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[Joseph Crawford]

Mitch,

I do believe that when you start service with a company such as the  
electric or cable, etc. they have right of passage to the phone polls  
at anytime.  I recall reading about this online a while back when one  
got caught in a womans back yard and she threw a fit.  However it  
stated they were not at fault and had all rights to access the utility  
equipment.  I'm sure this would not work at 3am or anything unless  
there was an emergency but you get the idea.

Joseph Crawford


On May 20, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> That is the part that I still don't get as a foreigner. Why is most  
>> of the
>> infrastructure here in the US in such a bad state?
>
> That is the price we pay for things getting invented over here. Radio
> is another example. First time I saw a car radio in Switzerland and
> the name of the song was displaying I almost had a heart attack. Then
> I used something called TeleText to check the news on a TV, without
> internet access.
>
> Simple things to a European, but totally tomorrow-land stuff to an
> American. We may have invented TV and radio over here, but we also are
> stuck supporting the caveman-era technologies that were rolled out
> when they were first invented.
>
> The Europeans sat back, and watched us blow our fingers off with our
> experiments; and when the pain stopped and things started looking
> really good, they said "Hey, this whole radio thing is a brilliant
> idea, and we can include text in our broadcast as well."
>
> For Brooklyn, the problem is that the original cabling was hung from
> poles going behind all the houses. Say you are Verizon, and you want
> to do the Right Thing by putting in modern facilities. You are going
> to have to contact every tenant for every residence to get permission
> to go out back and replace that cabling. Let me know when you are
> done, assuming I live that long.
>
> -- Mitch, noting that the cable companies DID get to wire stuff where
> it belonged
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