Originally Posted by outlaw256
roadkill youm almost got it on ma bell but not all of it.its a really long story so when i have time i will send it to you. anyway just for shits and giggles i still think they should have been allowed to do what ever the hell they want,they were the smart ones.i do have one question . why should a telephone company be made to allow other companies to use their lines. ma bell strung the hard lines and then everyother company could in the long run use ma bells lines.but i do agree with you on the walmart thing.even thou i do miss the mom and pop stores and even REAL parts stores. it who has the most that wins.
Well, Ma Bell and most of the Power Companies still make out like bandits . . Although the FCC decreed that they had to allow other communications companies use their infrastructure, according to one source who works for Comcast, Comcast, for example, pays $6 a year for each and every pole they hang a cable or box off of, as does anyone else using their poles . . Sooo, they didn't come out too bad . . And, like I said, It wasn't all bad because cell technology would have happened a lot slower . .
The "Mom n' Pop" stores were a thing of the times. Back when I was a kid, lot's of people didn't drive much. A trip "to Town" or "Downtown" wasn't something that we did with the frequency we do now. So the "Neighborhood Stores" were within walking distance, and did much of what the 7/11 does now . . except for the "Charge Account' or the "fresh meat" that the little store "on the corner" had . .
There's things about modern corporate commodity supply that really grinds my grits . . Your (and my) Beef supply, comes from pretty much the same place, no matter where you live. If some dipshit in Kentucky or Texas doesn't clean his machine, everyone in 20 states that ate the hamburger he ground gets sick . . See, it ain't Wal Mart that bothers me as much as it's TYSON and Alliance Beef or Iowa Beef Packers. Great big companies that pack and prepare our wholesale food supply . . things like that . .
Just sayin' . . .