[Boatanchors] Denver, Staffrod VA, Bosie Goodies

[Richard Solomon]

Monopolies gave us Pan Am, TWA, Ma Bell ... free enterprise gave
us Enron and GermanWings !!

The ancient Greeks had it right, a Benevolent Dictatorship ... the only
problem is you run out of Benevolent Dictators !!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On 4/11/2015 11:31 AM, WA5CAB--- via Boatanchors wrote:
> On balance, I agree with Bob, et al.  My son-in-law had to get a new
> cell-phone.  He says that it's a great camera but absolutely the worst telephone
> he's ever used.  So he still needs a new phone.  Unfortunately, mine isn't
> much better.  It'll do a bzillion things but does none of them well.
>
> In a message dated 04/11/2015 13:00:14 PM Central Daylight Time,
> manualman at juno.com writes:
>> Stupid No. Monopolies can be dangerous. They alone drive the costs we
>> pay, determine what we use for equipment, determine what features they
>> will allow us to have, and stifle any innovation that doesn't comply with
>> their view of future expansion of products and services.
>>
>> Pete, wa2cwa
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:18:33 -0400 Bob Young <bobyoung53 at hotmail.com>
>> writes:
>>> Yup, breaking up the Bell telephone company was just one of many
>>> stupid things that we have allowed to happen in the past 20-30
>>> years,
>>>   
>>> Bob
>>> KB1OKL
>>>   
>>>> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 17:17:11 -0500
>>>> From: jhhaynes at earthlink.net
>>>> To: bcarling at cfl.rr.com
>>>> CC: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>>>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Denver, Staffrod VA, Bosie Goodies
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a saying that if we still had the old Bell System and Bell
>>> Labs
>>>> your cell phone might be as big as a brick, but you would be able
>>> to
>>>> understand what the caller is saying and there would be no
>>> dropouts.
> Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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