Up yours Bruce. Your chickenshit name calling and flaming was uncalled for.
Your ignorance preceeds you bucko. AT&T infrastucture built with taxpayers money, what a laugh. Let's see the widow stock is what it was known as. Stock markets and selling stock are for raising cash to do what? They were a government HEAVILY regulated industry for many reasons, the major was to ensure that they provided services to your home. Now it's the ROBC legacy. BUT WAIT, The TELECOM ACT of '96, Republician led Congress (more socialist eh Bruce), mandates further deregulation!! But hey, there is competition abound and innovation unleashed. Why? Enough folks brought it to court, a function of government, to Congress and prevailed. Go read the break up of the Bell system, instead of being a virtual jerk.
But just to show what you don't know, that strip of land that you the homeowner doesn't own, known as easement, is own and controled by the local government. All utilities have to pay ROW charges to use that. It ain't given to them, sport. What's government doing, raising the rate and charging for upgrading, but don't bury the cable/fiber nor backfill the trenches. They just collect the revenue, WHAT A DEAL!!
How about MSFT Explorer? The Internet? Care to tell me how much the taxpayer spent funding that? DARPA mean anything to you? How about NSF? University of Illinios? Funded by MSFT????? More like corporate welfare for MSFT. IBM walk a thin line for years of government demonopolizing them. Never heard the screams when they team up with MCI in the early days of the Internet? Bet your ass there was all kinds of screaming about it. Why do you think that the NAP's are divided between 5 companies originally? Ever wonder why IBM allowed cloning? Oh but wait here, let see, MSFT benefit by BIG BAD government scrutinizing Big Blue every moves!! What this, ensure competiton and little companies grow into monpolies!! But you know all this, right monoply lover??
Stymie creativity, oh the rally cry of the oppressed monopolist!!! Don't look now, but that set top box will be Windows CE. Check the news. Billy Boy had to figure out a market for that useless PDA junk. I use to like MSFT and dislike Lotus. But this bullying rampage of Gates has gone too far. HE is MANDATING that boxmakers do this and do that. Go ask Compaq. No you won't have to, because it will come out in court documents. Look at Apple, MSFT after 4 years release an updated version of Office. 4 years. Only after Billy boy makes a monetary contribution and Apple agrees to put Explorer on their machine. Sounds more like Mafia extortion. Oops maybe they can use the Ricco Act.
Ever wonder why his assualt on telecommunications? They rejected NT for critical running of switches, call centers, etc. Why the token investment in cable, another useless monopoly? CE in every set top box and forcing broadcaster to yield to his demands on HDTV, which is mainly to sell more useless Windows legacy BS. Read the news Brucie.
I am also very glad I did not waste my time reading all of your random bursts of garbage that have deteriorated the quality of this thread. But then again, my good name is at stake here, whereas you are just a dog. Good luck,
What has your contribution been Brucie? Your a bean counter and a programmer, what do you think you know about communications? Not a damn thing. Pfttt. Use his useless shit. I use UNIX. Far more reliable and robust than Windows, but then the computing industry has been condition to accept downtime and unreliability.
Your name means nothing, junior. For the record, I served my country for eight years and one of them spilling blood, as in defending the flag. I then worked doing private communications, BEFORE, the Bell System breakup. Thanks to that, I amassed a nice sum of money and built a business that I sold. Today I enjoy competing as a consultant. I CHOOSE to hide behind "the name." Misguided jackass like yourself can't send me a virus that way.
You can have the thread. I'm out of here. Reprobates like yourself, with your controlling monpolist attitude, ain't my cup ot tea. |
