While I mostly agree with you, there may be some honesty in that answer - they don't precisely know what rates will be in a year and don't want to quote you something that you can hold against them if rates change. Still, they ought to be able to tell you what the non-introductory rate is currently.
Then there's also the fact that after the first year if you call and threaten to quit most companies will make some minor fiddly adjustment to your plan and give you the introductory rate a second or third year. My crazy company managed this by *adding* more channels to my package while keeping the introductory rate two years in a row. After three years they said I was out of luck, at which point I had to choose between switching, cutting the cord, or paying the full rate for a while. If you're prepared to play the game, it may not ever matter what the standard rate is because you'll never pay it anyway.
No, you're talking apples and oranges here. The $100 is for services, which aren't really very valuable. The 5 cents was for *copyright infringement* which we all know is worse than murder. I'm surprised they haven't bumped that up to the death penalty yet, to make the punishment fit the crime.
always use an address like yourid+companyname-year@example.com.
You don't think spammers can learn to strip out the characters between the + and the @ ? If I was a spammer, I'd do that automatically. Hell, I'd probably keep the original, but also create the stripped version, and then spam them both.
There's also the "put things away when you're done" and "leave things the way you found it" and principles, both of which call for a closed lid.
Plus the "it's completely disgusting that my pets drink out of the toilet so please close the lid before they not only get sick but track toilet water everywhere" variant that doesn't apply to everyone, but is critical when it does apply.
Heh. Colorado gets snow, but the sun usually takes care of the blowy light stuff as long as you remove the heavy accumulation. But woe to any man whose driveway is on the north side of the house and stays in perpetual shadow.
Sure, but on the other hand nobody but a novelist or a lonely weather station operator would bother uttering the phrase "fine, dry snow blowing in the wind". They'd just say "it's snowing."
Because everything with a computer has been done with "Just one click!" since the internet went big in 1995. No, the previous 500 clicks and hours of configuration don't count, just that final one that does what you want. It's magical!
Did you try putting a sign up on the door or anything? When we had the kiddos we just left a "Ssh! Babies sleeping!" sign on the door for about 9 months, and almost everyone respected it.
Well, that was at least partly tongue-in-cheek. I had my own jump the shark moment with GI Joe, which I watched devotedly as a child. I caught an episode as a teenager and watched out of curiosity. "Fire at will," Zoltan said, and one of his flunkies responded, "Uh, which one's Will?" I tried to remember if the series was always that dumb, or if the new version had gotten worse (the rest of the episode just went downhill from there) but I decided I didn't really want to know.
You had another post about He-Man. Oddly, that one I couldn't stand even when I was 8. I wasn't very picky about anything else, so I don't know why that one earned my disapproval.
Five manned aircraft inexplicably in the shape of cats that can unite into one giant sword-weilding robot somehow synchronously controlled by five people? I don't possibly see how you could be disillusioned by watching that show as an adult.
I liked my Aspire One for the first few months. Great for traveling fairly light, easy for browsing and word processing. Then it started locking up constantly, especially when doing any downloading or network activity. I can keep it running for half an hour or more if I'm not using the network for much, but any kind of moderate net usage causes crashes within 3-5 minutes. This includes Windows updates and other attempts to patch drivers, etc., none of which helped. After a while I just gave up and stopped using the thing.
Actually, I'd bet dust bunnies are more a function of static electricity, friction, and irregular air currents than gravity. I wonder if anyone's ever researched dust bunny formation? I bet you could get a fun igNobel for that.
Oddly, mine doesn't. Charter vigorously advertises their triple play for $90, emphasizing with each ad that internet, tv, and phone are "$30 apiece" while internet alone is $50. I've told them repeatedly I've got no interest in phone, but if they could do internet + tv for $60 or even $65--basically just the price point they established for themselves--that I'd take it, but no, internet + TV is also $90, identical to the plan with the phone. I get the bulk discount, but that's just irrational.
I actually feel like I gained something by the number of commercials I'm avoiding, far in excess of any entertainment possibly lost by cutting the cord. Occasionally if we travel or we're at someone's house and the TV is on, my three-year-old daughter asks me what's going on when there's a commercial and the show isn't playing. I think it's kind of awesome she's confused by them, rather than considering them part of life.
Occasionally I'll go over-air to catch a football game, but I've hit the point where after seeing the same commercials five times in fifteen minutes, I get bored and wander off, and then forget to come back for twenty minutes, invariably at another commercial break, and wander off again. It's a refreshing new way of life.
Absolutely. I know I consistently get 330 miles until "I should fill up" and 350 until practically empty. I did see some wild swings during the vacation that I still don't understand, of 30 gallons or more. Not sure if there were differences in pump hardware or the automatic cutoff, or what was going on. In Oregon in particular, where the attendants pump for you, I felt like some of my fill ups weren't quite full, and then I'd be running on fumes at 320 miles all of a sudden.
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While I mostly agree with you, there may be some honesty in that answer - they don't precisely know what rates will be in a year and don't want to quote you something that you can hold against them if rates change. Still, they ought to be able to tell you what the non-introductory rate is currently.
Then there's also the fact that after the first year if you call and threaten to quit most companies will make some minor fiddly adjustment to your plan and give you the introductory rate a second or third year. My crazy company managed this by *adding* more channels to my package while keeping the introductory rate two years in a row. After three years they said I was out of luck, at which point I had to choose between switching, cutting the cord, or paying the full rate for a while. If you're prepared to play the game, it may not ever matter what the standard rate is because you'll never pay it anyway.
