From: RonB on 19 Oct 2009 19:03 hancock4(a)bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > With all due respect, there seems to be this myth that all sorts of > wonderful things happened at Divesture in 1983 because of Divesture. > Technology was making huge leaps forward and prices were dropping > prior to 1983. The big drop in comm prices was for the same reason > computers, stereos, TV sets and other electronic goods dropped in > price; the big price drops were not related to Divesture. <Mostly snipped> Good message -- what I was trying to say, except you actually said it. -- RonB "There's a story there...somewhere"
From: Larry Sheldon on 19 Oct 2009 19:08 RonB wrote: > Government "mandated" telephone monopoly? Where do you get this? I walk around with my eyes open.
From: RonB on 19 Oct 2009 19:13 Larry Sheldon wrote: > RonB wrote: > >> Government "mandated" telephone monopoly? Where do you get this? > > I walk around with my eyes open. Really? I live in a state that borders two states that border Missouri. You'll have to "show me." -- RonB "There's a story there...somewhere"
From: Ezekiel on 19 Oct 2009 20:33 > >"Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >news:b1823c3e-d5e9-4f42-aca7-9e291c2e6962(a)p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... >On Oct 19, 1:56 pm, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 2009-10-19, pbj <postittothenewsgr...(a)nospam.com> wrote: >> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:36:10 +0000, Brent wrote: > >> >> On 2009-10-19, Larry Sheldon <lfshel...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> gpsman wrote: >> >>>> On Oct 19, 9:00 am, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>>> Explain how a monopoly or cartel can endure without government >> >>>>> intervention on behalf of the monopoly or cartel. > >Economics 101. The very nature of the monopoly is that the monopolist >maintains exclusive control of something absolutely critical to it's >customers (those who pay the company directly). > >AT&T strung thousands of telephone wires and was able to prevent other >companies from stringing similar wires in other areas because the >standards were different and equipment would be damaged.(deliberately >or accidentally). (SNIP 100's of lines of nonsense and BS) Your tin foil helmet is on too tight again.
From: Moshe Goldfarb on 19 Oct 2009 20:34
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:33:13 -0400, Ezekiel wrote: >> >>"Rex Ballard" <rex.ballard(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>news:b1823c3e-d5e9-4f42-aca7-9e291c2e6962(a)p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com... >>On Oct 19, 1:56 pm, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> On 2009-10-19, pbj <postittothenewsgr...(a)nospam.com> wrote: >>> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:36:10 +0000, Brent wrote: >> >>> >> On 2009-10-19, Larry Sheldon <lfshel...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> gpsman wrote: >>> >>>> On Oct 19, 9:00 am, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVET...(a)yahoo.com> >>> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>>> Explain how a monopoly or cartel can endure without government >>> >>>>> intervention on behalf of the monopoly or cartel. >> >>Economics 101. The very nature of the monopoly is that the monopolist >>maintains exclusive control of something absolutely critical to it's >>customers (those who pay the company directly). >> >>AT&T strung thousands of telephone wires and was able to prevent other >>companies from stringing similar wires in other areas because the >>standards were different and equipment would be damaged.(deliberately >>or accidentally). > > (SNIP 100's of lines of nonsense and BS) > > Your tin foil helmet is on too tight again. I think all the bad weather up here in the northeast has shorted out Rex's antenna..... |