The current "Great Republican Depression" is not felt on Wall Street - but Main Street is bleeding.
In 1929 the bankers had the decency to jump from high buildings. Today, they borrow from the FED (Federal Reserve, a PRIVATELY HELD company) at 0.0% interest and can buy T-Bills at 3%.
FDIC/FSLIC are federal insurance companies.
We (the USA) used all sorts of tricks to impose high-interest loans on Argentina post the Malvinas/Falklands war. It was Hugo Chavez who (with vast profits from the Bush Administration run up of oil prices by speculation) paid off those debts and restructured them.
I am an attorney, over 50 years old and I think that this nation has become an oligarchy serving only the top 30,000 citizens. Consider that they command more assets than the entire lower median income population - 30,000 have more assets than 150,000,000.
The French (and, all other empires - especially water empires) overthrew their rulers at asset ratios far lower.
This is a nation formed "Of, By and FOR the People" not corporate empires. I could go off on the railroad tax cases of 120 years ago that conveyed "human" standing to corporations - but I won't.
Off AT&T - we broke them up once and they are pulling the same BS today. Burn them. Burn their shareholders and bar the top three layers of management from ever working in telecommunications forever - as a criminal sanction similar to Boesky in the 1980s.
The rest of the employees could easily fill the demand for experienced workers in the competitors.
But, burning the investors - 0.0% return and no tax deduction for the loss - that's what will start changes in our corporate culture.
What, Maddoff didn't do worse?
At least this time, there will be a point to the crash & burn....
As an attorney & federal litigator - I can top 600 min/wk without breaking a sweat. My colleagues frequently have their Palm Pri & Samsung phones running concurrently....
The animal is the same animal as we split up. It is showing the same spots it showed 40 years ago.
Kill it before it grows more powerful. Look, how many wiretaps are you willing to allow? Time to burn this baby monster. They have paid fines for changing their tower frequencies to interfere with competitors - we ought to bust them for that, alone.
BTW, radio-telephone existed LOOONG before cellular radio-telephone - says the guy who had his 1st 'phone at 16 - signed by Ben F. Waple of the FCC.
Now, take the b ig dog and put it down. Nothing makes the rest of the pack respect you more than offing the top dog.
You are citing the progeny of the breakup of AT&T - the telecommunications giant that was the US National Monopoly through the 1970s.
All of your sub-entities or new entities existed to fill the vacuum created by antitrust litigation beginning in the 1960s to break up the monopoly.
AT&T existed before and is doing exactly what it did to bring about its divestiture.
Kill it. Kill it dead. It only gets one chance to stop being a monopoly. Leave every shareholder BROKE.
The time is right and the entity and all of its employees, leaders and shareholders should pay the ultimate price. I'd go so far as to bar the top 3 tiers of management from working in the telecommunications industry again - just as was done with Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky - a criminal sanction for criminal acts.
FRY AT&T - the perfect way to tell the entities that are too big to fail that they are not too big to destroy.
Imagine how nice, polite and competitive the remaining providers would be if they knew they would be toast if they tried this bait-and-switch service BS.
I'm changing my plan to the lowest pricing structure possible. I am going to log every dropped call and file a FCC complaint as it will have "stolen" minutes from me.
I have two iPhones with 3000 min day & 3000 min night + rollover, unlimited texting and the required data plan.
I'll send letters off to the AT&T consumer oversight about the obvious overselling of the data//cell service by AT&T - much like the old airlines used to do with seats and overbooking - betting that the no-shows will prevent bumping. Here, we have virtual bumping from saturated networks.
Frankly, AT&T ought to be dissolved - the Corporate Death Penalty and give the shareholders not a dime. The company has, through several iterations, demonstrated its gross incompetence too many times to exist. It is a monopoly and all monopolies must die. Let's kill AT&T - screw the shareholders. Time for "too big to fail" to take a nosedive into history.
Yep - there was a limited (20) message a month component of the plan (3000 min day, 3000 min night with rollover) - the top-of-the-line plan and with a $40.00 data charge a $15.00 charge for night to be extended to 1900 hrs to 0700 hrs I STILL had to pay extra for unlimited text messaging. AT&T GOUGES. For two iPhones it is $260 a month.
