Porsche. Hybrids.
Wear Your Seatbelt
Or you could end up like this.
Santa Monica Seeking Ultra High-Speed Internet from Google
Keeping my fingers crossed. There is fiber outside my window, but Verizon uses a terminal that requires an entire structure be wired up at once. Basically, they need to pull all the copper POTS for the entire building at once. You can’t do a mixed mode.
And, the building owner is paranoid about any new “electronics” going into the building.
Sucks.
City officials announced on Monday that Santa Monica is entering a competition to be part of a trial program for a Google broadband network promising Internet speeds of 1GB per second, a rate the company says is more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today.
Is China broke?
But China has a history of taking debt off its books and burying it, which should prompt us to poke and prod its numbers. If we go back to the last time China cooked the national books big time, during the Asian currency crisis of 1997, we can get an idea of where its debt might be hidden now.
via Jim Jubak: Is China broke? Hidden debt burdens Asia giant – MSN Money.
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