If Eliot Spitzer has his way, someday we’ll all be able to download porno, regardless of race, color, creed or economic class. The NY state attorney general believes that universal high-speed internet access is a necessity for NY. (Presumably, this will allow him to utilize the Marshall Law to force phone and cable companies to make a deal to provide this at a loss, causing them to raise rates in other parts of their business.)
As one analyst quoted in the article points out, providing internet access doesn’t mean jack for families that can’t afford a computer:
That’s a much bigger reason for the lack of broadband penetration in low-income households than service accessibility, argues Bruce Liechtman, principal analyst with Liechtman Research Group and a former chair of the editorial board for the Cable & Telecommunications Marketing Assn. journal. “Broadband adoption really correlates directly with household income.” If Spitzer wants to solve the digital divide, Leichtman says, “he should be giving everybody a computer.”
Spitzer tells us that poor kids in NYC have it tough: “If you’re kid growing up in South Korea, your Internet access is 10 times faster at half the price than a kid growing up in the South Bronx,” he said.
On the flip side, kids in the South Bronx don’t share their northern border with a nuclear-armed country filled with bark-eating zombies.
Aggh! Had the game on last night and told myself that once one team pulls away from the other in the 2nd half I’d turn it off and head to bed. This only occured with 20 secs left in the second overtime! Now I know how it feels on the east coast–I didn’t turn off the tv until 1 a.m. These might be the best playoffs ever.
Sports Guy agrees! And he sez it’s all about the moving pick!
So I read. Makes some sense.