Let's see, breaching a contract with 3% of your users. OK, the law allows - in fact, encourages, breach where the economies of the deal weigh in favor of breach. But, you still have the problem of paying contract damages to that 3%. Worse, since the Class Action Fairness Act went into place AT&T won't have a single class to deal with all of the breached contracts - they will have dozens of suits all across the nation and they will spend millions on fees and court costs before they get around to paying the contract damages....
$200.00 / Mo is exactly what the midwest RR Bisiness Class Internet 1st Tier costs. Of course it was about 6.5meg down ad.7 meg up.... Just fine for a law office.
I understand AT&T's position. They simply cannot grow their network fast enough to keep up, and the lack of bandwidth is a pain shared with all customers. The problem AT&T is having is that the iPhone isn't unique anymore. There is Droid and Palm and they'll still have unlimited data plans. Plus, if the iPhone U.S. exclusivity ends, the other carriers will quickly start offering the iPhone too.
AT&T can't charge for data plans if no one else does.
You believe AT&T? Based upon what data? Their FCC reg filings show them in compliance with their cell network...
So, in sum - AT&T reports to the FCC that their network is within regulatory standards and AT&T has a corporate history of lying and ripping off its customers.
You elect to believe AT&T, eh? I have a bridge on the south-east side of Manhattan I'd like to sell you and, yes - I do take Paypal....
If those worthless twits at AT&T, who already have the lowest satisfaction of any cell provider, and already charge at a very high rate (for two iPhones and a big rollover + unlimited texting - I pay $260.00/mo) add on a data surcharge I'll drop the cell contract instantly - and I do mean instantly.
It is a recession and tossing $3k/yr out of the office account into two iPhones only to see the brilliant minds at AT&T come up with this idea - well, let's just say that the iPhone will become a touch/Skype phone and I'll let Credo buy out my account.
AT&T has really bad service - to the point that they now have an app to report their really bad service! Their apology: we'll charge more because we have an exclusive deal with Apple!
Computer aided learning has many excellent products. This guy, once upon a time 20 years ago, would sell video tapes of the functions and use of current OSs and applications designed to take the computer illiterate to the barely computer literate.
He has made millions - legitimately, and now he seeks to take advantage of the Bushies having put all Consumer Protection on hold, including the CPSC that just admitted they were not following cribs that strangle children, so he can put a long-term drain on your debit/credit/ACH account.
In a just world, he would be front-line fodder on some peak in one of Bush's wars of opportunity. He's taking money away from the people that is needed to bail out the banks.
Legislator liability is an idea whose time has come. The tripartite government acts within the Judicial branch to establish the guilt or innocence of us mere mortals, why not the Legislative Branch (actually, they already are - I just want much higher penalties)? The average murderer kills for the most tawdry of reasons and thinks not about the consequences. People who have massive power and personally control millions of dollars, like our Senators (save, one - Bernie Sanders is not a Millionaire) and the bureaucrats like John Yoo (executive branch liability, too!) have so much more to lose... that the ultimate penalty would actually deter them.
I've always been in favor of setting black letter law for white collar thieves - steal $1meg or more and we execute you. That would cut WAY BACK on their schemes because, once again - they have so much to lose and would actually be deterred.
Finally, there is historical precedent - the Roman Senate had a rule, a Senator could propose any law - only if the law did not pass his fellow Senators would kill him.
Look at South Dakota and credit cards and Nevada and licensing fees - these are states that practice corporate favoritism in exchange for a few jobs.
Look back to the 1950's when many consider the US to have been at the top of its game. Corporations paid 50% of the total revenue generated from taxation. We also had a real graduated income tax for individuals. The time to look at successful revenue strategies is now. The answer is to have Corporations and wealthy individuals pay their share of the cost of operating this nation and its states.
The "war on terr" is a vast and unspecified enemy. She did violate the terms of the Patriot Act. Sorry, but when Bush declares war on a methodology and institutes torture, we are at war with EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING....
So, a case is easily made for TREASON by virtue of giving aid to the (undefined) enemy.
I cited the holding in the 2nd Amendment case. D.C. is a part of the federal government - they have no senators, no representatives and no local authority that Congress can't and doesn't override under the theory that DC is a government enclave.
