Voom No More

RokaMoka writes "Today the world got a little fuzzier. Voom has announced thay they are shutting down. As a subscriber I can tell you they will be sorely missed, as they far better than the competition. For those of you who are not familiar with voom, they had 3 times as many HiDef channels as the next competitor and a really nice remote control. It sure was pretty while it lasted." I think they died because they don't have a PVR. Hi-Def folks are early adopters and they want the technology. Of course, with all the mess swirling around DirecTV's move to Mpeg4 and the obsolesence of the HD-Tivo, it will be interesting to see what happens next.

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Re:Not quite

[Cereal Box]

So, the world doesn't include any of America? (Which America, btw...North, South, or did you mean a specific nation?)

Why does everyone have to be so pedantic about this? First of all, the United States of America is the only country in the world that has America as part of its name. Second, it is far more common for someone to declare their country of origin rather than their continent of origin. And if someone does come on a message board declaring themselves to be an American in fluent English, then they're likely either a Canadian or from the United States of America, and you know a Canadian will do all he possibly can to prevent people from thinking he's an "American".

In conclusion, get over it. To declare oneself a "United States of American-er" (or some other cute term, like "USAian") is cumbersome. It is sufficient to call oneself an American because there are a sufficient number of disambiguating factors involved that unfortunately a number of self-righteous Europeans and Canadians cannot discern because they are overly pedantic and lack context reasoning skills. That, and they're looking for any reason they possibly can to paint Americans as being self-centered.