-----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com on behalf of Steve Edwards Sent: Fri 7/9/2010 5:32 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] False answer() being sent by cellphone providers
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Mike Ely wrote: > (off list) Continuing to veer off-topic... > Yes indeed we do. The telcos here are absolutely abhorrent, to the > point that much could be written about how horrible they are but nobody > would want to read such depressing material. And consumer protections? > Hah! The devotees of Ayn Rand have written most consumer law here. > Don't get me started. Maybe you should re-read Atlas Shrugged. Your laws may have been written by the people Ayn Rand wrote about: "the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear,*" not devotees of Ayn Rand and her philosophy. *) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged Well, so much for my "off list" attempt. Perhaps I should learn how to use email before I take on anything so complex as a PBX. At any rate, Steve, you have it completely backwards: in the US and many other countries, it is industry asserting control over government, not the other way around. Walk down K Street in Washington, D.C. and you'll see my point. And no thanks: I've already read that execrable book, and found it to be nothing more than overwrought claptrap written to give people with a huge inferiority complex (witness all the carping on about "mediocrity") some smug self-justification when they abandon all ethics in favor of their reptile-brain, base instincts. Disgusting. Cheers!
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