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Atlas Shrugged in real life

Troll-Bait

Apr 22, 2011, 2:24 PM
Anti dog-eat-dog legislation should be passed! How dare they merge!!!!
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WiWavelength

Apr 22, 2011, 4:02 PM
Troll-Bait said:
Anti dog-eat-dog legislation should be passed! How dare they merge!!!!


Stop misappropriating the work of Ayn Rand.

A company using public property as the lifeblood of its business and buying out as many of its competitors as possible is hardly promoting creativity. If anything, that company is stifling innovation and bucking the free market. Additionally, AT&T is no model of integrity nor productivity.

AJ
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Azeron

Apr 23, 2011, 6:56 AM
Absolutely. I want to see them explain why they have been sitting on the spectrum they already have since they need T-Mobile's so badly.
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Troll-Bait

Apr 23, 2011, 11:31 AM
If you'd actually have read the book, and no, you didn't. You would have realized that the anti-dog-eat-dog legislation was passed to prevent Reardon steel from purchasing another company and causing a "monopoly."

It effectively forced him to break up his company into smaller chunks and forced him to sell off anything that was considered by the government to be "anti-competitive."

This is EXACTLY what people are calling for the government to do now!

And what is this whole "public property" thing... are you kidding me? Since when is spectrum public property? As far as I know, these companies purchase spectrum for their own use.

PS, what right does the government have on this spectrum, what right do they have to sell something or ...
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Azeron

Apr 23, 2011, 11:53 AM
NO ONE is calling for AT&T to be broken up! We are asking that they not be allowed to gobble T-Mobile up. That is a HUGE difference. They don't have the *BLEEPING* right to just absorb another company.

"This is EXACTLY what people are calling for the government to do now!"

Your sense of reality is quite warped.
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Troll-Bait

Apr 23, 2011, 12:06 PM
1. AT&T was already broken up
2. People are calling for the government to restrict them from making any acquisitions because they are terrified that "bad things will happen"


The government, aka the largest group of screw ups on the face of the planet earth, definitely shouldn't be making decisions for anyone.
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nextel18

Apr 23, 2011, 8:29 PM
1. so
2. true but thats why there are stipulations 🙂
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Azeron

Apr 23, 2011, 10:08 PM
THIS AT&T which WAS SBC is not and will not be broken up. Period. STFU. The End.
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WiWavelength

Apr 23, 2011, 12:59 PM
Troll-Bait said:
If you'd actually have read the book, and no, you didn't.


I try to avoid propaganda.

Troll-Bait said:You would have realized that the anti-dog-eat-dog legislation was passed to prevent Reardon steel from purchasing another company and causing a "monopoly."


Thanks, but I understand the "Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule."

Troll-Bait said:And what is this whole "public property" thing... are you kidding me? Since when is spectrum public property? As far as I know, these companies purchase spectrum for their own use.


Well, that shows what you know (i.e. not very much) about this subject. Wireless carriers only license public spe...
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