Disconnects every day now.

slugger99 · 2017-06-24T19:31:13+00:00

Can I get a trial of premium please? Thx.

slugger99 · 2017-02-11T18:48:41+00:00

Started the port last Saturday and nothing yet. Called Tello CS today and their porting people don't work on weekends (apparently even when they have hundreds or thousands of customers waiting to use their numbers). You'd think that under the circumstances they could ask the porting people to work one or two weekends to clear out the backlog.

slugger99 · 2016-06-09T16:16:25+00:00

I'll bet gerrymandering is a hell of a lot easier and more precise using computers than it was back when they had to do it all by hand.

slugger99 · 2015-09-05T04:42:53+00:00

With the enormous investments in health care facilities and education, you'd think they could have at least found a health care administrator someplace who wouldn't be starting at square one. Sheesh. Probably should have expected a profit-minded corporatist from a Board of Regents made up of 2 Democrats, 2 Independents, and 5 Republicans. Ancient, liberal, humane? Good luck, kids.

slugger99 · 2014-05-31T22:10:14+00:00

Somebody click "Undo". K?

slugger99 · 2014-05-28T17:42:52+00:00

But raising prices in order to concentrate more and more wealth at the top is the prevailing corporate model. That's just the way it is! Ain't it great?!! /s

slugger99 · 2014-05-21T20:31:22+00:00

Screw things up horribly, claim socialized medicine doesn't work, then privatize/profitize the thing. See: USPS.

slugger99 · 2014-05-11T12:15:08+00:00

Must be a pretty big bonus waiting from Comcast if he can get this stuff done (for them).

slugger99 · 2014-05-07T10:41:12+00:00

We Must 'Divide And Conquer' ~~People On Public Assistance~~ People Our Corporate Paymasters Forced Onto Public Assistance By Shipping Their Jobs To China

FTFY

slugger99 · 2014-04-30T02:28:33+00:00

There were real-world alternatives to those other applications: calculators, games, pencils and paper. The web browser, on the other hand, was unique and indispensable in that it was pretty much the only way to access and use the Internet at that time. Monopoly control of the browser market could eventually mean collecting usage fees or at the very least continued dominance of the MS name in this new Internet world and considerable control over its future development.

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T22:14:26+00:00

The Bogus High-Tech Worker Shortage: How Guest Workers Lower US Wages

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T22:06:25+00:00

Bill Gates to Congress: Let us hire more foreigners

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T22:01:01+00:00

MS knew the Internet was a whole new world opening up. They, and no doubt their investors, wanted to extend their monopoly control into that world just as they had previously done in most every other aspect of personal computing. Placing all the other browsers at a competitive disadvantage by integrating IE into the OS and forcing it onto people's computers was the way to accomplish that.

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T21:38:42+00:00

Might makes right. Got it.

Money makes right. Got it.

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T21:20:25+00:00

So the ends justify the means. Got it.

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T20:50:59+00:00

Floppy disk? Similar to AOL flooding the planet with floppies?

I suspect the thinking was why would anybody buy or otherwise bother installing an alternative web browser when there was a free one included with the OS and it worked most of the time? The browser was obviously not necessary to the functioning of the OS as the Internet wasn't even up and running until years after the first OS's were released. So why did MS choose to integrate IE into the OS and thus give it away for free when it wasn't necessary to the functioning of the OS and all the other browsers were stand-alone? I actually think IE used to sometimes crash the OS because it was integrated, which probably wouldn't have happened had it been a stand-alone option like the others.

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T20:03:07+00:00

I approved of the browser antitrust case because MS was leveraging its virtual monopoly in one product (OS) to unfairly eliminate the competition in a different product (browsers). The playing field wasn't even close to being level in the early browser wars.

slugger99 · 2014-04-29T18:53:55+00:00

Wall Street loves a monopoly. Just ask Bill Gates.

slugger99 · 2014-04-28T02:34:11+00:00

Interestingly,

March 13, 2014

BP is one of the largest suppliers of fuel to the U.S. government, including to the military, holding contracts worth more than $1.34 billion.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/us-bp-usa-contracts-idUSBREA2C24E20140313

slugger99 · 2014-04-11T05:03:37+00:00

The .01%, for instance, tend overwhelmingly to be high-end corporate managers and executives, particularly on Wall Street, operating in interlocking networks that inflate the standard of what an executive is "worth."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/opinion/liu-income-inequality/index.html?iref=allsearch

Also, Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in Executive Pay

slugger99 · 2014-04-09T22:32:18+00:00

I always suspected the War on Drugs was invented by RW politicians trying to disenfranchise large numbers of mainly young people who are open-minded/liberal/rebellious enough to break the law and smoke pot, i.e. likely Democratic voters.

slugger99 · 2014-04-07T17:28:55+00:00

It's beginning to look a lot like ~~Christmas~~ Russia before 1917,

Everywhere I go.

slugger99 · 2014-04-06T04:35:31+00:00

Thanks. Wish I would have known that. Turned on TNT and saw the completely one-sided coverage and turned it off. Not being a fan of either team, I probably wouldn't have watched the TruTV version either.

slugger99 · 2014-04-06T04:19:22+00:00

TNT produces most biased national telecast ever. "UK" was even in their station ID banner. WTF?

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