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  1. #16
    sd
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    Re: LUcifer Shakes Down Widows

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

    > If anyone has an elderly parent, you need to go over their phone bills
    > every month to prevent this. Telephone employees call them to sell them
    > many services they don't need, slamming if you will. Dad paid Bell$outh
    > for "maintenance" of his 32' long phone wire to one outlet, some god-
    > awful monthly service fee to "guarantee good service". It's a goddamned
    > pair of cheap wires and a cheap plastic socket screwed to the baseboard!
    > More tech savvy children of the elderly can put a stop to it.


    Of course, that assumes there _are_ 1) "tech savvy" children of the
    elderly 2) somewhere nearby. I can't defend the phone company's high
    cost for maintenance, but people pay the freight when they don't
    understand/care how easy it is to do some things. There are folks
    out there (maybe your mom) who think people these days are idiots
    for buying pre-formed, pre-sheeted chocolate chip cookies when it's
    about as easy -- and much cheaper -- to whip up a batch from flour,
    sugar, chocolate, etc.

    > Some of
    > his telephone bills were over $190 just because he was still using Bell
    > $outh long distance ripoffs, not some cheap 5c/min aftermarket company
    > they made him believe would be intermittent and impossible to hear, which
    > is bull****, of course.


    That one probably dates back to our elders' acceptance of authority.
    You can't watch TV or read a newspaper without seeing an ad for
    cheap long distance. I'd have to think a couple of decades of such a
    barrage would have me wondering and asking others who they used for
    long distance.

    I'm not a huge fan of the Bells, but they are not solely to blame
    here.

    sd



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  2. #17
    Steven J. Sobol
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    Re: LUcifer Shakes Down Widows

    In article <[email protected]>, Quick wrote:
    > The Ghost of General Lee wrote:
    >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:01:33 -0400, Larry
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>> After leaving, I got their modem out of the car and took
    >>> it back in, having achieved my objectives....(c;

    >>
    >> What was that? Making yourself look like a psychopath?

    >
    > Larry gets his jollies trying to impress minimum wage
    > workers behind the help desks. You know, captive audience.
    > The "priceless look" on the workers face?


    JGrove is a troll too. He's posted tons of offtopic crap about Lucent to
    the Sprint newsgroup, and called me a Nazi and said some other choice words
    when I called him out on his trolling. The stuff he was saying was increasingly
    inflammatory towards me until I made him aware that I don't give a rat's ass
    about his anti-Steve rants. Now he says nothing to me...

    > Larry: That college kid just had a heart attack because they
    > thought I actually destroyed one of the millions of
    > precious company modems. hahahahaha I've got
    > to rush back and tell the usenet group about this one!!!


    Maybe when his age hits triple digits, he'll finally have grown up.

    --
    Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
    Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

    It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.



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