Jackson Jambalaya

Creeping socialism.

I just got Cspire fiber and I can tell you that PornHub in 4K at 120fps is the sheeeeeit!

America put men on the moon without the internet. Internet "service" will be the death of civilization. No one is connected to anything anymore.

@1:01
Government money for government surveillance.
Government created the internet.
Al Gore championed the Information Superhighway through the 1991 Bill that funded the internet we have today. Al Gore literally created the internet.

7.625 MILLION Dollars to Smith County? Are the Chickens in the Chicken Houses going wireless? Does Colonel Sanders know about this?!

Funny how government spending is a good thing when your government is sucking the tit rather than providing the tit for others to suck. Hypocrisy at its best.

That is $475.00 for each person in Smith county.

There will soon be lots of new F-150s in Smith County.

Seems to me that there’s some counties missing here. The 32mbs I pay a small ransom for every month absolutely stinks to high heaven. Fiber Optics offers 1G up and down for half the price which may allow me to kick Directv to the curb as well…….. so let’s go!!

7.625 MILLION Dollars to Smith County? Are the Chickens in the Chicken Houses going wireless? Does Colonel Sanders know about this?!

With that much internet those chickens will be extra crispy.

Investments pay off ‘round here.

Evidently all those that want to bitch and complain about who got what don't realize what this federal gubmt subsidy is for - it is to get broadband into those rural areas where it is not financially feasible for the residents to pay what it cost to provide the service.

This same deal was done decades ago by REA to provide electricity to rural areas, including small towns throughout the state - and the nation.

And it was done decades ago to provide telephone service, you know back when that meant line lines (actually, one line ---- no actually in many places 1/8 of a line because they were party lines) for telephone service.

Back then the decision was made that it was in the public interest for people to have electricity at their home/farm; later it was decided that having communication was the same. Without those subsidies to the utility companies the cost of running an electrical service or a telephone line the many miles required for the 'next customer' would have made the cost prohibitive.

Oh, and the same was done with public water although much later, with the subsidies to rural water associations to run potable water throughout rural areas. Granted, you could live on the farm (in most areas) without the water association's service if your land could support a well. Oftentimes not the healthiest solution but when it was the only one, you lived (or died) with it.

So yes. The feds are spending our tax dollars to make internet available to folks that currently don't have it. But as those that were around back during that time (and there are still plenty of us that are and read blogs and type comments) we were glad to get water, and telephones. I can't speak to the electricity, it was pretty much in place by the time WWII was over - but the others made life, business, and reasonable success possible. As a conservative Republican, I hope this broadband availability will do the same.

As much as a lot of you will bitch about government doling out money for internet, the fact of the matter is that internet is essential for modern life. With the (forced) advent of Work From Home it's now more essential that Mississippi have high speed internet.

1:35 PM
But I bet they wouldn't have been put on the Moon without ARPANET.

4:30 PM
Not only will you be able to kick direct TV to the curb but with the right know how you could have your TV and movies for free. And get to keep what you download.

Where’s my internet in Copiah County? These Dixie Cups and string are getting old.

Another socialist example of redistribution of wealth. High speed internet is currently available throughout the U.S. via satellite.

Think it’s probably a lot cheaper just to hand out SAT phones and pay the monthly fee to those who can’t get the coverage.

1030 - obviously you have not been throughout the US. But, thanks for playing We appreciate your presence. Glad you have high speed internet to spread your ignorance.

"High speed internet is currently available throughout the U.S. via satellite."

Define 'available'.

If by that you mean for an exorbitant fee, a service one can subscribe to by setting a 'hot spot' in the window that functions off and on maybe half the day but won't download photos/links and is useless if there's a cloud or lightning within fifty miles...I reckon yours is the post of the day.

Meanwhile, you sound like an obese patrician in silk drawers flipping boogers at the proletariat while telling them to be lucky they're alive.

Since you have 'high speed internet', you may want to google proletariat and patrician when you get to the den, this morning, with your coffee and crumpets.

They take our money through taxes, then give it away to corporate interests. Every economic development authority in the state was doing press releases with 10 to 20 smiling faces announcing "grants" from the state which was nothing but covid money. And they all had the audacity to think that they actually achieved something. These "economic development" gurus would not last a week in the real world.

@8:56am Best comment all month.

"Another socialist example of redistribution of wealth. High speed internet is currently available throughout the U.S. via satellite."

Unless it rains.

@1:19 PM That's a negative. I was referring to Starlink.

@10:13
You must be trolling. Starlink is only in beta testing and is not available to everyone.

Have you actually tried Starlink 10:30? Calling it high speed, reliable, or affordable is an outright lie.

@7:02 AM & 6:10 AM (both troll wannabes) Starlink went out of Beta in October 2021. Nice try, trolls.

3:24. Truth. Fully loaded 4 WD's to be sure.

Someone with SAT internet thinks it's cheap ? Idiot. Lol, it doesn't work half the time.....one all night gaming session will eat up the data .....ahhhhh wellll fug it, folks must be getting it free to think it's cheap.

Signed up early 2021 for Starlink - told that it would be available in my area by November, 2021. Now being told it will be mid 2022. Starlink is NOT available everywhere.

You can't receive Starlink if you live in a cave.

12:22 : Or under hill, behind a tree , if you have tin roof....if your last name is Smith etc..... LOL.

Here's Today's Cyber-Game:

Silently, and in your own head, think of two government officials in Mississippi. They can be city, county or state officials. Now Imagine both of them allocating dollars for and planning out the delivery of internet services in the areas in your community where it's either lacking or non existent.

Test question: Write a paragraph, 250 words or less, theory of how successful you think they will be and why.