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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com on behalf of Steve Edwards<BR>
Sent: Fri 7/9/2010 5:32 PM<BR>
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<BR>
Cc: <BR>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] False answer() being sent by cellphone providers<BR>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Mike Ely wrote:<BR>
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> (off list)<BR>
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Continuing to veer off-topic...<BR>
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> Yes indeed we do. The telcos here are absolutely abhorrent, to the<BR>
> point that much could be written about how horrible they are but nobody<BR>
> would want to read such depressing material. And consumer protections?<BR>
> Hah! The devotees of Ayn Rand have written most consumer law here.<BR>
> Don't get me started.<BR>
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Maybe you should re-read Atlas Shrugged.<BR>
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Your laws may have been written by the people Ayn Rand wrote about: "the<BR>
government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society's<BR>
most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively<BR>
disappear,*" not devotees of Ayn Rand and her philosophy.<BR>
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*) <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged</A><BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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Cheers!</FONT>
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