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I doubt I'll live to see that. Not if American business has its way. It is not inconceivable though. If paid internet-based advertising ever grows to what it was in the past for broadcast TV and newspapers, and if 100+ MB/sec WiFi broadband permeated the population dense areas then it is possbile that free internet access might prevail. (I'm not sure the resulting internet experience would be acceptable to most of us that have known the restricted advertising internet.) That would also require a deep-pockets telecom take the plunge on its own as I doubt Congress would ever mandate a free system as long as some of the big telecoms wish to maintain the pay-for-access model.

Vast FCC Plan Would Make High-Speed Internet Nation's Dominant Communications Network. I think this is a great idea and really essential to remain competitive in the world in the future. ALready we lag behind Europe and parts of Asia in internet and cell phone service delivery technology. I hope that is comes to fruition. If it does then I hope that a leap in cyber-security technology accompanies it hand-in-hand. However, I see a very dark side to this which is more likely to come to fruition based on how our Congress and Business Community works. There is going to be a tremendous amount of government development and subsidy dollars that will enrich the telecommunications industry. The same telecommunications industry that successfully stifles competition and avoids meaningful regulation as an alternative to that competition. That same industry that wants to restrict access and meter service for extra profits although the cost of that service is independent of the 'amount of service' metered. That same industry keeps customers from having serious alternatives for service providers and product offerings and service fees. It doesn't have to be that way, but that is the American Way. Our government seems to work best at shoveling money at Commerce and leaving them to decide what benefits will accrue to the taxpayers that provide the funds which is the source of most that government largesse. Enough of the dark side... Now for the bight side... Here is what is on the drawing board: Effort to Widen U.S. Internet Access Sets Up Battle http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/business/media/13fcc.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1268486085-Jt93CAOuKUSJEQR/ZmVkzg By BRIAN STELTER and JENNA WORTHAM Published: March 12, 2010 The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation’s media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network. The plan, which will be submitted to Congress on Tuesday, is likely to generate debate in Washington and a lobbying battle among the telecommunication giants, which over time may face new competition for customers. Already, the broadcast television industry is resisting a proposal to give back spectrum the government wants to use for future mobile service. The blueprint reflects the government’s view that broadband Internet is becoming the common medium of the United States, gradually displacing the telephone and broadcast television industries. It also signals a shift at the F.C.C., which under the administration of President George W. Bush gained more attention for policing indecency on the television airwaves than for promoting Internet access. According to F.C.C. officials briefed on the plan, the commission’s recommendations will include a subsidy for Internet providers to wire rural parts of the country now without access, a controversial auction of some broadcast spectrum to free up space for wireless devices, and the development of a new universal set-top box that connects to the Internet and cable service. The effort will influence billions of dollars in federal spending, although the F.C.C. will argue that the plan should pay for itself through the spectrum auctions. Some recommendations will require Congressional action and industry support, and will affect users only years from now. Still, “each bullet point will trigger its own tortuous battle,” said Craig Moffett, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. For much of the last year, Julius Genachowski, the F.C.C. chairman and the plan’s chief salesman, has laid the groundwork for the Congressionally mandated plan by asserting that the United States is lagging far behind other countries in broadband adoption and speed. About a third of Americans have no access to high-speed Internet service, cannot afford it or choose not to have it. In a speech last month, Mr. Genachowski observed that the country could build state-of-the-art computers and applications, but without equivalent broadband wiring, “it would be like having the technology for great electric cars, but terrible roads.” The plan envisions a fully Web-connected world with split-second access to health care information and online classrooms, delivered through wireless devices yet to be dreamed up in Silicon Valley. But to get there, analysts say the F.C.C. must tread carefully with companies like Comcast and AT&T that largely control Internet pricing and speeds. Already, there are questions about the extent to which the F.C.C. has jurisdiction over Internet providers. The F.C.C. says it can make some important changes on its own. They include reforms to the Universal Service Fund, which spends $8 billion a year from telephone surcharges to ensure that rural and poor people have phone lines at home. It also supplies Internet access to schools, libraries and rural clinics. By reducing the phone subsidies over time, the fund could instead “support broadband access and affordability,” especially in remote locations where private companies have little incentive to build networks, said Colin Crowell, a senior counselor to Mr. Genachowski. In recent weeks, the most-talked-about idea in the television industry has been a voluntary auction of over-the-air spectrum for future mobile broadband uses. In total, the F.C.C. is hoping to free up roughly 500 megahertz of spectrum, much of which would come from television broadcasters, which would be compensated if Congress acts. The proposal already faces resistance from the TV industry. Stations say they still serve a valuable public service, especially during emergencies, and say the F.C.C. proposals could cause gaps in signal coverage. But F.C.C. officials assert that the spectrum changes are necessary given a looming spectrum shortage. “It isn’t a crisis tomorrow, it’s a crisis in five or six years,” Mr. Crowell said, but allocation “literally takes years.” The plan will advise that some of the spectrum become unlicensed, so it can serve as a test bed for new technologies. Also notably, the plan will include an initiative the chairman calls 100 Squared — equipping 100 million households with high-speed Internet gushing through their pipes at 100 megabits a second by the end of this decade. According to comScore, the average subscriber now receives speeds of three to four megabits a second. The government is “setting a stake in the ground by setting a standard for broadband speeds in order to be a competitive nation,” said Dan Hays, director of PRTM, a global management consulting firm in the telecommunications industry. He said the plan could place “significant pressure” on incumbent providers to improve their networks. Mr. Genachowski also argues that broadband expansion can be an economic stimulant, a crucial selling point in a time of high unemployment. “Broadband will be the indispensable platform to assure American competitiveness, ongoing job creation and innovation, and will affect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives at home, at work, and in their communities,” he said Friday. According to officials briefed on the proposals, the plan will also call for a “digital literacy corps” to help unwired Americans learn online skills, and recommendations for $12 billion to $16 billion for a nationwide public safety network that would connect police, fire departments and other first responders. In a move that could affect policy decisions years from now, the F.C.C. will begin assessing the speeds and costs of consumer broadband service. Until then, consumers can take matters into their own hands with a new suite of online and mobile phone applications released by the F.C.C. that will allow them to test the speed of their home Internet and see if they’re paying for data speeds as advertised. “Once again, the F.C.C. is putting service providers on the spot,” said Julien Blin, a telecommunications consultant at JBB Research. A version of this article appeared in print on March 13, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition.

