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@taiwan_girl said in Stargate!:
How much was the internet expansion supposed to cost by President Biden?
$45 billion, and zero connected.
Starlink, as we've discussed, could have done it at a fraction of the cost.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Trump was talking >$1T investment today. He wasn't specific on Federal input, other than streamlining all permit processes (including importing talent) and making sure these centers have adequate power.
More H1-B visas FTW!!!
He talked about that. At length. Remember what he said?
He said he likes very competent people coming into our country.
What do you remember he said?
Did you watch the presser with the CEOs?
Ha, it seems you either don't remember what he said, or you don't understand what he said so you cannot retell it, so you resort to evading the simple question.
No, I watched it and I well remember what he said. I doubt you've even bothered to view the video.
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Trump was talking >$1T investment today. He wasn't specific on Federal input, other than streamlining all permit processes (including importing talent) and making sure these centers have adequate power.
More H1-B visas FTW!!!
He talked about that. At length. Remember what he said?
He said he likes very competent people coming into our country.
What do you remember he said?
Did you watch the presser with the CEOs?
Ha, it seems you either don't remember what he said, or you don't understand what he said so you cannot retell it, so you resort to evading the simple question.
No, I watched it and I well remember what he said.
So that leaves the possibility that you don't understand what he said, and thus cannot articulate what he said.
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So far the answer is no though he promises to help with the permitting.
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@taiwan_girl said in Stargate!:
How much was the internet expansion supposed to cost by President Biden?
$45 billion, and zero connected.
Starlink, as we've discussed, could have done it at a fraction of the cost.
Zero connected? What are you talking about. There are 2.4 million homes or businesses now connected to high speed internet since 2021.
That being said... I'm just being a fact checker here lol. Who knows if those 2.4 million places would've been connected to high speed internet anyway as it slowly rolls out to everywhere. Lots of grants approved, and all that bullshit but one thing (most of the time) that Trump can do much better is force the change... faster. That's what we need in the white house, and yes... I'm an Elon fan as well, his track record of delivering game-changing new technologies isn't even close to being matched in history.
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Zero connected? What are you talking about. There are 2.4 million homes or businesses now connected to high speed internet since 2021.
It was part of the "rural expansion" program. This, from 4 months ago.
The 2021 infrastructure law included $42.5 billion for states to expand broadband to “unserved,” mostly rural, communities. Three years later, ground hasn’t been broken on a single project. The Administration recently said construction won’t start until next year at the earliest, meaning many projects won’t be up and running until the end of the decade.
Blame the Administration’s political regulations. States must submit plans to the Commerce Department about how they’ll use the funds and their bidding process for providers. Commerce has piled on mandates that are nowhere in the law and has rejected state plans that don’t advance progressive goals.
Take how the Administration is forcing providers to subsidize service for low-income customers. Commerce required that Virginia revise its plan so bidders had to offer a specified “affordable” price. This is rate regulation.
Is the Wall Street Journal mistaken?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Trump was talking >$1T investment today. He wasn't specific on Federal input, other than streamlining all permit processes (including importing talent) and making sure these centers have adequate power.
More H1-B visas FTW!!!
He talked about that. At length. Remember what he said?
He said he likes very competent people coming into our country.
What do you remember he said?
Did you watch the presser with the CEOs?
Ha, it seems you either don't remember what he said, or you don't understand what he said so you cannot retell it, so you resort to evading the simple question.
No, I watched it and I well remember what he said.
So that leaves the possibility that you don't understand what he said, and thus cannot articulate what he said.
Ok, dumbshit. You don't know and don't want to know.
Remain ignorant, fool.
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Zero connected? What are you talking about. There are 2.4 million homes or businesses now connected to high speed internet since 2021.
It was part of the "rural expansion" program. This, from 4 months ago.
The 2021 infrastructure law included $42.5 billion for states to expand broadband to “unserved,” mostly rural, communities. Three years later, ground hasn’t been broken on a single project. The Administration recently said construction won’t start until next year at the earliest, meaning many projects won’t be up and running until the end of the decade.
Blame the Administration’s political regulations. States must submit plans to the Commerce Department about how they’ll use the funds and their bidding process for providers. Commerce has piled on mandates that are nowhere in the law and has rejected state plans that don’t advance progressive goals.
Take how the Administration is forcing providers to subsidize service for low-income customers. Commerce required that Virginia revise its plan so bidders had to offer a specified “affordable” price. This is rate regulation.
Is the Wall Street Journal mistaken?
No probably not. Even the link I posted above just came off as throwing a bunch of numbers out there "grants! loans! money! permits!" as if they were trying to hide the actual number of rural folks who can now browse TITKOK in 4K.
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Even the link I posted above just came off as throwing a bunch of numbers out there "grants! loans! money! permits!" as if they were trying to hide the actual number of rural folks who can now browse TITKOK in 4K.
Exactly my point. Giving a grant to do something (Internet connectivity) is vastly different from plugging in the modem/router.
Starlink could have done it on the cheap.
$600 for equipment and $120 a month.
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/how-much-does-starlink-cost
Assuming 17.7 million rural households in the US (that's the number ChatGPT gave me) , the cost to install Starlink in all of those would be about $10.6 billion.
