Posted on 11/30/2001 3:38:37 PM PST by spycatcher
Of course they mean Pacific time. What other time would a California company and a California court mean?
Arrrrgh! I'm not staying up much longer. I guess I'll find out in the morning. I called the Comcast hotline and checked my e-mail one more time and there is no further news.
They took control of @home, controlling perhaps 25% of the common shares but over 70% of voting shares. They installed their cronies on the board. They ran a company that was about to go cash positive into the dirt.
They filed chapter 11, and that very day, AT&T conveniently had their ludcrous $307M buyout ready. The stink can be detected as it leaves the solar system at warp speed. It was described on another thread as 'Corporate Terrorism', and I'd have to agree.
If AT&T had simply conducted business, they could have probably satisfied the creditors and gotten @home, so they could spin it off with AT&T Broadband to the Cable providers for a tidy profit. But nooooo, that wasn't good enough. They had to try to steal it. But now, their bluff has been called, and guess who ends up paying for it? Certainly not C. Michael Armhole or any of the other T felons.
If my broadband goes bye-bye, so does my AT&T Long Distance, and you'd better believe they're gonna know why.
What do you expect from a company that uses the Death Star for it's corporate symbol?
HEADLINE STORIES FOR THE YEAR 2035
1. 32nd Anniversary of the demise of AT&T, an American Titan that few remember illegally tried to kill today's worldwide communications giant AtHome. Company unravelling began in 2001 and ended in 2003.
2. Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
3. Spotted Owl plague threatens Western North America crops & livestock.
4. Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim dies in the American Territory of the Middle East (formerly known as Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon)
5. Afghanistan still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least ten more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
6. George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.
7. 35 year study: diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
8. Nursing home event... Bill Clinton denies allegations of affair with candy striper.
9. Texas executes last remaining citizen.
10. Upcoming NFL draft likely to focus on use of mutants.
11. Baby conceived naturally.....scientists stumped.
12. Authentic year 2000 "Chad" sells at Sotheby's for $4.6 million.
13. Ozone created by electric cars now killing thousands in Los Angeles.
14. Average height of NBA players now nine feet seven inches.
15. Microsoft, a wholly owned subsidiary of AtHome, announces it has perfected its newest version of Windows so it crashes BEFORE installation is completed.
16. New California law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, and baseball bats be registered by January 2036.
So far nothing, but maybe in a few,AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........gurgle, gurgle, click......(silence)
Dial up is not that bad. Open up multiple browser windows, read what is on one page while the other is loading...and now that all you other people are on high-speed connections, there is less traffic clogging up the dial up connection.
Dial up is not that bad. Open up multiple browser windows, read what is on one page while the other is loading.
I am still here on the east coast at 3:24 am. I would rather slit my wrist than have dial up. I have never used dial up except at a friends house. I was one of cables first customers 5 or 6 years ago when they rolled it out in a few test areas.
Ditto that on this end. I'm still on and still fast.
Still standing in Contra Costa County.
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