[lbo-talk] reading badiou -- worth it? (was: Review ofBadiou'sNumber)

[// ravi]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Wow. My experience with Verizon DSL support was miserable. My old  
>> office
>> line kept dropping out. I spent hours and hours on the phone with  
>> them,
>> talking mostly with idiots who made me go through the same idiot  
>> routine
>> every time. They sent out three techs who couldn't find anything.  
>> This went
>> on for a couple of years. Finally, they sent out a guy who traced  
>> the wire
>> out to the street. Turned out there was a bit of stripped  
>> insulation and
>> some wires were touching.___________________________________
>>
>
> my experience with verizon dsl support was very much in line with  
> this.
>
> i currently have at&t's u-verse stuff, and it is flakey, but i  
> haven't had
> trouble like i had with verizon in WV. On the other hand, I think the
> infrastructure they were using in rural WV was, er, very, very old.

I hate Verizon on principle... the principle being similar to that of  
Camus' when he proclaimed that one must defend one's mother (in my  
case Ma Bell) ;-).

	--ravi