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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVerizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/verizon-issues-furious-response-to-fcc-in-morse-code-dated-1934/Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn't do.
After all, Verizon issues so many press releases denouncing the FCC for trying to regulate telecommunications that today's vote on net neutrality required a special one to make sure it would be remembered.
So Verizon wrote it in Morse code and set the date as "1934" to make the point that the FCC is taking us backward in time. Verizon sent out the press release in this e-mail:
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villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
arcane1
(38,613 posts)lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)Long before Verizon came to be. Even before GTE, one of their predecessors.
tridim
(45,358 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)My dad was a HAM radio guy and he spent a good chunk of his life trying to get me to learn Morse Code so I could get my HAM license.
I never saw the point, especially since I was already talking to the rest of the World on early versions of the Internet and BBS's. Sorry Dad.
FSogol
(45,435 posts)because I discovered punk rock, beer, and girls.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)FSogol
(45,435 posts)jmowreader
(50,527 posts)I don't think they quite got the message.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Camcast/GE/NBC/MSNBC.CNBC,full out blame Obama and those 4 million E-Mailers who exercised their rites of petition. Here we go again. Hey,Media Whores,eat shit and whatever!!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 26, 2015, 06:09 PM - Edit history (4)
if you wouldn't have taken advantage of title II, then complained when it was formally brought back up due to your complaints that you didn't get all benefit and were required to give some to get some, you wouldn't be in this position you jackwagons.
Mommy can give you a cookie - yes she can. But crying because mommy can't give you a pony with your cookie is the height of idiocy.
Verizon and many others like Comcast have repeatedly pissed off people both high and low. I'm pretty sure there were a few people left that have been burned by both and their high-handed ways willing to let it pass out of pure spite. You can irritate the shit out of people for only so long until you irritate the shit out the wrong person.
I think they have reached their "we irritate you and charge the shit out of you because we can" threshold. AT&T did it, and you know what happened there.
meow2u3
(24,757 posts)What's the matter? Can't chisel more money then you're entitled to? Tough shit, Verizon! Shuddup and deal with it!!!
djean111
(14,255 posts)a point of saying that regulating prices is old-fashioned, so they are not going to do it.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)their shit.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Renew Deal
(81,843 posts)By the military or others?
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)The kids are going crazy, I have never seen so many of the young getting their ham licenses.
JHB
(37,152 posts)I know it's Morse Code, but my first impression is that they couldn't even keep the corruption out of their press release.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)own spit. Eager to reap benefits, but balk when it is time to relinquish some.
You can grab for the gold, but when you fall out of the treehouse doing so, you have nobody to blame but yourself, Verizon, and Comcast, for that matter.
Orrex
(63,168 posts)When I was shopping for high-speed internet again in 2012, Verizon told me FIOS would soon be in my area.
Tell me again how regulation is going to stifle innovation and development?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Shipboard radar was tougher than Morse, but much more fun.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Why is basic phone service so expensive and complicated. Why do basic users always have to subsidize the company's move into"future" tech for Cadillac users? Why do people on welfare with ZERO income only get discounted landline service instead of fully subsidized phone service when this is a basic necessity? Why is the phone company allowed to add infinite parcel fees and blame the government, arousing public hostility toward "taxes"?
Frack these jackasses - they used their monopoly on landline infrstructure to crush all DSL competition, and now they want out of landlines and DSL all together because the markup is higher on wireless. Perhaps we should hand basic wire telecom over to the post office to run as a fallback national utility. Then let those fat cat parasite corps eat each other over wireless. In other words give poor people the "public option" of a landline and public standard dsl. Rich peole can then buy high speed wifi with bells and whistles.
Public Options are not "big government"- if they use their scale efficiency correctly and embrace their mission for the public good, they bring down prices for everyone by providing a low price reference point and preventing monopoly manipulation. They could also provide thousands of jobs in direct employment in businesses that at least partially support themselves.
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)But the GOP has been trying to break up the USPS for decades. They
would never allow giving them more power or responsibility.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)tax payor money. No corporate entity should own it.