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BT [UK Telco] blunders - ships M$Office with EEEPC package
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Aitch


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PostPosted: Fri 02 May 2008, 15:36    Post subject:  BT [UK Telco] blunders - ships M$Office with EEEPC package
Subject description: Great marketing strategy?		  
Excellent lack of awareness by UK Telco BT

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/29/bt_offers_office_linux/

but then you EEEPC folks need it , don't you Wink

Aitch Smile
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Sage

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PostPosted: Sat 03 May 2008, 01:36    Post subject:  
Why are you surprised, Aitch? All the competent staff decamped from BT when the wicked witch privatised it. They continued to sink further down the tubes when Tone appointed his old Oxbridge buddies to Ofcom, who allowed them to rack up a £25bn debt. All the while the service is terrible, their charges are appalling and it doesn't work much of the time. The entire edifice came to the company gratis - such incompetence takes real skill.

I reckon it'll take nations about another century (two in the USA?) to realise that infrastructure is mission critical, that efficiency is a myth and irrelevant, health/welfare/transport/comms should be nationalised and that punters need to put their hands a lot deeper into their tax pockets to support it, whatever the cost. The alternative is why we have the present mess. We can't afford to have greedy capitalists cream 20% off the top and disappear to the Caymans. But first we need honest politicians prepared to tell the electorate the real cost of fish. Beware of flying pigs.
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PostPosted: Sat 03 May 2008, 18:10    Post subject:  
Yep, remember BR?

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But first we need honest politicians prepared to tell the electorate the real cost of fish.


Careful you'll get Lobster upset Laughing
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Beware of flying pigs.


http://webgames.visionmind.net/play/fly-pig.html

Laughing

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PostPosted: Sat 03 May 2008, 19:22    Post subject:  
" such incompetence takes real skill. "

I've taught them all I know.

Chris.
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PostPosted: Sun 04 May 2008, 01:16    Post subject:  
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Yep, remember BR?


We are reminded daily.
Only a lunatic would employ an Establishment toff with a degree in Law or ancient Greek to run anything in an advanced technological society.

I'll get on to ordering another few million straight-jackets.
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PostPosted: Sun 04 May 2008, 06:20    Post subject:  
Laughing Laughing Laughing

& Boris who?

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PostPosted: Sun 04 May 2008, 18:14    Post subject:  
" I'll get on to ordering another few million straight-jackets. "

Do you take Paypal?

Chris.
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PostPosted: Sun 04 May 2008, 18:35    Post subject:  
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Do you take Paypal?
Laughing Laughing Laughing

You've been reading my threads..........

What d'you think?

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PostPosted: Mon 05 May 2008, 09:50    Post subject:  
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I reckon it'll take nations about another century (two in the USA?) to realise that infrastructure is mission critical, that efficiency is a myth and irrelevant, health/welfare/transport/comms should be nationalised and that punters need to put their hands a lot deeper into their tax pockets to support it, whatever the cost. The alternative is why we have the present mess. We can't afford to have greedy capitalists cream 20% off the top and disappear to the Caymans. But first we need honest politicians prepared to tell the electorate the real cost of fish.


Sage ..... I agree with you ... and the US doesn't have even one decade to change directions but .... that's not important .... inquiring minds need to know why one of our presidential candidates wasn't wearing his lapel flag pin (which probably would have been made in China and contained lead) to the TV debate. As for the "real cost of fish", we can't agree on the real cost of corn ethanol as fuel which has far fewer inputs. It's not just "greedy capitalists" that skim and head to the Caymans. A lot of other '-ists' money meets there too.

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PostPosted: Mon 05 May 2008, 18:03    Post subject:  
Edited May 6:

" You've been reading my threads.......... "

A Sydney journo got done over by Paypal..

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http://apcmag.com/ebay_no_idea_how_account_was_compromised.htm

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Chris.
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