XPost: alt.slack, alt.conspiracy   
   From: Se7en@cock.email   
      
   So I went to AT&T today to finally get my new apartment wired for   
   telephone. An amazing thing happened. I discovered that the once great   
   AT&T has been reduced to a cell phone store posing as a telecom   
   company!   
      
   I walk in, and there are three employees on duty for their little   
   store. One is watching the prop television. They all get up. I tell   
   them what I want. "I'd like to get wired for telephone", I say. They   
   don't know what this means. Then one of them asks "Do you mean home   
   phone?" I say, yeah. They then go to the back room to see if they have   
   any of their "devices in stock". I tell them I already have a   
   telephone, I need to get wired for service. The woman emerges with a   
   modem device you connect to a power outlet. I'm asking questions and   
   getting unsatisfactory responses. It's not until I analyze the device   
   myself that I realize the simple explanation "this is a device that   
   connects your home phone to a cell tower." None of them had the   
   aptitude to explain this.   
      
   Amazed, I simply walked out and said "I'd think about it." A big   
   amazement is that they called traditional telephone "old technology"   
   and this the "new and better technology". Obviously that's not   
   true!. This is inferior and another way for NSA pseudo-patriots to spy   
   for dissenters. If I wanted a cell phone, I'd buy a cell phone, and   
   it'll be a cold day in hell before that happens.   
      
   I assumed the majority of the dumbshit "new and better technology" to   
   be VOiP as well. Comcast, Time Warner, and a number of other services   
   I've observed use VOiP. This was new (to me).   
      
   How long until we can finally curtail this devolution of tech, when we   
   can return to a state of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and when   
   we, the consumer, can reject these "improvements" and use simple damn   
   telephone? I don't need Call Waiting, Two Lines, Caller ID, and   
   Voicemail! "It's included free of charge." It's not free when your   
   service fee goes from $10/m (in addition to each phone call) to $40/m   
   with god knows what else!   
      
   Have the European Telecoms been reduced to this mental retardation?   
   Perhaps there is not as much fluoride in the water of   
   England. Communism sure runs rampant though, so I wouldn't put it   
   against them to have it.   
      
   Why can't we have nice things?   
      
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