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(...) I can't agree with this. Privatization does not work when profit should not be the ultimate goal. Consider Aramark. Aramark took over the dining services at UT last year. They have indeed done wonders to improve the profitability of the dining (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <much info specific to the losers running the UT dining facilities snipped, all true> As a side note, the guys in my office refer to getting breakfast each morning at the cafeteria closest to us as "breakfast lotto". We're all fairly set on (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm sorry. You weren't listening when I said that any so called "privatization failure" can be explained by analysing and demonstrating why it wasn't really privatization. You proved my point. You have given an example of a replacement of one (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You seem to be mixing privatization with monopolization. I agree that it is still a monopoly, and as thus it still has special problems and considerations that need to be dealt with but are usually ignored. However, this does definitely meet (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Before Larry tries to get me on a grammar point, I do notice my thus/such mistake in this post. I rearranged some stuff and left the wrong word in. Oops. All in fun :) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Dictionary, Schmictionary. Words mean what I want them to mean. However, if you insist... What was privatized was a food service operation. The customer of that operation was UT. Not you. You're just the captive audience. If you have some budget (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As much as this turns my stomach, it is true. Which is why students and staff can complain until the cows come home, but as long as UT is saving money that big orange screw is going to keep on turning. (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<36E6E395.35B7F068@c...puter.org> <36E7102B.6B18DB9B@voyager.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Oh, and I forgot to say... under MY definition, it wasn't privatization. Take your choice... your (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Sorry if this is a double post. Sprintlink seems swamped today. (...) Well, as long as you are changing the definitions of words to suit your arguments, I can't counter you, so I guess you win. There are two kinds of logic that can't be countered - (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<36E74AC3.DF4ABBA2@voyager.net> <36E82620.D84B40F3@c...puter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) It seems that there was a major fiber cut in Atlanta today. 2 of our 3 ISPs are down. Strange that I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) AHA! So that's why my ftp's were slow today after the fiber cut - YOU were stealing all the bandwidth. :) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<36E74AC3.DF4ABBA2@voyager.net> <36E82620.D84B40F3@c...puter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, OK, I was being a little flippant, but my argument boils down to this: It WAS a successful (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The media isn't as clueless as you might think. Both of my parents have been in the (print) media at times (my mother is now), and they (and I) know a lot of stuff about things that they CAN'T print in the newspaper. Note that I do agree (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<36EAE2D3.5DECD9C@voyager.net> <36EB0747.F21DAC91@c...puter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit PBS does a better job of getting their facts right, usually, but their bias sometimes is astonishingly huge. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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<36EAE2D3.5DECD9C@voyager.net> <36EB0747.F21DAC91@c...puter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) There are individuals who work in the media who are with clue, but I agree with Larry. _The Media_ as (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One of Rachael's degrees is in journalism (appropriate that it is a B.S., imo) and the other is in English. Having taken classes with a number of her fellow journalism majors, I concur that the majority of the people I've met who are majoring (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Come on, everkone is KtoK compliant bk now, aren't thek? Jasper "Old hat" Janssen (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, I mean that they can't print the information because it wouldn't make it through the legal department - it would draw dozens of libel suits. And although libel suits _are_ a necessary side-effect of any good journalism (my parents have (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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