If you don't have lesser courts - there is no better definition of FEDERAL JURISDICTION.
Tyranny is here. Deal with it. Mr. Bush and his cronies have "wiretapped" the entire Internet and you don't think that we are facing Tyranny? Wake up!
Meanwhile, the higher up the political food chain we can hammer the predators, the better.
Tom Delay should be in an organophospahte nightmare. Total Information Awareness Poindexter and his ilk should be dancing on short ropes.
This gal and her corporate weasels are the bottom feeders (although the corporate weasels are far worse than a woman who needs only $2k to sell out her nation).
I am for offing these bastards and leaving the corp investors broke. Take the entire management of the corrupt organization and drop them from 3,000 ft over the FL Keys - feed the alligators.
4K US soldiers and 1 meg civilians dead in Iraq because of the BushCO corruption administration and nobody notices?
This level of corruption is a direct result of higher level corruption.
You got a problem with executing Corporations? You got a problem executing people who bribe government and wreak havoc on millions for their personal benefit? You got a problem offing the idiot for sale for $2k? (Well, you have me there - anybody hard up enough to be bought for $2k gets another chance...)
As for China - that's not a Judicial System, it's population control!
Not when Congress has the power of the purse for the city, my friend....
Look at the Supreme Court's overruling the local government ban on handguns in D.C. in D.C. v. Heller. It clearly states that the Congress controls the District.
Why in the hell do you think a "local corruption" matter was in federal court to begin with? There are no "lower" courts in the district.
Federal Jurisdiction exists for all but violations (traffic) within the District of Columbia.
A government of, by and for the people is US. The worthless bastards we have in powerful positions need legislator/bureaucrat liability to get their attention.
I have no problem with our government - just the people who are in it... BUSHIES!
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The current "Great Republican Depression" is not felt on Wall Street - but Main Street is bleeding.
In 1929 the bankers had the decency to jump from high buildings. Today, they borrow from the FED (Federal Reserve, a PRIVATELY HELD company) at 0.0% interest and can buy T-Bills at 3%.
FDIC/FSLIC are federal insurance companies.
We (the USA) used all sorts of tricks to impose high-interest loans on Argentina post the Malvinas/Falklands war. It was Hugo Chavez who (with vast profits from the Bush Administration run up of oil prices by speculation) paid off those debts and restructured them.
I am an attorney, over 50 years old and I think that this nation has become an oligarchy serving only the top 30,000 citizens. Consider that they command more assets than the entire lower median income population - 30,000 have more assets than 150,000,000.
The French (and, all other empires - especially water empires) overthrew their rulers at asset ratios far lower.
This is a nation formed "Of, By and FOR the People" not corporate empires. I could go off on the railroad tax cases of 120 years ago that conveyed "human" standing to corporations - but I won't.
Off AT&T - we broke them up once and they are pulling the same BS today. Burn them. Burn their shareholders and bar the top three layers of management from ever working in telecommunications forever - as a criminal sanction similar to Boesky in the 1980s.
The rest of the employees could easily fill the demand for experienced workers in the competitors.
But, burning the investors - 0.0% return and no tax deduction for the loss - that's what will start changes in our corporate culture.
What, Maddoff didn't do worse?
At least this time, there will be a point to the crash & burn....
As an attorney & federal litigator - I can top 600 min/wk without breaking a sweat.
My colleagues frequently have their Palm Pri & Samsung phones running concurrently....
RT SEC finings...
The animal is the same animal as we split up. It is showing the same spots it showed 40 years ago.
Kill it before it grows more powerful. Look, how many wiretaps are you willing to allow? Time to burn this baby monster. They have paid fines for changing their tower frequencies to interfere with competitors - we ought to bust them for that, alone.
BTW, radio-telephone existed LOOONG before cellular radio-telephone - says the guy who had his 1st 'phone at 16 - signed by Ben F. Waple of the FCC.
Now, take the b ig dog and put it down. Nothing makes the rest of the pack respect you more than offing the top dog.
AT&T is a monopoly and has to die!
You are citing the progeny of the breakup of AT&T - the telecommunications giant that was the US National Monopoly through the 1970s.
All of your sub-entities or new entities existed to fill the vacuum created by antitrust litigation beginning in the 1960s to break up the monopoly.
