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Chapter 11 For Excite@Home
n8twj writes: "According to this story at CNET News, Excite@Home, the leading provider of broadband Internet access, said Friday it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and sell its high-speed network to AT&T for $307 million in cash."
jgbrown adds: "@Home files for Chapter 11, they are going to sell their assets to AT&T unless they get a higher offer. Here is a Yahoo News link." An Anonymous Coward adds a link to a story at cnnfn.com." Just like Loki and Exodus, this doesn't mean that Excite@Home has dropped off the face of the earth -- it does mean that are seeking legal protection from creditors in an attempt to reorganize.
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Nothing better than the smell of bankruptcy in the morning!
Our precious slashdot trolls scream out for vengeance:
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Nuke their countries to hell.
Nuke them again.
Death to Islam.
I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I spit upon Mohammed.
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"What do you want from me?"
"I want you to admit it."
"Admit what?"
"That I'm beautiful. I am beautiful and you know it."
"You're about as beautiful as an empty fifty gallon drum."
"Bullshit. You want it and that's a fact."
"I just want to be left alone"
"You're not a man. You're pathetic."
"That angle won't work here: I don't have any respect for myself let alone the male animal."
"Well, that says it all -- you don't even respect yourself."
"Fuck respect. I'm not interested in it. I'm not afraid of losing it."
"You're afraid of me aren't you?"
"You're not even an issue."
"I can get any one I want."
"Not this one."
"That's because you're a coward."
"You know something? If you were interesting enough to justify it I would give a good portion of myself just to be there that broken and colorless morning when you get out of bed and look in the mirror only to discover that your precious skin is sagging off your cheeks and chin, and your tits are flattened, empty sacks of blue veins and bruises and your ass crack no longer looks like a crack but more like a streak of shit, and the only chance at beauty you have left is in your eyes but there was never any beauty there to begin with, and you finely come to that long anticipated revelation that you are nothing -- that you have always been nothing."
She smacks me hard across the face. "Who the fuck do you think you are? You don't know me!
"I know you. You're about as complicated as a bicycle with training wheels."
She is angry but to my surprise she doesn't move away. She sits on my chest and waits for me to exhale. Then she whispers into my ear, "You can't get away from me. You think you can but you never will. I run your life and you can't even admit it."
"I'll admit that I'm afraid of you but that's it. Now get away from me."
"If I really left you alone. If I never so much as glanced at you you'd feel so worthless you'd kill yourself. And after you were dead and nobody gave a shit somebody else would take me."
"Is that supposed to change my mind about you?"
"You just don't get it, do you? I expect nothing of you."
She drops on the bed and pulls me down with her. "Why do you hate me so much?" she asks.
"I don't hate you. I hate the way you use yourself."
"There's no such thing," she says.
I'm too tired to fight now. We are silent for a long time. The room falls dark and I begin to relax. She is close now, yet I am unaroused. Then she begins to whisper things. Everything around me becomes soft and weightless. She speaks of strange places that are warm and delicate and I don't understand. It doesn't bother me that I don't understand. I just know that the words are beautiful and I don't want them to end. Then I am being drawn half into her. For a moment I am frightened and try to pull back. All the time, all the energy, all the wars I've had with her in the past. Always fighting, grasping, always chaos. Convinced if I gave in I would be devoured. Always feeling ugly and dwarfed by her. I'd look into her eyes and see the reflection of my own failure. When she reached out to me with an open hand I saw a trick, a ploy that smelled of sex and manipulation and ulterior motives. But I had never given her enough recognition. I had never looked away from my own insanity's long enough to see her for what she was. She was cool and pale and sweet and full of insecurities, weaknesses, misconceptions, but you would never know it by looking at her. She would never know it by looking at her self. When I concentrated and she came full circle in my mind she really wasn't a bad creature, just lovely and ugly and scared and lonely like the rest of us. Now, there is a brief window, a disarmament brought on by exhaustion. I can no longer resist. Pieces of me begin to fall away and she washes over them with a deep light, and for a moment I feel as if this is the place I'd been struggling toward my entire life. I feel as if this is the place I have been trying to speak of -- and for once I feel I am worthy of it. For once I feel that I have always been worthy of it.
And she sings and sings.
And I listen.
For a brief moment, I listen.
you guys should just prepare the article right now, since VA is already circling the drain.
you guys shoulda never sold out for the quick bucks.
It seems pretty grim for them, to say the least. They changed their business plan overnight, layed off a chunk of their company and their stock price is about a buck.
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What are we supposed to do? Stop living and focus exclusively on these attacks for the rest of our life?
Yes it is and the alliance is called Rogers Cantel AT&T.
Don't know if I like Rogers being subject to AT&T policies in the states though. Then again I think they should go back to running their own network with Shaw under the BigPipe banner.
this is better than some of the so-called "humor" that gets constantly modded up..trolls are infinitely more funny
Your information is incorrect. That's the number to Lurlene's Dial-A-Date. I didn't get to order my hot dog and slushy, but I'm having a great time as the lead role in the movie Hillbilly Caligula.
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At least she said it was a movie.
Crack-whore moderators, that should've been a +1 Funny. Ah well, seeya in meta-mod, loser. >;)
You have been trolled.
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- The AC Avenger
Actually, the Cantel part was dropped about a year ago, and now it's just Rogers AT&T
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