And $99 billion is a lot of money. ( <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2000/01/10/deals/aol_warner/">http://money.cnn.com/2000/01/10/deals/aol_warner/</a> ) <br>
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-- CHS <br>
(Currently sitting at a desk in the very heart of the International Monetary Gangster Computer Conspiracy!)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">aaron</b> <<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 24 April 2008 13:26, Jim Popovitch wrote:<br> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Watson, Keith R.<br> > <<a href="mailto:krwatson@cc.gatech.edu">krwatson@cc.gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br> > > FCC says Comcast lied about traffic shaping<br>
><br> > There are (at least) two sides to this...<br> ><br> > 1) The FCC *needs* to look tough these days as Congress is eyeballing<br> > them. A new administration is on the horizon, and FCC jobs must be<br>
> preserved. ;-)<br> <br> <br>In other words, the FCC will have to resume doing the required work<br> of its charter by protecting the free speech rights of U.S. citizens from<br> the greed of sociopathic corporate monoliths and monopolies.<br>
<br><br> > 2) Given that Comcast is a huge, highly distributed, organization. It<br> > makes sense (to me) that an executive testifying to the FCC in<br> > Washington D.C. probably doesn't really know what the Comcast<br>
> engineers in Tulsa or Omaha are really doing or not doing. It might<br> > just be possible that the intent was there to remove the traffic<br> > shaping, but the grunt engineers hadn't gotten the maintenance/change<br>
> approval to actually remove the equipment.<br> <br> <br>We might be much more inclined to attribute the Commiecast corporate<br> lies to simple "oversight" if they had ever been the slightest bit forthright<br>
with their customers or the public or the FCC about their bandwidth<br> choking abuses. Ever since the Electronic Frontiers Foundation caught<br> Commiecast secretly cheating their customers the company has done nothing but<br>
issue a long string of lies and denials and accusatory, fraudulent<br> justifications about their censorship activities. The only "excuse" here is<br> that such endless lies are to be expected - as the foundation of all<br>
marketing, fraud is integral to the nature of the corporate beast. It is in<br> their sociopathic self interests to lie, cheat, and steal - even spy, torture<br> and murder if the stakes are right - without any concern for the consequences<br>
of their actions on anyone else anywhere. That is the operational requirement<br> on which the common totalitarian (aka communist) corporate charter is<br> founded.<br> <br> ...but I progress... ;-)<br> <br> <br> peace<br>
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