Mark and all,
Youth, Truth and bravery vs age, corruption and treachery!???
ROFLMAO! That is really good rhetoric there Mark! Nice bit
of slurring, if I do say so myself. You are right up there with
"Dcrock"!
Mark Measday wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Odd, given your arguments, that, with the good advice Mr B received at the EC,
> we do not see him at the helm of some more adventurous venture.
>
> Why would a man so much more in possession of the facts than most choose merely
> to learn Spanish at such a high salary when he could have burst from his
> straitjacket and reaped the rewards of entrepreneurial endeavour according to
> your account below?
>
> Was it that he did not believe his own rhetoric and polemic? Surely not.
>
> Someone not entirely convinced of the merit of your visionary position might
> erroneously hazard a guess that age, corruption and treachery will always beat
> youth, truth and bravery.....
>
> Jim Dixon wrote:
>
> > (*) I know of nothing in American history to parallel the recent sacking
> > -- OK, OK, mass resignation under pressure -- of the European
> > Commissioners. And few were surprised or shocked, though many were
> > angry, when the head of DG XIII, the telecommunications directorate,
> > then accepted a position paying about $1 million a year with Telefonica,
> > the Spanish telco, while he was still responsible for regulating it.
>
> The Internet's amazing and continuing growth has
> shattered the complacency of telcos and governments alike. What is a
> commonplace is that by 2001 most telecoms traffic everywhere will be
> data, not voice. By 2005 voice will be a tiny fraction of the bandwidth
> in use, and all of the equipment, practices, laws, and regulations
> developed over the last century of voice telecommunications will be
> obsolete and irrelevant. No matter how hard the bureaucrats try to
> stuff this huge and growing elephant into the straitjacket that they
> developed for the mouse that they are used to, it just ain't gonna fit.
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jim Dixon Managing Director
> > VBCnet GB Ltd http://www.vbc.net tel +44 117 929 1316
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Member of Council Telecommunications Director
> > Internet Services Providers Association EuroISPA EEIG
> > http://www.ispa.org.uk http://www.euroispa.org
> > tel +44 171 976 0679 tel +32 2 503 22 65
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