bpuharic wrote:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:29:13 -0700, Canuck57
wrote:

On 21/02/2010 3:50 PM, bpuharic wrote:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:26:04 -0700,
wrote:


Government and I have crossed paths on a few occassions. Nope, not a
liberal. In each contact I got the impression dysfunctional politics
was more important than rationality. I can't see how anyone would ever
last 30-40 years in government without going insane.
and i used to work for ATT. they went under. free market capitalism,
unregulated, aint no great deal either
ATT was like government, fat and lethargic. I worked for a company that
loved competing with ATT, we used to joke, "It isn't that we are so
good, it is that they are far worse."

ROFLMAO!! hey genius...that's EXACTLY my point. you guys who have more
faith in the free market than a saint has in christ kinda forget about
the FAILURES in the market

I worked for NorTel as we smashed ATT's Western Electric into the
ground. Free market capitalism rocks. The lethargic idiots made a
product that no one wanted and we made ones companies wanted. Their
appathy was their doom.

ROFLMAO!!!! you were one of the companies that helped drive ATT into
the ground!!!



I don't know when you joined ATT. I worked at Bell Labs starting in
1964. In my opinion, the reson ATT went down hill after the breakup is
that there was no "marketing" expertise. After being a regulated
monopoly for so long there was no one with the company that had a clue
as how to survive in a competitive market place.

It took a long time for the "design to last 20 years" mentality to be
put aside.

So blame ATT, not its competitors.