no kidding- yeah, let's bring back the guy who divulged classified intel to the chick he was sleeping with, or better yet the guy who shit all over his CiC- nice picks iCarly!
Years ago, I had the impression that she had been a reasonably successful marketing VP at Lucent, but more recent information suggests that she was always a fuck-up. I never made VP, but I'll admit I wanted to, because once you do, you are apparently enclosed in a force field that guarantees future success. No matter what.
The transmogrification of Bell into whatever shards we're living among now is an amazing, slow, sad story. As a kid I adored the "Bell Science Series" movies about cosmic rays and other physics topics. As a high school science student I got taken on a tour of Western Electric's big plant in Hawthorne, and was given a then-exciting-and-new "integrated circuit" chip as a kind of party favor.
So Bell was prosperous enough from exhorbitant long-distance charges to make local phone service and last-mile maintenance almost free, sponsor world-changing basic research, build the physical internet, educate kids, and cajole local governments into protecting its monopoly. Plus they charged you $1.50/month if you wanted a long cord on your handset.
But they weren't visionary enough to recognize that there'd be no such thing as "the Internet" or Comcast if they'd been willing to use their remarkable system to transmit anything besides voice messages.
I'm probably wrong about a lot of this. But that doesn't stop erstwhile telco-bigshot iCarly.
And Petraeus and McChrystal? Gimme a break. Those assholes committed career seppuki without any help from Barry.
no kidding- yeah, let's bring back the guy who divulged classified intel to the chick he was sleeping with, or better yet the guy who shit all over his CiC- nice picks iCarly!
Heh.
She farted in Thieves and Thugs general direction.
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Years ago, I had the impression that she had been a reasonably successful marketing VP at Lucent, but more recent information suggests that she was always a fuck-up. I never made VP, but I'll admit I wanted to, because once you do, you are apparently enclosed in a force field that guarantees future success. No matter what.
The transmogrification of Bell into whatever shards we're living among now is an amazing, slow, sad story. As a kid I adored the "Bell Science Series" movies about cosmic rays and other physics topics. As a high school science student I got taken on a tour of Western Electric's big plant in Hawthorne, and was given a then-exciting-and-new "integrated circuit" chip as a kind of party favor.
So Bell was prosperous enough from exhorbitant long-distance charges to make local phone service and last-mile maintenance almost free, sponsor world-changing basic research, build the physical internet, educate kids, and cajole local governments into protecting its monopoly. Plus they charged you $1.50/month if you wanted a long cord on your handset.
But they weren't visionary enough to recognize that there'd be no such thing as "the Internet" or Comcast if they'd been willing to use their remarkable system to transmit anything besides voice messages.
I'm probably wrong about a lot of this. But that doesn't stop erstwhile telco-bigshot iCarly.