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Article #621609Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:53
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:53
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On 2018-04-04, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2018-04-03, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
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>> It is sad the quality of our telephone service is going backwards.
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> Gresham's Law applies here as in all things.
The Wiki article makes for some interesting reading.
And it's nothing new:
The course our city runs is the same towards men and money.
She has true and worthy sons.
She has fine new gold and ancient silver.
Coins untouched with alloys, gold or silver.
Each well minted, tested each and ringing clear.
Yet we never use them!
Others pass from hand to hand,
Sorry brass just struck last week and branded with a wretched brand.
So with men we know for upright, blameless lives and noble names.
These we spurn for men of brass...
-- Aristophanes: The Frogs (405 BC)
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