Astounding number, there are over 200,000 isis tweets per day. How can we possibly get a handle over this . The chatter is so high and the volume is so loud that its difficult to get a handle. This isnt terror as usual. This is terror gone viral. I come mebd the fbi, Homeland Security and state and locals for their disrupting of these many plots. But as we saw in chattanooga, we cannot stop all of them. In this age of peer to peer terrorism, authorities are searching for suspects who use secure aps we call dark space, to communicate and crowd source their calls for attack, inspiring operatives who never have crossed into the borders of syria, but cross over borders through the internet to conduct acts of terror. Isis cyber commanders now regularly send out internet directives and missives to their followers, as we saw in garland, texas. Sometimes our first indication of a hatched plot is an internet hash tag. We need to have a frank conversation in america about the challenges posed by
The obvious infrastructure deployment requires the expectation of a healthy return on capital. That should be taken as a given but all too often in my experience the issue of return on capital is either ignored or misunderstood in policy forums. Its not a matter of whether a business is or isnt profitable. It is instead a matter of whether a business is sufficiently profitable to warrant the high levels of Capital Investment required for the deployment of infrasfrur. We that in mind, in 2014, the Largest Companies in the cable industry earned a very healthy return. The physical assets of comcast, time warner cable, charter and cablevision, the four publicly traded Cable Operators in 2014 all earned healthy returns in excess of their cost of capital with returns ranging from 13 to 33 . Those returns were unusually high for a capital intensive industry. On the other hand it should be noted the cable industry earned returns below the cost of capital for decades. Any longterm return on Net
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