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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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The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred just over two weeks ago, and you people are discussing how 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? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!!!
Recently, I invited him and his boyfriend Jeff over for a formal dinner. Halfway through, he loudly passed gas, and Jeff yelled out, "so that's where our hamster is!". I fainted from the shock. I don't wish to disown my own son, but his lifestyle is disgusting.
Malda's Mom.
Dear Malda's Mom: Please seek counseling at once. Disgusting sex practices are a normal part of being a turd burglar. The two of you need to bond more. Consider taking him shopping with you next time you need to buy a new dildo, and then pick up a well-hung Negro for a 3-way orgy.
AT&T makes a lot of mistakes, but their WorldNet service was pretty solid when I had dialup. My only other concern is the tie-in my cable provider (Comcast) might now have to AT&T. SpongeBob Squarepants over the phone, anyone?
"In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil," Jeff Bates told bemused doctors in the Severe Burn Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.
Bates and his homosexual partner Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in." he explained. "As usual, CmdrTaco shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so i peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him."
At a hushed press confrence, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out of the tubing, igniting Mr. Bates' hair and severly burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball." Bates suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Malda suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.
we are talking about at&t broadband right?
they have flat out the worst customer service i've ever seen from a company, bar none.
for starters, the average time on hold to get support is about an hour. not to actually resolve the problem, or even to talk to someone, this is just being on hold.
their evening service is absolute crap, with all multiplayer games absolutely unplayable (ping times go up into the 2000 range), a problem they refuse to address--instead they're still blaming code red or any other virus of the week, since they don't want to admit that either one of their routers is screwed up or they oversold our portion of the network (appearantly code red only strikes between 6pm and 10pm weekday evenings)
and here's the kicker: this month, we found a $180 charge for "previous balance," despite the fact we pay our bill every month. so we call them up, and they refuse to explain the charge, or give an itemized list, because their billing department doesn't have access to the billing records. aces!
we're switching to dsl this payday.
-- the opinions stated above aren't those of my employer. in fact, they're probably not even my own. you know what, ju
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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"this doesn't mean that Excite@Home has dropped off the face of the earth"
In other words the reason we're appending this disclaimer to the end of 80% of our articles is so you don't dump your $1.05 VALinux stock when the bankruptcy article is about VALinux.
I'd expect not just the bankruptcy articles but all the conspiracy announcements about colleges taking over the world by suppressing individual freedom and 1000s of new handhelds for displaying calendars to soon end with "Bankruptcy doesn't mean closing of business".
In fact instead of appending the disclaimer to every article why not just put it in fine print on the bottom of valinux.com and get it overwith.