Thanks for the article. Enjoyed reading. I was not fully aware of some of those Dietrich details.

Playboy Model: Tiger Woods Never Used Condoms ... According to tweets from listeners and attendees, Jungers claimed that Woods was well endowed. "Tiger's wood was nine inches," she evidently said. Former Playboy model Loredana Jolie, meanwhile, claimed Woods was "bigger and better" than Michael Jordan. Both Grubbs and Jungers said that Woods never used condoms when sleeping with them, which echoes previous reports. Jungers reiterated that she slept with Woods the night his father died. ... For full article see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/10/jamie-jungers-wins-tiger_n_493341.html

Corey Haim Dies At 38 http://omg.yahoo.com/news/corey-haim-dies-at-38/37186?nc LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Actor Corey Haim has died at age 38, Access Hollywood has confirmed. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office confirmed the actor died at 2:15 AM on Wednesday at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. The Los Angeles Police Department said they received a call from the hospital before 4 AM confirming the actor's death. He was transported from the home he shared with his mother, Judy, in Toluca Hills, Calif. to the hospital. Ed Winter, LA County Coroner's Office Assistant Chief, told reporters that Haim's mother had called paramedics when her son collapsed in the early morning hours. "This morning at about 1:30...Corey Haim's mom found him. He got up out of bed and had been feeling ill for the last couple of days. As he got out of bed, he felt a little weak and went down to the floor on his knees. He's had flu-like symptoms. She called paramedics. They responded and transported him to the hospital where he was pronounced [dead] at 2:15 this morning," Winter said. Authorities found four prescription drug bottles inside the apartment he shared with his mother, but no illegal drugs, according to Winter.

D.C. Gay Marriages To Start Tomorrow After Supreme Court Refuses To Block Law JESSE J. HOLLAND | 03/ 2/10 06:55 PM | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/dc-gay-marriages-to-start_n_483129.html WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the District of Columbia's gay marriage law, freeing the city to issue its first marriage licenses to same-sex couples the following day. Opponents of gay marriage in the nation's capital had asked Chief Justice John Roberts to stop the city from issuing the licenses on Wednesday while they appealed. They argued that D.C. voters should have been allowed to vote on the issue. Local courts have rejected the opponents' arguments. "It has been the practice of the court to defer to the decisions of the courts of the District of Columbia on matters of exclusively local concern," said Roberts, writing for the court. He also pointed out that Congress could have voted to stop the city government from putting the law into effect and didn't. Opponents have also asked city courts to allow a voter referendum on gay marriage, and they "will have the right to challenge any adverse decision ... in this court at the appropriate time," Roberts said. The Stand4MarriageDC Coalition, which tried to get a vote on the issue, said Tuesday it was disappointed in the court's ruling. It said it would continue to work for this effort among voters who believe in traditional marriage. The city has said Wednesday probably will be the first day same-sex couples can apply for marriage licenses. Couples still will have to wait three full business days for their licenses before exchanging vows. Same-sex marriages are also legal in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut and Vermont.

