Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
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From: Miguel Cruz on 2 Aug 2006 16:20 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Miguel Cruz writes: >> In large cities in the US there are often multiple local loop >> providers. Not sure about outlying areas. > > So how many local loops can you have in your home? I live in Kuala Lumpur, where there is a monopoly provider. When I lived in Washington DC a few years ago there were two local loop providers that had reached my street. The incumbent (Verizon) and someone else, I forgot who. They can just go into the manhole and switch your drop. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 16:42 David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate writes: > Oh, I would never have known that. Only people who actually read my posts know that. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 16:44 JohnT writes: > Look at your original reference to this. Look at the antecedent of my original reference. The assertion was made that asking for donations makes me a non-professional. I pointed out Doctors without Borders, which has doctors and asks for donations, and wondered if the doctors working for that organization were no longer professionals because it solicits donations. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 16:44 Miguel Cruz writes: > When I lived in Washington DC a few years ago there were two local loop > providers that had reached my street. The incumbent (Verizon) and > someone else, I forgot who. They can just go into the manhole and switch > your drop. So you can only have one provider at a time? That's a monopoly. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: TOliver on 2 Aug 2006 16:59
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote... > Miguel Cruz writes: > >> When I lived in Washington DC a few years ago there were two local loop >> providers that had reached my street. The incumbent (Verizon) and >> someone else, I forgot who. They can just go into the manhole and switch >> your drop. > > So you can only have one provider at a time? That's a monopoly. > In this city of 100,000 (with another 100,000 in the suburbs and county, few of whom have access to a full spctrum, I have residential access to two (landline) loops and could have both in my home, along with local/LD telephone service by both of the two cable companies and one wireless system. While my two landlines - one mainly for FAX traffic - come from the traditional provider, SBC (now adopting the mantle of AT&T) and the service is not cheap, the single fee unlimited LD for both lines is reasonable considering my LD minutes each month Electricity is all delivered by the same provider, but I've a choice of 5 or so separate entities from which to buy the product. To agree with Mixi is a travail for the soul but......(and I had already suggested that Heat was the greater peril).... As an aside, this months _National Geographic_ has a short article rating the odds on the various causes of death for USAians. Death from Summer heat comes in at 1 in 13,000 or so, more frequent that lightning strikes but far less than bee stings, while death from Winter's cold does not register statistically. I know the flue and pnueumonia advocates may ring in to suggest a Wintry cause, but medically, cold itself causes neither. |