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Re:Obama: "It is unacceptable that the U.S. ranks 15th in th... by Retric on Monday December 08, 2008 @05:43PM (#390516)
Roads are an order of magnitude more expensive than high speed internet and we still ran them to just about every home in the US. As to sewers a septic field works but a local LAN is just not the Internet.
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Re:Obama: "It is unacceptable that the U.S. ranks 15th in th... by anamax on Monday December 08, 2008 @06:17PM (#390568)
> Roads are an order of magnitude more expensive than high speed internet and we still ran them to just about every home in the US.

What kind of roads are we talking about? I know lots of folks whose home is served by a gravel or dirt road. And the "we" that ran them is often the folks whose houses they run by.

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