Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17577169 en Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:55:08 EDT Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:55:08 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17584135 Thespis :
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The war in Iraq is 2 billion per day.

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versus 300 billion plus poured into Iraq

By your calculations, we've only been in Iraq 150 days or so...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17584135 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:26:06 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17581753 jig :
said by guitarzan See Profile :

What's the difference between a bucket of chit and a liberal.?

Why the bucket of course :D

BTW: The United States of America does not start wars, it ENDS them. If all these third world shit hole countries were able to stand up for themselves, America would have no need to be called in to act as world policeman and put the fires out.

How old are you 12?
if i am, you must be 2. did america end the vietnam war? is the iraq war "ended"? anything going on in darfur, israel, or really anywhere else since 1950 that we've had a positive influence on? maybe korea, but the republican administration has stuffed that in the chit can for the past 6+ years and it's ready to blow.

you, are a moron.
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said by guitarzan See Profile :

Any irresponsible policy making and out of control deficits on the Hill, were due to Democratic decisions for 40 years, compared to 12 Republican years.

40 years of Democrats Versus 12 years of Republicans, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the Democrats mishandled, misspent more Social security funds than the Republicans, who the Democrats accuse.
I'd contend its both parties faults... When you consider that the people on the Hill all have childish mentalities, neither party comes out clean. They both sell out to their own little special interests and friends and both waste money on things like taking trips on our dime, etc. etc. etc. The worst is the stupidity of increasing spending and decreasing taxes... Great way to run up a record deficit (what the last eight years of Republican control have netted the nation financially). Both parties tend to spend money like it is burning a damn hole in their pocket.

Republicans and Democrats... Same shit, different stink.
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said by pnh102 See Profile :

There's no Social Security Fund or any other special fund. All the money the government collects goes into the same pool for spending. It just happens that the amount of money being collected for social security happens to be more than what is needed to pay for the program, so the balance is spent on other things.
Which is essentially the same as taking the money collected and earmarked for the program and spending it elsewhere... My post should have read "OUT of social security funds"...

Either way, the congress has been spending money collected that is suppose to be spent only on social security. The program is where it is because they've dipped into those funds over the years.
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Why the bucket of course :D

BTW: The United States of America does not start wars, it ENDS them. If all these third world shit hole countries were able to stand up for themselves, America would have no need to be called in to act as world policeman and put the fires out.

How old are you 12?
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Its the Democrats fault. In fact it is the Speaker of House Polosi fault. Everything is the Democrats fault. Everything. Just like Everything was the Republicans Fault when they were in power.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580758 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:10:48 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580708 jig : no, you're a crock full of shit.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580708 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:03:13 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580698 guitarzan : That's a crock of chit and you're full of it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580698 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:01:33 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580638 jig :
said by guitarzan See Profile :

40 years of Democrats Versus 12 years of Republicans, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the Democrats mishandled, misspent more Social security funds than the Republicans, who the Democrats accuse.
yeah, it wasn't the various wars the republicans started in those 40 years that drained more from the national budget than any other group or collection of programs the democrats supported, creating the situation where money, what little could be squeezed from the budget, had to come from somewhere to feed the poor, educate the masses, and provide for every other basic national (not international) need.

what a crock of bull. the repubs spend all the money, run up the debt, then blame the demos in between wars for raising taxes, paying off the debt, and funding necessary programs for national health. who are the spenders? the demos just clean up the messes the republican enron backers make.
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While life could be as black and white as you portray, only a child would actually blindly believe all economic situations necessarily are simply supply and demand.

There are always politics involved in everything.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580188 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:44:40 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580087 guitarzan :
said by bmn See Profile :

The problem is that the Congress has been taking money OUT of the social security fund and dropping little IOUs into the fund for years... Social security has been put into its situation by irresponsible policy making and out of control deficits on the Hill.
Congress does control the run-away spending and rampant tax increases of this Country. However, the Republicans controlled Congress the last 12 years and during those 12 years the American people received 2 tax cuts (I got mine). Prior to Republicans gaining control of Congress, under the liberal tax & spend Clintonista regime, the Democrats held Congress for the past 40 years before 1994.

Any irresponsible policy making and out of control deficits on the Hill, were due to Democratic decisions for 40 years, compared to 12 Republican years.