AT&T existed before and is doing exactly what it did to bring about its divestiture.
Kill it. Kill it dead. It only gets one chance to stop being a monopoly. Leave every shareholder BROKE.
The time is right and the entity and all of its employees, leaders and shareholders should pay the ultimate price. I'd go so far as to bar the top 3 tiers of management from working in the telecommunications industry again - just as was done with Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky - a criminal sanction for criminal acts.
FRY AT&T - the perfect way to tell the entities that are too big to fail that they are not too big to destroy.
Imagine how nice, polite and competitive the remaining providers would be if they knew they would be toast if they tried this bait-and-switch service BS.
I'm changing my plan to the lowest pricing structure possible. I am going to log every dropped call and file a FCC complaint as it will have "stolen" minutes from me.
I have two iPhones with 3000 min day & 3000 min night + rollover, unlimited texting and the required data plan.
I'll send letters off to the AT&T consumer oversight about the obvious overselling of the data//cell service by AT&T - much like the old airlines used to do with seats and overbooking - betting that the no-shows will prevent bumping. Here, we have virtual bumping from saturated networks.
Frankly, AT&T ought to be dissolved - the Corporate Death Penalty and give the shareholders not a dime. The company has, through several iterations, demonstrated its gross incompetence too many times to exist. It is a monopoly and all monopolies must die. Let's kill AT&T - screw the shareholders. Time for "too big to fail" to take a nosedive into history.
Yep - there was a limited (20) message a month component of the plan (3000 min day, 3000 min night with rollover) - the top-of-the-line plan and with a $40.00 data charge a $15.00 charge for night to be extended to 1900 hrs to 0700 hrs I STILL had to pay extra for unlimited text messaging. AT&T GOUGES. For two iPhones it is $260 a month.
Let's see, breaching a contract with 3% of your users. OK, the law allows - in fact, encourages, breach where the economies of the deal weigh in favor of breach. But, you still have the problem of paying contract damages to that 3%. Worse, since the Class Action Fairness Act went into place AT&T won't have a single class to deal with all of the breached contracts - they will have dozens of suits all across the nation and they will spend millions on fees and court costs before they get around to paying the contract damages....
Just corporate morons hard at work.
$200.00 / Mo is exactly what the midwest RR Bisiness Class Internet 1st Tier costs. Of course it was about 6.5meg down ad .7 meg up.... Just fine for a law office.
I understand AT&T's position. They simply cannot grow their network fast enough to keep up, and the lack of bandwidth is a pain shared with all customers. The problem AT&T is having is that the iPhone isn't unique anymore. There is Droid and Palm and they'll still have unlimited data plans. Plus, if the iPhone U.S. exclusivity ends, the other carriers will quickly start offering the iPhone too.
AT&T can't charge for data plans if no one else does.
You believe AT&T? Based upon what data? Their FCC reg filings show them in compliance with their cell network...
Of course, they did screw all of us over the E-911 and have to pay a $2meg fine. See, http://www.fcc.gov/eb/News_Releases/DOC-227226A1.html
So, in sum - AT&T reports to the FCC that their network is within regulatory standards and AT&T has a corporate history of lying and ripping off its customers.
You elect to believe AT&T, eh? I have a bridge on the south-east side of Manhattan I'd like to sell you and, yes - I do take Paypal....
If those worthless twits at AT&T, who already have the lowest satisfaction of any cell provider, and already charge at a very high rate (for two iPhones and a big rollover + unlimited texting - I pay $260.00/mo) add on a data surcharge I'll drop the cell contract instantly - and I do mean instantly.
It is a recession and tossing $3k/yr out of the office account into two iPhones only to see the brilliant minds at AT&T come up with this idea - well, let's just say that the iPhone will become a touch/Skype phone and I'll let Credo buy out my account.
AT&T has really bad service - to the point that they now have an app to report their really bad service! Their apology: we'll charge more because we have an exclusive deal with Apple!
See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyte
Computer aided learning has many excellent products. This guy, once upon a time 20 years ago, would sell video tapes of the functions and use of current OSs and applications designed to take the computer illiterate to the barely computer literate.
