The Baby Bells have become bigger than their parent and yes they are
converging back. No doubt about it, but the new AT&T is not the old
AT&T.
Well, it soon will be under either the same or another name. The
whole reason SBC rebranded itself as AT&T after they bought
the "old" AT&T was that p
In 1984 Judge Green forced AT&T to divest itself of the baby
bells. They all became separate and independent companies who no
longer had to buy equipment from AT&t etc.
After 1984 Western Electric became AT&T manufacturing (I know my dad
worked for them at this time) The plants got smaller a
By the way the AT&T they talked about in the article no longer
exists. The new AT&T is actually one of the baby bells that was
divested in 1984.
Are you sure about that? Start by clicking on some of the links.
You should be done reading by say, late October. And I know
you're a fast reader.
At the time it ensured our country of having a world class phone
system. Well since that time it has slipped a bit.
Regulated public utilities worked well. It limited the ability of
utilities to just raise rates to increase returns, and limited them
to request rate increases when they could
Anyway to get a black hole to suck up CO2?
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Fred Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> At 09:44 PM 9/10/2008, Tom Piwowar wrot
By the way that was done at one time for another utility, called the
phone company.
This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
Telecom has a long and extremely involved history of regulation,
nationalization, reregulation, deregulation, mergers, acquisitio
How about using software that does many things
poorly if it also smacks you on the head?
--- On Fri, 9/12/08, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [CGUYS] Al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness
> To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
> Date: Frida
Maybe you can paint an MS on the foreheads of all the peevish ones so we
can point at them in crowds.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >He's the one with the zune?? I never knew he could squirt songs.
>
> Notice how peevish the WFBs get as MS's market sh
By the way that was done at one time for another utility, called the
phone company.
They had to supply phone service to just about everyone.
That is what led to a lot of phone co-ops all over the US.
Your long distance rates covered what it cost to supply a phone to Timbuktu.
Stewart
At 07:
>He's the one with the zune?? I never knew he could squirt songs.
Notice how peevish the WFBs get as MS's market share slips away.
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> The solution may be as simple as to void all exclusive franchises and
> any legislation that keeps communities from entering the market to correct
> market inefficiencies that may cause them to get bypassed.
By God, there's hope for you yet. Maybe the idiot king of the FCC, Kevin
Martin, can a
He's the one with the zune?? I never knew he could squirt songs.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You really need to get someone to write you a new script.
>
> You go play with your Zune.
>
>
>
>You really need to get someone to write you a new script.
You go play with your Zune.
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> When I originally dragged and dropped my data from my Linux partition to
> the external drive (formatted FAT32), I dragged folders that were created in
> Linux ext2 but that contained .doc, .txt, .html, .pdf, and .jpg fil
I've never had an issue with iTunes.
Real? ugh.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been warning people off itunes for a long time anyway. As bad as
> Real ever was, which I've had similar bad luck with.
>
>
>
> Old news. Corrected version is out.
>
> So much for Vista's protected mode computing.
You really need to get someone to write you a new script.
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I've been warning people off itunes for a long time anyway. As bad as
Real ever was, which I've had similar bad luck with.
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Yeah Tom, MS team members program iTunes for Apple now. Tell us another one
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Apple's iTunes 8 has some interesting side effects. It causes a BSOD on
> >Vista:
>
> Old news. Corrected version is out.
>
> So much for Vista'
>>>Apple's iTunes 8 has some interesting side effects. It causes a BSOD
on
>>>Vista:
>>Old news. Corrected version is out.
>>
>>So much for Vista's protected mode computing.
Yawn... predictable...
>The problem, as I understand it, is a driver that Apple supplied.
>Drivers tend to run at kernel
Greetings -
For the last few days, I have been testing data recovery software and
trying to find the folders and files from my WD 500 GB USB external
drive. No luck, in particular with "Search and Recover" and "Easy
Recovery Pro."
When I originally dragged and dropped my data from my Linux p
At 4:21 PM -0400 9/17/08, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>Apple's iTunes 8 has some interesting side effects. It causes a BSOD on
Vista:
Old news. Corrected version is out.
