Re: OT: About my new E-mail address

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:22:21 GMT, Veronica Moonlit wrote:

>Charlie Perrin wrote:

>> Finally went high-speed (DSL, cable modem doesn't exist here) so
>> that's the domain change. You'd think in an area laden with rocket
>> scientists the cable company would have the sense to deploy cable
>> modem technology but they leave the high-speed business to SBC.

I keep wanting to "dial up" the DSL.

The way mine is set up, you log on when you want to use the computer
and log off when you're done and it hands back the IP address.

>SBC? Hmmm, I'm surprised they didn't give you attglobal or even
>attbi...<grin/duck>

They're still separate companies.

And, hopefully, they'll grandfather the SBC E-mail addresses.

My classic line about backwards compatibility: "You can still buy
Edsel oil filters."

>It does no good to break up Ma Bell if they're just going to merge
>back together again.

Even with SBC-AT&T it's going to be in more pieces than it was in
1983.

Local phone service (not a growing business, alas) is a natural
regulated monopoly. Alternatively, but I doubt this would happen, they
could adopt the Texas electric service model for telephone service.
The electric wires to my apartment are handled by a regulated monopoly
that builds and fixes the wires between competing suppliers and the
users on an open-access, non-discriminatory basis. To make sure, wires
companies have to stay out of generation (Houston) or they have to
have a Chinese wall between the two parts of the company like they
(IIRC) do in the Dallas Metroplex. I've got TXU stock. They talk about
generation metrics (KWH sold) and distribution reliability metrics
(average failures per year, length of average outage) on their calls.
What they want is to sell more KWH and have fewer outages.

And as long as no long distance carrier gets more than 35% of the
business, the FTC believes from long experience that that's enough
competition to keep consumers from being hurt.

I've got SBC long distance, but Sprint, MCI, Vonage, cell phones,
etc., would all be happy to have me. Mom thinks cell phone voice
quality stinks, so the only time I call her with it is when I'm out of
the house. I switched to a bigger bucket of prepaid wireline minutes
(they're not THAT expensive any more) to facilitate this.

On the other hand, Wal-Mart is still under 10% of retail and people
call it a stinking monopoly. Those who are worried about the Wal-Mart
monopoly are probably the grandchildren of those who worried about the
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company monopoly. IMHO, I'd worry more
about Target as people have lots of reasons to ding Wal-Mart compared
to Target.

The only thing consistent about business is its relative impermanence.

Sears was the number #1 retail store, then K-Mart. Now, they merged to
try to save the dinosaurs.

BD was the only major sharps maker to survive the transition to
sterile disposables. OK, BD is the only major sharps maker. When I
found out Tyco made them back when I had their stock, I said "Oh,
Monoject... I've heard of them but you don't see them much!" (Who
wants to look at sharps anyway? I will say after last week that the
technology for fingersticks has improved since the last one I had
before that.)

And if you were going to name the Big Seven automakers worldwide, they
would be:
Toyota
Honda
DaimlerChrysler
Nissan
Volkswagen
Ford
General Motors
Now, see if you can figure out how I ordered them.

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The sort is on the total value of their outstanding stock if I
remember the order correctly.
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