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  There are others that have been working on fiber in and around Nashville for a while now. All below have a hand in helping making fiber happen here.   http://www.united.net/services/fiber-based-internet/why-speed-is-important/   http://www.zayo.com/news/zayo-completes-nashville-tennessee-fiber-build   http://www.nesnetwork.com/

Nope, none whatsoever.

It's not that much cash to upgrade a home for gigabit especially now, I've been running a gigabit network end to end inside our house for around 5 years now streaming blue ray rips to all our ever TVs since we cut the cord. Gigabit fiber means I'll be able to get that level performance from my (already bought and paid for with savings from cord cutting) server anywhere else that has gigabit fiber that I go rather than munching CPU cycles to transcode and compress the files to fit through a measly 3mbps pipe. Residential internet in Nashville is garbage currently, b/c you hit the bandwidth cap well before you can really make use of the speed, on business class I've gotten rid of the cap but only get 12mpbs guaranteed down for $70 a month. Even at that speed I still transfer over 1tb a month of data across my internet connection.

It can depend quite a bit on geography, I'm only 9 miles from downtown, but there are hills around me blocking 2 of the stations' towers so I have spotty reception on those even with a large antenna array in the attic.

I've never seen a total, but I'm sure google has matched or overspent comcast this presidency.   http://gawker.com/5119039/google-execs-pay-150000-for-obama-bash   http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/google-the-halliburton-of-the-obama-administration%E2%80%A8/   http://www.businessinsider.com/global-cash-reserves-companies-nations-2014-4   Some titan's of industry are currently so laden with cash that they are now being compared and ranked among countries when regarding cash reserves. Google currently sits just above above Canada, Sweden, and Norway. That's also 10x the cash reserves on the books of Comcast. Which doesn't sound like too much, until you remember that they are counting in BILLIONS, a hair over 55 billion in this case.   http://www.businessinsider.com/global-cash-reserves-companies-nations-2014-4   http://dealbook.on.nytimes.com/Public/Debt?symbol=CMCSA   http://www.dividend.com/how-to-invest/7-charts-to-put-corporate-cash-in-perspective/   The biggest question from investors for years has been what are Apple, Google, and Microsoft going to do with ALL that Cash. It appears Google is going spend some to make major moves in the ISP space to force competition in many markets and promote wider broadband internet adoption. (The more you surf the more they stand to make off ad revenue.)

This is just flat out wrong, in late 2013 Chattanooga topped 3500 gigabit subscribers just under half residential and they didn't drop the price of gigabit service to it's current $70 level until September 2013. Adoption was VERY slow when the service was still priced at over $300 per month but once EPB ran specials and dropped the price to be competitive with the other ISPs it's taken off rather well.  Also EPB only offers 100Mbps or gigabit now iirc so even if you took the "lower tier" as most customers do you still get 10x the speed I currently pay comcast for the same cost.

You don't come up with used for internet that fast until you have access to it. It makes real time off-site backup a reality, allows very HQ video conferencing with no compression delay, and makes home media servers a real proposition for most users.   The best part of fiber isn't the download speed, it's the upload speed and the overall bandwidth capacity.

5Mb internet is free from Google after the install fee for 7 years min. Gigabit internet is $70 and can move data at speeds where your file transfers are held up by the local HD's write speed rather than the pipe the data comes in through. 

Doubt it, Google has more cash than the US treasury and intends to make high speed internet commonplace no matter the cost. Every market they have entered with google fiber has had cost per Mb reductions across the board regardless of the ISP. Comcast is too busy trying to keep from being reclassified as a title II utility, that happens and comcast may as well roll out a welcome mat nationwide for google fiber and municipal broadband.

  Cool, that's not the way I read the FAQ answer I quoted, but my opinion isn't the one that counts it's only the courts & the dept of safety. Always learning new things on here thanks to posters like yourself, thanks oh shoot!

Streaming video has not so much followed this trend, sure new entries come to market, but older rokus and apple tvs have continued to get additional features with every software upgrade for years after release. The roku 3 is my current recommendation, followed closely by the amazon fire tv or the appleTV.(if you fall heavily to apple or amazon with digital content ownership already) that second thread I linked to was from this month so is very much still relevant.

I hate to just reference another thread, but I've gone in-depth with cord cutting several times and have been an evangelist for it since around 2008.   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/77410-any-experience-with-roku/   one more   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/84606-tv-optionsno-directv-maybe/

a stock or a few different stocks with dividends and a dividend reinvestment option are fun to watch grow.

BTW- Welcome to TN.

No, you can apply for carry permit on the 10yr+1 day anniversary of your first conviction(of the pair) assuming you aren't charged again between then and now. So sound like 2019 sometime. If you were charged again there would be a min. 5 year wait from that conviction.   "The applicant has not been convicted of the offense of driving under the influence of an intoxicant in this or any other State two (2) or more times within ten (10) years from the date of application and that none of such convictions has occurred within five (5) years from the date of application or renewal."

    Does a surgeon attacked in a parking garage become more liable b/c he punctures a critical blood vessel with a ballpoint pen defending himself when attacked causing the perpetrator to bleed out before paramedics arrive?   I think so long as the "attacker" started the engagement the outcome is on them. It's their bad if they choose the wrong "victim" and it ended badly for them.

Back safe, pretty though!

That doesn't sound fun, BNA iced up at all? In Bristol about to head back that way. :/

  see: http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/85187-shopper-tackles-man-with-gun-at-wal-mart/

. . .and now we have video!   http://tbo.com/news/crime/deputies-man-attacks-walmart-customer-carrying-concealed-weapon-20150120/   The really scary part is that they held the gentleman down, disarmed him, and then passed the loaded gun around like a hot potato!

As someone who's stuck on a college campus daily, I'll take every little bit I can get.  :2cents:

Sounds like he'll be getting a pair instead of one, but that's ok b/c it seems his current docs are much more comfortable with the procedure.

While I don't like to see the Muslim faith spread in the method it does I know VERY FEW religions with no blood in their history. You have to focus on those who are violent and whom encourage violence rather than all those who follow a particular religion.

http://twitchy.com/2015/01/21/gun-grabber-shannon-watts-fires-off-what-may-be-her-dumbest-tweet-ever/  

Sheriff's spokesman quote is the best-   McKinnon said that vigilantes should “make sure there’s a good reason” before tackling gun owners.