AT&T Wants FCC to Probe Google Voice
AT&T is The Matrix
Neo speaking directly to The Matrix in the last lines of that eponymous film:
"I know that you're afraid...you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
AT&T is effectively The Matrix. And AT&T is very afraid of a world in which it is nothing more than a "dumb pipe." But what a much better world for teleco...
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"I know that you're afraid...you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
AT&T is effectively The Matrix. And AT&T is very afraid of a world in which it is nothing more than a "dumb pipe." But what a much better world for teleco...
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Wow... I wish the people could actually tell at&t and Corporate America to Shut the Mother Mother up and shove it up the muffler pipe.
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Actually... Google is _really_ the matrix. They are all seeing, all knowing, data collecting agency. Google essentially 'gives' away a lot of product, as long as you give them a lot of information for data mining (Google owns you, knows where you are - google/urchin tracking cookies + Google earth lattitude software)
AT&T = The Borg meets Deathstar, ruling with a 'What is thy bidding, my master'
AT&T = The Borg meets Deathstar, ruling with a 'What is thy bidding, my master'
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en102 said:
Actually... Google is _really_ the matrix.
No, your metaphor is weak. Mine is much better.
Like The Matrix, AT&T requires its own physical connection to us & our homes in order to survive. That physical connection (em)powers AT&T. Sever it, and AT&T starts to die.
(AT&T has no physical connection to me or my house. I have not had a landline for nearly a decade. Additionally, an ice storm a few years ago did me a favor -- it detached covetous AT&T's dormant tentacle from my house.)
As for Google, it could be more akin to a drug dealer, seemingly generously giving away freebies to his denizens, then greedily charging those addicts later. But Google has not gone, may not go down tha...
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