In article <9408182314.AA22475@anchor.ho.att.com>, bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204 <wcs@anchor.ho.att.com> wrote:
David Lesher writes:
No money, not wiretaps. That may {or may not} limit the effect of FBI Wiretap, depending on how [much/little] the Hill loosens the pursestrings.
It's certainly a good start, but the government *does* have other money.
Indeed. I'd really like to see the wording about how they actually need to be paid for: namely, will allowing tariffs to be raised by RBOCs count as "paying for it"? They could spend the money by doing two things: - Mandating the money be spent (the DT bill) - and then allowing the RBOCs to increase their tariffs. Presto! We've paid for the mechanisms, but not through the federal budgets. The RBOCs have been pushing for high bandwidth R&D increases of their general tariffs for a really long time, so I could certainly see them playing along as long as there's room for other R&D in there. Just a thought... -- L. Todd Masco | "Cowboy politicians sucking up to the aristocracy, not cactus@bb.com | even sure if they like democracy..." - TR-I