Open Thread (2/9/2010)

Posted February 9th, 2010 at 06:42 AM by IlliniPundit
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

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On February 9th, 2010 at 07:35 AM, UrbanaJake (not verified) said:

I will never understand the News-Gazette in its old. foogy ways.

Try and follow the link as if you were going to "subscribe." It's

not even a real way to give these freaks subscription money. So strange.

 

The NG has 40,000 eyeballs on campus (80,000 hopefully) that are wired

all day long. Way to NOT create new online reading and (advertising and buying

habits.) That's what happens when a PRIVATE FOUNDATION runs a newspaper

in a one-paper town. The college newspaper is now the online newspaper of record. Geesh!

On February 9th, 2010 at 07:55 AM, UrbanaJake (not verified) said:

Odds of April 15 coming this year: 100 percent

Odds of C-U Big Broadband BigRipoff getting funding: 1 in 4 and dropping

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-02-09-broadband09_CV_N.htm

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On February 9th, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Kevin Sandefur said:

All things considered, I'd say more like 0 in 4.  It's a bureaucratic lottery to carry coals to Newcastle.

On February 9th, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ezra (not verified) said:

You may be right, UrbanaJake, but I see nothing in the USA Today article that supports your claim that C-U's chances are one in four and dropping.  Is this a number you pulled out of the air?

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On February 9th, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Kevin Sandefur said:

Ezra:  The government received applications for four times as much money as they had available to distribute (and they may not be physically able even to give out all of what they have before the authorization expires).  Plus, CU's proposal isn't exclusively for the sort of project that is supposedly being given preference, and may also face objections from both the cable and telephone companies.