what's scary about that?

Also interesting is that this $2.5 billion is going to be overseen by the Department of Agriculture. Say what? Yes, Agriculture - because the primary intent is to bring broadband to rural areas that just haven't gotten sufficient access to broadband service to date. Factor in distance learning and telemedicine, and you see that there is potential to more easily bring expertise to remote areas, which is a cool idea.

scary indeed - what does the department of agriculture know about rural communities?!

burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

Not to mention that the Rural Electrification Administration is a Sub-Agency of the Ag Dept. and they've a smidge of knowledge about that sort of thing (especially since bringing internet acesss to Rural areas has been thie r primary mission since the middle 90's when they'd basically run out of rural areas to electrify)


and this is no make-work luxury project either. My father-in-law lives in a modernized but real Log Cabin in rural Missouri. For a long time the monstrously expensive Internet access from Dish network was his only option for internet access. Since a local entrepreneur rigged a wireless net that reaches his house he's been able to quit a meat-packinf job and start an E-bay business that in its third year is doing about $750,000 in gross sales.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

i repeat my question.

/come back here bessie

scary indeed - what does the department of agriculture know about rural communities?!


You are kidding right?

WTFDYW: You are kidding right?

i would never kid about those big city fat cats at the USDA

burndtdan: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

i repeat my question.

Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

when i pictured "tubsheep" in my mind i laughed. i learned something disturbing about myself today - thanks.

Jesus. I don't care what Ted Stevens says, the internet is NOT a series of tubers.

we need something. the folks living out in the sticks need to connect to the real world. they're still living in 1955. how else would bush have been elected?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.



/Hot, like a sheep hooker.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

fap fap fap fap fap

Magorn: Not to mention that the Rural Electrification Administration is a Sub-Agency of the Ag Dept. and they've a smidge of knowledge about that sort of thing (especially since bringing internet acesss to Rural areas has been thie r primary mission since the middle 90's when they'd basically run out of rural areas to electrify)


and this is no make-work luxury project either. My father-in-law lives in a modernized but real Log Cabin in rural Missouri. For a long time the monstrously expensive Internet access from Dish network was his only option for internet access. Since a local entrepreneur rigged a wireless net that reaches his house he's been able to quit a meat-packinf job and start an E-bay business that in its third year is doing about $750,000 in gross sales.

Crazy like a fox, eh?

Car_Ramrod: Jesus. I don't care what Ted Stevens says, the internet is NOT a series of tubers.

I lol'd.

How else would the ag report get on Twitter?

Carousel Beast: Crazy like a fox, eh?

No. Sheep. Fox pron...that's just sick.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

2sheep1trough?

Magorn: he's been able to quit a meat-packinf job and start an E-bay business that in its third year is doing about $750,000 in gross sales.

How's that work? What in the world is he selling?

/A+++++++++++++

Al Gore invented the Dept of Agriculture. It all makes sense now.

Finally, the rural communities will be able to coordinate their 4chan-H activities.

fernt: Magorn: he's been able to quit a meat-packinf job and start an E-bay business that in its third year is doing about $750,000 in gross sales.

How's that work? What in the world is he selling?

/A+++++++++++++

"Start your own e-bay business from home" e-books?

what's scary about that?

Have you ever seen center-pivot TCP/IP?

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE....AMERICA'S GREATEST RESOURCE

"I've set up broadband all around the county. Well, it wasn't broadband, really. I set up broads with bachelor farmers. But they were fast. And the farmers were stimulated."

If we do this, we run the risk of a peanut farmer from Georgia becoming president one day....

I guess now someone can run a MOO

Al Gore invented the Dept of Agriculture. It all makes sense now.IXI Jim IXI: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

2sheep1trough?

You shoulda stopped there and made your exit on a high note.

// the lulz
// they were loud

fernt:

How's that work? What in the world is he selling?



Probably Sheep pr0n.

United States is way behind the curve on this. Wiring our nation for high speed coast to coast could be at least as valuable as the interstate system.

And it's severely substandard in rural areas.

This is good, and I hope the comprehensive plan is both well designed and successful.

Dr Dreidel: You shoulda stopped there and made your exit on a high note.

Baaah. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. ;)

DarnoKonrad: This is good, and I hope the comprehensive plan is both well designed and successful.

...and we'd better get ready for a whole new wave of Farkers.