40 years of Democrats Versus 12 years of Republicans, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the Democrats mishandled, misspent more Social security funds than the Republicans, who the Democrats accuse.
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Its the Democrats fault. In fact it is the Speaker of House Polosi fault. Everything is the Democrats fault. Everything. Just like Everything was the Republicans Fault when they were in power.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17580087 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:25:09 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579796 MadMANN :
said by kyramilan See Profile :

Take with a grain of salt.
I am not a big Verizon fan (obviously :D ) but I tend to agree. Any retired worker from any big company can spout off like this. This could just as easily be an article about a disgruntled retired worker from AT&T, Comcast, Qwest, etc etc etc.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579796 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:33:08 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579442 rahvin112 :
said by N3OGH See Profile :

said by jig See Profile :
Earmarks, and bridges to nowhere are costing us more every year than any "war" we're engaged in. For this, I put the blame squarely in Bush 43's court. He had the veto pen for 6 years and didn't have the nuts to use it against his own guys in Congress, so they got just as out of control has the Democrats that came before them. Shame on them for it.
The federal transportation budget for the entire nation is 6 billion dollars over 8 years. The war in Iraq is 2 billion per day. Anyone that says transportation spending is more dangerous to our economy than that stupid money pit of a war has their head in a dark smelly spot.

The fact is transportation, for every dollar spent creates 3 more in the economy. This money is poured directly into our economy, unlike a foreign war that dumps BILLIONS into a pit from whence it will never be seen again. In addition transportation spending creates infrastructure that benefits our economy more than just about any other spending versus 300 billion plus poured into Iraq with NO return.

So don't ever EVER say that war isn't the worst thing that has ever happened to our economy because it IS.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579442 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:29:09 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579270 dynodb : I hate to break it to you, but the purpose of a company- mom and pop hardware store or large corporation- is to make money.

Verizon makes money providing communication services.

There are other companies that provide those same services.

If Verizon charges too much and/or does a bad job providing those services, they lose customers to the competition.

If they lose customers, they don't make as much money and eventually go broke.

If there's a way to make it simpler for you, I don't know how. I find it ridiculous that people like you believe that every big corporation spends 24 hours a day thinking of new ways how to screw over their customers, the community they live in, their pets and their dead grandparents. Put down your Che Guevera lunchbox and step away.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579270 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:52:23 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579198 nozzer : Actually the UK has jumped from 12th to about 4th in a very short space of time, because of massive price cuts. And DSL is now available to 99.6% of the population.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579198 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:40:32 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579134 ross : Hey jig, nice SIG! Great quote!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579134 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:30:29 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579032 Sr Tech : You have to look on both worlds of telecom.

Marketing pushes what they want, in reality engineering and construction can only work as fast as they can. I know it sounds like the little train that could but it seems Verizon is more concentrated on marketing than actual build out. I can see the frustration when marketing says one thing but operations and engineering actually says "what the f are they thinking". But that is life in the real world of telecom. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17579032 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:15:21 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578334 cableties : Here's my take:

Employee realizes that he could leave and make money doing same thing on his own, with information he gained while working there. He may have had fellow workers join him, as they felt they could keep more money, doing same thing, and not be divested/laid-off from BA split.

Then he either told too many, p'od upper management or didn't kiss enough butt while there at BA to make great connections (use me as a sub-contractor and I'll throw back some kick). Instead, he was a threat and could undermine BA (VZ).

"If you can't beat them, join em", history says. By competing and complaining, it was clear that you can't stop a large, lobbying, politico-in-the-pocket machine. How he didn't learn.

First clear mistake: NEVER, EVER put your equipment in another (competitors) rack or CO.

p0wn3d.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578334 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:17:10 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578286 fiberguy : And what does this have to do with the Ex Verizon guy?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578286 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:09:51 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578278 fiberguy : Upon reflection, I do not wish to post. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578278 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:08:47 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578225 matrix3D : Maybe BECAUSE he's a former employee he has some INSIDE KNOWLEDGE as to how Verizon may actually operate in the area? I find it ridiculous that there are people like you that honestly believe these huge corporations, whether they be cable or telco, actually have the consumers best interests at heart! "Verizon could NEVER actually operate like that!"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578225 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:00:51 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17578024 N3OGH :
said by scrummie02 See Profile :

The only problem with the two sides butting heads is problems that need immediate attention like immigration reform and medical care costs will never get solved.
They weren't getting solved any way. The "fence" they want to build never got funded (I'm more in favor of mine fields myself, but I digress) and any kind of health care reform will never be seen. Part of the problem with health care costs is illegal immigration. Ever go to a hospital emergency room on any given night? You better bring your English-Spanish dictionary with you, if you plan on making conversation with your fellow patrons. They KNOW the ER can't turn them away, so they go there for things like the common cold and stupid stuff. You and I pay for it in the end.

