2011-03-20, 16:22 | Link #12581 |
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In the "why compete when you can swallow it up?" news:
AT&T to buy T-Mobile for $39billion Keep that in mind when you wonder why your AT&T bill keeps going up and your service functionality goes down...
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2011-03-20, 16:56 | Link #12582 | |
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Libya is vastly different in that the U.S. did not want to act, dithered about the no-fly zone being labeled American interventionism and first sought the international community's support for any action. France and England sought to fill the gap and led the coalition while the US was in the background. No foreign troops will go into Libya, the no-fly zone is to protect the rebellion spawned by the Jasmine Revolution for a change in the Libyan government. As for the rhetoric that if they do it in Libya, they should do in Yemen and Bahrain, the circumstances are vastly different. Not to mention than any additional intervention in the muslim world will only spur more anti-west rhetoric and that the international community will surely be more divided over them than over madman Qaddafi. Enough said.
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2011-03-20, 17:18 | Link #12583 | |
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Interestingly, their annual operating income didn't exactly change much the past few years, less than around 5%, so what made them think buying T-Mobile up would make a difference?
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2011-03-20, 17:53 | Link #12585 | |
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Seriously, modern corporations are not about competition, innovation, or free-market anything. They're about locking in customers, maintaining existing revenue frameworks, and predictable revenue streams -- none of those are *inherently* evil, but they consistently make the less healthy-for-the-consumer choice in pursuing those.
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2011-03-20, 18:19 | Link #12586 | ||
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2011-03-20, 21:31 | Link #12587 | |
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At this rate they are killing themselves and their customers. If their stock prices fall, less people will want to invest in them, and they will have to look for another telecom provider to buy. Then their customers will use less and less of their services so as to avoid incurring high costs, and the telecom will incur less accounts receivable to fund their operations with. The shareholders should really go on a witch-hunt now. Or dump their stocks.
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2011-03-20, 21:47 | Link #12588 | |
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2011-03-20, 22:45 | Link #12589 |
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Air strikes in Libya raise concern in U.S. on cost
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72J3XA20110321
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2011-03-20, 22:54 | Link #12590 |
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I would point out that the missiles have already been paid for. The cost only comes up when you go to replace them.
Of course they are walking a fine line on what is defined as a war in the modern age. 70 years ago, such an act of airplanes bombing your stuff would be an act of war followed logically by a declaration of war if one had not been give. Thus Libya would have had every right to declare war on all the nations engaging them, but though of course that would be suicide.
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2011-03-21, 00:37 | Link #12591 | |
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The president does not constitutionally have the power to take military action against another country without a vote by congress. I'm surprised by the great amount of apathy expressed by people in the US. This is what our tax dollars are going to, instead of helping what really matters, our economic situation.
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2011-03-21, 01:22 | Link #12593 |
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If I remember both Korean and Vietnam wars were never declared wars by the United States. Both are considered "police actions". Also both were "started" by Democratic Presidents and ended by Repiblican Presidents. (Korean being Truman, ended by Eisenhower. Vietnam techically started by Kennedy and later fully in swing by Johnson...ended by Nixon.)
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2011-03-21, 01:27 | Link #12594 | |
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In the meantime, I'm going to submit my studies on leprechauns and tooth faeries underpinning originations to Texas and cry foul when the state doesn't give me a grant. In other news, Ithekro's recollection is correct -- neither the Korean nor Vietnam conflicts were declared wars. "National security" and all that.... I don't recall that Britain and Argentina actually had a declaration on their dispute either but I'm sure our Argentine or Brit posters can correct me.
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2011-03-21, 01:31 | Link #12595 |
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What about a study to see if Tolkien's works are actual fact but take place before recorded history as we know it?
Just to be silly. As to the Falklands War of 1982, neither side declared war officially. This suggests to me that the rules have changed a great deal from what they were back in the 1930s and 1940s.
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2011-03-21, 03:07 | Link #12596 | |
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2011-03-21, 05:25 | Link #12597 | ||
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It is a split second decision to just move in and drop bombs. P.S I do know that Aunt Marge did threaten the Argentines if they don't get out of Falklands, but I don't know if the Brits did declare an actual war.
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2011-03-21, 06:40 | Link #12598 |
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declarations of war require Casus belli.
you can't have Casus belli against a country who's offenses are directed at its OWN people, hence, the policing action excuse. not that it makes it ok, or logical. nothing about this makes any sense
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2011-03-21, 08:40 | Link #12600 | |
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How serious can you take this article?
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Spoiler for Now Look At The Article's Cover Picture:
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