[ale] Tenn screws state with assbackwards broadband law.

[Jim Kinney]

On Apr 12, 2017 1:52 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

When you work in a government bureaucracy long enough, you come to expect
inefficiency, ignorance, incompetence, and corruption.  When you get
anything else, it is just a pleasant surprise.  This message written by a
government employee in a state that has had the head of all three branches
of state government removed in the past year (Alabama).


Yeah. Ouch!


--
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu

On 4/12/17, 12:13 PM, "ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Kyle Brieden" <
ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of kyle at txmoose.com> wrote:

    I don't pretend to understand how government *actually* works, but this
    just seems like pure, bald-faced corruption.  How does something like
    this actually happen?  Seriously.

    ---
    Very respectfully,
    Kyle Brieden

    On 12-04-2017 12:49, Jim Kinney wrote:
    > This is why society is doomed to fail: lobbyists
    >
    > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/tennessee-could-
give-taxpayers-americas-fastest-internet-for-free-but-
it-will-give-comcast-and-atandt-dollar45-million-instead
    > _______________________________________________
    > Ale mailing list
    > Ale at ale.org
    > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
    > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
    > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo


_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20170412/951b23eb/attachment.html>