Re: For self publishing authors on AmazonKDP, Scott Adams Says

On 5 Oct 2024 02:49:36 GMT, ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
wrote:

In article <vdq2r4$f307$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/4/2024 2:53 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

<snip>

'Ciao America!" byu Beppe Severgnini (2002), written by an Italian
who spent a year in the US, has the exact opposite story - getting
a phone connected in Italy took month or years with the government
telco, while it blew him away that in the US, it was done in hours
by the non-government telephone company.
>
I grew up in Europe in the 60s and 70s. The sheer competency of the
Bell System was a wonder by comparison.
>
pt

>
Actually I found the essay, and it turns out the guy was talking about
the UK (which I have no experience with):
>
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-uses-of-corruption

I'm in the UK and born in the sixties. I recall my parents saying it
took months for the phone to be installed.

--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)