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• On the post: Funny How Competitive Situation Impacts Fiber Deployments

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2006 @ 09:15pm

  competition

  The only way the consumers get want they want is if it makes money and as long as nobody offers the people what they want life is grand for the telco's. Switching to a different form of communication won't help because they will just buy up the companies that provide the service people are flockng to so they can still control the market. They are stretching themselves to the breaking point to do this and of course if they lose their shirts the government will have to bail them out for the sake of competition in the communicatons marketplace. Sounds like our balls are in a twist don't it? Well that is what we get for not paying attention when all the baby bells started buying everything that wasn't nailed down. If we had put up a fight 10 years ago this would a different world. Oh well maybe that one judge who wants to go over the old telco mergers will take a few chunks out of some asses.

• On the post: First Rule About RIAA Court Cases: You Don't Talk About RIAA Court Cases

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2006 @ 04:57pm

  Re: Re: I am curious...

  Here Here I say, Using the oldest definition for scumbag it could bew implied that indeed the name scumbag in too good for these goniffs as scumbags serve a purpose as do assholes and even dickheads. Slime can even come in handy once in a blue moon so it can't convey the utter uselessness of an RIAA lawyer accurately. In fact I wrack my brains and can think of no vile word that approaches that level of scurrility, Even lower than divorce lawyers who screw their clients.

• On the post: First Rule About RIAA Court Cases: You Don't Talk About RIAA Court Cases

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2006 @ 04:47pm

  Re: can we say class-action

  The parties that really need to be taken behind the woodshed are the judges that let these farcical lawsuits get into court in the first place. It's past time that rules of evidence should be strictly observed so as to make the RIAA really spend money on these fishing expeditions. A few cases that really stick would do them a lot more good than this throwing noodles at the wall and keeping the ones that stick.

• On the post: Sprint Chooses WiMAX For 4G Network

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2006 @ 09:05pm

  Wimax

  All I care about is that high speed internet becomes as prolific as the damn phone. All you knuckleheads screaming"I don't have any bars" is enough to make me vomit. I saw a lady walk right by a payphone in the mall today complaining about having to go out in the heat to use her cellphone. Such stupidity should be rewarded with a swift kick in the ass.

• On the post: Net2Phone Wants Some Of Skype's eBay Loot, Too

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2006 @ 01:00am

  Net2Phone

  The answer's easy, they didn't have the money to expand so they just waited until somebody else made a bundle then presto! "Where's my money bitch"

• On the post: How Banks Make The Bogus Check Scam So Easy

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2006 @ 08:06pm

  Banks

  I got a few of you beat. My ex and I used a cash machine in a convenience store to get a hundred bucks. In the middle of he transaction the thing hiccupped and went back to the welcome screen.
  My ex tried again and this time it worked, no prob right? A couple days later we got more money out and noticed that the machine charged us twice so we went to our bank to straighten the thing out.
  The lady we talked to was courteous to the point
  of inanity but was firm that it would take 45 days to
  clear this up as the tapes for the ATM were only collected once a month(she called the ATM owner)
  and then they would have to submit some kind of
  report to get the money from them.I called the ATM
  company and they told me that they already had a copy of the tape and the forms were already faxed over and they would release the funds within a week.
  I waited the week I was told by the ATM company then called again to make sure and I was told the bank had received the refund 2 days prior so I went to the ATM and tried to get money,nothing. I went into the bank to have a nice chat and was told that they would not credit back my account until their timetable was met.I asked quite politely if I would be getting the interest they made off the money while it was in their posession and was asked to please leave. Now I wasn't going to close that account because I would never see that money, I just knew it, so I was grousing to my boss about it and he says
  "Our company does it's banking there and maybe the
  CFO would like to hear this. Well one long phone call later I was assured that there would be blood on the walls. The CFO was Irish and hadn't had a good yell in months(hee hee) After that there were new people at my bank, hardly recognised any of them and the ones I did hid in offices. Moral is get a rich friend or boss and bank where they do, it saves oh so much headache.

