From: brennus@allia.org   
      
   Se7en  wrote in   
   news:slrnoqf938.se7.Se7en@lappy.portable:   
      
   > 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?   
   >   
      
      
   Try not acting like a total douche and you'll get better service.   
      
   LOL!   
      
   HAIL BRENNUS!   
      
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