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Article #40Re: FYI - USWest wasting our money again
From: Andrew Burt
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:37
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:37
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In <1992Sep14.170938.16654@mercury.cair.du.edu> jvilhube@diana.cair.du.edu (Jan Vilhuber) writes:
>Regarding Blanche's Article:
>It may be that the corporate people encourage that the public don't see the
>differences, but nonetheless, they are there. I *KNOW* that we don't see
>any of the profit from COMM.
I didn't imply that -- I said that both comm's profits and your company's
profits both funnel up to the same place, and are both reflected in
the stock price. I agree you aren't likely to get money from comm just
for the heck of it.
>Great ... now I got two (out of three) of my teachers for the quarter
>up in arms against me before the quarter even started. Wonder if I can
>get my psych teacher on too...
Who is he/she, I'll have a talk with him/her... :-)
But don't worry, if you put this much effort into your Op.Sys. homework,
you'll do fine... :-)
>Besides.. I never argued that the corporation is not corrupt. I just argued that
>the product is not bad and that not EVERYBODY in US WEST is a complete
>moron.
I don't think USW is necessarily "corrupt" -- my word would be "inept".
But I still believe this product is lousy. Of course USW has good people;
the problem is those X% who are inept seem to be calling the shots.
--
Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped"
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