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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:22:37 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Don't fear the flip phone: My year of living archaically
gave me back more than I lost
"Do you have it ironically?" a woman new to Brooklyn asked about my
distinctly not-smart phone
By Randyn Charles Bartholomew
In the early summer of last year, after I'd gone into a few stores
that didn't have anything dumb enough, a T-Mobile rep located a
Kyocera flip phone somewhere in their shop's back room. I don't think
he had sold this model to someone under 60 before. Once he gave up
trying to upsell me, he seemed amused. Even before the SIM card was
in, flipping the new device open and closed brought back memories of
how visceral, how tactile, it was to end calls with a snap. No more
dabbing the screen with my thumb.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/29/dont-fear-the-flip-phone-my-year-of-living-archaically-gave-me-back-more-than-i-lost/
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| Message-ID: <20221030191040.GA671496@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:10:40 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Jan. 6 committee to SCOTUS: Ward's phone records are
necessary to investigation
By Kyle Cheney, Nicholas Wu and Josh Gerstein
The House's Jan. 6 select committee is urging the Supreme Court to
reject efforts by Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to shield her phone
records from congressional investigators.
House Counsel Douglas Letter said in a 38-page filing Friday evening
that Ward's records are necessary to paint a complete picture of
machinations by former President Donald Trump and his allies to
subvert the 2020 election. Any action by the high court to prevent the
committee from obtaining them quickly would likely doom the panel's
10-month effort to review Ward's contacts in the weeks following the
2020 election.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/28/jan-6-committee-scotus-wards-phone-records-00064076
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| Message-ID: <20221030181441.GA671059@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:14:41 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Please feedback suggestions about our latest version of the
online Digest
There's a new version of the online Telecom Digest now available for
viewing.
PLease take a look at both previous versions, and the new one, and
feeback your opinions using the link on the index page, which is
available to see at this link:
http://telecomdigest.net/rsi/experiment.html
Bill Horne
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| Message-ID: <tjkmmp$12o$1@panix2.panix.com>
Date: 30 Oct 2022 02:14:49 -0000
From: "Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com>
Subject: Salzano at it again
Long-term Telecom Digest readers probably remember Thomas N. Salzano
as the fellow who ran Norvergence, a company which sold long distance
services as part of a Ponzi scheme, in addition signing customers up
for leases of their proprietary "matrix box" and selling those leases
to banks before making the leases worthless by shutting down the
service.
A search of Telecom Digest postings around 2004 will reveal quite a
bit of interesting history behind this operation.
Others might recall his earlier involvement in Minimum Rate Pricing
Inc, a long distance reseller which pioneered the practice of slamming
but which imploded under a huge debt load before being able to pay off
their rather minimal FCC fines.
In any case, Mr. Salzano appears to be at it again, although now he is
selling real estate rather than telecom services:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-leaders-real-estate-investment-firm-indicted-650-million-ponzi-scheme-conspiracy
I suppose it's good to see that the more things change, the more things
stay the same.
--scott
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