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That's just made up. Total bullshit. It's what you do. I certainly don't recall the entire storyline of any third-grade reader I had. And we sure didn't have anything from the forties in school. Well considering I was in third grade, 1950’s , before you were born and the catholic grade school was 8...

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Tell me, did the government dissolve all Bell stock making Bell stock worth nothing, leaving bell stockholders holding worthless paper? Stockholders got stock in the new independent, separate companies. So It was worth a whole lot less Tell me. Did the 7 new companies get all the hardware, software...

When you drill down on that ford 150:powering a house they say it can power for 3 days and potentially 10 if limited. Also, it requires a special extended range battery system which costs an extra $20,000. Also, if the loss of power is a winter storm with extremely low temperatures that ford 150’s b...

gounion wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:57 am And it was non-profits, NOT free enterprise that developed rural service.

And we're lucky our cell service is FCC regulated. It would be far worse than it currently is without it.

Yeah the monopoly that was supposed to didn’t. Not much need for that monopoly.

No, they broke the company into regional companies. You know, Baby Bells. They didn't give the equipment to other companies. I know that's a non-profit organization, and co-ops are community-owned non-profits. You talk about private enterprise, and you give me this? It's what your side would call s...

I don't believe either of you are 100pct correct about the REA, however GoU is much closer. Here is the history of the coop I get my power from, YEC York Electric Coop. It is pretty interesting (at least to me) https://www.yorkelectric.net/mycoop/history/ Spoiler alert the federal government loaned...

Good article from Wapo.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/19/this-100-year-old-deal-birthed-the-modern-phone-system-and-its-all-about-to-end/ This 100-year-old deal birthed the modern phone system. And it’s all about to end. + + + The Bell labs were nothing to sneeze at b...

Assertions with nothing to back it up. Okay, so we have all these transmission lines and transformers and all this stuff. So do we just take it from Bell and give it to these other companies? That’s pretty much what’s happened. It’s what you do to break up a monopoly. You really don’t know much by ...

And it was regulated, wasn’t it? How do you do it without regulations? Go ahead. Tell us. How do you do it with thirty companies in a city building lines? Rural telephone collectives and cooperatives were funded. Not all that much regulation. As I said, thousands of independently developed, constru...

Simple. Because you had to build the infrastructure for telephone service nationwide. They needed that to put up the investment. How would you have done that with 500 telephone companies competing for every household? Kinda the same when cable tv was starting. Cities would give one cable company th...

Again, without government regulation, it never would have happened. Not electrification, not phone service. You guys hate government so damned much, but you can't show us ONE conservative utopia where you don't need government and everything is perfect. Without government, you have Somolia. Wasn’t ...

Again, without the regulations, it would have been impossible to get phone service to rural customers, who would have to pay to run the lines themselves. But go ahead, keep playing pretend. Oh, I guess since you're against the Bell Monopoly, you're also against patent protections? Again, the Bell M...

Again, government regulation created these programs. And how would we have universal phone service without the regulations? You can take your time. We didn’t have universal phone service. We had thousands of collectives and cooperatives. Ma Bell’s competition crushing monopoly was over business, ci...

Oh? I thought you were opposed to government regulation, not monopoly. But please, explain to us how, without government regulations, we could have brought universal phone service to the nation? Opposed government regulation that protects a monopoly. The Rural Electrification Act was a government l...

Glennfs wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:33 am Total yards in the Georgia game was 1000

Hope the championship is that explosive and exciting.

Glennfs wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 6:25 am Georgia will hang a minimum of 54 on TCU. Opening line is 14. Still betting it because I don't see TCU scoring 40.

I don’t think anyone was expecting all four teams scoring more than 41. 83 and 96 total points is pretty astonishing. Truly exciting games. Ton of points played down to the wire.

bradman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 7:52 pm One would think it rather difficult to deny the benefits of TVA, roads, or delivery of communications with help of government intervention back then.

How is being opposed to Ma Bell’s competition crushing monopoly denying the benefits of the Rural Electrification Administration?

Yes and no. At the time, to set up the lines for universal access, phone to everywhere in America, how the fuck would YOU do it? At the time, that's what was needed. It wouldn't work if you let any company come in, because it wouldn't be economical, and companies wouldn't put service to everyone. A...

The problem there wasn’t regulation, it was monopoly. Bell didn’t want to innovate because they completely owned the market by government decree. Monopolies are almost NEVER good. Yet that’s what corporations always want to do - buy or destroy all competition. It was government regulations that’s c...

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30 years i had a front row seat. Some may call it a boon. i call it a rape. A feeding frenzy. This is a decent timeline off the breakup and sell off.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System Breakup of the Bell System Accounting and insider trading irregularities [bold]It was som...

Carter fucked a lot of things up, including deregulation of trucking and the airlines. I think the Southwest meltdown shows that there’s a great deal of re-regulation that should happen to the airlines. Communication deregulation was a boon to life in the US. Accelerated at blinding speed computeri...

gounion wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:05 pm Nearly every piece of the New Deal that has been dismantled has proven to be a disaster.

Don’t forget to blame Carter for the Saving & Loan deregulation.

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