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| Re: I am not surprised having seen what clinton did to all the businesses in America, I thank God for Bush and his common sense. Yet I don't think Bush had anything to do with this, I think it is right. Why? Simple, the states have no right to force companyies to do business a certain way, the states haveing overspent money are now trying everything they can do to slap us the taxpayers for anything they can, if they had gotten what they wanted we the end customers would have been paying a higher bill.
As for the we own it , ha, 75 years ago maybe, right now today, you are not forced to pay for a phone, your tax money does not go to the bells, stop trying to say we own it. We the tax payers might have helped in the deployment but that does not entitle ownership of the lines. The whole big business thing is so insane, anyone in this country can start any business, as long as the rules are followed. With more rules such as this are in place it is harder for the smaller start ups to get anywhere. | |
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I thank God for Bush and his common sense.
I'm not a very political person, but I don't think I've ever seen the words bush and common sense in the same sentence. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised I voted for Bush, but I don't like the way things are going with big business in this country. If the democrats would learn how to nominate a candidate worth a crap maybe we would have another choice. It's time for the governement to breakup the following: Wal-mart, telcos, and oil companies. Mergers + big business = consumers lose. | |
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Will it all be Obama's fault now?
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| Re: I am not surprised Breakup wall-mart? Under who's authority? For what reason? Wall-mart is not the product of any merger.
Wall-mart is simply the result of a savvy business strategy and excellent distribution systems.
As far as breaking up the telcos, the government did that once all ready, with very mixed (to be charitable) results. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised said by N3OGH :Breakup wall-mart? Under who's authority? For what reason? Wall-mart is not the product of any merger. Wall-mart is simply the result of a savvy business strategy and excellent distribution systems. As far as breaking up the telcos, the government did that once all ready, with very mixed (to be charitable) results. Walmart was a result of alot of preditory pricing..they would come in undercut cost....or even sell below cost..run everyone out and then raise prices to make a margin that was acceptable...
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Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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Cheyenne, WY | Re: I am not surprised and then K Mart ran into the buzzsaw of Walmart:) | |
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| Re: I am not surprised Most of K-Mart's original undoing was due to management issues (not dissimilar to Enron or Adelphia) rather than the result of competitive pressure from Walmart. K-Mart II will continue to be profitable as long are there are buyers for the real estate obtained from the Sears acquisition. | |
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Rockford, IL | For all of the praise about Wall-Mart's business strategy, it has also been noted that for every job Wall-Mart creates, the community loses 1 1/2 Jobs. The other result is the end of local businesses. | |
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Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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Cheyenne, WY | Re: I am not surprised Most all of the crap your hear about Walmart is put out by the Unions would want to organise it. | |
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Novi, MI | Re: I am not surprised I don't work for a union and I won't step foot in that dollar weakening, job destroying, sprawl producing crap hole. | |
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| said by Transmaster :Most all of the crap your hear about Walmart is put out by the Unions would want to organise it. And you think that letting the poor people working at Walmart shouldn't be allowed to unionize to get better working conditions and pay?  | |
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| I agree with you, they definitely need to increase competition. I don't really know where ncredible got his logic but it definitely was not from any of us.
If you give the telcos what they want, even when they promise faster speeds and lower prices, it will not work as we have already seen. Healthy competition is what drives down prices and increases service. Each company that competes wants to be the best, so services and products get better. In my case, there is SBC and a local cable company that offer broadband, thats it. They are both at a stalemate with speeds/pricing and not competing much at all. Monopolies could care less (case in point, Micro$oft). Now that their browser is finally threadened, they are JUST NOW makeing a new one. I hope Novell makes good with Linux next year and threatens Windows OS as well.
The point is, the FCC's decission is pretty much ensuring doom for any competion, and it will probably be a long time before most of us see any next-gen broadband.
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Youngstown, OH | Re: I am not surprised Wow, calm down, it was probably a simple spelling error, or
else he was implying that "wall-mart" was putting up a wall between itself and competition.