I totally agree with you. Until people wise up and realize that just because their guy brings home the "bacon" doesn't mean he deserves re election.

Me, I vote my beliefs. I don't care how many $$ you bring to my state.

I sure do hope the GOP did learn their lesson. As it stands today, I don't see much hope for us as a whole the way we're headed. The border is a sieve, it's costing us millions. No one in congress seems to want to do anything.

Everyone in power is just so damn selfish. Of course, so are their constituents, so I guess they're doing a good job as far as they're concerned...

It is sad....
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The GOP has learned their lesson....hopefully.
The only problem with the two sides butting heads is problems that need immediate attention like immigration reform and medical care costs will never get solved. It turns out these issues are very important to most Americans...but since when have the parties been for the people huh?

Yes pork-barreling is a problem and needs to be solved, but it's up to the voters of the state to get them out and let's face it, no one in Alaska is going to vote out Stevens...he brings home tons of money...so does Byrd for that matter.

So until the states that vote these idiots in wise up, we're going to have pork spending to the likes we've never seen continue....now, would you like a side of bacon at dinner tonight?
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»www.reason.com/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17577933 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:17:14 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17577866 scrummie02 : being 13th has a little something to do with the vast amounts of land we have to cover to implement broadband. With the UK ranking 12th I believe, I think they have more problems than we do.

Of course companies are going to deploy where they think broadband is profitable, that's why they're a company, they want to make profits and make money, just like most people do.

I would like to see points that make a government run broadband provider a good idea. Most people don't want the NSA or anyone else monitoring their email/web transactions yet want the government to step in and regulate or lay down broadband itself....You "think" your privacy is violated now? Giving the government power to control the backbone of a proposed state run broadband initiative will give them all the more power/ease to "spy on it's citizens".

People would be best served if the government granted low interest SBA loans to people looking to run fiber or deploy broadband to certain areas and let small businesses run the show, not an inefficient broken down government machine...
That being said, do you want to pay to lay down fiber in an area in the sticks where 10 percent of the population care enough of broadband to get it, with even less being able to afford it?
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said by jig See Profile :

if social security fails, it'll be because of the gargantuan war debt run up by the republicans, topped off with the tax cuts.
Wow, and along comes the 3rd troll. That would be you, my friend.

Social security was in trouble LONG before Bush 43 ever became President. In fact, long before Clinton or Bush 41 became President.

When Congress decided to use the money in the Social Security "trust fund" to offset deficit spending, the jig was up. That happened long ago (back in the 70's I believe). So blaming it on "Bush" and his tax cuts is at best, misinformed. At worst it's hyperbole.

Earmarks, and bridges to nowhere are costing us more every year than any "war" we're engaged in. For this, I put the blame squarely in Bush 43's court. He had the veto pen for 6 years and didn't have the nuts to use it against his own guys in Congress, so they got just as out of control has the Democrats that came before them. Shame on them for it.

Now that we have a divided government, the American people can breathe a collective sigh of relief as far as their wallets go.

Bottom line: Government that governs the least governs best. Since the clowns in the legislative branch will be constantly butting heads with the clowns in the executive branch, very little will get done over the next 2 years.

