Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Random rant about what I do not know

I am back. Well, up here in Canada, Bell Canada, the largest telephone company has been found guilty of overcharging its customers. I am no longer a Bell customer. I shifted the long distance away years ago and then did home service about a year ago. The final straw was when those assholes "gave away" my phone number, which I had since 1993 and when I called on the cell to say there is a problem with my line, they tried to upsell me a maintenance service contract for the internal wiring. Like I cared. When the tech came and found the problem and told me, I was incensed.

I switched. Then I read they were found guilty by the CRTC of overcharging customers. The best part is that the no money will be refunded. The money will be forced into better servicing low population areas. For the longest time, we city dwellers have subsidized the rural dwellers. Now, with the advent of satellite services and cell phones, the disconnect of those outside of cities in Canada has been better met. Thank those self proclaimed geniuses at the CRTC (a Canadian version of the FCC in the US, though rather further behind the techonology curve and with a "cultural" mandate to effect, that is why there is Canadian content and the use of US satellite service, both television and radio, is illegal, but how the fuck are they going to stop radio waves from permeating our borders when they cannot stop illegal aliens?) think the money that was "stolen" from Bell customers belongs not to those who have been wronged but to others who may "need".

Somebody shake me. Has Canada become a Marxist utopia? From those who are able to those who need! I am unsure where the fuck that fits in with the CRTC mandate, but given how far behind the curve they are and have been for so long, I am sure they can make it fit. As I think about this whole thing, I am starting to froth at the mouth. It is a good thing it is at the mouth, because froth at any other orifice would be cause for alarm. It would also be another example of how disgusting life is.

I am not putting down life. I love life and all the absurdity that goes along with it. It is just an observation that birth, death, sex and all the stuff of life is pretty disgusting, if thought by a member of a hygienic society. I wish we could get Stinky Guy into hygienic society, but one rant at a time. That is all for this as I have to leave and take the lad to skating. Life in Canada. Ciao!

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