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The U.S. waving around the biggest stick in human history has nothing at all to do with that, I'm sure.

If your objective is to lock up control of all the energy available rather than just secure a reliable supply for yourself, then fusion probably doesn't look nearly as attractive a…

You attributed the slow broadband rollout to public hostility, not public indifference.

Canada's banks were still under the equivalent of Glass-Steagall restrictions at the time, and the government had kept them on a very short leash in many other respects. Your analy…

I must say your dichotomy between lobbying and political priorities is positively Martian. And I haven't noticed the U.S. public rallying in horrified opposition to faster internet…

Then why did you bring up density in the first place? Unless you're saying that urban and suburban America each lack FTTH for their own wholly unrelated reasons, an explanation tha…

Some things never change. I remember a article on South Korean broadband in Businessweek 15 years ago that ranted on about Seoul's paucity of elevators. I'm guessing that package d…

That still doesn't explain why there's no gigabit FTTH in NYC, with its high average density. It sure as heck doesn't explain why there's no gigabit FTTH in Manhattan proper--by yo…

Look, you can't have it both ways. Either population density helps or hinders a fiber rollout--if it helps, then why is the urban U.S.A. just as far behind as the rest? If it hinde…