🚀 go-pugleaf

On 5/29/2013 5:12 PM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
>> On 5/29/2013 11:54 AM, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>>
>>> Any good CABS stories?
>>
>> That I can go into great detail about here? Not really.
>>
>> There is the local sorta-competitor who got uppity with the ILEC about
>> CABS and ended up getting lawyered to the point that they had to
>> basically (and very recently) sell, well... the entirety of their data
>> business to pay the bill. You can probably suss out the rest from the
>> trade rags.
>>
>> The fun thing about CABS is that NO ONE plays by the regulatory rules
>> with them, not even AT&T, basically because it's technically impossible
>> at this point. So it's a bunch of gentlemen's agreements. But once in a
>
> Would you say that trade agreements sure beat having the retards in the
> governement trying to meddle around?

I like having the gov't around as a cudgel to knock AT&T (and the other 
ILECs) into behavior as needed. They're literally too big to fuck with 
outside of government intervention. If they had come to that position by 
dominating the market instead of inheriting a monopoly infrastructure, 
maybe I'd be okay with how they are but seriously fuck those guys.

That said, CABS and shit like that is like the SEC trying to regulate 
Wall Street. We know so much more about how to manipulate this shit than 
the guys trying to regulate us on them that they pretty much have to sit 
back and go "so long as no one's complaining to me, fuck it".

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smr