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Ma Bell is Back
brass1 writes Ma Bell is back. It seems that for the purposes of branding, SBC is changing its name to AT&T once the acquisition is complete. Meanwhile, a great force and a high pitched whining sound has been reported from Judge Greene's grave as he spins at nearly 10K RPM."
Could you please explain what's "Ma Bell" for us foreigners? Thanks.
Can we have Western Electric and Bell Labs back too?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
We Don't Care, We Don't Have To.
Get Lily Tomlin on the line, she's got work to do.
So, the word MILF has been coined after Ma Bell disappeared, i'm kind of curious... what do you call a Ma who wants to screw you?
There are lives at stake here!
So are all their customers now in for some ill communication?
"That blast came from the Death Star! That thing's operational!"
"It's a trap!"
SBC/AT&T announced they were looking to acquire the SCO Group and Lucent Technologies. Judge Greene's rotting corpse is reported to have been purchased by the local electric company, who announced it would be used for electric power generation it was spinning so fast, for an undisclosed sum
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Any decent SCSI-2 compliant judge corpse should spin at least 15K.
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rediculous.
Does anyone remember the scene in Terminator 2 when Arnie shoots the frozen T-1000 and it smashes to a million pieces, only to coalesque back into a big glob of liquid metal again?
For some reason that image came to mind when reading this article.....
I got nothin'
I love it.
We were spun off from AT&T as AT&T Wireless.
AWS was bought by Cingular (joint-venture of SBC and Bell South).
AT&T gets set to start their own AT&T Wireless branded service again with Sprint.
SBC buys up Ma.
Now both Cingular and AT&T Wireless are owned by SBC...
My head a'splode.
Yeah, I'm just trying to get DSL even though I *have* their phone service, and I can't - their page tells me I'm not a customer of SBC :/
Does this mean that Captain Crunch is coming out of retirement soon?
Remember in Back to the Future II when old Marty got a call from Needles and a voice at the end of the call said "Thank you for using AT&T"? Well it looks like that movie accurately predicted the return of the company back in 1988!
That movie is like Nostradomus on flim!
He's still waiting for residential ISDN. Apparently the crypt is too far from the CO.
If you need to get a hold of him though, call Mary Baker Eddy and leave a message for him.
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Future business plans are to acquire BellSouth and Qwest and change the name to "The Phone Company®."
Classic quote that hung in many bell facilities during and after the AT&T breakup:
""There are two giant entities at work in our country, and they both have an amazing influence on our daily lives . . . one has given us radar, sonar, stereo, teletype, the transistor, hearing aids, artificial larynxes, talking movies, and the telephone. The other has given us the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, double-digit inflation, double digit unemployment, the Great Depression, the gasoline crisis, and the Watergate fiasco. Guess which one is now trying to tell the other one how to run its business?" -- a sign that hung in many Bell facilities in 1983."
Can we add George W to that list?
It seems to me that 10kHz would sound less like whining and more like the electronic 12k tone that many hear from the back side of television sets. I would say that 2-5 kHz would be a more reasonable frequency range for a high pitch mechanical whirring sound. In fact, if the Honorable Judge Green were emitting a whirring sound at 10kHz, the whirring would probably be from some sort of mechanical rubbing. Considering that most automobiles with excellent lubrication run about 2.3 thousand RPM at 70mph, and they emit a good deal of heat, the heat of Judge Green with a mechanical error would probably be about equal to that of the 7th circle of hell, about where ATT & SBC will soon be going. Neat, huh...
-Alan