Translation: They're spend less of MY money over then next 2 years. I say good.....
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I know better how to spend/allocate my money than the government does...
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said by footballdude See Profile :

What does any other spending have to do with social security? It was supposed to be a self sustaining system. Are you admitting it doesn't work and needs money from the general fund to stay alive?
who told you social security was supposed to be a self sustaining system? the endowment has to change with the burden, various scoops have been taken out of it, and debt payment is also a line item in the national budget (though you wouldn't expect a republican to know/care).
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said by bmn See Profile :

The problem is that the Congress has been taking money OUT of the social security fund and dropping little IOUs into the fund for years...
There's no Social Security Fund or any other special fund. All the money the government collects goes into the same pool for spending. It just happens that the amount of money being collected for social security happens to be more than what is needed to pay for the program, so the balance is spent on other things.
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said by footballdude See Profile :

What does any other spending have to do with social security? It was supposed to be a self sustaining system. Are you admitting it doesn't work and needs money from the general fund to stay alive?
The problem is that the Congress has been taking money OUT of the social security fund and dropping little IOUs into the fund for years... Social security has been put into its situation by irresponsible policy making and out of control deficits on the Hill.
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said by jig See Profile :

if social security fails, it'll be because of the gargantuan war debt run up by the republicans, topped off with the tax cuts.
What does any other spending have to do with social security? It was supposed to be a self sustaining system. Are you admitting it doesn't work and needs money from the general fund to stay alive?
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if social security fails, it'll be because of the gargantuan war debt run up by the republicans, topped off with the tax cuts.

in any event, with how many grains of salt should we take you?
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said by kyramilan See Profile :

Take with a grain of salt.
Well, some of what he says is true... I've seen telcos use garbage bags to cover open slice cases until they can go back and get them closed up again... Of course, they can stay that way for awhile...

As for the politics, he's right in the regard that the telcos and the government have had a far to cozy relationship for far too long, you just can't can't rely on the objectivity of his specific examples as evidence.

But yeah, you need to take everything he says with a grain of salt, just like the Verizon PR retard they quoted in the article...
Lee Gierczynski, Verizon's manager of media relations, countered, "West Virginia's telecommunications marketplace is an increasingly competitive one, where all players face daily challenges to operate successfully and meet customers' needs. Based on that, we don't believe a newspaper article is the proper forum to discuss baseless, vague allegations. We wish Mr. Parsons well on his retirement."

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He's bitter because he lost contracts to Verizon after being unable to meet the terms of the RFP, he's bitter because his company *gasp* had to pay money to lease Verizon's equipment, and that Verizon donated money to schools because it apparently equates to "bribery".

Hell, the rambling old coot still refers to Verizon as "Bell Atlantic". Sounds like his "best used before" date expired some time ago.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576721 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:54:10 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576660 kyramilan : T1 Rocky - The Government is for the rich, by the rich, and of the rich. Just now figuring that out?

How about the new morons that took over Congress today? 2 years of Gridlock while Social Security goes down the drain, a few million more illegals cross the border, and more and more people have NO health care.

All Hail the Democrats! Just as crooked as the Republicans. With Republicans, at least you know who they are for. Democrats? I have no clue. :uhh:]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576660 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:41:45 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576641 T1 Rocky : What are yall talking about? America is number 13 in the world in terms of broadbrand deployment despite us being a distant number one in terms of wealth. Did you not read the story on dslr 2 days ago about how ma bell was back to Qwest, Verizon and AT&T? Take a look at these lobbyist figures »www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/to···ompanies
And you don't think that the telcos are buying the government? You don't think that those lobbying dollars have any impact on the government allowing AT&T to buy Bell South last week? You don't think those lobbying dollars translate directly into all of those line items on your phone bill that the government "requires" the telcos to collect to maintain their networks? I'm in Texas and just last night on the news a Texas law maker in Austin was under fire for accepting $1000 toilets for his apartment and other gifts from AT&T. So are we to believe that AT&T just wanted to make sure this poor millionaire had crappers that didn't leak?
I totally sympathise with this guy. The big loser here is the American public. And if you think there is competition, then why don't you go down to the city and file for zoning to put fiber into a neighborhood. Look at what has happened to cities who tried to do municipal wireless. I'm amazed that people just say this guy is a bitter competitor. This guy represents thousands and thousands of companies that the telcos have buried over the last 10 years. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576641 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:36:55 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576623 kyramilan :
said by scrummie02 See Profile :

that's what common sense would tell you...but anything going against the big bad corporations here will be welcome...
LOL! Most don't have common cent$ on here that I see so far. You're an exception to the rule.

BBR

B*tch about your Broadband through Reports = BBR dotcom!

LOL!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576623 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:34:32 EDT Re: Disgruntled Ex-Employee and former Competitor http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17576505 scrummie02 : that's what common sense would tell you...but anything going against the big bad corporations here will be welcome...
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