Google's ultra fast broadband network to start in Kansas City

[Berzerker]

so Topeka lost, but Kansas still won... yay

KC is like any other megatropolis, at some point the burbs become their own cities within a larger "city" that expands far beyond its city limits.

[Lonestar]

I imagine Kansas City was chosen because the IT infastructure wasn't there compared to other major cities(being, as Albie pointed out, "in the boondocks". Of course "Boondocks" is Tagalog for mountains but I digress) which makes it a better largescale "lab" for proving the viablity. That Boeing has a large manufacturing facility in the area means that there will be a demand for that kind of data anyway.

Of course, I wouldn't want to live in KC. Either one.

[Dinner]

Good for KC. I remember taking part in a mass email campaign put on by our local paper to try to convince Google to use San Diego as their pilot city but obviously it didn't work. From a geographic stand point KC is pretty darn close to the center of country so they can just keep expanding it in all directions and in a short time have most of the country's population in their service area.

[Al B. Sure!]

There is a London in Canada and a London in England. They are two separate cities. It is anticipated that they will remain separate cities particularly as they are on different continents. I don't know who the idiot was who named the first city the same as the first.

Lots of cities have the name.

Yeah but cities that border each other, Braindead.

[MikeH]

That's it? That's the whole city?

There's like 6 skyscrapers there

More than London, and London has 8 million people.

[The Mad Monk]

I imagine Kansas City was chosen because the IT infastructure wasn't there compared to other major cities(being, as Albie pointed out, "in the boondocks". Of course "Boondocks" is Tagalog for mountains but I digress) which makes it a better largescale "lab" for proving the viablity. That Boeing has a large manufacturing facility in the area means that there will be a demand for that kind of data anyway.

Sour grapes much?

Greater Kansas City is headquarters to several Fortune 500 companies (Sprint Nextel Corporation, H&R Block, YRC Worldwide Inc., and International Assets Holding Corporation) and additional Fortune 1000 corporations Great Plains Energy, Aquila, AMC Theatres, Applebee's, DST Systems, Garmin International, Cerner, Seaboard Corporation, and Russell Stover Candies). Three international law firms, Lathrop & Gage, Stinson Morrisson & Hecker, and Shook, Hardy & Bacon are also based in the City. Hallmark Cards's gross revenues certainly would qualify it for both lists, but it cannot be included because it is privately owned by the Hall family. Numerous agriculture companies operate out of the city . Dairy Farmers of America, the largest Dairy Co-op in the United States is located here. Kansas City Board of Trade is the principal trading Exchange for hard red winter wheat — the principal ingredient of bread. Black and Veatch, Perceptive Software, Compass Minerals, Ash Grove Cement, Ferrellgas, and Bats Exchange, Inc are also based in the Kansas City area...
...One of the largest drug manufacturing plants in the United States is the Sanofi-Aventis plant located in south Kansas City on the campus developed by Ewing Kauffman's Marion Laboratories.[51] Of late, it has been developing some academic and economic institutions related to animal health sciences, an effort most recently bolstered by the selection of Manhattan, Kansas, at one end of the [52] Kansas City Animal Health Corridor, as the site for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, which is tasked, among other things, to research animal-related diseases.

Ford Motor Company operates a large manufacturing facility just outside of Kansas City in Claycomo at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant, which currently builds the Ford Escape, Mazda Tribute, Ford F-150, and Mercury Mariner. The General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant s located in adjacent Kansas City, Kansas. Smith Electric Vehicles builds electric vehicles in the former TWA/American Airlines overhaul facility at Kansas City International Airport.

The Kansas City Plant dedicated by Harry Truman and currently operated by Honeywell produces and assembles 85 percent of the non-nuclear components of the United States nuclear bomb arsenal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri

Of course, I wouldn't want to live in KC. Either one.

Your loss.

[The Mad Monk]

so Topeka lost, but Kansas still won... yay

KC is like any other megatropolis, at some point the burbs become their own cities within a larger "city" that expands far beyond its city limits.

I pulling for Topeka, the Google stunt was fun.

Apparently, one of the major reasons this happened for KCK is that a lot of the infrastructure is already in place -- less digging to do, and less antiquated equipment to replace, like on the East Coast. Or Philly.

[DanS]

I wouldn't be surprised to see Topeka and/or KCMO added. KCK is only ~150,000 people and Google has stated its intention for upwards of 500,000 people in this test.

Btw, KCMO is a nice place.

[MRT144]

Oh and there's nothing racist about calling out West hillbilly land. That's where hillbillies are from, aint it? And how is hillbilly racist? Did I say all white people are hillbillies? No. I'm not like Dave Floyd or Doc making blanket statements like "Black men rape white women".

No. hillbillies are from Appalachia and around Pittsburgh are known as hilljacks. Now, why are you so ****ing ignorant?

[Al B. Sure!]

No. hillbillies are from Appalachia and around Pittsburgh are known as hilljacks. Now, why are you so ****ing ignorant?

And yet Springfield Missouri gives an award "Hillbilly of the Ozarks"

Why are you so ****ing ignorant and have no reading comprehension?

[The Mad Monk]

I already answered that, PAY ATTENTION.

[MRT144]

And yet Springfield Missouri gives an award "Hillbilly of the Ozarks"

Why are you so ****ing ignorant and have no reading comprehension?

If you knew what etymology and linguistics and migration were you'd possibly have an idea. It's amazing what one can learn when they aren't some ****ing mouthbreathing knuckle dragging cretin who JUST HAS TO BE RIGHT.

I mean, for ****s sake, you point out a town that has an award THAT IN THE AWARD ITSELF QUALIFIES WHERE THE HILLBILLY LIVES. IF HILLBILLIES WERE ****ING ORIGINATING FROM THE OZARKS IT WOULD BE REDUNDANT LIKE "IGNORANT MACHO ****HEADS OF PHILLY"

You do this **** all the time where your pea brain tries to find an exception to try and disprove a general and solid consensus. It's like you can't even process the possibility that there are non binary systems in the world where hillbillies might exist in two places at once! THEY EITHER HAVE TO BE OZARKIAN OR THEY HAVE TO BE APPALACHIAN AND YOU JUMP ON THE FIRST ****ING THING THAT CONFIRMS YOUR IGNORANCE.

[The Mad Monk]

I'm glad I came back, I missed that epic edit.

[Al B. Sure!]

You're acting all harsh, MRT. So we're not cool anymore or something?

[MRT144]

You're acting all harsh, MRT. So we're not cool anymore or something?

This is just a series of flabbergasting things you've said over the past 72 hours that have irritated me and you won't even acknowledge the possibility there is something ridiculous about the things you've said.