So much for Vista's protected mode computing.
The problem, as I understand it, is a driver that Apple supplied.
Drivers tend t
>Apple's iTunes 8 has some interesting side effects. It causes a BSOD on
>Vista:
Old news. Corrected version is out.
So much for Vista's protected mode computing.
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Yes but not in the things of man.
"My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus and his
righteousness." That is how the hymn is sung.
I pray for my leaders and such, but I do not put my faith in them
dangerous thing, putting faith in man.
Stewart
At 02:24 PM 9/17/2008, you wrote:
That'
At 1:46 PM -0500 9/17/08, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
My connection is that nothing much will happen NO MATTER WHICH of
the two major party candidates are elected.
We will not elect anyone who wants to change the status quo. They
will just move around the deck chairs a little on the cruise
My connection is that nothing much will happen NO MATTER WHICH of the
two major party candidates are elected.
We will not elect anyone who wants to change the status quo. They
will just move around the deck chairs a little on the cruise ship.
Stewart
At 01:29 PM 9/17/2008, you wrote:
Ab
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Larry Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hold on, that is a post EDS merger trimming. That percentage is not at
> >all unusual after a merger. The merged company will find many positions
>
> >duplicated with only enough work required to justify one position.
> >
>
On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Larry Sacks wrote:
In the interest of equal opportunity political whining...
Don't worry about this, Barack and Biden will make everything all
better. In the meantime, just chill. Help is on the way.
Absolutely. We would not want to leave any of our hot air l
Forgive me for talking about computers here, but I thought some people
would like to know this...
Apple's iTunes 8 has some interesting side effects. It causes a BSOD on
Vista:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2280
"Symptoms
After installing iTunes 8 for Windows, some users may see a
BTW, Palin will be VICE President if McCain is elected. If that
happens, let's hope he stays healthy and that she doesn't try to pull a
Cheney. Incidentally, she has turned against and betrayed nearly every
political figure who has ever helped her, so if McCain is elected, it
could be an interest
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Steve Rigby <[EMAI
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Steve Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
>
>> Why should some fat cat who pays himself $1,000,000/day not be held
>> [responsible?]
>
> The pit bull with lipstick is gonna roll into DC and "correct" all of this
>
On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Why should some fat cat who pays himself $1,000,000/day not be held
responsible for operating a company recklessly in a manner that causes
huge losses to the nation's economy, causes innocent people to lose
their
jobs, homes, savings, pensions,
Cable companies are not anywhere.
Cable companies operate at the whim/franchise agreement of a local community.
Nothing about them is a regulated utility.
That is why Phone Companies have screamed about what Cable can get
away with while they are regulated.
Stewart
At 10:36 AM 9/17/2008, y
On Sep 16, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
If Comcast is a regulated public utility and you pay your bills do
they
really have the right to cut off your service for any other reason?
I do not believe that Comcast is a publicly regulated utility, at
least not around where I live.
>Oh my. Being a half-assed govt created and approved monopoly is now the
>equivalent to that of a violent criminal? Has Comcast actually committed a
>*crime*?
You are quite a spinner. Here we go for another round of "Thank You for
Not Smoking."
I think the events in the financial markets over
> The United States keeps getting further behind other countries that act
> like broadband is important to their economies--it is. Broadband
> companies are suffering from old ways of thinking. They can't/won't
> solve problems that aren't particularly complicated because it will cut
> into the pro
> Once they become "King of the Mountain," most
> companies will make every attempt to prevent any challenge to their
> exclusive arrangement. Corporations in such a position have no
> interest in "free market" principles. The "free market" is for
> wannabes.
This is very true and in no way am I
> Is pursuing a murderer or a thief micromananging? How about those
> meddlers in the fire department? Should we not let fires rage free?
Oh my. Being a half-assed govt created and approved monopoly is now the
equivalent to that of a violent criminal? Has Comcast actually committed a
*crime*?
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