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Power Companies Offering Cable (TV, Net) Service

MankyD writes "CNN is running an interesting story about a power company offering cheap cable and broadband internet to its customers. What's even better is that they aren't looking to make a profit, just break even on the venture. They estimate that they've saved their customers $32 million. Furthermore, it's available in a rural area where the telecomms don't offer service anyways."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Congratulations, sir. You have succeeded where many others have failed. On behalf of all trolls worldwide, I would like to thank you for your continuing efforts to better society. Job well done.

    2. Re:FP by Omicron32 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Screw you, troll. I get dibs on second post. As for the topic at hand... um.... yeah I'd go with that.

  2. GET SOME PRIORITIES!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The most horrible space tragedy in recorded history occured one day ago, and all you people can do is talk about whether power company aren't looking to make a profit? My *god*, folks, get some priorities here!

    1. Re:GET SOME PRIORITIES!!! by Omicron32 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I think Challenger was worse. Life must go on, so people died, if you knew them, which I don't think you do, then I'd understand, but so what? There dead, and moping around about it won't change anything... This is /. not another news site. This is nerdy stuff! You want space tradgedy? Go here where there is loads of it.

  3. You Monsters! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can you care about something as trivial as cheap broadband internet when 7 astronauts are dead and our nation is on the brink of war. Is America really that heartless and indifferent? If so, I'm quickly losing what little faith in humanity I had remaining.

  4. But I want to know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who wants to put my tasty nutsack in their mouth?

  5. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The worst spacial incident in recorded history occurred less than one day ago and you people are talking about power companies offering cable service?!?! My GOD, people, GET SOME BLOODY PRIORITIES!

    1. Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      what the hell do you want us to do? do you expect us to dwell on some accident forever? so what they died there is nothing we can do now, it is already the past.

      what the hell you doing here reading this article and even posting if you feel so strongly?

      GET A BLOODY LIFE! and stop dwelling on death

      please mark this post and the parent -1 offtopic

  6. Bzzzz. (Reason: Too much repetition.) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That must be some filter to filter out that 50Hz mains hum :o) (Or is it 60 over there?)

  7. anyone in Dallas [ot] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    actually see or hear what happened yesterday morning? i didn't find out about it until later.

  8. I'm gay. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hooray!

  9. Evil Bondage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Brings to mind an old classic...

    Evil Bondage
    Phucks Phrom The Third Dimension
    1987

    Written By: The Occultist

    "All is ready, Master." said my assistant, handing me my dark robe and
    rubber devil's mask.
    "Thank you. I will enter now." I responded.

    The room was dark, lit only by a small black lightbulb in one corner. I
    could see a table in the center, upon which was strapped a nubile lass, naked
    but for the leather gag in her mouth.

    From under my robe I pulled a large cat-o-nine-tails. I began to stroke
    it fondly, as I spoke, "We have captured you from your evil extistence. You will
    now submit to us. I am in charge of breaking you in, and you shall call me
    Master."

    With this I walked to the table and removed her gag.

    "Now, my lovely, will you renounce yourself as a sinner in the eyes of
    the modem god, who you so falsely deny as fantasy?"

    "Never," spat she, "for I worship the corporate god of Sprint!"

    "Then feel the wrath of a phreak scorned!" said I, raising the whip.

    With cruel abandon I brought the whip down onto the flesh of her
    breasts. She screamed as the shards of glass in it tore through her skin,
    releasing scattered drops of blood. Again I brought it onto her breasts,
    whipping them again and again, until they were thoroughly oozing the red fluid.

    "Bitch!" I screamed, as I lay another stroke upon her stomach.

    "There is no repentance! I shall have my way with you!"

    Undoing the straps on her ankles, I twisted her body over, so her naked
    ass was facing me, and again fastened the straps.

    I watched the pale globes of her ass squirm in the dim light, sweat
    dripping from the crevice between her legs. I reached out, feeling her firm
    bottom, slapping the cheeks for good measure, before raising te whip again. The
    lash rang upon her, making her scream in agony as her ass yielded under the
    blows. Her buns turned a dark shade of red, welts raising on them. I dropped the
    whip then, wanting to continue on my own.

