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Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV?
Dishwasha (125561) writes "Just a few days ago I incidentally discovered a little known secret called free-to-air. Amazingly enough even in the depths of Slashdot, there appear to have been no postings or discussions about it. Just like over-the-air programming, there is free programming available via various satellite systems that only requires a one-time cost of getting a dish and receiver. Both Amazon and Ebay appear to have a plethora of hardware out there. I personally settled on the Geosatpro MicroHD system with a 90cm 26lbs light-weight dish (queue lots of comments about my describing 26 lbs as being light-weight) and I should be receiving that in just a few days. I'm curious, who else is using satellite FTA? What are your setups? Has anyone hacked on any of the DVR/PVR devices available? Besides greater access to international programming, what are your channel experiences?"
Where's the flood of April First stories? Do I have the date wrong? Is the lack of them the joke? Am I not getting the jokes?
Maybe that's the prank.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Yawn. My premiums rose every year for the 10 years preceding Obama's election as President.
As for hospital employees and careworkers, they've had their wages frozen, their hours manipulated, and their orders to cut costs in every way possible.
Including taking "clinically acceptable" actions.
Meanwhile, millions of people didn't have healthcare insurance, but did need health care.
So what is your conservative side planning to do about any of that?
You had fifteen years to come up with another plan, before yours got implemented, and then you bitch about it.
Now all we have is endless repeal votes. Why not come up with something? Or do you need to bitch some more about imaginary "death panels" while due to a refusal to implement a Medicaid expansion, people are actually dying in Republican states?
Tell you what, next time you want us to believe you have something to offer that's different, try nominating somebody other than Mitt Romney for your presidential candidate.
You beat me to it man.
The problem with "Cadillac" plans is that there is no free lunch. You aren't getting anything for free even if that's what you've deluded yourself into thinking. You still have to pay, or alternately I have to pay for your sorry *ss. Going through an intermediary insures that everything will cost more because the insurance company wants it's cut and it needs to keep it's lights on.
What I save on the difference between "good" plans and "bad" allows me to save for an emergency. It allows me to be a proper responsible adult rather than a ward of the state.
Things like being independent, responsible, and somewhat self-reliant are things neither party really wants to enable.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I don't honestly think this camera will help with the drivers who love to jam their gas to move. I have been hit and almost hit just as many time by the front of ot he car as well as the back.
Example 1:
It's 1pm in downtown. I'm walking to work on crutches. I notice a guy in a sports car passes the crosswalk to stop at a red light. The top is down. He guns it in reverse right when I am behind him to bump me hard. It's bright out. He had great visiblility. He was downtown in the city. But he could not be bothered to look backwards when going in reverse.
Example 2:
On the other side of the coin. People coming out of the parking garages will jet out, cutting you off on the sidewalk, and drive off without even looking at you. It's in those instances I take my fist and ram it into their car. People drive too fast without looking.
Until drivers stop goading each other to drive faster, I don't think the roads will ever be reasonably safe. These are the people who complain about slow drivers on a rainy day, and on the same day complain about a traffic accident backing up the roads without making a mental connection that they are forcing other drivers to drive faster than what is safe for them and it is only penalizinig themselves.