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Azureusu
Don't whip your dick out til she asks.. or til she's sleepin..
posted 03-19-2003 10:10:41 AM
Ok, watching a bit of CNN this morning. Prolly gonna be up all day, cause I wanna see those first missile hits later on.

But, I noticed that the soldiers have to pay 30 cents to call home. At the ATT Call Center.

AAT&T is making a big fucking ADVERTISEMENT out of them supplying the soldiers with thier only way to call home.

And they are charging the soldiers for it.

Back in Vietnam, a soldier could write a letter to his wife on a cardboard box, and it was guaranteed to be recieved.

now its 30 cents to make a 5 minute phone call home, on ADVERTISED SERVICE.

What the holy fuck?

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JooJooFlop
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posted 03-19-2003 10:12:30 AM
Well I'm sure the letter thing is still free.
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Blindy
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posted 03-19-2003 10:14:54 AM
dude, it costs more than that to make a pay phone call in the US. I'd say they are getting a bargin on intercontenential calls.
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Sinice Aralund
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posted 03-19-2003 10:16:26 AM
Money has to come from somewhere.
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Azureusu
Don't whip your dick out til she asks.. or til she's sleepin..
posted 03-19-2003 10:24:53 AM
These guys are preparing to go to war.

War.

And they have to pay to hear thier wife and childrens voices.

Pay.

30 cents a call isnt going to make a damned bit of differance in paying for it. And AT&T is getting all kinds of advertisement off of it.

And as for the money having to come from somewhere.. how about the military paying for it? AT&T eating the cost? Some of these guys are going to get hurt.

Imagine You are a soldier. You take an AK47 round in the leg. You get taken care of, and want to call your wife, and tell her you're ok..

Sorry pal.. need a quarter and a nickle.

Fuck that.

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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
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posted 03-19-2003 10:30:44 AM
1. You pay more for a long distance call here.
2. Far as I know, the in-the-field combat pay you make for being shipped over there is tax free. That's right. If you make $100, Uncle Sam keeps his hands off. Granted, you might get shot, but in addition to the combat pay (higher than sitting around pay, I presume) you keep more of it. It'd be nice if they were given free calls (and I imagine if you do get shot you can call from the hospital), but $0.30 ain't dick.
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posted 03-19-2003 10:30:52 AM
Yeah... gotta love that free enterprise system don't you?

Although I think that charging them 30 cents is wrong, at least AT&fucktards isn't charging them the actual cost of the call... People do wierd shit when it comes to money.

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Callalron
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posted 03-19-2003 11:25:31 AM
When I was over in Desert Storm, we got free calls back to the states, but only at certain times and there were only a few lines available since it was military phone lines, so you could wait hours and never get a chance a make a 5 minute phone call.

I'm guessing AT&T is supplying a lot of lines at each location and giving guys more time to talk. If someone would have offered us that deal and said we had to pay 30 cents for it, we'd have been ALL over that.

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Suddar
posted 03-19-2003 12:55:26 PM
It's not like they're selling their kidneys. It's 30 cents...
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Kaglaaz How'ler
Pancake
posted 03-19-2003 01:16:55 PM
Hell, back in highschool a girlfriend went to Denmark for a year on an exchange program. I'd call her from the school payphone every week or two. Cost me $10 for about 5 minutes.
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posted 03-19-2003 04:46:55 PM
quote:
Kaglaaz How'ler had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Hell, back in highschool a girlfriend went to Denmark for a year on an exchange program. I'd call her from the school payphone every week or two. Cost me $10 for about 5 minutes.

Hell, I think I pay more than 2$ a minute to call from Denmark to the US. Wtf.

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Mortious
Gluttonous Overlard
posted 03-19-2003 04:50:26 PM
The call thing is expensive, yes.

However, the letters are still free, as long as you use those special army fold-over envelopes. Everyone in my brother's regiment was issued with a stack of those.

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Mog
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posted 03-19-2003 05:32:16 PM
Here in newyork veizon be cahrging 50 cents for a 3 mintue call, 30 cetns is really ntohicng, cosnidering at&t is prolyl loosign quite a bit

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Taeldian
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posted 03-20-2003 12:29:12 AM
How dare they do what businesses are made for! How dare they try to make money!
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Kegwen
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posted 03-20-2003 12:29:50 AM
quote:
Taeldian stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
How dare they do what businesses are made for! How dare they try to make money!

Capitalist pigs!

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Vorbis
Vend-A-Goat
posted 03-20-2003 03:18:18 PM
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So quoth Kegwen:
Capitalist pigs!

What do they think our men are over there fighting for?!

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