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Berkeley, CA | Wal-mart destroys local business and jobs and creates a bunch of underpaid jobs with no benefits or health insurance while at the same time providing horrible service and poor-quality products to the consumer. | |
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Montebello, CA | Re: I am not surprised Welcome to the future of America, and it has already begun.  | |
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| said by SpitefulCrow :Wal-mart destroys local business and jobs and creates a bunch of underpaid jobs with no benefits or health insurance while at the same time providing horrible service and poor-quality products to the consumer. Im sorry but what jobs is wal-mart distroying? As far as im concern, target, wal-mart, kmart.. All pay just above minimum wage. Same with most department/ mall stores: gap, jcpenny, sears, Barnes and noble, borders, tower music... Same with most food establishments. Mc Donald's, subway, Panera, starbucks,..
Basically all these organization pay less than $10 an hour to the majority of their employees. So stop blaming Wal-mart.. the blame can be spread around to just about any organization operating in a strip-mall
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| Re: I am not surprised said by valuepac :said by SpitefulCrow :Wal-mart destroys local business and jobs and creates a bunch of underpaid jobs with no benefits or health insurance while at the same time providing horrible service and poor-quality products to the consumer. Im sorry but what jobs is wal-mart distroying? As far as im concern, target, wal-mart, kmart.. All pay just above minimum wage. Same with most department/ mall stores: gap, jcpenny, sears, Barnes and noble, borders, tower music... Same with most food establishments. Mc Donald's, subway, Panera, starbucks,.. Basically all these organization pay less than $10 an hour to the majority of their employees. So stop blaming Wal-mart.. the blame can be spread around to just about any organization operating in a strip-mall do you work for walmart? My wife works at sams club every full time position is being replaced there with part times jobs. When she was hired she was told she could have steady days off now her days off seem to change every week. She paid for her dental plain for over 2 years before she finally got her dental card. If she isnt carefull because of her hire date being late in the year if she isnt carefull and gets dosnt get her vacation request in fast she gets screwed out of her vacation because the last quater of the year is blacked out. She was looking at transferring to wallmart because its alout closer to us. At wallmart the front end supervisers they call cos's dont evem get paid any more then regular cashiers. Now at sams club they are pulling this shit that if sh dont sign up x amount of people for a wallmart credit card he will be fired. She was hired as a cashier not to sign people up for credit. When will big companys understand that customers hate being hounded every time they shop to get a new credit card | |
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Brooklyn, NY | If the democrats would learn how to nominate a candidate worth a crap maybe we would have another choice. we rather have a puppet for the corporate big-wigs as our president. i know, i know, it's all democrats fault. | |
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| said by Gilitar :If the democrats would learn how to nominate a candidate worth a crap maybe we would have another choice. [sarcasm] You will have the best Democrat to vote for in the next election. Hillary will be running.[/sarcasm]
Why do you think they chose Kerry this time? It was because they new Hillary could not beat Bush, but they still want her up there. So they put up the crappiest possible candidate so that there was no way they could lose with Hillary in the next race.
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| Re: I am not surprised Hillary LMAO. John Kerry LMAO. John Edwards, is moderate he actualy knows what america needs. Bush= The biggest idiot but Kerry would suck worse. My only option= Nader 04 LMAO. Im thinking next election wil lbe Bob Doles fake ARM 08. JK. Mccain08!!!  | |
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join:2003-09-29
Santa Clara, CA
| Re: I am not surprised said by FTCXtreme :Hillary LMAO. John Kerry LMAO. John Edwards, is moderate he actualy knows what america needs. Bush= The biggest idiot but Kerry would suck worse. My only option= Nader 04 LMAO. Im thinking next election wil lbe Bob Doles fake ARM 08. JK. Mccain08!!! You're actually cheering on politicians who plan on screwing you out of your rights and dollars? People try too hard these days to be posterchilds for the phrase "glutton for punishment". | |
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| Re: I am not surprised said by Zverina :That's because Bush is a village idiot.
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| said by Pz_ :said by ncredible:
I thank God for Bush and his common sense.
I'm not a very political person, but I don't think I've ever seen the words bush and common sense in the same sentence. When have you seen 'Clinton' and 'common sense' in the same sentence? | |
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| Re: I am not surprised said by Kompressor :said by Pz_ :said by ncredible:
I thank God for Bush and his common sense.