    Climbing upon the table, I undid the clasp of my robe, dropping it to
    the floor. My cock, a slight drop of sperm oozing from the tip, was poised over
    her ass. I reached down and spanked her, hard, until she was again screaming,
    then plunged my hard cock into her cunt. The tight walls of her virgin pussy
    gripped my cock as I rode up and down, again and again plunging brutally into
    her twat. Her body shook as I punched her ass with both fists, causing her to
    grip my penis even harder. I reached under her and fondled her bleeding tits,
    squeezing and pulling their maimed exterior, before applying two nipple clamps
    to her, firmly twisting them so as to make her scream in pain, even more blood
    coursing down her chest.

    I suddenly withdrew from her and stepped down from the table. From the
    wall I pulled two lengths of electrical cord, which I wound onto the nipple clamps.
    Walking to a switch on the wall, I giggled, thinking of all the shares of stock
    this scummy bitch had owned in various long-distance companies. The lever went
    down with a twist, and the lady on the table screamed, blue bolts of electricity
    charging through both tits.

    I walked back to the table and withdrew a large rubber double dong from a
    drawer. I smashed the dildo onto her back and ass, whipping her again and again
    with the two-pound monster. Then, with a shout of glee, I inserted the tool of
    pain and pleasure into her soaked pussy, now going through electrical convulsions.
    Her pussy lips barely opened for the dong, and I had to push it all the way in by
    brute force, making her twat bleed terribly in the process. When it was firmly
    lodged inside her, I went back to the switch and turned it to the off position.

    While still at the wall, I yanked the cords from her clamps, and put them
    back. Then I opened a small, hidden closet and produced a long, thick tire iron. I
    then strode back to the table.

    Her body was limp, and she unconscious. I untied all her bonds, while
    pushing the dildo further into her, until it was no longer visible at all.

    With a heave I lifted her body onto my shoulded, and took her to another
    corner of the room, where I strapped her neck into a guitione, her head hanging
    over a basket. I then lifted her ass to a presentable position in the air, and
    removed the nipple clamps.

    I reached for a hose and turned it on. Foul waste products spewed forth,
    directly into her face. She soon awoke, trying to spit bits and pieces of fesces
    from her mouth.

    "Well, well, my dear.. your scheme to stop all phreaking hasn't worked out
    so well, has it?" I said.

    She struggled to reply, but could not, as I had once again reapplied the gag.

    I then walked behind her, where I spread her ass and applied a bit of vaseline
    to the entrance. Grasping the tire iron firmly, I placed just the tip against her
    unloosened asshole. Muffled screams came from her mouth, her last moments being filled
    with thoughts of fear.

    I applied the two-pronged end of the iron to her, and pushed.
    Her ass ripped open on the sides, the sharp edges of the iron being too much
    for mortal flesh. Blood began pulsing from the wound, and bits of shit oozed from the
    sides of the hole. The tire iron was lodged about an inch inside her ass, and I pushed
    furher, ripping what was left of her ass wide open.

    Suddenly, the gag dropped loose from her mouth and unearthly screams filled the
    air, her moans dragging far out into the street.

    "Fucking whore!" I shouted, lunging the iron all the way in her ass with my
    shoulder, thus letting her uterus fall out onto the floor. But it did no good, her
    screaming just reached a crescendoing height.

    "Take this!"

    I reached for the cord which would drop the guitione blade. Finding it, I gave
    a pull, and the heavy blade dropped into her neck, depositing her head in the basket.

    Reaching for the head, I inserted my dick into the open mouth, and pumped back
    and forth. My hands groped up to the eyes, which I yanked out and into my mouth.

    An explosion rocked the corridor outside, and the steel door to my chamber opened.
    Standing in the doorway were a squad of MCI and Sprint fone pigs, staring with agape
    mouths as I orgasmed into the lifeless head of their once-chief exec.

    "Fools! You will never destroy the phreaks of the '90s! We are a strong breed!" I
    screamed, the last drops of cum oozing from my penis onto her face.

    I backed up into the room, the horde of gestapo trying to crowd through the door.
    Liting the blade of the guitione into place, I layed my head into th chopping block and
    pulled the cord. All went black.