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A mid 1980s arcade game that involved a fuzzy red creature jumping from cube to cube, trying to avoid a purple snake named Coily.
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Q-Bert - William Warren wrote in messagenews:telecom23.133.2@telecom-digest.org: Schaffrath wrote in message news:telecom23.132.17@telecom-digest.org: Danny Burstein wrote: New York, NY -- A filing today (11-March-2004) with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asks the agency to examine the harm caused by high phone rates charged to people in prison, and criticizes the relationships between prison administrators and commercial phone companies that give rise to the unusually high rates. It seems the judicial system is being called on, yet again, to lesson the incredible pain that those with relatives inside the bars have to suffer because the system done them wrong. In Kafkaesque parady of a sensible world, we law-abiding citizens are being told that those who choose to associate with convicted felons can't suffer any inconvenience by it. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What Bill says *might* be true in prisons *most of the time*, however the vendors of the telephone service in prisons are also installing their high-priced, very restrictive telephone service in jails and police lockups as well. Since everyone knows that police never make any mistakes in their judgment of who is to be locked up, I would guess by that same reasoning the incarcerated people should be treated as 'criminals' right from the beginning. Unfortunatly, the US Constitution has this thing in it where the pre-selected scummy criminals are entitled to a trial, etc. Police and prosecutors don't really care for that provision, but they have to humor the ignorant parents and other family members by allowing the scum of the first part to have a trial. Bill. did I interpret what you said about phone calls correctly? PAT]Pat, I said "convicted felons". What I said applies to those_CONVICTED_ of crimes, since my experience is only with systems inmedium and maximum security prisons.As to gaols, lockups, the clink, etc.: I think anybody over the age often knows that they're nothing like what we saw on the Andy Griffithshow. Although I'm sure we could argue endlessly about the treatmentdue people _CHARGED_ with a crime, the social approbrium that _used_to be attached to even being _questioned_ by police, let alonearrested, has largely dissappeared in the face of well-publicizedabuses of both the law enforcement system and the judiciary.Yes, I think those arrested are entitled to a free phone call, so longas it's not to a foreign country, but I don't think there's anyreasonable alternative to having automated-attendent systems handlethe administrative, technical, and (let's be frank) financial burdenof subsequent telephone conversations. There just isn't enoughmanpower or enough budget to justify human intervention anymore:nothing against those arrested, but I'm battling my own budget war,and my taxes are already too high.FWIW. YMMV.Bill
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