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Tara Sue Grubb's run for Congress in North Carolina may be a joke to some, and maybe she doesn't have a Texas snowball's chance of beating Howard Coble -- this time. But if you want a sense of what the next generation can do when we finally get the decrepit, decadent, codgers out of power, go read what she has to say. The girl is no joke.

She has heart, she has logic, she has principles. And she has cajones. I know who'd get my vote if I lived in NC District 6.

The Internet Is Not A Television

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Copyright fights are not nearly so culpable in the dearth of broadband sales as the facts that it costs too much, takes too long, and God help you if you ever need support from the phone company.

I don't want to hear one more mis-informed, self-serving, obsequious politico stand up and claim that all we need is movies over the Internet to spur broadband. They should all go focus on writing laws to stop the creation of fake child pornography pictures or something. Assistant Commerce Sec'y Mehlman should go to work for the MPAA and lose the cover.

Copyright Fights Slowing Broadband Growth. Internet News Oct 24 2002 10:39AM ET
[...] Speaking on a panel discussion entitled "Pirates and Posses: The Battle Over Digital Copyright," Mehlman said, "While users are adapting broadband very rapidly and in line with reasonable expectations for a new technology, the greater availability of movies, music and games from legitimate sources will be critical to more rapid and sustained consumer adoption." [...]
"Companies clamoring every day for government help to accelerate broadband adoption can make significant strides on their own and without government mandates by working with the content community to satisfy their concerns," he said. [...] [ Source: Moreover - IP and patents news]