• On the post: Now, Vonage Says Customers Still Have To Pay Up For Shares

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2006 @ 07:31pm

  Bonerage

  The biggest mistake I see the company making is drawing joe sixpack into this IPO. It might just be that the price takes off a few weeks from now after
  the unwashed masses sell off at pennies on the dollar
  then the cry will be somebody scammed the thing to work out like that. Leave the prospecting to the old hands with the money to burn. People forget that the only people to get rich in the gold-rushes were the store owners, whorehouse madams,preachers, and the tax collectors, all the miners starved at wages
  or flat gave up.

• On the post: MySpace Now A Detentionable Offense

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 23 May, 2006 @ 08:04pm

  I can't wait for this fight

  I have 2 daughters in school and I absolutely want some bastard administrator to try to punish my kids for something like this. It has already started with
  a shoe rule. It says they can only wear closed heel and toe shoes with no raised heels. after sending one to school in birks because her feet hurt I get a call from a secretary to say that she violated policy.
  I asked to speak to the principal and was told I needed an appointment. I walked to the school and
  sat waiting for an opening. Glory be she could see me. The first thing she does is thank me for bringing appropriate shoes. 15 minutes later she not only learned I didn't bring shoes she also learned what it is like to argue the constitution with somebody who knows how to read the original document. She also learned that I was ready to allow my daughter to disregard every rule I considered unnecessary. She tried that lame old chestnut about trying to foster a safe environment and of course pointed out that my daughter had signed a student pledge. I told her that
  she should have gone to law school because minors
  can't consent to any contract. I tell you when the time comes for this fight I hope I get an old teacher of mine, just because I blew them off doesn't mean I didn't learn anything.

• On the post: Vonage Runs Afoul Of Dreaded 'Failure To Hyperlink' Regulation

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 23 May, 2006 @ 07:44pm

  mistakes

  Forgetting to add a hyperlink to their prospectus?
  This isn't a 15 year- old throwing an email ad together for his dad's bakery, whoever did this work
  should have known all of the details and regulations.
  Lawyers will eat this up because smaller mistakes than this add up to big money.

• On the post: Major Diebold Voting Machine Security Hole Discovered… Again

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 11 May, 2006 @ 07:25am

  Diebold

  The fact that you consider republicans to be the beneficiaries of election fraud is a good example of how news organizations have been bought by the democratic party. Let's just for a moment think about what having an election open for bidding means, John Kerry and John Edwards certainly could have won the election if the machines were being tampered with on a widespread scale because anybody that will take a bribe will certainly take a much larger bribe to change his stripes.
  We know that money almost always wins elections,
  even more so than popularity, so we passed laws to supposedly limit the amount of money that you can can tribute to a candidate. Why don't you track down the money behind Diebold, I think you would be surprised at the diversity of shareholders which means that both parties have the potential to rig the elections they want to win and maybe even get together to decide in advance who gets what.

• On the post: BearShare Shuts Down, Pays Up… Though It's Not Clear Why

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 05 May, 2006 @ 01:37pm

  Re: Proper Analogy

  I don't think the analogy works with a photocopy.
  The real allure of digital downloads of music or anything else is the your copy is fundamentally exact
  in all pespects to the original. you would have to copy a painting molecule for molecule, which is a very tall order, to achieve the same accuracy in a physical
  object. This is of course the root of all of the recording industries holy war. Never in history has the means to make high quality reproductions that are identical to the original in every way been so cheap and available. I remember seeing record stores being closed because they were selling copies of hit records made by pirates the costed 4 bucks a pop.
  if it costs 50 cents to make a copy now I would be surprised

• On the post: Spam King Rumored To Be In Jail As Spam Underworld Worries…

  

  Mike Mixer ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2006 @ 08:48pm

  Spam king

  I really shudder to think just what can happen in this country. Somebody developes a way to make money and people just vilify him. What is it ?jealousy? I think so. The real ruth is spam is no worse than door to door religion and maybe better because you just delete it whereas religious drones at your door take real time away from you and make you itch for a shower afterwords to get the crap off. I really think
  this whole campaign against spam is misguided and is releasing the government from it's responsibility to protect us from real harm.