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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 (...) (26 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Mike Stanley
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Naji Norder
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Naji Norder
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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 :) (...) (26 years ago, 10-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Mike Stanley
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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. (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Naji Norder
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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 - (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Naji Norder
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Mike Stanley
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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. :) (26 years ago, 12-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Larry Pieniazek
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Naji Norder
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Larry Pieniazek
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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. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) Come on, everkone is KtoK compliant bk now, aren't thek? Jasper "Old hat" Janssen (26 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Christopher L. Weeks
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Mike Stanley
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861 —Naji Norder
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 16-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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