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WOW! - That's a mouthful:)

And on "Net Neutrality":

My wife "armchairvet" became a telecommuter for a big telecom company in Houston a few months ago...

They are being forced to reduce costs at every level including sending faithful employees home to work, cutting high priced office space rental.

Between that and Mountain Eagle Marketing we run 2 businesses out of 2 rooms nearly 24hrs/day.

This is the trend in business these days, and IMO - It's way past time we cut down unnecessary hydrocarbon consumption and learned how to become more competitive on a Global basis, business wise, as a culture and as a society.

We give up quite a bit of living space with 3-5 computers on 24-7, phones, wires and wireless networks everywhere you turn. You become your own IT, you pay for the office space and in return they get more dedicated time without the commute and free office space.

When played well, that whole game is better at every level;, personal, business, social and cultural, and even spiritual.

Unlike BJ, we do not have cable or fiber available out here. The best we can do when we want to grovel before the tube after 12-15hr days each is rely on an old mechanical antenna on a 25ft pole outdoors or go with satellite TV, which is unreliable also. We chose option #1.

We do live within a quarter mile of the local switching station and knock down on DSL HARD, day and night.

We already pay $80/month for DSL and home phone, and $80+/month on 2 cell phones. Yeah we burn up DSL and have dial-up as backup. Communications are around $200/month, said and done without the garbage tube included. I am not willing to pay more than that for those limited communications.

As far as the perv's, go they are getting busted right and left with all kinds of stings going on at all levels of local GOV. The FEDs and Local governments run all over each other all the time.

The FED seems out of control, they need to back off from what is better handled by local experts, including businesses members in the free enterprise system and local authorities they empower, and focus on cutting their own budgets instead of slowing the economy with multiple interest rate hikes! Marching on, with antiquated formulas based on traditional inflation indicators severely skews reality in times of exceptions such as the recent gas hikes that have reverberations at all levels of the economy.

I am not willing to pay another cent for communications right now in light of what we have all had to bear in the increased prices across every single consumer sector, including food, for transportation! It is at it's market value, they are working it out.

Every single previous empire including Greece ...Roman Empire? Hey my fellow Englander's, what happened?... I have driven on the "wrong" side of the road in Asia Pacific... What happened there? (No Offense Intended)

What happened to all the "big picture" thinkers? Where did they all go?

That's my Rant here.

Ken