On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:27 , Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Heh heh. Somehow I'm not as superstitious about tech stuff (rule: expect the >> worst) than about sports (never mention any hopes or dreams). > > Go on, say it! "The Red Sox will win the World Series!" But you have to say > it for it to catch on because I don’t really mean it.
I'm actually not thinking about the Red Sox right now. It's the other team that I cheer for. > I feel that I do have telephone redundancy already because we actually use > Skype and Google more than long distance, so I can already make emergency > calls. It's exactly as reliable as a VOIP would be. But it all relies on the same set of cables and such, no? For us, relying on Insight would be a big mistake, because we lose cable service at least once a year, esp. when it is windy. Relying on AT&T is not any good either. > The only thing keeping me from cutting off cable too is Reds baseball during > the summer. MLB.com won't let anyone within about 100 miles of Cincinnati > stream a Reds game. Maybe I should just revert to Milwaukee as my National > League team (or figure out a proxy server). Talk about monopolies... > > <rant> [reasonable stuff...] > > The giants want both local monopoly and the freedom to do what they want with > the monopoly. It didn't work with the railroads monopolies, electric > monopolies or telephone monopolies. Why can’t we learn from history? There are plenty of people who sadly look at the 1870's as the pinnacle of the US (whether they know it or not), what with a gold standard, monopolies galore, legal snake-oil salesmen and the like. The whole idea of keeping monopolies at bay went out in 1980, and has stayed out regardless of the president. Sad. Bill
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