He has made millions - legitimately, and now he seeks to take advantage of the Bushies having put all Consumer Protection on hold, including the CPSC that just admitted they were not following cribs that strangle children, so he can put a long-term drain on your debit/credit/ACH account.
In a just world, he would be front-line fodder on some peak in one of Bush's wars of opportunity. He's taking money away from the people that is needed to bail out the banks.
How about a 5 Meg Winchester for a 360 running MUSIC?
I'll trade four strung cores for that console.
Crawl out from under your rock and I'll give you the Texas Bird treatment - you sick puppy. Stick your head in a bucket of water and drown!
Legislator liability is an idea whose time has come. The tripartite government acts within the Judicial branch to establish the guilt or innocence of us mere mortals, why not the Legislative Branch (actually, they already are - I just want much higher penalties)? The average murderer kills for the most tawdry of reasons and thinks not about the consequences. People who have massive power and personally control millions of dollars, like our Senators (save, one - Bernie Sanders is not a Millionaire) and the bureaucrats like John Yoo (executive branch liability, too!) have so much more to lose... that the ultimate penalty would actually deter them.
I've always been in favor of setting black letter law for white collar thieves - steal $1meg or more and we execute you. That would cut WAY BACK on their schemes because, once again - they have so much to lose and would actually be deterred.
Finally, there is historical precedent - the Roman Senate had a rule, a Senator could propose any law - only if the law did not pass his fellow Senators would kill him.
Look at South Dakota and credit cards and Nevada and licensing fees - these are states that practice corporate favoritism in exchange for a few jobs.
Look back to the 1950's when many consider the US to have been at the top of its game. Corporations paid 50% of the total revenue generated from taxation. We also had a real graduated income tax for individuals. The time to look at successful revenue strategies is now. The answer is to have Corporations and wealthy individuals pay their share of the cost of operating this nation and its states.
http://www.aclu.org/FilesPDFs/patriot_text.pdf Read it and weep, computer trespasser communications are treasonous under the Patriot Act.
Take 'em out back and 'off em, Danno.
Join them if you think this is funny....
The "war on terr" is a vast and unspecified enemy. She did violate the terms of the Patriot Act. Sorry, but when Bush declares war on a methodology and institutes torture, we are at war with EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING....
So, a case is easily made for TREASON by virtue of giving aid to the (undefined) enemy.
Kill her.
Except for police actions. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution....
I cited the holding in the 2nd Amendment case. D.C. is a part of the federal government - they have no senators, no representatives and no local authority that Congress can't and doesn't override under the theory that DC is a government enclave.
If you don't have lesser courts - there is no better definition of FEDERAL JURISDICTION.
Tyranny is here. Deal with it. Mr. Bush and his cronies have "wiretapped" the entire Internet and you don't think that we are facing Tyranny? Wake up!
Meanwhile, the higher up the political food chain we can hammer the predators, the better.
Tom Delay should be in an organophospahte nightmare. Total Information Awareness Poindexter and his ilk should be dancing on short ropes.
This gal and her corporate weasels are the bottom feeders (although the corporate weasels are far worse than a woman who needs only $2k to sell out her nation).
I am for offing these bastards and leaving the corp investors broke. Take the entire management of the corrupt organization and drop them from 3,000 ft over the FL Keys - feed the alligators.
4K US soldiers and 1 meg civilians dead in Iraq because of the BushCO corruption administration and nobody notices?
This level of corruption is a direct result of higher level corruption.
You got a problem with executing Corporations?
You got a problem executing people who bribe government and wreak havoc on millions for their personal benefit?
You got a problem offing the idiot for sale for $2k? (Well, you have me there - anybody hard up enough to be bought for $2k gets another chance...)
As for China - that's not a Judicial System, it's population control!
Not when Congress has the power of the purse for the city, my friend....
Look at the Supreme Court's overruling the local government ban on handguns in D.C. in D.C. v. Heller. It clearly states that the Congress controls the District.
Why in the hell do you think a "local corruption" matter was in federal court to begin with? There are no "lower" courts in the district.
Federal Jurisdiction exists for all but violations (traffic) within the District of Columbia.
A government of, by and for the people is US. The worthless bastards we have in powerful positions need legislator/bureaucrat liability to get their attention.
I have no problem with our government - just the people who are in it... BUSHIES!