[time-nuts] Lightsquared and a little math

[J. Forster]

Treating corporations as persons is hardly new.

And money may not be speach, but it sure is a megaphone.

-John

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> 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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