Leave it to congress to fark up the definition of 'server farm'.

IXI Jim IXI: I guess now someone can run a MOO

Or they can play MOO 2: Battle at Antares

You mean we aren't gonna have to move to Californy?



I hear they still gots a little bit of internets there.

Dr Dreidel: You shoulda stopped there and made your exit on a high note.

High note? Hmmm....I've got a sheep that can hit a C sharp if you'd like to 'rent' her.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

i repeat my question.

Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

Lambon Party

fernt: Magorn: he's been able to quit a meat-packinf job and start an E-bay business that in its third year is doing about $750,000 in gross sales.

How's that work? What in the world is he selling?

/A+++++++++++++

These days? Sharp pointy things mainly, but It varies from month to month. That's the key to sucess in the business, because on Ebay there's a finite window between finding a product popular enough to sell reliably and having your margins cut to ribbons by someone else who finds your supplier and is willing to take a loss to up their seller ratings. So he's constatly emailing factories and importers all over the world to find a run of good stuff.

It helps that He's always had a particular genius for sales and logistics, which in his younger years was applied to a product federal authorities tend to frown on, so he was their guest for a half dozen years. After he got out the meat packing place was the only place that would hire someone with a record.

The Ebay thing annoyed his PO to no end, they watched his books, his house and his mail like a hawk for years convinced it must be a front because they simply refused to believe anyone could make that much money on Ebay. He has, but he works 12 hour days a lot to make it happen (and now has his son and another daughter on the payroll) and the margins aren't spectacular; but I personally respect the hell out of him for making it work.

If I lived in a rural area without internet access I'd be all for this, but I don't see how they can use taxpayer money to fund this. Internet access isn't a right, it's not "needed". if you "need" high speed internet access, get a satellite based service or something.

Living in a rural area you should be accustomed to some inconvenieces, like having to drive a bit to get to a store, etc.

ihatedumbpeople: If I lived in a rural area without internet access I'd be all for this, but I don't see how they can use taxpayer money to fund this. Internet access isn't a right, it's not "needed". if you "need" high speed internet access, get a satellite based service or something.

Living in a rural area you should be accustomed to some inconvenieces, like having to drive a bit to get to a store, etc.

If you don't hook up the whole country up to the internet, you get George W. Bush and his supporters. People need to be able to be connected and find out whats going on in the world around them, instead of living with, and voting with, ill-conceived notions about how the world truly works.

"Baa" means "No"

wrightb71: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

i repeat my question.

Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

Lambon Party

Baang Bus?

un4gvn666: ihatedumbpeople: If I lived in a rural area without internet access I'd be all for this, but I don't see how they can use taxpayer money to fund this. Internet access isn't a right, it's not "needed". if you "need" high speed internet access, get a satellite based service or something.

Living in a rural area you should be accustomed to some inconvenieces, like having to drive a bit to get to a store, etc.

If you don't hook up the whole country up to the internet, you get George W. Bush and his supporters. People need to be able to be connected and find out whats going on in the world around them, instead of living with, and voting with, ill-conceived notions about how the world truly works.

Not entirely sure I agree with you. Freeperville and Stormfrong exist on the webs. People can go full retard wherever they choose.

Great. $2.5 billion to subisdize the production of corn-syrup-based fiber optics.

IXI Jim IXI: wrightb71: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: burndtdan: what's scary about that?

Sheep pr0n

i repeat my question.

Sorry, I should have clarified: *Disturbing* sheep pr0n, including, but not limited to SHEEPSE, Tubsheep, and Lamb Exploitation.

Lambon Party

Baang Bus?

all i know is i prefer them fully sheared

The internet: A series of (irrigation) tubes.

And 100% of the funds will be boondoggled. You will be lucky see a mile of cable run.

un4gvn666: ihatedumbpeople: If I lived in a rural area without internet access I'd be all for this, but I don't see how they can use taxpayer money to fund this. Internet access isn't a right, it's not "needed". if you "need" high speed internet access, get a satellite based service or something.

Living in a rural area you should be accustomed to some inconvenieces, like having to drive a bit to get to a store, etc.

If you don't hook up the whole country up to the internet, you get George W. Bush and his supporters. People need to be able to be connected and find out whats going on in the world around them, instead of living with, and voting with, ill-conceived notions about how the world truly works.

Good point.