Al Qaeda are coming!!! I was watching Meet The Press this morning – Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was on, pushing the company line for the Bush administration. What a shit-for-brains idiot! It’s all, al Qaeda, al Qaeda, al Qaeda! The surge is working! We must stand firm! Our national security is at stake. If we leave, al Qaeda will win. Blah, blah, blah. al Qaeda. He must have said “al Qaeda” 10 times in maybe a minute. It’s like Bush and his cronies figure that if they say the magic words – “al Qaeda” – then everyone will stand at…
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If a “pay-by-the-byte” pricing scheme is necessary for the economic survival of US ISPs, then how on earth are the ISP’s in Asia and elsewhere making it? Here are some current prices from Asia: Japan: 100 mb/s symmetrical FTTH – $51/ month US 47 mb/s down, 5 mb/s up ADSL – $6.00 / month https://asahi-net.jp/en/ Korea: 100 mb/s symmetrical FTTH – $36.63 / month 50 mb/s symmetrical FTTH – $30.22 / month 10 mb/s symmetrical FTTH – $27.40 / month http://www.megapass.net/service/megapass/IN_PImegftth02W.php Then Hong Kong Broadband Network offers FTTH with symmetrical speeds ranging from 10 MB/s all the way to 1…
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At right, Laura Ellen With Jay Boy Adams at KFAT. On Memorial Day, Laura Ellen Hopper passed away due to complications from cancer. This truly is the week the music died. Laura Ellen was the Program Director of KPIG radio – 107 oink 5, in Freedom, California. Before that, she was the Program Director of the legendary and infamous KFAT radio, located in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world, from 1975 through 1983. I didn’t find out Laura Ellen had passed away until today, because in a fit of nostalgia, I’d been listening to the KFAT stream for…
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Scratch one religious bigot. It was certainly high time. Let the celebrations start at once! Sadly, many more still exist. We can only hope and dream they will follow Falwell, soon .
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It never fails to amaze me how the telcos shills populate user forums. There was a story on broadbandreports.com: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/81287 5% of ISP Users Generate 45.3% of Traffic On the flip side, 40% generate just 3.8%… Ellacoya is a supplier of network hardware that can monitor and shape network traffic, and they recently shared some of their findings with ISP Planet. The company notes that 5% of users (aka “bandwidth hogs”) generate 45.3% of traffic, whereas at the other end of the spectrum 40% of users (aka “barely users”) generate just 3.8% of traffic. VoIP use spiked in 2006 for…
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Now we’ve heard it all. Today Vice President Dick Cheney told America that the threat of terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in an American city: “It’s a very real threat … something that we have to worry about and defeat every single day.” And then he went on to warn that if the United States withdraws from Iraq, then basically we’re just paving the way for terrorists to plant such a bomb in some US city. So let’s get this straight. According to Reichsmarschall Von Cheney: US stays in Iraq = US safe from nuclear terrorism US leaves Iraq =…
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The controversy over the firing of the eight US Attorneys continues to percolate in Washington DC, amid new charges by President Bush of partisan politics and democrats leveraging for political “show trials.” House and Senate Judiciary committees are now preparing subpoenas for senior Bush administration officials, including Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. President Bush has counter offered to have Rove and Miers testify “informally” in closed door sessions with the committees, where they would not be under oath, and no transcripts would be kept. If Bush is worried about having them testify under oath, and have a transcript kept of…
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Once Crook Down…Bunches To Go… Yesterday’s guilty verdict in the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby for lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice is an important victory for Americans – after six reckless years of governing with impunity, the Bush administration has finally been held accountable for its criminal actions. Perhaps the tide of their lies has finally started to turn. The only unfortunate thing is that Vice President Cheney and Karl Rove were not also indicted. Although perhaps that too, will also eventually come to pass. A Cop on Every Corner in Baghdad… News reports suggest that President…
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Anyone remember Colin Powell jumping up and down at the UN, holding a vial of what he said was something that proved Iraq was manufacturing Weapons of Mass Destruction? Oh, yeah! Well that information was given to him by the very same people that are now claiming that Iran is providing Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s) to Iraq. And the information is likely about as good as the old WMD charges. The news media has been busy digging, looking for sources to confirm the validity of the Iranian ties, but to date, not one single substantive tie has been made. Even…
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