Democrats' "Innovation Agenda" Calls For Universal Broadband

[Jared Moya]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is scheduled to deliver a speech at the National Press Club in Washington next week, laying out a new Democratic "innovation agenda". According to Pelosi staffers, next Tuesday's speech will present the results of conversations with "business, technology, and academic leaders across the nation". A source familiar with the speech, titled "Innovation Agenda: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1," said that it would be "quite substantive and specific".  "The Innovation Agenda will create a new generation of innovators, spur innovation through research and development, guarantee broadband access for all Americans within five years, achieve energy independence in 10 years and create a competitive small business environment," according to a media advisory issued Friday.  In part, the speech appears to be designed to provide a Democratic response toward moving the economy forward through an emphasis on technology, as a counterpoint to Republican initiatives in the defense, counter-terrorism, and energy industries. "We're attempting to cover a broad spectrum from medical R&D, energy, broadband/telecom, and not just to focus on the end user/consumer but at all levels of development," the source said.

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[wonderboy2005]

"Innovation Agenda: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1,"

Hah... we haven't been 'number one' in terms of technology for a while now. I'm glad that there is a technological push in the works though, don't get me wrong.

Maybe its just me, but it seems that over the past few years, the two major political parties in this country have been becoming more and more extreme in their takes on handling difficult issues. It seems (to me) that republicans have more and more been ignoring science and putting all of their faith (pun intended) into religon. On the other hand, Democrats seem to be headed towards the amoral, strictly scientific viewpoint. By looking at my past posts it would probably be pretty obvious that I lean towards the democratic side, but I still think there needs to be a balance. We can't forget about science, but we can't give up our values, either.

[Sephiroth]

My opinion if the democrats really cared about this issue then they wouldnt be trying to exploit it for next years elections and instead working to pass legislation to help speed the state of broadband.

Broadband has been getting cheaper and cheaper, right now a dsl account is only maybe 5 bucks more than dial up if that. So there has been alot of progress made, i think more needs to be done to push dial up users to get broadband. There are some areas in the country that have no broadband yet, and its kind of one of those things that those that want to get it cant, but if more people in that area wanted it then it would get done.

I think it is more importnat for congress to take on the DMCA, and add digitial consumer rights to it, given all the abuse by these so called DRM solutions like the sony rootkit, starforce game copy protection which is just as bad as the sony rootkit, and so on. Limits on what DRM can do to a person's machine and forbiddening secert installations and a label on the product that it includes x drm, and allowing users to legally bypass copyright protection on purchased software to avoid problems or at least be able to get a refund. Its sad when its the people who go out and buy the software that get punished with the DRM shit and the DRM ends up just being a 15 min inconvience to people who just pirate it.

[Jared Moya]

wonderboy2005


yep, its because we longer have competetive elections anymore.............."Eighty-three percent of the 435 House races were won by landslides. Nearly 90 percent of incumbents were re-elected by margins of at least 20 percent," Dr. Rueter notes. "In 14 states, every race was won by a landslide margin of at least 20 percent. Only four states recorded no landslide victories. State legislative races were even less competitive. Nationwide, 40 percent of the more than 7,000 races were uncontested." fom Non-Competitive Elections Threaten Democracy


http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:hqNWQo2r968J:www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp%3Fid%3D16562+competitive+elections+for+c ongress+2005&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Thats why their getting crazier and crazier because they are increasingly voted in based on their exact "trueness" and 'loyalty" their party int ever purest form rather than having to please and thus merge both sides to a position that both find palatable.......the elusive, as we call it in Buddhism, the "MIDDLE BOTH," where al us sane people are, who could just as easy legalize pot as we could be pro-military, ant-abortion, or against capital ppnshment, and so too dont want "intelligent design."


In the old days, DEMS and REPS could go bowling, the bar, saurday "canasta" games(?), or whatever, but know, shit forget about it, you d have to deny that you were not of their party affiliation or risk bodily harm, verbal humilitaion, kick to the groin? Sad but true.


I just hope the revolutuion will be televised (ha ha).