Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lcuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!bellcore!allegra!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!lcuxc!kenw From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: More on Divestiture (Seen at AT & T Murray Hill) Message-ID: <222@lcuxc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 14:19:03 EST Article-I.D.: lcuxc.222 Posted: Tue Feb 5 14:19:03 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 03:45:57 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 62 There are in this country two great monopolies. The larger of the two has the following record: - The Vietnam War - Watergate - Double-digit inflation - Fuel and energy shortages - Bankrupt airlines - The 18-cent postcard The second monopoly is responsible for the following things (among others): - The transistor - The solar cell - Lasers - Synthetic crystals - High fidelity stereo recording - Sound motion pictures - Radio astronomy - Negative Feedback - Magnetic Tape - Magnetic "bubbles" - Electronic switching systems - Microwave radio and TV relays systems - Information theory - The first electronic digital computer - The first communications satellite. Guess which one is now telling the other how to run the telephone business? I can hardly wait for the results! -- Ken Wolman Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, N.J. lcuxc!kenw (201) 740-4565 Kol machalokes shehi l'shaem shamayim, sofo l'hiskayaem; v'sheana l'shaem shamayim, ayn sofo l'hiskayaem.