[asterisk-users] False answer() being sent by cellphone providers

[Mike Ely]

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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Mike Ely wrote:

> (off list)

Continuing to veer off-topic...

> Yes indeed we do.  The telcos here are absolutely abhorrent, to the 
> point that much could be written about how horrible they are but nobody 
> would want to read such depressing material.  And consumer protections? 
> Hah!  The devotees of Ayn Rand have written most consumer law here. 
> Don't get me started.

Maybe you should re-read Atlas Shrugged.

Your laws may have been written by the people Ayn Rand wrote about: "the 
government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's 
most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively 
disappear,*" not devotees of Ayn Rand and her philosophy.

*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

Well, so much for my "off list" attempt.  Perhaps I should learn how to use email before I take on anything so complex as a PBX.

At any rate, Steve, you have it completely backwards: in the US and many other countries, it is industry asserting control over government, not the other way around.  Walk down K Street in Washington, D.C. and you'll see my point.

And no thanks: I've already read that execrable book, and found it to be nothing more than overwrought claptrap written to give people with a huge inferiority complex (witness all the carping on about "mediocrity") some smug self-justification when they abandon all ethics in favor of their reptile-brain, base instincts.  Disgusting.

Cheers!
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