My Head Is Starting To Spin Around…

Not Again

Do we actually raise people like this here in the US, or do they fly in from somewhere in outer space?

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who became internationally known for his campaign a year ago to legalize gay marriage, on Monday said he considered wireless Internet access a fundamental right of all citizens.

Officials said 24 proposals had been turned into the city to deliver wireless Internet services, ranging from Web search company Google Inc., Cingular, the No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier, to Internet service provider EarthLink Inc.

Newsom told a news conference that he was bracing for a battle with telephone and cable interests along with state and federal regulators who he said are looking to derail a campaign by cities to offer free or low-cost municipal Wi-Fi services…

"This is inevitable -- Wi-Fi. It is long overdue," Newsom told a news conference at San Francisco's City Hall. "It is to me a fundamental right to have access universally to information," he said.

Mayor Newsom is a complete roaring idiot and imbecile. Nowhere in the US constitution do I see the words “life, liberty, and really fast free wireless internet service.”

Am I wrong?

OK, I really have no problem with the concept of “free internet.” Further, I have no problem with “free wireless internet”—particularly if I can use it myself. Google's bid is actually based on using ads to pay for the wireless access so no taxpayer funds in theory will be required to complete the implementation.

The thing is, once you have free internet, the next thing you know San Francisco is going to decide that they want to start handing out free computers with wireless cards. Last time I checked in a computer store I found that computers aren’t free.

This is truely a slippery slope they're entering--forget about gay marriage.

I’ve put a couple hundred dollars into our wireless network in the past six months. Where the hell was the Mayor of San Francisco when I got tired of dragging a 50’ long CAT5 cable around the living room?

Here’s another thing to remember. It has been recently reported that 20% of California's high school seniors have been unable to pass the manditory graduation exam. The graduation exam is testing reading and math skills that should have been developed by the 10th grade level of education. Further, you don't have to make a score of 70% to pass the test.

If you can’t do simple things like READ AT AN 10th GRADE LEVEL and do MATH AT A 10th GRADE LEVEL, what the hell business do you have screwing around worrying about free wireless internet?

Hobo’s (excuse me…urban outdoorsmen) and masses of illiterates with wireless laptops…

What's next?

Dumpster Blogging?

Only in California…