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Postby Lance » Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:44 pm

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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Lianachan » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:47 pm

Welcome back!
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Lance » Fri Dec 20, 2013 6:50 pm

Thanks!
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby tubeswell » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:16 pm

Yay!, we're back. Fuck AT&T, and I was worried that it was the CNSA or the DPRK trying to close you down or something.

I'm sure I had other stuff to say but I've been MIA for so long over the last 2 days that I've forgotten what it was, and I can't remember without being able to have a convenient brain dump portal.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby wring » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:37 pm

I noticed, too, glad you're back!
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Lance » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:41 pm

AT&T is the United Airlines of phone companies.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby tubeswell » Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:49 pm

Lance wrote:AT&T is the United Airlines of phone companies.


Yes I know, they are even more legendary than IT&T
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Arneb » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:02 pm

I even tried to contact you via Cosmoquest, so you can imaginge my despair at having to live without IRU.

Glad our hangout is back on - thanks, boss!
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Lance » Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:50 am

Arneb wrote:I even tried to contact you via Cosmoquest, so you can imaginge my despair at having to live without IRU.

Glad our hangout is back on - thanks, boss!

You and Mactep PMed me via Cosmoquest within minutes of each other yesterday. With my email being down too, I never got the notifications until today when we got back on.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Heid the Ba » Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:18 pm

Yah! You're back! There were a number of plaintive PMs doing the rounds elsewhere over this.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby MM_Dandy » Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:53 pm

Yup. I have no love for AT&T, either.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby tubeswell » Mon Dec 23, 2013 10:16 pm

They are surely almost a thing of the past?
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Enzo » Thu Dec 26, 2013 6:34 pm

In one cosmic sense maybe, but in the telecom game, they are still a major player.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Мастер » Thu Dec 26, 2013 6:59 pm

Enzo wrote:In one cosmic sense maybe, but in the telecom game, they are still a major player.


I just read the Wikipedia page, and my head is spinning.

It appears that in the late 1800s, AT&T was a subsidiary of another firm, but then in a corporate restructuring, the child became the parent, and the parent became the child. Almost 100 years later, AT&T spun off a whole bunch of subsidiaries. One of these children, now independent, grew up, making various acquisitions, and eventually became big enough to acquire its former parent, AT&T. But it chose to adopt the corporate identity of its former parent and current child.

So the child became the parent, then spawned a bunch of children, became the child of one of its own former children, and then became the parent again. Slightly confusing?

But today, it seems AT&T is now of the largest firms in the world, and provides a substantial portion of the land-based telephone service, mobile telephone service, and internet service in the United States. The latter, it would appear, with less than an ideal level of reliability.

Huh, can't seem to enable BBCode on this post.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Lance » Thu Dec 26, 2013 9:42 pm

I'll explain the whole, sordid story when I have the time and necessary tolerance level to the disgust I will feel.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Arneb » Thu Dec 26, 2013 10:40 pm

Lance wrote:I'll explain the whole, sordid story when I have the time and necessary tolerance level to the disgust I will feel.


Mmmm, stories. In Elvish or in the black idiom of Mordor?
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Мастер » Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:17 pm

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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby Lance » Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:19 pm

No. See the post in Announcements I just made.
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Re: Fucking AT&T

Postby tubeswell » Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:16 pm

Fuck AT&T
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