I'm not a very political person, but I don't think I've ever seen the words bush and common sense in the same sentence. When have you seen 'Clinton' and 'common sense' in the same sentence? BUSH is the AntiChrist of Common Sense. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised You are entitled to your stupidity. We heard the same leftist propaganda B.S. about Reagan in the 1980s..."He's stupid, a simpleton, not compassionate, a right wing fanatic, a cowboy, a fake, a war monger, calling the communist Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" would ruin our fragile relationship with them, he will worsen the Cold War with the Soviet Union by building up our military, telling Gorbachev to "Tear down the East Berlin Wall" was lunacy ...blah...blah...blah!" For you to post the same incorrect, boring, politically leftist mantra we have been hearing for 25 years reveals something about your I.Q. level. | |
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| Re: I am not surprised said by History-101:
You are entitled to your stupidity. We heard the same leftist propaganda B.S. about Reagan in the 1980s..."He's stupid, a simpleton, not compassionate, a right wing fanatic, a cowboy, a fake, a war monger, calling the communist Soviet Union an "Evil Empire" would ruin our fragile relationship with them, he will worsen the Cold War with the Soviet Union by building up our military, telling Gorbachev to "Tear down the East Berlin Wall" was lunacy ...blah...blah...blah!" For you to post the same incorrect, boring, politically leftist mantra we have been hearing for 25 years reveals something about your I.Q. level. I am unsure who you are talking to, but it isn't me. I am not a PROGRESSIVE/LEFTIST. I am a moderate Republican, a Reagan Republican, a sad supported of Ross, and I am in Mensa, so I am not perfect, but not dumb either.
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| Re: I am not surprised I did not say "you" were stupid. I said that you are entitled to your "stupidity". It is my viewpoint that your statements regarding Bush are stupid and simply wrong. I correct my emotionally charged statement implying something about your I.Q. level by stating that I really cannot know your overall intelligence on other subjects. Neverless, although Bush bashing has become a popular sport among many people, I am offended when I hear the usual cheap shots against our popularly elected U.S. President. I also deserve a say in defending President Bush just as you have the right in this country to verbally bash him.
I am sorry if I offended you personally on a level outside this political topic. That was not my intent and I appreciate that you posted your views. It's just that that the hearing the same left wing crap for several decades and having that politically left mantra historically be wrong so many times has made some of us on the conservative side more than a little pissed off. | |
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Doublethink Is Doubleplus Ungood.
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| Actually, states DO have the right to force businesses to do business a certain way and do all the time. The FCC was specifically given the right to overrule state regulations on communication matters. If they weren't, the states rules would remain in place. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the states have the "right" to regulate businesses. | |
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having seen what clinton did to all the businesses in America Yea, I saw what Clinton did .. he presided over the greatest ecomonic expansion in the history of the country. His advisors, like Bob Rubin, steered us clear of the Asian economic crisis. He eliminated the budget deficit. And lots and lots of people got rich.
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| Re: I am not surprised I wouldn't call Clinton's Y2K technology bubble and year 2000 recession a success. It was Clinton's federal policies and his failed oversight and that gave rise to "era of the rich" that created the bubble of corrupt fake wealth companies like ENRON, MCI-WORLDCOM, etc. along with all those thousands internet start-ups that stole peoples investments. Much of that wealth in the late 1990s was built on lies and cooking financial books. Bush inherited Clinton's tech bubble recession and has been trying to put integrity back into the American big business investment since he took office in 2001. | |
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YOU CAN NOT GET A HONDA WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS OR MADE TO ORDER!
Honda forces items onto the consumer, ex. if you don't want a sunroof with your V6 and air bags TOO BAD. They don't even have packages.
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Southfield, MI | Phone Co better offer it. Or they will be shooting themselves in the foot. Hell infact just spin of the local service and watch it die the slow painfull death. | |
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| Re: Phone Co better offer it. said by Freezone :
Phone Co better offer it or they will be shooting themselves in the foot.
