[140469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Wed May 11 20:42:00 2011
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:41:12 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Tim Durack wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No business is entitled to protection of its business model.
>>
>> Unless it has a market monopoly, deep pockets, and lobbyist friends.
>>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/after-approving-comcastnbc-deal-fcc-commish-becomes-comcast-lobbyist.ars
>
> I rest my case.
Check out the movie, 'Casino Jack', about Jack Abramoff.
My favorite line is when he's in the slammer and telling another inmate what he does for a living, the inmate says,
"Lobbyist... is that illegal?".