HIV Still Plagues the U.S.: Some Areas Have Higher Rates Than Africa By Jaime Cunningham http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2010/02/26/hiv-still-plagues-the-usa-some-areas-have-higher-rates-than-africa.aspx In December, NEWSWEEK argued that new signs of life were showing in the AIDS activism movement. Let's hope so. Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected people is higher than in certain parts of Africa: More than 1 in 30 adults in Washington, D.C., are HIV-infected—a prevalence higher than that reported in Ethiopia, Nigeria, or Rwanda. Certain U.S. subpopulations are particularly hard hit. In New York City, 1 in 40 blacks, 1 in 10 men who have sex with men, and 1 in 8 injection-drug users are HIV-infected, as are 1 in 16 black men in Washington, D.C. In several U.S. urban areas, the HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men is as high as 30%—as compared with a general-population prevalence of 7.8% in Kenya and 16.9% in South Africa. What’s interesting is that the research shows that a person’s sexual network, more than just his or her lifestyle choices, defines the risk of getting HIV in America. So, black and Hispanic women are at increased risk due to the instability of their sexual relationships —which is attributed to the high rate of incarceration of men in their networks—and their vulnerable or dependent economic situation, which may cause them to be fearful of suggesting safer-sex options to their companions. And black men who have sex with men are at high risk because of the likelihood of their choosing to engage in sexual activity with someone who is racially similar, and because of the prevalence of HIV within their sexual networks. America’s epidemic most strongly affects the urban regions of the Northeast and West Coast, and small towns and cities in the South. Part of this is because these local populations have unprotected sex within “relatively insular social-sexual networks.” Lower-income black Americans with poor education and unstable housing are disproportionally affected, and black or Hispanic women make up more than 25 percent of new HIV infections in the U.S. More than 20 percent of the estimated 1 million HIV-positive Americans are unaware of their status. Additional behavioral studies, better communication, and preventive education need to be directed toward the identified at-risk communities. It’s time to admit that HIV is still a major threat to Americans.

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Obama was well within his purview to address the Supreme Court Decision at the State of the Union. The purpose of the SOTU is to inform Congress of the present State of the Union including recent accomplishments, immediate problems which should be addressed, longer-term issues that need consideration and pending legislation to address those problems and issues. He felt that the SCOTUS created a problem for the country that needs to be addressed. It was incumbent upon him to surface the problem and propose and encourage some course of action to remedy the problem. The fact that he disagreed with the SCOTUS should not be ignored or soft peddled. He was very blunt with his assessment of the SCOTUS ruling and that may have set some back on their heels. (I dobt is set back the dissenting Justices.) However, I look iknterpret it as a measure of his disapproval of and concern for the ruling. It suprised me but then so did Alito's reaction. Personally, I'm glad he surfaced the issue as emphatically as he did if it prompts action.

Tiger Woods' Sex Fantasies 'Not Normal': Loredana Jolie http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/tiger-woods-sex-fantasies_n_440131.html Tiger Woods' sex fantasies are "not normal," according to the Playboy model who claims to have slept with the golfer. Loredana Jolie told the New York Post that Tiger "would engage in sex from 9 p.m. until the sun came up the next morning." She also says Tiger "likes role-playing, he likes to be the guy in control and wearing a suit while there are girls performing girl-on-girl and guys entertaining guys." Jolie (PHOTOS), who was born in Italy and was allegedly "one of [Tiger's] favorites," is "not really sure rehab for sex addiction will help him." She previously claimed Woods had sexual encounters with men. Woods has been rumored to be in a Mississippi sex rehab clinic, but photos allegedly placing him at the facility have since been debunked as likely phony. If he is indeed at the Pine Grove clinic, Woods would be forced to adhere to strict rules about sex and masturbation, and he would have to tell his wife Elin about all of his affairs. Elin Nordegren reportedly visited him at the facility, and another bit of gossip placed her at Brett Favre's house during the visit.

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Thanks for that info. I have crossed the US/Canada border numerous times in the past with never a worry about computer/camera searches. THat was a few years ago. I wondered what the current climate was like.

BTW, many years ago I lived and worked in Silver Spring. I loved the area.

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Jackhammer, I think you are overly sensitive about what happens over here. I'm here day and day out and such outburst are much more rare the the periodic eruptions over there. I guess it is all in the eye of the beholder.

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I think we are in basic agreement about the overall effectiveness of the UN. As for the failure of the League or Nations, much of that failure is attributed to the failure of the US to support it. That is not to say it would have been any more successful than the UN has been. As for starting over with the UN? You are much more the optimist than I. What would change? Same countries, same politics, same crap. Reduce countries defeats purpose of international forum. Also, doesnt get rid of biggest obstacles -- Russia, China. Get rid of them and we have NATO, more or less. I have only one improvement for the UN from the US perspective -- reduce our financial commitment and let other countries carry more of the cost. No reason we should support some of the bullshit the UN dishes out. It wouldn't hurt my feelings either if it relocated to some other country. Other than those items I cannot imagine any other real improvements to be achieved.