They've had bulls-eyes painted on their feet for a long time now. We've seen many news articles about phone companies slowing or stopping deployments as a way to get legal or regulatory changes they want. But all they've accomplished is letting cable get farther ahead. They seem to believe that by withholding service and not giving the public what it wants, they'll win in the end. Makes you wonder just who is in charge of those companies, and whether they've ever heard of capitalism. | |
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join:2003-03-31
Blue Point, NY | Another nail in DSL coffin What a dumb decision.
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| Re: Another nail in DSL coffin Why would that be a dumb decision? No the dumb decision is the decision by the Telco not to voluntarily offer "Naked DSL". If you owned a business (or maybe you do) would you like the government telling you what services you must offer? I know I certainly wouldn't.
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| Re: Another nail in DSL coffin The whole point is that they should give the consumers what they want. Its not an unreasonable request. But I'm hoping that at least one company will do the smart thing and dish out some dsl-only lines. Land-line phone service is ridiculously expensive. And its only a matter of time before it becomes a small blip on the map of available communications services. The phone companies need to move away from the 'screw the customer out of as much loot as possible' tactics that they've been employing for decades. Before I switched to VOIP, It was not uncommon for me to have a $130 monthly bill for calling places less than 20 miles away. I don't see any type of fair practices in that one. | |
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| Re: Another nail in DSL coffin said by KSC519 :The whole point is that they should give the consumers what they want. Its not an unreasonable request. I agree, but I don't agree that they should be forced by the government to do so!
said by KSC519 :But I'm hoping that at least one company will do the smart thing and dish out some dsl-only lines. Some Telcos already do; mine does.
said by KSC519 : Land-line phone service is ridiculously expensive. And its only a matter of time before it becomes a small blip on the map of available communications services. I have Qwest. I think my land line service is fairly reasonable.
said by KSC519 : The phone companies need to move away from the 'screw the customer out of as much loot as possible' tactics that they've been employing for decades. I totally agree. The Telcos that don't will eventually become non-existent, but unfortunately that may take some time in certain areas of the country. Everyone may not agree with this, but I believe Qwest has made good headway in this area.
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join:2005-03-21
| comparision obviously, now, cable is getting cheaper (adelphia 30/month), more people will disconnect their land phones, and choose the package (cable + IP phone)
see the comparsion
1. verizon phone 20$ + DSL 30$ = 50$ ==> highspeed and local call.
long distance is not included here.
2. cable 30$ + VOIP (for example, broadvoice, 10$ for unlimited in-state, 20$ for unlimited any long-distance including many international call) == 40-50$ ==> highspeed and unlimited in-state/nation long distance
if a family makes longdistance more than 20$/month, will be interested in switching to second plan.
so not providing naked DSL is not helping traditional phone companies like verizon. probably it is a wise marketing strategy to provide naked DSL. | |
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| Re: comparision said by happyvalley :obviously, now, cable is getting cheaper (adelphia $30/month), more people will disconnect their land phones, and choose the package (cable + IP phone) see the comparison 1. verizon phone $20 + DSL $30 = $50 ==> high speed and local call. long distance is not included here. 2. cable $30 + VOIP (for example, broadvoice, $10 for unlimited in-state, $20 for unlimited any long-distance including many international call) == $40-$50 ==> high speed and unlimited in-state/nation long distance if a family makes long distance more than $20/month, will be interested in switching to second plan. so not providing naked DSL is not helping traditional phone companies like verizon. probably it is a wise marketing strategy to provide naked DSL. Even though a lot of people would like Naked DSL or nearly naked DSL(w/email & newsgroups), Without Federal legislation I doubt It will happy anytime soon.
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Now the last time I looked when I was growing up the $ sign was supposed to go in front of the amount and not after It, Example: $50.00(The cent ¢ sign was supposed to go at the end of the amount of money), Unless You are advocating the abolition of the US Dollar which like abolishing the US Military will never happen as some dreamers would like.
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To the benefit of the local PSCs and PUCs, this should insure protection in their getting tax revenue from POTS. I do not necessarily see them making more from tax revenue from broadband (or IPTV) than POTS within the next short-term period. | |
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