🚀 go-pugleaf

smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:
> 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.

how often does this happen though (a fed style smackdown)?
 
> 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".

nice.