> 
>> By law the phone companies are given that money to provide the rural areas
>> with the same services that are offered in urban areas.  This includes
>> broadband DSL and TV services.  It has never happened and probably won’t as
>> we seem to have the best politicians money can buy.  I’m a conservative and
>> I have lived in two rural areas now and the story is the same.  AT&T
>> continues to send me glowing adverts for bundled phone service only.  When I
>> lived in a large town they came door to door trying to sign people up for
>> broadband and the regularly sent glowing adverts in my phone bill to sign up
>> for bundled phone, DSL broadband, and TV.
>> 
>> This explains while they kept the lights on continuously at the Dallas
>> Cowboy stadium for the superbowel, they had 15 minute rolling blackouts to
>> all the area hospitals, nursing homes and elder care facilities where
>> residents rely on continued electrical service for their oxygen
>> concentrators and assisted breathing devices.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Perrier
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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