No, you're talking apples and oranges here. The $100 is for services, which aren't really very valuable. The 5 cents was for *copyright infringement* which we all know is worse than murder. I'm surprised they haven't bumped that up to the death penalty yet, to make the punishment fit the crime.
always use an address like yourid+companyname-year@example.com.
You don't think spammers can learn to strip out the characters between the + and the @ ? If I was a spammer, I'd do that automatically. Hell, I'd probably keep the original, but also create the stripped version, and then spam them both.
There's also the "put things away when you're done" and "leave things the way you found it" and principles, both of which call for a closed lid.
Plus the "it's completely disgusting that my pets drink out of the toilet so please close the lid before they not only get sick but track toilet water everywhere" variant that doesn't apply to everyone, but is critical when it does apply.
Hell, if you give two children identical copies of the same color crayon, one will still want what the other has.
Heh. Colorado gets snow, but the sun usually takes care of the blowy light stuff as long as you remove the heavy accumulation. But woe to any man whose driveway is on the north side of the house and stays in perpetual shadow.
Sure, but on the other hand nobody but a novelist or a lonely weather station operator would bother uttering the phrase "fine, dry snow blowing in the wind". They'd just say "it's snowing."
Because everything with a computer has been done with "Just one click!" since the internet went big in 1995. No, the previous 500 clicks and hours of configuration don't count, just that final one that does what you want. It's magical!
I think it was a joke.
Did you try putting a sign up on the door or anything? When we had the kiddos we just left a "Ssh! Babies sleeping!" sign on the door for about 9 months, and almost everyone respected it.
Well, that was at least partly tongue-in-cheek. I had my own jump the shark moment with GI Joe, which I watched devotedly as a child. I caught an episode as a teenager and watched out of curiosity. "Fire at will," Zoltan said, and one of his flunkies responded, "Uh, which one's Will?" I tried to remember if the series was always that dumb, or if the new version had gotten worse (the rest of the episode just went downhill from there) but I decided I didn't really want to know.
You had another post about He-Man. Oddly, that one I couldn't stand even when I was 8. I wasn't very picky about anything else, so I don't know why that one earned my disapproval.
Five manned aircraft inexplicably in the shape of cats that can unite into one giant sword-weilding robot somehow synchronously controlled by five people? I don't possibly see how you could be disillusioned by watching that show as an adult.
Exactly what I was going to say. I walk away from car conversations as fast as I can, but I could never turn the dial away from these guys.
In-store purchase only? That's slightly less than convenient. Nice screen size for the price, though.
I liked my Aspire One for the first few months. Great for traveling fairly light, easy for browsing and word processing. Then it started locking up constantly, especially when doing any downloading or network activity. I can keep it running for half an hour or more if I'm not using the network for much, but any kind of moderate net usage causes crashes within 3-5 minutes. This includes Windows updates and other attempts to patch drivers, etc., none of which helped. After a while I just gave up and stopped using the thing.
Wait, so we live in the Milky Way milky? Who's responsible for that naming system?
Actually, I'd bet dust bunnies are more a function of static electricity, friction, and irregular air currents than gravity. I wonder if anyone's ever researched dust bunny formation? I bet you could get a fun igNobel for that.
No, but constantly chasing the clouds away takes a lot of work.
Oddly, mine doesn't. Charter vigorously advertises their triple play for $90, emphasizing with each ad that internet, tv, and phone are "$30 apiece" while internet alone is $50. I've told them repeatedly I've got no interest in phone, but if they could do internet + tv for $60 or even $65--basically just the price point they established for themselves--that I'd take it, but no, internet + TV is also $90, identical to the plan with the phone. I get the bulk discount, but that's just irrational.
I actually feel like I gained something by the number of commercials I'm avoiding, far in excess of any entertainment possibly lost by cutting the cord. Occasionally if we travel or we're at someone's house and the TV is on, my three-year-old daughter asks me what's going on when there's a commercial and the show isn't playing. I think it's kind of awesome she's confused by them, rather than considering them part of life.
Occasionally I'll go over-air to catch a football game, but I've hit the point where after seeing the same commercials five times in fifteen minutes, I get bored and wander off, and then forget to come back for twenty minutes, invariably at another commercial break, and wander off again. It's a refreshing new way of life.
Please do. I'm too lazy to bother keeping track, but I'd love to see a recap.
Wait, no, Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and East Dakota are the FIVE Commonwealths of the Spanish Inquisition!
Maybe with lemon juice in his eyes he couldn't see anything, and assumed the picture itself was blurry, rather than his vision?
Yes, but this is programming:
foreach $alliance_list[] as $interest {
echo "From the $interest Alliance for World Dominance: Your young ones need to learn our stuff.";
}
Absolutely. I know I consistently get 330 miles until "I should fill up" and 350 until practically empty. I did see some wild swings during the vacation that I still don't understand, of 30 gallons or more. Not sure if there were differences in pump hardware or the automatic cutoff, or what was going on. In Oregon in particular, where the attendants pump for you, I felt like some of my fill ups weren't quite full, and then I'd be running on fumes at 320 miles all of a sudden.