[RFI] U-verse

Michael Coslo mjc5 at psu.edu
Mon Oct 25 07:14:15 PDT 2010


On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:28 PM, rick darwicki wrote:

> I had it here for a few weeks and had to go back to DSl. They worked all their tricks and I hung tons of donuts and we couldn't get 160 and 500 watts to play.
> 
> Problem is losing the modem you not only lose the internet but the TV too. If you have an XYL be ready to die.
> 
> It was also promoted here as being an optical cable. In my hood, the last 3/4-mile comes over the same 45 year old crappy phone wires as the DSL.

With all the problems from the phone line.

> 
> Far be it for an American President to publicly congratulate (let alone even mention) AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners. 


Since we're on this subject - I'd heard of all of those things multiple times. So it's not like no one was getting any credit.

My own take on the matter is in a case like this. You do what you have to do. And you do it because it is the right thing to do. If you get credit, fine, if not, also fine. Yo do not do this for the credit, you do it because it is the right thing to do. (worth repeating)

Some folks trying to steal the thunder and beating on their chests, demanding to be praised because "WE saved your sorry butts!" is just as inane as the Chileans bursting into patriotic ferver  "Chil- EY!!" when the miners were hauled up. Both are equally irrelevant.

I personally thought it was an example of what can happen when people work together. And that some people came to the brink of death and were hauled back.

Rejoice, they were saved and a lot of people went of a lot of effort to do it!  Addressing this as some sort of political thing is  just very sad, but have at it if you will. 

That's my .02 dollars.


- 73 de Mike N3LI -



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